I’d like to expand upon a little side-comment made in the fifth image from last week’s article. We’ve discussed choppy conditions quite a lot on my site. The plan is usually the same. Recognise the chop. Define the upper and lower boundary of the structure. Put in price alerts if you wish. Step back from…
Narrow-range half-day holiday sessions provide great structure from which we can trade. We discussed this idea previously. You might recall this social media example from June. Zooming into the 30 minute chart from that prior (June) example, we see how the narrow-range session provides both directional preference and setup locations. I’m not a fan of…
(1) Recognition of potential for unfavourable conditions The following post was shared by social media pre-session on Monday: Expanding a little on that image: And adding further to this potential for unfavourable conditions: In the absence of unexpected news that provides a clear directional bias, I don’t imagine many longer-term traders keen to take…
I’m certain there are not many “jobs” at all where people look forward to Mondays. Trading is the only one that I’ve found. Even more so when I’ve been away from the markets for a while. So this was my social media post sent out pre-session on Monday. A little reminder to slow down and…
Emotion drives price. And at the market open, STRONG emotion can drive price with strength. Tuesday offered a perfect example, with a pre-market news-driven price shock resulting in a strong bearish trend day. A day which screamed out to be traded on the short side. But let’s back it up first and look at some…
I was thrilled to receive an email on Tuesday from a trader who has taken this recent YTC concept and achieved a new “first”. His first ever 100 point runner. Actually… it looks like closer to 110 but who’s counting! From the email: Hi Lance I don’t know if you remember me from earlier this…
I just want to share a quick followup to a comment made a fortnight ago, in the article: When Price Stretches to Reach the Level. So let’s see the outcome. Note the first leg down with two overnight gaps. Interestingly, the second gap has still not completely filled. And note the second leg providing…
Take note of the way that price approaches a level of support or resistance. The more that price has to stretch to reach it, the better. This is a time to FOCUS. Because if this move is unable to attract sufficient selling to continue lower, it can potentially set up a very nice YTC PAT…
Ok, not really. But the market participants have memory. And they have somewhat predictable human nature. And that is what leads to patterns in structure creating familiar outcomes. And the saying that the market doesn’t repeat, it rhymes. We saw this in a prior article: The Market Rhymes (AKA Don’t Screw Up the Second Opportunity)…
How nice is this market open… And I’ll admit it looks damn tempting. But wait! I’m not just playing price action. I’m playing the metagame. I’m viewing the market not just as price movement and patterns, but also as PEOPLE whose trade decisions create the price movement and patterns. I’m trading AGAINST those traders who…
