How To Trade Holiday's and Low Volume EnvironmentsOne big problem that I see from traders is 'chasing' the market. Chasing simply means watching the market go in one direction, and trying to join the move after it's already showed it's hand.
In low volume environments (and holidays), the market likes to revert back to the middle. This leaves traders with losses and frustration.
Don't let that happen to you!
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GBP/USD on watch for me today.GBP/USD:
• If price pushes up to and ideally just above our upper trend line and the last part of the move is corrective, then I'll be looking for a risk entry after a phase line break on either the one hour or the fifteen minute chart because we will have had a completed three touch structure.
• If price pushes up impulsively to and ideally just above either our upper trend line, our upper rayline or our lower rayline, then I'll be waiting for a convincing push back down followed by a tight flag where I'll be looking for a reduced risk entry on the break of the flag and if the flag forms just below our lower rayline as illustrated I'll be hiding my stop loss above it for extra protection as illustrated.
• If price pushes up to and ideally just above our lower rayline, then regardless of how price does so I'll be waiting for a convincing push back down followed by a tight flag where I'll be looking for a reduced risk entry on the break of the flag.
• If none of these setups present themselves then I will simply wait until another setup which meets my plan materialises.
• If there's any ambiguity then I will not place any of these trades.
Trading Psychology: Over Leveraged Trading Hello traders:
Welcome back for a quick educational video on over leveraged trading. This ties with Trading Psychology greatly, and I want to elaborate on this a bit more to give new and experienced traders my understanding on this topic.
It's important to know that leverage can work for you as well as against you. You may already hear this a lot when you open a new broker account. However, it's only when you actually start trading then you will understand the true meaning of this.
When you enter a trade with leverage, you are entering with a great risk behind if you don't have proper risk management. Since leverage is a “double edge sword”, trades that are in profit or losses will be magnified. You are easily over traded, meaning you can have multiple entries on the same pair or same move/run. Again, this would be nice if the trades are going in your favor, but if not then you are going to have a huge drawdown of your account. Professional traders understand drawdown is evitable, but they also minimize it so when they are in profit, they can easily make the drawdown backs.
Let's take an example of what an over leveraged trading combine with trading psychology could look like:
---enter a trade, and with a big position (no risk management, and not consistent with trading plan)
---begin to see price fall, then either he/she will have a SL and get taken out, or no SL then price will continue to drop then the small account is gone in no time due to the big position.
---If he/she did have a SL, then they are taken out, but just lost a bigger % of their account. Now the emotions kick in to try to “chase” the money back. So revenge trading emotions start.
---Because the account has high leverage, the person can easily open a bigger lot position, double the previous one in fact (same strategy out there says to do this) and make back your losses. If first trade was risking 5%, then this next trade is 10%)
---After several losses, the account is already cut in ½, and he/she can no longer open the high lot positions.
---They will then reduce their position size, but still at maximum leverage allows.
---Soon the account will get blown out, and the person will either blame the market, strategy, lesson and more.
I see this cycle of trading all the time in new traders, and it has a combination factor such as emotion, mindset, risk management, trading plan and more. But what is easily controlled by you is to reduce leverage allowed on the account. Simply dropping it down to less leverage will help the trader to not over leverage, and maintain a few trades only with smaller position sizes.
So, I encourage the new traders to really think about this topic and reflect on yourself to see if you ever fall into this cycle before. You may not blow your account, but certainly have experienced revenge trading and over leverage trade when the emotions kick in. I myself included it at the beginning of my trading journey also.
That is all I gotta say on this one.
Let me know if you have questions and feedback :)
I will chat with everyone next time in my live stream.
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How the banks use us as liquidity providers for their operationsHi Traders, thank you for watching this tutorial. Its not any secret. That markets works like this.
Basic principle of the market is that if someone buys other must sell. And this is the technique of the market makers
artificial intelligence how to use us for their operations. Hope it helps you realize importance of the
Stop loss zones / Liquidity zones.
Try to not have SL where the others have it.
