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Closing in on a further Cable Short. Caught 100 Pips Signal was sent on Oct 4 for Cable short. 100+ pips caught, the current situation facing this pair is that cable is going for a restest of 1.3 price level. It would be best now to exit your short position, if you have not already, and wait for the double top to form at 1.3. With the volatility seen led by fundamentals surrounding last week's Brexit negotiations and Donald Trump's hospitalization creating a false crossover of the ema and sma indicators, it is clear to see that if you are bearish inclined on this pair this will be the optimal play: Wait. Wait for the pair to form a double top. Wait for cable to come back down to last months support at the 1.28 price level and then enter the short. There is a chance that cable could even lean towards the 1.35 higher resistance, but with the price action patterns forming it is more than 50% unlikely that a long will occur- especially as hedge funds now are seeking weakness in the pound to enter short positions based off the breakdown of the Brexit negotiations and the political instability surrounding this key fundamental. No, going into the last few months of this very unique year (to say the least) I believe 1.3 will act as a major resistance level for the pound, of course it is already a major price point for this pair. But of course the dollar strength hinges on the outcome of a presidential election which nobody can predict its effects on the financial markets... Best wishes,
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by Hardy_FX
PROFESSIONAL TRADING STRATEGIES - One Good Trade at a TimeThe complete guide to professional trading strategies will reveal how to trade against the crowd and become a professional trader. The most efficient professional trading techniques used by hedge fund traders, bank traders, and prop traders will be outlined through this guide. Once you read them, you’ll have an AHA moment. Trading is more than just slapping on a few keyboards or using your favorite support and resistance indicator. Professional traders do more than just that as they well-know this business requires time, effort, and the right professional trading tools to succeed. There are no shortcuts if you want to trade like a professional trader. The good news is that these professional trading techniques can be learned. You don’t need to have a special talent to become a professional trader, but you need to have the right mindset and an actually proven edge. So, if you want to know how to trade like a professional trader, we’re going to coach you in the right direction. Let’s get started! Table of Contents 1 Becoming a Professional Trader 2 How To Trade Like a Professional Trader? 3 Tools That Professional Traders Use 4 Professional Trading Strategies 4.1 The 80 – 20 Trading Strategy 4.2 The Holy Grail Trading Strategy 4.3 Three Little Indians Trading Strategy 5 Final Words – Professional Trading Techniques 1 - Becoming a Professional Trader. Professional traders aren’t born, they are made! And, here is my proof… Legendary trader Richard Dennis, who turned $1,600 into a $200 million fortune has successfully taught a group of traders known as The Turtles. With the Turtle experiment, Richard Dennis proved that anyone can learn how to be a professional trader. Let me tell you a secret… Most hedge fund managers, bank traders, and institutional traders learned to trade profitably from another successful trader. There are a few exceptions that are self-taught professional traders, but these only confirm the rule. Learning to trade like a professional trader doesn’t mean working for a financial institution or trading large amounts of money. A professional trader is someone who over a period of time, has proven he or she can beat the market on a consistent basis. Secondly, you need the winning mindset of a professional trader. Now… If, you might be wondering… Here are a few characteristics of the mindset of a winning trader: Pro traders are comfortable taking calculated risks. Pro traders are self-disciplined traders. Pro traders know how to leave their own personal opinions at the door. Pro traders don’t take losing trades personally. We can definitely add more things into the above list, but most often these are the things amateur traders can’t overcome. Moving on… Let’s see some of the professional trading techniques in action. 2 - How To Trade Like a Professional Trader? According to Brett Steenbarger, Ph .D. Author of The Psychology of Trading and a performance coach every elite trader can be characterized through 6 qualities. You can learn how professional traders trade by emulating these traits: Ability to sustain focus (pro traders are either fast thinkers or deep thinkers). Originality and creativity (while pro traders may use some well-known trading strategies, there is a uniqueness to how they execute that strategy). All pro traders have learned from a mentor or other professional traders. Emotional resilience (treating losses as a learning opportunity). Attention to the details. Always working to become better at this game. So, professional traders derive their edge from all of the above-highlighted points. However, we have kept the best professional trading techniques for last. First, the world’s most talented traders are good at exploiting their edge. What do we mean by this? Simply put it, they are able to recognize what are their strengths and weakness are and then capitalize on those strengths. In other words, a pro trader is doing more of what works and less of what doesn’t work. Let me explain… For this, we’re going to assume that pro trader A from hedge fund ABC has identified that most of his profits come from