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USOIL 6-1 Retrace ShortWith summer quickly approaching the initiative in the oil market has changed with more aggressive bids similar to what was seen in December of last year. With inflationary conditions in the market becoming evident and supply chain issues causing major ruptures across many markets I still have very a bullish outlook on Oil. That being said, I also expect for a retrace before a continuation higher next month for Oil. This end of month unwind is not uncommon as contracts are rolled, settled and options approach expiration. My ideal target for this trade would be 64.70 where auctioning really picked up in the past 10 days for oil which offers a 6-1. I placed my stops above highs to prevent any impulse move from causing unwanted drawdowns. Feel free to share your opinions and refer to my other post for longer term projections.
TVC:USOILShort
by crawfordpaul
BTC is now 1:1 value with the DJI where do we go from hereSo got a nice line up for tonight bitcoin and the down jones are an even bet right now at 1:1 you can by one bitcoin or one issue of DJI both cost the same, but do both have the same future profit potential ahhhh now you can see why they want you to see cryptos as dangerous and a failure, the Feds have been talking down bitcoin along with other governments while they are all taking steps to turn their own currencies into crypto.... mean while companies that house crypto exchanges are setting the ground work for regulation from the feds this has split the crypto market in half one half is regulated through exchanges and the other half through digital wallets, privacy coins and subnets
OANDA:BTCUSDLong
by RobinhoodFX
We are in 27%+ on spot so far If you followed my activity probably you now that we managed to short the top of the market, and we bought back the bottom as well. The market bounced from out long position and our community members managed to gain 27% on spot so far, we also set a break even stop just in case of a surprise event, but we do not expect any major pullback until we will reach the 58-60k levels. Some of our latest results: ETH: short: 4320$ stop out 4454$ ---> 1st target 2500$ ----> 2nd target 2000$ profit(spot):52% | profit(5xLeverage): 258% BTC: short 51k$ stop out 52k$ --->Profit: 240% (5xleverage) ------> 1st target: 33k$ ------> 2nd target 30k$ Open long: 33k$ -31k$ ---> stop out 29250$. ----(Modified to break even: now we are risk of from the bottom) Pending: 1st target: 55k 2nd target: 58-60k Thank you guy being a member of our community! community.protradersnetwork.com
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by tmsarn
GOLD 200DAY / 1,800 RETEST provides a compelling opportunityOne has to imagine that gold will find its way back to its 200 day before marching on higher given the fundamental tailwinds. If gold trades down to 1800 and we get a nice close above it - I would believe this to be a compelling opportunity to get long or add length if you took a more aggressive entry prior to the breakout. A change in market sentiment with respect to the USD, or a FED hiking cycle beginning sooner than anticipated (or the anticipation thereof) , would act as a circuit breaker to this trade. PDC
OANDA:XAUUSDLong
by Parkdale-Capital
Ethereum Rebound to 3700 in trend channel - See it!Dear traders, A picture says more than a thousand words. You see here the hourly chart of Ethereum and we have just made a double bottom, reached the bottom of the trend channel and are heavily oversold. It's time for a short recovery in my opinion. Prices never go down in a straight line but they do go down in a saw tooth pattern. Let me be clear, I am not bullish anymore for this moment on Ethereum but for the short term I see a possible rebound to around 3700 / 3800. As a trader and investor, I believe more in the value of Bitcoin. Simply because the circulation is limited to maximum 21 million coins while with Etereum it is unlimited. Yes there can be mined coins as much as they want. One can just change the algorithm there. Not with Bitcoin because the maximum is already known. What they do is halving Bitcoin every 4 years. You can read about it on the internet. It means that the degree of difficulty is doubled. This means that mining can continue for a very long time with very powerful and expensive equipment that quickly becomes obsolete... That mining is necessary to validate the payment transactions on the blockchain. Because it takes more power each time to mine, Bitcoin does need to get more expensive to get out of the cost as a miner. I know this because I was a miner myself but changed because trading is better and less risky. If Bitcoin starts to rise faster than the ALTS we are also going to see a correction in those ALTS but that all remains to be seen. That is the Bitcoin dominance. It is important to trade what you see and not what you think! Patterns change all the time and you need to adopt you to the new situation. You need to be able toswitch from long to short and vice versa without hesitation. This market is volatile and goes fast up/ down. Don't run behind prices because often you are too late. Better plan your trades at the lower boundery of trenchannels for longs and simular techniques. Than you can make better profits with less risk. Risk management is everything! Traders, this is purely my personal idea about Ethereum /ETH and not an investment or trading advice! As a trader you should always do your own research and protect your capital with money management. The famous 1% rule or you risk to get to a zero account. With the 1% max loss per trade rule you can trade for a very long time. Do also not overtrade! If you guys appreciate my work it will be a motivation for me if julle give a thumbs up and follow me for updates. Wish you all great and safe trading with lot of profits! Take care!
