Whether you are a price action, a pattern, an indicator or whatever trader, if you are able to identify strong price levels on your charts, it can greatly improve the quality of your trading.
Instead of taking signals and trades all over the place, the better trades usually happen at key price levels. Those strong areas of interest show that buyers and sellers are concentrating at those levels and they can be the starting or turning points for new price moves and mark new trends as well.
If you are a breakout trader, you need to find areas that can lead to strong breakouts, if you are a trend-following trader you must identify pullback areas or trend continuation points, a reversal trader looks for key turning points and a range trader should focus on well-developed ranges with clearly defined price levels.
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Bullish engulfing, as well as, bearish engulfing are two of the most powerful price action candlestick patterns. I have mentioned them briefly in my Candlesticks article, but now I want to put more emphasis on those two. More than that- bullish engulfing and bearish engulfing patterns are deeply ingrained in my trading strategy. Let’s explore what those two candlestick price action patterns can help us achieve.
INTRODUCTION– Bullish Engulfing and Bearish Engulfing- Probably The Best Price Action Candlestick Patterns
This article will be divided into two parts- first part will deal with the bullish engulfing pattern; the second part will go over the bearish engulfing candlestick pattern. History repeats itself, so I believe that the best way to read the market is to know what happened in the past. Bullish engulfing patterns are a confirmation that more buyers want to join the uptrend. On the other side, a bearish engulfing pattern gives confirmation for more sellers joining the short side. Let’s move to the first part- the bullish engulfing candlestick pattern.
PART 1– Bullish Engulfing Candlestick and Price Action
What is a candlestick?
Before I move to the real part, I would like to remind you once again what is a candlestick.
A candlestick contains an instrument’s value at open, high, low and close of a specific time interval.
Let’s say we are looking at a daily candlestick. It does contain the value at open, high, low and close on any particular day.
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