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Three White Soldiers Candlestick ✅✅✅Three white soldiers is a bullish candlestick pattern that is used to predict the reversal of the current downtrend in a pricing chart. The pattern consists of three consecutive long-bodied candlesticks that open within the previous candle's real body and a close that exceeds the previous candle's high. 🎯 To identify the three white soldiers pattern, look for three consecutive green or white candlesticks. Each must open and close progressively higher than the first. The candlesticks should have big bodies and very small (or no) wicks. As mentioned, you are likely to see the pattern at the bottom of a downtrend. ✅ What Do Three White Soldiers Tell You? The three white soldiers candlestick pattern suggests a strong change in market sentiment in terms of the stock, commodity or pair making up the price action on the chart. When a candle is closing with small or no shadows, it suggests that the bulls have managed to keep the price at the top of the range for the session. Basically, the bulls take over the rally all session and close near the high of the day for three consecutive sessions. In addition, the pattern may be preceded by other candlestick patterns suggestive of a reversal, such as a doji. ✅ Limitations of Using Three White Soldiers Three white soldiers can also appear during periods of consolidation, which is an easy way to get trapped in a continuation of the existing trend rather than a reversal. One of the key things to watch is the volume supporting the formation of three white soldiers. Any pattern on low volume is suspect because it is the market action of the few rather than the many. To combat the limitation of visual patterns, traders use the three white soldiers and other such candlestick patterns in conjunction with other technical indicators like trendlines, moving averages and bands. For example, traders may look for areas of upcoming resistance before initiating a long position or look at the level of volume on the breakout to confirm that there was a high amount of dollar volume transacting. If the pattern occurred on low volume with near-term resistance, traders may wait until there is further confirmation of a breakout to initiate a long position. Was this information valuable ?
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📊 What is Market Seasonality ? 🎯 Seasonality refers to particular time frames when stocks/sectors/indices are subjected to and influenced by recurring tendencies that produce patterns that are apparent in the investment valuation. 🎯 Seasonality is a characteristic of a time series in which the data experiences regular and predictable changes that recur every calendar year. Any predictable fluctuation or pattern that recurs or repeats over a one-year period is said to be seasonal. 📊 What is a Seasonality Forecast? In time series data, seasonality refers to the presence of variations which occur at certain regular intervals either on a weekly basis, monthly basis, or even quarterly (but never up to a year). Various factors may cause seasonality - like a vacation, weather, and holidays - ✅ You can use the Market Seasonality as an extra fundamental confluence for the price, we have 2 market seasonalities bullish and bearish. If a price has bullish seasonality it means the pariticular asset will tend to rise during that cycle and viceversa. Market Seasonality (MS) is a good tool to have in your arsenal but only if you are trading on a mid-long term perspective. You can't trade using the market seasonality on a scalping or a intra-day basis because it makes no sense. Was this a valuable information ?
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Survival Rules in TRADING 📉📉📉📉 Survival rules in trading for newbies, if you respect those rules i can make a bet you wound't lose your account as the majority of traders are. 📉 The key word there is IF YOU RESPECT ✅ 1. Always trade with a stop loss ✅ 2. Have a pre-determined risk on each trade no more then 1% ✅ 3. Don't move your stop loss if the price is not going in your favour ✅ 4. Don't add to losing positions, only viceversa. Add to your winning positions ✅ 5. You have to increase your risk only if you are in profit on your account, decrease your risk when you are losing and increase it when you are winning. Hope that was usefull for your trading plan.
