How to Read Candlestick Charts (with ZERO experience)
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TLDRThis video provides a thorough exploration of technical analysis and the interpretation of candlestick charts. It emphasizes the universal applicability of technical analysis across different financial instruments, such as stocks, Bitcoin, and Forex. The instructor demystifies candlestick charts by explaining how they convey open, close, high, and low prices, and emphasizes recognizing patterns like the "Shooting Star" and "Hammer" for predicting market reversals. Key strategies such as trend and counter-trend trading are discussed alongside technical indicators like the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) and moving averages (e.g., the 200 EMA). The use of multi-timeframe analysis is advised for making well-informed trading decisions. Moreover, the session touches upon the importance of emotional control in trading. Books like "The Candlestick Course" by Steve Nison are suggested for further learning, and the video encourages engaging with a broader set of stock trading learning materials to fully understand the use of technical analysis for active trading.
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- ๐ Technical analysis can be applied universally across financial instruments.
- ๐ Candlestick charts provide critical insights into market sentiment.
- ๐ Recognizing patterns like Shooting Star and Hammer is essential for predicting reversals.
- ๐ VWAP is crucial for understanding intraday trend strength.
- ๐ Use multi-timeframe analysis to confirm market signals.
- ๐ Recommended reading: "The Candlestick Course" by Steve Nison.
- ๐ The 200 EMA is a significant long-term trend indicator.
- ๐ ๏ธ Emotions can significantly impact trading outcomes.
- ๐ Trading decisions should consider candlestick patterns and volume interaction.
- ๐ Trading involves both trend-following and anticipating reversals for opportunities.
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The speaker introduces the topic of candlestick charts and technical analysis, emphasizing its universal application across financial instruments. They highlight the importance of understanding technical analysis to avoid common mistakes in trading. The speaker also mentions recommended readings for further learning at the end of the episode.
- 00:05:00 - 00:10:00
Candlestick charts offer more detailed information than simple line charts, providing data on the open, close, high, and low prices. The speaker describes how the shape of candlesticks can convey market sentiment, such as a shooting star indicating a potential price reversal. Candlestick patterns help traders interpret market trends similar to traffic signs.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
The speaker explains the significance of candlestick shapes at high price extensions, discussing patterns like hammer and doji as potential indicators of trend reversals. They introduce the concepts of trend trading versus counter-trend trading, noting that beginner traders often prefer trend trading due to its straightforward nature.
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
Attention is drawn to the importance of multi-candlestick patterns in strengthening market signals. Examples of patterns like the bull flag are presented, which indicate potential buying opportunities when the price pulls back briefly before continuing the upward trend. The psychology behind such price movements is also discussed.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
The speaker uses an example from the S&P 500 to illustrate the concept of trading in waves. Notable patternsโlike hammer and dojiโserve as reversal indicators at various stages of price movement. The behavior of candlesticks during these wave patterns is highlighted as a key insight for traders seeking buying opportunities.
- 00:25:00 - 00:30:00
Time frame considerations in trading are explained, with active traders preferring shorter time frames to capture market signals more frequently. The speaker shows how candlestick patterns remain applicable across different time frames, emphasizing their utility for both active traders and investors seeking longer-term trends.
- 00:30:00 - 00:35:00
Various multi-candlestick patterns are discussed, including the flat top breakout and ABCD patterns. The speaker explains how these patterns indicate potential price movements, and they stress the importance of recognizing these signals to capitalize on market opportunities. Adapting trading strategies to current market conditions is encouraged.
- 00:35:00 - 00:40:00
Technical indicators like the volume weighted average price (VWAP) are introduced as tools that help traders understand market context. VWAP is explained as a measure of equilibrium, providing support and resistance levels that are widely respected across trading communities. The role of moving averages as support indicators is also covered.
- 00:40:00 - 00:45:00
The use of volume profiles in technical analysis is presented, with the speaker explaining how varying volumes reflect market sentiment. They stress the importance of integrating volume data with candlestick patterns to assess market strength accurately and make informed trading decisions. Volume trends on pullbacks and breakouts are highlighted.
- 00:45:00 - 00:50:00
The speaker emphasizes the importance of multi-timeframe analysis for active traders, suggesting that alignment across different time frames can indicate stronger market signals. Daily charts are used to assess broader market resistance levels, while intraday charts help verify short-term trends and trading opportunities.
- 00:50:00 - 00:55:18
Support and resistance levels are discussed in detail, with particular focus on their assessment across different time frames. The concept of ascending and descending trend lines as indicators of market shifts is also introduced. The speaker highlights the importance of accurately drawing these levels to anticipate market conditions.
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What is a candlestick chart?
A candlestick chart provides four pieces of information: the open, close, high, and low prices. Each candlestick visually represents price movements over a set period.
What are the key candlestick patterns for reversals?
Common reversal candlestick patterns include the Shooting Star, indicating a potential downwards reversal, and the Hammer, indicating a potential upwards reversal.
What are the benefits of using technical analysis?
Technical analysis helps traders understand market trends and make decisions based on data patterns, applicable to various financial instruments like stocks, Bitcoin, and Forex.
How do volume and candlestick patterns interact?
High volume during a bullish move or low volume during a pullback can confirm the strength of a trend or pattern, whereas unusually high volume during a pullback might signal a false signal.
What is the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP)?
VWAP is an intraday indicator that calculates the average price at which a security traded, weighted by volume. It helps traders identify trend strength and potential support or resistance levels.
What are some common trading strategies?
Common strategies include trend trading, which follows existing trends, and counter-trend trading, which anticipates and acts on potential trend reversals.
How can traders use multi-timeframe analysis?
Multi-timeframe analysis involves checking different timeframes (e.g., 1-minute, 5-minute, daily) for consistent market signals, helping to reinforce the decision-making process.
What role does the 200 EMA play in trading?
The 200 EMA is a key indicator used on daily charts to identify overall trends, serving as a significant resistance or support level.
What is an example of a book to read on candlestick analysis?
"The Candlestick Course" by Steve Nison is a recommended reading for learning candlestick patterns and analysis.
Why is emotional management important in trading?
Emotions can interfere with logical decision-making in trading. Learning to manage feelings like fear and greed helps maintain focus and make rational decisions.