scalping the stock opening bell. On the other hand, he also noticed that he is doing a terrible job trading breakouts. Now, a professional trader will maximize his strengths by trading bigger sizes on the opening bell. And, at the same time, he will avoid trading breakouts. Other professional trading techniques used by many pro traders are to take one good trade at a time. While all the tools that the professional trader uses are equally important if we were to pick just one rule, this would be: One good trade at a time followed by another one good trade. In his book “One Good Trade – Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading,” Mike Bellafiore explains the characteristics of a good trade. One good trade is a trade that strictly follows your setups and your plan. Let me explain… If you followed your plan, whether the trade yields you a profit or a loss, then that’s one good trade. In other words, the inner workings of a good trade follow the trading rules you have set in place. Of course, if you don’t have an edge, you can follow your trading rule as much as you want; they will produce the same type of results. So, the first thing you need is a profitable trade setup that you know it works. Moving on… We’re going to share some of the tools that professional traders use. Hint: It’s not what you think. 3 - Tools That Professional Traders Use. The reality is that professional traders don’t gain their edge from special tools or special technical indicators. Most of the professional traders use the same trading tools that are available to retail traders as well. So, if there are no professional trading indicators how come a professional trader can make money using the same trading tools as you do, but you still can’t seem to find any type of success? Well, it all comes down to how you use professional trading tools. A professional trader can take the Relative Strength Index ( RSI ) indicator and use it in a very unique way. This type of unconventional thinking is another trait of a professional trader. Check out some professional trading techniques that have an unorthodox approach: Best Average True Range Forex – An Unorthodox Approach How to Trade The London Breakout Strategy With One Trick Breakout Trading Strategy Used by Professional Traders Hedge Fund Strategies and Tools Used on Wall Street Secondly, you’re probably using indicators the wrong way. The problem with indicators is not that they don’t work, but with the fact that you use them in the wrong way. Let me explain… We’re going to uncover the most common mistakes you’re doing when using technical indicators: Using indicators in the wrong context. Using indicators with the wrong settings (i.e. Trading short-term time frames with long-term settings). Moving on… We’re going to share with you some professional trading strategies used by top market wizards. Professional Trading Strategies Note* Some of the professional trading strategies outlined through this section can be found in the book “Street Smart” by Linda Bradford Raschke and Laurence Connors. Moving forward. We’re going to share with you some professional trading strategies used by top market wizards. We’re going to share 3 professional trading strategies that work and give you some hints to pick the one that fits you. Here is the list of what we’re going to write: 80-20 strategy for day trading like a pro, The Holy Grail trading strategy (suitable for any market and TF). Three Little Indians trading strategy (catching trend reversals like a pro). My next posts will be these strategies.
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by Tradingstrategyguides
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PROFESSIONAL TRADING STRATEGIES - One Good Trade at a TimeThe complete guide to professional trading strategies will reveal how to trade against the crowd and become a professional trader. The most efficient professional trading techniques used by hedge fund traders, bank traders, and prop traders will be outlined through this guide. Once you read them, you’ll have an AHA moment. Trading is more than just slapping on a few keyboards or using your favorite support and resistance indicator. Professional traders do more than just that as they well-know this business requires time, effort, and the right professional trading tools to succeed. There are no shortcuts if you want to trade like a professional trader. The good news is that these professional trading techniques can be learned. You don’t need to have a special talent to become a professional trader, but you need to have the right mindset and an actually proven edge. So, if you want to know how to trade like a professional trader, we’re going to coach you in the right direction. Let’s get started! Table of Contents 1 Becoming a Professional Trader 2 How To Trade Like a Professional Trader? 3 Tools That Professional Traders Use 4 Professional Trading Strategies 4.1 The 80 – 20 Trading Strategy 4.2 The Holy Grail Trading Strategy 4.3 Three Little Indians Trading Strategy 5 Final Words – Professional Trading Techniques 1 - Becoming a Professional Trader. Professional traders aren’t born, they are made! And, here is my proof… Legendary trader Richard Dennis, who turned $1,600 into a $200 million fortune has successfully taught a group of traders known as The Turtles. With the Turtle experiment, Richard Dennis proved that anyone can learn how to be a professional trader. Let me tell you a secret… Most hedge fund managers, bank traders, and institutional traders learned to trade profitably from another successful trader. There are a few exceptions that are self-taught professional traders, but these only confirm the rule. Learning to trade like a professional trader doesn’t mean working for a financial institution or trading large amounts of money. A professional trader is someone who over a period of time, has proven he or she can beat the market on a consistent basis. Secondly, you need the winning mindset of a professional trader. Now… If, you might be wondering… How to think and trade like a pro trader? You may want to check out this trading mindset PDF. Here are a few characteristics of the mindset of a winning trader: Pro traders are comfortable taking calculated risks. Pro traders are self-disciplined traders. Pro traders know how to leave their own personal opinions at the door. Pro traders don’t take losing trades personally. We can definitely add more things into the above list, but most often these are the things amateur traders can’t overcome. Moving on… Let’s see some of the professional trading techniques in action. 