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Forex Market ✅✅✅ ✅ KEY TAKEAWAYS The foreign exchange (also known as FX or forex) market is a global marketplace for exchanging national currencies against one another. Market participants use forex to hedge against international currency and interest rate risk, to speculate on geopolitical events, and to diversify portfolios, among several other reasons. Major players in this market tend to be financial institutions like commercial banks, central banks, money managers and hedge funds. Global corporations use forex markets to hedge currency risk from foreign transactions. Individuals (retail traders) are a very small relative portion of all forex volume, and mainly use the market to speculate and day trade. ✅ Who Trades Forex? The forex market not only has many players but many types of players. Here we go through some of the major types of institutions and traders in forex markets: 📊 Commercial & Investment Banks The greatest volume of currency is traded in the interbank market. This is where banks of all sizes trade currency with each other and through electronic networks. Big banks account for a large percentage of total currency volume trades. Banks facilitate forex transactions for clients and conduct speculative trades from their own trading desks. When banks act as dealers for clients, the bid-ask spread represents the bank's profits. Speculative currency trades are executed to profit on currency fluctuations. Currencies can also provide diversification to a portfolio mix. 📊 Central Banks Central banks, which represent their nation's government, are extremely important players in the forex market. Open market operations and interest rate policies of central banks influence currency rates to a very large extent. A central bank is responsible for fixing the price of its native currency on forex. This is the exchange rate regime by which its currency will trade in the open market. Exchange rate regimes are divided into floating, fixed and pegged types. Any action taken by a central bank in the forex market is done to stabilize or increase the competitiveness of that nation's economy. Central banks (as well as speculators) may engage in currency interventions to make their currencies appreciate or depreciate. For example, a central bank may weaken its own currency by creating additional supply during periods of long deflationary trends, which is then used to purchase foreign currency. This effectively weakens the domestic currency, making exports more competitive in the global market. Central banks use these strategies to calm inflation. Their doing so also serves as a long-term indicator for forex traders. 📊 Investment Managers and Hedge Funds Portfolio managers, pooled funds and hedge funds make up the second-biggest collection of players in the forex market next to banks and central banks. Investment managers trade currencies for large accounts such as pension funds, foundations, and endowments. An investment manager with an international portfolio will have to purchase and sell currencies to trade foreign securities. Investment managers may also make speculative forex trades, while some hedge funds execute speculative currency trades as part of their investment strategies. 📊 Multinational Corporations Firms engaged in importing and exporting conduct forex transactions to pay for goods and services. Consider the example of a German solar panel producer that imports American components and sells its finished products in China. After the final sale is made, the Chinese yuan the producer received must be converted back to euros. The German firm must then exchange euros for dollars to purchase more American components. Companies trade forex to hedge the risk associated with foreign currency translations. The same German firm might purchase American dollars in the spot market, or enter into a currency swap agreement to obtain dollars in advance of purchasing components from the American company in order to reduce foreign currency exposure risk. Additionally, hedging against currency risk can add a level of safety to offshore investments. 📊 Individual Investors The volume of forex trades made by retail investors is extremely low compared to financial institutions and companies. However, it is growing rapidly in popularity. Retail investors base currency trades on a combination of fundamentals (i.e., interest rate parity, inflation rates, and monetary policy expectations) and technical factors (i.e., support, resistance, technical indicators, price patterns). Was this information valuable ?
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Trade Defensively 🔰🔰🔰 🔰 Trading Defensively • Proper Lot Size Stop changing the lot size on each trade you take based on the ,, confluences,, your risk should be pre-determined and fixed. Example you risk only 0.50% from your account on each trade • Take Profits before News Release Number one goal is to protect your equity, news can bring high volatility into the markets and random big moves. It is better to fix your profit or move your stoploss to breakeven before important news release • Use Trailing Stops Secure the profits and let your winners run, you can apply this strategy when you are already in profit and want to squeeze more from the trade • Multiple Take Profits Remember that a win is still a WIN, you dont need big profits to be profitable in the market. You need small consistent wins and over time you will see the difference Was this information valuable ?
BINANCE:BTCUSDEducation
by AnonimFXRO
Why i TRADE ✅💸 Why i Trade ? Trading is a serious endeavour where you meet with the financial elites of the world, i will give you couple reasons why i trade and why do i recommend it for you as well. ✅ Be your own BOSS You don't have a BOSS, you are your own boss. You have to be very disciplined because no one is looking at you to be productive ✅ Freedom of Time You have the Freedom of Time to work when you want, from where you want. As the advantage above you have to stay very disciplined because it takes time to acquire the skill ✅ Travel You can travel whenever you want as you are your own boss, this happens only if you are a profitable trader. I dont recommend you to trade during travelling as your focus level hardly decrease What any advantage you see ?
