It is normal for tick charts to look a little bit different between different charting software (NT8, QT, Sierra) and between different data providers (CQG, Denali), because of how each one aggregates and displays the tick data. The key here lies in a little bit different.
In a normal trading session, a “little bit” means the swing highs and lows are identical between charts, the price action moves and setups are identical, and most of the bars are identical, but here and there you might see a difference in the open and closing prices of some bars (not all).
Sierra Chart’s Color Bar Based on Alert Condition study is a powerful little tool we can use for setting up all kinds of chart indicators on a bar-by-bar level.
In this example, I want to print a small dot above bars that are closing within their top third, and below bars closing within the bottom third. Add the study to the chart, then go to settings.
Those are the input values we are interested in:
Vacations are over, nooooo! 😭 Just kidding. This first week back to work was actually really nice. Now that I am self-employed and work as a day trader, work days are always nice and something to look forward to. I actually like Mondays now, because I get to trade again and follow my process.
First week post vacations and I killed it with my trading performance! I was so relaxed and calm and focused, a total miracle.
When I first tried this recipe last summer, it was like a revelation. Pasta with lemon is the most summery thing ever. Now it’s summer again, and Amalfi Pasta is back to our weekly rotation. This delicious recipe is from the book “The Easy Italian Cookbook”.
Ingredients Serves 2
160g fresh homemade capellini pasta 2 cans of tuna1 1 large lemon, zested and juiced 1 large garlic clove, finely grated 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped 4 tbsp olive oil 1/4 to 1/3 cup freshly grated parmesan salt and black pepper Instructions Make the pasta2!
After a million tries, I found the recipe. All credit goes to Grant Yoder for this wonderful recipe that works every single time. I bake this boule every two weeks. 🍞🥖
Ingredients 100g sourdough starter 450g flour (a mix of T65 wheat, rye, spelt, whatever) 275g water 10g salt Instructions Part I: Starter I prefer to have a zero-discard, no-waste situation with my sourdough and I only keep about a tbsp of starter in the jar.
Mom, this morning: “Is it Tuesday already?”. Me, annoyed, emphatically: “Of course not, mom. Today is Wednesday”. At 18h30 we found out it’s Thursday and the only possible explanation is we must have been abducted by aliens! 👽
Had this two weeks ago paired with a delicious bottle of Amarone… Recipe by RecipeTinEats, with small adaptations (we only eat fresh homemade pasta, never dry; I always sub broth for more wine; and so on). A new favourite!
Ingredients Serves 2
150g fresh homemade fettuccine 2 tbsp unsalted butter 1/2 tbsp olive oil 300g mushrooms, sliced (whatever type; I made with a mix of champignon, oyster and portobello) 2 garlic cloves, chopped 1 cup (250 ml) white wine 3/4 cup (185ml) heavy cream (nata de montar) 1/3 cup (30g) parmesan, freshly grated + extra for serving 1/2 tsp salt and pepper, each Instructions Cook pasta in salted water until al dente.
This week the cutest thing happened: five kittens were playing at a parking lot when this one spotted me hiding behind the bushes. She decided to investigate, I pretended to be part of the scenery, very very still, and sure enough, she got close enough for this portrait! 🐈📷
When I said I would make a vegan bolognese for dinner using soy TVP, I was met with distrust in their eyes and low expectation in their voices. Once they tried it, they went for seconds…
This is an adaptation from Food.com’s amazing recipe. It looks beautiful, it tastes delicious, and it’s light on the wallet too. The whole thing comes together in about 30 minutes (instead of 3 to 4 hours to make the real deal, ragù alla bolognese).
My 73yo mom decided to start blogging too! After a few days trying out wp, micro.blog, publii, we settled on a self-hosted Htmly install. We needed PT-BR support and ultra easy to use UI. Finally all those old poems, stories and dreams will leave her text editor and live at mariza.blog instead!
We have a fig tree in our garden. It produces hundreds of delicious, sweet little fruits every single year. I discovered I am allergic to them on the very day I had them for the first time. How nice /s.
Luckily, I can eat them cooked. So I make jam. Jars and jars of jam, which we then eat with copious amounts of cheese. This recipe is inspired by Anna Maria Larsson’s version.
This week my mom arrived from Brazil. We drove from Valencia to Madrid to pick her up, and on the way back stopped to visit Cuenca. 💚 We visited Mora de Rubielos and Rubielos de Mora, two beautiful towns in Teruel. After visiting a medieval castle and baking under a 38ºC heat wave, I tried getting us into a local Michelin-recommended restaurant, without reservation. Was obviously turned down, but it worked in our favor.
A few days ago we drove to Madrid to pick my mom at the airport. She came from Brazil to stay with us for three months and the tickets from our hometown to Madrid were half the price of the tickets to Valencia this time. Only problem, the flight landed really early, like 8h30. With the sunrise behind our backs and the full moon still ahead, the four-hour drive was filled with photos and thermos' coffee.
This week I decided to stop faffing around and just book a date for my driving theory exam. Did the driving aptitude test and I was honestly expecting some kind of Rorschach test (because if I remember right, I did that 20 years ago?!), but instead it was a really cool Atari-like videogame where you control two dots on different lanes using two handles! 👾 Joined Mastodon and Pixelfed!
Help, I have over 120k personal photos in my hard drive. I am overwhelmed by trying to organize, keyword, and find a way to see them, to share them. In the past I have created:
Printed albums for our trips: beautiful result but too time consuming (and too expensive too, I’m not gonna lie). Online galleries: no one looks at them apart from me. Instagram stories and carousels: people spend 2 seconds on it and they are off to the next great thing; also, not everyone gets to see my images, as IGs algo is notorious for hiding what you want to see, and showing you more of what it wants you to buy.
This week I decided to take my cameras out of storage and put them to work.
The visit to Galactica last week was so inspiring, we decided to go back to Aras de Los Olmos to photograph the stars and the Milky Way. I posted a few images here! 🪐✨🚀 Those were shot with two Canon 5D Mark IIIs and the widest lenses I had, a 24-70L and a 35 f/2.
The visit to Galactica last week made such an impression on us, we decided to travel back to Sierra de Javalambre earlier this week to photograph the stars.
We arrived an hour before sunset to scout locations and we watched a lovely sunset with a crescent moon above. Unfortunately the location we chose had wind turbines everywhere, but hey! If you can’t fight them, join them. So the turbines became characters in the story and actually made a pretty interesting foreground.
Vacations, finally! Enjoying the alternating weeks of heat waves and cold fronts.
R.I.P. Ozzy! 🤘🖤 A few days ago we went to Mercado de la Imprenta in Valencia. Such a beautiful building! I posted some photos here. 📷🍷 This weekend we went to Galactica, an observatory open to the public! We went to see the stars, learn about constellations, and see celestial objects on telescopes. We ended up seeing the Milky Way with our own eyes and it is so much more wonderful and bright and beautiful than we expected!