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- 00:00:00welcome to today's Deep dive into
- 00:00:02technical analysis and how to read
- 00:00:04Candlestick charts in this class I'm
- 00:00:07going to give you a comprehensive
- 00:00:09breakdown of how to use technical
- 00:00:11analysis the right way you probably know
- 00:00:14that most Traders out there lose money
- 00:00:17and you may also know that most Traders
- 00:00:19do not understand the right way to read
- 00:00:22Candlestick charts and to apply
- 00:00:24technical analysis now one of the things
- 00:00:26that's really cool is technical analysis
- 00:00:29is a univers I language of the financial
- 00:00:31markets it doesn't matter if you're
- 00:00:33trading Bitcoin ethereum Forex futures
- 00:00:37or stock any Financial instrument when
- 00:00:40you pull up the Candlestick chart will
- 00:00:42give you the opportunity to perform the
- 00:00:45same level of technical analysis so once
- 00:00:47you understand the fundamentals of
- 00:00:50technical analysis and you learn the
- 00:00:52right way to apply it you can use it for
- 00:00:55any Financial instrument I encourage you
- 00:00:58to take some notes and at the end of the
- 00:00:59this episode I'm going to have some
- 00:01:01recommended reading for those of you
- 00:01:02that want to keep going on the journey
- 00:01:04so let's go ahead and jump in on the
- 00:01:06Whiteboard now prior to Candlestick
- 00:01:08charts we had just simple line charts
- 00:01:10the problem with a line chart is that
- 00:01:12the line is created by connecting two
- 00:01:15dots or more these dots are just based
- 00:01:18on one point of data that one point of
- 00:01:21data is typically the closing price and
- 00:01:24while it's important to know the closing
- 00:01:26price that's only one piece of data so
- 00:01:29let's introduce Candlestick charts a
- 00:01:31Candlestick chart gives us four pieces
- 00:01:33of information for each Candlestick it
- 00:01:37tells us the close but it also tells us
- 00:01:39the open the low and the high now here's
- 00:01:45what's really interesting the shape of
- 00:01:47the Candlestick is now communicating a
- 00:01:50message because let's just say for a
- 00:01:52moment let's flip this over let's just
- 00:01:54say for a moment that you pull up a
- 00:01:56Candlestick chart and you see a
- 00:01:58Candlestick that looks like
- 00:02:01this what kind of message does that tell
- 00:02:03you that tells you clearly that the
- 00:02:06price opened High it went straight down
- 00:02:10and it closed at the bottom in contrast
- 00:02:12to these two candlesticks here these two
- 00:02:15candlesticks have a Candlestick body
- 00:02:19which is the middle section that's the
- 00:02:21body of the Candlestick right there and
- 00:02:23they both have an upper candle wick and
- 00:02:26a lower candle wick the upper and the
- 00:02:28lower candle wicks cannect the low and
- 00:02:30the high when you have a Candlestick
- 00:02:33that doesn't have any Wicks it just has
- 00:02:36a body that shows really strong
- 00:02:39sentiment in the market so a red
- 00:02:42Candlestick like that a lot of weakness
- 00:02:44the opposite would be true of a big
- 00:02:46green Candlestick like that and so what
- 00:02:49we've actually learned is that once you
- 00:02:52understand the language of the financial
- 00:02:53markets it's almost like learning to
- 00:02:56read uh traffic signs they become so
- 00:02:59obvious you don't second guess them you
- 00:03:01see a stop sign and you stop so for
- 00:03:04instance when I'm trading and I all of a
- 00:03:07sudden I'm watching something it's going
- 00:03:10up the price is going up and then all of
- 00:03:11a sudden at the top of that move if I
- 00:03:13see this candle right here I know that
- 00:03:16it's about to change directions why is
- 00:03:18that what is this candle communicating
- 00:03:21it opened low right here this was the
- 00:03:23open this was the close this was the
- 00:03:25high so it moved up but the Bears pushed
- 00:03:29it back down and it closed down here
- 00:03:32this candle is called a shooting star
- 00:03:36it's a candle that shows a reversal may
- 00:03:39be coming that's the message this
- 00:03:41candle's communicating and it
- 00:03:43communicates the same message whether
- 00:03:44it's red or green if the price has been
- 00:03:46moving up and we see a shooting star
- 00:03:48that's green reversal likely we see one
- 00:03:51that's red reversal is already started
- 00:03:54the same is true of this candle right
- 00:03:56here now this candle is called hammer it
- 00:03:59it looks sort of like a mallet this is
- 00:04:01the head of the Mallet and this is the
- 00:04:03handle right here and this candle when
- 00:04:06it occurs after the price has been
- 00:04:09declining it's considered to be
- 00:04:11hammering out the base because what has
- 00:04:15happened here is the price
- 00:04:18declined dropped and then who was able
- 00:04:21to push it back up the buyers the buyers
- 00:04:24came in they pushed the price back up
- 00:04:26and so it closed as a small Hammer
- 00:04:28indicating a Poss
- 00:04:30reversal so these candlesticks are
- 00:04:32communicating messages the question
- 00:04:35right now is do you know how to read the
- 00:04:37messages and there are times where we're
- 00:04:39going to get false signals from
- 00:04:41candlesticks for instance if we actually
- 00:04:44saw a chart that looked exactly like
- 00:04:47this I wouldn't think much of it because
- 00:04:50these are all candles of indecision
- 00:04:52right through here but isn't it already
- 00:04:55showing indecisiveness by the fact that
- 00:04:57it's going sideways so the place that I
- 00:05:00really get interested in the shape of a
- 00:05:02candle is when the price is reaching
- 00:05:07really high levels we're getting really
- 00:05:09high extension that's when we're
- 00:05:11starting to worry about possible
- 00:05:12reversal indicators that's where we're
- 00:05:14worried about that hammer candle or the
- 00:05:17shooting star candle or what's called a
- 00:05:20dogee or the gravestone dogee or the
- 00:05:23hanging man dogee that's when those
- 00:05:26candles start to be an indicator of a
- 00:05:28possible reverse coming back down and
- 00:05:31then of course the same would be true
- 00:05:33when it's in when it's flipped in sort
- 00:05:35of mirrored where the price has been
- 00:05:37declining rapidly and then you have that
- 00:05:40hammer at the bottom or you have the
- 00:05:42dogee at the bottom or a hanging man
- 00:05:45dogee or something like that that
- 00:05:47indicates a possible reversal for a move
- 00:05:50back up so there are really two
- 00:05:52strategies when it comes to trading
- 00:05:54there's counter Trend trading and then
- 00:05:57there's Trend trading most beginner
