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Sunday, 29 January 2012
Combining Inside Days with Bollinger Bands
Prices at the upper Bollinger band
are considered high and prices at the lower Bollinger band are
considered low. However, just because prices have hit the upper
Bollinger does not necessarily mean that it is a good time to sell.
Strong trends will 'ride' these bands and wipe out any trader attempting
to buy the 'low' prices in a downtrend or sell the 'high' prices in an
uptrend. Therefore, just buying at the lower band and selling at the
upper band is out of the question. By definition, price makes new highs
in an uptrend and new lows in a downtrend, which means that they will
naturally be hitting the bands. With this information in mind, our
filter will require that buy signals occur only if the candle
following the one that hits the Bollinger band does not make a new high
or low. This type of candle is commonly known as an inside day. The
best time frames to look for the inside days are daily charts, but this
strategy can also be used on hourly, weekly and monthly charts.
Combining inside days with Bollinger bands increases the likelihood that
we are only picking a top or bottom after prices have hit extreme
levels. As a rule of thumb, the longer the time frame, the rarer the
trade will be, but the signal will also be more significant
Price action trading
Price action
is the best indicator of the aggregate belief of all market
participants. What happened in the past is the past, lagging indicators
only analyze past data and display it to you in a second-hand format
that is less clear and less precise than price action. The bottom line
is that there is just no logical explanation for using lagging
indicators. Price action analysis takes into account all market
variables.
Components of Good money management
Money
management is the essential ingredients that every successful forex
traders use to make big money from the forex market. Money management is
an act of managing your trading account consistent so that you can
continue to trade and make big profit. It is a process of managing your
loses and maximizing your profit in order to stay profitable for a long
period of time. What I’m trying to say in essence is that you must lose
some times a forex trader, but with proper money management, that lose
would not affect your overall trading capital and with that your can
keep your head above waters. Money management is an important
subject in forex trading. In fact it is the key that would open the door
to great wealth trading the forex.
market.
Here are three good strategies you can use
market.
Here are three good strategies you can use
Using Stop Loss
Stop loss is one of the most important
components you must integrate into your money management strategy. When
calculating your stop loss, make sure that it falls in line with your
money management principle. Before you proceed to using stop loss, you
must first determine the percentage of money you are willing to risk in
case the market goes against you. Be certain that you are not risking
much. Remember there would always opportunity for another trade to make
big money. So use proper stop loss. Some people use risk 1%, others 2%
and so on. Determine what is best for you. The best percent you can risk
is 2%.
Trade management
This can best be described as the
process of managing your trades while your position is on. Many traders
tend to adjust their trades for bigger profit while in a trade and also
they tend to protect their account in order to forestall losses. Take
for example, when a trade is on and in profit, you can devise a process
of adjusting your stop loss to the extent that you are not risking any
amount of money in that trade. Also you can keep moving your take profit
until you notice that the market has reached its daily range. If you
understand this process very well, you make more money and trade risk
free.
What exactly is price action trading?
Price
action trading is the art and skill of making all of your trading
decisions off of a stripped down or “naked” price chart. This means no
lagging indicators outside of maybe a couple moving averages to help
identify dynamic support and resistance areas. All financial markets generate data about the movement of a security over varying periods of time in the form of Price charts reflect the beliefs of all participants trading the given market during the specified period of time.
All
economic data that leads to price movement within a market is first
turned into a belief in the human mind about how this data will affect
the market and this belief is then turned into an action from a trader
which reflects itself via price action on a price chart. In this way
price action trading reflects all variables of any market for any given
period of time. This is also the reason why using lagging price
indictors like stochastics, MACD, RSI, and others is just a flat waste
of time. Price movement provides all the signals you will ever need to
develop a profitable and high-probability trading system. These signals
collectively are called price action setups
and they provide a way to make sense of market movement and predict its
future movement with a high enough degree of accuracy to consistently
profit over time.
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