BINANCE:BTCUSDEducation
by AnonimFXRO
Tips for Trading Currency Pairs ✅📉 Trading Currency Pairs I will try to explain in this post what you should look at when you are starting trading the Forex Market (Currency Market ) ✅ Choose Liquid Pairs Choose liquid pairs so you will have all your orders filled easily, dont trade pairs with low Liquidity as those can impact your trading results. EURUSD / GBPUSD / AUDUSD / NZDUSD etc and don't trage USDZAR / USDRON / USDBRL and other exotic pairs ✅ Analyze Fundamentals Fundamentals drive the markets especially in the Forex Market, take a look at the country's monetary policy are they hawkish or doveish on a certain currency, also take a look at inflation, nfp, unemploymenyt, gdp as those affect the market as well. ✅ Determening the Leverage My recommend leverage for newbies is something around 1-30 / 1-50 so you wound't over trade. ✅ Trading Strategy Always ensure you have a trading strategy when you will start to trade, look at those things such as market structure, key psychological levels, fiibonacci, moving averages to build a trading strategy. ✅ Choose your Trading Timeframe You have to know what trading style you are trading, is this scalping on the lower time frame or highertimeframe position trading. Ensure you have this noted in your trading plan
BINANCE:BTCUSDEducation
by AnonimFXRO
Plan Before Execute 📉📉📉✅ Plan Before Execute - It is very important when you stard trading financial markets to have a plan that you follow, no plan means you dont know what you are doing and where you are going. ✅ Have an entry strategy - it is very important to know your edge, your edgea means when you enter the trades based on what confluences. Couple confluences or entry strategies are trading with the market strucutre + key leveles + fibonaci retracement or moving averages to generate trading ideas ✅ Use Stop Losses to Protect Capital - The first goal of a trader should be capital protection not capital growth, always use the stop loss on each trade. Use Take Profit - You are making money when you are closing the position, its also very important when you are closing the trade. Always place your take profits in areas where price gives a reverse signal. For example you entered from a support area with a BUY you put your TAKE PROFIT near a resistance area where price could reverse What do you think ? Comment below..
BINANCE:BTCUSDEducation
by AnonimFXRO
Two Biggest Trading Mistakes 📉📉📉✅ Two Biggest Mistakes in Trading . ✅ No STOP LOSS Run the risk of incurring a much bigger loss than expected may lead to wishfull thinking and end up holding and hoping may cause panic selling when trade goes against your direction, no stop loss trading in the long term will kill your account in the short term you can survive. ✅Overtrading - Higher change of losing focus as there are too many traders placed wil be emotionally overwhelmed to perform optimally, placing oversized positions than one can handle financially What do you think ?
