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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Outside Bar-Inside Bar Combo Pattern

3 Bar Pattern which can be used to take Trade Entries. We use the power of Outside bar and inside bar to execute this.

Firstly we need to know what is an 

 Outside bar, we need the current bars high and low to be beyond the boundary of previous bar high and low


Similarly for an Inside Bar. If the current bars high and low is within previous bars high and low we call the current bar as an Inside bar

 . Look to the example Below



When this happens with a combo that sets an Explosive move. outside bars are generally trend trading patterns and inside bars are direction confirming patterns based on closed direction.

 outside inside combo Pattern:

     In an OI (outside  Inside)  pattern we need an Outside bar setup, followed by an inside bar setup. Example is shown below. 



The trade is placed as a stop order on respective outside bar levels based on the Context direction. If in a trending market we take in the direction of trend and if we get an IO pattern near resistance or support we take this as a reversal pattern.


In case of resistance we look to sell below the low of the outside bar. Incase of support we look to go long above the high of the outside bar.


If we look in the above example we can see clear OI pattern @ a resistance point. The stop loss will be the other side of the OB. IB is generally a compression or a pause at a major junction , when that is confirmed with directional OB the entry is beautiful.

 Now dont go in search of this pattern, if it happens and you find it, you can understand that it has a higher probability of winning.


Friday, December 25, 2020

Inside Bar - Outside Bar Combo Pattern

 This is a very interesting 3 Bar Pattern which can be used to take Trade Entries. We use the power of Inside bar and outside bar to execute this.

Firstly we need to know what is an Inside Bar. If the current bars high and low is within previous bars high and low we call the current bar as an Inside bar

Similarly for an Outside bar, we need the current bars high and low to be beyond the boundary of previous bar high and low . Look to the example Below



When this happens with a combo that sets an Explosive move. Inside bars are generally trend trading patterns and outside bars are direction confirming patterns based on closed direction.

Inside outside combo Pattern:

     In an IO ( Inside outside)  pattern we need an inside bar setup, followed by an outside bar setup. Example is shown below. 













The trade is placed as a stop order on respective outside bar levels based on the Context direction. If in a trending market we take in the direction of trend and if we get an IO pattern near resistance or support we take this as a reversal pattern.

In case of resistance we look to sell below the low of the outside bar.

Incase of support we look to go long above the high of the outside bar

If we look in the above example we can see clear IO pattern @ a resistance point. The stop loss will be the other side of the OB. IB is generally a compression or a pause at a major junction , when that is confirmed with directional OB the entry is beautiful.

 Now dont go in search of this pattern, if it happens and you find it, you can understand that it has a higher probability of winning.


Saturday, December 12, 2020

Top 25 Best Stock Market Movies & Finance Movies of All Time

 


Top 11 Best Stock Market Movies Summary

  1. The Big Short (2015): Financial Crisis – Stock Market Movie
  2. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013): True Story – Stock Market Movie
  3. Wall Street(1987)
  4. Rogue Trader (1999): Stock Trading Movie – True Story
  5. Margin Call (2011): Stock Trading Fiction
  6. Boiler Room (2000): Pump & Dump Fiction
  7. Barbarians at the Gate: Wall Street Movie
  8. Floored: Trader Documentary
  9. Wall Street Warriors: Trader Documentary
  10. Margin Call: Stock Market Movie
  11. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: Stock Market Movie

Top 14 Best Finance Movies Summary

  1. Inside Job (2011): Financial Crisis 2008, Finance Movie
  2. The China Hustle (2018): Finance & Trade Documentary
  3. Chasing Madoff (2010): Stock Market Scam, True Story
  4. Too Big to Fail (2011): Documentary, Finance Movie
  5. Banking On Bitcoin (2017): Financial Markets Documentary
  6. The Founder(2016)
  7. The Corporation: Finance Documentary 
  8. the pirates of silicon valley
  9. Capitalism: A Love Story: Finance Documentary
  10. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: Corporate Scam Movie
  11. The Ascent of Money: Finance Documentary
  12. Freakonomics: Finance Documentary
  13. Glengarry Glen Ross: Finance Fiction
  14. Arbitrage: Finance Movie

Monday, November 16, 2020

Best Price Action Trading Strategy That Will Change The Way You Trade

 


Love price action? Want to learn more about trading with price action? Start here.

Everything TSR has on price action, at your fingertips.

You can also enjoy selected content offline with these TSR eBooks.

#1: PRICE ACTION FOR BEGINNERS

Just getting started?

From the definition of price action to the essential price patterns, you can find all you need to kick-start your price action trading education.

WHAT IS PRICE ACTION?