- 00:05:59Traders are Trend Traders because it's
- 00:06:02easier to understand something that's
- 00:06:04already moving and to jump on that
- 00:06:06existing momentum than to try to predict
- 00:06:08a reversal having said that it's very
- 00:06:11important to learn to recognize these
- 00:06:13candles that indicate a reversal of
- 00:06:16trend may be approaching one of the
- 00:06:19things that we're going to start talking
- 00:06:20about here is connecting individual
- 00:06:23candlesticks to form multi Candlestick
- 00:06:26patterns so while we have individual
- 00:06:28candlesticks that can communicate Market
- 00:06:30sentiment when those candlesticks are
- 00:06:33clustered together and form a pattern
- 00:06:36that can create an even stronger signal
- 00:06:38so let me show you for example let's say
- 00:06:40we have three big candles going up like
- 00:06:43this and then we have one candle going P
- 00:06:46uh as a pullback and a second candle as
- 00:06:48a pullback what we're seeing here is
- 00:06:51that the price has moved up quickly now
- 00:06:53it's pulling back a little bit this is
- 00:06:56actually a pattern that we recognize
- 00:06:58very well is being a bull
- 00:07:01flag this green um lineup is considered
- 00:07:05the flag pole this is considered kind of
- 00:07:08like um the actual flag the pennant
- 00:07:10right here that's the the the shape and
- 00:07:14what we look for in this pattern is for
- 00:07:17the price to break to the upside of this
- 00:07:20line here for the first candle to make a
- 00:07:23new high and then we look for the price
- 00:07:25to move back to New highs now to help
- 00:07:28you understand the psych ology of what's
- 00:07:30Happening Here you have a stock or a
- 00:07:33commodity or a Forex pair uh
- 00:07:36cryptocurrency doesn't matter that's
- 00:07:38moved up quickly in price and the trend
- 00:07:41right here for the short term got
- 00:07:42exhausted buyers were no longer willing
- 00:07:45to keep buying it higher and higher and
- 00:07:46higher and higher and maybe some short
- 00:07:48sellers came in or some people who were
- 00:07:50holding it from down here wanted to take
- 00:07:52some profit so we see the decline in
- 00:07:55price a little bit however these are
- 00:07:57three small body red candles they're not
- 00:08:01a huge body red candle they're not
- 00:08:03communicating a massive reversal this is
- 00:08:06just an orderly pullback and so when we
- 00:08:10get this type of formation we look at
- 00:08:12this as a buying opportunity the price
- 00:08:15has really two options it can either
- 00:08:17break this level and continue lower
- 00:08:20right here or it can break to the upside
- 00:08:23and so we we get to a point where it's
- 00:08:25sort of a fork in the road and which way
- 00:08:28is it going to go now I suppose of
- 00:08:30course it could just sort of slow down
- 00:08:32and go sideways in which if it did that
- 00:08:35there's no trade there whatsoever it's
- 00:08:37not going to be something that we buy
- 00:08:39it's not something we would short it's
- 00:08:40just going sideways but generally when
- 00:08:43these have made big moves like this due
- 00:08:45to some type of catalyst they're going
- 00:08:47to be forced to break out in a strong
- 00:08:49way one or the other so in this instance
- 00:08:51the momentary pullback and then here's
- 00:08:54the next wave of momentum now what's
- 00:08:57often common is that then we'll see up
- 00:08:59here a second pullback and this brings
- 00:09:02in another round of buyers as it
- 00:09:05continues even higher and so if we look
- 00:09:07at my screen share here what you'll see
- 00:09:09on the chart is actually um the S&P 500
- 00:09:13and this isn't um any anything
- 00:09:15particularly exciting really but you can
- 00:09:18see how it's trading in these waves of
- 00:09:21price action where we have this uh this
- 00:09:24strong move up this pullback and then it
- 00:09:28breaks to the upside then it pulls back
- 00:09:31again like I was just showing you it
- 00:09:33breaks to the upside it pulls back again
- 00:09:36and it breaks to the upside it pulls
- 00:09:37back again it breaks to the upside and
- 00:09:40so each time it pulls back those become
- 00:09:43buying opportunities so notice uh this
- 00:09:46candle shape right here if you recall
- 00:09:49that is our Hammer candle if we look at
- 00:09:51this candle right here this is a dogee
- 00:09:55which which is the the bottom reversal
- 00:09:58and then this was a doge right here
- 00:09:59which was our top reversal so we're
- 00:10:02seeing very clearly these candlesticks
- 00:10:04that we've already been discussing
- 00:10:06there's the dogee right there where the
- 00:10:08open and the close are basically the
- 00:10:09same and of course we have a couple of
- 00:10:12really nice longbody green candles that
- 00:10:14are forming the bulk of the move up so
- 00:10:18this is just an example of multi
- 00:10:21Candlestick patterns when it comes to
- 00:10:24time frames this it doesn't matter what
- 00:10:26time frame this is this could be a one
- 00:10:29minute chart it could be a f minute
- 00:10:30chart it could be a daily chart what's
- 00:10:33important to understand is that each of
- 00:10:35these candlesticks represents a period
- 00:10:37of time and so if you're an active
- 00:10:39Trader you're going to be more inclined
- 00:10:41to use short time frames like the one
- 00:10:43minute or the five minute chart and if
- 00:10:45you're an investor or a swing Trader and
- 00:10:46you want to hold things for a few days
- 00:10:48you'll probably be looking at hourly
- 00:10:49charts 60-minute charts and daily charts
- 00:10:53to help you find these type of
- 00:10:55opportunities these are the patterns
- 00:10:57that I absolutely love trading so I'll
- 00:11:01switch back to the Whiteboard here and
- 00:11:03I'll show you a couple of uh couple
- 00:11:05other patterns that I like so the first
- 00:11:07pattern that I showed you right here
- 00:11:10this is called the bull
- 00:11:13flag and usually on a bull flag pattern
- 00:11:17we'll see anywhere from one candle of
- 00:11:20pullback to three I don't usually like
- 00:11:23to see four candles of pullback I do not
- 00:11:25like to see the pullback here retrace
- 00:11:28more than 50% of this initial move so
- 00:11:31that means the most it can pull back is
- 00:11:33right about here so an example of a bull
- 00:11:36flag that would be a broken pattern
- 00:11:38would be one that goes like this and
- 00:11:41then has a longbody red candle right
- 00:11:44here that's no good that don't like that
- 00:11:48it's retraced more than 50% of the move
- 00:11:50all right alternatively we if we have 1
- 00:11:54two 3 four five six red cand Les we're
- 00:12:00running out of steam that's not good
- 00:12:02either if this was really strong we
