The 2025 TradingView Community Awards Are OfficialThe markets were loud in 2025.
Throughout the year, the TradingView community shared ideas, challenged narratives, built tools, and kept discussions moving forward.
Let us show you what we mean by that.
📊 2025 by the Numbers
Last year, the community delivered at scale.
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✔️ Public ideas published: 383,555
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Millions of charts, opinions, debates, code snippets, and insights filled the platform throughout the year.
🏆 The 2025 Winners
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These ideas, educators, scripts, and posts stood out in 2025.
🚀 Most Boosted Ideas
These ideas earned the strongest community support through boosts.
Comprehensive Bitcoin Analysis for 2025 by @tradecitypro
BITCOIN Breaks Higher. Is $106K the Next Target? by @DanielM
Dead Bitcoin Soon Will Break 92K Support. Bye 100K and Hi 80K by @MMBTtrader
🎬 Most Boosted Video Ideas
These video ideas captured attention and momentum.
CM. The Best Method I’ve Found for Finding Stocks That Move by @ChrisMoody
Trading BTC With a Solid Plan Is Crucial for Success. Here’s Mine by @fxtraderanthony
Gold Long Again. Completion of Double Combination by @yuchaosng
📚 Most Boosted Educators
Clear explanations and structured thinking defined these educational ideas.
Indicator Design 101 by @ChartPrime
Chart Patterns. How to Read Them Like a Pro by @Louigi_24
How Whales Manipulate Markets. A Trader’s Guide to Succeed by @TheWhaleSM
💬 Most Commented Ideas
These ideas sparked some of the most active discussions of the year.
TESLA. It’s Not Only EV Cars. Elon Musk Predicting 1000% Growth by @David_Perk
BTC Is in the Final Trap Before the Crash. Wyckoff Phase C by @EXCAVO
Gold bulls take control as geopolitical risk take center stage! by @Blueberry
🎥 Most Commented Video Ideas
These videos turned comment sections into full discussions.
MOASS. WC 26.90 Target 1800 to 2400. MOASS 47K to 100K by @Heartbeat_Trading
Gold Set for a Big Move. Key Zones and CPI Impact Explained by @ArmanShabanTrading
TSLA in Big Trouble by @ThinkFastTrades
🎓 Most Commented Education Ideas
Educational content that encouraged questions, debate, and deeper understanding.
Fibonacci Retracement. Quick Guide in Five Steps by @King_BennyBag
The Ultimate Guide to Smart Money Reversals by @TehThomas
Mastering Fair Value Gaps. How to Use Them in Trading by @Youriverse
🧠 Users With the Most Minds Posted
Consistent contribution stood at the center of these profiles.
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masonstocks with 2,614 Minds
beyond50 with 2,520 Minds
🧠 Most Upvoted Minds Posts
Community humor and self awareness resonated strongly this year.
I think the gold price depends on me. If I buy it falls. If I sell it rises. by @Goldsniper888
If I get 25 likes in this post I will divorce my wife and dedicate my life just to day trade. by @TheTradingProdigy
When I buy it goes down. When I sell it goes up. by @arshadalitmk
⚙️ Most Boosted Public Pine Scripts
These scripts gained widespread adoption across the platform.
Smart Money Breakout Channels by @AlgoAlpha
Support and Resistance Power Channel by @ChartPrime
Dynamic Swing Anchored VWAP by @Zeiierman
💬 Most Commented Public Pine Scripts
These scripts generated thoughtful discussion and feedback.
Smart Money Concepts Advanced by @robbatt
High Volume Points by @BigBeluga
Wyckoff Event Detection by @AlphaExtract
🏅 Best Editors’ Picks 2025
Indicators
Footprint IQ Pro by @Trading-IQ
Multi Asset Similarity Matrix by @RicardoSantos
SIP Evaluator and Screener by @Trendoscope
Libraries
LogNormal by @liquid-trader
Timezone by @n00btraders
pymath by @kaigouthro
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Trading thrives through shared insight and open discussion. The 2025 winners shaped conversations, refined ideas, and raised the quality of content across TradingView. But it wasn’t just them.
Thank you to everyone who contributed this year. Here’s to a more successful, louder, and exciting 2026. WTI Holds $100 Threshold Ahead of US-Iran DeadlineAs we enter Q2 2026, crude oil prices continue to point toward further upside risks in line with ongoing energy disruptions in the Middle East, despite headlines on potential de escalations.
From a price action perspective, crude is:
• Holding above the 2023 highs and resistance at $91–93 per barrel
• Showing a strong rejection from the $84 zone
• Persistently Closing near the $100 mark as markets enter the sixth week of the Middle East conflict, keeping the upside scenario favored at the start of the quarter
Bullish scenario
A close above 110 on WTI and 115 on Brent would extend upside projections toward the 118 yearly high and further into the 135–150 range, signaling continued disruption to energy supply, infrastructure, and alternative routing around Hormuz. Upside levels are forecasted via the Fibonacci extension tool placed between the lows of 2020, highs of 2022, and lows of 2025.
Bearish scenario
A close below 89 would extend short-term downside risks toward the 82 and 74 zones, aligning with the highs of 2025 and previous Middle East conflict levels, where support may emerge. A break below these levels could shift price action back toward the $60 zone, in line with broader policy-driven normalization.
Written by Razan Hilal, CMT
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Why Your Best-Laid Plan Falls Apart the Moment Markets Get ScaryYou built the plan on a quiet Sunday evening. Entry, stop loss, take profit, position size.
You identified support levels, the price zones where buyers have historically stepped in to halt a decline. You noted resistance, the ceiling where sellers tend to show up.
The setup was clean, logical, and backtested. By Monday morning, gold OANDA:XAUUSD was out and about whipsawing and crushing your best-laid plan.
That’s trading in a stressed market. It’s where the rules exist, but they don’t apply.
🏚️ What Markets and Societies Have in Common
Think about what happens to a city under genuine stress. A storm, a blackout, a crisis of some kind. The ordinary rhythms disappear. Shops that open at nine suddenly close at noon.
Social contracts that hold effortlessly in calm conditions require active enforcement when fear enters the picture. The usual patterns of daily life do not vanish permanently. They suspend, because survival instinct has temporarily overridden routine.
Markets behave the same way. And it’s true in just about every asset. But especially true in the crowded trades where stocks can flicker deep in green and then switch the color to deep red. We’ve got the stock heatmap for that.
In normal conditions, technical levels tend to work because enough participants believe in them and act accordingly. Support tends to hold because traders expect it to hold and buy there.