  • Price Action Trading Primer — What is price action?
  • Why New Traders Should Start with Price Action — Start your learning journey right and save time.
  • 5 Steps to Becoming a Price Action Trader — A step-by-step guide for the confused beginner.

READING PRICE ACTION

  • Beginner’s Guide to Learning Price Action — A guide to reading price action bar-by-bar.
  • 10 Bar Patterns You Must Know — 10 bar patterns like the inside bar to master.
  • 10 Candlestick Patterns You Must Know — 10 candlestick patterns to light the way.
  • 10 Chart Patterns for Price Action Trading — Classical chart patterns with trading rules.
  • Trading with Support/Resistance — A primer on drawing and trading with support/resistance areas.
  • Price Action Trading Strategies (Beyond Price Patterns) — A guide to the components of a holistic price action trading strategy.

#2: PRICE ACTION TRADING TOOLS

Already grasped the basics?

Move on to learning price action based tools — trend bars, trend lines, channels, swing pivots, congestion, price-only chart types and more.

  • Price Action Trader’s Toolbox — 5 essential skills for price action trading.
  • Trend Bar: A Simple Way to Look at Price Action — An intuitive concept for reading price.
  • Swing Trading with Trend Lines — A price action trader’s best friend.
  • 4 Ways to Trade a Channel — A versatile price action trading tool.
  • A Plain and Simple Trend Line Channel Trading Strategy — A straightforward strategy with trading examples.
  • Find Intraday Trends with Price Action — 4 methods to determine the market bias for day trading.
  • 3 Practical Uses of Price Congestion — Use the sideways market to trade better.
  • 10 Price Chart Types for Trading — From the common candlestick to the exotic Kagi lines.
  • Bar-by-Bar Analysis of 3 Charts — A demonstration of close price analysis.

#3: PRICE ACTION TRADING CONCEPTS

If you are comfortable with the technical aspects, perhaps what you need are some perspectives and tips to propel your performance.

TIPS

  • 10 Commandments of Price Action Trading — Ground rules for price action traders
  • A 5-Point Plan for Price Action Traders — Core guiding principles for a minimalist trader.
  • 7 Price Action Trading Myths Debunked — Price action trading is not the Holy Grail.

TECHNIQUES

  • 8 Practical Ways to Improve Your Price Action Trading Skills — Take concrete steps to trade better.
  • Price Action Re-Entry — A simple concept to find higher probability trades.
  • Intraday Price Action Trading Techniques — 3 ways to stay out of trouble.
  • 4 Practical Day Trading Tips for Price Action Traders — Make full use of your price observations.

TAKING A STEP BACK

  • How to Enter the Market as a Price Action Trader — The implications of using stop orders and limit orders.
  • Keeping Records of Discretionary Price Action Trading — Tips for keeping solid trade records.
  • What is the Best Time Frame for Price Action Trading? — A popular question with no simple answer.

#4: PRICE ACTION TRADING STRATEGIES

Ready for trading strategies? Here you go.

BAR PATTERNS

  • Trend Bar Failure — A simple and versatile price pattern from my Day Trading with Price Action Course.
  • Inside Bar for Day Trading Futures — The classic low-risk bar pattern in the right context.
  • Inside Day/NR4 (ID/NR4) — A low-risk volatility price pattern from Toby Crabel’s “Day Trading with Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout”.
  • NR7 Trading Strategy — A popular and simple low-volatility price pattern.
  • Pinocchio Bar Trade Setup (Pin Bar) — A classic fake-out bar pattern that traps traders out of a market reversal.
  • Yum-Yum Continuation Pattern — A reliable continuation pattern that uses the nifty concept of bar range expansion.
  • Popgun Bar Pattern — A pattern for finding impulse Elliot waves.
  • Swing Trading with Outside Bar — Using outside bar failures to trigger a trade.
  • Three-Bar Inside Bar Pattern — An adaptation of an inside bar to add context and confirmation.
  • Three-Bar Reversal Pattern for Day Trading — Modifying the three-bar reversal pattern for lower frequency, but higher probability trading.
  • Trading Consecutive Up/Down Bars — An clear price pattern that causes traders’ euphoria (or not).
  • Retrace Day Trading Setup — A day trading strategy from Thomas Bulkowski (author of Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns and Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts).

CANDLESTICK PATTERNS

  • Hikkake Trade Setup — A twist on the inside bar to ensnare other traders.
  • Engulfing Candlestick with Market Structure — A popular candlestick pattern trading strategy.
  • Mountains, Rivers, Crows, and Soldiers — A candlestick strategy that uses chart patterns for trading reversals.
  • Candlestick with Pivot Points — An intraday trading method using floor pivots.
  • Candlesticks with a Moving Average — A solid combination of candlestick patterns with moving averages.
  • Trading Candlesticks with RSI — A trading technique from Steve Nison’s “Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques”.
  • Catching Trends with Heiken-Ashi — A unique type of candlesticks for tracking trends.

