Pending Entry Buy Limit Order (3/4)If you want to buy a pair at a lower price and think price action will go lower before price action goes higher in your trade direction, then use a pending buy limit order which is placed below current price and if your entry price is hit on its retracement, then buy limit order is activated. You are in trade.
Two risks are price retracement does not hit your entry price and take off in a bullish or upper wards direction without your trade and/or price retraces thru your entry prices and keeps going lower and hits your stop loss.
To avoid some of these use major support or resistance areas, previous price action left on chart and fib ret tool, which a lot of price reversals hit the 50% to 61.8% then reverse up in bullish trend or major trend direction. On EurUsd daily chart, noted 1:4 risk reward trade with a 40 pip stop/160 pip target.
Use the right risk management for your account size and trade according to your plan. Good luck.
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Pending Entry Sell Stop Order (2/4)In this situation you would set a pending enter sell stop order below current price action, excepting price action to hit price and keep on going downwards to your target or take profit. Always, trade according to your plan and risk management, especially with larger stop losses and targets.
The noted EurUsd daily chart was a set up of 1: 2.5 risk reward with 40 pip stop loss and 100 pip target.
Pending Entry Buy Stop Order (1/4)Pending buy stop orders are placed above current market price action, and you expect price to keep on going up. These can be on any time frames, but daily is great if you are too busy to monitor your trades on a short basis.
As noted on daily EurUsd chart, on Monday (pink line) a pending buy stop was placed above current price action, once price action later on Monday was hit then trade was activated with a 40 pip stop loss (margin, leverage, lot size etc... your risk management will decide this) and a take profit or target or 1.19000 or 120 pips up, by looking to your left on chart. This would have been a 1:3 risk reward setup, for this set it and forget it trade.
MID-DAY Video {DUOtrend Bubbles} How to use it Please refer to the two previous videos to fully understand this strategy and also understand how I see these tools and use them.
Furthermore, please refer to previous morning videos to be able to trade effectively as I do.
Finally I would like to thank you all, have a wonderful day!
Day trade reversal setup using Hull MA - over shoot!Hello, Traders around the globe,
Here is a reversal pattern of the Hull Moving Average.
Stage #1: You want to see an acceleration of momentum = the blue crosses have spaces inside them.
This stage is important because if you are doing day trade, you want to be sure that you are in a volatile environment.
You don't want to be where the market is choppy with zero range! .
This stage gives you the "flag" that the stock has a potential day trade opportunity.
The probability of you guessing the exact day that the stock will explode is low, that is why you wait for it to explode and trade the intraday reversal...
Stage #1 EXTRA: Now you know how to detect momentum opportunities, and can go into a lower timeframe and trade the continuation of the acceleration of momentum move... but this is for another post.
Stage #2: You want to see the Hull ma go above the price action = the OVERSHOOT!
Once you see that the Hull is crossing the price that means that momentum is running low ---> reversal is coming... (stage #1 made sure we are volatile, now we want to be sure we are overextended and momentum dries out!)
When the HULL moves above the highest high of the move, OVERSHOOT PHENOMENA, it means that the price got really overextended.
The HULL MA is trying to decrease lag, so it "anticipates" the direction, it gives chance for the price to correct to the right direction. If a strong move happens, the HULL expects it to continue, so it will rise above the high of the price movement, "hopeful" that the price movement will continue in its same momentum and force. since it doesn't... overshoot happens, and a reversal is likely to follow through.
Stage #3: You want the slope of the Hull ma to change direction, then you look for your personal reversal setup.
Overextended can become even more overextended, so it is better to be a little late, and be right, than trying many times to catch the TOP and be discouraged, which will make you miss the move!
Ideally, you want the HULL to be SYNCED :) If the HULL is SYNCED that means that it gives the best representation of the price action.
It is hard to sync the moving average every time, the market is changing...
It is easier to be able to recognize when it is synced and when it is not ===> That way, you know when you have better odds of it being accurate.
Trading worckstationBeginners often ask me what the optimal trading PC looks like, what to look out for and whether there are special requirements. In pictures you can often see these trading workstations with countless monitors, etc. But the truth and the conclusion right away:
You don't need special equipment or a special computer to trade successfully. If you are able to read this article online, you probably already meet the minimum requirements for a trading PC.
Successful trading depends on factors such as trading psychology or the right strategy! Not from the equipment. I can also buy marathon shoes now and still wouldn't be able to endure 2 kilometers running.
I even advise you, as a beginner, in most cases not to buy a special trading computer. For the following reasons:
You don't need these countless monitors, which you usually see on any pictures, because you concentrate on one or a maximum of two markets. Everything else just distracts you, stresses you out and makes for one of the most expensive mistakes in trading: trading too much!
