If the channel width is smaller than a couple of
wide range bars, consider it narrow.
A fundamental behavior of
range bar charts is that they do not move unless the market does.
A tip for day traders: fine tune your support and resistance levels
with range bars instead of time - based charts.
I used 18
ticks range bar chart: What I was looking for is an exhaustion in selling, let the «red bars» change to green.
In this plot, the
orange range bars give a relative sense of scale, as each bar represents the same distance along the y - axis.
But a better way is to locate
narrow range bars and declining volume right at key support / resistance levels.
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Range bars show price action based on the number of ticks per candle, rather than how much time has elapsed per candle.
The weekly chart below does not show the actual gap up, but the wide -
ranged bar on monster volume (highlighted in the black rectangle) led to the current basing action:
After the wide
range bar decline, 6 bars ago, the last 5 bars have been overlapping, and the closes are almost clustering, both signs for a possible change in price direction.
Most aspiring traders greatly under - estimate how important risk control is in trading and it's here that The
Elite Range Bar System truly shines.
So let others take the bait at these levels, while you find pullbacks and narrow
range bars for trade execution.
Hi Nial, I like what you preach, I would like to see what you have to say about
using range bars in trading as they seem to clean up a lot of noise on the charts.
If instead it collapses in a
big range bar through the trendline and the bar closes near its low, the bull swing might be over.
Genesis printed a NR7 (narrowest
range bar of the last seven bars) just before collapsing into the mid-40s.
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WRB Hidden Gap (MT4, MT5)-- an indicator that can help price action traders to find the
wide range bars and wide range candlestick bodies, and hidden gaps.
In fact, the last bar before the breakout printed a «NR7,» the swing trader's term for the narrowest
range bar of the last seven bars.
Find the
narrowest range bar of the last seven bars (NR7) to locate this sudden congestion breakout.
The decline also caused an ugly, wide -
ranged bar to form on the weekly chart, which should now act as overhead resistance (see horizontal line on the chart below).
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Hence, only
the range bar chart shows the exact price action.
But narrow
range bars can also be attractive low - risk trade entries.
If you take every narrow
range bar you see, despite the low risk per trade, you will bleed to death by a thousand cuts.
Well, narrow
range bars might be a sign of a congested market that offers little profit potential.
In isolation, a narrow
range bar signals uncertainty while a wide range bar shows wild trading.
Narrow
range bars are windows of opportunities.
Narrow
range bars are characteristic of tight trading ranges which are not conducive for trading.
Range bars with high volume are effective intraday support and resistance levels.
While this sounds like a price action trader's dream, you have to take note that
range bars are not useful for OHLC analysis.
We force
each range bar to break once it exceeds the specified range, so the bars always close at the extreme top or bottom.
Inside Bar: Also sometimes called a narrow
range bar, an inside bar is a bar with a high that is lower than the previous bar's high and a low that is higher than the previous bar's low.
Inside Bar: also called a narrow
range bar, is a bar with the high that is lower than the previous bar and low that is higher than the previous bar.
With this definition, the wide
range bar or engulfing bar does not need to have a higher high or lower low to qualify.
The chart draws a series of narrowing
range bars (the distance from bar high to low).