GBPUSD (reference/tactics/Master the markets exert)
Price is ALWAYS going to be drawn towards the path of least resistance. I did not make this up. For a more academic explanation please refer to Tom Williams free text titled "Master the markets" on page 40... here is the exert:
"The following points represent the path of least resistance:
• If selling has decreased on any down-move, the market will then want to go up (no selling pressure).
• If buying has decreased on any up-move, the market will want to fall (no demand),
Both these points represent the path of least resistance.
• It takes an increase of buying, on up-days (or bars), to force the market up.
• It takes an increase of selling, on down-days (or bars), to force the market down.
• No selling pressure (no supply) indicates that there is not an increase in selling on any down-move.
• No demand (no buying), shows that there is little buying on any up-move.
Bull moves run longer than bear moves because traders like to take profits. This creates a resistance to upmoves. However, you cannot have a bear market develop from a bull market until the stock bought on the lows has been sold (distributed). Resistance in a bull move represents selling.
The professional does not like to have to keep buying into resistance, even if he is bullish. He also wants to take the path of least resistance.
To create the path of least resistance he may have to gap-up, shake-out, test, and so on, or he may do nothing at that moment, allowing the market to just drift.
Bear markets run faster than bull markets because a bear market has no support from the major players.
Most traders do not like losses and refuse to sell, hoping for a recovery.
They may not sell until forced out on the lows. Refusing to sell and accepting small losses, the trader becomes locked-in and then becomes a weak holder, waiting to be shaken out on the lows"
Sources of education:
Richard Wyckoff
Tom Williams Volume spread analysis VSA/ Master the Markets
Pete Faders VSA* Sam Seiden (supply and demand)
Read the ticker dot com
Wyckoff analytics
PsychFX
MentFX
Element 15 trades (bitchute/odessy)
Avoid buying into weakness/supply/resistance
Avoid selling into strength/demand/support
Avoid entry when price is in middle of a range (phase B)
"The following points represent the path of least resistance:
• If selling has decreased on any down-move, the market will then want to go up (no selling pressure).
• If buying has decreased on any up-move, the market will want to fall (no demand),
Both these points represent the path of least resistance.
• It takes an increase of buying, on up-days (or bars), to force the market up.
• It takes an increase of selling, on down-days (or bars), to force the market down.
• No selling pressure (no supply) indicates that there is not an increase in selling on any down-move.
• No demand (no buying), shows that there is little buying on any up-move.
Bull moves run longer than bear moves because traders like to take profits. This creates a resistance to upmoves. However, you cannot have a bear market develop from a bull market until the stock bought on the lows has been sold (distributed). Resistance in a bull move represents selling.
The professional does not like to have to keep buying into resistance, even if he is bullish. He also wants to take the path of least resistance.
To create the path of least resistance he may have to gap-up, shake-out, test, and so on, or he may do nothing at that moment, allowing the market to just drift.
Bear markets run faster than bull markets because a bear market has no support from the major players.
Most traders do not like losses and refuse to sell, hoping for a recovery.
They may not sell until forced out on the lows. Refusing to sell and accepting small losses, the trader becomes locked-in and then becomes a weak holder, waiting to be shaken out on the lows"
Sources of education:
Richard Wyckoff
Tom Williams Volume spread analysis VSA/ Master the Markets
Pete Faders VSA* Sam Seiden (supply and demand)
Read the ticker dot com
Wyckoff analytics
PsychFX
MentFX
Element 15 trades (bitchute/odessy)
Avoid buying into weakness/supply/resistance
Avoid selling into strength/demand/support
Avoid entry when price is in middle of a range (phase B)