Quite pragmatic: money is better off on the stock exchange. The monitor and your trading PC will only be worth half in a year. If you are clever with the money, it will be worth at least twice as much.
So the following tips are all optional and come from my personal experience. For beginners, it is better to invest the money in knowledge.
I value the following factors:
reliability
Fast start / operation thanks to an SSD hard drive and a good processor
as low a volume as possible
Operation of several monitors possible
Solutions with multiple monitors are particularly interesting for traders. I currently use 3 monitors (but 2 are usually absolutely sufficient)
When choosing a trading PC, I don't pay so much attention to the price, but rather to purchasing reliable devices from large, well-known brand manufacturers. They offer long-term support, good expandability and high quality and reliability.
Since trading is about money, that's more important to me than saving a few euros on a one-off basis.
Since I usually sit in front of the computer for 12-16 hours, an ergonomic workplace is also very important to me.
What is important to you, what kind of equipment do you trade with, you are cordially invited to leave a comment
Make sure to focus on improving in every aspectNote I am using GBPJPY, a favorite of high leverage day gamblers as it has the biggest range of the 30 leverage pairs.
I am not "spreading FUD", if day gamblers want to lose their money I do not care. Actually I like it.
Finding success is satisfying but additionally watching others fail has an added sweetness that is irresistible.
This is simply a reminder to be logical, and since we try to always better ourselves we have to make sure to better ourselves on all aspects.
It sounds simple like this but I assure you it is simple when you are told it, like hindsight.
People think they are supermen that think of everything, never miss anything, and are going to buy at bottoms and sell at tops.
Well to people that think that: good for you. I am no superman. And believe me I'm not being humble I hold myself to high standards and have a big pride.
Warren Buffett is no superman either. Neither is George Soros. Nor Jim Simons, he made real money decades after buying his first future contract and needed to hire someone to help him out with stocks which he did not know that well.
You may ask "But MrRenev how do I improve on myself and my trading? I do not even know where to start, I do not even know what to improve in".
Well you force yourself to have a rational organised mind, write it down; and you take your chart screen, sit in front of it, and stay there for the next 50 years.
==> Read, read, read. Watch videos, read articles like this one or (I'm not sure if I can mention potential competitors), go on forums, read books if you want.
I would call this part the "fun" part, or the leisure part. Watch videos you find interesting, even read memeposts on the internet, as long as you can tell what is bs what is not, even absolute trash will teach you how others think or will make you think or will show you others mistakes.
==> The second part, the laborious one (it's okay when you get into it you won't see the hours). You open excel, you open tradingview, you get a tool to save screenshots automatically, you open the calculator, you open a CME window, you open notepad/sublimetext. And you grind. You take in vast amounts of data, process it, look at the stats, and you learn. You ask questions such as "what are other participants doing? What are their holding periods" and so on.
So here is the secret holy grail:
R.D. Wyckoff started as a stock runner for a New York brokerage at 15 years old. He started speculating at least 10 years later, after having learned much from the charts and his clients mistakes.
W.D. Gann is the son of a cotton farmer and started hearing and learning about markets at a young age. He then went to a business school (useless) and worked for a broker, like Wyckoff he learned from his clients mistakes and then started proprietary trading.
George Soros started in 1954 as a clerk, then arbitrage trader, in 1959 he was an analyst for euro stocks, until 1963 when he became a VP.
He started a fund in 1966 with his employer money (correct me if I am wrong) to try out his trading strategies - developed during his 12 years in the business.
Don't just "try to make money", improve on everything and it will come with time. Remember, the most toxic tryhards are the best players in sports and video games. Same thing here.
If your goal is not to be "the best I can" and just "make money", McDonald's has job offers available, good luck as a burger flipper, and I'm not sure I'd want to eat those.
Taking profit from NFT? 🕵️Digital art is experiencing a renaissance. Therefore, in this idea, I have provided all the information needed to start making and selling our art in the form of NFT (non-fungible tokens) on blockchain.
-- What is NFT? --
NFT is for Non-Fungible Token, something like Certificate of Authenticity. In real life, classic artwork and valuable, historical artifacts are often sold at auction with receipts indicating the object's authenticity.
NFT does the same thing for digital items. They certify uniqueness in GIF, JPEG, MP3 and any other format. This technology creates a new kind of ownership for digital files that wasn't previously possible. NFTs can be bought, acquired, or sold, and even destroyed as physical objects.
The process of converting your work to NFT is called " Minting ", which refers to the process of creating a new blockchain coin and will forever be attached to that content, such as your image file. Artists multiply the internal NFT by adding an internal commission to the token (usually 10 to 30%). Whenever their work is resold, they are entitled to this commission.
