GBPAUD: 4hr TCT opportunity with a Complex Pullback Looking at a potential trend continuation opportunity here on the GBPAUD as the market puts in a complex pullback into previous structure resistance. As we talked about in last night's video, complex pullbacks offer safer entries into TCT opportunities on both the psychological and risk/reward side of things.
As mentioned in last night's video there are different areas you can look fat for target taking depending on your level of aggression as a trader, but the risk/reward is so good that you should be able to maintain your minimums no matter what you're shooting for.
We'll go over this once again in more detail in the Live Room this morning guys.
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USDCAD 1 Hour Bull Bat Pattern (Think we can go to $1.40)USDCAD has been a pair that I've had my sights on for a while now. After clearing our previous level of resistance I see nothing in the way of $1.40. My optimal reversal zone starts a little bit lower around the 1.3420 level but any chance I have to get long, i'm going to take and will be certainly keeping a portion of my position on for the bigger potential move similar to what we did this summer.
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NZDUSD: Potential Bullish Cypher Pattern (BE CAREFUL)Potential bullish Cypher pattern working from C to D on the NZDUSD 4 hour chart. If you look left you'll see that the Cypher completion also comes in an a decent level of previous structure resistance turned support.
One BIG thing to pay attention to as the week goes on is the RBNZ Monetary Policy Statement that comes out on Wednesday at 3pm NY time. Fundamentals are by far the weakest area of my trading most because I don't use them) but there's about a 50/50 chance that a rat cut will occur.
While I'm on the topic of patterns I addressed subject of people telling you that "patterns don't work" in this mornings My Morning Rant Video www.youtube.com While you're over there let me know what you think about my previous video titled "What It Takes to be Successful In Trading"
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AUDCAD: Potential 26-18 Trade We started watching this towards the end of yesterday's Live Room session and now we're at the point where we can start preparing ourselves on IF, WHEN & HOW to get involved in this potential bearish 26-18 Trade.
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Aside from that I just got long $EURUSD as well this morning, but the chart would literally be a black chart, which isn't as entertaining as this one.
Also no "Morning Rant" video this morning guys but I will be returning with my usual Thursday Weekend Review video later. See you there!
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GBPUSD: A TCT Short Opportunity Using Structure & RSIA lot on my radar today guys, but this is the only only non-advanced pattern opportunity that I'm watching. I'm looking for a chance to get short on the GBPUSD as price action comes back to retest previous structure support. We also have some hidden divergence which was created during the pullback which we can also use when building our case for entries.
Also thanks for all of the feedback on yesterday's question about when i should do my daily periscope video. The majority of the traders said before my live trading room begins, so I'm going to give it a try and see how it goes. If you're not on periscope don't worry, i record them and share them on my youtube page as well.
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GBPJPY 1 Hour: Bear Gartley & Bat PatternsLooks like I'm heavy on the Yen today as I'm currently short both the GBPJPY and the USDJPY with sell limits resting on the EURJPY as well.
On this particular chart we have both a bearish Gartley and Bat pattern depending on which impulse leg to decided to use as your "X"
It's good to be back in the markets after taking a week off for Turkey. Hopefully we can grab a little more coin before the year ends before we toast and start over from "0" in 2016.
Here's a link to a new daily video that I'm experimenting with. Let me know if you would like me to do this pre or post trading day by leaving a comment underneath the video.
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GBPUSD: Two Different Patterns, One Same Level of SupportContinuing on last nights GBPUSD discussion we now have both a potential bullish Cypher and bullish gartley pattern setting up at our previous level of resistance turned support.
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NZDUSD 1 Hour: Potential Short w/a Few Different Entry OptionsDespite an inverse reaction to yesterday's FOMC minutes, I'm still looking to be bearish the USD as we anticipate a rate hike in December. Being a technical trader, my fundamental views won't affect what opportunities I take, but it can beneficial when they both line up on the same side (for those of you who remember the USDCAD trades over the summer).
Anyways, I'm looking for a short opportunity here on the Kiwi (which is also one of the weaker currencies) as we look to retest previous structure resistance for the 3rd time. Yup, 3rd time which means our double top has already occurred and we can now look for a......26-18 for a potential entry.
A little hard to see on the hourly, but the view get's a lot clearer down on the 15 minute chart for you day traders. There's also a bearish Cypher pattern hidden in there for you advanced pattern only traders, or for those looking for an aggressive entry into the 2618.
We'll look at this more in the live room today and remember gang, it's THURSDAY! So that means my Weekend Review video will be out. Make sure you head over to youtube and subscribe as I'll be doing a training lesson on the 4 Stages of trading and the evolution that a trader goes through. Just type "Akil Stokes" in and it'll take you where you need to go.