BINANCE:BTCUSDEducation
by AnonimFXRO
Bearish Engulfing Pattern 📉📉📉Bearish engulfing pattern is a technical chart pattern that signals lower prices to come. The pattern consists of an up (white or green) candlestick followed by a large down (black or red) candlestick that eclipses or "engulfs" the smaller up candle. ✅ A bearish engulfing pattern is a hint that a market may have formed a top. Any engulfing pattern below the daily time frame should be ignored. These patterns should only be traded at swing highs. The engulfing candle must break key support to be considered “tradable ✅ Bullish engulfing patterns are a confirmation that more buyers want to join the uptrend. On the other side, a bearish engulfing pattern gives confirmation for more sellers joining the short side ✅ An engulfing pattern is a strong reversal signal. There are bullish and bearish engulfing patterns and they are composed of two candlesticks – one bullish and one bearish. ... It is no
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Power of Consistency 📉📉📉📉 Consistency Power 🔰 Don't focus on short term results when trading, it's a marathon not a sprint. You can't become elite traders overnight 🔰 Don't care about short term results and single trade outcome, only look at the weekly,monthly results as they are not random as daily results,a single trade means nothing dont be anxious and change something in your system only if you have more than 100 trades journaled so you know what works and what doesn't 🔰 Don't try to hit home runs aka BIG RETURNS OVERNIGHT it's a gambler short term thinking and their account have zero durability overtime 🔰 Focus on risk management and improve your edge over the market on a daily basis both technical and mental/emotional LONG TERM over SHORT TERM ✅
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RSI Trading Indicator 📉📉📉🎯 RSI - Relative Strenght Index What Is the Relative Strength Index (RSI)? The relative strength index (RSI) is a momentum indicator used in technical analysis that measures the magnitude of recent price changes to evaluate overbought or oversold conditions in the price of a stock or other asset. The RSI is displayed as an oscillator (a line graph that moves between two extremes) and can have a reading from 0 to 100. Traditional interpretation and usage of the RSI are that values of 70 or above indicate that a security is becoming overbought or overvalued and may be primed for a trend reversal or corrective pullback in price. An RSI reading of 30 or below indicates an oversold or undervalued condition (kindly see the photos attached)
TVC:USOILEducation
by AnonimFXRO
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Survival Rules in TRADING 📉📉📉‼️ Survival rules in trading for newbies, if you respect those rules i can make a bet you wound't lose your account as the majority of traders are. ‼️ The key word there is IF YOU RESPECT ✅ 1. Always trade with a stop loss ✅ 2. Have a pre-determined risk on each trade no more then 1% ✅ 3. Don't move your stop loss if the price is not going in your favour ✅ 4. Don't add to losing positions, only viceversa. Add to your winning positions ✅ 5. You have to increase your risk only if you are in profit on your account, decrease your risk when you are losing and increase it when you are winning. Hope that was usefull for your trading plan.
TVC:USOILEducation
by AnonimFXRO
Liquidity Concept 📈Hi guys! I would like to briefly explain my strategy, I use liquidity to understand where should market go . 🏦 Liquidity is basically a zone in the market where a lot of stops are located both retail/ institutional, I will look to enter near that area but only after the manipulation on the buy-side or sell-side liquidity to all my trades with "Smart Money". as known as "Wall Street" You can separate the Liquidity Concepts in two areas. ✅ Buy Side Liquidity - area of the price where sellers put their stop loss, its located on old highs, equal highs (Resistance) above double tops, above key psychological numbers ✅ Sell Side Liquidity - area of the price where buyers put their stop losses, usually below old lows, below equal lows(support), below psychological key levels. ‼️ REMEMBER Dumb Money sell at high Smart Money SELL ABOVE THE HIGH Dumb Money buy at low Smart Money BUY BELOW THE LOW Using this concept as i explained you will have less stop losses because you will allign your trades with institutional orderflow.
