price action is a billable method of negotiation in the analysis of basic price movements, to generate incoming and outgoing signals in trade and that stands out for its reliability and for not requiring the use of indicators. This is a form of technical analysis, because it ignores the fundamental factors of security and mainly looks at the history of the price of securities. What sets it apart from most forms of technical analysis is that the main focus is the relationship of current security prices to past prices compared to values ​​derived from the history of those prices. Past history includes swing highs and swing lows, trend lines, and support and resistance levels.
At its simplest, it tries to describe the process of human thinking undertaken by experienced and undisciplined traders as they observe and trade their markets. Price action is how prices change - price action. This is easily observed in markets where liquidity and price volatility are the highest, but anything that is bought or sold freely in the market will show price action. The price action trade can be included under the umbrella of technical analysis but is discussed here in a separate article because it combines behavioral analysis of market participants as a crowd of evidence presented in price action - a kind of analysis whose academic coverage is not focused in one area, is more explicable and commented on literature on trade, speculation, gambling, and competition in general. This includes a large part of the methodology used by floor traders and ribbon readers. It can also include volume analysis and level 2 quotes.
A price action trader observes the relative size, shape, position, growth (when watching current real-time prices) and volume (optional) from the bar on the OHLC bar or candlestick chart, starting as simple as a single bar, most often combined with graph formation found in broader technical analysis such as moving averages, trend lines or trading ranges. The use of price action analysis for financial speculation does not exclude the simultaneous use of other analytical techniques, and on the other hand, traders of minimalist price action can be entirely dependent on the interpretation of price action behavior to establish trading strategies.
Various authors write about price action, e.g. Brooks, Duddella, give a name for the price action graph formation and behavioral pattern they observe, which may or may not be unique to the author and known under other names by other authors (further inquiries to other authors should be done here). These patterns can often only be described subjectively and idealized formations or patterns can in fact come with large variations.
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Credibility
There is no evidence that this explanation is true even if the price action trader who makes such a statement is profitable and seems to be right. Due to the loss of most of the pit-based financial markets, financial markets become anonymous, buyers do not meet sellers, and the feasibility of verifying any proposed explanations for other market actors actions during the occurrence of certain price action patterns is petite. Also, price action analysis can be subject to survival bias for failed traders not getting visibility. Therefore, for these reasons, the explanation should only be viewed as subjective rationalization and may be wrong, but at some point in time they offer only the logical analysis available at which price traders can work.
Implementation of price action analysis is difficult, requiring the acquisition of experience under direct market conditions. There is every reason to assume that the percentage of price action speculators who fail, surrender or lose their trading capital will be similar to the percentage of failure rates in all areas of speculation. According to widespread folklore/urban myth, this is 90%, although data analysis from the US forex brokerage disclosure since 2010 puts the number for accounts that fail by about 75% and suggests this is typical.
Some skeptical writers dismiss individual financial successes using technical analysis such as price action and argue that the occurrence of individuals who appear to be profitable in the market can be attributed solely to the Survivorship bias.
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Analysis Process
Merchant action analysis can begin with a classical technical analysis, e.g. Edwards and Magee patterns include trend lines, break-outs, and pull-backs, which are further broken down and supplemented by extra bar-by-bar analysis, sometimes including volume. This observed price action gives traders a hint about the current behavior and possible future of other market participants. Traders can explain why certain patterns are predictive, in terms of bulls (buyers in the market), bears (sellers), other crowd trader mentality, volume changes and other factors. Good knowledge of market make-up is required. The resulting picture that a trader builds will not only seek to predict the direction of the market, but also the speed of movement, duration and intensity, all of which are based on the judgment and prediction of traders from the actions and reactions of other market participants.
The pattern of price action occurs with each bar and the trader sees several patterns coinciding or occurring in a particular order, creating a 'set-up'/'setup' that generates a signal to buy or sell. Individual traders can have very varied preferences for the type of arrangement that they concentrate on their trade.
This annotated chart shows the typical frequencies, syntax and terminology for the price action pattern applied by the merchant.
A published price action merchant is able to provide a rational name and explanation for the observed market movement for each single bar on the bar chart, regularly publishing the graph with descriptions and explanations that include 50 or 100 bars. This merchant freely admits that his explanation may be wrong, but his explanation has a purpose, allowing traders to build mental scenarios around the current 'pricing action' as expressed, and for experienced traders, it is often linked as a reason for their lucrative trade.
