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Spotting supply and demand zones on your charts can be a helpful trading tool. Similar to support and resistance levels,

“95% of all traders fail” is the most commonly used trading related statistic around the internet. But no research...

Multi-timeframe trading describes a trading approach where the trader combines different trading timeframes to improve...

When trading single candlestick patterns, no pattern is more powerful than the engulfing candlestick pattern. You can...

Price can be volatile at times and hard to read. That's where moving averages come in! They're a super popular trading...

Bull flags and bear flags are among the most popular chart patterns and especially trend-following traders should study...

Trading with the trend is trading with the flow.

When the prevailing trend is up, why would you want to look for short...

Elliot Wave Theory (EWT) is a popular method of technical analysis that helps traders predict market trends by...

Candlestick charts are further developed line charts – which the image below shows – that serve to compensate for the...

The Fibonacci tool is very popular amongst traders and for good reasons. The Fibonacci is a universal trading concept...

In the world of online trading, success does not just depend on market knowledge or technical analysis, but...

Among the many available indicators, the VWAP indicator—or Volume Weighted Average Price—is particularly popular for ...

What is the reward:risk ratio

The reward-to-risk ratio (RRR) is among the most important metrics that traders use to...

Choosing the right trading journal is essential for traders wanting to analyze performance, refine strategies, and...

By drawing trendlines on price charts, you can identify long-term trends and potentially profit from them. This guide...

When it comes to indicators, we can divide them into three classes:

• momentum indicators
• trend-following indicators
• ...

Trendlines can be great trading tools if used correctly and in this post, I am going to share three powerful trendline...

There are plenty of markets out there to choose from. Most people randomly choose a market because they heard from a...

Markets spend a great amount of time ranging and going sideways. As traders, we call those periods consolidations. It...

The Evening Star pattern is a powerful bearish reversal pattern that signals a potential change in market direction...

News trading has been becoming increasingly popular among Forex traders because it offers opportunities to make large...

Price action is among the most popular trading concepts. A trader who knows how to use price action the right way can...

Trading successfully depends on recognizing market structures and patterns that indicate whether an existing trend will...

Being able to understand when a trend is likely to stop and/or reverse is an important trading skill and it can help...

The Bollinger Bands® indicator is among the most reliable and powerful trading indicators traders can choose from....

The Ichimoku indicator is an all-in-one indicator that provides information about support/ resistance, trend direction...

Trend-following trading is probably the most popular way for traders to generate trading signals. Traders expect that...

Trendline channel patterns are a staple in technical analysis, helping traders to identify potential trade...

The following is the content of our weekly trading newsletter. Every Thursday, we are sending out a newsletter with...

The STOCHASTIC indicator is among the most popular trading indicators and rightfully so. The STOCHASTIC indicator is a...

Backtesting is a methodical approach where traders evaluate the effectiveness of a trading strategy by applying the...

When it comes to price action trading, understanding candlestick patterns is one of the most important building blocks...

Sometimes in my trading career, I have been lost among the trees. My charts were so cluttered I could not make one...

The Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) are among the biggest market movers in the Forex markets and probably the most-watched Forex...

Day trading is a popular trading style because of its fast-paced trading approach and the plethora of trading...

When it comes to chart pattern trading, the head and shoulders pattern is among the most well-known and widely used...

Marty Schwartz has always been my favorite trader from the Market Wizards book and I recently read his own book (Pit...

Trading is all about being able to read market structure, sentiment and the balance between bulls and bears. ...

Price action trading and candlestick patterns are probably the most commonly used concepts of technical analysis. At...

Divergences are one of my favorite trading concepts because they offer very reliable high-quality trading signals when...

Learning how to trade pullbacks can be a great skill as a trader. Pullbacks happen all the time and if you learn how to...

What does it take to become a successful trader? Having mentored traders for the last 8 years, we have seen a lot of...

The Cup and Handle pattern is a bullish trend continuation pattern that typically signals a strong upward movement. It...

Reversal trading has a very bad reputation. But are reversal trading strategies really inferior, riskier and should be...

Support and resistance trading is very powerful and knowing how to draw support and resistance levels on your price...

There are numerous profitable candlestick signals in the field of technical analysis. Not all of them perform well. In...

The Average True Range indicator (ATR) is a very popular trading indicator that can be used in many different trading...

Dive deep into the world of finance and high-stakes trading with this selection of movies and documentaries! From the...

Indicators are very famous tools and used by millions of traders. However, often traders don’t really know what their...

Position sizing is a critical aspect of trading that determines how much capital to allocate to a given trade. Whether...

