I had no plans to continue this recent topic on use of the opening range to provide a quick and simple assessment of "bigger picture" session bias. But I had a few traders ask how it should be applied to the forex markets. You can see the two prior articles here, if you missed…
A few weeks back we discussed a quick and simple method for identifying a "bigger picture" directional bias. See here if you missed it and want to review the idea – Part 1, Part 2. The second article generated quite a bit of good email conversation, with several traders now adding this to their current…
I'm always fascinated to hear from traders who have trouble exiting a trade at the stop loss. The ones who move the stop loss further away to avoid the exit. And then move it further. And further. Until eventually, they can't take the pain any more, so they get out of the trade and destroy…
Last week I introduced two quick and simple methods for establishing the "bigger picture" bias for the trading session. Let's look at this concept one more time, reviewing all sessions since last week's publication. We will focus this time on the opening range method (my preferred method) and go into a little more detail….
Maintaining context is essential for effective price action trading. And while that is true for all timeframes, it's especially so in the lower intraday timeframes where you can easily get caught up in the tick-by-tick battle between the bulls and bears. My primary tools for context are the trend structure which I view on…