Trade Implementation
The price action merchant will use settings to specify entry and exit for position. Each setting has an optimal entry point. Some traders also use price action signals to exit, simply enter in one setting and then exit all positions on the negative settings display. Alternatively, the merchant may simply come out instead of the profit target of a certain amount of money or at a predetermined rate of loss. This exit style is often based on the previous support and resistance levels of the graph. More experienced traders will have well-defined entry and exit criteria built on experience.
Experienced price action traders will be well trained to find many bars, patterns, formations, and settings during real-time market observation. Merchants will have subjective opinions about each of these strengths and how strong the arrangements they can build. Simple settings alone are rarely enough to signify a trade. There should be several bars, patterns, formations and settings that are advantageous in combination, along with the absence of opposite signals.
At that point when the trader is satisfied that the price action signal is strong enough, the trader will still wait for the correct entry point or exit point where the signal is considered 'triggered'. During real-time trading, signals can often be observed while still building, and they are not considered triggered until the bar on the chart closes at the end of the given graph period.
Entering trades based on signals that have not been triggered are known to go in earlier and are considered higher risk because there is still possibility that the market will not behave as expected and will act so that trigger no no signal.
Upon entering the trade, the trader needs to place a stop protective order to close positions with minimal losses if the trade goes wrong. A protective stop order will also work to prevent losses in the event of a very bad internet connection loss for online merchants.
After the Brooks style, the price action merchant will place an initial stop order 1 tick below the bar that gives incoming signal (if long - or 1 tick above if it will be short) and if the market moves as expected, move stop ordering until one point below the entry bar, once the entry bar is closed and with a more favorable movement, will attempt to move the sequence to stop further to the same level with the entry, ie the breakeven point.
Brooks also warned against using any signal from previous trading sessions when there is a gap passing through a position where the trader will have an entry stop order at the opening of a new session. A worse entry point will change the risk/reward relationship to trade, so it is not worth pursuing.
Behavioral observation
A price action trader generally sets a big store in human error and a tendency for traders in the market to behave as a crowd. For example, a trader who is bullish about a particular stock might observe that the stock is moving in the range of $ 20 to $ 30, but traders expect the stock to rise to at least $ 50. Many traders will only buy shares, but then each fall to the lowest point of its trading range, will become discouraged and lose confidence in their predictions and sales. The price action trader will wait until the stock price reaches $ 31.
It was a simple example of Livermore from the 1920s. In the modern market, price action traders will first be alerted to stocks once the price has reached $ 31, but knowing the counter-intuition of the market and after picking up another signal of price action, will expect the stock to pull back from there and will only buy when the pull -back finished and stocks moved up again.
Support, Resistance, and Fibonacci levels are all important areas where human behavior can affect price action. "Psychological levels", such as levels ending in 0.00, are very common trigger locations for orders. Some strategies use this level as a means to plan where to secure profits or place Stop Loss. These levels are purely the result of human behavior when they mean these levels are important.
Two trial rules
One of the main observations of price action traders is that markets often revisit price levels when turning or consolidating. If the market reverses to a certain level, then returns to that level, traders expect the market to continue past the reversal point or to reverse again. Merchants do not take action until the market has done one or the other.
This is considered to bring a higher probability trade entry, after this point has passed and the market continues or retreats. Traders do not take the first chance but wait for the second entry to trade them. For example the second attempt by the bears to force the market down to new lows, if fails, double bottom and the point where many bears will leave their bearish opinions and start buying, joining the bulls and producing a strong upward move.
Also, for example, after a break-out of the trading range or trend line, the market may return to the break-out level and then instead of rejoining the trading range or trend, it will reverse and continue the break outside. This is also known as 'confirmation'.
