Thus, by moving your focus to the more reliable daily chart, you will have a natural guard against over-trading, that is assuming you are disciplined enough to only
trade obvious signals on the daily chart that you have mastered previously by mastering one Forex trading strategy at a time.
Not exact matches
«Over-
trading», also known as
trading when no
obvious signal is present, or taking «stupid»
trades, or «gambling», is something I have discussed quite a bit in other articles, so I won't get into it too much today.
Meaning, I check the markets two or three times a day and look for
obvious signals, primarily on the daily and 4 hour charts, and if nothing meets my criteria for a
trade setup, I don't
trade... I go do something else instead.
Where traders get into trouble is when they don't see an
obvious signal right away and then keep looking until they convince themselves there's something worth
trading, even though there isn't.
The pin bar buy
signal from February 27th would have been a very
obvious trade since it was rejecting and false - breaking down through the event area and price had bullish momentum behind it at that point.
3) Look for price action
signals that have formed at confluent levels in the market, make sure to
trade only very
obvious and confluent setups: — You have to know exactly what price action strategies you are looking for before you build your
trading plan.
Notice in the chart above, there were two very
obvious pin bar sell
signals at the
trading range resistance that lead to significant moves lower into the
trading range support.
By watching for
trading signals near the support and resistance boundaries of the
trading range, traders have a high - probability entry scenario with
obvious risk and reward placement.
Laser like focus on ONE setup will help you to make money faster than if you try learning 20 different
trade signals and strategies all at once, it sounds
obvious, but it seems to be human nature to try and do and learn too much at once, resulting in exhaustion and giving up.
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 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.
I have been a disciplined trader of levels combined with price action for years; probably about 80 % of my
trades involve an
obvious «core» horizontal level combined with a price action
signal.
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.
Thus, when we are looking to «
trade with confluence» we are trying to put together an
obvious price action
signal with a significant level in the market.
In my article on the false break
trading strategy I even include a chart that shows there was an
obvious bearish daily fakey sell
signal in the GBPUSD the day before it collapsed.
Of course «
obvious» or «unexpected» are not
trade signals so you need to look for technical
signals that line up with the extreme market sentiment that you are seeing.
Then once we got a clear pin bar sell
SIGNAL at the intersection of the trend and the level, we had an
obvious and high - probability
trade entry on our hands...
Meaning, he knows
trading is a game of anticipation, not reaction, so he plans
trades well in advance, has a bias for each market he
trades, has key levels marked and then waits patiently for
obvious signals to form.