One of the important phases of price action in any market is volatility. Why? Because two forces are at work. The first is the emotional fear of missing out, in other words FOMO. The second is the fact this is the time the market makers and insiders are at their most active. They understand FOMO and use it repeatedly to trap traders into weak positions, either following such a move with congestion, increasing the fear further, or simply reversing the price action and taking out stops. Either way it's win win for the insiders and a simple and powerful way for them to make money. Learn how and why in this video and discover how to avoid being trapped.
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Currencies move in a continuous cycle from overbought to oversold and back again and this price action is perfectly described by the currency strength indicator for NinjaTrder and at the start of the London forex trading session we see the USD and JPY rising strongly with the AUD falling strongly and delivering an excellent trade before the reversal begins.
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When a breakout from congestion occurs the first thing we study is volume as this confirms whether the breakout is genuine or false. In this video we consider the longer term outlook for gold as well as an intraday example on the gold futures contract.
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Whilst markets continue to be dominated by the pandemic, fundamental data continues with the PMI this morning for both France and Germany of which the latter is the more significant.
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The three laws of Richard Wyckoff, supply and demand, cause and effect and effort vs result apply in all timeframes as the cycle moves from accumulation to distribution and back again.
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If you're looking for a volatile currency pair to trade look no further than the GBP/JPY as I take a look at where it might be heading next.
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Trading reversals require your stop loss to be set wider to allow for the congestion phase to develop before the trend begins. So this is not for everyone, but if you have the patience, the pay off is greater as you are getting into the trend before it begins so the payout is greater. It's all about risk and returns.
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The forex market is one of mean reversion wich currencies constantly moving from one level to another, congestion, trend and congestion, with reversals from overbought to oversold and back again. All defined with levels and flow.
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