Trapped merchants
"Trapped traders" is a common price action term that refers to a trader who has entered the market with a weak signal, or before a signal is triggered, or without waiting for confirmation and who finds themselves in a losing position as the market turns against them. Any price action pattern that traders use for signaling into the market is considered 'failing' and that failure becomes a separate signal for price action traders, e.g. breakout failure, breakline trend line failed, reversal failed. It is assumed that trapped traders will be forced to get out of the market and if enough, this will cause the market to accelerate away from them, thus providing an opportunity for more patient traders to benefit from their pressure. "Trapped traders" are therefore used to describe traders in positions that will be stopped if price action touches their stop loss limit. The term is closely related to the idea of ​​"trap" that Brooks defines as: "Entries that immediately reverse in opposite directions before the scalper profit target is reached, trapping the merchant in their new position, ultimately forcing them to close at a loss can also scare off traders from trading the good one. "
Because many traders place a stop protective order to get out of the wrong position, all stop orders placed by trapped merchants will deliver orders that drive the market in the direction that traders are more patient on betting. The phrase "stop running" refers to the execution of this stop order. Since 2009, the use of the term "trapped trader" has become increasingly popular and is now a common term used by price action traders and applied in different markets - stocks, futures, forex, commodities, etc. All trapped merchant strategies are essentially a variation of Brooks pioneering work.
Definition of trend and range
The concept of this trend is one of the main concepts in technical analysis. Trends either up or down and for a complete new person watching the market, the upward trend can be described only as the period of time at which prices have gone up. Upward trend is also known as bull trend, or rally. The trend of bear or downward trend or a sell (or crash) is when the market is moving downwards. This definition is as simple as varied and complex analysis. The assumption is a serial correlation, ie once in a trend, the market tends to continue in that direction.
At any given timeframe, whether it's an annual chart or a 1-minute graph, the price action trader will be almost without exception, check first to see if the market is up or down or whether it's limited to the trading range.
The range is not so easy to define, but in most cases what exists when there are no visible trends. This is determined by the floor and ceiling, which is always debated. The range can also be called a horizontal channel.
OHLC bar or candlestick
A brief explanation of the bar and candlestick terminology:
- Open: the first price of a bar (which includes the time period of the selected time frame)
- Close: last bar price
- Height: highest price
- Low: lowest price
- Contents: part of the candlestick between open and close
- Tail (up or down): parts of the candlestick are not between open and close ones
Spanning bar
The range bar is a body bar, which is open and closed at the same price and therefore no net change during that time period. This is also known in the Japanese terminology of Candlestick as Doji. Japanese candlesticks show demand with more precision and only Doji is Doji, while price action traders might consider a bar with a small body to be a range bar. This is called the 'bar range' because the price during the bar period moves between the (low) floor and the (high) ceiling and ends more or less where it starts. If someone expands the time period and sees the price movement during that bar, it will appear as a range.
Trend bar
There is a bull trend bar and bear bar bar - a bar with a body - the market place really ends the bar with a clean change from the start of the bar.
bull trendbar
In bullish trend bars, prices have been likely from opening until closing. To be long-winded, it is possible that prices move up and down several times between high and low during the bar, before finishing up for bar, in which case the assumption will be wrong, but this is very rare.
Bear trend bar
The bear train bar is the opposite.
Bar trends are often called for shorts as bull bars or bear bars.
Blades with trends
The trend bar with the movement in the same direction as the graph trend is known as 'with the trend', ie the bull's trend bar on the bull market is the "bull trending" bar. In a downward market, bear bar trends are a "bar with bear trends".
Countertrend bar
A trend bar in the opposite direction with the prevailing trend is bull or bear bar "countertrend".
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There is also known as CHAPTER - Breakaway Bars - which is a bar that is more than two standard deviations bigger than average.
Climactic splash bar
It is a BAB trending that signals his body unusually large that in the last bullish trend buyers have entered the market and therefore if there is now a seller, the market will reverse direction. Instead applies to bear trends.
Shorn bars
A shaved bar is a trend bar that is all body-shaped and has no tail. A partially shaved bar has a shaved top (no top tail) or a shaved bottom (no bottom tail).
Inside bar
A "in-bar" is a smaller bar and in a high-to-low range from the previous bar, which is lower than the previous bar height, and lower than the previous low bar. Its relative position can be at the top, middle or bottom of the previous blades.
There is no universal definition that imposes a rule that the height of the bar inside and the previous bar can not be the same, the same for the lowest position. If the two highs and lows are the same, it is harder to define it as a bar inside, but there is a reason why it can be so interpreted. This inaccuracy is typical when trying to describe the ever-changing character of market prices.
Outside bar
The outside bar is larger than the previous bar and completely overlaps. The height is higher than the previous high, and the low is lower than the previous low. The same inaccuracy in the definition as in the bar (above) is often seen in the interpretation of this type of bar.