- 00:12:05should have had just a momentary
- 00:12:07pullback before the next round of buyers
- 00:12:09came in and said I want a piece this
- 00:12:12action for the next leg up I like TR to
- 00:12:15trade the first pullback right here the
- 00:12:18first bull flag and I like to trade the
- 00:12:20second one right here I have often found
- 00:12:23that after the first two when you get
- 00:12:26into the third the fourth the fifth
- 00:12:27they're not as clean
- 00:12:29because most traders who are aggressive
- 00:12:31and are successful have already made
- 00:12:34their money on the first two and are not
- 00:12:35going to overstay their welcome it's
- 00:12:37usually the rookie traders that end up
- 00:12:39overstaying their welcome so it's better
- 00:12:40to get in get green and get out okay so
- 00:12:43this is the bull flag that's a pattern
- 00:12:45that I really like it's a multi
- 00:12:47Candlestick pattern that requires two
- 00:12:50well it could even be just one huge
- 00:12:51green candle but requires a nice big
- 00:12:54move up with some longbody candles light
- 00:12:57volume pullback not retrace more than
- 00:12:5950% before moving higher there's another
- 00:13:02technical indicator that I use to help
- 00:13:04me make sure this doesn't pull back too
- 00:13:06much I'll talk about those in just a
- 00:13:07moment all right so this is the bull
- 00:13:09flag another pattern here uh that I'll
- 00:13:13show you is called a Flatt top breakout
- 00:13:17pattern um now this is formed this would
- 00:13:21be a little bit of a gap here if that
- 00:13:23really happened U basically a flat top
- 00:13:26breakout pattern occurs when the price
- 00:13:28is hanging out right underneath the
- 00:13:32highs and what ends up happening is it
- 00:13:34pulls back just a little bit and then it
- 00:13:36goes back up and what we end up sort of
- 00:13:40seeing is that we have this support line
- 00:13:43right here and what ends up happening is
- 00:13:45it pushes the stock through this level
- 00:13:48and when it finally breaks out we
- 00:13:50usually get a nice big longbody green
- 00:13:53candle this is called a Flatt top
- 00:13:55breakout pattern we have a Flatt top
- 00:13:57breakout pattern a pretty close flat top
- 00:14:00breakout pattern um on the S&P uh right
- 00:14:04here it's pretty close to that right
- 00:14:06there this I would say is a pretty good
- 00:14:09example of a classic bull flag two nice
- 00:14:12big green candles two Candles there pull
- 00:14:14back and then making a new high this
- 00:14:18right here is called an ABCD pattern an
- 00:14:21ABCD pattern occurs when the price goes
- 00:14:26up hopefully this just
- 00:14:29kind of Mark this separately price goes
- 00:14:31up we get a little bit of a pullback
- 00:14:34here and then we come back up but it
- 00:14:38fails it doesn't go through the high the
- 00:14:40way it should on a bull flag and it
- 00:14:42pulls back
- 00:14:43again
- 00:14:45now this is okay because this can create
- 00:14:48a really powerful breakout so long as
- 00:14:51when it pulls back here it doesn't break
- 00:14:54below this price here so this becomes an
- 00:14:58ascending support line that has to hold
- 00:15:01it's like a flat top breakout pattern
- 00:15:04but a typical flat top breakout pattern
- 00:15:06all of the price action is within like
- 00:15:0910 15 cents it's like right underneath
- 00:15:12the high before it squeezes up it never
- 00:15:15really pulls back whereas an ABCD
- 00:15:17pattern right here does pull back and
- 00:15:21then is really a failed bull flag that
- 00:15:23pulls back a second time but the second
- 00:15:26pullback is actually an opportunity for
- 00:15:28it to acculate even more buyers so when
- 00:15:30it does break out usually the breakout
- 00:15:32is even stronger so this pattern is just
- 00:15:36fine I really like that one uh I would
- 00:15:38say these are these are three patterns
- 00:15:40that I trade pretty much on a daily
- 00:15:42basis something that's worth mentioning
- 00:15:44is that as an active Trader it's more
- 00:15:46important that you love what you're
- 00:15:48trading than that you're necessarily
- 00:15:50trading the perfect pattern so if you
- 00:15:53love trading a certain stock or you love
- 00:15:55trading Bitcoin whatever it is you want
- 00:15:57to focus on trading that
- 00:15:59and look if an ABCD pattern forms the
- 00:16:02pullback the move up and then it goes
- 00:16:04you trade the ABCD pattern if it's a
- 00:16:06Flatt top breakout pattern you trade the
- 00:16:08Flatt top breakout pattern if it's a
- 00:16:10bull flag you trade the bull flag you
- 00:16:12trade the pattern that is presented the
- 00:16:14most important thing is that you make
- 00:16:15sure you're focusing on the right thing
- 00:16:18to trade you're looking to trade
- 00:16:19something that has liquidity that has
- 00:16:21volume that people are interested in
- 00:16:24because that's where you're going to see
- 00:16:25the volatility as active Traders we
- 00:16:28thrive on volatility we need things to
- 00:16:31be moving look we don't make money if
- 00:16:33we're trading something that's not
- 00:16:34moving in price so we're looking for
- 00:16:36things that are moving and moving
- 00:16:38relatively quickly so now let's talk
- 00:16:40about those technical indicators what
- 00:16:43these do is they help provide more
- 00:16:45context for the current price so this is
- 00:16:48a stock chart and we can see obviously
- 00:16:50the price is going up but what we have
- 00:16:53found is that most stocks most currency
- 00:16:57pairs most Futures Commodities respect
- 00:17:00certain technical indicators one of the
- 00:17:02ones that is very popular is called the
- 00:17:05volum weighted average price I'm going
- 00:17:07to turn that on first so the volume
- 00:17:09weight average price I have down here in
- 00:17:12Orange this tells us the average price
- 00:17:15of the stock over the period of day with
- 00:17:18volume factored in and so this really
- 00:17:21shows us our exact equilibrium point of
- 00:17:25the stock or whatever it happens to be
- 00:17:27that you're Trading this is important
- 00:17:29because if the price is below the
- 00:17:32equilibrium well that's when you've got
- 00:17:35the Bears this is going to be a picture
- 00:17:36of a bear okay he's got like a little
- 00:17:39smirk all right that doesn't look a lot
- 00:17:42like a bear but bear with me so this is
- 00:17:45bearish now if you're above the volume
- 00:17:47weight average price that's when you're
- 00:17:49bullish I'm not even going to try to drw
- 00:17:51ble so that's when we're bullish so
- 00:17:52we're green above we're red below so
- 00:17:55this is really helpful because when we
- 00:17:57look at the chart what we want to see if