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GBPUSD: Candlesticks Tell A Story...or I'm Just CrazyMY APOLOGIES AS IT LOOKS LIKE I ERASED THE DRAWINGS THAT I HAD ON THE CHART MY ACCIDENT
I went through the pairs in my trading portfolio this morning, along with a dozen or so more that are not and this was the only trading opportunity that I was able to find. This was an aggressive structure short based purely off on the candlestick formation with very aggressive stops and very conservative targets.
Whenever the markets are slow, we tend to have some good conversations in my Live Trading Room and yesterday we discussed the evolution of a trader from having a lack of discipline with very lose rules to being extremely disciplined with very strict rules to being extremely disciplined with very strict principles and looser rules. Hmm sounds like a good topic for tomorrow's video LET ME KNOW IF YOU'D BE INTERESTED BY LEAVING A COMMENT BELOW.
Syndicate members as mentioned on the Trade Floor I'll shoot you a video explaining this trade a little later in more detail but the point is the more reps you get in the market and the more experience you earn throughout your journey, the more you start to noticed the hidden clues that the market will leave you.
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EURUSD: Fibonacci Inversion Trade at Previous StructureNo doubt that Jason Stapleton will be showing this to you guys in our morning Warroom meeting, but we're looking at a potential Fibonacci inversion trade setup here on the EURUSD. We also have a 38.2 fibonacci retracement meeting at that same level and if you look left...well you know what we always say. "Look Left, Structure Leaves Clues"
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XAUUSD: Bearish Cypher at Structure. A Multi-Timeframe LookPotential Bearish Cypher pattern on Gold Hourly completing at $1,102,47. The lower chart takes a look at the higher timeframe (240min) where previous structure support turned resistance rests along the same area as the potential Cypher pattern. No Live Room on Monday's but usually this would be the type of situation where we zoom down to the lower timeframes and see if there is any opportunity to catch the move before the move. Especially with this current price action.
No youtube video last week, but as always I did write a brief article recapping my trading week.
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EURUSD: Potential Short Combining Structure, Fibs & HarmonicsI was looking for a similar setup to this earlier in the week but never got the retracement I desired. Now after consolidating and holding at the 1.0700 level, I may be given another opportunity to hop on this downward move.
Because I'm not a trend following trader, I need to be very specific with my entries to ensure that I get a good risk reward. So the further we push up into previous structure, the better the opportunity.
If you'd like to know more about my story and the steps I took to turn trading from a hobby to a career, check out the video I recorded of me speaking at yesterday's Leadership Workshop at Millersville University
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GBPUSD 1 Hour: Hidden Divergence ExampleWe don't talk about this too much in outside of the 12WT because many traders have a hard enough time wrapping their heads around regular divergence, but here's a crystal clear example of the "Hidden Divergence" that some of you have heard me mention before.
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EURJPY: Back to Back Bat Patterns & A Video on Money Management Consolidation often breeds harmonic patterns & that's exactly what we're seeing here on the EURJPY hourly chart. Now we're still holding a partial position on yesterday's bullish bat pattern and if price action were to push up to our second targets that would give us the opportunity to put in an SAR and get involved in the bearish one that looks to be forming as well.
Also I've been getting a lot of questions about money management lately. If you haven't seen this video already make sure you check it out as it should give you a better idea of the money management strategy that I use in my trading.
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GBPJPY 1 Hour: Potential CTS Shortthis was a potential opportunity that I had on my radar yesterday, unfortunately the markets decided to do absolutely nothing but go sideways creating a channel. If we breakout of this channel to the upside I'll be looking at a third harmonic move setting up a potential selling opportunity as we come into previous structure resistance starting at the 187.40's level.
Syndicate members, i just emailed out a video going over this one in a little more detail.
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EURUSD: Potential Trend Continuation Trade (TCT) I typically do the bulk of my weekly analysis on Monday after the New York close, but because last week was spent focusing on the educational side of the business, I wanted to get an early start and get back in tune with the markets.
Looking at a potential trend continuation trade here on the EURUSD. Obviously we have a good amount of time before (if) we get to our Killzone, but as we mentioned during last weeks event. When possible we want to go through our I.P.D.E. process as soon as possible and try to remain a step ahead of the markets (prediction wise).
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NZDUSD: Bullish Gartley with TCT Outlook This NZDUSD trade is something that I've been keeping tabs on for the past few weeks. In fact by this point I think my Live Trading Room & Sydnicate members are probably sick of me mentioning it. But during yesterday's FOMC events price action finally pushed down into the area that I was willing to buy at. Although i didn't get filled on the initial push (due to FOMC trading rules) I did get filled over the London session & currently have a long position.
On the 4 hour chart this is simple an advanced pattern trade, but if you were to take a look out on the higher timeframes you'll see that this is also a trend continuation play as well with a lot of legroom to the bullish side.
