Market's do not trend all the time. After a strong trend in either direction, the market goes into consolidation mode where it chops between a range for weeks to months trapping both sides. It is best to sit on the sidelines as getting the direction right in such a situation doesn't provide the best risk:reward
It is crucial to understand the price action prior to a high impact news event. Analysing the range to the left beforehand can help you determine what move is likely to come next. In this example, we saw the price was driven down by the bears to stop out buyers, only to reverse immediately to the upside moments after the news had been released. By studying and...
Sometimes we can get so caught up in the fear of missing out on the breakout that we forget it could be a trap. It is always crucial to listen to your intuition when you see these easy setups because more often than not they are more complex than they seem. In this example, a breakout occurred and buyers put stops below the last structure, a few days later this...
Institutional investors have a profound impact on financial instruments prices because of their large volume trading activities. They can greatly impact the price of financial instruments, however making a material impact and hence decreasing liquidity to the point where there may be no one to take the other side of the trade is not something they desire. To fill...
If we see a pattern form that retail likes to trade, It is highly likely that this pattern may get manipulated. The reason these common patterns get manipulated is because of liquidity forming. Banks want to make sure they can create enough liquidity for themselves to get positioned nicely in the market. They do this by driving the price up/down into stop loss...
Traps : When price is manipulated in order to capture liquidity, with misinformation, for instance in this case the buy orders @ 139.800 were completely hidden from the market, meaning information is not available at all for retail traders, why did they do this? In order to accumulate liquidity and give fake hopes to buyers, accumulating all positions with "Fake...
Question during my cooking show live stream was how do i determine a trap or a fake out? First of all i think everyone that trades a different methodology determines a fake out in their own way depending on their methodology the retail traders trades. Using the Supply demand methodology i explain how i determine traps. When i pull up a chart and i see an area...
Once and for all, dont trust them
I'll post my Ninjatrader charts for trade entries. This is the kind of setup I want to wait for vs fighting the grind on NQ today. I'm a momentum trader, and momentum comes from traps and/or tipping points. I don't want price to ever come back to my entry and I don't believe in wide stops. Before taking entries, ask yourself about the market state. Is it...