Thursday, December 17, 2009

Intro to Forex For Beginners (Video) !


This video is a very nice overview of what the forex market is and many of the basics of how to trade it. It helps beginner traders get the big picture of what they are getting into and also gives a few tips and tricks to help along the way. Jared Passey is a personal Forex coach and trainer and has worked with hundreds of students one-on-one.  Thanks and good luck.





Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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Bilateral Trade Setups

When it comes to trade setups, it's not always an either-or situation. In fact, you can double your fun with bilateral trade setups.

Start by overcoming directional bias when you look at a price pattern. Although you may see it in your mind as a long or a short, chances are it will work in either direction. The trick is to let the price action tell you which way to go.

Let's back up a step and see how this works. Many patterns exhibit well-defined support and resistance. Bilateral setups use both levels for trade execution. A long entry is signaled if price breaks resistance to the upside. Conversely, a short sale is signaled if price breaks support to the downside. But you still have more work to do before taking a bilateral trade. After all, making money is the whole point of the exercise.


Every trade setup generates a unique reward/risk profile. In other words, it tells you how much you stand to win or lose should you decide to take a position. Each side of a bilateral setup carries a different reward/risk ratio. Most of the time, one side shows more profit potential than the other side. This can be frustrating because the calculation is independent of the odds that either outcome will actually take place. So you may have a great, high-odds setup with little or no reward, or a lousy, low-odds setup that would earn a fortune if it ever happens.


The price trigger complicates bilateral trade entry. Trading signals come in all varieties. The best ones ring very loud bells within very narrow price levels. One classic example is a high-volume breakout through a major moving average. Bilateral strategies force you to locate trigger prices on both sides of the pattern. Many times one side will bark much louder than the other when price hits the associated trigger.


Bilateral setups work best when they fit into larger cycles that encourage price movement in either direction. For example, a stock drops off a broad rally into an extended correction. Smaller patterns within this correction may trigger short-term rallies or selloffs. Bilateral strategy lets the trader take advantage of the mixed environment and execute price swings in both directions.

Let's review the signposts of this two-way trading street. We need well-defined support-resistance levels, a defined reward/risk ratio on both sides of the equation, clean price triggers and a big picture that lets us execute in either direction. Sounds simple enough, and it is.

The difficulty lies in our ability to control bias and to let the market tell us which way to go. Very often the best trade is in the opposite direction from the most obvious outcome for that pattern. In other words, the majority piles in one way, but the profit comes from trading it the other way.


The good news about these fascinating patterns is they may tell you when the move is about to happen. Congestion often narrows toward a trigger point. We see this in triangle patterns where two trendlines converge in price and time. Bilateral setups may show this convergence through simple lines, or sometimes through more complicated volatility cycles.

Volatility drops off through the formation of most bilateral patterns. It tends to reach a definable low, and then trigger a sharp price expansion. Traders examine narrow range price bars near support or resistance levels in order to predict impending price triggers. They also study classic volatility indicators to locate these turning points in developing patterns.

Swing traders go long or short, depending on the opportunity. Bilateral setups cut their workloads by presenting two possible trades in a single pattern. So always look at both sides of the equation when examining a price chart. Then leave your bias at the door, and take whatever the market gives you.

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Trend, Direction and Timing

It's easy to chase your tail before making a new trade. In fact, most of us don't know what to look for before we commit our capital. Simply stated, each opportunity should speak for itself. The best way to decide whether a given trade does that is to first answer a few basic questions:

- What is the trend or range intensity?
- What is the direction of the next price move?
- When will this move occur?

Concentrate on the three Cs to find the answers you need to make the trade. Recognize trend-range intensity through time-frame convergence. Predict price direction through the will of the crowd. And align market timing through range contraction.

Markets alternate between up-down trends and sideways ranges. This is true in all time frames. Price movement swings through synergy and conflict as trends collide or converge. The strongest trends emerge when multiple time frames stack up into directional movement. The most persistent ranges appear when multilayered conflict stalls price change.


Use moving average ribbons (MARs) to study trend intensity. These handy tools illustrate complex relationships through simple interactions. Start by finding where current price sits in the ribbons. Since price always moves toward or away from underlying averages, each new bar reveals characteristics of momentum, trend and time. Tie MARs together in a logical way. For example, use 20-, 50- and 200-day averages to view distinct short, intermediate and long-term trends.

The interplay between averages exposes market phases and trend acceleration. Look for a bear market when MARs flip over and the 200-day MA sits on top. Look for the bull to return when it crosses back and each MA lines up, from shortest to longest. Expect choppy action when averages criss-cross out of sequence. Price, for example, can bounce like a pinball when it gets caught between inverted averages.


Volume defines the crowd. Studying market volume has two primary functions. First, it gauges the strength of ownership and the passion of the owners. Second, it filters the crowd's divergent impulses and predicts their herd behavior. Capture this vital information with a simple volume histogram (preferably color-coded) and an accumulation indicator such as on-balance volume (OBV). Volume is deceptively simple. The lack of a clear relationship between price and volume undermines accurate prediction. Volume leads the crowd as often as it lags, but always makes perfect sense in hindsight. Examine price action closely before timing trades to a volume pattern. And move quickly to other opportunities when the crowd gives mixed signals.
Range-bound markets lower volatility and dissipate crowd excitement. Eventually congestion reaches a balance point where a new trend can begin. This cooling-off phase sounds simple, but it's very hard to trade profitably. Declining volatility fosters crowd disinterest, profit taking and indecision. The chart draws a series of narrowing range bars (the distance from bar high to low). Then a new trend explodes just when everyone turns their backs, but most miss the trade because it gathers no crowd until it passes.

Find the narrowest range bar of the last seven bars (NR7) to locate this sudden congestion breakout. Its predictive power lies in the location where it appears. NR7s work best right in the middle of congestion, or when price pushes repeatedly against a major barrier. When the signal works, it works fast and triggers a major price expansion without a pullback.

How do you trade an NR7? Place an entry stop just outside both price extremes at the same time, and then cancel one order after the other executes. Then place a stop loss at the location of the cancelled order. This takes advantage of the small pattern, regardless of the way it eventually breaks out.

You can answer the three questions with a single price chart and a few good indicators. This way you'll know what to do next with very little effort. Get on board quickly when everything converges and points to an impending move. Multiple signals reveal crowd forces that converge into intense breakouts or breakdowns. These focused time-price zones line up with the right answers at the right time.

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