Anybody else can share having a useful experience using knowledge from Jump Start Trading with Motive Wave ?

[Reef_Diver]

Scalper here, watch all his videos, just started trying to apply all the info learned from JumpStart Trading's YouTube channel, in Motive Wave on S&P e-mini, really cannot see where DOM helps me, anybody else, perhaps longer term user having good experience with ?

Personally, my first impressions of Motive Wave is I find Motive Wave software excessively complex, and for several common features, instead of one click like a well known competitor - - it takes multiple click throughs just to get a desired action.

 

[rctrader]

Hi Reef_Diver,

I have used several different platforms - ninja trader, trading view, think or swim, interactive brokers, tasty trade, meta trader, the list goes on...
Every platform feels klunky unitl you know how to use it and have been using it for a little while. For MW is very easy and fast and flexible. You can trade straight from the chart, with hot keys and from the DOM. The Dom trading in MW is the same as it was in Ninja Trader. I am very happy with it.

 

[Reef_Diver]

So far I find MW a disaster, the UI is terrible, whoever designed it. For example, it takes multiple steps to perform operations that I can accomplish in a competing program in a single step.

I have been using 15 second chart settings multiple times all week to obtain better entries (learned it from a Robbins cup winner #1 trader), suddenly today the availability of seconds interval suddenly disappeared ?

The list just goes on and on . . .

 

[rctrader]

The thing you need to ask yourself is - why are you even asking then?. It sounds like you should just move on. It sounds pretty cut and dry based on what you are saying. Obviously, there are lot of people that like and are using MW and are very successful with it. But success does not come from the software or the strategy. It comes from you! So the best advice I can give you, is trading is frustrating sometimes. Sometimes when you are frustrated with yourself and with trading, the frustration gets projected on to other people and other things. The hard part about trading is you can't hide from yourself, because you will never be successful with any software or any strategy until you do figure your own self out and the emotions that go along with frustration. Jumping from platform to platform and strategy to strategy is expensive and time consuming. I did the same thing for years and am just conveying experience, hopefully to save you time and money. If you have resistance to MW software, you will never be successful with it. Honestly, do not waste your time or money if you are buying for those reasons.

There are so many options in trading that sometimes it takes a little while to settle down. You will figure out what is best for you.

 

[Reef_Diver]

AS frustrating as trading can be sometimes with sideways market action, traders CERTAINLY don't need their software package to be frustrating, adding to it.

I have a list (getting longer) of glitches and problems with MW software, and getting email responses back every 8 to 12 hours from their staff really doesn't solve problems fast enough, at that rate, it might take a MONTH to try to iron out all the problems with this software - - if it's even do-able.

I will go try Sierra Charts.

 

[rctrader]

Sounds like a plan. Best wishes. I hope find a system that works for you.

 

[Reef_Diver]

For example, can you even go to chart settings, bar settings, interval and select SECONDS in your version of MW? It was there all this week, now it disappeared on mine.

 

[MrSharky]

For example, can you even go to chart settings, bar settings, interval and select SECONDS in your version of MW? It was there all this week, now it disappeared on mine.

No problem at all, what version are you running? Anyway as rctrader already stated MW is probably not for you. I can thing of several softwares that are not for me. Why spend time and money on something you are so clearly not happy with?

 

[Reef_Diver]

I believe I figured it out, they gave me a free trial of Ultimate, then they just emailed me trial expired and dumped me into "community version", that lowest version likely does not have support for second intervals on candles.

 

[MrSharky]

I believe I figured it out, they gave me a free trial of Ultimate, then they just emailed me trial expired and dumped me into "community version", that lowest version likely does not have support for second intervals on candles.

Well they did not dump you into the community version, you had two weeks to try out the full version. You chose not to go for a paid version. So you are now on the free one. What more to expect.

 

[Vlad]

AS frustrating as trading can be sometimes with sideways market action, traders CERTAINLY don't need their software package to be frustrating, adding to it.

I have a list (getting longer) of glitches and problems with MW software, and getting email responses back every 8 to 12 hours from their staff really doesn't solve problems fast enough, at that rate, it might take a MONTH to try to iron out all the problems with this software - - if it's even do-able.

I will go try Sierra Charts.

If you think Motivewave is challenging, Sierra Charts is not the next logical choice.

As for your original question - yes I've learned about MW from that guy and am forever grateful. As for an actual trading strategy that works, I highly recommend going the Convergent Trading route - a lot of freebies on YT. But it's a lot of work, certainly not the instant gratification.