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HEIKIN‐ASHI
TRENDS MADE SIMPLE.

MTA Webinar – November 14, 2012
Dan Valcu, CFTe

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Can you find the guitar?
The Old Guitarist

(Picasso)
Pierrot and the Guitar (Dali)

Man with Guitar (Braque)
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Which chart looks better?
Japanese Candles vs. Heikin-Ashi Candles
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Heikin-ashi in a nutshell
1. Visual
2. Quantifiable
3. Replacement or confirmation for candlestick
patterns
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The 10-second trend technique
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Understanding heikin-ashi
 Price filter technique for discretionary trading
 Can be used as a stand-alone or confirmation
technique
 Visual (HA charts) + quantification (haDelta)
 Delays (HA charts) + earlier signals (haDelta)
 BYO money & risk management
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HA and your risk management
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HA and your risk management
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Western introduction
February 2004
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Heikin-ashi and the brain
Left Side Right Side

Quantifiable Visual
heikin-ashi heikin-ashi
haDelta & Co. HA candles
Heikin-Ashi
Heikin-ashi appeals to all traders/investors
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Heikin-ashi as a visual tool
 Japanese-style technique
 Heikin-ashi (modified) candles
 Appeals to right-side of the brain (visual traders)
 Heikin-ashi candles
Can you trade only with visual tools?

Yes/No
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The heikin-ashi foundation
 Modified OHLC values:
haClose, haOpen, haHigh, haLow
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Heikin-ashi ‘patterns’
 Only three
Up Down Doji-like
3 simple HA ‘ patterns’ vs. 100+ documented Japanese candlestick patterns
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Heikin-ashi rules
A sequence of white bodies identifies an uptrend
1 A sequence of filled bodies identifies a downtrend
Uptrends get stronger with longer white bodies and upper shadows
2 Downtrends get stronger with longer black bodies and lower shadows
Trends get weaker with smaller bodies or when both lower and upper
3 shadows emerge
A consolidation is revealed when a series of smaller bodies with both

4 upper and lower shadows emerges
A trend reversal is likely with the emergence of a small body with long
5 upper and lower shadows (doji-like candle) or a sudden color change
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Visual heikin-ashi
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Heikin-ashi quantification
“If you cannot measure it, your knowledge

is of a meager kind.”
Lord Kelvin
 Heikin-ashi candles can be quantified

 Western approach to analysis and trading
 Technical indicators (left-brained, analytical
traders)
 haDelta & Co.
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Japanese candle patterns today
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Japanese candle patterns
 100+ patterns
 Fluid definitions
 Subjective interpretations
 “In the context”
 Many patterns are complex
 For visual traders, for connoisseurs
 Problems with trading JC patterns
 Quantifiable strategies added
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All in one
 Heikin-ashi provides only
3 ‘patterns’
5 rules
 For both visual and analytical traders/investors
 Heikin-ashi candles and indicator(s)
 Very short learning curve
 Heikin-ashi does not care about context
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Heikin-ashi vs. candle patterns
Heikin-Ashi Candle Patterns

3 ‘patterns’ 100+ patterns
5 rules ‘N’ rules/pattern
Short learning curve Long learning curve
Small investment (time, $) Big investment (time, $$$)
Visual + Quantifiable Visual
More objective Subjective, artistic
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Chart Gallery
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haDelta to the rescue
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haDelta
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Averages with heikin-ashi
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HA and multiple time frames
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Conclusion
 A visual and quantifiable technique
 For trends and reversals (suitable to replace
candlestick patterns)
 Simple, easy to learn and apply
 Only 3 ‘patterns’ and 5 rules
 Used as a stand-alone or confirmation tool
 BYO risk and money management
 As with every indicator, HA is NOT a $$$ printing
press
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HEIKIN‐ASHI

TRENDS MADE SIMPLE.

Dan Valcu, CFTe

The Old Guitarist

Pierrot and the Guitar (Dali)

Left Side Right Side

haDelta & Co. HA candles

Heikin-ashi appeals to all traders/investors

Can you trade only with visual tools?

3 simple HA ‘ patterns’ vs. 100+ documented Japanese candlestick patterns

A consolidation is revealed when a series of smaller bodies with both

“If you cannot measure it, your knowledge

 Heikin-ashi candles can be quantified

Heikin-Ashi Candle Patterns

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