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- Keep the Opening Plan Simple
- When the Market Open is Narrow-Range Sideways Chop
- Breakout Entry Before the Breakout Level
- Trading off News Reaction Highs and Lows – 2
- When the Opening Sequence Gets Stuck
- When Price Moves a Long Way to Break the Low of Day
- Trading off News Reaction Highs and Lows
- Trading off Holiday Session Structure – 3
- Trading after Structure has Formed – 4
- Market Open Traps – 4
- Daily Open Trap
- When it Can’t Go Lower
- First Day Back from a Break
- Order Entry Error – Immediate Actions – 3
- The Bullish and Bearish Kicker Patterns
- Trading off Holiday Session Structure – 2
- Almost a Complete Strategy in Itself
- When it Does Break Lower it can go Hard and Fast
- Trader Performance Drills – Part Three
- When Price Stretches to Reach the Level – 3
- The Market has Memory
- When Wrong, Adjust
- If Price Fails to do Something Twice…
- Metagame Deception
- Context – Setup – Execution
- Trading off Holiday Session Structure
- Arguably the Most Important Part of any Analysis – 2
- Failure to Continue
- Breakout Traps around Key Market Timings
- Market Open Traps – 3
- Breaks Against Bias
- Market Open Traps – 2
- The Most Underrated YTC Lesson
- An Often Simpler Option for Trading S/R
- Remove Certainties from your Analysis
- Evading the Trap
- Seeing the Trade BEFORE Price Gets There
- Arguably the Most Important Part of any Analysis
- Metagame Trap Entry
- Confidently Sitting on a Loss
- Patterns Repeat
- Kicked in the Guts
- Sometimes it Takes Multiple Attempts – 3
- My First Scale-Out Exit
- Trading after Structure has Formed – 3
- Two BPB Trades…
- Why Did I Enter Short There? Why Not Long?
- Looking for Something that is Not There
- Long is Wrong – 4
- The Stop-Out Re-Entry Decision
- Drive – Pause – Drive
- When Price Stretches to Reach the Level – 2
- Feel the Emotion. Don’t Just See Price.
- Trade Entry is a Two-Way Door
- First Break against a Momentum Drive
- When Price Stretches to Reach the Level
- Pullback – With a Hidden Trap
- Volatility Contraction within a Sideways Range
- Feel the Fear!
- The Market Rhymes (AKA Don’t Screw Up the Second Opportunity)
- Why Do I Hate Indicators So Much?
- Trading after Structure has Formed – 2
- Opening Range Chop
- Layered Levels of Support or Resistance – 2
- Recognising Opening Drive Potential
- Layered Levels of Support or Resistance
- Surviving the Opening Chop
- Three Pushes into S/R (2)
- Pre-Open News Trap
- “No Play” Zone
- These Sessions Can Make Your Month – 2
- These Sessions Can Make Your Month
- Structure within Structure – 2
- Trading after Structure has Formed
- Reversal Pattern within an Opening Drive
- Long is Wrong – 3
- Why Did I Take Partial Profits So Early?
- Failure Scenarios
- Long is Wrong – 2
- Long is Wrong!
- Pre-Session Emotion and an Opening Drive
- Wrong Wrong Wrong Right – 2
- Watching the Trade Continue Without Me
- Three Pushes into S/R
- The Mindset Required For Re-Entry
- Trading with Multiple Forward Projections
- Opening Drive – When you Miss the Early Entry
- Inside Continuation Entry
- Project – Confirm – Trade
- How I Use the Daily Chart
- When the Trap Entry is itself a Trap
- Sometimes It Takes Multiple Attempts – 2
- When the Pullback Hits Harder than Expected
- Until it Breaks and Holds, Exercise Extreme Caution!
- Adding to a Position
- The Day After a Bad Performance Day
- Good Trading Isn’t Just About Winning Trades
- Recognise when it’s not working – and ADAPT
- Opening Structure Trap
- Don’t Chase the Missed Entry… Unless Price does This…
- When Obvious Expectations Are Wrong
- Proving Your Edge in Re-entry!