My trading strategy is based on the simplicity and core of the markets which is Buying and selling.
I'm trying to spot the next steps of the big players by using the Market profile, Volume and COT (commitment of traders)
The way I think about the markets is based on the fact that Market makers (banks, hedge funds)can do their operations only when other side (traders like you and me)
provide them liquidity = We must sell so they can buy and opposite. So I'm looking for the Stop loss zones, fake outs and other confluences to enter the markets.
My battlefield is defined by the channels on the higher timeframes, I mostly play on the upper bands and middle bands in the directions of the COT .'
I'm swing trading not intraday trading, so my ideas always takes a time and patience to play out and most important is to do the good risk management, se we can stay emotionless in a trades.
Don't hesitate to comment with any questions and if you learning something support this idea with like or share it in other trading forums.
Wish you good hunt !!
Dave FX Hunter
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TUTORIAL: How to import, filter, analyse and export big listsCouple of people had asked me for this so here it is.
Shows how you can create, import, filter and analyse using the screener, and export using big external lists of stocks as your source.
Shows how you can take a list of 200 or more stocks and filter down to the 5 or 6 you might be interested in trading.
In this case we take a list of stocks with breaking news on Australias ASX and show which ones have resulted in significant price movements. This approach will work for any market and any list.
Hope its useful to someone :)
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Bitcoin (BTC) • Naked Chart AnalysisIn this video we go through Perpetual Swap v Spot basis, Funding rates and Monthly levels.
At the present moment I don't see reason to risk playing shorts (unless taking 80% less of typical risk per position) simply because the risk is to high to be on the short side due to higher timeframe trend but that doesn't mean we should do all in with longs.
There is good chance to see another leg down to 9.6 - 9.2 range (if we don't get front run by smart-money)
Any leg dow down to 9k are buy opportunities due to confluence between technical levels and orderbooks. But in the video i also cover a third scenario hypothesis
How to create beautiful charts with the Object TreeYou need to make the Object Tree your best friend. It's where you can manage, organize, and see everything that's happening on your chart. In this video, we walk you through the Object Tree including where to find it and how to use it.
To get started, find and click the Object Tree icon at the bottom right of your chart. From there you can create groups, make bulk edits, and instantly find everything that's happening on your chart from indicators to drawings.
This video shows the USDJPY and highlights a few key things to watch including the pre-Covid highs and the post-Covid highs. It also shows the Covid crash and immediate rally snapback. The blue line shows a 200-day moving average and the orange line shows a 50-day moving average. The Yellow and Blue bars are Volume Profile showing the visible range of the chart. We've also drawn a few short-term and immediate trendlines to watch for quick trades.
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When the markets going down, heres a way to find stocks going upJust for fun, here is an easy way to use the Trading View Screener to find stocks that might be bucking the market trend and heading up.
STOP LIMIT orders are a good way to try and increase the odds that the trade goes in your favour, and a STOP sell order below the low of the previous day to get you out if it reverses.
Silver Still Stair Stepping Down in My Opinion.We currently have a race between the White Energy in the 24h and the Red RSI in the 2-Day Time Frames to determine when our downward pressure might come to a close and reverse to upward pressure. As pointed out in several time frames in the video, downward pressure appears to be in control for now and likely stair stepping down. This is a Near Term Time Frame Group Analysis and not intended for use with very short time frame margin trading. Trade at your own risk...
EURUSD Trade Analysis, Review, Management, and Week aheadHello everyone:
In this video I went over my recent trade on EURUSD short. What is my analysis behind it, and what is my management plan.
I also explained what I see in EURUSD in the up coming weeks, what are some possible scenarios that we can expect from the market.
In addition, I use this chance to talk about trading personality and style on trade management.
As I exit this trade due to my trading plan and style, I explain my thought process behind it.
I point out that I am happy to secure profits, and exit a trade, then look for more opportunities in later on price actions and structures development.
Its important to know that every traders are different, and there is no right or wrong. Its what suits you as a trader.
As always, feel free to ask me questions or comments.
Thank you