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How To Trade Channels?The above chart shows what is called a “channel” in trading. It is basically diagonal support and resistance (a.k.a Trend-lines). The area in between is known as a channel. The red zone is said to be the perfect entry area for sells whereas the green is for buys. How To Find The Zones? Using the “Parallel Lines” tool, draw the diagonal S/R then measure the first candle/wick that starts the channel and that area is where you would get entries with the least possible drawdown.
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by FXwithJess
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It's not a bird. It's not a plane! It's a channel. Nobody really knows for sure why channels develop. There are loads of theories. I'm not interested. A channel is usually discovered late, obviously because the channel is evolving and then you see it. Unbelievable as it is, it is there. So what do you do. Well, I don't give advice. What I do is understand that there may be limited opportunity to exploit. I say limited because when late in the game, price can break up out of the channel or down out of the channel. That means that if price approaches either end of the channel, it is a critical time. All one can do is take the loss! It's called a stop loss. Channels also do strange things like break out and then go madly the other way. If everybody had a magic formula how to work them, everybody would be zillionaires. It ain' t happening! But there is still money to be made by following microtrends. That's where you follow small trends from 3 min to 15 min. These can take days to play out. For newcomers it's not a good idea to work blindly in a channel. Find other indicators to assist. Experience is also an important thing. As I always say blowing up 10 Tradingview paper trading accounts is far better than blowing up one live account. Get the safe experience almost totally for FREE!
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by Captain_Walker
The PitchFork - a great way to define and trade channelsThis is how I use pitchforks and I hope it is an inspiration for you too. I like trading channels and the pitchfork is a great way to identify them early on and to confirm these channels. It is not always straightforward to find the right points (1-2-3, see below), but I think the pitchfork is quite powerful and for me a handy tool in addition to other indicators and tools. If you have not tried it before, give it a go! Please leave your comments and thoughts so we can all learn and get inspired by each other!!! ************************************ HOW TO SET the PITCHFORK? A Pitchfork can help identifying a channel in a fairly early stage. Three points need to be used: 1. a previous pre-channel high/low 2. the new channel high 3. the new channel low If 2 is closer to 1 compared to 3 (vertically) then you will see a descending channel. Otherwise ascending. Point 1 will become the mid-line of the channel and serves as an additional support/resistance HOW TO DEFINE OPPORTUNITIES? Opportunities exist when the price touches the boundaries. #SELL - In this case we see 3 SELL opportunities when the price touches the upper bound #LONG - we see 3 LONG opportunities, one of which (partly) failed as it got resisted by midline, which is not uncommon and always a watch out. #BREAK OUT - We also see a clear break out that can be traded as well, especially after retest. As always with channels - I prefer to only take LONG opportunities for ascending channels and SHORT for descending. This channel is fairly flat, so both were possible. Always use this technique in conjunction with other signals. **************************************
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by channel-man
SOYBEAN Higher Time Frame Outlook on structureHello traders: Looking at soybeans from the higher time frame perspective and its price action structures. We see strong bearish impulse down from mid of 2018, and has been in this larger channel like structure ever since. Price has been consolidating for these few years, and finally breaking to the top in the recent times. What I like about the price from a structure point of view is that we just broke the previous top, but on the lower time frame the price broke up in a corrective structure. I see this type of price action over and over again. Price breaks up, catching a lot of buyers, then see a strong sell momentum down. I wouldn't be surprise to see some bearish impulse from the lower time frame, to bring the price right back into this larger channel structure, and we can potentially see the next bearish move from the top. For now, happy to be a bit more patient, and wait for price to develop a bit more. thank you
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by jojofang0901
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Market Structures Explained - Short and SimplePrice action moves in a particular Market Structure. We have three types of Broad Market Structures. 1 - Breakout 2 - Channels 3- Trading Range 1 - Breakout Every Trend starts with a Breakout. Every Trend ends with a Failed Breakout. Breakout is the Strongest type of Trend. 2 - Channels Trend is contained in a Channel. Pullback in channels categorises it in the Tight or Broad Channel. Channel is the Weakest Trend. Small Pullback Channel is a Tight Channel Only Look to buy in it. Deep Pullbacks are Broad Channels. 2 sided trading is possible in Broad Channel. Breaout from Trend always evolves in Trading Range. Some Channels such as Wedge or Triangles evolves into Trend Reversal. 3 - Trading Range Market is not trending. Bulls and Bear both are making money in this structure. They scalp not swing. Chances of Breakout are 50-50 in either direction. 80% of the breakouts will fail in Trading Range. Buy Low and Sell High Should be followed. Trend begins with a Breakout. Breakout weakens into Channel. Channel evolves into Trading Range. Now, Market decides which way to go. Probability of Trend Resumption and Reversal is same. If you find this content useful then do tell me in the Comments. Thanks-
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by Good_Trading_Calls
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USDJPY Selling Signal Patterns.Taking a look at the recent price action on USDJPY, we can see how the use of patterns and structure can be used to increase the probability for any potential trade setup. As you can see from the 15 Minute chart, USDJPY was on the rise until it ran out of steam and started to trade into an ascending channel. This ascending channel completed a bearish (selling) 3 drive pattern at the highs which can indicate price exhaustion. Once we saw this pattern complete and start to break down, we still don't look to enter the market until we locate a lower inner trend line to also break to the downside as this can help increase the strength of the pattern holding enough to extract pips from the market. Once the trend line breaks we can look to enter on the retest on the other side. As we saw continued weakness in USD, we were given another opportunity to enter the market for a potential continuation play, this time in the form of a bearish head & shoulders pattern. Just like the 3 drive pattern we don't look to enter the head & shoulders until we see a lower inner trend line also break to the downside on the retest. We would look to minimise our risk to the downside in both setups by placing a stop loss not to far above the 3rd drive high of the 3 drive pattern and just above the head of the head & shoulders pattern.