-- Is it possible for my work to be converted into NFT? --
Perhaps, we live in the Wild West of the NFTs and anything is possible. Digital arts, songs, memes, recipes and even startups are now on the list of NFT stores. Currently, there are very few restrictive rules on what can be converted to NFT.
-- What does it take to start building NFT? --
You do not need to know enough about cryptocurrencies to build NFT, you only need some tools, such as Crypto Wallet and some Ethereum .
-- How to connect wallet to NFT market? --
Once you have your wallet ready and you have bought some Ethereum, it is time to choose the store where you want to build and sell NFT. Recommended for beginners working on the Rarible website ; Because it offers the easiest way. To connect the wallet to the rebel, first go to this website and click Connect from the right corner of the page.
On the next screen, select WalletConnect if you use Rainbow or Metamorphosis, and click WalletLink if you are using Coinbase. Many other wallets use this option and it is worth checking out these options to choose the preferred wallet.
It does not matter what wallet you use; Because the next step is the same. After selecting the connection option, a QR code is displayed on the screen. Scan this code using your Wallet app. After scanning, confirm the wallet connection to Rarible. Because this connection is secure, Rarible forces you to confirm your purchases after each transaction. Once your wallet is connected, your Rarible account will be created immediately. Now you have all the tools you need to build, mint and sell your first NFT.
-- Where to sell my NFT? --
The more news there are about NFT, the more stores will be created. Here's a list of huge digital stores for NFT:
Zora:
Zora is a store built on the idea that content creators should take control of their work from the main platforms. Zora allows creators to mint images, videos, audio files and even plain text documents. Currently, this store allows pre-invited creators to operate.
Rarible:
Rarible is one of the most popular websites for creators and collectors who want to enter the NFT world. Uploading content and building NFT on this website is as easy as posting a video on YouTube. In a market full of websites that can only be operated by pre-invitation, Rarible is one of the NFT destinations that allows new developers to sell their work from the moment of registration. However, due to this freedom of action, it is necessary to change the copyright and content control laws on this website.
SuperRare:
SuperRare is an NFT store for digital artists. You will not find memes or text posts or simple sound effects for sale here. The Super Rear series is very organized, new works are placed on this platform at a slower speed. Searching in SuperRear is like stepping into a specialized digital gallery. NFT works on this website are a reflection of thousands of hours of artist effort, with prices sometimes rising sharply and new builders being accepted only upon request.
Nifty Gateway:
Nifty Gateway is an NFT store that focuses exclusively on collectibles. Nifty works with prominent artists and musicians such as Grimes and Justin Roiland to release limited edition collections of NFTs. Nifty Gateway is one of the main NFT websites that separates itself from other digital retailers on the list by accepting credit cards. Like SuperRre, art works are often very expensive, and new artists must apply to this website before they can post their work.
OpenSea:
OpenSea is one of the first NFT stores and a huge library of content at various prices, including digital art and 3D collections and in-game video items. This website is one of the most accessible websites for NFT novices and offers a great experience in searching for pieces of art.
-- How to create NFT? --
There is no specific technique for making pieces of art that can be converted to NFT. If the store supports the file format you created, then you can convert it to NFT. This creates a new world for content that can be turned into money. Any image and file in TXT, JPG, PNG, MP3 or GIF formats can be converted to NFT on Zora or Rebell. Have you made a great meme or written a recipe for a delicious meal in TXT format? Well, it can be converted to NFT.
If this idea, helped you to get to know about NFT more, don't forget to hit the like button and leave comment. That will be a great motivation for me folks..
How To Use Our New Timeline FeatureWe created Timelines to help people learn more about the companies and symbols they follow. Timelines are comprehensive guides that reveal the history, key events, and defining moments of a specific symbol. As a trader or investor, Timelines can be used to study the historical events of markets and the story that makes a symbol what it is today.
In this video we show you how to use Timelines and where they can be found. If you need help finding a Timeline, check out the examples we linked below:
1. Tesla Timeline
2. Apple Timeline
3. Bitcoin Timeline
4. Shopify Timeline
We hope you enjoy Timelines and use them to learn more about markets. We also invite you to share your thoughts in the comments. Please let us know what Timeline you want to see next. Even better, please let us know if you think can help! You can also try making your own Timeline with the Annotation tools available to you like Price Note and Signpost.
Thanks for being a member! 🙌
Building a good system and writing down a cheat sheetThis is an idea about having a good thought process. The image of a sniper is often used.
In the cover of the idea (screenshot at the end in case it does not display correctly) I put a few examples.
I have not seen this on the internet and being shown by course providers, and how could they know, the internet is full of get rich quick with 5 minutes a day feel good messages and they do not trade themselves.
Build a system that eliminates the potential for mistakes or randomness then rinse and repeat perfectly.