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by PegasusTechCharts
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DOGEUSD - STILL NOT ENOUGH SUPPORTYesterday I shared my opinion about the price evolution of Doge. Today I will share you my pending position on Doge as well. Yesterday I told you that there is an opportunity to buy from 0.40$. If you did that, congrats to you, but you can buy from 0.25 ( that means nearly 50% discount from current price). Right now I am planning to play with the hype, but only from fundamental values. BTC is still in a corrective move, the market need to kick out the weak hands. If you want to play safe, you can use my setup in order to have a profitable and low risk reward trade. (Max loss on this trade -9% expected profit +290% - since DOGE is a highly speculative coin I had to increase my SL level to 9-10% in order to survive the correction). See the charts attached below: Consider to join our community to get more of this kind for Free. community.protradersnetwork.com #forextrader #forex #forextrading #forexsignals #forexlifestyle #trading #money #cryptocurrency #trader #bitcoin #forexmarket #forexlife #technicalanalysis #stockmarket #forexanalysis #forexmentor #daytrading #forexgroup
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by tmsarn
2
RISE MY PIPS!This is an interesting one! the pair hit the resistance at 85.00 and then started its short wave but around the mid point of the trend coloum it seems to have retracted with a strong reversal pip on the 4H time line. The STOC shows the buyers starting to take over as a crossover has appeared as aswell as a strong buy signal on the 1 hour timeline. the moving averages have crossed over and are looking towards a long position. Im entering after i receive a strong indication of the reversal taking place. TP and SL could be set in a 3:1 ratio for those juicy pip profits. My TP is set at 85.00. READY FOR THE JUICY PROFITS HERE!!!!!!
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by simonbland
BTC/USD price action - final stageAnalysis: Bitcoin latest buy opportunity just right here, since we started a positive feedback loop, and we are at the start of a positive correction. Risk reward low, this could be a potential long term trade since. I would like to mention that I am not always bullish, we can have a sudden flash crash as well, but using my risk management strategy, you can make money on your own without loosing your capital. NEWER TRADE WITHOUT EXIT PLAN!!!!! Trade: BUY 1st trade entry: 53200$ 2nd trade entry: 54100$ 1st target: 68k 2nd target: 95k S/L: 51900 Check out my yesterdays catch - chart is attached below. Consider to join our community to get more of this kind for Free. community.protradersnetwork.com #forextrader #forex #forextrading #forexsignals #forexlifestyle #trading #money #cryptocurrency #trader #bitcoin #forexmarket #forexlife #technicalanalysis #stockmarket #forexanalysis #forexmentor #daytrading #forexgroup
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDLong
by tmsarn
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The Put/Call Ratio in a NutshellWhat is the put/call ratio? The put/call ratio (PCE) is a popular barometer of market sentiment, which shows the ratio of trading volumes of Put vs Call options. However, with distortions in the current price of nearly every instrument off the back of "free money," and persistent market intervention by policy makers, we're not quite seeing the price discovery we're used to, which has made it more difficult to make sense of the Put-Call, and other technical indicators as well. What is a derivative? To understand the value of the put/call ratio, we must first understand the derivatives market. A derivative is a (leveraged) instrument, which gives the holder a right to either buy (call) or sell (put) a specific amount of a stock (or other instrument), at a specified price, and timeframe. If your'e holding a put, you're likely expecting the price of the stock to fall, while holders of calls are expecting the price to rise. Puts are usually used as a solid hedging tool, while calls are more often related to speculative behaviour. How to use the put-call ratio? When the put/call rises above 1, it indicates that market sentient is shifting more bearish. At the moment, we're looking at a put/call of around 0.46, which indicates that market sentiment is very bullish, and actually, it's been bullish for quite some time as you can see in the chart. When we see a massive shift in the put/call back above 1, naturally it would be showing that investors and traders are becoming more defensive.
