Showing posts with label swing trading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swing trading. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Decision making always help you succeed in Forex l Trade Advice usd/chf sell limit 1.0185

Hi traders, Italy refrendum really working as game changer for euro atleast for the current moments and hence we remain subdued for approaching price action to historical lows once again.

ofcourse I would like to see reaction that has always or will be on the top of everything, no matter what market makers and banks looking to do, my own decisions has help me achieve consistent success specially when it comes to trading historic levels.

We all are prone to feel excited when market take turns at historic levels and euro behavior is no different and If for strong reason of short covering, market turns and surprised speculators and investors to cover earlier positions or reverse or even hedge to protect earlier profits and that is what panic is all about.

Trader should always remain ready for such turns and if there is no level then there is no need to turn the paddle and try to enter in between a move and that is why I look to see if price action has manage to breach a level and how it reacts when a move is finished  or pause ans try to test the level once again and this is where decision-making help you gain confidence this also require much lesser stop and react with patience when such scenarios appear.

I will update the blog with video and chart for the following trade recommendation.

Trade update 7th december 2016

Usd/chf pending sell limit
Current Market price 1.0100
Trade type Pending sell Order.

entry 1.0182 (sell)
stop 1.0220
target first 0.9950
(I would like to keep my targets open as there are more important levels to target)

Thursday, September 18, 2014

How to choose swing trading or scalping

What is swing trading? How «swing trading» differs from «momentum trading»? Actually, there are many approaches to swing trading, but I will express my point of view on the subject.

Swing trading is trading on intervals more than 1-3 days, some traders may call it «long term» or «medium term», but in fact, good swing trade can last no more than 4-5 days. Swing trades are usually level-based trades. For example, if you trade momentum, you can capture short-term overbought or oversold condition of the market (imbalance) and trade-off scenario of inventory correction.

If you trade momentum, your trade will look like that:

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You see, that typically you will buy high to sell higher. But in this case you act like a sniper, wait for perfect timing for your entry, then aggressively go with the market, capture profit and exit. Things are different with swing trading. For momentum trader it’s natural to exit pretty quickly (duration 3-4 hours for intraday trade) because his price is not relatively very good – momentum trader is unable to survive pullbacks, rotations and other activity of the market, before it reaches the target. That’s why momentum trader will tend to quickly reduce his risks, minimize stop losses or set them to breakeven. Swing trader expects to get good price while his timing may not be ideal. If you expect to get good price, market can revisit your entry several times, rotate above your entry (if you go long), go sideways, and only after 2-3 days of sideways action price can break out from a range in the direction of your position (or may not break out)

Typical swing trade looks like that:

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I basically trade 2 types of swing trades – «rejection trades» and «hot spot trades»

How do they look like?

In this post I will talk about "rejection trades".

Briefly, rejection is a reversal. It’s that simple. But there’s one small nuance. Rejection level is not a «support» or «resistance» level. Actually, there are no support and resistance levels – there are only areas of support and resistance. And they are usually located where majority of traders don’t seek them.

Important principle:

Before ever considering fading correctional move, you should see signs of support/resistance before. Sun Tzu had said: «Every battle is won before it’s ever fought»

The same is in trading. Every reversal is made before it’s occurred. Weird, huh?

Reversal is just a paradigm shift in heads of market participants. Before reversal, market must have strong imbalance between demand and supply, otherwise no power can drive the market against existing trend (even correctional)

So, to decide whether to join a trend or not, you should see signs of big money buyer (seller). As you know, institutional buyer will tend to accumulate, to slowly build his position. More often than not those guys are not speculators in conventional way – they accumulate position by given price, then use purchased asset in business outside the market.

So, if you see that market tends to show you very well traded levels in the center of the day and poorly traded levels on the extremes of the day, it can be a sign of accumulation if this process goes long enough.

Look at the chart of AUDUSD – you have seen signs of big buyer accumulating long here – look how price is leaning to the area 0.9440. How do you think – why market shows strange consensus around this level?

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Also, you expect to see «neutral» or «normal» days as the process of accumulation goes on. Neutral day is day with very low tempo and aggressiveness – it closes near its open. Normal day is more aggressive day, yet it also closes near its open. These days also help you find accumulation areas on the chart

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And there are other clues that I can’t describe here, because in this case post would become very massive. I call areas described above «real support areas». Why «real support»? Because those who join the market from any lines can’t really support the market – they are short term players and gamblers by their nature. Will gambler support any market? He is careless and he will exit first if something goes wrong.

Guess what I’m trying to tell you?

If you want to get good price and capture a reversal of correctional trend, you should seen signs of real support. Real support creates conditions for a reversal if market goes against big buyer (remember –to reverse the market, there should be supply/demand imbalance). Reversal itself occurs after paradigm shift, when it becomes clear for most short sellers that they were biased and go in the wrong direction.

Compare two situations. I specially applied market profile for those charts to show you the concept. On the first chart there are not enough real support clues - market goes back and forth in continuous search for information, on the second chart things are different – this chart is much more «managed» and probably driven by strong money buyer.

 photo REalsupport_zpsa6638896.jpg

So, not surprisingly, price reverses below offering several good opportunities for a swing trader:  photo myrealsupport_zps21d4eed0.jpg

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