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Fading the Fakeout – How to Trade Against False Breakouts

Unless there’s some change in fundamentals, asset prices don’t tend to change that quickly that often. But sentiment perpetually swings ...
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How to Spot Counter Attack Line Opportunities

What is a Counter Attack Line? A counter attack line happens when there’s a price gap between the close and ...
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ABCD Patterns – Harmonic Chart Trading

The ABCD is possibly the most widely known chart pattern and is the building block of many others. There are ...
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Simple Forward Collar Strategy

The forward collar is a trade-off strategy, with it you give up some upside gains in return for protecting downside ...
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Bearish Crab, Bullish Crab – Trading Systems for Harmonic Patterns

Crab patterns often start to unfold when a market is making its highest high or lowest low in an established ...
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Advantages of Trading Currency Futures vs Cash

One of the questions that a forex trader may ask is should I trade spot or futures? This article compares ...
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Basic Rules for Trading the Harmonic Butterfly

The butterfly is a harmonic chart pattern which you can use to trade possible trend reversals. Relatively new, it was ...
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Why Day Trading Needs to be Boring

An abundance of information as well as easy access to markets has made the idea of becoming a day trader ...
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Basics of Harmonic Chart Patterns in Forex

Most of the technical chart patterns like heads and shoulders, double tops, triangles and so on are defined mainly by ...
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The 5 Biggest Mistakes New Forex Traders Make and How to Avoid Them

Anyone who does it for a living would tell you that day trading certainly isn’t a way to easy riches ...
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Market Blow Offs: How to Identify and Profit from Bubbles and Crashes

As we've seen recently asset bubbles can appear anywhere, whether stocks, bonds, oil prices, real estate, or high interest rate ...
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Arbitrage, Bearish Reversal, Blow Off, Bubbles, Crash, Learning / 2 Comments on Market Blow Offs: How to Identify and Profit from Bubbles and Crashes

Belt Hold Patterns

Belt holds are a useful class of chart pattern because they highlight areas where market sentiment may be changing. As ...
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The Bounce Trade: How to Profit from Price Bounces

One reason we are interested in lines of support and lines of resistance in a chart is that they can ...
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Bollinger Bands, Pivots, Price Bounce, Reversal Patterns, Strategies / 1 Comment on The Bounce Trade: How to Profit from Price Bounces

A Simple Triple Screen System for Trading Multi Timeframes

The triple screen system was first proposed by Elder as a stock trading strategy - but it’s regularly used in ...
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Multiple Timeframe Trade Analysis – Triple Screen and other Approaches

When working with a trading platform, we usually become accustomed to looking at charts in just one particular timeframe. Perhaps ...
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Working with Renko Charts: Trends, Channels, Supports and Resistance

Renko charts are an alternative to candle and line charts. They summarize price movements as simple patterns which can be ...
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Renko Charts Explained: How they Work and What they Are Used For

Renko charts are a great way to analyze the market from a completely different perspective. If you like to cut ...
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SMA and EMA Crossover: Moving Average Trading Strategies

Perhaps one of the simplest trading strategies of all is that of the moving average crossover. Simple and exponential crossover ...
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Dangers of the Margin Call and 5 Ways to Protect Yourself

The term “margin call” comes from the days when a brokerage firm would call a client on the phone and ...
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The Inverted Hammer and Its Reliability in Currency Charts

The inverted hammer is the fourth and final in a group of four related Japanese candlestick patterns: the hammer, inverted ...
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Bullish Reversals, Candlesticks, Hammers, Inverted Hammer / 1 Comment on The Inverted Hammer and Its Reliability in Currency Charts