Lesser
Known Forex Strategy Reveals
Best Possible Entry Level
The
lesser known Forex strategy revealed here can make a big difference
to your profits. Getting in at the optimum level results in more pips
which can accumulate steadily.
Two methods
of drawing trendlines are:
1. The
Common Sense Method
By just
running the eye over a candle chart, it is easy to identify a series
of lower highs or higher lows. Drawing a trendline across the tops
or the bottoms will indicate where price is likely to bounce in the
future.
It is not
necessary to be obsessive about the trendline having to touch exactly
all the highs and lows. In some cases they may touch the bottom of
some candle shadows, in other cases, they may touch the bodies of the
candles.
2. The
Tom DeMark Method
Tom DeMark,
a highly respected market analyst, suggests connecting the last high
with the previous high in a downtrend and extending the line past current
price action OR connecting the last low with the previous low in an
uptrend and extending the line past current price action.
Highs are
candles that have lower candles adjacent to them on the left and right
and lows are candles that have higher candles adjacent to them on the
right and left.
These trendlines
can be regularly updated as new highs and lows are formed.
Many traders
enter a trade on the break of a trendline as part of their Forex strategy.
That works for many.
However,
there is a way to use trendlines to ensure an optimum entry point.
The Optimum
Entry Point
Often, not
always, price will break a trendline and move away 10 or 20 pips. Then,
it comes back to test the backside of that trendline. That’s where
you enter the trade.
If the trendline
break coincides with your other favorite indicators such as pivot points,
Fibonacci calculations, set an entry order for price to take you in
when it comes back to test that level.
That way
you enter the trade at an optimum level and squeeze even more pips
out of the move.
Of course,
price may not come back to test the backside of the trendline so your
order doesn’t get taken in and you miss the move. No problem. As a
trader patience is an essential quality you develop as a part of your
Forex strategy. You simply wait for the next time!
Often,
not always, price will break a trendline and move away 10 or 20 pips.
Then, it comes back to test the backside of that trendline. That’s
where you enter the trade.
If
the trendline break coincides with your other favorite indicators such
as:
- Pivot
Points
- Fibonacci
Calculations
- Previous
Support Or Resistance
then
set an entry order for price to take you in when it comes back to test
that level.
That
way you enter the trade at an optimum level and squeeze even more pips
out of the move.
Note
the examples below:
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USD/CHF
1 Hour Chart
See
how price broke the trendline, then came back to test the backside.
If
you look carefully at the chart and run your eyes left, you
will see that the trendline bounce also coincides with a previous
support/resistance level.
If
you did some Fibonacci calculations you would also find that
same point matches with 50 and 62% retracement levels.
With
that convergence of factors, the trendline backside test makes
a good entry point!
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