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These 10 Best Price Action Trading Patterns are my favorites, and successful traders use these patterns every day to make money. Be flexible because each has many variations. If you keep your mind open to all possibilities, you will begin to seen them every day, in every market, and on every time frame. So which is the best price action trading pattern for swing trading or for scalping? Which is the best for Forex markets?
What about for day traders or commodity trading? It does not matter because any pattern can be the best, depending on the chart in front of you. Also, several might be present at the same time. For example, there can be a failed breakout above a bull channel at a measured move projection, and the breakout might have been out of a triangle. Some traders would call it a final flag reversal, others might see a major trend reversal, and some would concentrate on the failed channel breakout. The key is to understand what forces are behind the price action patterns and be ready to trade them as you see them unfold. Autocom cdp pro reviews. 10 best price action trading patterns • • • • • • • • • • Major trend reversals A bull trend is a series of higher lows and highs, and a bear trend is a series of lower highs and lows.
Trading a major trend reversal pattern is an attempt to enter at the start of a new trend, hoping that a series of trending highs and lows will follow. Since traders are entering before the new trend is clear, the probability of even the best looking setup is usually only 40%. These traders are looking for low risk (a tight stop), but that almost always comes with low probability.
The math is good for both these early entry traders and for those who wait for the strong breakout into a clear trend. The components of a major trend reversal include a • Trend • Pullback that breaks out of channel • Resumption of the trend • 2nd pullback that grows into opposite trend First breakout above a tight bear channel is typically minor. The 2nd reversal has a 40% chance of being major, like here. Buy above a bull bar closing near its high (green rectangle). A reversal down from a breakout above a bull flag (here, a triangle) is often a higher high major trend reversal. Sell below a bear bar closing near its low. A lower high major trend reversal frequently follows a higher high reversal.
There were many opportunities to sell (red rectangle) below a bear bar in the bear trend. Traders do not take every sell signal. However, they need to understand that the bears have taken control, and they should try to take at least one sell signal. There was a very strong reversal up in the middle of the chart, but the bears got one more new low. Sometimes a new low can simply be a deep pullback from a strong rally, like here.
Every Expanding Triangle Bottom is also a lower low major trend reversal. There were many opportunities to buy above a bull bar closing near its high. Final flags The components of a final flag are • Trend • Pullback that is usually mostly horizontal. It can be as brief as a single bar • Trend is typically close to a magnet (resistance in a bull, support in a bear) • There are likely other signs of a possible reversal (in a bull, examples include building selling pressure near the top of a channel) A final flag is a trend reversal pattern that begins as a continuation pattern. Traders expect the continuation to fail and are ready to take a trade in the opposite direction. Like all trend reversals, the probability of a swing is usually only about 40%.
My general goal is 10 bars 2 legs, which means a swing that has at least Ten Bars and Two Legs (TBTL). A swing also means a reward that is at least twice as large as the risk (my minimum criterion for a successful swing). Sixty percent of the trades result in small wins and losses that usually balance each other out. Traders who want a higher probability usually will wait for the reversal to have a strong breakout in the new direction. At that point, the probability of a swing trade is often 60% or more, but the stop is far away. That increase in risk is the trade-off. There always has to be something in the trade for the institution taking the other side of your trade.
If you get great probability, you pay for it with bad risk/reward (reduced reward relative to risk). A tight trading range late in a bear trend is often the Final Bear Flag.
Traders will look for the breakout below to reverse up. A triangle is a tight trading range. When it forms late in a bull trend, it usually is the Final Bull Flag. Breakouts Breakout of what? Of any support or resistance. It does not matter. Every trend bar is a breakout of something, if only the high or low of the prior bar.
With experience, traders begin to see what is truly being broken out. The most common things are trading ranges, pullbacks, prior highs and lows, trend lines, channels, and moving averages. Sometimes traders need to switch to a higher time frame to see the breakout.