The best indicators for swing trading are the few with one clear job each: trend, fuel, timing, room and strength. Settings, a table, and what to drop.
Indicators, candlestick patterns, chart patterns and price-action method.
Technical Analysis & Price Action
Indicators, candlestick patterns, chart patterns and price-action method.
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- Market structure: highs and lowsHow to read market structure: mark swing highs and lows, tell an uptrend from a range, and know…
- When resistance becomes supportWhy a broken resistance level often turns into support, how often price comes back to test it, and…
- Double tops and double bottomsA double top is only a double top once the neckline breaks. The 3 confirmations that separate a…
- The few indicators worth usingThe best indicators for swing trading are the few with one clear job each: trend, fuel, timing, room…
- Why to wait for the candle to closeOver 26 years of daily data, about 4 in 10 moves above a 20-day high on the S&P…
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A double top is only a double top once the neckline breaks. The 3 confirmations that separate a real one from an early guess, and how the target is measured.
Over 26 years of daily data, about 4 in 10 moves above a 20-day high on the S&P 500 closed back below it. What waiting for the close costs, and…
How to read market structure: mark swing highs and lows, tell an uptrend from a range, and know which break is a warning and which one ends the trend.
Fibonacci retracement marks where a pullback may stop. How to draw it, the levels worked through on one swing, and why it only counts with a second reason.