QQQ and SPY Price Levels [MW]Introduction:
Don’t let SPY and QQQ resistance levels hurt your futures trading anymore. The QQQ and SPY Price Levels indicator automagically provides easily accessible QQQ price levels for NASDAQ-related charts such as QQQ, /NQ and /MNQ futures, and leveraged ETFs such as TQQQ and SQQQ as well as for SPY price levels for S&P 500-related charts such as SPY, /ES and /MES futures, SPX, and leveraged ETFs such as UPRO and SPXU. If you’ve ever traded futures, or anything QQQ- or SPY-related and wanted to know at what price would the corresponding asset reach a key whole number level of QQQ or SPY, like 400, 440, 445, or even 447.50, this tool is for you. Key 10x, 5x, and even 2.5x multiples of QQQ and SPY can act as support or resistance for other related-assets. Until now, there hasn’t been an indicator that can serve as an easy visual cue to know exactly when that is about to happen across assets.
This indicator is a fork of the original SPY Price Levels indicator, which only considered SPY-related assets.
Settings:
QQQ/SPY 2.5x: Show closest levels above and below that are multiples of 2.5 on QQQ
QQQ/SPY 5x: Show closest levels above and below that are multiples of 5 on QQQ
QQQ/SPY 10x: Show closest levels above and below that are multiples of 10 on QQQ
Show QQQ/SPY Price Label: Show the current QQQ/SPY price
Extend lines to the left: Extend label lines for each price level to the beginning of the chart
Calculations:
This indicator defines the ratio between the price of QQQ/SPY and another NASDAQ/S&P-related asset and uses that multiplier once the user-defined price increments are defined. For example, if /MNQ is at 19000 and QQQ is at 465, then the ratio would be 40.8.
The incremental QQQ levels that are above and below the QQQ price are calculated using the following equations:
qqqLevelUp = _multiplier * math.ceil(_qqqClose / _multiplier)
qqqLevelDown = _multiplier * math.floor(_qqqClose / _multiplier)
The conversion ratio is then multiplied by that amount to get the final estimated corresponding price using the calculation:
levelUp := _conversion * qqqLevelUp
levelDown := _conversion * qqqLevelDown
For leveraged assets, the conversion must be used on the difference between the current QQQ price and the incremental upper and lower levels.
For example, the calculation for the next level up looks like the following:
levelUpDelta := math.abs(_qqqClose - qqqLevelUp)
levelUp := close + _conversion * (levelUpDelta * _leverage)
This logic is identical for SPY-related assets.
How to Use:
The QQQ and SPY Price Levels indicator aims to be as unobtrusive as possible. The default view shows 3 labels and 2 lines that are all aligned to the right of the main chart, so that it interferes as little as possible with any other indicators. It can be added to any /NQ or /MNQ futures chart, SQQQ, TQQQ, and, of course, QQQ as well as any /ES /MES futures chart, SPXU, UPRO, SPX, and of course SPY. The most immediate price levels for each multiplier appears above and below the current price along with the price of QQQ/SPY.
For example, MNQU2024 is currently at 19594. By looking at the indicator the next QQQ increment below is at 475, or 19556 on the MNQU2024 chart. This potential support is marked with a green label that shows both prices. The next increment above is at QQQ 477.50, or 19659 on the MESU2024 chart. And the QQQ price itself, is also shown (and can be removed) at 475.92.
QQQ and SPY price increments of 2.5, 5, and 10 tend to consistently act at the very least as emotional support and resistance levels. Weak, or weakening volume and/or momentum when these levels are hit can trigger a strong rejection, and can sometimes precipitate lengthy consolidation periods at those levels. Watching an NASDAQ- and S&P 500-related asset come to a halt, fall off a cliff, or react in some other unintuitive way could very well be the result of a QQQ/SPY level being reached. Even though many of us know that this relationship exists, it’s easy to forget. So, this indicator helps to ensure that its users keep that relationship front and center.
