How many times have you caught a powerful burst of market momentum in your trades? Did you hesitate to grab your profits? How often did you end up giving back a huge chunk of your paper profits to the market? Profit-taking is critical for momentum traders. Momentum does not last long. Not grabbing your profits […]
7 Powerful Tips for Trading Breakouts
Trading breakouts is a popular trading method that captivates the attention of many new traders. It’s not surprising given that it throws up quick profits – when you get it right. Trading a breakout is not as easy as it seems. Breakout trades look notoriously easy when you look at a chart after a breakout. […]
How To Analyze Price Momentum With Micro Channel Trend Lines
Being able to spot price momentum is a great skill regardless of your trading style. Equipped with this ability, you will be able to stay on the right side of the market. There are many ways to judge momentum. You can use the momentum indicator. Or you can watch price action carefully. After all, momentum, […]
Active Trading with the StochRSI Indicator
StochRSI is a portmanteau of two common oscillators: Stochastic and Relative Strength Index (RSI). It nests the RSI indicator within the Stochastic indicator. Sounds suspicious. Sounds like a fanciful indicator that obscures price action. Something to stay away from. But before you take to your heels (and miss a useful tool), let’s take a closer […]
3 Useful Tips for Intraday Price Action Trading
Price action trading is especially useful for day traders. This is because in day trading, timing is crucial. By timing your entries with market tipping points, it is possible to profit from swift trades. Price action offers the natural tool for timing market entries. Even when we are wrong, well-timed entries help to limit our […]
4-Hour MACD Forex Trading Strategy
Philip Nel started a thread at ForexFactory forum discussing the 4-hour MACD Forex Trading Strategy. It is an impressive forum thread. It began in 2007 and it is still active now. (It has 1338 pages and growing.) This trading strategy focuses on finding patterns (for e.g. double top and head and shoulders) on the MACD […]
