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Continue reading →: Trading Skills #9: ExperienceQuote There is a quote I read the other day: “Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.” Now in trading, bad decisions cost time and money.A And we all want to minimize it (not eliminate it.) But how to minimize bad decisions but maximize experience? How…
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Continue reading →: Trader Skills #8: 1st Reversal Likely MinorIntro In a previous post I have covered the same principle from a different angle. My intention is that it will support the selection of higher probability (higher %) trade selection. See: Trader Skills #4: Two Attempts Concept – Market cycle -> Breakout -> Tight Channel. – Next market structure =…
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Continue reading →: Trader Skills #7 : ChannelsIntro Ah sweet channels. – They are the bane of a beginner trader I believe. – Yet now they are my favorite areas to trade. – For they look so obvious after the fact. – If you really connected every possible channel on the chart, you would be unable to…
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Continue reading →: Indicator: Session Time Bar Counting / HighlightingThis indicator helps highlight a RTH timeframe on a 24 hours instrument. Ie FTSE and DAX cash index but you want to only trade the higher volume times https://www.tradingview.com/script/GbFjgRwg-Session-Bar-Counting
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Continue reading →: Indicator: Outside Bars and Inside BarsThis one is useful for scalping in TTR markets. There are many settings. I’ll write another post on it soon. Here is the link: https://www.tradingview.com/script/ssNFoEU5-Zen-OB-IB-v8/
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Continue reading →: Indicator: Bar CountingHere is a bar counting indicator to help highlight x number of bars. This can help you see the HTF, 15min chart while staying on the 5 min. https://www.tradingview.com/script/ttkvUEVN-Zen-Bar-Count-v1 Enjoy!
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Continue reading →: Indicator: Z Bars (Big Bars)Concept Link here: https://www.tradingview.com/script/tyYbvaQj-Zen-Z-Bars-V1 There are a whole bunch of setting you can play with. Examples Trading Range Day
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Continue reading →: Day Trader Skills #2: Open – Testing Yesterday’s OHLC MagnetsConcept A common pattern on the open is a reaction to the OHLC of yesterday’s price action. In particular, the High(H) and Low (L). This is not a surprise considering every bar on the chart is testing the H and L of the bars before it. The market will often…
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Continue reading →: Day Trader Skills #1: The Opening RangeIntro One skill that helps me trade is the ability to read the opening range. Definition The Opening Range is ambiguous. But for my purposes here I use the following: Principles that help me find trades: Example Charts Here are some charts showing the mark up I like to practice…
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Continue reading →: Trader Skills #6: Micro Timeframe (LTF)Summary – Practice seeing the timeframe below your trading time to improve entries and exits. – A High 2 on the 5 min might be a wedge bottom breakout pullback on the 1 min chart. – Practice until you do not have to zoom in. Example:
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Continue reading →: Trader Skills #4: Two AttemptsIntro If at first you don’t succeed. Try again! In our PA training we learn to look for two attempts. We look for a 2nd reversal. Now sometimes this 2nd reversal attempt gets a test, we call a 3-push pattern / wedge but really I see it as a test…
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Continue reading →: Trader Skills #5: The 80% RuleSummary – 80% of reversals fail in Trends – 80% of Breakouts fail in Trading Ranges – Having guidelines for determining what we are in on the trading timeframe helps increase probability and point count. The Second Entry – A common entry technique relates to the “2 attempts” principle. This…
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Continue reading →: Trader Skills #3: Traps and Escape HatchIntro – What is a trap? – First, it doesn’t really exist. There is no external force trapping anyone. Paranoia will not make trading easier. – Because no one knows what the next bar is, it is always a surprise. – Good traders understand probability and have a range of…
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Continue reading →: Trader Skills #2: Urgency – Big BarsIntro Big Bars – Explanation: Urgency – Explanation: Here is a video for the indicator: Mark up example: https://www.tradingview.com/x/6y8bjqaG/ https://www.tradingview.com/x/b9X8bxEy/
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Continue reading →: Indicator: GapsHere is a gap indicator I put together. It shows gaps of many kinds: Link: https://www.tradingview.com/script/kydtsICb-Zen-Gaps/
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Continue reading →: Indicator: Reversal and FTIndicator and link Link https://www.tradingview.com/script/smrTSvcf-Zen-Reversal-and-Followthrough-Rev-FT-Research Concepts One of the main principles of price action trading is that of 2 attempts. – This applies to breakouts – This also applies to reversal attempts. Here I will discuss reversal attempts. Putting it together Like any discipline, once we understand one concept on…
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Continue reading →: Indicator: Microgap Reversals (MIG Reversal)MIG Reversal – Bull MIG Reversal – Bear See earlier post for the download for the indicator. Set indicator settings to:
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Continue reading →: Indicator: rEMA (Rainbow EMA)Credit to Ali Moin-Afshari for his awesome material here. This indicator colours the moving average (MA) when there are consecutive bars. It helped me to stop making so many mistakes at the MA. Link is here. https://www.tradingview.com/script/pQlmaHqq-Zen-rEMA-v2
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Continue reading →: What is Zen?Intro This question has fascinated me since I was child trying to read my Dad’s book about it. That’s 30+ years. My best answer right now is: Zen is a lifestyle meditation. Zen is also my nickname Given to me by my martial art brother Double Dragon, 15 years ago.…
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Continue reading →: Trader Skills #1: Drill ListIntro Today I did a workout from La Serra High School PE Program – it was a system developed in the 60s. But by doing it everyday, the high school kids could complete physical feats in under one year that most pro athletes cannot do today. It got me thinking…
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Continue reading →: Indicator: 3 Consecutive Bars– This indicator helps identify sets of bars for designing trading strategies. – It can help identify breakouts for trading a second leg in that direction. – It can help identify spikes, for spike and channels trend entries. – And the opposite – it can help find spike failures and…
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Continue reading →: Indicator: Trading the Open – Consecutive barsHere is an indicator which highlights if the first 3 bars are in the same direction. You can use it to research opening strategies. Strategies to consider: – How often does the first move fail? 50% – How to get in? One way is to put a 3-Split Fib on…
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