All of these setups were valid examples of my price
action trading edge, two of them happened to be winners and one happened to be a loser, but there was NO WAY we could have known for sure WHICH ONE would lose and which one would win before they came off.
The «secret» is keeping ALL your losers at 1R or less and ONLY trading when our price
action trading edge is truly present.
Even though it was counter trend the setup was still valid and obvious, so this is a good representation of a valid instance of our price
action trading edge.
This was a well - defined setup that formed off a key resistance level, so certainly it was a valid instance of our price
action trading edge.
All of these setups were valid examples of my price
action trading edge, two of them happened to be winners and one happened to be a loser, but there was NO WAY we could have known for sure WHICH ONE would lose and which one would win before they came off.
Not exact matches
Treasury yields
edge slightly higher, and prices slip, on Monday as
trade tensions between the U.S. and China appear to be dialed back after helping spark a selloff to close out last week's
action on Wall Street.
Your other genuine
edge needs to be an effective
trading strategy like price
action.
It's the SERIES of
trades while
trading our
edge (price
action) that gives us a chance to make money.
If we really stick to our predefined
edge, price
action trading in my case, we will naturally be waiting for our
edge to form more than we will actually be
trading.
As traders, it helps to always expect a random outcome from our
trades, even though we may have mastered a high - probability
trading edge like price
action.
The point here is that we never really know for sure which
trades will work and which will not, and while we generally do not want to sell into support or buy into resistance, sometimes if there is a very obvious price
action setup with the trend, you have to take a stab since your
edge is present.
Although traders may always be on the outlook for a
trading «
edge,» or use other means to try to predict price
action, the fact is that no one, no one, knows what the market will do next.
Now, flawless execution of your
edge means you have mastered price
action trading, you have a concrete and practical Forex
trading plan, you are tracking your progress in your Forex
trading journal, and you effectively manage your risk on every single
trade you take.
If we have a high - probability
trading edge like price
action Forex strategies, we need to let our
edge play out over a large series of
trades to see it work for us properly.
You also must keep in mind that the whole idea of risk to reward strategies revolves around having an effective
edge in the market and knowing when that
edge is present and how to use it, you can learn this from my price
action forex
trading course.
If they learn your price
action trade mehtods and gain that
edge in their
trading, they can have the relative comfort of controling their risk by using the proper position sizing per
trade.
You also need a high - probability
trading edge like price
action.
You have to
trade price
action with a historical
edge or your
trades are just random.
When we combine this knowledge of the power of risk to reward with a high - probability
edge like price
action, what we have is a professional money management and
trading strategy, which when combined with the proper education and discretion will make money over a series of at least 20
trades or more.
Your other genuine
edge needs to be an effective
trading strategy like price
action.
A recent article on Price
Action Lab, Facts Vs. Fiction About Overnight Gains in SPY, also shows similar results when
trading small
edges and how your results change depending on your commission assumptions.
Price
action trading gives you an «
edge», just like any other method does (although price
action is clearly the best way to
trade), and what you need to understand is that no matter what your
edge is, it's not going to work out in your favor EVERY time, and you don't know for sure if any single
edge - event will work out.
As I say in the video; there's never going to be the exact same setup twice, but what we are looking for a is a
trading «
edge», this is a repetitive price
action setup that we can use to enter the market from.
• Mastered an effective
trading strategy like price
action • Has a Forex
trading plan and uses it • Has a Forex
trading journal and uses it • Focuses on risk management and on controlling risk on every
trade • Not overly - focused on profits and rewards • Trades only when their
trading edge is present.
• Second, make sure you: A) Have a
trading strategy that you know can be a high - probability
trading edge, like price
action trading strategies, and B) Fully understand how to use this strategy and you've demo
traded it long enough to feel you have «mastered it».
Again, no reason to expect it to be a winner, it was just a winning instance of our
trading edge; price
action.
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You've got to remind yourself that each
trade setup is just another execution of your
edge, and if you have mastered your price
action trading strategies and follow your plan religiously, you will have a high - probability
edge to
trade with.
Once you become a skilled price
action trader, you will know for sure when your
edge is present and when it's not; this largely eliminates most instances of being «gun - shy» to enter a
trade.
This involves mastering an effective
trading strategy like price
action so that you have NO DOUBTS about what your
trading edge is and when it is present in the markets.