How I Nailed a Perfect Breakout Trade Using a Simple Strategy*The following Analysis is made by my Trading BOT*
Analysis of Your Trade:
Descending Channel:
Formation and Breakout: The descending channel is well-defined, indicating a corrective phase following an impulsive move. The breakout above the channel suggests a potential reversal or continuation of the prior trend, which appears bullish.
Entry Timing: You entered the trade after the breakout from the descending channel. This entry aligns with a strategy to buy at the break of a corrective pattern, capitalizing on the resumption of bullish momentum.
Resistance Zone (Blue Area):
Initial Resistance Encounter: The blue horizontal line represents a resistance zone where price consolidated and failed to break higher on the first attempt. This is a good spot to watch for confirmation of a breakout or reversal.
False Breakouts: There are some upper wicks visible in this resistance zone, indicating possible false breakouts or liquidity grabs. This suggests that many traders might have been stopped out before the true breakout occurred.
Price Action Post-Breakout:
Sharp Move Down: After the breakout, price made a sharp move down to retest the previous resistance (now turned support), which aligns with the principles of market structure where old resistance becomes new support.
Correction and Continuation: The downward move appears corrective in nature, forming a series of lower highs and lower lows within a descending channel, after which the price breaks out and moves upwards sharply.
Risk and Reward Considerations:
Stop Placement: If your stop loss was placed below the previous swing low or the bottom of the descending channel, this would be a strategic placement to avoid being stopped out by market noise.
Take Profit: Your target seems to be well-placed, considering the previous highs or a key Fibonacci level. The green area likely represents the take-profit zone.
Volume Analysis:
Confirmation with Volume: The volume spike during the breakout from the descending channel and the subsequent move up indicates strong buying interest, which is a good confirmation signal.
Key Takeaways for Future Trades:
Pattern Recognition: Identifying descending channels and their breakouts is a strong skill that can be leveraged in various time frames.
Risk Management: Your trade shows a good understanding of risk management, especially if stops were placed beyond significant levels to avoid market noise.
Confirmation Signals: Waiting for volume confirmation during breakouts is an excellent strategy to avoid false moves.
Suggestions:
Multiple Time Frame Analysis: Ensure that your lower-time-frame trades are aligned with the higher-time-frame trends or setups to increase the probability of success.
Post-Trade Analysis: Continue reviewing your trades like this to refine your entry and exit strategies, especially around key zones like support and resistance.
Bearish Patterns
Drawing Volume Based Trendlines Support and ResistanceFor this to work you're going to need your bull bear power void oscillator.
I have mine set on its default settings but you can also set it up with the following.
Click the image below for that indicator for free
The Setup
the length is 50
the moving average is 20
the macd settings are 12 / 26 / 9
With this I have a 50 period EMA on my chart.
Drawing Support and Resistance Levels Based on Volume
When drawing support and resistance levels you should always do them on a 1 hour time frame or higher. You can do them on a 30 minute time frame but some of them will be less relevant.
Since most people and most institutions do them a 1 hour time frame and hire you might as well be doing the same.
Support and resistance levels are found in the non-tradable areas of the oscillator. in other words it's the area of the oscillator where it has a black background.
As an example if you have a pink volume bar coming down first followed by a red volume bar afterwards this would mean resistance. But both of these bars must clear the void
If you have a light green bar first outside with the tradable area followed by a dark green bar this means support and both bars must be outside the void.
As an example if you have more than one light colored bar in the tradable area followed by a darker colored bar volume then you draw your support or resistance level at the 1st alternating color bars.
Find out where your current price level is and then draw about 2 or 3 support and resistance levels above current price and two or three below current price. You don't really want more than that.
Drawing Trendlines Based on Volume
To draw trend lines you need to have a background that goes from one color to Black and then to the alternate color for example green to Black to red or red to Black to Green. if you get the same color twice then what you have is a continuation of your trend.
In a trend that goes from green to Black to Red you're looking for the highest volume in the non-tradable area and then drawing of line from there to the very first tradable volume in the red area.