By extending the lines into the past on QQQ/SPY and their related assets, you can see what reactions happened at these key levels.
Other Usage Notes and Limitations:
The calculations used only provide an estimated relationship or a close approximation, and are not exact.
It's important for traders to be aware of the limitations of any indicator and to use them as part of a broader, well-rounded trading strategy that includes risk management, fundamental analysis, and other tools that can help with reducing false signals, determining trend direction, and providing additional confirmation for a trade decision. Diversifying strategies and not relying solely on one type of indicator or analysis can help mitigate some of these risks.
MES
SPY to ES or QQQ to NQThis indicator is used to automatically map SPY VWAP and 10 levels of your choice to ES / MES or map QQQ VWAP and 10 levels of your choice to NQ / MNQ . Since SPY and QQQ have the same price action as their futures iteration, there seems to a direct correlation between their levels and VWAP. This indicator is made to easily map the key levels of your choice to the appropriate futures instrument.
Pullback Traps v. 0.1Trading Strategy for scalping the CME_MINI:ES1! and CME_MINI:MES1! futures on the 5 min. time frame.
The strategy will count legs and look for failed pullbacks and failed second entries where shorters get trapped.
How to use:
When a trap occurs (Marked with green light) place an order one tick above the high of the trap and enter on next candle
If entry doesn't happen on next candle and it has a lower high, move entry to one tick above high of that candle.
Keep doing the above until you enter or until a candle is marked with a blue light and the text Trap Dead.
If you see Trap dead and you haven't entered, quickly cancel your order.
What is green light?
A second or later pullback down away from the uptrend. When the green light is present the shorters haven't made a 1 point profit and short scalpers are trapped.
What is blue light?
1. Shorters made their 1 point profit and trap is dead. Cancel your trade. Or...
2. Shorters hit their stop loss and you're probably in a trade now and about to profit.
Profit and stop loss:
Numbers are done with profit 5 ticks and stop loss 30 ticks.
Should I have a stop loss 6 times greater than profit?
Probably not. The numbers you see here are made with these profit and stop loss figures but I don't advice it in real trading.
The numbers look good on this backtest but in reality a few bad trades would ruin everything.
This was made purely for fun and sim trading - Feel free to do your own testing and show the resulsts.
Quansium Series A BacktestThis comes with preconfigured setups or strategies. Simply choose one from our list based on the timeframe it was made for. Leverage can be changed; to keep trading safe, a maximum of 2 is allowed. In our findings, this was able to trade crypto (specifically BTC ), MES (Micro E-mini S&P 500 Index Futures ), and stocks. It is important to know that setups A, B, C, and D use variable position sizing, and dynamic stop loss/trailing stop/take profit, these parameters are provided through the alerts. The rest of the strategies were created with a simpler approach in mind, just plainly entry/exits signals.
Quansium as a framework:
Price reformat: we take the price source (Open, Close, High, Low) and remove any noise that affects the accuracy of our signals.
Time awareness: we take several time periods of the data on the chart such as start, end, and whole. We use this to add more depth to our signals.
Position size: our backtest tries to recreate as much as the real world trades as possible so our position is determined by the current equity. We also use the volatility of the market to increase or decrease our exposure or risk.
Risk awareness: stop loss, take profit, trailing stop are the risk exits we use to provide our users some peace of mind. These parameters are totally dynamic and follow the same behavior of the market.
Signals filtering: to make almost non-existent any errors and increase the quality of our trades, our indicators go through multiple phases, this avoid double entries or early exits, and help maintain a record of what has transpired and what’s currently taking place.
Indicators: whenever we can we use custom code or our own functions instead of the defaults ones provided. This gives us total control of what we’re trying to achieve. In many cases we tend to combine several indicators’ logic into one creating a more personalized take on it.
Easiness: since we started our main goal has been to provide the easiest and fastest way to alerts’ creation. It has taken us years to reach this level where now we already provide a list of preset strategies so the user doesn’t have to spend much time tinkering with scripts and more on other matters, because we know life is more than just trading.