PRICE WITH VOLUME

  • Anchor Zones — A powerful method that combines range, gap, and volume to find key support/resistance.
  • On-Balance Volume Trading Strategy for Fading Dumb Money — An intuitive volume indicator to clarify price movement.
  • Capture High Profits with Low Volume Pullbacks — A simple observation of price and volume.
  • Finding Support and Resistance with Volume Clues — Use high volume signals to find reliable price pivots.

PRICE GAPS

  • Exhaustion Gap Trading Strategy for Reversals — A gap trading technique for swing traders.
  • Trading Continuations with Runaway Gaps — Another useful gap to observe.

PRICE ACTION WITH MINIMAL INDICATORS

  • John Hill’s Trend Line Theory — A unique trend line strategy for trading pullbacks.
  • Jjrvat’s Price Based Trading — A reliable scalping strategy that uses a moving average to highlight price waves.
  • Two-legged Pullback to the Moving Average (M2B, M2S) — A setup from Al Brooks who suggested this as one of the best for beginners.
  • Intraday Trend Trading with Price Action — A strategy for lovers of Keltner Channels.
  • Improved Three-Bar Pullback Pattern — A better pullback with the triple-smoothed EMA (TRIX).
  • Andrew’s Pitchfork Trading Strategy — Not an indicator per se, but we love trend lines.
  • 50% Retracement Swing Trading Setup — A reliable benchmark for a solid pullback trade.

#5: MORE RESOURCES FOR PICKING UP PRICE ACTION

Need more help?

  • Top 10 Price Action Trading Books — Best books of the topic.
  • 10 Resources for Learning Price Action Trading — Free articles/forum posts from all over the Internet.
  • Day Trading with Price Action Course — Galen Wood’s complete trading framework.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Coronavirus lockdown cannot stop this Young man's passion for planting trees


The Covid-19 pandemic has brought several activities to a grinding halt. But it has not been able to stop an young man from hailing from Jharkhand Giridih district from fulfilling his commitment to the environment by planting 300+ of tree(Sagwan, mohgany, gambhar, mango etc)in his native village in Gando(chakandiha).

Village members  Tree plantations date 15th Aug 2020


Affectionately called ‘Rahul Bhaiya' (tree friend) by locals Rahulprasad Yadav , a 27 year old  Software Engineer, developed his passion for greenery from his grandpa & father. 

Rahulprasad Yadav


Locals said that it was due to Rahul efforts that several parts of Chakandiha now have lush greenery and rows of trees and he is heartily appreciated by villagers for his efforts. Even during the pandemic he has planted at least 300 tress in his village.


“I am just trying to make a small contribution to the environment by planting trees. Hopefully more people will come forward for this,” said Rahul.


Even as Rahul has shifted to Maharashtra from Nagpur several years back but he continued to frequently visit his native village to pursue his passion for greenery.


It is a familiar site for the villagers to see the Young man walking on the village roads with a spade and bag of saplings. But their beloved ‘tree friend’ wants to spread his passion among the younger generation.


Inspired by his work a group of youths has set up a team called the ‘Green Army’ to speed to plant even more trees. Locals said that even as they are taking all precautions during the pandemic their passion for planting trees has not subsided a bit.


“It is heartwarming to see the younger generation passionately embracing his (Rahul) commitment to the environment. Hopefully more people from our village will join in,” said a villager.

However, Rahul is not bothered about recognition or praise. All he wants is that more trees to get get planted.

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Meditation – The Secret Weapon To Becoming A Better Trader



Do you find yourself repeating the same mistakes in trading over and over again?

Perhaps failing to pull the trigger when you have a perfect setup right in front of you?

Or find yourself afraid to take a new trade for fear of losing?

How about ‘knowing’ what to do, but being unable to do it in real time, yet you can do it perfectly on demo?

The answer to any and all of the challenges above you experience in trading comes down to two things:

1) How Your Brain is Wired
2) Your Mindset

The good thing is you can re-wire your brain for success in trading and life. And luckily you can do this in just a few weeks, for only minutes per day.

In this infographic I explain how top wall street traders meditate to improve performance, how different practices produce different results, and how you can improve your brain for trading and life in just a few weeks.

Comment below with your thoughts on this meditation for traders infographic.