The interpretation of an outside bar is based on the concept that market participants are hesitant or inactive at the previous bar, but then as long as the outside bar shows a new commitment, pushing prices up or down as seen. Again the explanation may seem simple but in combination with other price action, it builds into a story that gives traders with an edge experience (a better chance of predicting the market direction correctly).
The context in which they appear is the most important in their interpretation.
If near the outside bars close to the center, this makes it similar to the trading range bar, because neither bull nor bear despite the aggression they are able to dominate.
Primary price action traders will avoid or ignore outside bars, especially in the midst of trading ranges where their positions are considered meaningless.
When the outside bar appears in a strong trend retrace, rather than acting as a spanning bar, it does show a strong trend trend. For example, a bear outside the bar in a bullish trend retrace is a good signal that retrace will continue further. This is explained by the way the outer form of the bar is formed, as it begins to build in real time as a potential bull bar that extends above the previous bar, which will encourage many traders to enter bullish trades to benefit from the continuation of the old bull. trend. When the market reverses and the potential bull bar disappears, it makes the bullish traders stuck in a bad trade.
If price action traders have another reason to be bearish in addition to this action, they will wait for this situation and will take the opportunity to make money short where the stuck cows have their protector stops positioned. If the reversal outside the bar is fast, then many bearish traders will be as shocked as the bulls and the result will give an extra boost to the market as they are all trying to sell after the outside bar has closed. The same situation also holds upside down for bear trend retracements.
ioi pattern
Patterns inside - and outside - in when occurring at higher or lower levels are the settings for acne breakouts. This is closely related to pattern ii, and vice versa, it is also similar to a barbed wire if the inner bar has a relatively large body size, thus making it one of the more difficult price patterns to practice.
Small bar
As with all price action formations, small bars must be seen in context. A quiet trading period, e.g. on a US holiday, there may be many small bars that appear but they will not matter, but the small bar built after a large bar period is much more open to interpretation. In general, the small bar is a display of lack of enthusiasm from both sides of the market. A small bar can also represent a pause in buying or selling activity as both parties wait to see if opposing market forces are back playing. Small bars may represent a lack of confidence on their part that moves the market in one direction, therefore marking a reversal.
Thus, small rods can be interpreted as contrary to opposing traders, but smaller rods are taken less as their own signal, not as part of larger arrangements involving a number of other price observations. For example in some situations a small bar can be interpreted as a pause, an opportunity to enter with a market direction, and in other situations a pause can be seen as a sign of weakness and so a hint that a reversal may occur.
One example where a small bar is taken as a signal is a trend where they appear in the pull-back. They signify the end of the pull-back and hence the opportunity to enter trades with trends.
ii and pattern iii
'Ii' is a pattern inside - 2 bars in sequence. A 'iii' is 3 in a row. Most often this is a small bar.
Price action traders who are unsure of market direction but are confident of further moves - opinions derived from other price action - will place an entry to buy above ii or iii and at the same time an entry for sale under it, and will search the market for out of price range pattern. Whatever order is executed, another order then becomes a protective stop order that will keep traders out of the trade with small losses if the market does not act as expected.
Typical settings using pattern ii are outlined by Brooks. A ii after a sustained trend that has experienced a trend line break is likely to signal a strong reversal if the market breaks out against the trend. Small inside bars are associated with buying and selling pressure equals. The stop stop command will be placed one point on the countertrend side of the first bar of ii and the protective stop will be placed a point outside the first bar on the opposite side.
Trend
The classic trend is defined visually by plotting the trend line on the opposite side of the market from the trend direction, or with a pair of trend line trend lines plus the parallel back lines on the other - on the chart. This slash line reflects the direction of the trend and connects the highest or lowest lows of the trend. In an idealized form, the trend will consist of trending higher highs or lower lows and in a rally, higher highs alternate with lower lows as the market moves up, and in sell-off the order of the lower highs (forming trendline) alternates with the lower low when the market falls. The swing in the rally is a gain period that ends at a higher height (aka swing high), followed by the pull-back ending at the lower higher (higher than the start of the swing). The reverse is true in the sell-off, each swing has a low swing at the lowest point.