- 00:18:00we're thinking about being bullish on
- 00:18:02the position is that the price is above
- 00:18:04the volume weighted average price level
- 00:18:06so you can see how early in the trading
- 00:18:08session this actually dipped below that
- 00:18:11level and then it got back above it so
- 00:18:15just from that perspective the moment it
- 00:18:17was back above it right here from that
- 00:18:20point forward this was in the hands of
- 00:18:21the Bulls now if it had gotten back
- 00:18:23below and held back below the vwap this
- 00:18:25would have been back in the hand of the
- 00:18:27Bears so I'm understanding the the
- 00:18:29general uh who's in control is important
- 00:18:33when you're considering taking a
- 00:18:34position because obviously you're going
- 00:18:35to be choosing long or short so volume
- 00:18:38weight average price super important
- 00:18:40indicator it's used for intraday trading
- 00:18:43now one other thing I want to mention
- 00:18:44about vwap is that it's considered a uh
- 00:18:47very well respected level of support and
- 00:18:49resistance and so what that means is
- 00:18:51that if for instance the stock has been
- 00:18:54um below the vwap and I'll just do black
- 00:18:57here just to make it easy for me
- 00:18:58um and then it comes up to it right here
- 00:19:01it's very common that the price will
- 00:19:04fade off of this level and that this is
- 00:19:08resistance sometimes we'll see a stock
- 00:19:10will will try to break and it won't be
- 00:19:12able to hold over and immediately comes
- 00:19:15back down and when it comes back down
- 00:19:18that is just reaffirming that the Bears
- 00:19:21are in control because it tried to get
- 00:19:23above it but they brought it right back
- 00:19:25down now this is the same as of course
- 00:19:28true if a stock is on uh the upside so
- 00:19:32you know you could have a stock that
- 00:19:33made a really big move it pulled back
- 00:19:35came back down and then at vwap maybe it
- 00:19:39dips for a moment holds that level and
- 00:19:42then heads back up very common this
- 00:19:45would be a dip off of vwap which
- 00:19:47essentially is buying very close to
- 00:19:49support with profit Target back up to
- 00:19:52high this is your risk that's your
- 00:19:54reward so your profit to loss ratio is
- 00:19:56great same with a fade off of vwap you
- 00:20:00know shorting right here with a stop
- 00:20:02just above vwap and then your profit
- 00:20:04targets way down
- 00:20:05here however something that's also
- 00:20:08really interesting with support and
- 00:20:10resistance levels in general and we're
- 00:20:12going to talk about this more in just a
- 00:20:13moment is the way price behaves when we
- 00:20:18do break so when we have a stock that's
- 00:20:21bearish and it's been below vwap so
- 00:20:23maybe it it came up it hit vwap it did a
- 00:20:26fade off vwap came up again faded and
- 00:20:30then came up again and it's like this
- 00:20:33thing it's holding and it busts through
- 00:20:36it gets Above This resistance level so
- 00:20:40sometimes dramatic rejection back down
- 00:20:43all right but let's talk about the other
- 00:20:45situation other situation it breaks it
- 00:20:48comes back down and now the Bulls are
- 00:20:52defending this level and buying off of
- 00:20:55this level because the price VAP it's
- 00:20:57above vwap so what you now have is a
- 00:21:00break of
- 00:21:02resistance a retest to see if it's going
- 00:21:05to hold and if it does then prior
- 00:21:08resistance becomes support and now
- 00:21:11people start buying right here with a
- 00:21:13stop just down here for a move back up
- 00:21:17and this is when we have that uh that
- 00:21:20that sort of trend change of the stock
- 00:21:23being in the hands of the Bears to being
- 00:21:25in the hands of the Bulls you know it's
- 00:21:28different from the trend changes that we
- 00:21:31have when we have a stock that's been
- 00:21:34you know trending up nicely has two
- 00:21:36candles of pullback you know goes higher
- 00:21:38you know in this context this is kind of
- 00:21:41like the tide is coming in this is the
- 00:21:43wave and you know the even when the
- 00:21:45Tide's coming in you have waves so you
- 00:21:47have a wave that comes up it comes down
- 00:21:48a little bit and then the next wave
- 00:21:50comes up a little further then it comes
- 00:21:52down a little bit then comes a little
- 00:21:53bit further when we break over vwap that
- 00:21:56is more like the tide changing from
- 00:21:59going out to now we're we're making a
- 00:22:02much more significant change when we
- 00:22:04break over that volume weighted average
- 00:22:06price so volume weight average price is
- 00:22:09probably the number one most important
- 00:22:11indicator for day trading however more
- 00:22:15important than indicators ultimately are
- 00:22:17the Candlestick patterns Candlestick
- 00:22:19patterns are number one but these
- 00:22:21indicators are really helpful to
- 00:22:23understand context of current price and
- 00:22:26they're important to use because pretty
- 00:22:28much everyone uses them so if you're
- 00:22:30trading without vwap that would be like
- 00:22:31driving around without looking at stop
- 00:22:33signs I mean other people are using them
- 00:22:35and if you're not you're kind of an
- 00:22:37idiot so not to be I mean that's a
- 00:22:38little bit mean but if of course if
- 00:22:40someone really was driving around not
- 00:22:41using stop s signes you you would
- 00:22:43probably say that so uh again my job
- 00:22:46here is to teach you how to use these
- 00:22:48technical indicators so you can apply it
- 00:22:51in your trading this is all about how to
- 00:22:52read stock charts for active trade Okay
- 00:22:56so we've got the vwap what's next next
- 00:22:58indicator that's really important the
- 00:23:00nine exponential moving average it's a
- 00:23:02gray line right here and notice how the
- 00:23:04price keeps coming back to the nine
- 00:23:06moving average the nine moving average
- 00:23:09represents during these flag patterns a
- 00:23:12good place to take that entry so a lot
- 00:23:15of these will stair step up see I'm kind
- 00:23:17of drawing these stairs here and a lot
- 00:23:20of these edges of the step are going to
- 00:23:22come down towards that moving average
- 00:23:25now it kind of flattens out here and
- 00:23:27then it's starts to break away again all
- 00:23:29right so finding entries near this
- 00:23:32moving average is usually a safe place I
- 00:23:36find that if the price breaks the nine
- 00:23:38the next level that we looking at is the
- 00:23:4120 so we've got the nine moving average
- 00:23:44which is our first level of support and
- 00:23:46then we have the 20 so there are a lot
- 00:23:48of times where I'll see the price coming