2 - How To Trade Like a Professional Trader? According to Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. author of The Psychology of Trading and a performance coach every elite trader can be characterized through 6 qualities. You can learn how professional traders trade by emulating these traits: Ability to sustain focus (pro traders are either fast thinkers or deep thinkers). Originality and creativity (while pro traders may use some well-known trading strategies, there is a uniqueness to how they execute that strategy). All pro traders have learned from a mentor or other professional traders. Emotional resilience (treating losses as a learning opportunity). Attention to the details. Always working to become better at this game. So, professional traders derive their edge from all of the above-highlighted points. However, we have kept the best professional trading techniques for last. First, the world’s most talented traders are good at exploiting their edge. What do we mean by this? Simply put it, they are able to recognize what are their strengths and weakness are and then capitalize on those strengths. In other words, a pro trader is doing more of what works and less of what doesn’t work. Let me explain… For this, we’re going to assume that pro trader A from hedge fund ABC has identified that most of his profits come from scalping the stock opening bell. On the other hand, he also noticed that he is doing a terrible job trading breakouts. Now, a professional trader will maximize his strengths by trading bigger sizes on the opening bell. And, at the same time, he will avoid trading breakouts. Other professional trading techniques used by many pro traders are to take one good trade at a time. While all the tools that the professional trader uses are equally important if we were to pick just one rule, this would be: One good trade at a time followed by another one good trade. In his book “One Good Trade – Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading,” Mike Bellafiore explains the characteristics of a good trade. One good trade is a trade that strictly follows your setups and your plan. Let me explain… If you followed your plan, whether the trade yields you a profit or a loss, then that’s one good trade. In other words, the inner workings of a good trade follow the trading rules you have set in place. Of course, if you don’t have an edge, you can follow your trading rule as much as you want; they will produce the same type of results. So, the first thing you need is a profitable trade setup that you know it works. Moving on… We’re going to share some of the tools that professional traders use. Hint: It’s not what you think. 3 - Tools That Professional Traders Use. The reality is that professional traders don’t gain their edge from special tools or special technical indicators. Most of the professional traders use the same trading tools that are available to retail traders as well. So, if there are no professional trading indicators how come a professional trader can make money using the same trading tools as you do, but you still can’t seem to find any type of success? Well, it all comes down to how you use professional trading tools. A professional trader can take the Relative Strength Index (RSI) indicator and use it in a very unique way. This type of unconventional thinking is another trait of a professional trader. Check out some professional trading techniques that have an unorthodox approach: Best Average True Range Forex – An Unorthodox Approach How to Trade The London Breakout Strategy With One Trick Breakout Trading Strategy Used by Professional Traders Hedge Fund Strategies and Tools Used on Wall Street Secondly, you’re probably using indicators the wrong way. The problem with indicators is not that they don’t work, but with the fact that you use them in the wrong way. Let me explain… We’re going to uncover the most common mistakes you’re doing when using technical indicators: Using indicators in the wrong context. Using indicators with the wrong settings (i.e. Trading short-term time frames with long-term settings). Moving on… We’re going to share with you some professional trading strategies used by top market wizards. Professional Trading Strategies Note* Some of the professional trading strategies outlined through this section can be found in the book “Street Smart” by Linda Bradford Raschke and Laurence Connors. Moving forward. We’re going to share with you some professional trading strategies used by top market wizards. We’re going to share 3 professional trading strategies that work and give you some hints to pick the one that fits you. Here is the list of what we’re going to write: 80-20 strategy for day trading like a pro, The Holy Grail trading strategy (suitable for any market and TF). Three Little Indians trading strategy (catching trend reversals like a pro). My next posts will be these strategies.