When the market breaks the trend line, the trend from the end of the last swing to the break is known as the 'medium trend line' or 'feet'. The legs are up in trend followed by one foot down, which completes the swing. Price action traders will often search for two or three swings in standard trends.
Feet with trends containing 'encouragement', a big bar with a trend or a row of big bars with trends. Trends need not have a boost but that's normal.
Trends are set once the market has formed three or four successive legs, e.g. for the bullish trend, higher highs and lower lows. Higher higher values, lower lows, lower lows and lower lows can only be identified after the next bar closes. Identifying before closing the bar risks that the market will act contrary to expectations, moving beyond the potential price of the higher/lower bar and leaving the trader only realizing that the turning point is supposed to be an illusion.
A more risky looking trader will see an established trend even after just one high swing or low swing.
At the beginning of what a trader expects is a bull trend, after the lower lower is higher, the trend line can be pulled from the low point at the beginning of the trend to a higher low point and then extended. As the market moves across this trend line, it has produced a trend line for traders, who are given some consideration from this point on. If the market moves with a certain to-and-fro rhythm from the trend line with regularity, the trader will give the trend line adding weight. Any significant trend line that sees a significant trend line represents a shift in market equilibrium and is interpreted as the first sign that countertrend traders are able to assert some control.
If the trend line breaks fail and the trend returns, then the bar causing the breaking trend line now forms a new point on the new trend line, which will have a lower gradient, indicating a slowdown in the rally/sell-off. The alternative scenario on the return of the trend is that it takes strength and requires a new trend line, in this case with a steep gradient, which is worth mentioning for perfection and to note that it is not a situation that presents new opportunities, only rewards higher than those already existed for traders with-trend.
In the case that the trend line break really appears to be the end of this trend, it is expected that the market will return to this break-out level and the break strength will give the trader a good guess on the possibility of market back around again when it returns to this level. If the trend line is broken by a strong movement, it is considered probable that it kills the trend and retrace to this level is the second chance to enter the countertrend position.
However, in the trending market, the trend line break fails more often than not and arranges entries with trends. The average merchant psychology tends to inhibit entries with a tendency because traders have to "buy high", as opposed to cliches for profitable trading "high buy, low selling". The allure of counter-trafficking and human nature's drive to want to fade the market in a good trend is highly visible to price action traders, who will try to take advantage by entering failure, or at least when trying to enter Trends, will wait for a second chance in confirmation of a break-out after the market revisits this point, fails to get back into the trend and leads the counter-trend again.
Among the trend line break-out or swing highs and swing lows, price action traders pay attention to the signs of strength in a potentially developing trend, which in the stock market index futures are with-gap trends, changes that can be seen, counter-trend counter-intuitively, the absence of a significant trend line, overshoots, lack of climax bars, some lucrative trade counter trends, small pull-backs, lateral correction after breaking trend line, no consecutive closing sequence on the sides one of the moving averages, shaved with-trend bars.
In stock market indices, the days of big trends tend to display some signs of emotional trading in the absence of large bars and overshoots and these put into effect large institutions put a large number of their orders into algorithmic programs.
Many of the strongest trends start in the middle of the day after a reversal or break-out of the trading range. The kicks are weak and offer little chance for price action traders to enter the trend. Price action traders or in fact any trader can enter the market in what appears to be a rally or take-off sale, but the trading of price action involves waiting for entry points with reduced risk - pullback, or better, pull- backs that turn into trend lines failed break-out. The risk is that the 'run-away' trend is not continuing, but it is a climactic reversal in which the last traders who enter into despair eventually lose their position on a market reversal. As stated the market often only offers entries that seem weak during the powerful phase but the price action trader will take this rather than making indiscriminate entries. Without enough practice and experience to recognize weaker signals, traders will wait, even if it turns out they are losing big strides.
Channel Trends
Trends or price channels can be created by plotting a pair of trend line channels on both sides of the market - the first channel trend line is the trend line, plus a parallel back line on the other. The Edwards and Magee backlines are also known as the channel trend line (single), confusing, when only one is mentioned.
Trend channel is traded by waiting for failure of break-out, that is banking on trend channel continuously, in this case at that time near bar, stop entry placed one tick go towards channel center above/below bar break-out. Trading with a break-out only has a good profit probability when the break-out bar is above average size, and entries are only taken on a break-out confirmation. Confirmation will be given when the pull-back of the breakout ends without pull-back after returning to the back line, thus canceling the plotted channel path.