Once you do this you can't move to a smaller time frame and use that trend line as a Target when moving to it or an exit point.
Specific Trendline to Determine the Direction of any MarketHow to identify the specific points for trendline to determine the direction of the market? In this example, I am using the Nasdaq index.
You can use this trendline technique to any markets because its principles in this tutorial are applicable throughout whether to an individual stock, indices or even commodities.
I am going to introduce the primary and secondary trendlines, I hope after this tutorial, it will bring greater clarity in how you can deploy them.
Disclaimer:
• What presented here is not a recommendation, please consult your licensed broker.
• Our mission is to create lateral thinking skills for every investor and trader, knowing when to take a calculated risk with market uncertainty and a bolder risk when opportunity arises.
This method I just shared, it can be applied to any market and any timeframe, be it the minute chart or the weekly chart.
Micro E-Mini Nasdaq
0.25 = US$0.50
1.00 = US$2
When to Change Bias in TradingHello Traders!
Do you ever wonder, "When is the trend ending?" or "When should I change my directional bias?"
Many traders find it hard to figure out not only how to choose a directional bias for the day, or how to change their bias if they are on the wrong side of the trade.
In this educational video tutorial, I provide simple confirmations to discern when to change your bias and how to look for your next entry!
Traders, we would love to hear your opinion and how you determine directional bias. Write in the comments and share with us!
Cheers,
- BKH
ULTA update: watching for the FOMO bulls' next moveThis educational screencast is I hope useful in showing how price action can be assessed from various perspectives. It is now pretty late in the game to short ULTA. See ULTA - Journey South ? (from 20th Nov 2018).
I expect FOMO bulls to rush into ULTA, fighting for a few crumbs! LOL. That expectation is based only on human psychology. Make no mistake, it is psychology that works at the tips of the markets.
See also what happened to FOMO Bulls in NVIDIA .
I re-emphasise that I have no need of working out where price is going to go. I'm using a probability model instead of a 'predictive' model. Hence - no targets, only controlled acceptable losses.
NVIDIA: FOMO bulls beaten badlyIn my previous screencast of 17th November, below all this text, is the story of someone (not from Tradingview) messaging me to ask if NVDA was good to buy. They were disappointed when I simply said "No".
In the current screencast I follow up on how the FOMO bulls were punished for attempting to hunt a gap too early.
This screencast is not advice. I am not saying that NVDA will not rise again. The point of this video is solely about appreciating when not to go in . I'm not saying that now is a bad time or good time to enter long.
There are lessons in this:
1. If you're with the trend it can be your friend, else it's your enemy!
2. Avoid news and social media crowd sentiment.
3. Avoid gurus.
VIDEO / NZDJPY / HOW TO PLAY BOTH SIDES OF THE MARKET Contents of Video:
1) How I approach looking for a Bearish and Bullish outcome on my trades
2) Identifying actual trade triggers that make me take one side over the other
3) How you can easily switch from being a bear to a bull and vice versa
4) Go back on your losing trades!! Spot the reversal patterns that caused you to get stopped out. Apply this hindsight to your future trades
[b]Catching the PIP's with my sonar radar Setup[/b]
FX:GBPUSD
Description:
GBP/USD shows strong support within DeMarker indicator (DeMarker was used to replace RSI and Slow Stoch)
MACD and MACz Vwap shows continuation of the bullish uptrend for hourly and daily chart high time-frames
Within opening bell wait for Fractals v9 TUX EMA Scalper and CM_PSAR EM Envelope confirmation for the entry positions.
Put your S/L within the EMA BB and use MTF EMA and 3EMA as the support and resistance of your positions.
Look at the different time-frames to minute, hourly and daily for trends and patterns
This is good for intraday/swing trades not scalping short time frames. If you want to scalp look for Fractals v9 TUX EMA Scalper and CM_PSAR EM Envelope confirmation .
Good for traders sitting at the desk waiting for the trend confirmation. Very High expected PIPs return when the strategy followed the trend.
Good luck traders and happy hunting !!