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Price Action is everything that price is doing on any trading instrument, being represented on a chart for a Trader to see. In very basic terms Price Action illustrates in a way that a Trader can see exactly on a chart, what a certain pair did for a particular time frame. For example the individual candle sticks or bars will show how high the pair went, how low the pair went and also the open and closing prices. Most charting platforms can produce candle sticks and bars for time frames varying from 1 minute to 1 month. Another way to think about it is, Price Action is everything humans are doing and how they are trading, shown in a chart form. This basic explanation of Price Action is not subjective. What I see on my chart is exactly what another Trader will see on their chart, providing they are using the same charting equipment. The next question is the important question. How can we use Price Action to profit? Humans are very habitual. Traders tend to do the same things and react the same way over and over again when presented with similar circumstances. Although if the same two Traders have the same charts they will see the same Price Action that does not mean the same two Traders will come to the same conclusion. In this way Price Action can be interpreted by the individual depending on how they understand different Price Action formations. If you have watched the charts previously you may have noticed that the same patterns, most of the time, repeat themselves. This is once again because humans are habitual and react the same way given very similar circumstances. So if we can notice these patterns and human trading habits in the markets, we can start to find a trading strategy and implement it, to make money off the other Traders, while they carry out their normal trading patterns. These patterns will continue repeating themselves as long as human’s trade. Like I said, humans are very habitual and most of the time they repeat themselves, over again given similar circumstances. What is needed to trade Price Action? Clean charts- Price Action is best seen and traded from clean charts. To trade Price Action we don’t need fancy indicators or anything at all except for a clean chart. Many Traders fall into the trap of thinking the more indicators they have on the charts the better chance they have of predicting where price will go. This is just plain wrong. Indicators just confuse what doesn’t need to be a confusing process. Solid method- Trading Price Action in the Forex market is the best way to consistently predict movement. For a Trader to do this however they need a strong method and skills to trade with. Learning through a course such as an Advanced Price Action Course will give Traders the skills and understanding they need to trade effectively. Continual education and practise- Trading the Forex markets with Price Action is a skill that takes continual practise. The Forex markets are continually doing new and different things and all Traders from the beginner to the advanced can continue to learn by trading and watching Price Action through their charts. An edge on the market- A trading edge is something that gives a Trader a statistical advantage of being profitable over a sample size of trades. The edge for a Price Action Trader is their Price Action signals and trade management. Forex School Online teaches its members how to trade low risk with high reward setups, using solid Price Action formations that form in the markets time and time again. Without an edge a Trader may as well just flip a coin because even a coin toss should average out to 50/50. Trading can be very rewarding and profitable endeavour if the Trader knows how to trade using solid Price Action techniques. Trading with Price Action allows the Trader more flexibility and a lot less stress than the Trader who trades with so many indicators they get confused. In forex trading less is more. Less confusion and less overcomplicating things leads to more success and ultimately more profit.
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One of the biggest mistakes that aspiring Forex currency traders make over and over again, which keeps them from reaching their full potential in the market, is interfering with their trades after they enter them. Any trader who has been trading for a long enough period of time is guilty of becoming over-involved with their trades and with trading general. I’m included. However, eventually after enough trial and error I figured out that interfering with my trades once they are live and over-analyzing them is almost always the wrong thing to do. I’ve boiled down how I stopped interfering with my trades into three primary points which I will share with you below. • You need master a high-probability trading strategy that is also simple, for me the most logical strategy was price action trading. I learned to master price action trading to the point where I knew what I was looking for in the market without a doubt. After you truly master an effective trading strategy like price action, it means you know almost instantly whether or not your edge is present. This is the first step to becoming a successful price action trader, and if you actually do this, it will mean that meddling with your trades after they are live is not a good idea because you have identified your edge and traded it with a preemptive plan when you were the MOST objective and clear-thinking. Messing around with it anymore is only going to lower your over-all probability of success. • Messing with trades once they are live is almost always an emotional reaction to the markets. Emotion is the enemy of successful Forex trading. Your trades should be pre-planned, as well as your trade management. The only time you should interfere with your trade is if you have pre-planned to do so, meaning you have a pre-planned trailing stop routine or other exit strategy. But, most of the time traders interfere with their trades it is an emotional activity that leads to inconsistency and reinforcement of bad trading habits. Read here about how price action can help cure emotional trading problems. • By using "set and forget" trading techniques traders can learn to "let go" of their trades once they are live. This strategy removes all temptation to interfere with live trades by accepting before-hand that you are the most logical and objective BEFORE you trade, not during or even after it. So, the advantage that the set and forget forex trading strategy gives to traders is that they can go about their normal lives and let the market do the work. This is of course assuming that they have mastered an effective trading strategy like price action. Once you have truly mastered your trading strategy you can learn to enter the market at high probability times and walk away from your computer until your next pre-scheduled trading time. This is the most stress free and effective way to trade Forex with price action. Nial Fuller is an expert on price action forex trading strategies, you can visit his website at Learn To Trade The Market
