Fortunately, with knowledge of how to trade simple
price action setups from key levels, we can effectively trade range - bound markets as well.
Indeed, trading
price action setups from horizontal levels is the «core» component of my trading theory and strategy, and if you were to take away only one thing from my website it would be that you can learn to trade the market effectively by simply drawing the core levels on your charts and waiting for obvious price action signals to form around them.
Note: These same principles apply in a down trending market but we would be looking for
price action setups from resistance rather than support.
The point to take away from the above two charts, and the main point of this article, is that trading
price action setups from confluent points in the market is the best thing you can do to improve the probability of your trades.
Not exact matches
My own personal approach to trading and teaching
price action trading is that you can trade effectively
from a few time - tested
price action setups.
However, I know
from emails that I get that a lot of people who follow me think that «
price action trading» means trading any old
price action setup; they seem to totally ignore the market context that the
setups occur in, which is actually just as important, if not more than the individual
setup itself.
The dramatic visual contrast
from one forex candlestick to the next enables traders to spot repetitive
price action setups in a dramatically easier and more enjoyable manner than using standard bar charts or line charts.
As you can see
from the examples above, the idea with this trade entry «trick» is that we are reading the
price action in a market and when we find a trade
setup and have a view on the market, we can then fine - tune our entry and this then gives us options for stop loss placement and targets.
Especially considering some of the
setups come
from price action patterns, I know using NY close charts will result in better performance.
Bollinger Squeeze
setup uses decreasing Bandwidth (the Squeeze) to find periods of low volatility and trades
price breakouts
from sluggish
price action.
Then, they take advantage of the order flow they create and profit
from them using
price action trading
setups.
So you need to remove hesitation and indecision
from your mind, and the way you do that is by mastering one trade
setup at a time, and in the case of my methods, that means one
price action setup at a time.
The technique is to look for
price action setups that form near the moving averages and place your stop loss just below the low / high of the
price action setup, which will likely be on the opposite side of the moving average
from the direction we are trading.
What I am saying is that a New York close will give you a clean chart to trade
from, making it easier to identify key levels and valid
price action setups.
Once you have mastered the
price action strategies that I teach, you can very quickly conclude
from your trading checklist or trading plan whether or not various elements of a high - probability
price action setup are present and if the confluence requirements are met.
Markets ebb and flow, and if a market just made a big move that you profited
from, get out and sit on your hands for a while until another
price action trade
setup forms.
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.
Price action allows you to filter the «good» trades
setups from the «not so good» trade
setups with immense clarity and confidence.
There really is no need to try and trade
from 25 different
price patterns, the Forex market moves in a relatively predictable fashion most of the time, so all we need is a handful of effective
price action entry
setups to give us a good chance at finding and entering high - probability trades.
After you've removed all the indicators and other unnecessary variables
from your charts, you can begin drawing in the key chart levels and looking for
price action setups to trade
from.
By learning to read the
price action of a market, we can determine a market's directional bias as well as trade
from reoccurring
price action patterns or
price action setups that reflect changes or continuations in market sentiment.
My own personal approach to trading and teaching
price action trading is that you can trade effectively
from a few time - tested
price action setups.
In this video we are using the 50 day ema dynamic resistance area along with the pre-mapped resistance areas that I drew on this chart to watch for confluent areas to trade
from and to watch for
price action setups to form near.
When you know how to interpret and utilize simple
price action setups, you can use the power of this higher time frame filter ability to free up your life and unchain yourself
from your trading desk, all the while becoming more consistent and accurate in your trades.