Resistance caps rallies because traders expect it to cap and sell there. The pattern is partly self-fulfilling. It works because enough people are playing by the same rulebook, watching for the same chart patterns .
When genuine fear enters a market, the rulebook goes in the drawer. Participants shift from optimizing returns to preserving capital. Institutions reduce exposure regardless of price.
Forced sellers, traders or funds liquidating positions to meet margin calls, meaning demands from brokers to deposit more cash when losses mount, sell at whatever price is available. The buyers who would normally show up at support are either absent or overwhelmed. Levels that held for months give way in an afternoon.
🪙 Gold's Whipsawing as a Case Study
Gold's recent behavior is a clean illustration of a stressed asset doing stressed-asset things. The metal had surged hundreds of dollars before the Iran conflict escalated, trading above $5,000. War, uncertainty, inflation risk: gold is supposed to benefit from all three.
Then it dropped more than $400 in a few hours, crashing through the support level that had held for days.
The support zone did not hold. The safe haven narrative inverted. Traders sold gold to raise cash, the dollar strengthened , and a level that looked like a floor became, briefly, just a number the price passed through on the way south.
In other words, the normal relationship between gold and fear broke because the players in the market were no longer behaving normally. They were in survival mode, liquidating whatever was liquid, and gold, one of the most liquid assets on the planet, was an obvious source of cash.
📐 What This Means for Your Technical Levels
Support and resistance are not laws. They are observations about where buyers and sellers have historically shown up under ordinary conditions.
When conditions stop being ordinary, those observations lose predictive power, sometimes temporarily, sometimes for an extended period.
Chart patterns that historically resolved in a predictable direction start resolving differently, or not at all, because the participants driving those patterns are focused on something other than the pattern.
The practical implication is that in high-stress, high-volatility environments, the confidence you place in any given technical level should fall alongside the reliability of the conditions that created it.
A support level formed during a calm trending market is a different animal from that same level sitting in the middle of a geopolitical shock.
⚙️ What to Do With an Unreliable Map
The answer is not to abandon technical analysis. It is to adjust position sizing sharply downward, widen stops to reflect the reality that normal volatility ranges have expanded, and accept that more trades will stop out before the thesis plays out. Or, you can play it safe, sit it out , and wait for conditions to normalize.
They usually do. Stressed markets return to recognizable behaviour once the acute fear passes and participants shift back from survival mode to strategy mode. The levels, the patterns, the rulebook, it all comes back.
Until then, trade smaller, expect less precision, and give your plan enough room to breathe in conditions that are anything but normal.
Off to you : How do you adjust your strategy in uncertain times? Share your perspective in the comments!
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Lightning Strikes Twice: A Pattern Predicting the Crypto BottomWhat Is This Chart?
The (BTC.D + ETH.D) / (USDT.D + USDC.D) ratio is one of the more elegant macro tools in the crypto analyst's toolkit. By dividing the combined dominance of Bitcoin and Ethereum against the combined dominance of the two largest stablecoins, the chart strips away price noise and reveals something more fundamental: the direction of liquidity flow. When the ratio falls, money is rotating out of the two blue-chip crypto assets and sheltering in stablecoins — a classic hallmark of risk-off sentiment and bear market conditions. When it bottoms and reverses, it has historically marked the point at which that fear reaches exhaustion, and a new bull cycle begins.
The 2020–2022 Cycle: A Five-Step Roadmap to the Bottom
Between mid-2020 and early 2023, this ratio carved out a remarkably structured topping and capitulation pattern that, in hindsight, served as a precise roadmap for the bear market's lifecycle. The pattern unfolded in five distinct steps:
Step 1–3: Three Rejections from the 50-Week EMA. As the ratio peaked in 2020 and began its decline, it made three separate attempts to reclaim its 50-week Exponential Moving Average — each one failing. Rejection 1 came in early 2020, Rejection 2 in early 2021, and Rejection 3 around mid-2022. Each rejection confirmed that the prevailing trend was down, and that liquidity was continuing its steady migration from BTC and ETH toward the safety of stablecoins. The 50-week EMA acted not as support, but as a ceiling — a recurring reminder that the bear market remained firmly in control.
Step 4: The Thunder Crash Into a Wick. Following the third rejection, the ratio entered its most dramatic phase — a sharp, accelerated decline that crashed directly into a large red weekly wick. This "thunder crash" represented a moment of peak fear and maximum outflow from blue-chips into stablecoins. Violent, fast, and accompanied by significant market-wide capitulation events, it created a long lower wick on the weekly chart — a technical signature suggesting that while sellers were briefly overwhelming buyers, the move was becoming exhausted.
Step 5: The Final Breakdown and Bottom. Rather than reversing immediately from that wick, the ratio staged one final breakdown below it — a last flush of capitulation liquidity that represented the true exhaustion of sellers. This move brought the ratio to its cycle bottom, and from there, the reversal began. Blue-chip dominance began reclaiming ground from stablecoins, signalling the quiet start of the next accumulation phase and, eventually, a new bull market.
2024–2026: The Same Pattern, Four Years Later
What makes the current setup so striking is how faithfully the ratio appears to be rhyming with the 2020–2022 sequence — almost to the calendar quarter.
Three rejections from the 50-week EMA have already printed: Rejection 1 in mid-2024, Rejection 2 in late 2024, and Rejection 3 in early 2025. Each has played out with the same character as its predecessor cycle — a brief test of the moving average, a firm denial, and a continuation lower.
Step 4 has now also printed. The thunder crash into a major red weekly wick arrived, and the ratio currently sits approximately 9% above that wick at around the 6% level — in the same structural position the 2022 setup occupied before its final capitulation leg.
What Comes Next: The Final Flush
If the pattern completes as it did in the prior cycle, the fifth and final step remains: a breakdown below the wick, representing the last wave of blue-chip-to-stablecoin rotation before the trend exhausts itself entirely.
Based on the prior cycle's proportionality and the current wick structure, a move from the current ~6% level down to approximately 3.7% would constitute this final capitulation. Given the pace at which steps 1 through 4 have unfolded, this move could reasonably materialise within the next 12 weeks — a tight but plausible window if the pattern continues to track its 2022 predecessor.
A confirmation of that bottom — particularly a weekly close back above the wick low — would, by this framework, signal that the liquidity flight from Bitcoin and Ethereum into stablecoins has run its course. Historically, that has been the starting gun for the next bull market, not its announcement, but its quiet and overlooked beginning.