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During my trading journey I regularly encounter very interesting people from various fields. Their unprofitability in trading is what often unites them, however, which is why they are seeking advice. Aspiring traders are unable to reap consistent profits off the financial market despite having been involved for many years and having tried various approaches. I assert that this is due to the lack of a fundamental understanding of trends, which is why my attempt is to demonstrate how price action is interpreted correctly. I personally had the luck to be taught by a mentor myself, and forged a trend trading strategy on top of this precious teaching. The nature of trends is the first thing an aspiring trader needs to fully comprehend. Trends do not stop from one moment to the other but last for a significant amount of time. A trend evolves in a sequence of support and resistance levels along its way, and reversals always take place after breaking an aforementioned level. Hence, there will be enough time to recognize a reversal and to adjust your position accordingly. If you look at the 1 hour chart of the ES for example. You will notice a repeated pattern of uptrends (higher highs and higher lows), downtrends (lower highs and lower lows), as well as support and resistance levels along the way. A break of such a level is taken as an entry opportunity to catch a reversal and follow a newly established trend. You never do anything prematurely and always wait for the market to tell you what to do. By doing so, you will avoid entering and exiting positions based on gut feel. That is all you need to boost your chances of becoming profitable. Let us think back to our childhood when we got our first bike. Our parents might not be particularly good cyclers but they knew one thing: to ride the bike we must be able to balance. Consequently, they do not bother teaching us which gear to use, or how to do dirt jumping. They leave it at the basics. But this is precisely what aspiring traders venture into. They start off with the most challenging stunts like scalping and picking tops without knowing anything about chart reading. Seeking answers in indicators is one of the major mistakes they succumb to. Whenever an aspiring trader comes to me, I will ask him to turn off all indicators, then give him the basic understanding he needs to start trading profitably. This includes price action, understanding the battle between bulls and bears, and trends. After that we go into more details such as risk management by using stop loss orders properly. To my surprise, many are able to find entries and manage positions with a bit of assistance within a few weeks, or have developed a totally new strategy with the help of the basics I provided. Most importantly, they do this without looking at any indicators that they used to love so much.
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Lateral Formation Lateral Formation is a price pattern where bar 2 and bar 3 are within the HL of the 1st bar. The Lateral will continue until 2 consecutive closes outside of the 1st bar HL in the same direction. for background discussions, please visit: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f34/price-volume-relationship-6320.html note: This EasyLanguage indicator was written in MultiCharts. I have not tested it in TradeStation or other compatible programs. Please refer to your users manual for importation instructions. Lateral_Formation.txt
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an intra-day trader, I look to go long or short depending how price reacts to a major level. IOW, I stay 100% neutral bias and only expect a good move from a level, not a specific direction. That way I can profit from bounce or breakout. In my experience, three scenarios related to price action are common at a major level: 1) Bounce ( reversal) 2) Breakout (price runs through level) 3) Chop (price chops around level, then finds direction) The question then becomes, can each scenario be predicted to any useful degree? And if so, how? What are your strategies with Price action and/or Scalping good also for Dax-future?
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Forex markets are inherently contrarian. This means that they are regressive and have a natural tendency to pull back to the mean price. This is a big reason why so many beginning traders lose all their trading money and give up. The fact is that most of the time when it feels safe to enter the market it is probably not. When a move in the market is greatly extended in one direction and looks like it will keep going this is usually the exact time it is about to fall back and correct itself. This extension also happens to be the time most beginning traders tend to enter the market. It often takes months or years of losing money before traders learn that they have to wait patiently for the market to contract before entering, and many traders give up before they finally realize this truth. Most indicator based trading systems simply do not work in strongly trending markets. They will give you a sell signal long after a market has started correcting back down and the correction is almost over. Sometimes they give you a sell signal at the very time the correction is over and you should be looking to get long again, or vice versa. If you know how to tell based off pure price movement when a market is exhausted or when it is ready to break out then you have the keys to building a highly profitable and consistent trading method. Price action analysis is the best technique for learning to profit from the forex market. There are usually tell-tale signs a market is ready to correct or the trend is ready to resume that are readily apparent through the analysis of price action. All you really need to know are a few simple patterns and basic chart support, resistance, and trend lines and you have enough information to put together a profitable trading method. Some people try to program indicators and even develop new ones because they mistakenly believe if they put more math and study into their trading technique they will be further ahead of other traders. This simply is false. While you do need some sort of education in technical analysis and price action, it doesn’t need to be complicated or involve programming expert advisers and other fancy non-sense. Once you develop a keen eye for price action setups you will be able to tell if it’s unsafe to enter a trend or that the trend is ready to resume. It’s all right there on the chart, you just need to be shown the way by someone who has walked in your shoes and made it down the path to trading success. Price action can be a great aid to developing your discipline in the market and shaping a relevant market perspective. If you are just starting out and this is one of the first trading articles you have read than I strongly urge you to check out an education in price action. Go to YouTube and type in “forex price action” or “forex price action strategies” and see if you like what you find; there are many good free sources of price action information on the internet. Price action analysis has been the key to my success in the markets and I hope it will be the key to yours. Nial Fuller is an expert on price action forex trading strategies, you can visit his website at Learn To Trade The Market