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by Tradingstrategyguides
Could the Gold Heist Continue? As we seen since the pandemic stocks have struggled to world lock down. So investors go for the safe heaven. One of them being Gold. So its been going to the moon. The economy has slowly been recovering, however 1000's still losing their jobs. I think that gold rally will be over in the short term. But stock will struggle to recover, and with a chance of a 2nd wave could mean gold shooting up again. I will be looking for a little short then buying for the major key level on the retest. Cheers for following x
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by FreeForexSignals
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Quick Look At The State Of BitcoinBitcoin has performed exceptionally well so far this year (and will continue to do so in the long run). You can see Bitcoin is up almost 40.5% for the year. From here we have two more key levels to break before we test the S2F model's price prediction. (Stock to flow) Paul Tudor Jones announced he was bullish on Bitcoin. The halving date is May 12, 2020. I expect a pull back due to increased selling pressure as unprofitable miners sell their reserves (either to stay afloat, meet their contractual obligations, or to invest in capital expenditures to reach profitablility again, i.e purchase next generation mining eqiupment, ect.). After the miner capitulation, I believe we will test the two key resistance levels before finally breaking above around Q4 2020 or Q1 2021. Keep your hands strong!
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by AnotherAnalyst
LONG MOSYSeems like following Hedge Funds is a good strategy to make a quick return. I was skeptical, but with the pump of HSDT, I am somewhat convinced. Due to the regulatory requirements of having to disclose a position greater than 5% within 10 days of the event, tracking HF ownership stakes in low cap stocks is fairly easy. Couple that with proven past history demonstrating "pump and dump" in certain HF's, these type of trades seems reasonable. And when all this ties in with near all time lows and seemingly real company with a good vision, I feel better betting a few dollars. I'm willing to wager that some HF know more than the general public. With multiple hedge funds having material ownership stakes in this company, I think it's a safe bet.
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by choiinho10
1
Trading key-levels and how to HEDGE properly (+486 pips)Is it true that the Forex Market is manipulated and controlled by a handful of banks and market makers? If so, how can we identify when they manipulate the forex markets and is it something that requires access to sophisticated tools and secret contacts? Well, let’s begin by getting a few facts straight. Firstly it is true that the forex markets are manipulated and while you don’t need any sophisticated tools or secret contacts to understand how this happens, identifying when it happens is not easy for the majority of retails traders. What most traders fail to appreciate is what the financial markets truly are and how to trade forex properly. The Forex markets is a place where buyers and sellers come together facilitated by brokers and market makers who look to profit by making a commission for each transaction. Just like any other market, buyers and sellers can only come together if there is a middleman facilitating the transaction. This middleman in the case of Forex is the market maker, and their job is simply to match buy and sell orders for the best price possible and earn the most commission that they can on each transaction. How forex works – Buyer & Seller Counterparties Every trade that is executed in the forex markets has to have a buyer and seller and when this takes place then we have a trade. This normally happens in a fraction of a second electronically but in essence, each time you enter a buy trade you are being matched with someone who is happy to enter a sell position and take the opposite side of your trade. If this doesn’t happen then there wouldn’t be a trade. Why is this so important? Because it highlights the problems that large banks have which small traders don’t. Any retail trader is able to place whatever position size they wish into the market without ever fearing slippage or bad fill. Granted slippage may take place during high impact news items such as central bank announcements but on the whole, most of the executed trades are done instantaneously. Now if you’re a retail trader trading 1 standard Lot then you won’t have any problems with being filled at the price you want. Imagine you’re trading 100 Lots or 500 Lots or 1000 lots, these are larger positions to put into the market at any one time and it’s much more difficult to find someone to take the other side of the trade at the exact price and the exact time that you want and therefore might not be filled at a great price. Well, what could you do in such a situation? You have one of three options: Option 1: You could either bite the bullet and get executed at whatever price you are able to get, the only problem here is that you won’t be getting the best price possible for your trade which eats into your profits. Option 2: You could wait for the price to get to the price level you want so that you get the best execution possible and buy or sell at a much more favorable price – this is great but what if the price doesn’t get to the level you want for you to execute your trade? You will either be forced to walk away without making a trade or be forced to take whatever price you can get if doing the trade is absolutely essential Option 3: You force the price to get to the level at which you want to transact by cleverly manipulating other smaller traders to push the market in the direction you want it to go. Once you get the price to the level you want then you can carry out your transaction. How can you do this? By taking massive positions and exercising your muscle. This is similar to when large companies and conglomerates bully smaller businesses out of the market through aggressive competition. Best Options… Which option do market makers and those with large orders take? Option 