Writing this down is especially useful when juggling with various strategies which we often end up with when we spent a fair amount of time playing.
Here is an example of a breakout trade:
And this becomes:
Screenshot of the diagram:
Winrates required to breakeven relative to stop & target sizesTaking AUDUSD as an example here, the spread is not the smallest relative to ATR nor the largest.
The formula to get a breakeven winrate is 1/(1+reward/risk).
Because we want winrate*reward = loserate*risk <=> winrate*reward = (1-winrate)*risk <=> winrate*reward + winrate*risk = risk (never 0) <=> winrate = 1/(1+reward/risk)
For example with a 20 pip stop, base risk to reward of 1 to 5, and 2 point spread, reward or winners = 98 pips, risk or losers = 22 pips.
So the reward/risk = 98/22 = 4.4545454545... So the breakeven winrate will be 1/5.4545454545 = 18.33%
That is just the breakeven winrate.
Profitability will of course depend on:
- Frequency: How many trades you are able to take
- Winrate: How much higher than the breakeven winrate it is
- Position size: Profitability does not go up the higher it goes
If a strategy or trader only gets a couple of trades a year and his winrate is barely above breakeven, he will not be very profitable, and it will be very easy to lose all profits.
And as the stops & targets in pips go down, the hit rates needed to actually make money go up exponentially up to a point where the trader needs to own a crystal ball and be able to predict the future.
Take costs into consideration with any strategy and before placing any trade.
And 1 other thing to keep in mind is spreads can also fluctuate, depending on the broker, at certain hours they can go up 3 fold, sometimes more, it can really hurt.
A cool thing you may notice is with a stop of 20 pips, the spread/stop = 10% and also the winrate to breakeven is increased by 10% for both risk to rewards.
Same thing with the 5 pips stop. And so on. The required winrate to breakeven increases by 100*(spread/stop)%.
Easy to quickly calculate when you are considering trades.
Your Forex trading has to revolve around the daily chartFirst of all you are going to quit your 5 minutes charts. What is this? Day trading?
If you are a day gambler I have a few words for you. It is the most obviously stupidest scheme I have ever seen.
Not only retail day trades this is true, there are some institutions that day trade Forex too. The pros. The big boys.
Not a single one of the "pros" makes money day trading (playing directional). Academics literally took the entire trading data from banks and found 0 profitability.
That's for the results. Now what is the purpose of it? Hedging market risk in the next hour? Who hedges intraday? Banks? China? The Saudi wealth fund? Amazon? What do day gamblers think the purpose is? The market was created as a casino for the forex lifestyle?
According to the BIS triennial survey approximately 30% of the FX volume is in spot, 50% in swaps, 15% in outright forwards.
The smallest swap maturity is for the next day (overnight), the smallest forward maturity is 2 business days.
In the Forex market, THE CONCEPT OF "INTRADAY" ITSELF DOES NOT EVEN EXIST.
The only type of forex intraday contracts were binary options, some obvious scam created by brokers targeted at retail "investors" to fleece idiots of their money, the scam was so blatantly obvious the regulators all agreed to totally ban it.
www.bis.org
If you have been day gambling for over a year you have lost money to your broker and odds are you lost money to one or two laughable "forex day trading education" courses, possibly from a "legit from the industry" and "actual institutional trader" that never made money once in his life and whose job was to execute clients orders.
So if you want to argue come with a live account track record, show me your years of consistent profit and then defend this scam.
Daily chart. If you want to check the monthly or weekly you don't need to look at those every day, and nothing is happening there, unless you are looking at some emerging country or something.
And none of that 600 minutes, 12 hours, and other nonsense. No one cares what happened inside of that daily candle; it might as well not exist at all.
We live on planet earth, we have a daily cycle, we all sleep every 24 hours, for the most part. So daily chart.
And businesses, countries, banks do not take "daily" decisions, it's month to month, quarter to quarter.
Only the daily chart makes sense. Or are you going to explain to me that there is a fractal FED interest rate decision, a secret mini rate hike that you only hear from if you look at the 5 minutes chart?
Music For Trading and InvestingWe teamed up with a behavioral psychologist to look into the science behind the best song choices for trading and investing. We identified a formulae based on the five essential components of music — Tempo (BPM), Tone (T), Length and Volume (LV), Lyrics (L) and Mood (M). We then used these formulae to create two specialized playlists:
Playlist #1: Zero In - Songs that aid concentration and can be used when researching your next moves.
Playlist #2: All Out - Songs that encourage you to be decisive and a confident to take action.
You can find both of these playlists free and open to everyone on Spotify . We'll be updating them as we go. In addition, please feel free to share your favorite songs for trading in the comments below.