A Note on Pattern Trading
No pattern repeats perfectly, and macro conditions — including regulatory shifts, ETF flows, and broader risk appetite — differ between cycles. This ratio is a sentiment and flow indicator, not a crystal ball. But as a structural framework for identifying bear market exhaustion, the 2020–2022 five-step sequence earned its credibility. If it completes again in 2025–2026, the bottom may already be closer than it feels.
Chart analysis based on the weekly (BTC.D+ETH.D)/(USDT.D+USDC.D) ratio on TradingView. Not financial advice. Short 
Trading the Stars: A $5,410 Walk-Forward SPY Case StudyWell, never in a million years would I expect to be having this conversation.
If you have followed me, you know I am all about math, statistics and science. I tend to brush of "technical analysis" and roll my eyes at things like EWT. And not because I assume they don't work, but because I have tried them and they failed me.
Well, market astrology was one thing I did more than roll my eyes at and turn my back to, and unlike the other strategies it wasn't because I had tried it. It stemmed purely from thinking anything to do with astrology was bogus and nonsense and personal bias. (Bias is the enemy in the market, especially when it erodes into your strategy!!).
I have been trading since 2018, applying multiple different strategies. Profitability for me came with the transition to math and statistics for trading, which I transitioned to around end of 2019, early 2020 (That's right, almost 3 years of doing this whole nonsense losing money constantly!). And here we are, in April of 2026, and I am about to talk to you about market "astrology"!
How did we get here? To be honest, I am not sure. This long weekend, I was randomly inspired to check the full moon and new moons' relationship to trading and market returns. Despite this being within the last 3 days, I can't for the life of me remember why I decided to try this, but I did and I went through with the analysis. And to my surprise, there was actually a significant relationship between price action and new / full moons.
So I did what I do and of course consulted AI to get its take, I shared my code and my findings. It told me that this is a well documented phenomenon, attributed it to the gravitational pull and how the moon effects the tides, it could for sure affect humans, etc. etc.
Okay, got it. Easy - ish pill to swallow. But then, the AI was like, try this code here. I tired it and it showed that certain circumstances the new moon actually caused a completely opposite effect. And so I asked, what I did wrong, thinking it was a coding error, and good ol' AI was like "Nah Bruh, these are the cases where Mercury is in Retrograde".
And that was where this little quantitative trader entered the forbidden realm of Astrology.
The Curiosity Spikes
Logically, my curiosity spiked even though hearing the term "Mercury in retrograde" sparks feelings of, well, nonsense. But because these findings were significant alone, I decided to play devil's advocate and add all of these celestial features to one of my larger predictive models that, at the time, totaled around 94 features, from fundamentals to technicals. I added all celestial features, including the zodiac signs, mercury in retrograde, new moons and full moons, etc. etc.
I then ran 2 algorithms I have to filter whether these are worth keeping or completely bogus. The first is a basic decision tree importance test, which iterates through all features and decides which ones it wants to keep because it adds substantial predictive power and which ones it wants to discard. In this case, I used Random Forest.
The next, I iterated through a similar one, but using regression. This tells me, if there is significance and it adds predictive power, what is the actual relationship to the data (i.e. does it have a positive or negative correlation).
And in those 94 and, after these additions over 100 features, wouldn't you know it, both regression and my tree based algorithm prioritized many astrological features in the top 20 most important features for predicting market behaviour.
I hope you are just as shook as I was when I looked at the screen. And just to be transparent, here are the results:
Take a look at the chart. You will see how the astrological features can hold their weight against heavy hitters like VIX, VWAP and Volatility features.
This table shows the predictive power of these features in relation to predicted the daily high price and the daily low price.
Honestly, having the conversation even a week ago, I would have been like "You're NUTS!". But alas, data doesn't lie.
And I being someone who is visual, needed to really see this. So I went ahead and coded a quick python script to plot this out:
This is 5 years of SPX data with the zodiac signs aligned and the Mercury in retrograde plotted in those red bands.
Looking at the chart, you will see right away that mercury in retrograde tends to lead to a major pivot. After retrograde, the stock tends to flip its direction for the majority of the time before the next retrograde.
And if you look closely (which will likely be hard to visualize from the image, so I will share the table below), you can see very clearly certain zodiac signs aligning with very clear sentiments.
Here is the table that outlines that:
So now the next thing, because this is all about viable strategy, is can we make this into an actual successful strategy?
And shockingly, yes. Yes we can.
The strategy is actually fairly simple. For SPX, we long the bullish zodiac signs and short the bearish signs. We hold our position right to the very end of the zodiac phase, and we set a 2% stop loss.
Here are the results:
This is with a 2% stop loss. If we tighten our stop to 1%, here are the results:
Even better!
You can theoretically optimize the strategy further by omitting the periods that have low win rates, such as Gemini which carries a lower 39% win rate.
And it gets even funnier:
The win rate on the astrology strategy is higher than any conventional technical strategy, such as RSI, Stoch or MFI. Though, its only a tad bit higher than stochastic.
Applying the Strategy
So, you want to try the strategy? You would need to calculate the average return for your ticker based on the celestial zodiac phases, if you wanted to follow the strategy exactly.
Currently, unless you can code python, there is no default indicator to do this, you would have to do it manually. However, in researching and doing this analysis, I have created one:
Which I will release in the coming days following this article, so you can apply it yourself.
You can even augment the strategy further by combining stochastics or RSI. Since stochastics has a relatively close win rate, combining the 2 dramatically increases your win rate.
In fact, I ran this in Python and the result was 18.571.79$ over 2 years with a win rate of 66.67%.
The parameters for this strategy?
Simple, before we long a bullish zodiac phase, we only long it if Stochastic is <= 20.
Before we short a bearish zodiac phase, we only short it if stoch is >= 80.
In both cases, we hold for the entire duration of the zodiac phase, which is really what augments your profits in this strategy.
Explanations
So, if you're like me, you're probably asking.. "how"? How is this a thing? And to be truthful, its impossible to know what comes first, the chicken or the egg. Initially, I chalked it up to just seasonality. However, when I compared the performance of my seasonality features, which have forever been a huge hallmark in my models, my seasonality features lifted my model prediction by only 6%. The astrology lifted the accuracy by a whopping 32%!!!! Meaning, the astrology features outperform traditional seasonality.
Make it make sense.
But there are other hypothesized rationales to the effect of astrological on the market, namely:
The influence of gravitational pulls on human behavior.
In certain zodiac phases, there is changes in the magnetic fields caused by the sun. This has been known to change behavior and increase anxiety and risk averse behavior in animals and humans.