- 00:23:50down and I'll say I could take a starter
- 00:23:52right here at the nine with my stop loss
- 00:23:55at the 20 now I'm not going to get into
- 00:23:57strategy as much in this particular
- 00:24:00class because this is really focused on
- 00:24:01technical analysis but just for your
- 00:24:05understanding these are very
- 00:24:07well-respected levels of support so you
- 00:24:09could see really this held the nine
- 00:24:10moving average through this whole
- 00:24:11stretch of the day so as long as it
- 00:24:14doesn't stay below it I'm bullish and
- 00:24:17I'm happy to keep holding a position or
- 00:24:19look to add to the position the next
- 00:24:21level is the 200 moving average which is
- 00:24:23going to be much further down in this
- 00:24:25case it's below volume weight average
- 00:24:27price so it's not really relevant for um
- 00:24:30the price right here because I wouldn't
- 00:24:32be a buyer if it was below the two the
- 00:24:34volume weight average price anyways
- 00:24:36anywhere below that is bearish all right
- 00:24:38so those are our indicators all right so
- 00:24:40let's mark this
- 00:24:44out we've got vwap we've got the 9 EMA
- 00:24:48we've got the 20 EMA we've got the 200
- 00:24:52EMA and let's not forget on all of our
- 00:24:55charts we have volume bar so at the
- 00:24:58bottom of the chart down here we have
- 00:25:00the actual volume total which is telling
- 00:25:03us the number of shares that we're
- 00:25:05traded during each one of these
- 00:25:07Candlestick periods and this is
- 00:25:09important because what we look for is
- 00:25:12when we have strong upward momentum like
- 00:25:15we have right here we want to see that
- 00:25:18the volume is picking up so we want to
- 00:25:20see the price is going up but we also
- 00:25:22want to see higher green volume bars
- 00:25:25that are associated with those long body
- 00:25:27candles so this is called the volume
- 00:25:30profile and the volume profile does
- 00:25:33communicate Market sentiment so if we
- 00:25:35had an instance where we were looking at
- 00:25:38let's just say a um a bull flag forming
- 00:25:42and we initially had this nice move up
- 00:25:45right here you know two big green
- 00:25:48candles and then we have a red candle
- 00:25:50and another red candle well let's just
- 00:25:52say that the volume on the green candle
- 00:25:55was like this and like this and then the
- 00:25:58volume on the red candle was like this
- 00:26:01and like this if you have more volume on
- 00:26:04the red candles more selling volume
- 00:26:06that's a factor in this pattern so you
- 00:26:09have to factor this in as part of your
- 00:26:11technical analysis volume bars are an
- 00:26:13important indicator if you have high
- 00:26:15volume during this pullback that
- 00:26:17indicates a lot of people are selling
- 00:26:19into this pullback and it may not hold
- 00:26:22you may not it's unlikely that you're
- 00:26:24going to get a huge move like this on
- 00:26:27light volume
- 00:26:28it's not going to happen on light volume
- 00:26:29bars you need high volume to get those
- 00:26:32kind of moves so the pattern that you
- 00:26:34want to see from a volume profile is
- 00:26:37high volume green candles light volume
- 00:26:39red candles on the pullback and then
- 00:26:41volume coming back in for the next leg
- 00:26:43up and even just looking at the volume
- 00:26:46profile if it was looking like this
- 00:26:48let's just say and then like this what I
- 00:26:53could visualize without even seeing the
- 00:26:55candlesticks is that this is continuing
- 00:26:58to give pullback squeeze up pullback
- 00:27:01squeeze up pullback squeeze up pullback
- 00:27:05this is a volume profile so once again
- 00:27:07you learn this language now you're going
- 00:27:09to be better equipped to capitalize when
- 00:27:12you see this opportunity and to know the
- 00:27:14difference between the time when yep I
- 00:27:16want to be a buyer right there or nope
- 00:27:19we've got high volume selling this is if
- 00:27:23anything a short with a stop at the high
- 00:27:26or it's not a trade at all if I'm not
- 00:27:28interested in going short on this
- 00:27:29position now something that's kind of
- 00:27:31interesting is that what a lot of
- 00:27:32Traders do who are active Traders is we
- 00:27:34look for what's called multi-timeframe
- 00:27:38alignment so what we're looking at here
- 00:27:41on this particular chart this is a five
- 00:27:43minute chart all right it's just a f
- 00:27:45minute chart and these are stock
- 00:27:47scanners I'll close these just for right
- 00:27:48now so let's go ahead and we're going to
- 00:27:51open another chart right here all right
- 00:27:54so I'm going to link this um over here
- 00:27:56to this one it's going to be the
- 00:27:58spy and we're going to make this um
- 00:28:01that's fine we can make it a one minute
- 00:28:02chart that's not a problem all right so
- 00:28:04I'm going to go back here a little bit
- 00:28:07further and what we're going to do is
- 00:28:09we're going to look at let's see so this
- 00:28:11is about
- 00:28:121240 so 1240 right here
- 00:28:17okay so actually let's look let's look
- 00:28:20at this um setup right here so we're
- 00:28:23going to look right here if you see
- 00:28:26right here this is where had the price
- 00:28:28move up and then we went into this
- 00:28:29period that kind of formed a flat top of
- 00:28:32consolidation before it broke out so
- 00:28:34this is a 5minute pattern this pattern
- 00:28:37is occurring on the F minute chart
- 00:28:39however it's important to take a look at
- 00:28:41what's happening on the one minute chart
- 00:28:44so the one minute chart is showing the
- 00:28:45faster time frame and what we're seeing
- 00:28:47on this chart right here is that the
- 00:28:51price peaked pulled back came up pulled
- 00:28:55back came back up pulled back for moment
- 00:28:58and then it started the breakout and so
- 00:29:00what you essentially have happening in
- 00:29:02this area is this right here is a zoomed
- 00:29:07in version of what's happening right
- 00:29:09here this is these are five minute
- 00:29:11candles which means this is five 10 15
- 00:29:1420 25 minutes this is 25 candles so it's
- 00:29:18showing you the same thing but it's
- 00:29:20showing it in Greater detail now what if
- 00:29:23let's just say for
- 00:29:25instance this candle which is red also
- 00:29:28had extremely high volume it was like a
- 00:29:31super high red volume candle well we
- 00:29:35could interpret that as a warning sign
- 00:29:38and so now we might say well the five
- 00:29:41minute chart looks fine but when we zoom
- 00:29:44in here there's a bit of a caution flag
- 00:29:46out on the one minute chart and as a
- 00:29:49result we do not have one minute time
- 00:29:52frame alignment we like to see
