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Market Direction - Trend StrengthThe strength of a trend can be a key factor in predicting future price movements. This post will specifically cover how to identify trends, how to determine trend strength, and how to use it to your advantage when trading the markets. Characteristics of a Trending Market To begin, let us understand how to identify a trending market. A trending market is a market that is either making higher highs followed by higher lows (UPTREND) or lower lows followed by lower highs (DOWNTREND). What does this typically look like? Let's see: Uptrend Downtrend Now that we understand how to identify uptrends and downtrends, let's delve further and discuss how to use trend strength to your advantage when trading the markets. Fibonacci Retracement Tool The Fibonacci retracement tool is used in trending markets to determine how strong the trend is. It uses natural numbers to determine the high-probability price levels that the market will hit and continue in its initial direction. This method will use four Fibonacci levels: 38.2%, 50%, 61.8%, and 78.6%. One thing to mention is that in a trending market, the chart is made up of two waves: impulsive and retracement. After an impulsive wave, a retracement wave will usually form; after a retracement wave, the impulsive wave will usually form. The impulsive wave represents the strong momentum of buyers and sellers. The retracement wave shows the weakness of buyers and sellers. Therefore, we must look at the retracement wave when it comes to deciding the strength of a trend. For example, in an uptrend, the impulsive wave will be bullish; therefore, the retracement wave will be bearish. In a downtrend, the impulsive wave will be bearish; therefore, the retracement wave will be bullish. The retracement wave shows the strength of the opposite side of the market. For example, if the impulsive wave is bullish, buyers are stronger. Then, in the retracement wave, sellers will try to dominate the buyers. Therefore, the deeper the retracement goes, the stronger sellers will be than buyers, and the weaker the bullish trend strength will be. With the Fibonacci retracement tool, there are three scenarios to determine trend strength: Strong Trend Strength: 38.2% Fibonacci Retracement Moderate Trend Strength: 50%–61.8% Fibonacci Retracement Weak Trend Strength: 78.6% Fibonacci Retracement The above examples show why the Fibonacci retracement tool can be extremely effective in determining not only how strong a trend is, but also how likely it is to continue past the beginning of the impulsive wave. Bollinger Bands Bollinger Bands are very effective in reading trend strength. Bollinger Bands are based on price volatility, which means that they expand when the market is trending and there are big prices, and they contract during sideways consolidations when the market ranges. Bollinger Bands consist of two outer bands (top and bottom bands) on each side and a moving average in the centre between the outer bands (middle band). One of the main reasons Bollinger Bands are so effective in reading trend strength is that they do not lag as much as other indicators because they always change automatically with the price. Three important points to note when using Bollinger Bands to read trend strength: If price pulls away from the outer band and heads towards the middle band as the trend continues, this is a key indication that the trend strength may be weakening. During strong trends, prices stay close to the outer band and significantly away from the middle band. Repeated pushes into the outer bands that do not actually reach the band indicate a lack of trend strength. Let's see a chart example of Bollinger Bands reading trend strength: As you can see, using Bollinger Bands can provide traders with very useful information about trend strength and the balance between bulls and bears. Price Rejection We do not always need indicators or tools to read trend strength; it is possible to do this just by looking at a naked chart. The way rejected continuations or reversals happen on charts can be a huge indicator of being able to read trend strength. Before understanding the price rejection, it is important to know about the wick or shadow of the candlestick. Upper wick The upper shadow shows that the price went up and then came down again. This indicates that buyers wanted to increase the price, but sellers dominated the buyers to push the price back down. Lower wick The lower shadow represents that the price went down and then came back up. This indicates that sellers wanted to lower the price, but buyers dominated the sellers to push the price back up. Identifying price rejection Traders should first wait for the price to reach a strong support or resistance level. Then, at the support or resistance level, candlesticks will likely make wicks opposite the trend due to the strength of the level. For example, wicks or shadows will form on the upper side at the resistance zone, while at the support zone, wicks or shadows will form on the lower side of the candlesticks. These wicks or shadows are identified as price rejections in the market. Price rejections are very important, especially in identifying trend strength, because they accept or reject the identification of key levels in the market. For example, if you are unsure whether a support zone will hold or break, you can see whether price rejection will occur at that level. Let's see a chart example of price rejection and how you can use it to identify trend strength: The chart above is proof alone that trend strength can be identified by just looking at the price action of a chart. Understanding the strength of a trend does not have to be complex. Trend strength can be identified simply by using the three different techniques we have covered in this educational post. The best thing we can all do as traders is to be simplistic and not overcomplicate things; this becomes especially easier when you accept that nothing in the market is certain. Each market has its own unique market conditions and will not trade rationally all of the time. Therefore, when a trade does not go your way even though your trend strength signals were high and you followed the market, understand that it is just one trade and that the market is completely neutral. It is neither personally on your side nor personally against you. Trade safely and responsibly. BluetonaFX
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BTC BTCUSDT ATH is on the way After correction EndsThe market took a deep dive since the start of the week, despite the heavy correction BTC is still holding to the ground and Support levels still intact. If The last support level fails to hold the price it's a freefall for BTC and the whole Market. But since this level is too strong and no indicators are shown to prove the idea of a support penetration we will go Long depending on historical review. >>>> BTC holding areas: First 52K-48K .... Second: 48K-44K If it fails we are doomed ( but till now no signs of a trend break) Target: Reaching New ATH ( 70K ) Average period: 1 Month Average Rise %: 45% .... We will update When Conditions are met and close when Support fails to hold the price. This is not a thought it's an Analysis based idea. And forecasting, either way, is based on obvious conditions.
