A forex futures day trader primarily employs the main technical indicators prevalent in the sport markets, such as, Fibonacci patterns, Bollinger Bands, MACD, oscillators, moving averages, trend lines chart patterns, and
support and resistance areas.
Remember that forex traders view the Fibonacci retracement levels as potential
support and resistance areas.
This means no lagging indicators outside of maybe a couple moving averages to help identify dynamic
support and resistance areas and trend.
Hence, by paying attention to volume clues, we can find reliable
support and resistance areas.
Below I talk about a Forex Candlestick Reversal Bar, one of my favorite Trading Strategy I use when trading from horizontal
support and resistance areas of the daily charts.
Don't ignore major
support and resistance areas.
Pivot Points are calculated values that serve as
support and resistance areas.
Support and resistance areas tend to act more like zones than exact levels.
Most price action trading strategies make use of price patterns together with
support and resistance areas.
By extending a parallel line from the trend line, we can form a trading channel that is useful for anticipating
support and resistance areas.
This is why I teach traders to trade off a simple stripped - down, or indicator - free, forex price chart, outside of a couple moving averages which can be useful in identifying dynamic
support and resistance areas.
The market does not find value a lot of value and here are potential
support and resistance areas.
These levels represent important
support and resistance areas that all traders should be aware of.
Not exact matches
Therefore, I have no idea whether or not $ LULU will neatly bounce off
support and into
resistance of the $ 55
area.
You are going to want to apply the 8
and 21 daily chart exponential moving averages (emas) because price will often pull back to this dynamic value or
support /
resistance area before moving on with the trend again.
The Dow should now find
resistance at yesterday's high of 13,338,
and support at its two - day low (13,175
area).
These value
areas typically act as
support or
resistance zones,
and this means when price retraces back to them you can watch for price action trading strategies forming at them.
This algorithm identifies key
areas of supply (
resistance)
and demand (
support).
Nevertheless, they can help highlight a trend
and they can also help identify
areas of
support and resistance.
In this case, the trend channel suggests QQQ should find
support near - term
support around the $ 62.40
area and its next near - term
resistance near $ 66.00.
You will also sometimes have existing
support or
resistance levels that basically run right through the center of a value
area, showing about the middle of the value
area,
and we can see this clearly by the blue line in the chart below.
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As you can see from the chart above, the zero line often acts as an
area of
support and resistance for the indicator.
Congestion
areas reinforces the idea that
support and resistance are zones,
and not a specific price level.
Some price action traders enter with limit orders at
areas of
support and resistance.
You are going to want to apply the 8
and 21 daily chart exponential moving averages (emas) because price will often pull back to this dynamic value or
support /
resistance area before moving on with the trend again.
We are watching the key
support area between 1.2160 — 1.2140 this week to get long
and ride the market back up to the higher side of the range near 1.2540 key
resistance.
Finding long trading setups when the next
resistance area is far away,
and short setups when the next
support area is far away.
Dojis
and spinning tops can be used to prepare for a possible entry,
and you can use them to note
areas of
support and resistance; however, you should never make a trade decision based on a doji formation or spinning top candlestick alone.
Hi Justin In your article about settlement period you have quoted «you need accurate
support and resistance levels», I understand that the
support and resistance are ares rather than accurate levels, In this case if the closing candles are within the
area how would you identify if the candle has closed above or below
support /
resistance level..
Hi colibritrader, Helpful reply thanks, I did take
and study your course
and my post relates to your mention of «pivot
areas» but I realise it's another term for
support or
resistance areas / zones.
Just keep in mind that these channels are built on
areas of
support and resistance.
See how
areas of earlier congestion acted as solid
support and resistance levels.
Traders seem to buy in
areas of
support and sell in
areas of
resistance.
Watch for price action buy signals on a pullback to that 1320 — 1307
support area this week
and target
resistance up near 1365.
These value
areas typically act as
support or
resistance zones,
and this means when price retraces back to them you can watch for price action trading strategies forming at them.
You will also sometimes have existing
support or
resistance levels that basically run right through the center of a value
area, showing about the middle of the value
area,
and we can see this clearly by the blue line in the chart below.
Gold remains trapped in a large sideways trading range between 1360
resistance area and support near 1300.
Note the fakey trading strategy that formed up near $ 1,485.00
resistance that kicked off this recent move down to key
support, we first discussed this fakey in our members»
area and then again in our May 7th commentary.
It's worth noting
support and resistance are usually
areas, instead of specific prices.
We remain bearish biased on this market
and will continue watching for price action sell signals from
resistance to rejoin the downtrend as we can see the longer - term downtrend is still clearly in effect
and key
support isn't seen until down near 1.2040
area.
Since these levels are also typically good horizontal
support and resistance levels they are great
areas to look for reversal trades.
Areas of range contraction create zones of
support and resistance for future price behavior.
Instead,
support and resistance should be thought of as zones or
areas that price tends to consolidate in.
If that
area is lost
and starts to become
resistance rather than
support, we will probably be looking more bearish, so stay tuned this week to the nightly reports.
Range break down, corrective move to 50 % retracement
area and to channel
support which now is acting as
resistance.
There are swing trading opportunities in this case too, with the trader taking a long position near the
support area and taking a short position near the
resistance area.
-- Meaning are there any
supporting factors for the signal like
support and resistance levels, moving averages, 50 % retraces, event
areas, etc..
In Figure 2, a chart of the currency pair USD / JPY, you can see in the
areas circled that prices initially stayed within the pivot point
and the first
resistance level with the pivot acting as
support.
Support and Resistance is a concept that the movement of the price will tend to stop
and reverse at certain predetermined
areas / levels.