- 00:29:55multi-time Frame Alignment where I could
- 00:29:57look at this on a one minute chart and
- 00:29:59say yes I like this trade and I would
- 00:30:01take it and you look at on a 5 minute
- 00:30:03say yes I like this trade I take it or
- 00:30:05where you say I'm going to switch this
- 00:30:07to a 15minute chart and you look at it
- 00:30:09and say yes I like it I would take that
- 00:30:11trade again so that's called
- 00:30:14multi-timeframe alignment now on an even
- 00:30:16higher level what active Traders will do
- 00:30:19is we'll all go all the way back to our
- 00:30:21daily chart and when we look at our
- 00:30:23daily charts that's where we're looking
- 00:30:25at the big picture that okay this just
- 00:30:28broke above the price um let's see right
- 00:30:32around here so if we've broken above the
- 00:30:35high of that candle and the high from
- 00:30:37just the other day well where's the next
- 00:30:40level of resistance so in order to
- 00:30:43understand support and resistance when
- 00:30:46it comes to technical analysis you have
- 00:30:48to be able to look at all time frames
- 00:30:51one minute 5 minute and daily time
- 00:30:54frames so let me show you um on the
- 00:30:57daily chart the way I look at these type
- 00:31:01of chart patterns so what I do is I grab
- 00:31:04my horizontal trend line and I look to
- 00:31:08the left and up so the first thing I
- 00:31:11would look at here is I would say well
- 00:31:13what was the high of this candle right
- 00:31:15here and the High shows
- 00:31:1813847 so that means when this came up to
- 00:31:22that level it was right around let's see
- 00:31:26um
- 00:31:28it was right around this price here that
- 00:31:29it came up to that 138 level right
- 00:31:3213847 and there was some high volume as
- 00:31:35it broke over that level because as it
- 00:31:37broke that level it was breaking a
- 00:31:38critical resistance level on the daily
- 00:31:41chart the high of the previous day now
- 00:31:44once we understand that 3847 level how
- 00:31:48do I find the next level of resistance
- 00:31:49on the daily chart where's going to have
- 00:31:51resistance next what I do is I look to
- 00:31:54the left right
- 00:31:56here and then I look up and I see oh
- 00:32:00what's the high of that candle the high
- 00:32:02of that candle right there is 444 44
- 00:32:06interesting memorable number so I'll say
- 00:32:10all right that seems like well it's
- 00:32:12certainly the top of this candle right
- 00:32:14here and I would say that this is a
- 00:32:16window on the chart this is a window
- 00:32:19where we really have no resistance
- 00:32:21between
- 00:32:2213847 and
- 00:32:24144 as a result it's very possible that
- 00:32:27we'll see the price continue higher up
- 00:32:29towards that 14444 price if it breaks
- 00:32:33that 14444 price then what do we have
- 00:32:36and again I look to the left and I look
- 00:32:38up and this is how I find the areas that
- 00:32:41I consider possible resistance there's a
- 00:32:43high there of that candle there's a high
- 00:32:46of this candle right here there's a high
- 00:32:49of this candle right here and I look to
- 00:32:51the left and up there's a high of this
- 00:32:54candle right here then I look to the
- 00:32:56left and up and you'll notice something
- 00:32:58interesting here there's a gap so we're
- 00:33:01looking at the S&P 500 here this is not
- 00:33:03a 24-hour market so the gaps are created
- 00:33:07when the market closes something happens
- 00:33:09overnight and then when the market
- 00:33:11starts trading at the next session it
- 00:33:14opens at a different price and this
- 00:33:16happens all the time in fact it
- 00:33:18certainly happens when companies uh
- 00:33:20individual companies have like really
- 00:33:22really good news or really really bad
- 00:33:23news that happens overnight so if you
- 00:33:25look at the Whiteboard um I can kind of
- 00:33:27show you the way this works so let's say
- 00:33:28a stock is trading at $20 a share and
- 00:33:32the market closes so the candle for that
- 00:33:35day you know whatever closed at $20 a
- 00:33:38share then overnight they have earnings
- 00:33:41and they're bad they're really bad so
- 00:33:43now people are like I want to sell this
- 00:33:44stock I want to get out I I don't even
- 00:33:46care about 20 I I'll sell it for 19 and
- 00:33:49you know someone else is like I screw
- 00:33:51that I'll sell it for 18 so now you have
- 00:33:54people that are just trying to get out
- 00:33:55someone's selling at 18 and people that
- 00:33:57were saying I want to buy it initially
- 00:33:59at 20 well they're like I don't want to
- 00:34:01buy it at 20 uh but you know what n
- 00:34:03maybe I'll buy it at 1750 1750 that's
- 00:34:07still that's a discount so maybe I'll
- 00:34:08buy at 1750 so what ends up happening is
- 00:34:11you have the people that saying I'll buy
- 00:34:13oh I'll buy it at 17 I'll buy it at650
- 00:34:16so you have the buyers on one side
- 00:34:17you've got the sellers on the other and
- 00:34:20in order for the stock to start trading
- 00:34:22when the Market opens the buyers and the
- 00:34:24sellers become matched so you you have
- 00:34:27the best highest pric buyer that meets
- 00:34:30up with the lowest price seller
- 00:34:32essentially or or sorry you have the
- 00:34:33highest pric buyer and yeah yeah the
- 00:34:35lowest price seller and they meet up
- 00:34:36right there in the middle and that
- 00:34:38creates the opening price all right so
- 00:34:41when that happens uh the stock opens
- 00:34:44let's just say at
- 00:34:48$17.75 and now it's opening
- 00:34:50significantly lower and so on the daily
- 00:34:52chart it closed to 20 and then the next
- 00:34:53day it opens at 1775 and maybe it's a
- 00:34:57red candle it goes down you know maybe
- 00:35:00it's a green candle it bounces back up a
- 00:35:01little bit whatever but in any case
- 00:35:03what's most important is that we have a
- 00:35:04gap right here that's formed on the
- 00:35:06daily chart and that Gap is a window
- 00:35:09right here essentially it's a gap where
- 00:35:10there's no support or resistance so in
- 00:35:12the future if the stock comes up to that
- 00:35:14level and it breaks over that high now
- 00:35:16there's no resistance until it gets back
- 00:35:18up to $20 a share so these are levels
- 00:35:21that we look at uh very closely on daily
- 00:35:23charts all right so what's formed right
- 00:35:26in this area
- 00:35:27is a
- 00:35:28gap and that was formed because on this
- 00:35:31day right here the price closed but then
- 00:35:34it opened substantially lower and sold
- 00:35:37off and so what ended up happening on
- 00:35:39the chart was we formed a gap and the
- 00:35:42Gap was formed between the low of that
- 00:35:44day and the high of the previous day so