USI:PCEEducation
by Hedge_Of_The_World
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selby_exchange - Selby Margin Trading Rules v1.1Selby Margin Trading Rules 1.1 1.Trading Working Hours: 01:00UTC Monday thru 21:00UTC Friday take off all weekends and holidays. Only begin margin trading after 30 minutes of reviewing all instruments and timeframes. 2. Margin Forecasting: Charts are built on the 11/15min. using data from Heikin Ashi candle wicks. Identify entry/exit on the 1,2,3min. chart using moving average crossover intersections based on the Fibline Glance indicator set to: 100,100,0.1,40,0.1 3. Risk management: Maximum leverage on any position long or short is 70X. The position size should be based on weekly "working capital" and not total life savings. Formula for position size is a 5X position can use up to 95% and a 70X position can use up to 30%. 4. Enter limit order long/short and then set limit exit to take profit (TP) at the next short term Fibonacci level. Moving average crossovers in higher timeframes 14,21,33,48min. the 1-6hr. and 1day will confirm market direction for successful trade. 5. "THINGS TO AVOID" Greed - Bragging - FOMO 6. -2%-20% RULE: Always close negative positions. Look for a retrace opportunity to exit but if trade falls below (-2% on a 5X) or (-20% on a 70X) for more then 30min. set a stop loss limit order to prevent loss of time and a potential liquidation. 7. 60/40 Split: To maximize margin profit, stay out while awaiting confirmation of market direction, the entry must be caught at the Fib. Think/Chart 3-steps ahead, do not rush yourself into a position. Wait a few minutes between entry/exit. "3-Strikes" If you have three bad trades during the workday stop for 24hrs. 8. (TP) TAKE PROFIT: Cash-out at the end of the week into btc/fiat and pull 10% of net gains out of cyberspace forever. Work as long as you like on any day during the week, but remember not every day of the work week is always a good trading day. Selby finding creative patterns in charts on Tradingview Not advice for investing, but I am one to watch Rebellion=Change=Future
COINBASE:BTCUSDEducation
by selby_exchange
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XAUUSD TO 1777 CONFLUENCE COUNT 1. THREE WEEKLY CANDLE REJECTION AT PREVIOUS MONTHLY SUPPORT @1686 2. MARCH 15 WEEKLY CANDLE CLOSE ABOVE PREVIOUS MONTHLY RES @1733 3. MARCH 22 WEEKLY CANDLE FINDS NEW SUPPORT AT PREVIOUS MONTHLY RES OF @1733 NOW TURNED SUPPORT. 4. MARCH 29 CANDLE RETEST PREVIOUS MONTHLY SUPPORT OF @1686 ( MAJOR REJECTION ) 5. APRIL 5 CANDLE OPENS BULLISH LOOKING FOR CONTINUATION AND FURTHER BREAKING PREVIOUS RES OF @1733 ALSO BULLISH PENANT FORMATION ON 1H TIMEFRAME 6. POTENTIAL RETEST OF MONTHLY RES @1777 WHICH IS ALSO A 50% FIB RETRACE ON OUR MONTHLY TIMEFRAME 7. BUY ENTRY POSITION @1733 . TAKEPROFIT @1777 8. STOP LOSS SET @1725 DEPENDING ON RISK MANAGEMENT.
