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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What is price action trading and why it does make you a better trader
Price action trading is a type of trading that allows traders to observe and study the current market. This, in turn, allows you to anticipate the market trend and make certain assumptions/decisions based on the current (and actual) price movements.
Price action trading is the purest type of trading that eliminates all noise.
It does not anticipate, it reads the market.
Price action is great!
Is price action trading better than other types of trading?
Hard to say.
It is really difficult to say if one type of trading is better than another. What matters is which type of trading fits your personality.
Another important element of trading is money management. What matters is even not that much the trading system, but the way you use it.
Profitable traders will agree with me.
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WHILE everyone is used to seeing the conventional line charts found in everyday life, the candlestick chart is a chart variant that has been used for around 300 years and discloses more information than your conventional line chart.
The candlestick is a thin vertical line showing the period’s trading range.
A wide bar on the vertical line illustrates the difference between the open and close.
Note: The daily candlestick line contains the currency’s value at open, high, low and close of a specific day.
The candlestick has a wide part, which is called the “real body“.
This real body represents the range between the open and close of that day’s trading.
When the real body is filled in or black, it means the close was lower than the open.
If the real body is empty, it means the opposite: the close was higher than the open.
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