Shared bars entry
When a shave rod appears in a strong trend, it indicates that a constant buying or selling pressure along with no waiver and can be taken as a strong signal that the trend will continue.
A Brooks-style entry using a one tick stop above or below the bar will require quick action from the trader and any delay will result in slippage especially in the short period of time.
Microtrend Line
If the trend line is plotted at the lower or higher low which is higher than the trend above the longer trend, the microtrend line is plotted when all or almost all the highs or lows line up in a short multi-bar period. Just as break-outs of the normal trend tend to fail as noted above, microtrend lines drawn on charts are often broken by the next price action and break-outs often fail as well. The failure is traded by placing a 1 tick stop order above or below the previous bar, which will result in a position with the trend if exposed, giving the low-risk scalp with the target on the opposite side of the trend channel.
The microtrend lines are often used on the retrace in the main or pull-back trends and provide a clear signal point where the market can penetrate to mark the end of the microtrend. The blades that break the bearish microtrend line in the main bull trend for example are the signal bar and the buy stop entry command should be placed 1 above the bar. If the market works its way above the break-out bar, it is a good sign that the break-out of the microtrend line has not failed and that the main bull trend has returned.
Continuing on this example, a more aggressive bullish trader will place a buy stop entry above the current high bar in the microtrend line and move it to the height of each new bar in a row, assuming that every microtrend line will exit. Not Failed.
Spike and channel
This is a type of trend that is marked as difficult to identify and more difficult to trade by Brooks. The spike is the start of a trend where the market is moving strongly toward a new trend, often at day opening on intraday charts, and then slowing down forming a tight trend channel that moves slowly but surely in the same direction.
Once the trend channel breaks down, it is common to see the market go back to the channel's initial level and then stay within the trading range between that level and the end of the channel.
"Spike gap and channel" is a term for spike and channel trends beginning with a gap in the graph (a vertical slot with between one close blade and the next bar open).
Spikes and channels are visible in stock charts and stock indices, and are rarely reported in the forex market.
Drag back
Pull-back is a move where the market is interfering with prevailing trends, or corrects back from breakout, but does not retrace beyond the beginning of the trend or the start of the breakout. Pull-back that brings farther to the beginning of the trend or breakout will instead be a reversal or breakout failure.
In the long trend, pull-backs often last long enough to form the legs like normal trends and behave in other ways like trends as well. Like the normal trend, long pull-backs often have two legs. Price action traders expect the market to abide by two trial rules and will wait for the market to try to make a second swing at the pull-back, in the hope that it fails and therefore turns around to try the opposite - that is the return trend.
One of the price action techniques to follow the pull-back with the intention of entering with the trend at the end of the pull-back is to calculate a new higher higher in the bullish trend pull-back, or the new lows below the pull-back of the bear, the bullish trend, the pull-back will consist of bars where the lower consecutive lower and lower levels until the pattern is broken by a bar that places a higher height than the previous bar height, referred to as H1 (Height 1). L1s (Low 1) is a mirror image in a pull-back pull trend.
If H1 does not produce the end of the pull-back and the return of the bull trend, then the market creates the sequence of the bar further lower, with the higher value lower each time until another bar occurs with a higher height than the previous high. It's H2. And so on until the trend returns, or until the pull-back has become a reversal or a trading range.
H1 and L1 are considered as reliable signals when the pull-back is microtrend line break, and H1 or L1 represents break-out failure.
Otherwise, if the market complies with two experimental rules, then the safest entry back to the trend is H2 or L2. The two-legged kick has formed and it is the most common pullback, at least in the stock market index.
In the sideways trading range, both the highest and the lowest can be calculated but this is reported as an error-prone approach except for the most widely practiced merchants.
On the other hand, in a strong trend, the pull-back tends to be weak and consequently the Hs and Ls count will be difficult. In a bullish pull-back trend, two down swings may appear but H1s and H2s can not be identified. Price action traders instead look for bear bar trends to form a trend, and when followed by the bar with the highest but near value, takes this as the first leg of the pull-back and thus is looking for the appearance of the H2 signal bar. The fact that it is technically not H1 or H2 is ignored in the light of trend power. This price action reflects what happens in a shorter and sub-optimal but pragmatic time when the signal goes into a strong trend instead of appearing. The same is true in the bear trend.
