When trading supply and demand imbalances we don’t really need any kind of indicator or add-on tools to tell us how and when to place a trade. Trading should be simpler than dragging a few indicators or tools on our charts expecting red and green arrows to tell us in which direction to place our trades. Are you sure you want to rely on indicators to tell you what to do? Wouldn’t it be better to learn how the market moves and place trades according to a thorough top down analysis using the only non lagging indicator there is? Yes, price action is the only indicator that won’t be repainted if there is a sudden volatility spike in the markets.
Let’s take a USDSGD Forex cross pair daily timeframe using supply and demand imbalances for technical analysis without a single indicator dragged on the chart, just price action and impulses.
USDSGD Forex cross pair has been rallying for a few weeks creating new demand imbalances on the way up on the daily timeframe. The big picture trend is bullish so we are only interested in buying USDSGD Forex Cross pair. Supply and demand is telling us that we should only be thinking of buying new demand zones, not selling. Why should we need to add all kind of indicators like Bollinger Bands, CCI, RSI, MACD and exponential moving averages to make a trading decision when price action when everything is pointing up? The attached chart for USDSGD Forex cross pair a daily chart, each candlestick is a day of time. It’s pretty clear that the whole move started at the bottom around 1.3472. On the way up a few daily demand imbalances were created, there has been a retracement to the first three imbalances at 1, 2 and 3 but price continued to rally strongly without providing a pullback to new demand levels at 4 and 5.