More granular seasonality. Seasonality as we know it comes by month. However, zodiac phases and retrograde create more granular seasonal periods, that are sometimes shorter than full months and other times overlap into existing months. This can create a more zoomed in look at seasonal trends.
Conclusion
And that's it.
Wild idea, right?
And who would of thought you would have heard it from me!
Anyway, that's all for now! Hope you learned something and enjoyed.
Take care and as always, safe trades! 
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SILVER TECHNICAL POSITION: TRENDING HIGHERIn my previous Silver analysis, I expected price to move lower, with the downtrend line acting as resistance and generating a sell opportunity, which it did.
After that move, price reached the primary uptrend line, found support, and broke the downtrend line with an upside imbalance. It then retested that downtrend line from above, generating good upside separation.
Additionally, when the previous low was breached to the downside, the market could not close below it. Instead, it closed back above it with strong upside movement.
All of this leads me to conclude that this market is in a technical position to move higher in the coming days, and I see no reason to look for shorts at the moment. 
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USAR: When American magnets beat the Chinese monopolyUSA Rare Earth is building a plant in Oklahoma and owns rights to a deposit in Texas so the Pentagon stops buying rare earth magnets from China. The company went public on NASDAQ in 2024, and now everyone who follows the sector understands: rare earths are no longer about science, but about defense, tariffs, and national security.
Fundamentals
On April 2, 2026, the US imposed a 25% tariff on finished magnets and 10% on oxides. China controls 90% of the global market. This is a direct demand transfer from Chinese exporters to USAR.
The same day, the company launched the first phase of commercial production in Stillwater. Customer deliveries will begin in Q2 2026.
On March 31, a distribution agreement was signed with Arnold Magnetic Technologies. The 130-year-old company with defense and aerospace clients will sell USAR magnets through its channels.
On March 5, the deal to buy 100% of the Round Top project in Texas was closed for $73 million in stock. This is one of the largest sources of heavy rare earth metals in the US.
Balance sheet: over $400 million in cash (as of November 2025). In January 2026, the company raised $1.5 billion through a PIPE round. Another $1.6 billion is expected from the US Department of Commerce under the CHIPS Program.
Risks: the company is unprofitable (net loss for Q3 2025 was $156.7 million, including $142.4 million in non-cash items). Tariffs could be reversed with a change in administration.
Technical analysis
On the 3-day chart, price is entering the 16–17 zone. This is the golden pocket, marked on the chart as a possible OTE entry zone.
Strong diagonal support, drawn from spring 2025, is clearly marked. Price has bounced off it multiple times.
Current price: $15.92. Support at 14.07 and 12.10. Resistance at 16.33, then 20.30.
Volume on April 2: 13.2 million shares, more than double the 5–6 million average. Large players are showing interest.
Targets: first 28.24, second 32.07, main 43.98.
The market is pricing USAR on its ability to launch mass production and capitalize on tariffs. The 16–17 zone is holding, volume is high, targets are ahead.
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PEPE: ready for a meme run? key levels to watch todayPEPE, ready for another meme run or just more chop? According to the market, memecoins are back in the headlines with fresh capital rotating into high beta plays, and PEPE keeps popping up in volume screens. Today price is parked right inside a big 4H demand band, while funding and sentiment cooled off a bit after the last spike – perfect spot where smart money usually reloads, not FOMOs.
On the 4H chart I see tight consolidation above the green support zone with VPVR showing a fat node right under current price and a liquidity gap toward the upper red supply. RSI is hovering around the midline, so there’s plenty of room for an impulsive move up if buyers step in. I’m leaning long from this demand area, looking for a push toward the higher red resistance where prior wicks got stuffed.
My base plan: as long as price holds above the lower green block, I expect a grind up into that red sell zone where I’ll look to scale out. If we lose the bottom of demand with momentum, then this setup is dead for me and I’ll wait for a deeper flush before touching it. I might be wrong, but in meme land the best trades often start exactly where everyone else is bored. ✅ 7 Types of Liquidity in Gold Forex Trading Explained (SMC)
In the today's article, we will discuss 7 main types of liquidity zones every trader must know.
Just a quick reminder that a liquidity zone is a specific area on a price chart where a huge amount of trading orders concentrate.
Read carefully, because your ability to recognize and distinguish them is essential for profitable trading.
1. Fibonacci Zones
The zones based on Fibonacci levels can concentrate the market liquidity.
Classic Fibonacci retracement levels: 0,382; 0,5; 0,618; 0.786
and Fibonacci Extension levels: 1,272; 1,414; 1,618 attract market participants and the liquidity.
Above, you can see an example of a liquidity zone based on 0,618 retracement level.
The reaction of the price to that Fib.level clearly indicate the concentration of liquidity around that.
Also, there are specific areas on a price chart where Fibonacci levels of different impulse legs will match.
Such zones will be called Fibonacci confluence zones.
Fibonacci confluence zones will be more significant Fibonacci based liquidity zones.
Above, is the example of a confluence zone that is based on 0,618 and 0,5 retracement levels of 2 impulses.
The underlined area is a perfect example of a significant liquidity zone that serves as the magnet for the price.
2. Psychological Zones
Psychological zones, based on psychological price levels and round numbers, quite often concentrate the market liquidity.
Look at a psychological level on WTI Crude Oil. 80.0 level composes a significant liquidity zones that proved its significance by multiple tests and strong bullish and bearish reactions to that.
3. Volume Based Zones
The analysis of market volumes with different technical indicators can show the liquidity zones where high trading volumes concentrate.
One of such indicators is Volume Profile.
On the right side, Volume Profile indicate the concentration of trading volumes on different price levels.
Volume spikes will show us the liquidity zones.
4. Historic Zones
Historic liquidity zones will be the areas on a price chart based on historically significant price levels.
Market participants pay close attention to the price levels that were respected by the market in the past. For that reason, such levels attract the market liquidity.
Above, you can see a historically significant price level on Silver.
It will compose an important liquidity zone.
5. Trend Lined Based Zones
Quite often, historically significant falling or rising trend lines can compose the liquidity zones.
Above is the example of an important rising trend line on GBPJPY pair.
Because of its historical significance, it will attract the market liquidity.
Trend lined based liquidity zone will be also called a floating liquidity area because it moves with time.
6. Technical Indicators Based Zones
Popular technical indicators may attract market liquidity.
For example, a universally applied Moving Average can concentrate huge trading volumes.
In the example above, a floating area around a commonly applied Simple Moving Average with 50 length, acts as a significant liquidity zone on EURJPY.
