How many times have you been in a pin bar trade and then after a day or two an opposing
pin bar forms?
I also noticed that when the emas indicate a uptrend and a bearish
pin bar forms the following day would invalidate the pin bar and force those sellers out often leading to explosive moves in the direction of the trend vice versa for a downtrend.
A bearish
Pin Bar forms, but the top shadow is quite short.
When
pin bars form at the top or bottom of a consolidating market that is taking a breather after a large directional movement they can often signal trend resumption is near.
In the daily chart of USD / CAD below we can see multiple
pin bars formed at the top of a range bound market that was most recently in a large down trend.
Price showed clear rejection of the horizontal level near 1.6150 on the day
the pin bar formed.
The entry would have basically been a limit sell entry somewhere in the range of where
the pin bar formed, with a stop loss set just above the resistance near 9714.00 / pin bar high.
This meant when the third
pin bar formed we had a very high - probability setup because it formed off a previous event area and had confluence with a very significant resistance level.
The pin bar formed right on a very obvious uptrend line that had existed for sometime in the market previously.
Based on the size and the nice bearish close exactly at the low of this pin, you would have thought at the time that price would immediately start falling after
this pin bar formed.
On September 14th and 15th, two consecutive
pin bars formed in the AUDUSD that also formed a pin bar fakey strategy as well.
When
pin bars form at the top or bottom of a consolidating market that is taking a breather after a large directional movement they can often signal trend resumption is near.
On September 8th
a pin bar formed in the GBPUSD, and on September 16th and 20th we had inside bars form.
• Note that after
the pin bar formed, and inside bar formed within its range.
In the daily chart of USD / CAD below we can see multiple
pin bars formed at the top of a range bound market that was most recently in a large down trend.
However, as we can see that was certainly not the case because if you shorted the market after
this pin bar formed you would have had to endure 7 days of sideways very choppy price movement before price finally started rolling over.
On September 6th a long - tailed
pin bar formed in the EURUSD.
On top of that,
the pin bar formed on a support level, which reconfirms the strength of this signal.
I mentioned some of these concerns in the member's area shortly after the USDJPY
pin bar formed.
Note that just before the trading range finally broke out lower, a long - tailed
pin bar formed that showed rejection of the interior of the range, once the low of this pin bar broke we saw a significant move lower.
1: This first setup was a pin bar setup, actually two nice
pin bars formed consecutively, so even if you passed on the first one you may have taken the second one since they both formed showing rejection of a key long - term support.
The above EUR / USD chart is a great example of a bearish
pin bar forming during a down trend (price below 200 SMA).
A double bar is
a pin bar formed over 2 periods rather than one.
Not exact matches
The S&P 500 popped higher last week following a bullish
pin bar that
formed off 2610.00 support on Wednesday.
3: Next, we can see a well - defined fakey setup that
formed with a
pin bar as the false - break.
This particular
pin bar would probably have resulted in a losing trade for most traders as we can see it briefly broke higher and then reversed to just below the
pin bar low before
forming another
pin bar off that same support.
When we get a well - defined
pin bar like this, that has
formed at a confluent area or level in the market like this, it's a very high - probability setup...
The daily GBP / JPY chart below demonstrates how a large, well
formed pin bar can tip off traders to longer - term changes in trend direction.
In the chart example below, we can see a bearish
pin bar sell signal that
formed at a key level of resistance in the EURUSD.
Look for well
formed pin bar setups that meet all the characteristics listed in this tutorial and don't take any that you don't feel particularly confident about.
In the chart below, we can see an obvious
pin bar reversal setup
formed near a key market resistance level, indicating that a move lower was a strong possibility.
Pin bars can be taken at major market turning points counter-trend if they are very well
formed.
The daily USD / JPY chart below demonstrates how a large, well
formed pin bar can tip off traders to longer - term changes in trend direction.
Often times trend changes will occur rapidly and
form what is called a «V» bottom with the bottom
bar being a
pin bar.
The
bar that
formed just after the
pin bar setup moved down to the 50 % «balance point» of the
pin bar, allowing for a tight entry near the 50 % balance point of the
pin bar's range.
We can see a clear example of this in the chart below with the recent
pin bar trading strategy that
formed at the shorter - term support through 102.50 area, note that this level was previous resistance.
Notice on the daily chart below, a
pin bar reversal buy signal
formed today as buyers came back into the market following the brief pull back that took place over the last six days.
However, price did
form a bearish
pin bar on Thursday, reversing at a key long - term resistance area up near 1.2540, visible on the weekly time frame.
You see a solid
pin bar entry strategy that
formed showing rejection of the 1.2625 resistance level.
On May 25th the NZDUSD
formed an inside
pin bar combo setup.
In the chart example below, we can see another fakey /
pin bar combo setup that
formed recently, this time in the daily USDJPY chart.
In the daily spot Gold chart below, we can see an obvious fakey with
pin bar combo setup
formed on October 15th.
In this case, a very nice long - tailed
pin bar buy signal did indeed
form and price is still moving higher from it as of this writing.
In this video lesson I discuss the 4 hour
Pin Bar reversal signal that just
formed on the GBPUSD chart.
Note the two previous
pin bars that had worked out nicely which
formed at the same approximate resistance level around 1.6500 — 1.6450.
Note the first
pin bar on the left of the chart, this initially
formed the event area because of the strong down move that followed.
Finally, the last setup we will look at was a bearish
pin bar that
formed on Tuesday of this week (June 14th).
I look at the 50 % point of the actual
pin bar itself as well, as often you can place a sell limit order at this point because price will often retrace up or down the
pin bar the next day after it
forms, this often allows you to have a tighter stop and thus a larger reward to risk.
3) The next important thing to note on the chart below was that as the market tested the event area when the
pin bar sell signal
formed, it reversed yet again, because the market didn't «forget» about that event area...
On June 3rd a bullish
pin bar setup
formed in the GBPUSD that showed rejection of a significant support through 1.6300 and was in - line with the recently crossed higher 8 and 21 day EMA's.