Now let's dive into the calculations behind each playlist. You may find this part especially interesting if you're passionate about music or looking to learn more. You may also realize that markets and music have a lot in common.
🎯 Zero In — Time To Focus and Concentrate
Focusing = “BPM (50 – 65) +TM +LVL (+ or -) -LN +M”
BPM: find songs with a tempo of 50-65 beats per minute
TM: select a mellow tone that soothes and relaxes
LVL: longer songs make for better concentration
LN: choose a track with few or no lyrics
M: a slow, less melodic mood will help the brain focus on the task at hand, and not the music
💥 All Out — Building Confidence To Make That Final Leap
Action = “BPM (65 – 85) +TU +LVS (+ or -) -LS +M”
BPM: find songs with a tempo of 65-85 beats per minute
TU: select an upbeat tone that positively enhances cognitive function
LVS: shorter songs with a faster tempo will keep you motivated when performing a task
LS: During Activation of a task, having lyrics in your playlist, is less important, so choose songs with some lyrics that motivate
M: an upbeat, lyrical mood will give you a boost of dopamine, helping you feel brave and confident
Thanks for reading and we look forward to hearing your feedback. Go ahead and give these playlists a try. Let us know how they help you prepare and take action. Please also share your favorite songs for trading in the comments.
How To: Super simple moving your stop losses in TradingViewVery quick video as a follow up to yesterdays placing orders one.
In this video I show you how crazy simple it is to move your stop losses up within TradingView to protect your profits.
Such an easy to use system. So visual. So cool!
You can trade like this for SHARES, CRYPTO, FOREX and more...
Well done TradingView and TradeStation
Check out how you can sign up to use TradeStation here: www.tradingview.com
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5 Tools For Dips, Crashes, and VolatilityVolatility is challenging. But it can also be exciting if you're ready for it. In this idea we're going to show you five tools to make better decisions for when markets are volatile, choppy or bearish.
1. Invert Chart Your Chart 📉
Invert your chart to see how it looks turned upside down. Open a chart and type ALT + I on your keyboard. On a Mac, type ⌥ + I. This keyboard shortcut flips your chart upside down. Now ask yourself: would you buy or sell? Selling an inverted chart = bullish. Buying an inverted chart = bearish. Challenge your bias.
2. Regression Trend, Pitchforks, and Fib Retracements 📐
Certain drawing tools work better than others in volatile markets. That's because they are designed to measure dips, bounces, and statistical anomalies. For example, the Regression Trend tool shows upper and lower bands representing a number of standard deviations away from a trend line. Pitchfork drawing tools help you see trends or channels while having standard deviations plotted at the same time. You have access to four different Pitchfork drawing tools. Finally, there's Fibonacci Retracements . Harness the golden ratio to plan for bounces and possible levels of support.
3. Pine Script Public Library 👨💻
Seek help from others, especially the coders. Head over to the Pine Script Public Library and start exploring the scripts coded by other traders and investors. There are custom tools, strategies, and indicators for all market conditions. Remember, Pine Script is also how you can automate your strategy and create your own indicator. Remove emotion from your decision-making. Write your trading or investing rules in code.
4. The Long and Short Position Tool 🗺
Plan your trades before you make your trades. The Long and Short Position Tools are how you map out your trade ideas directly on the chart. Set an entry, an exit, and a take profit target. See your trade on the chart and visualize it. Planning your trades with these tools will save you a headache or two. Learn how to use the Long and Short Position tools here.
5. Education on TradingView 🎓
The Education section on TradingView is free and open to all. Here you will find thousands of publicly available guides to trading and investing. Each guide was made by a TradingViewer just like you. Learn about their strategy, how they approach markets, and what their processes are. You can also follow the authors, ask questions in the comments, and reach out for additional help.
Thanks for reading this guide! We hope you enjoyed it and please leave any questions or comments below. Also, please share your favorite tools for managing trades in a choppy market.
Change your perspective: Time and trading psychologyExpand Your Time Scale
A significant 2% selloff like we saw today can sometimes feel like a buying opportunity-- "stocks are on sale!" We humans are extremely impatient, short-term thinkers. Especially when you're new to trading, it's tempting to rush in and buy every "dip."
But to win at investing over the long term, you've really got to develop a much larger sense of perspective. Real corrections unfold on a much larger time frame than a one-day, 2% market drop, and trading too frequently has pretty steep costs.
Lots of studies have shown that on average, the more frequently you trade, the lower your returns. Even in a zero-commission world, you still may lose a few cents on every trade due to "bid/ask spreads," especially if you're trading low-volume securities. Plus, any sale you make is going to be taxed, whereas if you leave that money in the market, your taxes are deferred until later. Those costs compound every year like negative interest, eating into your future returns.