7. Confluence Zones
Confluence zones are the liquidity zones based on a confluence of liquidity zones of different types.
For example, a match between historic zones, Fibonacci zones and volume based zones.
Such liquidity zones are considered to be the most significant.
Look at the underlined liquidity zone on US100 index.
It is based on a historical price action, psychological level 17000, significant volume concentration indicated by volume indicator and 618 Fibonacci retracement.
Always remember a simple rule: the more different liquidity zone types match within a single area, the more significant is the confluence zone.
Your ability to recognize the significant liquidity zones is essential for predicting the market movements and recognition of important reversal areas.
Liquidity zones are the integral element of various trading strategies. Its identification and recognition is a core stone of technical analysis.
Study that with care and learn by heart all the liquidity types that we discussed today.
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NEW Official TradingView AI Tool Is Now Available (FREE)Exciting! I’ve put together a quick video showing some of how the new TradingView AI tool works.
Yes it is real. No it is not a virus or a scam :)
Yes it is a beta. Yes it is very very cool.
You can read more about it and download it from here: tvremix.xyz
Currently this is a Chrome Extension that acts as an AI copilot that sits directly inside TradingView and lets you control almost everything using plain English.
You can analyze individual stocks, or coins, or commodities, markets, switch charts, add indicators, draw levels, run backtests, compare two things you are wanting to invest in side by side, and even optimise strategies without touching menus or writing code.
The real value is speed and workflow. Once you have your template set up with whatever prompt(s) you like to use, then instead of clicking around or setting things up manually, you just ask for what you want and it happens instantly.
Over time it also learns how you trade, tracks your ideas, and surfaces what matters so you don’t miss anything and you will get a really personalised experience.
If you want to see it in action, watch the video.
I can't wait to see how others use it and how it evolves over time.
Markets Exit Q1 on a High Note Amid War Jitters. What About Q2?S&P 500 🔻 4.6%, Nasdaq 🔻 7.1%, Dow Jones 🔻 3.6%
It's January. Economic growth is accelerating, the Federal Reserve looks ready to cut rates further, the AI boom still has runway. The mood is genuinely good.
Then, on February 28, the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, and the mood left the building.
📅 The Quarter That Wasn't
Q1 2026 will not be remembered fondly in most portfolios. The S&P 500 SP:SPX fell 4.6% for the quarter, the Nasdaq NASDAQ:IXIC dropped 7.1%, and the Dow TVC:DJI slid 3.6%. All three posted their worst quarterly performance in nearly four years.
The Nasdaq fell into correction territory on March 26, meaning it had dropped more than 10% from its recent peak, a threshold traders watch closely as a sign that selling has become more than just a bad week. The Dow joined it a day later.
Since the conflict began, oil prices have surged 63%, bond yields have climbed sharply, and the S&P 500 has erased all gains accumulated over the previous seven months. Gold OANDA:XAUUSD had an identity crisis of its own . It was, by most measures, an exhausting quarter to be invested in anything.
🕊️ Tuesday's Glimpse of an Off-Ramp. Glimpse.
And then, on the very last trading day of March, markets got something they had been waiting weeks for: a hint that the war might end.
President Trump told aides he is willing to conclude the conflict without the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that handled roughly a fifth of global energy flows before the conflict effectively closed it.
Reports circulated through the session that Iran could be open to ending hostilities as well. Markets, starved of good news, responded immediately . The S&P 500 climbed 2.9%, the Nasdaq surged 3.8%, and the Dow advanced 2.5%, a gain of 1,125 points in a single session.
It was the best day of the year for all three indexes. It also came on the last day of the quarter, which is the market's way of reminding you that timing is rarely clean.
And then Wednesday was all right and then Trump decided to give a speech and crashed futures markets Thursday .
🏦 The Fed's Vanishing Act
One of the quieter but more consequential shifts of the quarter happened in the interest rate market. Before the conflict broke out roughly a month ago, traders were pricing in nearly an 80% chance of two Fed rate cuts by year end.
Rate cuts are life to stock investors because lower rates reduce the return available on safer assets like bonds, making stocks relatively more attractive, and they tend to reduce borrowing costs for companies, supporting earnings growth.
Those odds have collapsed to less than 5%. With oil prices surging and energy costs feeding into inflation, the Federal Reserve finds itself in an uncomfortable position: a slowing stock market on the one side and a reigniting inflation risk on the other.
💰 What Q2 Is Watching
The second-quarter earnings season opens with two main points of focus. The big banks on Wall Street report earnings next week, and their results will offer the first structured look at how corporate America navigated a quarter of geopolitical shock, rate uncertainty, and market volatility.
After that comes the main event. The Magnificent Seven, the group of mega-cap technology companies including Apple NASDAQ:AAPL , Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT , Nvidia NASDAQ:NVDA , Alphabet NASDAQ:GOOGL , Amazon NASDAQ:AMZN , Meta NASDAQ:META , and Tesla NASDAQ:TSLA that dominated market returns for the past two years, will report in the weeks that follow.
Their numbers will reveal how the AI infrastructure buildout is holding up under pressure, what’s next and current for spending, and whether the earnings growth that justified sky-high valuations is still intact.
🧭 The Setup Heading In
Q2 begins with cautious optimism and a long list of unresolved questions. A ceasefire that holds would send energy prices lower, relieve inflation pressure, and potentially reopen the rate cut conversation. A ceasefire that collapses would do the opposite, quickly.
The underlying economy, before the war, was in reasonable shape. That foundation has not disappeared. But markets spent Q1 learning that good fundamentals and bad geopolitics can occupy the same moment simultaneously, and that when they do, geopolitics tends to win the first few rounds.
Off to you : Do you see Q2 as a good time for a turning point or the perfect place for another rollercoaster ride? Share your views in the comments! Bitcoin RoadmapToday, I want to share with you a mid-term outlook on Bitcoin ( BINANCE:BTCUSDT ) by analyzing it in a higher time frame—specifically, a 6-hour time frame—which could trigger a bullish move for Bitcoin, so stay with me.
In general, financial market movements over the past month have been heavily influenced by the military conflict in the Middle East, as well as statements by politicians like Trump, which can rapidly shift the direction of financial markets. On the other hand, financial markets, like gold( OANDA:XAUUSD ), the S&P 500 index( FX:SPX500 ), and crypto, have shown a high correlation and tend to pump or dump together.
Bitcoin is currently trying to break the resistance zone($70,100-$68,790) and the upper line of the descending channel, which I believe will happen in the coming hours.