- Market Open Traps
- When the Pullback moves TOO DEEP TOO FAST
- Enter LONG When it Can’t Go Lower
- Step Back and Reassess
- Everyone Short from the Open was Wrong – Including Me
- Traps Just Before RTH Open – 5
- Confidence in the Trend
- Metagame Entry
- Traps Just Before RTH Open – 4
- Sometimes It Takes Multiple Attempts
- Recognise the Current Conditions. And Adapt.
- Traps Just Before RTH Open – 3
- One Winner One Loser
- Pre-Session Analysis Starts with the Daily Chart
- It’s Game On! Let’s Trade!
- Overnight Range Double Break
- Daily Market Structure & Price Action Study – 8
- Daily Market Structure & Price Action Study – 7
- Daily Market Structure & Price Action Study – 6
- What if you Narrowed Your Focus – 2
- Traps Just Before RTH Open – 2
- Targeting the Overnight High or Low – 2
- Targeting the Overnight High or Low
- Choose YOUR Playing Field
- Higher Quality Breakout Failure Trades
- Trend Change Study
- Traps at the Open – 2
- Traps at the Open
- Traps just before RTH Open
- Quality Vs Quantity
- Sideways Trend into the Open
- Metagame Entry Timing
- First Pullback in a NEW Directional Trend
- Trading a Massive Increase in Emotion
- First Pullback after Significant Structural Change
- Trading with a Guard Rail for Increased Confidence in Bias
- Three Key YTC Lessons in this Opening Price Sequence!
- Traps on a Retest of a Level
- Applying a Degree of Confidence to Price Targets
- Trading the Price Spike High or Low
- Nothing “Always” Happens
- An Exit is Never Final…
- Trading the Edges of a Sideways Market
- Find Your A+ Trades
- Focus on Catching These Trades First
- Order Entry Error – Again
- Chasing Performance
- What Puts You In Sync (or Out of Sync) With Price Flow?
- Traps Immediately After the Open
- It’s All About Real-Time Contextual Decision Making
- Simple Session Bias – 3 (Spot Forex)
- Trade When You See Edge. Stand Aside When You Don’t!
- Simple Session Bias – 2
- Simple Session Bias
- Patience at the Open
- The Other Trader (6)
- Daily Market Structure & Price Action Study – 5
- Keep this in mind for EVERY counter-trend trade
- Higher Timeframe Pattern Breakout – 2
- Higher Timeframe Pattern Breakout
- What if you Narrowed Your Focus?
- A Failed Break of One Side Leads to…
- When Obvious Expectations Fail
- Daily Market Structure & Price Action Study – 4
- Daily Market Structure & Price Action Study – 3
- Daily Market Structure & Price Action Study – 2
- Daily Market Structure & Price Action Study – 1
- Inside Bars at the End of a Price Swing
- Structure within Structure
- Don’t Overcomplicate Things – 3
- Focus on the Obvious Moves First
- Don’t Overcomplicate Things – 2
- Watch Post-Breakout Behaviour – 3
- Watch Post-Breakout Behaviour – 2
- Watch Post-Breakout Behaviour – 1
- Don’t Overcomplicate Things – 1
- Wait for the Partial Decline or Partial Rise
- Don’t Let Minor Trade Ideas Distract You from Execution of the Main Trade
- TTF Narrow Range Bar Entry
- Seeking Entry on the Wholesale Side of the Market Structure
- Caught on the Wrong Side of the HTF Trap
- Higher Timeframe Trap – Everyone Long Above This Level is WRONG!
- Stop – Pause to Reassess – Reverse
- Two Attempts – Then Reassess (2)
- The Other Trader (5)
- LTF Entry Patterns can also trigger Exit
- Let It Fail First – Then Get In
- Reverse Trendline Breakout Failure
- Clues to a Quiet Trading Session
- Sometimes You Get It Wrong Before You Get It Right
- Trading an Uncertain Trend
- Learning from the Must-Trade Price Sequences
- A Simple Alternative Means of Assessing Short-Term Bias & Market Strength/Weakness – Part 2
- A Simple Alternative Means of Assessing Short-Term Bias & Market Strength/Weakness
- Momentum Doesn’t Always Continue
- Higher Timeframe Forex – When The Market Can’t Push Lower
- Metagame Entry – After You’ve Made a Dumb Trade!
