The forex market has widely accessible demo accounts that you can practice
price action setups on before going live.
Simply put, not every move in the market is significant; in fact, there are a lot of useless price formations and
price action setups on small time frames, simply as a result of the nature of the markets.
Basically, what I want to really drive - home today is the point that focusing on one
price action setup on one time frame and in one market, will allow you to become a master of that «strategy».
For example, if you enter a long on the EURUSD and the GBPUSD, you are basically doubling your risk, and there is really no point in trading both at the same time, you might as well trade one or the other, if there is a similar
price action setup on both, pick the pair that the setup looks more defined on.
Not exact matches
In this video trading lesson, I discuss how I use the «fakey
price action pattern'to make money trading GOLD and the next «potential trade
setup» I see setting up
on the GOLD chart.
Stops can't just be placed randomly nor placed based
on the position size you want to trade, they need to make sense and be in the context of the
price action trade signal /
setup and also in the context of the current market dynamics.
Today's lesson was just meant as a general guide of how to logically and effectively place stop losses and targets
on select
price action trade
setups, I discuss different entry scenarios and more trade
setups in my trading course and members» community.
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.
Our stop loss
on this
setup would be around 100 pips and the upside potential would be over 300 points, this is how professional traders look at the market; analyze levels, look at the
price action signals, nice tight stop and nice wide profit target.
For further explanation and
on - going market analysis
on pin bar
setups please check out my forex
price action trading course and live member's forum.
Although the daily chart is useful for seeing short - term trends, trade
setups on the monthly timeframe can be more explosive, especially when they align with bullish
price action on the weekly and daily chart intervals.
You should really dedicate yourself to learning all the nuances of one
price action setup at a time
on the daily charts, once you do this and are making money consistently
on a demo account you can then move
on to the next
price action setup.
The charts below show the technical buy
setup in XLU prior to our entry: The chart below shows the subsequent
price action after our entry:
On March 9, XLU trigered a buy entry and was added to the model portfolio of The -LSB-...]
Stops can't just be placed randomly nor placed based
on the position size you want to trade, they need to make sense and be in the context of the
price action trade signal /
setup and also in the context of the current market dynamics.
If you would like to learn a very clean, effective, and common sense way to trade the forex market with candlestick charts and my proprietary take
on price action setups, you might want to check out my forex
price action educational material.
The next thing you should notice about the example charts above is that the various
price action setups that I teach are much easier to spot and thus take advantage of
on a forex candlestick chart.
This process of mastering one piece at a time should be repeated until you have mastered all aspects of your Forex trading strategy, in the case of my
price action trading strategies it means mastering one of the
setups that I teach at a time,
on the daily chart, before learning a new one.
These targets are
price action setups, and you should think of them as higher - value
on the higher time frames, because in reality the higher the time frame the higher - probability the
setup becomes.
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.
When you have a strong view
on a particular
price action trade
setup and you would like to get the best entry possible so that you can increase the potential profit
on a trade, the trade entry trick is your most potent weapon.
An excellent New Year's resolution to get your trading
on the right track would be to become a «specialist» of one
price action setup at a time.
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Our stop loss
on this
setup would be around 100 pips and the upside potential would be over 300 points, this is how professional traders look at the market; analyze levels, look at the
price action signals, nice tight stop and nice wide profit target.
I too was a struggling trader early
on in my career, but once I discovered the power and simplicity of trading off simple
price action based
setups, I never looked at any other indicator or trading software again.
Then, if we see a
price action signal there, we know we are seeing a
setup form in a very high - probability area
on the chart.
If you take my simplified approach to analyzing and trading the markets with
price action on higher time frames, you'll be able to quickly scan the markets for your
price action setups, you'll save a lot of time and money by not over-trading and hopefully increase your win rate.
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.
One proven method that will help you stick to
price action trading is to decide to focus
on one
price action setup at a time and really master it.
You should really dedicate yourself to learning all the nuances of one
price action setup at a time
on the daily charts, once you do this and are making money consistently
on a demo account you can then move
on to the next
price action setup.
Today's lesson was just meant as a general guide of how to logically and effectively place stop losses and targets
on select
price action trade
setups, I discuss different entry scenarios and more trade
setups in my trading course and members» community.
In this video trading lesson, I discuss how I use the «fakey
price action pattern'to make money trading GOLD and the next «potential trade
setup» I see setting up
on the GOLD chart.
I discuss
price action trade
setups, chart analysis and commentary
on at least 5 different markets including major currency pairs, commodities, and stock indices.
You'll need to use your discretionary trading sense to ultimately decide which
price action setups to take and which to pass
on.
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.
If you will just slow down and focus
on trading like a sniper and not a machine gunner by learning to trade only the most obvious and confluent
price action setups, you will be able to trade much more relaxed and care - free, this will help you greatly in your money management.
I touched
on this earlier, but simplification of your trading is another huge reason you need to master one
price action setup at a time.
Once you have decided
on the time period you have available for market analysis you then will need to decide
on how much time you want to devote to scanning for
price action trade
setups and (or) for monitoring any previous open positions you may have.
Being patient while trading with
price action goes something like this: you see what looks like a decent pin bar formation but it is going against a rather strong trend, because you know that this
setup has a much lower probability of working out than a pin bar
setup with a strongly trending market, you sit
on your hands and pass it up, don't think anymore about it, even if it works out it does not matter because you just exercised patience, and you will be rewarded for it the more you use it.
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.
I understand when you say learn one
setup (master it) then move
on to another
price action setup.
For further explanation and
on - going market analysis
on pin bar
setups please check out my forex
price action trading course and live member's forum.
Once you are making consistent demo money
on this one
price action setup, for a period of 2 - 3 months, you can try it out
on a live account, if you are still making consistent money
on a live account with this one
setup then go back to demo trading and try a new
setup out, repeating the process until you have a few solid
price action setups in your trading toolbox.
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I'm working
on a book right now that includes more
price action setups with detailed examples including methods to exit.
I also saw the whole
setup but as I'm also a
price action trader I relied more
on the bullish engulfing than the pinbar signal.
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.
The way that I trade and the way I teach my members to trade is essentially to look for high - quality / high - probability
price action trade
setups and to sit
on your hands when none are present, in other words, quality over quantity.
If you want to learn more about how I trade «Low - Frequency»
price action strategies
on the Daily Chart time - frames; check out my
price action trading course and member's community; my trading philosophy is based
on trading only the highest - quality
price action trade
setups, which means less trades and less stress!
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