Calculating Hs and Ls is a direct, reverse-direct price action trade, relying on signs of strength or further weakness of the occurrence of all or any price action signal, ie. action around the moving average, double tops or bottom, ii or iii patterns, outside bars, inverting bars, microtrend line breaks, or simplest, bull size or bear trend bar among other actions. Price action merchants pick and choose which signals specialize and how to combine them.
A simple entry technique involves placing a 1st entry sequence above H or 1 mark under L and waiting for it to be executed when the next bar develops. If so, this is the entry bar, and H or L is the signal bar, and the protective cessation is placed 1 mark below H or 1 mark above L.
Breakout
The breakout is the blade where the market moves beyond the predetermined price - determined by the trader's price action, whether physically or mentally only, according to their own price action methodology, eg. if the trader believes there is a bullish trend, then the line that connects the lowest lows bar on the chart during this trend will be the line that traders take note, waiting to see if the market breaks out.
The real plot or mental line on the graph generally comes from one of the classic chart patterns. The breakout often leads to setup and trading signals generated.
The breakout should indicate the end of the previous chart pattern, e.g. bull breakout in bear trends could signal the end of bear trends.
Withdraw
After the breakout extends further in the direction of the breakout for the bar or two or three, the market will often retrace in the opposite direction in the pull-back, ie the market pull back towards the direction of penetration. A worthy breakthrough will not retreat past the support point or resistance that has passed before.
Breakout failure
The breakout may not lead to the end of the previous market behavior, and what started as a pull-back may develop into a breakout failure, ie the market can revert to the old pattern.
Brooks observed that the breakout would likely fail in the quiet span of time in the next bar, when the bar breakout was unusually large.
"Five failures of lice failure" is a phenomenon that is a great example of price action trading. Five tick breakouts are a characteristic of the stock market futures index. Many speculators trade to profit only four ticks, a trade that requires the market to move 6 ticks in the trader's direction for incoming and outgoing orders to be filled. The merchant will place a stop protective order to break out at the failure at the end of the breakout bar. So if the market breaks out by five ticks and does not reach their profit target, then the price action trader will see this as a failure of five ticks and will enter in the opposite direction at the end of the breakout bar to take advantage of the stop orders from outgoing orders from traders. lose.
Failed failure failed
In certain situations where the price action trader has observed a breakout, witnessed a failure and then decided to trade in the hope of profiting from a failure, there is a danger to the trader that the market will reverse again and proceed in the direction of the breakout, which causes losses for traders. This is known as failure failure and traded by taking losses and reversing positions. Not just the breakouts where failures fail, other failed setups can at the last moment come good and become 'failure fail'.
Reversal bar
The inverting bar indicates a current trend reversal. When looking at a signal bar, a trader will take it as a sign that the direction of the market will change.
The ideal bullish reversal bar should close well above the open, with a relatively large bottom tail (30% to 50% of the bar height) and a small or nonexistent upper tail, and have only average or below average overlapping with the previous bar, and having lower low of previous bars in trend.
A bearish reversal bar will be the opposite.
Reversal is considered to be a stronger signal if its extreme point is further up or down than the current trend will be achieved if it continues as before, ie. a bullish reversal will have a low that is below the forecast line formed by the lows of the previous bear trend. This is 'overshoot'. See the #Trend overshoot channel channel section.
The inverting bar as a signal is also considered to be stronger when it occurs at the same price level as the previous trend reversal.
The interpretation of the price action of the cow reversal bar is thus: this indicates that selling pressure in the market has passed its climax and that now the buyer has entered the market strongly and taken over, dictating the price rising sharply from its lowest point. a sudden shortage of sellers leads buyer bids to rise to the top. This movement is exacerbated by short-term traders/brokers who sell at the bottom and now have to buy back if they want to cover their losses.
Trend line division
When a market has experienced a significant trend, a trader can usually draw a trend line on the opposite side of the market where retraces reach, and any retrace back across the trend line is a trend line break and a sign of weakness, a hint that the market may immediately reverse the trend or at least stop the development of the trend for a period.
Trends in channel channel overshoot
The trend line of the overshoot channel refers to the clear price shooting of the trend channel that can be further observed in the direction of the trend. An overshoot does not have to be a reversal bar, as it can occur over the bar with-trend. Sometimes it may not generate a reversal at all, it will only force the price action merchant to adjust the trend channel definition.