- Trade Opportunity at Spike Highs
- Opportunity Exists where you find Frustrated Traders – Part 2
- Opportunity Exists where you find Frustrated Traders
- Trade Review – Should He Have Exited?
- Wrong Wrong Wrong Right
- How Do You Find Time to Plan a Trade on a 1-Minute Timeframe?
- The Key to Early Recognition of Potential Change in Structure
- The Key to Effective Active Trade Management
- Studying a Higher Timeframe Trap
- Start Your Session With IF-THEN Scenarios
- A BOF Trade with Many YTC Concepts
- Leaning Your Entry Against Other Price Action
- If you find yourself out of your trade, the reality is that you won’t always find a way back in!
- “But it’s scary!” “What if it fails?”
- The Other Trader (4)
- Using Pre-Session Data to Confirm Levels
- Wait till the Reversal Trader is Trapped
- Open Drive – First Pullback
- Trader Performance Drills – Part Two
- You WILL Have Trade Sequences Where You Are Out Of Sync With The Market
- Where Price Can’t Go
- Trading the Retest of a Point of Structural Change
- Two Attempts – Then Reassess
- Selling Because The Market Can’t Rally
- The Other Trader (3)
- The Other Trader (2)
- Metagame Trading
- Reversals Often Give Multiple Clues
- Traps – This One Needed Patience
- Order Entry Error – Immediate Actions & Working an Exit
- Trade Management Requires a Constant Reassessment of Probability
- The Other Trader
- Defining “No-Trade Zones”
- Let It Turn. Then Find Your Entry.
- I’d Take These Trades EVERY TIME. Here’s Why…
- How to Enter When the Pullback Shows Strength
- Fading the Edges of the Market Structure
- YTC Ideas on Forex Daily Charts
- One of the Advantages of Low Timeframes
- Trading Failed Expectations
- Who Would Buy Here?
- False Breakout Trap Review
- Retesting the Point of Structural Change
- You’ve GOT to Target Multiple-R Winners
- You Don’t Have To Catch The Absolute Top
- Reviewing a 50 Tick Winner
- Trade Opportunity Is Found Where Expectations Fail to Meet Reality
- Pullback Test of Short-Term Resistance
- My Thoughts Pre-Entry
- Watch Breaks Against Bias for Failure Opportunity
- Surf the Waves
- Professionals Traded Here! What Were They Seeing That You Couldn’t See?
- Confirmation is Risk! (Part 2)
- Confirmation is Risk! (Part 1)
- Spring the Trap
- Is This a Stupid Trade?
- Is this Market Bullish or Bearish?
- Entry After An Extended Complex Pullback
- Where Would You Enter Short?
- What to do if You Missed the Opening Drive
- Good Losses
- Consistent, High-Quality Repetition of Process (4 of 4)
- Reader Trade Review – ES Test of Resistance
- Context Can Also Involve Time… Not Just Price
- Structural Trades
- Breaks Against Bias – Their Failure is My Success
- WLSR – Not Win%
- What Doesn’t Happen – Is Important Information
- Open in the Vicinity of Prior Day’s Low Support
- Reader Session Review
- Buy Because There Are No More Sellers (with lower timeframe)
- Things Do Not Change – We Change
- Feeling Joy When I Look at this Price Action
- One Trade Can Make a Session
- Not Every Trade Sequence is a Winner
- Pattern Breakout Entry Before the Breakout
- Will This Trade Win?
- IF-THEN Analysis at Session Open
- Late Session Breakout – Early Session Opportunity – Email Q&A
- Late Session Breakout – Early Session Opportunity
- Dealing with Psychological Pressure Post-Entry
- Trading Timeframe Narrow Range Bar Entry – Part Two
- Trading Timeframe Narrow Range Bar Entry – Part One
- Avoid What is Strong – Strike at What is Weak!
- One Trade – Multiple YTC Concepts
- Did You Miss the Opening Drive?
- Test of Opening Range S/R
- The Two S/R Levels You Must Have On Your Charts
- Trade Management is More Important than Trade Entry
- Structural Entries Allow For Imperfection
- The Psychology of Re-Entry
- Price Action Is Not Always What It Seems
- Retest of the Point of Contraction
- How did I know this trade would win?
