When you see the market picking up velocity towards one direction, that’s price momentum. Spotting such momentum is a great skill regardless of your trading style. Equipped with this ability, you can react nimbly with a higher chance of staying on the right side of the market. There are many ways to judge momentum. For […]
The Floor Trader Trading System
The Floor Trader Trading System is an interesting retracement strategy discussed on the defunct website Trading-Naked. It employs a simple recipe. First, it uses two moving averages to determine the trend. Then, it takes advantage of a price pullback to enter the market. But don’t let its simplicity deceive you; there are subtle factors you […]
Trading Candlestick Patterns With Relative Strength Index (RSI)
In Steve Nison’s well-known work, Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, he included a section on using candlesticks with oscillators including stochastics, RSI, and moving average oscillator. Crucially, he observed that oscillators are objective and augment the more subjective candlestick patterns. This review will focus on trading candlestick patterns with Welles Wilder’s Relative Strength Index (RSI). This popular […]
Improved Three Bar Pullback Pattern
Trading pullbacks are very popular among price action traders. However, while pullback trading is a simple concept, you’ll find many different strategies due to the myriad ways to qualify trends and pullbacks. This article will examine one of the simplest methods to identify a pullback using only price action: the three-bar pullback. In the Futures […]
How To Trade Reversals By Spotting The Big Players With Volume Spikes
If you’re reading this, you’re likely to be a minor player in the market. For small retail traders, one way to succeed in the market is to observe demand and supply. And the best way to do so is to follow the big players. Who are the big players? The banks? The hedge funds? The […]
A Plain and Simple Trend Line Channel Trading Strategy
Trend line channel – it is a simple tool based on plain ol’ price action. However, with some practice, you can boost your market analysis with this elegant and powerful tool – a pair of lines that highlights the market trend, trade entry, and exit. What more can a minimalist trader ask for? Or what […]
