Forex is a great market to use price action analysis on because it is open 24 hours a day 5.5 days a week and this means there are more
price action signals for you to take advantage of.
As you grow your price action analysis skills, you will learn to first take into account what a market is doing; it's overall condition / state, and THEN you will look for
price action signals within that structure; that make sense in the context they form within.
I may sound cliché, but the best
price action signals are the ones that are dead obvious and that almost «jump» off the chart at you.
If market is range bound, you would then look to «trade the range» as I say, by watching for
price action signals near the boundary of the range (either support or resistance boundary).
That said, I've found
price action signals to work the best on the daily and weekly time frames.
So, it goes to reason that trading
price action signals off the 4 hour chart will make you a MORE ACCURATE TRADER than trading off the 1 hour chart, and trading off the daily chart will make you a more accurate trader than strictly trading off the 4 hour chart.
We view this increased volatility as a potential to make money if we wait for the proper
price action signals and use them properly.
Just as we can use
price action signals to enter into high probability trades, we can also use the opposite signal to exit a trade.
In a strong trend you will likely have a better chance to hold a trade for bigger gains, in a consolidating market you are probably better off using support and resistance levels and / or opposing
price action signals to exit your trade.
What time frame is best to use when checking for opposing / reaffirming
price action signals.
Once you've established a good resistance level, keep an eye out for bearish
price action signals, like the bearish engulfing candlestick pattern, forming at or near the level.
That price action signals buying interest and it will be interesting to see what happens today.
So, I also look to trade from these major chart levels either by watching for clean
price action signals or by getting in at the level on a blind entry.
For the purpose of this article, we will be using
price action signals in conjunction with the different forms of MACD divergence.
If you see
price action signals that are producing substantial movement in - line with the trend, this is another confirming factor for your directional bias on a market.
First, you need to find a good trading system, or none of the rest of this will matter, even if you've just decided to only take one or two
price action signals or something.
This Video dicusses How to Plan for the trading week ahead, plotting the key horizontal levels for your market, identifying trends and
price action signals in advance.
Price action signals like pin bars are one way to confirm a setup.
We can look for
price action signals forming near levels of support and resistance that develop as a result of the natural ebb and flow of a trending market.
Trading ranges can be a bit erratic but if you watch the boundaries of them closely you will often see some solid
price action signals form at the key support or resistance of the range.
Also, in a trending market like this, we can watch the previous swing points for
price action signals as the market retraces back to them.
I want to know something; is it ok to enter a trade in one market on two time frames if both frames show
price action signals at confluent levels?
The price action signals solid risk / reward plays for the short - term horizon.
This will ensure you are seeing the correct price data and you will then be able to analyze the exact same
price action signals that myself and all of my members see.
I understand that confluence of
price action signals and such indicators give a stronger entry / exit signal so why promote only trading naked and not price action with certain relevant indicators if indeed they are relevant?
As I am seeing the markets through the way you explain with S an R levels and
Price Action Signals I am finding it much easier to handle the markets and a lot of my nerves are tailing off -!
Learn what good
price action signals look like and develop a gut feel for identifying them.
That way when the market opens, you know which currency pairs to keep an eye on and where to watch for
price action signals.
But as I mentioned earlier, that's where
price action signals come in to help us determine the strength of a level prior to placing a trade.
As a price action trader, my main concern is finding
price action signals with confluence.
When price is obviously bouncing back and forth between a horizontal support and resistance level, we can wait for price to hit one of the boundaries of the range and then watch for
price action signals forming there.
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.
The good thing about Nial's
Price Action Signals are that they can be applied to all type of market conditions.
If you want to learn more about how to identify and trade
price action signals like the ones seen in these examples, checkout my newly updated price action trading course for in - depth instruction and training.
Look for
price action signals as the market retraces.
For example, if a market is in an uptrend, I will be looking for price to retrace to a support level within the uptrend, this is what I consider a «value» area, and I will then watch patiently for one of
my price action signals to confirm a trade entry.
Here's one of my recent videos explaining how I use one of my favorite
price action signals; the pin bar trading strategy, to trade in - line with the trend:
That said, I do teach and trade
some price action signals on the 4 hour and 1 hour charts if a signal forms on those time frames that agrees with my entry criteria.
When the market retraces back to these value areas, it means we need to pay extra close attention and look for
price action signals to trade with the dominant daily chart trend.
The main point of today's lesson was to show you that good
price action signals don't always immediately move in our favour (sometimes they do, and that's great!
I teach a plethora of price action trading confirmation signals in my course that I combine with levels and the trend, here's a few examples of how I trade
price action signals with obvious horizontal levels in the market.
The primary thing I am looking for are daily chart
price action signals, as these are the strongest and best ones to trade in my opinion.
As price re-tests the event area we would watch closely for
price action signals, as the formation of a price action signal at an event area is a very high - probability event.
Look at the blue circles in the illustration above, these are the swing points at which you want to watch for obvious
price action signals forming, then you are trading from a confluent point of «value» within a trending market.
I prefer to use a few specific
price action signals, mainly the bearish engulfing pattern and the shooting star (with confirmation and pullback).
I would also like to ask them how myself and many other price action traders can successfully trade the markets by learning to trade off of a handful of simple yet powerfully predictive
price action signals:
I always wondered how i could day trade and keep my day job, i actually thought of quitting my job to concentrate on Trading but your articles have really changed the way i view the markets, I just relax and wait for
price action signals.
I have a been a member here since August 2011 (trading since 2004), and the beauty with Nial's system, is the simplicity, and also the fact that with
price action signals, I have learned to WAIT until the market gives me a signal, not the jump the gun.
This is a very simple trading strategy; we use
price action signals to alert us to the trading opportunities, we then place a limit or market order to enter, place a stop loss, than place a conditional order to cancel the stop loss if the profit target is hit.
I personally use a scalping strategy along with
price action signals during the Australasian session from time to time.