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Japanese candlestick charts are the most visually rewarding charts to use when trading the forex market. The clear depiction of price action that they provide is second to none. Japanese candles provide a different aspect to charting in that they allow you to see the force with which either the bulls or bears won for a given period of time. There are numerous forex candle patterns that you can use when trading price action in the forex market. Candlestick patterns are preferable to standard bar charts because they allow you to apply all Western technical analysis techniques used with bar charts and also provide a variety of their own forex candle patterns, not to mention they are just much easier to look at. Candlestick charts are by far the most popular form of chart used today in the forex market. Using forex candle patterns to navigate the market is a great way to make sure you see all relevant reversal patterns as well as trend continuation patterns. The forex market is open 24 hours a day 6 days a week; this means there are many more price action setups to take advantage of than what other financial markets provide. Japanese candles work great in the forex market largely because there is almost always a trending market somewhere in the forex market. By using candlestick patterns in forex you can easily spot strongly trending markets and find great high probability setups into these trends. Forex candle patterns also allow you to spot market reversals at the earliest possible time. Forex candle patterns visually display the supply and demand situation for whatever currency pair you are looking at on any given time frame. This colorful visual representation of supply and demand makes price action analysis much easier and more relevant. By being able to quickly and clearly see the force with which the bears overcame the bulls or the force with which the bulls overcame the bears you will become a better price action analyst and the discretionary or “art” part of forex price action analysis will become much more accurate for you. This accuracy will spill over to your psychological mindset and make you a more calm and confident forex trader. Japanese candlestick patterns are just as relevant to the forex market today as they were to the rice traders in Japan who invented candlestick charts back in the 18th century. Traders have been using these charts for hundreds of years to help predict future price movement, just as the rice traders in the 18th century obviously did not have any lagging indicators, you do not need them either. Price action trading via a stripped down and raw price chart combined with forex candle patterns is all you need to become a successful forex trader. Candlestick patterns in forex combined with price action analysis is all you need to develop a simple yet highly effective and profitable forex trading plan that will allow you to maintain clarity and objectivity while trading forex. Nial Fuller is an expert on price action forex trading strategies, you can visit his website at Learn To Trade The Market
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Hi, I would like start a thread about price action analysis. I have recently started trading forex strictly off of price action setups alone and I have found it much easier than using indicators or any other system. I am wondering how other people use price action to trade from or what degree of success they have had using this method to trade forex or other markets. Has anyone heard of a guy named Nial Fuller? He has a bunch of videos on youtube that I recently came across and they seem very helpful. He also has some good free videos and info on price action on his website. Anyways, I would like to hear what people think about price action and maybe post up some charts of specific price action setups I have learned. Thanks.
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When I started my Forex trading career I wish I had this information I am about to share with you. There is a lot more information you will need but these are the top 4 1. Don’t be afraid to pay your dues There are no short cuts when it comes to trading. Learning the market and how it behaves is most important to your success. For some reason people find it easy to believe that they can get away with less time and effort. Everybody wants the fast money. This is why people will waste their hard earned money buying trading robots they think will make them money while the sunbath on the beach. This is a fairy tail. A nice thought but not realistic. Learning Price Action is the real key to success. 2. Don’t buy a platform or magical software Many new traders are fooled from the beginning into thinking that high dollar software will somehow make them a better trader. This is not the case. I took the bait and used E-signal when I was a newbie and threw my money away. Its true they had a super price feed but most all brokers offer a platform with your account. The important thing to do is investigate where they their price feed and compare it to some others. You can do this by getting a few demo accounts. Then compare to see if ones prices lags the other. 3. Keep It Simple Stupid or KISS I was fortunate enough to learn this early on and it has helped immensely. Most new traders believe there is some magical indicators that will make things easy for them. Most use a combination of many and clutter up their charts so they can barely see what is going on. Some even have designed their own. The less you have on your charts the better. All indicators are lagging and actually a distraction rather than a help. Most institutional traders use Price Action alone and in order to play with the Big Boys you need to think like them. 4. Investigate many brokers before you open an account. There are so many brokers to choose from. Not only is the price feed important. Check on their execution and the size of the firm. Bigger is better here. With new rules about to be enforced you need to be with a well funded broker to protect your deposit. Check the size of their clientele list and read current reviews. Nial Fuller has been successful Forex trader for many years. He started studying price action when he was 15. Now at 25 he has traded at a major firm for over 6 years. To get his free video tutorials visit this link Trading Price Action Website
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Shifted There is a school of thought that today's price action is just a continuation of yesterday's. ...and that if you shift today's price bars so that today's opening price matches with yesterday's close, you will see a continuation of yesterday's price action. This indicator does just that: it will shift today's price bars by the open/close difference. Note: this chart is for price action reference only. Please don't trade with this chart or you might get a very disappointing fill. It is recommended that you cover up the price scale when you read this chart. Shifted.txt Shifted_(MultiCharts).pla
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Hi guys, Just checked the economic schedule for tomorrow. From what I see the rate is schedule to be released at 8:30am ET. Is it me or it's not the normal hour right? Looks like USD, CAD, EUR and GBP will all have their own news. This is probably the first time since started trading currencies I've seen so much news coincided at the same time. Was this intentional?