- Traps Against Bias
- Would Re-Entry Improve Your Edge?
- Isn’t Buying at the Lower Low just Trying to Catch a Falling Knife?
- Where Do You See Opportunity?
- Real Opportunity is Found at the Edges of Market Structure
- YTC Intro to TA – Unfinished Video Series
- Expecting a Breakout Failure
- Reviewing Key Price Action Sequences
- A Failed Break of a Range will lead to a Test of the Other Side
- Grinding Channel Break
- Wait for the Fakeout
- Learning – When the Markets are Closed
- Long at Support
- Small Wins, Small Losses, Large Wins… But NO Large Losses
- Buy because there are No More Sellers
- Price Action Principles – Timeframe Independent
- When Struggling – Return to First Principles
- The Trade is NOT Over till the Premise is Invalid
- First Pullback after Structural Change
- Individual Trade Results Are Irrelevant
- Identifying SMA Turn Points Ahead of Time
- Every Price Interaction with Support or Resistance is Unique
- Clarifying Timeframe Confusion
- 123-Pattern Entry Triggers
- Don’t Confuse Knowledge with Knowing
- Candlestick Pattern Q&A
- Narrow Range Sideways – Where is the Best Opportunity?
- Staying Ahead of Price
- Taking Profits – Adjust to Suit the Environment
- Lower Timeframe Ledge Entry
- Bar-by-Bar Analysis via One Simple Question
- Simple Pullback or Complex Pullback? Look to Past Price Action for Clues!
- Gaining Confidence in Taking the Trap Entries – 2
- Trading the Edges
- Establishing a Bias From the Open (Part 2 of 2)
- Traps… All Markets… All Timeframes – 2
- Establishing a Bias From the Open (Part 1 of 2)
- Should I Avoid the First 10 Minutes?
- Gaining Confidence in Taking the Trap Entries
- What Were They Thinking?
- Traps… All Markets… All Timeframes!
- Scaling In and Out
- Consistent, High-Quality Repetition of Process (3 of 4)
- Pullback Specialist
- Difficult Sessions – How Should This Have Been Traded
- Trading with the Right Expectations
- Entry Before Breakout – Example
- Active Trade Management – Reassessing Risk and Opportunity
- Longer Timeframe Trap
- Consistent, High-Quality Repetition of Process (2 of 4)
- Stop Hoping Your Trade Will Win
- Consistent, High-Quality Repetition of Process (1 of 4)
- The Role of Luck in Trading
- OMG! One of My Trades Lost Money!
- Expectations for the Pre-Holiday Session
- Focus on the Right Timeframe
- When Fighting the Trend… (Part Two)
- Exploiting Pattern Failures
- The Reality of the Market
- When Fighting the Trend
- Losing Sessions – Expect Them!
- A Better Way to Classify Candlesticks
- Trading Higher Timeframes
- Every Session Contains Learning Opportunity
- Avoiding Lower Probability Environments
- Create Your Own Trading Success Journal
- Candlesticks equal Price Bars
- Trade Entry Triggers – Micro-Trendline Breaks
- Double Inside Bar Setup and Trigger
- Counter-Trend Breakout Failure
- Reader Email – A Breakthrough in Understanding Sentiment
- Lower Timeframe Triggers into Trading Timeframe Setups
- Trading with Context via a Wider and Multiple Timeframe Perspective
- Trade Review – Pullback
- More… Anticipating Traps
- The Double Failure Pattern (Revisited)
- Lower Timeframe 3-Swing Retrace Entry
- And Again… Anticipating Traps
- The Three Steps from TA Amateur to TA Professional
- Session Open Breakout Pullback
- Stopped Out… But The Premise Remains Valid!
- Winning Through Losing Better (2 of 2)
- Where is the Bias after a Strong Impulse Move?
- Winning Through Losing Better (1 of 2)
- Fast Trend Shallow Pullback
- When to Doubt a Pullback
- Advanced Trade Management Options
- How To Make a Strategy Your Own – 2
- If I Wanted to Limit Myself to ONE Setup Only!
