When volatility ramps up, markets can get exceedingly trickier to trade. Which side of the market (buying or selling) might provide better trading opportunities? Should you go long or short? What might be a good price point to enter or
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Day Trading Strategy: Using ATR to Set Profit Targets
It may seem a bit strange to think that stop loss targets may be easier to identify than profit targets. Traders often place stop losses at support or resistance levels (depending on whether they are going long or short). If
Day Trading Strategy: The Risk of Dollar-Based Stops
Stop loss strategies can play a significant role in managing your trading risk. To protect yourself against unfavorable market movements, particularly sudden and volatile movements, it might be wise to always trade with a stop loss. But stop losses can
Using Bollinger Bands & Swing Patterns on a Trending Market
In a previous post, we discussed a technique to use Bollinger Bands to fade what might be interpreted as “extreme” market moves, anticipating that price might revert back to the “average” as measured by a Bollinger Band’s moving average line.
Market Replay: Crude Oil CLV18 on August 27, 2018
Market Replay is a hypothetical study that explores how a given market might have been traded using a strict price action-based approach. Some trades might have yielded favorable results while others might have been less favorable. We reveal both. CLV18
Swing Trading Strategies: How You Might Have Shorted Gold
Like any other form of speculation, swing trading can never guarantee success. It can give you exposure to more frequent opportunities than long-term investing, and it might give you more time to plan your trades using both technical and fundamental
Trading Psychology: Should You “Trust Your Gut” While Trading?
We’ve all heard the saying “trust your gut.” Many of us do this more often than we realize. Trusting your gut means looking inward, beyond the noisy chatter of thought, and toward that fuzzy space of perception–a mix of instinct,
Using Pin Bars and Bollinger Bands to Trade a Volatile Sideways Market
Trading a volatile and non-trending market is a dangerous proposition. There’s no trend. No evident direction. No apparent patterns or formations other than “noise” between two ranges of support and resistance. Although trading itself comes with considerable risk, trading a
Day Trading Strategy: Catching Explosive Moves in the ES
Day trading can be an exceedingly fast and nerve-racking endeavor. It’s easy to miss a relatively big move if you’re not paying attention. And the pace gets even faster the smaller your time frame gets (e.g. tick, one-minute, or even
Devise a Top-Down Trading Plan
How a Bottom-Up Approach Can Introduce More Risk Into Your Trading Let’s suppose that you just learned a new trading strategy. The back-tested results seem acceptable, so you decide to try it out on a trading demo. Overall, your “simulated”