Technical analysis is a method used to predict future price movements by studying past market data and looking for...

Candlesticks are the foundation of any price action chart. And although I do not recommend to trade candlesticks...

Forex trading, also known as foreign exchange or FX trading, is one of the most popular financial markets in the world....

Support and resistance levels are basically historical prices where a large number of orders accumulate to prevent a...

Stop losses are very misunderstood in general retail trading. However, it must be clear that you can never enter a...

Many traders have heard about the Wyckoff method and the Wyckoff trend analysis. In this article, we help you...

Chart patterns offer great trading opportunities because they provide objective and recurring price events that can be...

When it comes to trading and technical analysis, Oscillator indicators are considered to be a cornerstone for...

Being able to read a price action chart is important to make the right decisions. The problem many traders have is that...

Quotes can be helpful and inspiring, but there is so much more to those single-liners. When we read the one-sentence...

There are only very few traders who have a reputation like Jesse Livermore. In his book – Reminiscences of a stock...

The Donchian channel is a trend-following indicator which has been heavily used by the infamous Turtle traders. The...

In the world of online trading, developing a set of successful trading habits is crucial for anyone looking to achieve...

One of the biggest differences between the professional and the amateur traders is the general approach to their daily...

The past century has been a wild ride for investors. This article explores ten of the most dramatic plunges the stock...

Margin trading and leverage are powerful tools in the arsenal of online traders. At its essence, margin trading allows...

Stop hunting exists!

Yes, it truly does but it is NOT your broker that is hunting your stop. The brokers don’t care, in...

Inside and outside bars are quite popular among price action traders – for good reasons. Although trading single...

Momentum is another word for how the price on your charts moves. Momentum analysis, though, is one of the most...

How often did you experience a situation where a trade looked so obvious but then immediately reversed on you and you...

Supply and demand zones can often indicate institutional buying and selling. The big market participants cannot just...

The MACD indicator is a popular momentum and trend-following indicator that is based on the information of moving...

No matter how good you are as a trader and how great your trading strategy is performing, sooner or later, you will...

A trader who knows how to find, understand and trade chart patterns will be able to navigate the financial markets...

If you would believe everything you read in social media, trading forums and financial news, you would be misled to...

What are the best Forex trading strategies? This is, of course, a question I get asked many times a day and it is a...

Candlestick wicks are among the most commonly misunderstood and misused concepts of technical analysis there is....

When it comes to trading price actions, finding opportunities in the market by looking for candlestick patterns is one...

In this video, we go beyond regular price action trading and we discover some more advanced concepts that will help you...

Over-trading and micro-management (continuously fiddling around with your trades and orders) are among the main reasons...

I just love trading transition points where a Forex pair goes from uptrend to downtrend or from downtrend to uptrend....

One of the greatest misunderstandings in retail trading is the (mis)interpretation and the (ab)use of indicators.

Today...

The Italian mathematician Fibonacci was one of the most talented Western mathematicians of the Middle Ages. He is...

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So I’m a huge breakout fan and when I explain breakouts to my students and to other traders, many people were...

Let’s talk about trading strategies and in this article, I am sharing 5 trading strategies that I use or have used in...

Do you sometimes feel lost in your trading and miss the best trading opportunities? A lot of traders constantly jump...

Today, I want to talk about a topic that can make a huge difference in anyone’s trading life and performance. Over the...

If you ask people why they are trading, 90% will answer because of the freedom, independence and the possibility of...

The Turtle traders were a legendary group of traders coached by two successful traders, Richard Dennis and William...

In today’s world, math and statistics are not very popular and most people don’t even understand basic mathematical and...

Let me make a blunt statement which is 100% true:

All trading issues and all trading failures are caused by emotions.

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I often get asked if it’s too late to start trading and I can very much relate to this question. I enjoy learning new...

Do you want to become a successful trader? It's not about winning every trade. It's about having a trading strategy...

Hunting for signals, chasing the next big win, looking for a cross on your moving averages, trying out new indicators,...

The ADX indicator is a popular trend indicator and it provides information about momentum and trend strength. In this...

Everyone can catch great trades when the market is trending nicely and just shoot in one direction.

But markets spend...

Video Transcript

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After my last video, there was a lot of interest in the engulfing pin bar trading...

Pivot Points have been around forever in trading but as with so many trading tools, lots of misinformation has been...

Don’t’ trade your P&L (profit & loss) is a common phrase that gets thrown around a lot, but very few traders have a...

Good chart reading and technical analysis do not have to be complicated. A trader should focus on a few key principles...