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MARKET THOUGHTS 10/14/22Grab a cup of coffee, wake up and read up lol ** (Not a Financial Advice, just sharing my own opinion and the process I do in the morning before I make a decision to trade.) ** As you guys are all aware the SPY went nuts yesterday, anything is possible in the market these days lol. Once the shorts got squeezed above 354 and FOMO kicked in it ran like it stole something :rofl: . Now as you get ready for todays play here are things you should consider based on the charts and technical analysis: - SPY, yesterday, just showed a possible sign of short term reversal from the divergence we've been talking about in the stream the whole week. - The bounce was larger than expected and larger than usual, when a move like this happens one direction, there's a possible consolidation day the next day or pullback, unless volume continues and breaks above key levels continuing to squeeze the shorts and FOMO continues as well. - If you are planning to go Gungho on going long, zoom out first and see the trendline on the daily and the pre-market action on SPY and where its at currently (See Chart Posted). - Break of that trendline upwards can mean retest of the next resistance and probably even retest the next trendline up, but SPY has done its weekly range as of yesterdays candle, so slight chance it will continue breaking to the upside and do another big run. If anything, possible pump then pullback. - The VIX on the weekly hit that trendline we talked about on the streams this week too causing the downward direction which usually does the opposite of the market, hence the run up yesterday. ** Scenario 1 ** VIX bounces above 9ema on the daily and stays above, market pullback. ** Scenario 2 ** VIX breaks below the 9ema on the daily, it will have about 1-2points max move today. Which can mean a pump in the market and will hit exhaustion, so pump and dump. (See VIX Chart Posted). SPY VIX
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by rjhay22
Understanding trend reversalsHow would it feel driving a car with a dashboard providing an indication of the speed and other car panel indicators? Investing without technical indicator is flying blind not knowing when you might hit a speed bump. Last 4 months have caught lots of people by surprise in the crypto markets. While pundits and so called gurus, were calling for 200K BTC prices and 20KETH prices with a parabolic move incoming similar to the 2017 bull market cycle, what turned out was a completely different story. The cryptocurrency markets have taken a complete reversal led by stories of potential Fed rates rising and tightening of monetary policy impacting the markets on one side and the Russia-Ukraine special military operation/war impacting on the other. “TECHNICAL CHARTS CAN PROVIDE A GOOD SENSE OF WHERE THE MARKET IS HEADING. I decided to write this and other related article within the context of the last four months. Lots of people were caught off guard with people seeing all their profits evaporate when the markets reversed quickly lots of people didn’t have a plan of taking profits/selling people didn’t realise that the market had turned with the market direction being negative Most people who were caught off guard had no clear sense of where they were driving and the fact that the direction had changed. Without an array of tools and indicators, you are flying blind. I had three suggestions for all my readers: a. Make charts your friend, b. always do your homework and c. learn from your mistakes. BTCUSD chart pattern gives a clear indication of trend reversal. The trend that had started around the 22nd of June 2021 at around 30K mark for BTCUSD price, had flipped negative around end November 2021. The market changed direction at the top. Technical Analysis gives you get a good sense of what the markets are doing while you can use the fundamentals for the long term picture. If you have any ideas/thoughts, please reach out to use at invest@thetwigg.com
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Crude Oil - Market DirectionWith being sure Oil was going to continue its way down on price, OPEC hit us with a curve and decided to change things up... Announcing the decrease in production by 1.3 million barrels a day, we have seen the price for Crude and Brent Oil skyrocket. Now, we have price hitting a heavy resistance level... Will this recent chance in oil production be enough to break this price level this week? Only time will tell... Please feel free to comment your ideas below. vv
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