Raw signals: we provide the option to turn off as much of our advanced features such as stop loss, take profit, trailing stop, dynamic sizing, etc, etc for a simple approach. Trade signals still go through the signals filtering method mentioned above,
Timeframe pairing: we take trading very seriously, by no way we’ll want the user to lose money (although such thing is expected because past results aren’t an indicative of futures ones), through years of experience we have found what are usually common mistakes the user makes, this feature allows us to only activate the strategy if the right timeframe is chosen.
Trend filters: through the years we have improved the arts of the trend. We like to keep things simple but yet powerful. We observe the macro and micro trend of the security. This helps confirm we are entering at the desirable timing. We also incorporate volume and volatility into decision making, we simply programmed it to trade when these are increasing and higher than the average values observed in both the short and long term. Finally we take into account the strength of the pair to make our final choice of whether to enter or wait, and if anything flashes contrary movement then we cancel the upcoming signal and stop monitoring until the next one comes along.
Full automated risk: stop loss, take profit, and trailing stops usually are set in percentages, and optimized even more using the current market behavior to become more adaptive. But always remains some sort of fixation, so the user must choose a value somewhere. This is where our framework shines the most, as previously mentioned before when we take time into our calculations, we use several periods to observe performance and get values that keep our risk exits natural and closest to the flow of the market itself.
Setups:
A: Centered oscillator with the difference of several moving averages with more sensitive settings. Momentum focused.
B: Centered oscillator using simple moving averages. Trend-Following focused.
C: Centered oscillator using smoothed data with the help of faster moving averages. Trend-Following focused.
D: Centered oscillator with the difference of several moving averages with less sensitive settings. Trend-Following focused.
E: Centered oscillator with the difference of moving averages where the standard deviation is applied first. It uses less sensitive settings. Trend-Following focused.
F: Finds the relationship between multiple readings of the price’s relative strength to better pin-point downs and ups. Trend-Following focused.
G: Centered oscillator with the difference of moving averages where the standard deviation is applied first. It uses more sensitive settings. Momentum focused.
H: Multiple centered oscillators using various moving averages. Trend-Following focused.
I: Centered oscillator using simple moving averages. Momentum focused.
Note: The framework is composed of almost 1000 lines of code as compared to each indicator that makes up the setup which is around 10. The power from Quansium doesn't come from the strategies themselves but rather the overall system that turns simple signals into complex and advanced trades.
Strategy Tester:
Initial Capital: chosen value is $20,000, as an approximate to Bitcoin’s ATH (All-Time High). In previous iterations we noticed some trades won’t go through if the capital was less than the ATH.
Order Size: 100% of equity (although the script controls this, and this is of no regards to the results).
Pyramiding: 1, system doesn’t place multiple entries in a row, only one at a time.
Commission: This simulates order execution with custom trading fees. Commissions are turned off by default because this script works in various markets and each operates differently. In order to reach results that are close to real world conditions, it is imperative the user fills this based upon their broker or exchange data.
When we started, we were focused on finding the best indicator, or creating it ourselves. After years we came to realize that the secret is not in which indicator you use but the framework behind it. All strategies have bad, good, best, worst performance periods. The key of a good system is to help keep you safe when it’s down and maximize your potential when it’s up. We hope this material at the very minimum inspires you to keep going and not lose faith, because it is not the smartest who win but those who persevere.
GMS: Mr. Yen's Color ZoneThis is Mr. Yen's color zone. I have also added an input to adjust the sizes of each box. Mainly targeted for MES and ES.
The default settings are as he describes:
white line is the previous day close
red zone = +/- 20 from the previous day close
yellow zone = +/- 40 from the previous day close
green zone = +/- 60 from the previous day close
blue zone = +/- 100 from the previous day close
The source code is open, so feel free to take a look and see whats up. This indicator is quite similar to his, however there is a gap at the cash close to overnight open on his chart that I'm not sure how to adjust for. In any case, this one is still pretty good!
I hope it helps,
Andre