- Defining the Market Environment
- How Could I Have Analysed This Better?
- Is Forex a Casino?
- Climactic Break Above Grind
- 3 Different Breakout Pullbacks… 3 Different Outcomes
- Market Manipulation? Or just Human Nature?
- Stop and Reverse
- The Key to Seeing Orderflow
- Limit Orders at Range Boundary
- S/R is a Decision Area, not an Impenetrable Barrier!
- Patience – Wait for the Trap
- The Double Failure Pattern
- Sorry To Be So Blunt!
- Surrender your Fate to the Markets
- Apparently The Hanging Man Didn’t Make Any Difference
- You Have Too Much Focus on Individual Trade Results
- Traps at the Higher Structural Level
- A Strategy Implementation Plan
- Different Breakout Entry Options
- A Bias-Changing Event
- 210 Ticks in 5 Minutes: Could You Have Caught This Move?
- Impulse Against Your Trade: Should You Hold or Scratch?
- How Quickly Can You Identify the Current Market Environment?
- Price Movement Offers Clues to Market Bias
- Sometimes a Free-Trade is Not the Best Option
- Active Management and Defensive Exit – An Example
- Why Was This Trade a Winner?
- This is the REAL Challenge of Trading
- How I Define and Use an S/R Framework when Price is in No Man’s Land
- The Most Reliable Price Swings
- Managing Part Two of your Trade
- Who Will Give Up First?
- The Most Important Question You Can Ask
- How To Make a Strategy Your Own
- Asian Session False Breakout
- Definition – Depth
- YTC Beginners Guide to Technical Analysis
- Definition – Projection
- Are You Struggling Counter Trend?
- Trading is a Fight!
- Do Higher Timeframes Trend Better? Not Always!
- Trading Counter-Trend Against Market Bias
- S/R Levels – When Do They Become Invalid?
- Comfortable Lies and Uncomfortable Truths
- What is Price Action Analysis?
- I’m Trading What I See, Not What I Think! So Why Am I Still Anxious?
- What is Scalping?
- There is a Lesson in EVERY Trading Session – Part 2
- There is a Lesson in EVERY Trading Session
- Volume Analysis – The YTC Way
- Patterns vs Context
- Conflicting Trends on Different Timeframes – How I Read This Chart!
- Self-deception – According to Kierkegaard – Part 2
- Self-deception – According to Kierkegaard – Part 1
- A New Market Model – The Market As A Self-Deception Mechanism – Part 2 of 2
- A New Market Model – The Market Is A Self-Deception Mechanism – Part 1 of 2
- 6.18 Reasons Why Fibonacci Is An Illusion
- What Is Wrong With This Entry?
- What Was That? (EUR/JPY, Jan 28th, 2011)
- Trading a Choppy Overlapping Pullback
- In-between Breakeven and Profit
- What Does an Edge Look Like on a Chart?
- Complete Candlestick Charting Patterns Video Series
- Entering A Breakout Before The Breakout
- Complete Price Bar Reversal Patterns Video Series
- When Does The Trend Change?
- Random Markets? Absolutely Not!
- Micro-Channel False-Breakout Counter-Trend Entry
- Acceleration Into S/R – Wait For the 2nd Chance Entry
- Price Action – Lagging or Leading?
- The ID-NR4 Setup
- Profit from the Pain of the Other Trader
- Supply / Demand Trade Review
- Trading Gaps
- Learning to Identify Key Setup Areas
- What is Market Replay?
- Better than Candlestick Patterns – Part Five
- Better than Candlestick Patterns – Part Four
- Better than Candlestick Patterns – Part Three
- Better than Candlestick Patterns – Part Two
- Reader Trade Review – 22 July 2010
- Better than Candlestick Patterns – Part One
- Trader Performance Drills
- Where to Trigger Entry into a Pullback
- Support and Resistance on Composite Indices
- Losses Are Information
- Market Analysis Example – Narrow Range Sideways
- Sports and Trading – Finding Your Forté
- How I Define the Trend
- Stay Ahead of the Aircraft
- Are Short Timeframes Just Noise?
