Hello TradingView Community, it’s Ben with LeafAlgo! Today we will discuss one of my favorite indicators, the Ichimoku Cloud. The Ichimoku is a versatile trading tool that has captivated traders with its unique visual representation and powerful insights. We will dive deep into understanding the Ichimoku Cloud, explore its history, discuss its parts, highlight...
A rising wedge in an up trend is usually considered a reversal pattern. This pattern is at the end of a bullish wave, by creating close price tops, shows us that the supply has intensified and there is a possibility of a trend change. Of course, nothing is certain and if the buyers are more willing and strong, this pattern may be broken in the direction of the...
Technical analysis is one of the most popular trading strategies used by traders worldwide. It involves analyzing past market data, primarily price, market structure, and volume, to identify trends and forecast future price movements. While technical analysis has several benefits, it also has some drawbacks that traders must consider before incorporating it into...
Price action analysis is a trading methodology that involves analyzing the price movement of a financial instrument, such as a stock, currency pair, or commodity, to make trading decisions. It relies on the observation of price charts and the interpretation of price patterns, trends, and support and resistance levels. Price action traders believe that all the...
As you see, NFP days more than often trigger major reversals on daily, even reversals from yearly tops. Likewise, breakouts and big moves on daily are also triggerred by NFP days. FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!
As you see NFP release days often generate reversals, minor pullbacks on daily or are at the beginning of big moves, acting as catalysts. Though I dont believe in big NFP reversal starting on low volume trading days, as we are in Easter Holidays. Hence today´s NFP day may go unnoticed as most of traders are gone for Easter holidays. But otherwise we could see a...
Watch how interest rates decisions set trends in EURUSD and Dollar Index impacting the entire forex market. I marked all the previous interest hike decisions by FED and ECB. 2023 EURUSD bullish reversal was triggerred by ECB starting to raise iterest rates (after EUR hit the alarming 1.00 level). EUR might continue bullish until next tow hikes. From what I read...
When it comes to investing, many individuals who are not actively investing tend to ponder over what lucrative projects are available when seeing others making profits. However, once they start investing, they all hold a belief that they will profit, which can lead to a problematic attitude when facing losses that differ from their original expectations. Investing...
The greatest adversary of a trader is not the market, nor the constantly changing market trends, but rather ourselves. Therefore, today I will share my trading experience and explain the five most difficult demons to overcome in our trading journey. 1.The first demon is greed. Greed is the biggest demon in trading. Where there is greed, there is an abyss. It...
A simple way to trade EUR/USD is by taking advantage of its tendency to retest the 200-period moving average on the hourly chart. To do this, wait for the currency pair to move away significantly from the 200-period moving average and show signs of overbought or oversold conditions with two peaks or troughs, along with divergence. This presents an opportunity to...
Good evening and good afternoon for American traders, I shared an idea where I said to buy NATURALGAS and I want to give a quick recap in order to encourage new traders to hold their trades for long time. I have drawn on the chart all the points I added contracts after the pullback on the vwap which plays a strong support and resistance role in my trading...
See how price reacts at 1000 pips increments (1, 1.10, 1.20, 1.30) and their quarters (1.25, 1.05, 1.075 and so on). The reaction at those levels is nearly guaranteed. Once price hit 1.10 recently, we saw a pullback of 350 pips to the downside. Those psychological levels will be highly useful to any trader. They work well on majors (USD baed pairs), less so on...
The fundamental concepts of technical analysis are support and resistance levels. Technical analysis strategies are based on psychological and mathematical patterns from previous periods. One such pattern is resistance and support levels, which determine the most likely price direction change or confirmation of trend continuation. They can be used by both new and...
Holding trades is what I want to get better at and backtesting is going to help me do it. I've backtested NZDCHF today and found that it was a remarkable session. I was able to enter 4 trades in the span of 3 months gaining over what would have been 15% from the trades, but one trade hit my break even point so I gained around 12% from my trades. I used the...
It's a trading opportunity I observed I could take on NFP news released at 06-01-2023. It's important to note that trading just prior to or spot on a news release is very risky and may sometimes lead to loss of a great deal of balance. Nevertheless, We can see a higher timeframe uptrend on the EURUSD chart. Considering the taken out liquidities we could've make...
ok here me out. i'll go straight to point this message is for the newbies (oldies gonna hate) what is pure Minimalist Technical Analysis Trader ( MTAT : i just made this up) -it is when u leave out all so-called indicators and focus on the chart -some of these indis are: MACD, RSI, ATR, STOCHT.... -it's when u leave out the FUNDAMENTAL...
Trend trading is a style of trading. It specifies what you are looking for when trading a specific market. Style Trend trading sets you on a path to looking for a clear and defined uptrend and downtrend. Anything outside of that realm is no longer considered trending. A clear uptrend defines price forming a path of repetitive high prices called higher highs...
According to statistics, 2/3 of those who try their hand at forex trading or another type of financial product trading ultimately quit up. Scientists have been researching financial industry failure rates for decades and have come to the conclusion that a beginner trader has a 10% probability of success. Only the most dedicated and persistent people in the...