Know Your Human Limitations
The first step to beating the market, frankly, is to understand that you are that easily distracted dog on the movie Up who's constantly shouting "squirrel," and you are always going to be that dog. In other words, the first step to recovery is acknowledging you have a problem.
Once you realize you have a problem, then you've got to create a plan to correct that problem and follow the plan religiously. In this case, you are never going to be able to reformat your brain to operate on geological time. That just isn't how the human brain works. What you can do is adopt tools and systems and habits of behavior to help you think bigger about investing. In this post I hope to give you a few.
Adopt Tools for Thinking Bigger
1. Simply zoom out.
I know a lot of folks are looking at the 5-minute time frame and trading every technical signal they see. If you're beating the market by a wide margin that way, then great. Otherwise, you're better off zooming out. Try using the weekly, or even the monthly chart. When you view equities on a longer time scale, you see different things on the chart. For instance, looking at the S&P 500 on a weekly time frame tells me that the one-year uptrend is still intact, and today's "correction" was nothing in the scheme of things.
On the monthly chart, frankly, there hasn't even been a dip:
2. Don't look at markets every day.
If you're trying to think on a larger time scale, frequent updates are just more opportunities for error. I learned pretty early on in my trading career that I performed better overall if I didn't check my investment account during the day. In fact, for most investors, the best thing they can do is probably dto buy an index and never look at it at all until they retire. Even if you like to be a little more active than that, I'd still suggest checking in no more than once a week.
This applies to consuming market news and analysis as well. Subscribe to only a few highly curated sources of investor news. There's so much information out there, and most of it is just noise. Paradoxically, more information often doesn't make you more informed; it may make you less informed if it's low quality. Let someone really competent filter the noise for you and only give you the most salient sound bites.
3. Set it and forget it.
I use a lot of alerts. I identify a price level I might want to buy or sell, and I set an alert and don't look at it again until my alert triggers. That way I'm not tempted to buy or sell too early. You have to be prepared to create a trading plan and then stick to your plan, no matter how long it takes.
I also use alerts for news. Most companies have an "investor relations" page where you can subscribe to press releases about the company. You don't need to know what the CEO is saying on his Twitter every day, but you probably should be subscribed to the press releases and quarterly earnings report so you'll see immediately if something really major changes about the fundamentals. To follow sector news, you can subscribe to a weekly industry newsletter or set up a Google news alert.
4. Consider setting limitations on yourself.
Think of yourself as a time traveler who's come back in time to prevent your future self from making a big mistake. A mistake like, for instance, buying a market top because you saw a one-day dip of 2%. You know your future self is stupid and you can't cure stupid, so the best you can do is put up obstacles to bad decision-making and hope they'll do the trick.
For instance, I don't much like mutual funds, but one reason to buy a mutual fund rather than an ETF is because they're far less tradeable. For instance, most mutual funds have rules in place that prevent you from withdrawing your funds too soon after depositing them.
Another strategy is simply to remove investment apps from your computer or phone. Make it that much harder to access, so you're not unconsciously opening up the app and compulsively checking your accounts all day. You might even consider locking yourself out of your account and giving the login information to someone you trust, with instructions to only give it back under very specific conditions.
5. Remind yourself.
Set up a regular calendar reminder or put a sticky note on your computer to remind yourself to think on a larger time scale. Go back at the end of the year to revisit trades you entered or exited early, and see how much money you left on the table. Honestly, I think you'll be amazed.
Meet Our New Drawing Tool: Price NoteWe created Price Note to make it even easier to attach notes at specific prices. We know how important it is to keep detailed notes on your favorite charts and our new drawing tool will help.
How to create your first price note 📝
1. Select the tool from the Annotation Tools panel. This is the same place where you find the Text tool.
2. Place two anchor points. The first point sets the price, and the second one is the coordinates of the price label.
3. Add text to appear along the Price Note by opening the settings dialog by double-clicking on the note. You can also change the line and text colors from the settings dialog.
Use keyboard shortcuts when working with Price Note!
1. Press Ctrl (Windows) or command ⌘ (Mac) while placing a point so that the point is drawn to the nearest symbol value. This keyboard shortcut turns on your Magnet.
2. Press the Shift key while placing a point to set the slope of the line in multiples of 45 degrees. Pro tip: this is especially helpful for placing Price Notes at perfect angles. Perfect angles = beautiful chart. 🎨
We hope you enjoy this new drawing tool. By the way, the chart above shows Bitcoin Dominance, S&P 500, and Tesla. We've placed price notes as examples for each symbol. Feel free share to share any charts you make with a Price Note below in the comments.
Please also share any questions or feedback below. Thanks for reading.
How To: Super simple placing Stock orders all inside TradingViewHi all, just for fun here is how you can place orders within TradingView for stocks.