- Scalping
- Support Becomes Resistance – A Trade Example
- Panic – 6 May 2010
- Another Breakout Pullback Example
- The Most Important Trading Stats
- Breakout Pullbacks – Sometimes They Come Fast
- Profiting From What the Market Doesn’t Do
- Active vs. Passive Trade Management
- Dumb Trades – They Happen!
- My Favorite Indicator
- Climactic Reversals – Where is the Entry?
- Avoid These Trading Days
- Tick or Range Charts vs Time Based Charts – Example 2
- Trading Success – Predicting the Unpredictable
- Tick or Range Charts vs Time Based Charts
- Pulling the Trigger – This Entry Strategy May Help…
- Forex Opening Range Breakout Strategy
- Profiting from Trapped Traders – Revisited
- Candlestick Pattern Win Percentages
- Setups Based on Other Trader’s Stop Areas
- Stop Running – And What You Can Do About It
- Trading the Most-Challenging Market Environments
- Would You Buy or Sell Based on this Price Action?
- Rock Paper Scissors – A Trading Analogy!
- CAUTION: Volatility
- Situational Awareness for Traders
- The Confusion of Trends on Different Timeframes
- Trapped Traders – Part 2
- How Support and Resistance Areas are Created
- Improving Exits & Win Loss Size Ratio
- Trapped Traders – Part 1
- Advanced Candlestick Analysis (Part 2 of 2)
- Advanced Candlestick Analysis (Part 1 of 2)
- Are Short Timeframes Too Risky For Beginners?
- One of my Favorite Setups
- Price Bar Reversal Patterns – Video 9 – The Pivot Point Reversal
- Price Bar Reversal Patterns – Video 8 – The Island Reversal
- Real Traders Use Candlesticks… or do they?
- Price Bar Reversal Patterns – Video 7 – The Key Reversal
- Price Bar Reversal Patterns – Video 6 – The Hook Reversal
- Price Bar Reversal Patterns – Video 5 – The Closing Price Reversal
- Stops – Frustrating!
- Price Bar Reversal Patterns – Video 4 – The Open Close Reversal
- Price Bar Reversal Patterns – Video 3 – The Bullish Rejection Pattern
- Price Bar Reversal Patterns – Video 2 – The Bearish Rejection Pattern
- Price Bar Reversal Patterns – Video 1 – Introduction
- Tight Stops
- How Do You Know When To Exit
- How Is My Trading Influenced by the News?
- Three Losses in a Row
- Candlestick Charting – Video 16 – Morning Star
- Support and Resistance 4 – Round Numbers
- Candlestick Charting – Video 15 – Evening Star
- Your Trading Problems are Your Path to Success
- Support and Resistance 3 – Areas of Congestion
- A Common Indicator Mistake
- Candlestick Charting – Video 14 – The Bullish Engulfing Pattern
- Candlestick Charting – Video 13 – The Bearish Engulfing Pattern
- Support and Resistance 2 – Swing Highs and Lows
- Candlestick Charting – Video 12 – Piercing Pattern
- Support and Resistance – the Greatest Trading Tool
- Candlestick Charting – Video 11 – Dark Cloud Cover
- Candlestick Charting – Video 10 – Harami
- Trader Q&A – Price Action
- Why Price Moves – An Introduction
- Candlestick Charting – Video 9 – Doji
- Stop Losses – My Biggest Downfall
- Trading Problems – Maintaining Focus
- Candlestick Charting – Video 8 – Inverted Hammer
- The Importance of Exit Strategy – Video Series
- The Importance of Exit Strategy – Part 3
- The Importance of Exit Strategy – Part 2
- The Importance of Exit Strategy – Part 1
- Dealing With Market Uncertainty
- Candlestick Charting – Video 7 – Hammer
- Candlestick Charting – Video 6 – Hanging Man
- The Hidden Secret of Technical Analysis
- Candlestick Charting – Video 5 – Shooting Star
- Candlestick Charting – Video 4 – Candle Pattern Stages
- Price Analysis – A Top-Down Approach
- Candlestick Charting – Video 3 – Candle Addition and Development
- Candlestick Charting – Video 2 – Candlestick Sentiment
- Candlestick Charting – Video 1 – Candlestick Design