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by DavidVillagra
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GBPJPY 4H 15M RABBIT TRAIL CHANNEL TRADING STRATEGY LONG TRADERule #1: Draw a channel on a 1 or 4 hour chart. Rule #2 Identify If there is a Breakout on 1 hour or 4 hour chart. Rule #3 Wait for a Pull Back on a 15 minute Chart. Rule #4 After Pull Back on 15m, Make Entry. Rule #5 Find a Stop Loss Placement. Rule #6 Ride The Rabbit Trail to 50 pips with a TP Order! Rule #1: Draw a channel on a 1 hour or 4 hour chart. The first thing you need to do to get this strategy started off is you need to find a channel on a four hour or one hour chart. Remember there must be two resistance and support points to validate a channel. This strategy can use many currency pairs. Make sure you search through all of them. Many say that they “only trade EURUSD.” There is no reason for that.. Get in the charts and see for yourself! There are channels everywhere. This strategy will work with any currency pair. The opportunities are endless.. Not too bad. So basically all you are doing here is drawing parallel lines on the tops and bottoms of the price movement. This example hit a quite a few resistance and support levels which means that when it breaks this channel it has the potential to make a huge move! Rule #2 Identify If there is a Breakout on a 1 hour chart. The way you find the trade is to find a breakout of the channel that you drew on your chart.. In a perfect world the support and resistance levels will hold on forever.. But the world isn’t perfect.. So that’s why we have what is called a breakout. This breakout happened on the top of the channel. So that means you will BUY. If the breakout happens on the bottom of the channel then you will SELL. Great! We have breakout candle let’s get in the trade and follow the rabbit trail to pip glory! Rule #3 Wait for a Pull Back on a 15 minute Chart. Why wait? Because the market is money grabbing machine, and they want your hard earned cash! You wait because sometimes the market does a “head fake” and turns against you. So if you would have got in this trade right when it broke out of the channel you would soon have got stopped out. That is why it is so important to Wait for it to pull back. This is where many people struggle. They see that it broke out so they want to click BUY or SELL right now!!! Think about the sayings you have heard since you were a child, “Patience is a Virtue,” Or “Good things in life take Time” Just be patient and wait… This trade would not have burned you, but countless other trades would have! Think about the pull back as the candle that closes towards the channel. So if the pull back is above the channel you are looking for a bearish (red) candle. If the pull back is below the channel you are looking for a bullish (green) candle. *We only need one of these pull back candles on a 15 minute chart. Once this happens move on to the next step. Rule #4 After Pull Back, Make Entry. We are getting so close to getting on our rabbit trail to make some serious pips! Our lines are drawn, we identified the breakout, and waited for the pull back. It is now time to make our trade. The criteria to make an entry after a pull back on a 15 minute chart to enter a trade is that there must be two 15-minute candles that support our trade. If it is a BUY trade we want to see TWO bullish (up) candles after the pull back. If it is a SELL trade we want to see TWO bearish (down) candles after the pull back. Enter after the two bullish 15 minute candlesticks close. So again, we WAIT for a pull back candle to close and then we need two BULLISH (green) candles to close to many an entry. Rule #5 Stop Loss Placement This is probably one of the most important rules of the strategy. You always need to place a stop loss somewhere for a reason. If you are throwing in stop losses 5 to 10 pips from your entry order just because someone you read that somewhere, then you are without a doubt treading some dangerous waters. In a Buy The stop loss will be placed in the channel below the last support point. In a SELL The stop loss will be placed in the channel above the last resistance point. That way if it does come back in the Channel it will hit the support level and end up going back up in a bullish movement. Rule #6 Ride The Rabbit Trail to 50 pips! The last thing you need to do is know when to exit the trade. This strategy goes for a 50 pip target. So when you make your entry, you calculate 50 pips take profit mark and place it. The rabbit trail may be 2 hours, or could take as long as two days. You have your target so really you have nothing else to do but sit back and watch your trade make you some money! Stay in the trade and remember your rules. You are going for a 50 pip breakout trade!
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by Tradingstrategyguides
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