Order Types

General Order Types
A lot of times people confuse themselves with order types.
There are 3 basic types of orders:-
1.Market Order - To buy or sell at market price
2.Limit Buy or Limit Sell - Limit Buy is to place order to buy at a price that is lower than current price. Limit Sell is to place order to sell at a price that is higher than the current price. This type of order is used when you are trading pullbacks.
3.Buy Stop or Sell Stop - Buy Stop is to place an order to buy at a price that is Higher than the current price. Sell stop is to place an order to sell at a price that is lower than the current price.This type of order is used when you are trading Breakouts.

EURGBP view

The pair is in a bearish trend. Once it breaks below 0.7000 we can look for further shorting opportunities

Heiken Ashi Simple Strategy

Heiken Ashi Strategy

This is a simple yet very effective trading strategy that works on all timeframes and all pairs.

Chart Set Up - Heikin Ashi Candlesticks

Multiple TF Analysis.

One window will have the Daily HAC and the other window will have the intraday HAC. It can be any timeframe, However i prefer to use 1Hr charts as it gives better results.

Step 1 - Check the Daily HAC. IF the current and previous bar is Bearish, we will only Sell and if the current and previous bar is Bullish, we will only Buy.

Step 2 - Go to the lower TF HAC and wait for the same HAC bar to form. i.e if Daily HAC is Bearish, then wait for Bear candle to form and vice versa for Longs.

Step 3 - Place a sell stop or a buy stop order at the low/high of the bar. Stop Loss at 2 Bar High/Low. Keep Trailing it to 2 Bar high low once you are entered into position.

That's it folks. Successful strategies need to be simple.

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Learn To Trade #2 - trade entry triggers

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a few tips about trade entry triggers with you. Regardless of whether you decide to go long or short, execution of a trade is what will make most of the money. Properly timing entries will keep you away from most of the bad trades that lose money.

So, after you have done your analysis on whatever TF you want to trade, and finally decided that you want to go long, here are a few checkpoints that will increase success probability.

1. Enter on break of previous day or previous 2 day upside breakout. To make it more robust, 5-10 pips above the high.
2. Wait for the candle to close within 1/3rd or at least 1/2 of it's range towards the upside.
3. Ensure that there is no resistance very near to the entry (between entry price and profit target)

One may think that with all these, we will miss out on some profit. That's true, but it would also keep you away from a lot of losing trades as well.

These along with many others are countless ways to analyse your trade and eventually will give you confidence to take the trade or to trade a larger size or to stay in the trade for longer.

At the end of the day, we need to realise that we are not trading merely for the fun and thrill of it. The single most motive is to make money.

Cheers  :)

Learn To Trade #1

It is indeed true that there is no single strategy that will always give you wins. as we all know that forex is a game of probabilities. All we are trying to do is being on the high probability side and make money out of it. In my opinion, there is actually much more available to us to trade than what is required. What i am referring to is that there are so many indicators, literally in thousands. Seriously guys, we don't need so many indicators to trade. Trading in my opinion is fairly simple and we only lose when we try to make it complicated. The more simpler your set up and strategy is, the more chances of success.

Even the simplest strategy like "buy if this week's close is higher than previous week's close and sell if this week's close is lower than previous week's close", will make money, and that too, compared to those highly complex strategies out there. Then why do we lose? That's because we are not giving enough time and patience to any strategy to develop and mature.

Suppose if we decide to trade on the daily chart, our strategy is trend following, i can bet 95% of us would put up a trade in the right direction, using the right indicators, timing perfectly. But then we keep coming back to the screen to see where has the price gone. This creates a lot of anxiety and will make you as a trader nervous and will ultimately lead to premature closing of the trade.

If you are trading on a daily chart, put up the trade and then don't look at it until at least a day has passed. Since we all know that markets trend only 20% of the times and are choppy or ranging 80% of the time, we cannot expect the trade to be successful immediately after we putting it up. If one wants to be a better trader, my personal opinion is calculated your risk, then decide your trade size, work out the entry, place the trade, and then forget about it. The worst that will happen is that either you will be stopped out. But you have already worked out the risk right? so why bother keeping yourself glued to the screen.

If you are trading the daily TF, you should start your analysis at the weekly chart for Trading Bias and Support/Resistance and the Monthly chart for Major Support/Resistances and Long Term Bias.

Once you have established a Trading Bias to go Long or Short, look for opportunities only in that direction and ignore all indicator signals that give opposite signals. Even for trading Divergences, those divergences that are in sync with the major trend will be more reliable and make bigger moves than CounterTrend Divergences Since all divergences do not lead to reversals.

do write back with your comments and i would be happy to help.

thanks and happy trading :)

above is the monthly chart of EURUSD

above is the weekly chart of EURUSD

above is the daily chart of EURUSD

why does everyone forget the KISS rule?

yeah. that's what i mean.
why the heck does everyone forget the KISS rule.
Keep it simple and stupid.
guys....it's not rocket science.
do not cloud yourself with tons of indicators. "The more the merrier" does'nt work here. Try sticking to a maximum of 2-3 indicators and work on being a disciplined trader rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.
Any amount of indicators will "not predict the future of the market" coz if any of them did, we all would be millionaires, is'nt it?
Forex trading is all about probability. Try looking for high probability trades. Remember the basics...if a currency or commodity is in an uptrend on the longer timeframe, what does that mean? It simply means that it's rising more than it falls right? Step back. if you like trading the 1 hour chart, step back to the 4hr or daily chart. Be in sync with the larger timeframe.
Always, always and always, before you hit the "BUY" or "SELL" button, just step back to a larger timeframe to confirm your direction.
That's all for now folks. Happy trading :)