From an Elliott Wave theory perspective, considering Bitcoin’s movements over the past two months, it seems that Bitcoin completed its main wave A as a leading diagonal, and the main wave B is forming inside this descending channel. Thus, we can expect a bullish impulsive wave after breaking the upper line of the descending channel.
I expect that Bitcoin will be able, in the coming hours, to break the upper line of the descending channel and continue a bullish move, rising at least up to the Cumulative Short Liquidation Leverage($73,510-$72,000).
First Target: Cumulative Short Liquidation Leverage($73,510-$72,000)
Second Target: Cumulative Short Liquidation Leverage($77,880-$74,950)
Stop Loss(SL): $65,980
Points may shift as the market evolves
Cumulative Long Liquidation Leverage: $66,000-$65,000
CME Gap: $84,560-$79,660
Note: Any news or escalation of the Middle East conflict can cause a sudden shift in Bitcoin’s trend, so, once again, manage your capital carefully in your trades.
Note: Given that the S&P 500 index is currently bullish—my personal analysis of the S&P 500 is that it is bullish—and considering Bitcoin’s strong correlation with it, the rise in the S&P 500 could lead to a rise in Bitcoin as well.
What do you think about Bitcoin—can it rise above $70,000, or will we see another decline again?
💡 Please respect each other's opinions and express agreement or disagreement politely.
📌Bitcoin Analysis (BTCUSDT), 6-hour time frame.
🛑 Always set a Stop Loss(SL) for every position you open.
✅ This is just my idea; I’d love to see your thoughts too!
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Multi-timeframe analysis
If you find yourself confused by timeframes, unsure why the market appears to be in a downtrend on one timeframe while showing an uptrend on another, and you do not know how to interpret this information, then this educational material is for you.
Multi-timeframe analysis is the foundation of any approach to chart analysis. The essence of this approach is that you use several timeframes to analyze the market.
I will refer to timeframes as three different perspectives.
The first is the long-term perspective.
This is the timeframe you use to analyze the overall context. In essence, this is where you form your bias regarding the market. It is always the higher timeframe.
The second is the medium-term perspective.
This is your intermediate timeframe. Very often, the medium-term perspective is used to track the movement of price toward the targets that you identified on the higher timeframe.
The third is the short-term perspective.
This is your lowest timeframe. This is where you will most often execute your trade entries.
There is one small clarification here. If you are just starting out, three timeframes will be sufficient for forming your bias and executing entries. However, more experienced traders may use more than three timeframes. Even so, they will still belong to the same three categories: long-term, medium-term, and short-term perspectives.
For example, two timeframes may be used for the long-term perspective, but they will still belong to the same category and simply complement each other.
So why is multi-timeframe analysis necessary at all?
I like to compare it to looking at a painting. If you observe a painting from very far away, you may miss important details and fail to understand the meaning the artist intended to convey. But if you look at it from too close, you will no longer be able to understand what the painting represents as a whole.
In both cases, your understanding of the painting will be incomplete.
The core idea behind multi-timeframe analysis is that when you move to a lower timeframe, you are essentially zooming in on a specific section of the chart and beginning to see more details within the price movement.
Now let us imagine the following section of a chart.
It belongs to the long-term perspective.
If you switch to the medium-term perspective, you will be looking at a smaller portion of the chart that is broken down into more detailed movements.
Here is the part of the chart you will be observing (this depends on how much you zoom in or zoom out):
And here is how that section may be broken down into more detailed movements:
For better understanding, I will overlay one chart on top of the other.
The black line represents the long-term perspective, and the blue line represents the medium-term perspective.
To understand this more clearly, let us perform a simple analysis.
Within the long-term perspective, the price is in an uptrend.
At the moment, the price is undergoing a correction.
Conditionally speaking, we expect the uptrend to continue.
Within the medium-term perspective, this appears as a range. However, if we break it down into local trends, we can clearly see both an upward and a downward trend.
The downward trend is essentially the correction within the long-term perspective.
Since we expect the continuation of the long-term uptrend, it would be logical to wait for a shift in the local bearish order flow on the medium-term perspective. After that, we can begin looking for entry models that align with the continuation of the uptrend.
Now let us talk about the short-term perspective.
In the same way, when you move from the medium-term perspective to the short-term perspective, you will be looking at a smaller portion of the chart that is broken down into even more detailed movements.
Here is the portion of the chart you will be observing (again, this depends on how much you zoom in or zoom out):
And here is how it may be broken down into more detailed movements:
Here is what happens if we overlay one chart on top of the other:
If we try to overlay the short-term perspective onto the long-term perspective, the section of the chart you are observing will look like this:
Let us continue our analysis.
Suppose we waited for the shift from the local downward movement to an upward movement on the medium-term perspective.
In this case, we achieve synchronization between the long-term and medium-term perspectives.
The long-term perspective is in an uptrend, and the medium-term perspective is also in an uptrend.
To synchronize with the short-term perspective, it is sufficient to simply look for long opportunities on the lower timeframe.
In this situation, all three perspectives are aligned. Your position therefore has a higher probability of working out.
Open your charts and try applying what you have just read. You will be surprised by how simple it actually is.
If you still have questions, feel free to write them in the comments.
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Nike Stock Way Off Record Ahead of Earnings. What to Know.There is a particular kind of corporate humbling that comes not from collapse but from irrelevance creeping in at the edges.
Nike NYSE:NKE is still the world's largest sportswear brand, still moving tens of billions in revenue, still on the feet of more athletes than any other company on earth.
And yet at around $50 a share, nine-year lows, off 70% from its 2021 peak, the stock is asking a question the company has to answer on Tuesday: So how’s that reset going? (insert "well we’re waiting.gif")
The earnings calendar rolls on with Nike’s earnings day next .
📉 How Did We Get Here?
Nike's November 2021 high of $178 looks almost fictional from today's vantage point. The shares are lower by more than 20% this year alone and have spent the past several months hovering near levels last seen when athleisure was still a novelty.
The company is in the middle of what it calls a business reset , refocusing on wholesale partnerships after a years-long push toward selling direct to consumers that did not deliver the margins management had anticipated.
Wholesale means selling through retailers like Foot Locker rather than exclusively through Nike's own stores and app. The retreat is sensible but the execution has been choppy, and the market has been keeping score.
🌍 Three Problems, One Earnings Call
Investors heading into Tuesday's report are watching three specific pressure points.
Europe is slowing. Consumer confidence across the continent has softened, and discretionary spending, the kind that goes on premium trainers, tends to be the first casualty when household budgets tighten.