BINANCE:BTCUSDEducation
by AnonimFXRO
W PatternsAs a rule, when I see a crooked W, I steer clear and watch it if it is a security I want. The impulse/long leg/is to the downside whereas a bullish crooked M pattern, the impulse leg is up. We are all different. Crooked Ws are not always bearish, but it just gets too complicated for this post so I will stop there. For the most part, a W is bearish. I have noted a W will pull to the middle, or the hump, or point in the middle of the W. I marked it with a green X. Does this always happen? NO. Can it go further than this point or not as far? YES. Just a guide for me, and we are all different. Does the same exact thing happen twice in the market on a regular basis? NO LOL Often a Double Bottom will have a W associated with it. I often wait for price to come back to this point and reassess if I am not already in the security when I see it. You can do fib levels to figure out which bearish harmonic pattern the W represents if you wish to hang on to the last leg up of that W, then sell and catch it again when it hits another entry level. Ws are usually bearish but if you know your patterns, it is possible to go long on the last leg up of the W. No recommendation Tomorrow is another day (o:
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Risk/Reward trade setups are more important than Win RateIf you told somebody new to trading that markets can only go in one of two directions, it would be natural for them to conclude that even a beginner could be right half the time. That’s not the reality because traders don’t make a binary up/down calls on their outright positions. What traders do is say, “I think it’s going to go up to point x (target) and in the process NOT hit point y (stop).” Markets do only go up and down, but the trades we place aren’t a binary call. Our target is “where we think the market will go” and our stop should be “I’m wrong if it hits this point.” It's not a binary decision, it is a decision on the direction and the amount of 'wiggle room' it needs on the way. Don’t Be Fooled by Trading Strategy Win Rate When novice traders come to the markets for the first time, they are bombarded with ads for magical trading systems offering extremely high win rates. It plays on the logical (but false) assumption that a higher win rate is always better. It ignores the cost of the higher win rate, what did we do to achieve it? For example, it's unlikely the S&P 500 Futures will ever hit 0.00, so you could go long S&P 500 over and over and have a 100%-win rate. In the process, you will no doubt sit in trades for extended periods with massive drawdowns. In the event of a market correction, you could quickly draw down $40-$50k per futures contract and sit in for years waiting for a recovery. A high win rate alone is not a measure of success. Should it be a goal? Not in absolute terms. Instead, a trader should chase a decent win rate relative to the break-even point of any specific opportunity. How Traders Think About Risk Reward Let's say you have an opportunity where you believe a price in the market is a key trading level. You think the market will rally higher from current prices 40 ticks. You enter the trade with a 10-tick stop. You risk 10 to make 40. Can you do this and be right every single time? Probably not but you could be right 50% of the time and make great money. This is where confusion creeps in. People associate a 50%-win rate with no edge, with a coin toss. In this example, our win rate is way above the break-even rate for this setup, and so 50% is excellent. It represents an edge. If you combine this with more active trade management, such as scaling into positions that go your way, you change the equation again. Your losers might be 2 lots but your winners 8 lots. This is of course what a lot of 'outright' proprietary day traders are doing — looking for an opportunity with a low break-even point, where they can beat the odds. They don’t care if the actual win rate is 40,50 or 60%. It doesn’t matter. Trading Strategy Win Rate and Run of Losing Trades One other important consideration is the ability to survive the inevitable run of losing trades. Let's say you use an artificially large stop to help achieve a 90%-win rate - an 8 tick stop and a 2-tick target. The moment your win rate dips below 80%, you will start to lose. Take 5 or 6 losers in a row, and you are looking at a drawn down account and the NEED to maintain a high win rate to stop the bleeding. Keep on down that road and the next thing you know they'll be calling you "the new Nick Leeson". Trader Takeaway The ability to exceed the break-even rate is where profits lie. Focusing on trading strategies with a low break-even rate will help you thrive and survive as a trader. BINANCE:BTCUSD 👍
BINANCE:BTCUSDEducation
by AdamsLibrary
