When price is captured between a ceiling and a roof, its better to BLSH. what does BLSH means? It means Buy low, Sell high. when price reaches the top of trading range, you can bet that it goes down. You might say "why? Isn't that at some point it will break out of this range and start to trend?" I will say to you yes, BUT most of attempts to break out will fail....
Let's do it fast and simple. We see an up trend, a trend line, bullish momentum, bullish candles with big bodies. As they say, go with a trend. Do not fight with trend. Buy when price touches the trend line. But where do you put your TP? It's simple. You turn to 5 min time frame. There you can see a bullish flag. What's our first TP when price breaks the flag? Top...
SETUP: When you have a good setup, signal bars aren't that important. In this picture, you see BTCUSD is in an uptrend: higher highs and higher lows. price is in a channel. when it hits the bottom of the channel, you can buy even with a weak signal bar. (I say weak because it has a relatively long up tail. tails on top of candle mean bears are forcing a selling...
Price while approaches its resistance level, is forming a divergence with MACD. Price is creating higher highs and MACD is forming lower highs. That means BTCUSD is losing its momentum. On the other hand there are confluence of sell orders in that resistance level. Therefore it probably can't break that level and goes down. But that's not enough for us. we need...