The US wholesale business, the very channel Nike is trying to reinvigorate, remains unhealthy. Rebuilding retailer relationships after deprioritizing them takes time, and the inventory and shelf-space dynamics are still normalizing. All the while profits are slumping .
Outside the tariff woes from a year ago , China continues to disappoint. The post-pandemic recovery that Nike and many other consumer brands were counting on has been more stubborn than anticipated, with local competitors gaining ground and consumer sentiment remaining soft.
The market is expecting revenue of roughly $11.1 billion for the quarter, flat year on year, an improvement on the 9.3% decline recorded in the same period last year.
Earnings per share, meaning profit divided across all outstanding shares, is expected to land at 29 cents. Last quarter Nike beat on both revenue and earnings, so the bar exists, even if it is not set particularly high.
👟 The Cool Factor Problem
Beyond the financials, Nike has a cultural challenge that balance sheets struggle to capture. The brand that defined athletic aspiration for four decades is working harder than usual to stay relevant.
Its answer, at least partly, is a sneaker called Mind, a shoe focused on mindfulness. Whether a mindfulness sneaker moves the needle on coolness is a question the market will eventually answer, but it is the kind of product that signals a company actively searching for its next identity.
🆕 New Balance Is Having a Moment
While Nike searches, New Balance is sprinting. The 120-year-old brand, once synonymous with sensible footwear for people who prioritize comfort over style, grew sales 19% last year and 180% since 2020.
It has raised average prices by roughly 30% over the past five years, proving consumers will pay a premium for a brand they believe in. It opened 80 new stores last year, aggressively rebuilding physical retail presence at the exact moment Nike was stepping back from it.
New Balance expects to cross $10 billion in sales this year, putting it roughly $2 billion behind Nike's quarterly revenue run rate. That gap is closing, and it is closing fast.
🎯 What to Watch Tuesday
The headline numbers are important, for sure, but the language around China and wholesale recovery will tell the more important story. So grab your two shares and listen for whether management sounds like a team executing a plan or a team revising one.
At $50, Nike is cheap relative to its own history. Cheap and done falling are different things, though.
Off to you : What’s your outlook for Nike? Share your views in the comments!
USD/JPY: The 160.00 TestFor the first time since July of 2024 USD/JPY has pushed above the 160.00 handle.
The move hit around 1am Tokyo time so we could still see a response from Japanese policymakers around the Sunday open, and interestingly, last week began with another threat of intervention that brought pullback to USD/JPY which was jumped on buy buyers that drove right back up to create the current fresh highs.
At this point chasing the move is still a challenge, especially given the dynamics around weekly closes and opens. But, price being above 160.00 isn't necessarily a death knell either as, like 2022, we may simply be seeing the BoJ move their line-in-the-sand a bit higher.
Overhead, it's the 161.95 level that stands out which is a clean 1,000 pips above the intervention-high in 2022 (which held in 2023, as well), while also being the swing-high from 2024.
Until the fundamental backdrop changes, it's difficult to imagine interventions having any long-lasting success so if we do see the BoJ forced into action, that pullback remains as opportunistic, like we saw in April of 2024. - js
Candlestick Analysis — Complete Guide to Patterns📊 Candlesticks — the most popular way to read price action
The wide part of the candle is called the body.
It shows the price range between the open and close for a given period.
🟥 A red candle forms when the close is below the open
🟩 A green candle forms when the close is above the open
The thin lines above and below the body are called wicks (shadows)
They represent the highest and lowest prices during that session
Important: The higher the timeframe — the more reliable the candlestick pattern
📚 Spinning tops are candles with a small body that reflect a strong battle between buyers and sellers.
Typically, this pattern is considered neutral and often appears within a tight trading range.
Spinning tops can be both bullish (green) and bearish (red) .
💭 Doji is a type of candlestick with little to no body.
The entire candle is basically made up of wicks.
This pattern forms when the open and close are the same (or very close) within a trading session.
The length of the wicks can vary — they can be short or very long.
🔨 Hammer and Hanging Man are among the most popular reversal patterns.
What makes them interesting is that they can be both bullish or bearish, depending on where they appear in the market cycle.
If this candle appears after a downtrend, it signals weakening selling pressure — this is called a Hammer .
If the same candle appears after an uptrend, it signals weakening buying pressure — this is called a Hanging Man .
🔍 How to identify them:
1️⃣ The body is located at the top of the price range
2️⃣ The lower wick is at least 2x longer than the body
3️⃣ There is little to no upper wick
The longer the lower wick and the smaller the body, the stronger the signal — whether it’s a bullish Hammer or a bearish Hanging Man.
📲 Engulfing pattern is formed by two candles with opposite-colored bodies and is one of the most important reversal signals in the market.
Key conditions:
1️⃣ There must be a clear uptrend or downtrend in the market
2️⃣ The pattern consists of two candles, where the second candle fully engulfs the first one
3️⃣ The second candle must be opposite in color
Factors that increase the probability of a reversal:
1️⃣ The first candle has a small body, while the second one is much larger — this shows the previous trend is weakening and a new one is gaining strength
2️⃣ The engulfing pattern appears after a prolonged or strong trend
3️⃣ The second candle is formed with high trading volume
4️⃣ The second candle engulfs multiple previous candles
☁️ Dark Cloud Cover is a two-candle pattern that appears after an uptrend and signals a potential top reversal.
The first candle should have a strong bullish (green) body. On the next session, the price opens above the previous high, but then closes near the lows, covering a significant part of the previous bullish candle.
The lower the close of the second candle, the higher the probability of a trend reversal.
Key factors that strengthen the signal:
1️⃣ The closer the red candle closes to the open of the previous green candle, the higher the chance of a market top
2️⃣ If after a prolonged uptrend there is a strong bullish candle (open = low, close = high) , followed by a strong bearish candle (open = high, close = low) , this is often referred to as an extreme reversal day
3️⃣ If the second candle opens above a key resistance level and then drops, it shows that buyers are losing control
4️⃣ A high trading volume on the second candle increases the probability of the uptrend ending
⛅️ Piercing Pattern is the opposite of the Dark Cloud Cover. It consists of two candles that appear during a downtrend and signals a potential bottom reversal.
The first candle is bearish (red) , and the second one is a strong bullish (green) candle.
This pattern is purely bullish and closely related to the bullish engulfing pattern:
The green candle only partially covers the previous red candle. The more of the red body it covers, the higher the probability of a reversal.
In an ideal setup, the green candle should close above the midpoint of the previous red candle.