In the stock index, the common market retrace after the trend line channel overshoot is put into profit taking and traders reverse their positions. More traders will wait for some price reversal action. The extra spike that caused the overshoot was the last panicked traders' action to enter the trend along with the increased activity of institutional players who controlled the market and wanted to see the overshoot as a clear signal that all previously non-participating players had been dragged in. This was identified by the overshoot bar being bar fatigue climax at high volume. Nothing is left to continue the trend and set the price action for a reversal.
Reversal of climax fatigue
Strong trends that are characterized by multiple trunks with near-trend and almost continuous higher or lower lows more than the number of double-digit bars often end up abruptly by the climax bar exhaustion. It is very likely that a two foot retrace happens after this, extending for the same or longer period of time as the last leg of the climax or sell-off rally.
Double bottom and double bottom
When the market reaches extreme prices in the trader's view, it often pulls back from the price just to get back to that price level again. In a situation where the price level holds and the market backs down, two reversals at that level are known as double top bull flags, or just double bottom/double bottom and indicate that the retrace will continue.
Brooks also reported that a general pull-back after double top or bottom, returning 50% to 95% back to double top/bottom level. This is similar to a classic head and shoulder pattern.
Price action merchants will trade this pattern, e.g. double bottom, by placing a 1 tick buy stop order above the bar creating the second 'bottom'. If the order is filled, then the merchant sets a protective stop 1 command under the same bar.
Double and Double Double Double Double
Bars in sequence with relatively large bodies, small tails and the same high prices formed at the highest point of the graph are defined as the double twins above. The reverse is for the double bottom twins. These patterns appear as shorter time scales as double top or double bottom. Because signals on shorter time scales per se are faster and therefore the average is weaker, the price action trader will take a position against the signal when it appears to fail.
In other words, double twin top and twin double bottom with signal trends, when a short underlying double peak time frame or double ass (reversal signal) fails. Traders of price action predict that other traders trade on a shorter time scale will be traded a simple double top or double bottom, and if the market moves against them, traders price action will take a position against them, putting a stop order entry 1 tick above or below the bottom, in order to benefit from aggravated market movements caused by trapped traders who surrender.
Opposite twins (down-up or up-down twin)
These are two successive trend bars in the opposite direction with similar-sized bodies and similar-sized tails. This is a reversal signal when it comes up in a trend. This is equivalent to a single reversal bar when viewed on a time scale twice as long.
For the strongest signal, the bars will be shaved at the reversal point, e.g. down-up in bear trends with two trending stems with a shaved bottom will be considered stronger than a bar with a tail.
Wedge
The wedge pattern is like a trend, but the channel trend line that trader plots get together and predict runaway. The wedge pattern after the trend is usually regarded as a good reversal signal.
Trading range
Once a trader has identified the trading range, ie the lack of trends and the ceiling for the upward movement of the market and the floor for each step down, the trader will use ceiling and floor levels as an obstacle that the market can penetrate, in the hope that the break- out will fail and the market will reverse direction.
One breakout above the previous highs or the ceiling of the trading range is called the higher heights. Since trading ranges are difficult to trade, price action traders will often wait after seeing a higher first high and on the appearance of a second break-out followed by its failure, this will be taken as a possible high bearish trade, with the middle of the range as the profit target. This is preferred first because the middle of the trading range will tend to act as a magnet for price action, secondly because the higher heights are some higher points and therefore offer some more points of profits if successful, and thirdly because of the assumption that two consecutive failures of the market for a one-way lead will result in tradable steps on the contrary.
Cut alias churn and wire thread
When markets are constrained in tight trading ranges and bar sizes as a percentage of large trading ranges, price action signals may still emerge with the same frequency as under normal market conditions but their reliability or predictive power is greatly reduced. Brooks identifies a particular pattern that betrays the chop, called "razor wire". It consists of a series of overlapping bars that strongly contain bar trading ranges.
Razor wire and other cut shapes indicate that neither the buyer nor the seller can control or be able to provide greater pressure. Price action traders wishing to generate profits in choppy conditions will use a range trading strategy. Trading is executed on the support or resistance line of the temporary range of profit targets set before the price is set to hit the opposite side.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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