Video covers the different order types:
Market Orders
Limit Orders
Stop Orders
Stop Limit Orders
As well as how to set Stop Losses and Take Profits as part of your order.
The system is super simple to use and highly visual.
If you like the video, feel free to give it a like. No charge :)
5 Tips For Faster ChartingHere are 5 tips that will speed up your charting. Each tip in this idea involves a simple keyboard shortcut: hold the command key on a Mac or Ctrl key on your PC. Mastering this keyboard shortcut will improve the way you select multiple drawings, apply bulk edits, and ultimately speed up your research process.
1. Select multiple drawings in an area by holding down the command key on a Mac or Ctrl key on a PC and then dragging the mouse over the area you want to select. This is one of the fastest ways to select multiple drawings at once. Hold command/Ctrl and then drag your mouse over a specific area.
2. You can also select multiple drawings one at a time. To get started, press and hold the command key (Mac) or Ctrl key (PC) and then click each drawing one by one. This is a helpful for selecting specific drawings that are spread out around the chart or hard to find.
3. Once you've learned to select multiple drawings on your chart, did you know you can apply bulk changes to them? For example, you can select multiple drawings on your chart and then change the color for each one with one click. Hold command/Ctrl, select each drawing, and then change the color in the floating toolbar that appears.
4. You can change more than just the color... You can also apply bulk changes to the line thickness, border, visual order, and font color. Select each drawing using command/Ctrl and use the floating toolbar to apply any necessary changes.
5. The command and Ctrl keys can also be used to clone a drawing. Hold command on a Mac or Ctrl on a PC and then drag the selected drawing. It will instantly clone. 🕺🕺
We hope you enjoyed these five quick tips. The key is to master the power of the command and Ctrl keys. With this keyboard shortcut you can select multiple drawings, apply bulk changes, and instantly clone drawings.
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about these tips! Our team reads the comments and will help you the best they can. You can also write feedback and suggestions.
P.S. We use the #TradingViewTips hashtag to share other helpful tips about using the platform. 🙌
Make profitable trading decisionsHi Fellow Traders
The greatest tool in your arsenal is your Risk/ Reward rules when evaluating the potential expencency and outcome of each scenario. By using this to protect your account it may help you to survive long enough to be profitable.
Risk/ reward is quite simple. If I risk $1 on a trade, I need to make on average $1.50 to be profitable. In other words, my risk is 1 and my reward 1.5, therefore it is a 1:1.5 risk/ reward ratio, which is acceptable to potentially enter a trade if it meets your criteria.
You want to try an average between 1:1.3 and 1:1.7 when looking for trade opportunities.
The Risk/ reward tool on Tradeview is excellent for evaluating and getting a proper picture of the potential upside and downside before making a decision.
I hope you enjoy the video and that I have been able to contribute to your potential success as a trader.
Please feel free to comment and reach out if you help.
Regards
Wayne_G
Two New Tools to Improve Your ProcessProcess is important. It's how you stay disciplined. It's also how you focus on the ideas and strategies that you are best at. In this post, we'll show you two tools that may help your investing or trading process.
Our New Alerts
Create an alert and then sit back and wait. Get a notification delivered to your phone, email, and browser. Right-click on your chart to add an Alert or click the Alert icon ⏰ if you're on our free mobile app. Make the markets work for you by creating alerts at important price levels.
Our team is excited to show you our new alert feature that supports dynamic messages. This is a game changer for those who understand Pine Script and the importance of alerts. You can now code alerts to display messages that dynamically adjust based on price action or other factors. Our new script alerts use an `alert()` function, which works in both strategies and studies. To get started with this, open the Pine Editor at the bottom of your chart while on a desktop computer. To learn more about this, read our launch blog post here.
New Watchlist Features
We know how important your Watchlist is. That's why we recently launched Sections and made it easy to add symbols to your list. To get started, open TradingView on your desktop computer and then right-click on your Watchlist. Then select either of these two options: Add Sections or Add Symbol. Sections will create a divider on your Watchlist with a custom name. This tool will help you better organize your Watchlist. If you click Add Symbol you will be directed to add a symbol of your choice to that exact point on your list. By the way, if you're reading this from our mobile app, you can press and hold on any symbol to remove, flag or open a chart. Pro tip: your watchlist syncs perfectly between your mobile phone and computer. Take your watchlist anywhere.
We hope you enjoyed this post! If you have any questions or comments, please write them below. Our team wants to help and we listen to your feedback.
Implementing Heiken Ashi CandlesKEY POINTS:
Heikin-Ashi is a candlestick pattern technique that aims to reduce some of the market noise, creating a chart that highlights trend direction better than typical candlestick charts.