Variations (weaker bullish signals) :
1️⃣ Weak — the green candle closes near the low of the previous candle
2️⃣ Moderate — the green candle closes slightly above the red candle’s close
3️⃣ Shallow push — the green candle fails to reach the midpoint of the red candle
⭐️ Star pattern is a reversal formation represented by a candle with a small body that gaps away from a previous candle with a large body. Wicks can overlap — that’s acceptable.
Stars can appear both at tops and bottoms, and there are several variations of this pattern.
Morning Star (bullish reversal)
A bottom reversal pattern consisting of:
1️⃣ A strong bearish(red) candle
2️⃣ Followed by a small-bodied candle that gaps down(the star)
3️⃣ Then a strong bullish(green) candle that covers a significant portion of the first candle
This indicates that buyers are taking control.
Evening Star (bearish reversal)
The bearish counterpart of the Morning Star, signaling a top reversal:
1️⃣ A strong bullish (green) candle
2️⃣ Followed by a small-bodied candle (the star)
3️⃣ Then a strong bearish(red) candle that covers a significant part of the first candle
Factors that strengthen the signal:
▪️ Gaps between the first candle and the star, as well as between the star and the third candle
▪️ The third candle covers a significant portion of the first candle’s body
▪️ Low volume on the first candle and high volume on the third candle
🌟 Shooting Star is a two-candle pattern that warns of a potential end of an uptrend, but it’s not considered one of the strongest reversal signals.
1️⃣ The candle has a small body located at the lower part of the range and a long upper wick
2️⃣ Like other star patterns, the color of the body doesn’t matter
3️⃣ Ideally, the body forms a gap relative to the previous candle, but this is not required
Inverted Hammer looks very similar to a Shooting Star. It has a small body at the lower part of the range and a long upper wick.
However, unlike the Shooting Star, the Inverted Hammer appears after a downtrend and signals a potential bullish reversal at the bottom.
1️⃣ You should wait for the next candle to confirm the signal — ideally, it opens above the body of the Inverted Hammer
2️⃣ The larger the gap, the stronger the bullish signal
3️⃣ Another confirmation is a strong green candle closing higher
🌿 Harami is a candlestick pattern where a small candle forms within the body of a previous larger candle.
The word “harami” translates from Japanese as “pregnant” — the large candle is the “mother”, and the small candle is the “baby”.
Key features:
1️⃣ The small candle must be fully inside the body of the previous candle (wick length does not matter)
2️⃣ The smaller the “baby” candle, the stronger the signal
3️⃣ Harami is not a strong reversal signal — it usually indicates a pause in the market and the end of the previous trend
Harami Cross is a variation of this pattern:
Instead of a small-bodied candle, a Doji appears after the large candle.
This makes the pattern a much stronger reversal signal.
👮♀️ Belt Hold is a candlestick pattern represented by a long candle.
In the bullish case, it’s a strong green candle that opens at the low of the previous candle and then moves upward.
For the bearish version, everything works in reverse.
The longer the Belt Hold candle, the stronger its impact on the market.
Key points:
1️⃣ If the next candle closes above a bearish Belt Hold, it increases the probability of a continuation of the uptrend
2️⃣ If the next candle closes below a bullish Belt Hold, it signals that selling pressure is increasing again
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How and Why to Step Away from a Trade Without Feeling GuiltyAt some point, every new trader discovers the hover. You know the one. The trade is open, the position is set, the stop loss is in place, and yet there you are, two inches from the screen, watching the chart refresh every second.
Almost as if your physical proximity is somehow influencing the outcome. It is not. The market has not noticed you are watching. It does not care.
The inability to walk away from an open trade (or a pending trade) is one of the most common and least discussed problems in beginner trading. It feels like diligence. It is actually interference.
🔒 The Setup Is the Decision
Here is the mindset shift that changes everything. By the time a trade is open, the decision is already made. You identified the opportunity, defined your entry, set your stop loss (the price level at which you exit to cap your losses) and your take profit (the target price where you lock in gains).
The work is done. Watching the price move tick by tick adds no new information and subtracts a measurable amount of sanity.
Professional traders often call this "setting and stepping." The trade has a plan. The plan runs the trade. Your job after entry is largely supervisory, not surgical. That’s when things are working in your favor.
📺 What Watching Actually Does to You
Staring at an open position activates a part of your brain that is very good at survival and very bad at trading. Every red candle feels like a threat. Every pullback, even the tiniest temporary move against your position, feels like the beginning of a catastrophe.
The result is a long list of avoidable mistakes. Closing a winning trade too early because a small dip scared you.
Moving your stop loss further away to avoid being taken out, which ironically increases your risk. Adding to a losing position because you have been watching it long enough to convince yourself you understand what it is doing.
None of these decisions come from analysis. They come from proximity and anxiety, which is a terrible combination.
✅ When Stepping Away Is Responsible, Not Lazy
Stepping away is appropriate in several concrete situations. When your stop loss and take profit are set and the trade simply needs time to play out, there is nothing left to manage.
When you notice yourself making up narratives about why the trade should be doing something different from what it is doing, that is a signal to close the laptop (or turn away from the dual-monitor setup), not adjust the position.
When you have been watching for so long that the chart starts to look like it is talking to you, it has been too long.
A useful exercise is to ask yourself, before looking at the chart again: has anything materially changed in the market since I last looked?
New economic data , a major news event , a significant shift in the broader market environment.
If the answer is no, the chart looks the same as it did twelve minutes ago. You already know that. You just wanted to check.
🕰️ Building the Habit of Structured Checking
The practical solution is a self-administered checking schedule and setting up price alerts .
Decide in advance how often you will review an open position, once an hour, at the close of each candle, twice a day, whatever suits your trading timeframe, and then leave the rest to the price alerts. Between those check-ins, the trade is running. You are not.
This feels uncomfortable at first. That discomfort is the point – you’re building muscle. You are training yourself to trust the plan over the impulse, which is the single most valuable skill a beginner can build.
🚶 The Walk That Saves Accounts
Some of the best trade management decisions happen on a ten minute walk. Away from the screen, without a chart refreshing in front of you, the position becomes abstract again. You remember why you took it and what your target-to-risk ratio is.
You come back calmer, and calmer traders make better decisions. The market runs twenty-four hours in some asset classes. It will be there when you get back.
Step away. The trade knows what it is doing, even when it feels like it doesn't.
Off to you : How do you deal with the sense of urgency when trading and are you able to step away for a second and touch grass? Share your experience in the comments! 
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