1. Price action represents collective human behaviour. Human behaviour in
the market creates some specific patterns on the charts. So price action
trading is really about understanding the psychology of the market using
those patterns. That’s why you see price hits support levels and bounces
back up. That’s why you see price hits resistance levels and heads down.
Why? Because of collective human reaction!
2. Price action gives structure to the forex market. You can’t predict with
100% accuracy where the market will go next. However with price action,
you can, to an extent predict where the market can potentially go. This is
because price action brings structure. So if you know the structure, you can
reduce the uncertainty to some extent and predict with some degree of
certainty where the market will go next.
3. Price Action helps reduce noise and false signals. If you are trading with
stochastic or CCI indicators etc, they tend to give too false signals. This is
also the case with many other indicators. Price action helps to reduce these
kinds of false signals. Price action is not immune to false signals but it is a
much better option than using other indicators…which are essentially
derived from the raw price data anyway. Price action also helps to reduce
“noise”. What is noise? Market noise is simply all the price data that
distorts the picture of the underlying trend… this is mostly due to small price
corrections as well as volatility.
One of the best ways to minimize market noise is to trade from larger timeframes instead of trading from smaller timeframes. See the 2 charts below to see what I mean:
And now, compare market noise in the 4hr chart (notice the white box on the chart? That equates to the area of the 5min chart above!):
Smaller timeframes tend to have too much noise and many traders get lost trading in smaller timeframes because they do not understand that the big trend in the larger timeframe is the one that actually drives what happens in the smaller timeframes.
But having said that, I do trade in smaller timeframes by using trading setups that happen in larger timeframes. I do this to get in at a better price point and keep my stop loss tight. This is called multi-timeframe trading and I will also cover this on future to show you exactly how it’s done. Is Price Action Applicable To Any Other Market? The answer is yes. All the price action trading stuff described here are applicable to all markets. In here, I will be mostly be talking in terms of using price action in the currency market but as I’ve mentioned, the concepts are universal and can be applied to any financial market. Price Action Trading Allows You To Trade With An Edge.
Well, put simply it means you need to trade when the odds are in your favour.
Things like:
• Trading with the trend
• Trading With Price Action Using reliable chart patterns and candlestick
patterns.
• Trading using Support and resistance levels.
• Making your winners larger than your losing trades
• Trading only in larger timeframes
• Waiting patiently for the right trade setups and not chasing trades.
All these kinds of things above helps you to trade with an edge. They may not be
exiting and probably you’ve heard of these before but hey…this stuff is what
separates winners from losers.
What Price Action Trading Is Not
• Price action trading will not make
you rich…but price action trading
with proper risk management can
make you a profitable trader. Some
of you will go through this guide and
learn and make much money but
some of you will fail. That’s just the
way life is.
• Price action trading is not the holy
grail but it sure does beat using
other indicators (most of which
often lag and a derived from price
action anyway!).
• Price action trading will not make
you an overnight success. You need to put in the hard yards, observe and see how price reacts and see those repetitive patterns and then have the
confidence to trade them then you will be rewarded for that.
If you are one of those that are going to learn from this course and apply it to
your forex trading, my hats off to you and I say “go and succeed.”
Chart time
You need chart time to understand Price Action. For some of you, it may take a
while for you to understand, while some of you may be very quick to learn.
Observe the price action of the market. Go back to the past and see how the
market had behaved. What caused it to behave that way? You cannot be a
confident price action trader until you do this.
If you could simply read the charts well enough to be able to enter at the exact
times when the move would take off and not come back, then you would have a
huge advantage.
Trend lines, specific candlestick patterns, specific chart patterns, Fibonacci
retracement levels & support and resistance levels…these are the tools I use to
trade.
If you put the time and effort into learning them, it won’t be long before you will
begin to understand and see how all these things fit together.
Start learning to trade naked price action.
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