I just finished recording my Weekend Review video & this week's topic was "Building A Rules Based Trading Strategy" (Link below). The video reminded me of this trade because although I use a simple example of a TCT trading strategy in the video, advanced patterns can also be used as reasons for entries as well.
I'm a big fan of combining the two, however you have to be very care of when to shoot for extended targets & when not to or else you may end up sabotaging your system by accident. let me know what you think of the video guys!
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EURUSD: My FED Day OutlookAs many of you know today is FED day as the FOMC has its Interest rate Decision & Statement coming out today at 2pm (New York). The expectation is that there will be no changes made at this particular time so most of the “volatility” and “reaction” will be based off of the tone of the statement as trader hunt for any clues of when the rate hike may occur.
This is one of those fundamental events that I stay away from as we can potentially see some massive moves and larger spreads during those moves. Ever been stopped out of a position without your stops actually being hit? Yup!
Although I won’t be trading during it, I still like to perform my technical analysis and see if I can predict where price action may shoot too after all of the madness is said and done. After all I firmly believe that the technicals tell you where the market will go and the fundamentals just help push it there faster.
To the bearish side I have a potential Gartley pattern on the daily along with a level of previous structure support which could prove to be a good holding area. While to the bullish side I’m still eying up the intermediate level of resistance that we were looking at in yesterday’s trading session. (Here’s the video in case you missed it www.youtube.com
There’s more resistance to the upside but its way too far to be attacked today as it’s over 400pips away….but hey you never know, that’s why I don’t try and predict these things.
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EURUSD: BREAKING DOWN A KILLZONE on the Euro (VIDEO)Here's a video of the breakdown we performed on the EURUSD in this morning's Live Trading Room www.youtube.com
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EURJPY: Bullish Bat Pattern With Better EntryWanted to share with you one of the trades I got involved in after yesterday’s ECB reaction. It’s a bullish bat pattern on the EURJPY which is now offering a slightly better entry. Just my opinion of course but I think the best place for stops is beneath the 1.3300 even handled psychological number. Yes it opens you up to a little more risk, but as we saw with last weeks $EURUSD trade (Which smashed through second targets yesterday) sometimes having a little extra protection makes it worth it. Your call of course follow your rules
Also if you missed it yesterday check out my latest Trading Video over at youtube. www.youtube.com The reaction to this week’s video has been MASSIVE as I go on a great rant about the 3 Steps to changing your trading future as well as a breakdown of a simple pattern trade on the GBPUSD.
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Have a good weekend traders and Syndicate members I’m going to try and give you guys a quick video this morning before heading out of town.
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USD/TRY D1 Perspective I had a request from a friend to analyze USD/TRY:
On daily perspective I saw a nice classical Elliot Wave with double zigzag till point E correction waves.
Before starting the analyze I want you to eliminate the harmonic pattern that I draw there; First we start with trends and the potential of opening trade. PA (Price Action) creates trend and trends give us opportunity to open a position trade by its steep. On S2 line we had 2 potential of Buy and why we do not Sell on R1.2 is because of its upward steep and we will never Sell on upward trend and never do amateurish scalping and we do not close our deal until either S2 breaks or we see a PA TP Signal which we had it on the top and Also a good Sell Signal at the same time.
Remember as a good trader how we open Sell Position is not when ever we see double top just sell on it. Even though we have seen a bearish PA on the top we still should wait ti S 1.1 trend to break and then we can open Sell position with SL of above R 1 + Spread. Since price follows our expectation we will sell any time if price touches the R1.1 with SL of above it. (Remember you must first observe that does the price are going to touch and pull back or it will breaks the trend. You never Sell if your trend is broke out. You follow the price till you reach the Future Expected Price A (FEPA) and if price does not change direction; you will follow the same strategy till you reach FEPB. (If R 1.1 dose not break).
Since we have S 2 Trend line seems to be stronger than R1.1 you also can expect an uptrend around that area. If we see S 2 Breaks R 1.1 we get ready to see a harmonic pattern in future.
Our expected Patterns and Elliot are not our signal, it's just a map and idea that we can look at them some time. We trade based on your best friend (trend) and PA.
Any time if the harmonic pattern is completed you can expect for a bullish movement.
Remember you will close all the sell position if R 1.1 breaks and will not open any position till you reach on 1 safe trend. Hold is also an option.
FEP are found by Orbits strategy that I have explained in many of my previous perspective. If you are new to it please read my previous analysis and if still you have problem with it feel free and email me at farsi.masoud@gmail.com
EURUSD 4 Hour: Bearish Bat Pattern Completion Finally filled short on the bearish bat pattern that we’ve been waiting for on the EURUSD. We’ve got a small rising wedge with bearish divergence on the RSI heading into that level which is a plus, but at the end of the day the pattern is the pattern is the pattern.
We’ve been on a heater as of late, hopefully we can keep things rolling with the Euro.
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