3. This is how manipulation works in simplicity. The big players who have the money to move the market in the direction they want, do so on a regular basis. What’s more, they have no option but to do this because unless they can manipulate the market then they won’t be able to execute their large orders. Think about it – what causes the price to move up? An imbalance of buy and sell orders such that there are more buy orders than sell orders which means there is more demand for that particular currency pair than there is supply. Conversely, what causes the price to fall – a larger build up of sell orders than buy orders such that supply outstrips demand thereby resulting in price falling. Now if a market maker comes into the market with a massive order to buy a currency, what will happen to the price? It will start to rise. This means that the market maker is bidding the price higher and so forcing himself to keep buying at higher and higher prices until their order is filled. This hardly sounds attractive or even smart for that matter as the market maker is in the business of maximizing their profits. So what is the alternative? The only alternative is to buy or sell in a hidden way without alerting all the other traders as to what is really happening. How does this take place? By buying into selling pressure or selling into buying pressure. In other words, what a market maker will do is do the opposite of what they intend to do in order to push the price to their desired level. What is a market maker? It is a financial intermediary set up with the sole purpose of matching buyers and sellers together to make a commission in the process. So let’s say a large European conglomerate wants to buy out a US company for $10 Billion. It can’t just go to a money exchange bureau or the bank to change that amount of money. Most likely it will go to a currency broker or a large bank who will complete the transaction by going into the money markets via their brokerage arm. Once the market maker receives the order for the transaction, their job is to convert the conglomerate’s money from Euro’s into USD. They will, therefore, be trading the EUR/USD pair and selling Euro’s and buying USD. Since this transaction of selling Euros and buying USD happens instantaneously, what the market maker needs to do is get the highest exchange rate they can for Euros to USD. The way they do this is very important as it affects the amount of commission they stand to make. In this example, it’s in the market maker’s interest to achieve the highest interest rate they can so they do this by driving the exchange rate higher first and then starting to sell the euros against this higher price. They continue to sell just as everyone else is fooled into thinking that price is going to continue higher until eventually they sell all the euros and convert into USD and complete the transaction. What happens now is that since the selling pressure has become stronger than the buying pressure, price starts to fall rapidly and everyone is left scrambling to get out of the trade once they find out that they are wrong. The reason people are left scrambling is that as a result of giving a false signal of the market starting to move up, the market maker manages to entice other traders to start buying heavily. Once the other traders find out that they were wrong in their assessment of market direction, then the main focus becomes to get out of their positions quickly. This is what we call the trap and it happens on a weekly basis in the Forex market.
by TayFx
2
BTC's moment of truthHi guys! Please like the post and follow me if you find my post useful! Much appreciated Halving is just a few weeks away. The whole narrative about halving being BTC's watershed, a major turning point that would propel the next BTC bull run, has investors and traders anxiously waiting for the day of reckoning to arrive. Will it arrive on time or will it arrive late? Will it even arrive at all? Can the current consolidation and sideway movement be interpreted as the slow build-up toward the explosive price movement? Derivative market has been quiet and sending out mixed signals, with big three (Bitmex, Okex and Binance) all seeing increase in OI, but decline in volume. There are some good news on the institutional side. According to glassnode, the number of Bitcoin whales with at least 1,000 BTC to their name is now higher than at any point in the past two years. Both Grayscale Bitcoin trust and Grayscale Ethereum trust experienced record quarterly inflows of $388.9 million and $110.0 million, respectively, according to the most recent Grayscale report. In addition, 88% of investment in Q1 came from institutional investors, dominated by hedge funds, further signaling the increased institutional demand. Perhaps, coincidentally, last BTC bull run that started in Nov. 2015 was also initiated by the same low volatility market condition that BTC is experiencing now. Lastly, one can simply never overlook the power of the recent tether issuance. To me, the best long opportunity is 5.8k to 6.5k if the price gets there. This will be the first economic downturn in Bitcoin's history and how Bitcoin handles it will have the profound impact on the investor's perception of its scarce digital gold status. Some may say that it will forever just be the speculative asset and some may even argue that it will go to zero and that its whole 11 years of existence is just one gigantic bubble. Whatever the case may be, it will not be a quiet affair.
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by Libratus
1
Gold LONG! Hedge Fund probably goes to buy now!I belive gold will have a push upward soon! As you can see by market structure gold have broken it's 3 day flag as predicted and moved to test support but bounced off and broke the channel! I would now like to see a test of the channel and price to bounce more up as i belive hedge fund managers are scaling into gold positions now after posibly selling to compensate for prior losses in this down market! However i'm not a financial advisor and if you want to follow this signal please do so at your own risk! Hope
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by SondreNordvoll