Friday, October 2, 2020

The best pattern for trading breakout


Price action structures preceding potential high probability breakouts

Key variables
Price Action Context
Understand the order flow
How to use this your advantage

Key characterstic#1
with trend move

Key characteristic #2
well define support or  Resistance level
2 touches from that key resistance or support level
2 touches & 2 reactions



Directional moves do not happen without imbalance in the 
order flow

Key characteristic #3
weaker reactions off the key S/R Level
weaker reaction communicates that bulls are gaining strength
over the bears
weaker reactions the bears ability to defend the level is
weakening



1.Clear trend in place
2. Clearly defined key S&R level
3. 2 Touches off the level
4. Weaker Reactions off the level

Probability of a Potential breakout is very strong







Saturday, September 26, 2020

Top Six Candle Concepts






  1. Changing of the Guard™ - COG
  2. Wide Range Body - WRB
  3. Narrow Range Body – NR
  4. Narrowing Range Bodies - NRB
  5. Topping Tail - TT
  6. Bottoming Tail - BT


1. Changing of the Guard Bar - COG

A Bullish COG is defined as three or more consecutive

red bars followed by a green bar.


A Bearish COG is defined as three or more consecutive

green bars followed by a red bar.


While there are different variations, the message is always

the same ! A reversal in momentum has occurred!


example Dark Cloud Cover, Piercing Pattern, Bullish Engulfing, Bearish Engulfing, Counter Attack Lines Thrusting Lines C

2. Narrowing Range Bars - NRB

A series of bars in which the difference between the highs and lows is

Narrowing.


While there are different variations, the message is

always the same ! A slowing in momentum is occurring!

3.Narrow Range Bodies - NR

Bars in which the body of the candle is small relative to the overall length

of the candle. They may have Tails on either side of the body.


While there are different variations, the message is

always the same ! A slowing in momentum has occurred!


Example of Narrow Range Bodies & Bars: Hanging man, Inverted Hammer, Shooting Star, DOJI Harami , Long Legged Doji

4.Topping Tail Bars - TT

Bars in which prices had been higher, then supply forced prices

lower into the lower part of the bars range.


While there are different variations, the message is

always the same ! Distribution has occurred!


5.Bottoming Tail Bars - BT

Bars in which prices had been lower, then demand forced prices

higher into the upper part of the bars range.


While there are different variations, the message is

always the same ! Accumulation has occurred!


6.Wide Range Bar - WRB

A Bar in which the Candle Body is relatively wide compared to the

most recent bars .


A Wide Range Bar after a period low volatility ignites momentum in

that direction.


A Wide Range Bar after an extended advance or decline typically

happens near the end of a move. An NR or NRB will signal the turn.



Thursday, September 24, 2020

Calendar Spread

 

Calendar Spread

A Long Calendar Spread is a low-risk, directionally neutral strategy that profits from the passage of time and/or an increase in implied volatility.

Directional Assumption: Neutral

Setup: A calendar is comprised of a short option (call or put) in a near-term expiration cycle, and a long option (call or put) in a longer-term expiration cycle. Both options are of the same type and use the same strike price.

- Sell near-term Put/Call
- Buy longer-term Put/Call

Ideal Implied Volatility Environment : Low

Max Profit: The maximum profit potential of a Calendar Spread can’t be calculated due to both options being in different expiration cycles. One of the most positive outcomes for a Calendar Spread is for the trade to double in price.

How to Calculate Breakeven(s):The break-even for a calendar spread cannot be calculated due to the different expiration cycles being used. A guideline we use is within 1 strike of the Calendar Spread’s strike price.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Iron Condor Option

 

Iron Condor

An Iron Condor is a directionally neutral, defined risk strategy that profits from a stock trading in a range through the expiration of the options. It benefits from the passage of time and any decreases in implied volatility.

Directional Assumption: Neutral

Setup:
- Sell OTM Call Vertical Spread
- Sell OTM Put Vertical Spread

Ideal Implied Volatility Environment : High

Max Profit: The maximum profit potential for an Iron Condor is the net credit received. Maximum profit is realized when the underlying settles between the short strikes of the trade at expiration.

How to Calculate Breakeven(s):
- Upside: Short Call Strike + Credit Received
- Downside: Short Put Strike - Credit Received

Iron Fly Option

 

Iron Fly

An Iron Fly is essentially an Iron Condor with call and put credit spreads that share the same short strike. This creates a very neutral position that profits from the passage of time and any decreases in implied volatility. An Iron Fly is synthetically the same as a long butterfly spread using the same strikes.

Directional Assumption: Neutral

Setup:
- Buy OTM Put option
- Sell Straddle (short call and short put at the same strike, typically At-The-Money)
- Buy OTM Call option

Ideal Implied Volatility Environment : High

Max Profit: Credit received

How to Calculate Breakeven(s):
- Upside: Short Call Strike + Credit Received
- Downside: Short Put Strike - Credit Received