A Story About Simplicity and Moving Average Envelopes CBOT:ZB1! First, a short story. I like simple stuff. Maybe it's just me (I don't think so) but the more complex my process becomes, the worse the trading results. In 1987, four years into my career, I used a combination of Wyckoff and Elliott to make a series of very profitable bond market calls for my institutional clients. I spent my days and nights obsessed with counts, counter counts, alternate counts, Wyckoff sequences, oscillator nuances…. In other words, all the shiny complex things were in play. Needless to say, I came out of the experience a legend…. in my own mind. In retrospect, I had loads of confidence but very limited real knowledge or experience. It's counter intuitive, but the success of 1987 was detrimental to my growth as a trader/analyst. After the great results/luck during the tumult of 1987, 1988 proved difficult. My Elliott count became muddied, I often misread the Wyckoff price volume relationships and while not disastrous, my results turned quite ordinary. As the results worsened I responded by adding ever more complexity to what was an already complex routine. To make a long story short, as complexity increased, results worsened. To suggest that I became frustrated would be an extreme understatement. I questioned my future as a technician/trader. I remember walking into my office one morning after a particularly bad week and deciding that things had to change. I decided to immediately begin simplifying my process. I retreated to basics. Happily for me, as I eliminated complexity I found better results. Over the next few years I continued to simplify and to refine my risk management approach. By simplifying and becoming less risk tolerant I became an effective trader/analyst. Simplicity is robust, it is typically fractal, and reduces difficult decisions to ordinary. Simplicity is also a process. Most only arrive there after a long journey. Moving average envelopes certainly fall into this "simple is simply better" approach. • Construction is simple and intuitive. • Construction is easily adapted for any market or time frame. ○ This is important because every market has a specific character. Some trend for long periods while others chop and mean revert with regularity. ○ Importantly, character changes over time. It had been four years since I last updated my bond moving averages, the changes were significant. ○ Part of this probably has to do with the level of Fed involvement. I don't think I had significantly updated my bond envelopes for nearly thirty years prior to this adjustment. ○ Part of this has to do with the level of interest rates. At lower levels of rates, prices are generally more volatile as durations (a measure of rate sensitivity) become longer. ○ Because the envelope construction is revisited periodically it remains current to changes in market state and condition. ○ Don't assume that envelope settings that work on 30 year futures will work on 10s or 5s. Differences in duration create large differences in volatility ○ Also, the settings that work well on futures won't translate to yields. Using percent change (envelope tops and bottoms are placed at percentages of the moving averages) on a percentage is just wrong. I see supposedly financially literate people do this all the time… what the hell? Building the Envelopes: • The average and the width of the band is an eyeball approximation. Nothing fancy. • Choose one of the available moving average envelope studies available. I used one created by H-potter. • Set average 1 up so that the upper and lower bands follow the price action closely. • Set average 2 up so that the upper and lower bands generally tag the next higher perspective swing points. • Set the third average up so that the upper and lower bands tag the highs and lows of the next more volatile set of swings. • I often add a fourth set of bands that tag the next higher perspective highs and lows. • Don't get carried away. Keep it simple and intuitive. • I am intentionally not providing my settings. I don't think they are important but I think its important for you to go through the process for the particular market and time frame you are working in. How I use the Envelopes: • Convergence of the upper or lower bands suggest that the market has become overbought or oversold. • Odds of correction, even if laterally, expand significantly when the band extremes converge. • You would never buy or sell based upon the convergence. But you might reduce a long/short position or begin monitoring for reversal behaviors as the bands come together. • I generally use the warning of an extended trend given by the bands to begin closely monitoring price action, searching for tradable setups with good risk reward characteristics. Conclusion: Simplicity can provide a real edge while complexity often becomes a headwind to success. This simple moving average envelope system can be modified for nearly any market or time frame and is adaptive over time. Good Trading: Stewart Taylor, CMT Chartered Market Technician Shared content and posted charts are intended to be used for informational and educational purposes only. The CMT Association does not offer, and this information shall not be understood or construed as, financial advice or investment recommendations. The information provided is not a substitute for advice from an investment professional. The CMT Association does not accept liability for any financial loss or damage our audience may incur.
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🔥 Types of Analysis 📉 In trading and investing there are 2 t🔥 Types of Analysis 📉 In trading and investing there are 2 types of analysis a trader can make to have an edge and generate trading ideas. 📉 There is no such thing as technical analysis is better than fundamental or viceversa, personally i use fundamental analysis to understand what to buy or what to sell on a mid-long term perspective and technical analysis basically shows me when to enter the trade at a better price level. ‼️ Fundamental Analysis • Using of the financial statements, news and events to generate trading ideas • Mid-Long term approach • Usually investors/traders use this for investing or position trading that could last for couple months ‼️ Technical Analysis • Use chart, volume and price action • Short-mid term approach • Usually people use this for intra-day or intra-week moves Which one you like more ?
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