FOREXCOM:XAUUSDLong
by Dailypaperfx888
Why Options Are DangerousIn today’s article, I want to answer a few questions about why options can be dangerous. What are the risks of trading options? Are puts or calls riskier? Why is option selling risky? We’ll also talk about the safest options trading strategy. So let’s get started and let’s jump right in. Buying Calls & Puts First of all, you need to understand that there are different types of options. There are call options and put options. So calls versus puts, which one is riskier? Some people think that trading puts are riskier, while some people might think that trading calls are riskier, but this is not the case at all. The key question is that you should ask yourself is, are you BUYING options or are you SELLING options? There’s a huge difference between buying and selling, as well as different levels of risk involved between the two. So when you’re buying options, the maximum amount you can lose is the premium you paid. So let talk about a very specific example. Let’s look at a trade I took with TSLA and let’s say that we want to trade a call. So let’s maybe say a 700 call and right now the price is $700. What is the maximum that you can lose? Let’s say that we are bullish on Tesla and we believe that Tesla might go above $750, and we want to buy a call with a strike price of 750. So a 750 strike call expiring next week costs around $1.70 (at the time of writing this article on March 19th, 2021). Now options come in 100 packs, so this means that you’re paying $170 for this option. So in this case, if TSLA does not go above 170 by next Friday, you would lose the $170. So this is very easy, the maximum amount that you can lose is the premium that you paid. On the other hand, you are bearish on Tesla. You believe that it might actually go down to $560 so you’re thinking about a put option with a strike price of 560 that expires next week. A put with a 560 strike price expiring next week is $4.50 so a little bit more, pricier here. Again, since options come in 100 packs, this means that your total risk here is $450 per option traded. It’s the same risk here because it doesn’t really matter whether you’re buying calls or you’re buying puts. The maximum amount that you can lose is the premium. Now, on the other hand, there are SELLING options, and when you’re selling options, this is when your risk is almost unlimited. When you’re buying options, and let’s just say you want to buy a call, this means that you want the stock to go up. So going back to our TSLA example, if we would buy a call 750, that it is expiring next week for $170, if Tesla goes above 750, we make money. If Tesla goes below 750 or stays at 750, we lose the premium or $170. So not really a big deal. Now, how much money could we make on this one? Well, if we buy a call for 750, we have the right to buy 100 shares of Tesla for $750. So let’s say that Tesla closes at $800. So in this case, our profit is $800, minus the $750 that we bought Tesla for, which is $50 per share. Since options come in 100 packs, this means that we would make $5,000 in profits. This is why people love trading options. Because if you think about it, we’re risking $170 and can potentially make $5,000 if Tesla would go up to $800. Now, let’s quickly do an example here for buying a put. So buying a put and in this case, you want the stock to go down. Using our example for TSLA again, we will buy a put with the strike price of 560 for $4.50. So our total risk here is $450. So now if Tesla goes below $560, the strike price here, we make money. Now, if Tesla stays above 560, we lose the premium. But that is the maximum that we can lose. So even if Tesla rallies right now to 800, we would only lose $450. So that is pretty cool, right? Let’s say Tesla goes to $500. So we were able to sell the shares for $560, now we can buy it back for 500. So this would be $60 per share. Since one option equals 100 shares, it means that we would make $6,000 in profits. So as you can see, with options, you can benefit from a stock going up, as well as a stock going down, and the really cool thing is that you can risk a little to make a whole lot. Now, here’s the challenge with this. If you buy a call, you only make money if TSLA is really going above $750. So if it stays below, that’s not enough for the buyer of an option to make money. If Tesla goes sideways well, same here, right? Then you not only won’t benefit from it, but you also lose the premium. If Tesla goes down, you also lose the premium. So if you think about it, there are actually three ways how you can lose money and only one way how you can make money, and this is if Tesla really shoots up. This is why many people, including myself, are interested in SELLING options. Selling Calls & Puts What are the pros of selling options? The first pro is that you don’t need to be right about the direction of a stock to make money. Here is an example I’m in right now (at