Here's an image of two Fakey setups, note that one has
a pin bar as the false - break and other does not, these are just two of the variations of the Fakey setup:
3: Next, we can see a well - defined fakey setup that formed with
a pin bar as the false - break.
Although it isn't a very well - defined
pin bar as the nose is too long and the tail isn't at least 2/3 of the range.
I saw a Webinar from someone who calls
the Pin Bar as an an elephant candle, and a shakeout candle.
This is the reason we use price action strategies like
the pin bar as confirmation that a level is likely to hold.
However, I did have a question for you, the example that you gave in AUDUSD is a pin bar but from the videos I have just seen you define
a pin bar as having a tail that is 66 % of the range and that you only trade it on a 50 % retracement?
I'm just wondering what makes you take that setup as a 50 % retracement of
the pin bar as opposed to entering on the close of OR break of the high of the pin bar?
Let's take
the Pin Bar as an example.
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.
I'm just wondering what makes you take that setup as a 50 % retracement of
the pin bar as opposed to entering on the close of OR break of the high of the pin bar?
Now that we know the setup we have to look at ways to trade it, in this video I just demonstrate how effective trading
the pin bar as soon as it occurs is, rather than looking at every single way it can be traded.
3: Next, we can see a well - defined fakey setup that formed with
a pin bar as the false - break.
Not exact matches
Notice that we had a nice 2R profit off this setup that ended in a bullish
pin bar from support
as of last Friday which may well lead to a buying opportunity (See our daily members commentary for updates on this).
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.
Note the 50 % limit sell entry that presented itself
as the next
bar retraced to about 50 % of the
pin bar's length before the market fell significantly lower...
Today is my FIRST DAY
as a member;
as I read & study Price action w / the
pin bars and Confluence, I am identifying Pin Bars in the AUDUSD 240 min live cha
pin bars and Confluence, I am identifying Pin Bars in the AUDUSD 240 min live ch
bars and Confluence, I am identifying
Pin Bars in the AUDUSD 240 min live cha
Pin Bars in the AUDUSD 240 min live ch
Bars in the AUDUSD 240 min live chart.
However, there are many profitable
pin bars that often occur in range - bound markets or at major market turning points
as well.
Rregarding the setup or the entry point, you told us to entr the trade
as soon
as we break or exceede the HIGH price or the LOW price of the
Pin Bar....
The best
pin bar strategies occur with a confluence of signals such
as support and resistance levels, dominant trend confirmation, or other «confirming» factors.
This provides a tight stop loss with our stop loss just above or below the
pin bar high or low and a large potential risk reward on the trade
as a result.
As we can see in the chart below, you can place your stop loss near the 50 % level of the consolidation range or on the other side of the price action setup; in the example below it was a
pin bar.
The best
pin bar setups occur near confluent levels of previous price action
as the market moves in one direction and then regresses back to re-test a previous support or resistance level.
Trading price action with no indicators can be a very good trading strategy
as this video above shows on trading the
pin bar method on the GBPJPY forex pair.
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.
My question is that sometimes really strong
pin bars such
as the one on Jan 2nd do not allow for the 50 % retracement of the
pin bar before taking off.
I'm
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as well
as the no bake granola
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In this set of trading rules, we will use the
Pin Bar, a popular forex price action pattern,
as our basis for re-entries.
In the example below, we see a bullish and bearish fakey pattern with a
pin bar reversal
as the false - break of the inside
bar pattern:
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 your
pin bar article you mention placing entry at the break of a
pin bar then the stop one pip below the tail - this technique has saved me several times
as my order has not been hit.
You will for example, see fakey's with a
pin bar pattern
as the false - break structure.
This idea of waiting for retracing at 50 % level while setting the stoploss size
as the
pin bar signal is new to me.
In the case of a
pin bar, the false - break would only be one
bar,
as opposed to the two -
bar false - break structure I've shown in the diagram above.
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...
Hi Nial, I am using a meta trader trading platform which does not show it
as a
pin bar at all!
Hi Nial,
as mentioned
pin bars, inside
bars and fakey is good for daily time frame.
But i have seen these forms of
pin bars, inside
pin bars,... in the history of charts for different time frames without this form of moving and during 5 years of trading i could not use them
as you have mentioned above.
Pin bars can be taken counter trend
as well,
as long
as they are very well defined and protrude significantly from the surrounding price
bars, indicating a strong rejection has occurred, and preferably only on the daily chart time frame.
Crude Oil consolidated last week following the recent push higher from the
pin bar buy signal on April 17th which we discussed
as a potential buy signal in our members commentary that day.
As a price action trader, I know that a daily
pin bar setup is much stronger than a 30 minute
pin bar setup; therefore, because I have this knowledge I simply prefer to wait patiently for the perfect daily
pin bar setup rather than frazzle my nerves and lose money trying to catch a rare high - quality 30 minute
bar setup.
As we can see in the chart below, you can place your stop loss near the 50 % level of the consolidation range or on the other side of the price action setup; in the example below it was a
pin bar.
look to signal the direction of the move... and they're nice little candles for a reasonable «tight - stop» / risk - reward etc. not all of the recent «inside (
pin -
bar, combo) break - outs» have been
as * pretty *: -LRB-
It's nice to get a
pin bar or another price action signal at the boundary of trading ranges for extra «confirmation» of a trade, but because the boundaries of a trading range are so solid, we can also consider taking «blind entries» at them
as price hits them, e.g. take a sell entry at a resistance level of a trading range
as price comes back up to the key resistance level, even if there is no price action signal there.
We are trading with the downtrend momentum at the horizontal level discussed in this video, the
pin bar signals formed near the confluent area, or the «hot point»
as I call it.
Coincidentally, we did discuss this exact
pin bar setup in our daily members market commentary the day it formed
as a potential buying opportunity.