The downside to Heikin-Ashi is that some price data is lost with averaging, which could affect risk.
Long down candles with little upper shadow represent strong selling pressure. Long up candles with small or no lower shadows signal strong buying pressure.
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When paired with risk management tools, trading indicators can give you a clear insight into price movements. Heiken Ashi candlesticks resemble a typical Japanese candlestick, but several details differ from the traditional candlestick chart.
Every Heiken Ashi candlestick has an upper candlewick, a shadow (lower candlewick) and a body – much like the Japanese candlesticks.
However, a bar in the Heiken Ashi starts from the middle of the one before it and not where the previous one closed-a significant distinction.
Each candle has a high, low, open and close, and thus the Heiken Ashi formula has four segments.The opening level is the midpoint of the previous bar; the Close of each bar is the average of high, low, open and close.
If you’re aiming to catch persistent trends, then Heiken Ashi will be valuable.
NOTE:
However, day traders who need to exploit quick price moves may find Heikin-Ashi charts are not responsive enough to be useful. Also, due to no price gaps within Heikin-Ashi candlestick charts, risk management is harder to monitor. Using additional methods to watch risk is advised.
The formula for calculating Heikin-Ashi candlesticks is as follows:
Open= (Open of previous bar+ Close of previous bar)/2
Close = (Open + Close + High + Low)/4
High = the Maximum Price Reached
Low = Minimum Price Reached
*Hope this helped refresh your knowledge of Heikin-Ashi candlesticks or showed you a new trading strategy to use.
Three Ways To Make Better Decisions in MarketsBefore we dive in, it’s important to share a few more words about who we are. We empower traders and investors with professional-grade tools, charts, news, and global data that was once only available to select groups. Our tools are available to everyone on desktop or mobile. Our goal is to empower traders and investors to grow over the long run. 💪
The key driver behind this post is that you don’t want to rush anything before understanding what's at risk, your goals and long-term plan. We realize that in spite of our efforts and intentions, sometimes people get swayed by irresponsible posts across social media, inevitably leading to unmet expectations. We want to help people avoid this. So let's talk about three ways to make better decisions in markets. Remember, this post is strictly for education in a very fascinating time in market history! Keep reading... 👇
1) Do not blindly follow someone else’s opinion without doing your own research. Use the tools available to you to learn, study, and analyze markets.
Our social network is big and growing. We encourage everyone to publish their first idea, try chats, and follow others. It's never been a better time to meet fellow traders, learn with them, and grow. But as social media converges with markets, there are several important risks to discuss. Avoid picking up bad habits, being swayed by popular opinion, and succumbing to peer pressure. Avoid doing something you have not given critical thought to, objectively analyzed or evaluated yourself. These risks can include trading before you are ready, overtrading due to the abundance of ideas, putting up bigger positions than your account can handle, and changing your mind mid-trade. Keep calm and think first. Take advantage of the tools available to you whether that's backtesting, paper trading, or looking for other opinions that challenge your thesis.
2) Do not expect easy profits just because everyone is talking about it. Instead look for peer review, meaningful connections, and ways to test your own ideas.
No matter how many likes an idea receives, no matter how confident its author may appear or how many chat messages are being shared, there is no guarantee markets will play out as planned. It makes more sense to first review, study, and research an idea yourself to see if it fits your long-term plan. The bottom line is this: someone else’s view should never be relied upon as a substitute for you doing your own analysis before making actual trading decisions. Our social network is best used for peer-review, new connections, and critical feedback to help develop your strategies and understanding of markets. We have a education section dedicated to this. We also have a community of Pine Coders coding the markets. The community here is meant to help you with feedback, ideas, and new concepts.
3) Do not ask for blind real-time signals in chats or comments aiming for easy gains. Instead focus on building your long-term strategy and maintaining a realistic approach.
As social media and financial markets converge, more and more people are expecting easy answers on when to buy or sell. In our public chats (you can find them on the right-hand side of the platform) we encourage people to keep this mind and dig deeper. You won’t learn anything from asking buy or sell questions. You have to study, research, and examine price action beforehand. Our social networking tools offer great opportunities to talk in real-time and exchange opinions, views, and research. Using them the right way will help you grow as a trader and learn from others over the long haul. But making hurried trading decisions based on flimsy trade calls is rarely a good idea. Just don’t do it!
There’s no better way to learn than by immersing yourself in an environment that exposes you to many different ideas, conversations, and strategies. We hope that our platform boosts your knowledge of markets while allowing you to perfect your craft. Insights from others can also help you make better decisions, but only if used in a thoughtful manner that focuses on patience, process, and education. In addition, always remember that you have the tools right in front of you to perform your best research.
Thank you for reading! We look forward to hearing your thoughts below. 🙏