the time of this writing on March 19th, 2021) with LL Lumber Liquidators. So right here, Lumber Liquidators, I actually sold a put with a strike price of 22. When does the buyer of a put make money? Well, the buyer of a put makes money if it goes below $22. For me, the seller of a put, I make money if Lumber Liquidators goes up, it goes sideways, or it goes down. It can go down all the way to 22. This is a drop of a little over 10%. So if you think about it, if LL can go down by 10% and I am still making money and this is why again, this is why selling options is so fascinating. So you don’t need to be right about the direction and you can keep the premium. So here’s the deal, the premium that you receive is exactly what the buyer is giving you. So the premium is rather small, right? So the cons are the premium is rather small, and this is where your risk is almost unlimited. So back to our example here with Lumber Liquidators. I sold a 45 of the 22 puts, and I received $0.20 per share, so $20 per put option. $20 multiplied by the 45 options means that I’m making $900. So this is the premium that I receive. However, here’s the deal. The buyer of a put has the right to sell 100 shares at the strike price. So what does it mean for me? So the seller, which is me, has to buy LL at $22, and again, this is where one option means 100 shares. So for me here, since I’m having 45 options, this means that I would have to buy 4,500 shares. Because this is where we get to the risks of this strategy here. Now, again, Lumber Liquidators can drop more than 10% and I will be just fine. But what happens if it drops below, let’s say to $20 from $22. OK? So I would have to buy Lumber Liquidators at $22, and therefore I would lose $2 per share. Here, in this case, I have 4,500 shares times $2, this means that I would lose $9,000. Now you get the idea of why selling options is fairly risky, because I’m receiving $900, but if it only goes down by $2, I’m already losing $9,000. But what if it gets worse? What if LL drops to, let’s say, $15, right? Again, I have to buy LL at 22, so I would lose $22 minus $15, $7 per share. Since I have 4,500 shares, time $7, this is where I would lose $31,500. OK. So as you can see, it is super risky if you don’t know what you’re doing. Now, I have been doing this for a long time here, selling premium, and I’ve been doing really, really well. Analyzing Risk With RIDE Let talk about a particular trade that I made with RIDE . I sold the 21.50 put and RIDE dropped. I sold 47 contracts, 47 contracts, which means that I own 4,700 shares at a price of 21.50. RIDE right now (March 19th, 2021) is trading at $13.50. So right now, RIDE is at 13.50. So this means that I lose (21.50, minus 13.50) $8. So I’m losing $8 per share and I’m having 4,700 shares, bringing me down to a total of $37,600. Now, let’s talk about it. How much money did I make selling premium on RIDE? Just on RIDE here. I sold the puts initially, then I sold calls, I sold calls, and I just sold a few more puts. In total on RIDE, thus far, I collected $4,935 in premium, but I also have an unrealized loss of $37,600. So it’s super important that you understand that there is risk involved. Now I know my way out of this. I know how I can trade my way out of this if needed. So I collected $4,900, but right now I’m down that amount. However, this means that my net loss is if I would close it right now, which I’m not intending to do, would be $37,000 minus the $4,935, let’s just say $5,000 to make the math easy, is $32,600. That would be a real loss. This is why it’s super important that you understand the risks when you’re trading options. Safest Options Trading Strategy Now, one of the questions that I receive all the time is, “what is the safest options trading strategy?” The safest options trading strategy is covered calls, and here’s why. When you are trading covered calls, it means you own the stock, and now you are selling calls against it. So what does it mean when you are selling calls? When you are selling calls, it means you have to sell the stock at a certain price. Back to my example with RIDE I own 4,700 shares, and I own those at $21.50. So this is where if I sell calls at 22.50, so this means that I have to sell RIDE shares at $22.50. So how much money do I make? So I bought at $21.50, and I sell at $22.50, so this means that I’m making a dollar profit, $1 profit per share. And since I have 4,700 shares I would make $4,700 plus the premium I receive for selling the call. OK. So this is in addition, and therefore, covered calls are by far the safest options trading strategy. The only way how you can lose with this strategy is when the stock goes down. This is where you already own the stock, and therefore, if you want to sell calls against it, it is the safest option trading strategy, at least based on my experience and my opinion.
REducation
by rockwelltrading
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