- 00:35:48both gaps and windows are areas where we
- 00:35:50don't really have any support or
- 00:35:52resistance which means once the price
- 00:35:54gets over this level of 252 the next
- 00:35:57stop is 254 or
- 00:36:0025389 all right so once we get over that
- 00:36:02level once again I'm looking to the left
- 00:36:05and up now that there there is another
- 00:36:07element of understanding support and
- 00:36:09resistance on these charts so we could
- 00:36:12go back even further if we need to we
- 00:36:14could go all the way over
- 00:36:16here and we would say all right we've
- 00:36:18only got a couple more levels to draw on
- 00:36:20this before we are at all-time highs
- 00:36:23ever so left and up right there there's
- 00:36:26a small high right there so a teeny bit
- 00:36:28of resistance potentially through that
- 00:36:31level we've got this and then boom we're
- 00:36:33at all-time highs so that draws all of
- 00:36:36those resistance levels however and I
- 00:36:39would do it the same if I was looking at
- 00:36:41something declining in price however
- 00:36:44while we have these resistance levels
- 00:36:45drawn there's something else that we
- 00:36:47haven't factored
- 00:36:49in we need to look at the possibility of
- 00:36:53ascending and descending resistance
- 00:36:56levels so just as I showed on the
- 00:36:59intraday time frame when I was showing
- 00:37:01you how uh these uh flag patterns look
- 00:37:05so right here we have uh ascending
- 00:37:09support so the price comes down holds
- 00:37:12support goes a little higher hold
- 00:37:13support goes a little higher so this
- 00:37:15blue line becomes an ascending support
- 00:37:18level on the daily chart here it's the
- 00:37:21same
- 00:37:22way and these levels make a difference
- 00:37:25when it comes to intraday price action
- 00:37:28so now you see all right we've got this
- 00:37:30level here we could change this color
- 00:37:32here so we've got this yellow
- 00:37:35descending resistance Line This is a
- 00:37:37resistance line it's descending now what
- 00:37:40I'll sometimes do I like to draw and
- 00:37:42create channels so I would connect the
- 00:37:46low of two candles back here for
- 00:37:48instance and I would try to see that
- 00:37:51feels like that might be a good
- 00:37:53connection connecting those two right
- 00:37:55there and then what I often will do is
- 00:37:58I'll copy and paste this trend line so
- 00:38:01it's at the same exact angle which forms
- 00:38:04a channel and then when I bring it up
- 00:38:07here I'll usually line it up like that
- 00:38:09and what we find is that it's very
- 00:38:12common that these will trade uh these
- 00:38:16financial instruments will trade in
- 00:38:17channels so it's true that sometimes
- 00:38:20we'll have um a really strong angle
- 00:38:23where it's a wedge form so when we form
- 00:38:27a pattern like this we've got this wedge
- 00:38:29that's happening right here um but it's
- 00:38:32also common very common that we see uh
- 00:38:34real perfect channels so I had this
- 00:38:37drawn just like this um from a couple
- 00:38:40weeks ago and so when I saw the price
- 00:38:42coming up right here I expected that we
- 00:38:45were going to run into this descending
- 00:38:47resistance level and we kind of
- 00:38:48struggled here for a couple days we got
- 00:38:50above it we came back down we tested it
- 00:38:53we held and now we're back up so
- 00:38:55something that's really important to
- 00:38:57know and you could see it back here as
- 00:38:59well so there's sort of this resistance
- 00:39:02underneath this level right here then it
- 00:39:04broke above it then it's support support
- 00:39:07was below it for a second and then got
- 00:39:09back above it let me show you an example
- 00:39:12uh right here this was a um ascending
- 00:39:16support trend line that I drew by
- 00:39:18connecting right here and right here I
- 00:39:21connected those two lines those two dots
- 00:39:24and it created this long extension
- 00:39:28so I drew that right there at that time
- 00:39:31so when this came back up right here I
- 00:39:34already knew that we have potential
- 00:39:36ascending resistance that it was going
- 00:39:38to run into and it did it ran into it
- 00:39:40here it ran into it here so at the very
- 00:39:44beginning of this class I said most
- 00:39:45Traders don't know how to use technical
- 00:39:47analysis properly which means they may
- 00:39:49not even have drawn this blue line
- 00:39:51whatsoever and they're buying right here
- 00:39:55and i' would say you're buying right
- 00:39:56into resistance it should be no surprise
- 00:39:58if you lose money on that trade right
- 00:40:00this is a stock that had a descending
- 00:40:03resistance line here it got below it it
- 00:40:06struggled to get back above it it was
- 00:40:07able to get back above it and then it
- 00:40:09ran into its ascending resistance line
- 00:40:11here it's very common that levels that
- 00:40:13at one time were support turn into
- 00:40:16resistance on the other side I do like
- 00:40:19to look to see where we have gaps where
- 00:40:21we have Windows and if there's obvious
- 00:40:23levels of ascending or descending
- 00:40:26resistance
- 00:40:26and I do the same thing on an intraday
- 00:40:28basis and what we find like that
- 00:40:31screenshot that I just showed you um is
- 00:40:33that it is very common to see these
- 00:40:35patterns where the price is just it
- 00:40:39tests this level it breaks it and then
- 00:40:42it retests it coming back down so if
- 00:40:44you're not drawing that you could get
- 00:40:46stopped out prematurely right here when
- 00:40:48this is just a retest of Prior
- 00:40:50resistance can that prior resistance
- 00:40:52become support and if it can become
- 00:40:54support then all of a sudden it's game
- 00:40:57time here's another example all right so
- 00:41:00this trend line here is support right
- 00:41:03here it gets below and is
- 00:41:06resistance resistance but it broke
- 00:41:08through it boom big deal that's a big
- 00:41:10deal because we broke through resistance
- 00:41:13a lot of volume came in and shorts
- 00:41:14covered it pulls back and when it pulls
- 00:41:17back where does it pull back to right
- 00:41:19back to that support level boom there
- 00:41:21and there and there I mean this is a
- 00:41:23support level that is showing validity
- 00:41:26over the course of multiple trading
- 00:41:28sessions you know in the S&P we've got
- 00:41:31trend lines that show they hold validity
- 00:41:33over the course of even years so you
- 00:41:36have these levels that are very well
- 00:41:38respected and if you're not seeing them
- 00:41:41because you're just not looking at that
- 00:41:42part of the chart then you you really
- 00:41:44are missing out on something that's very
- 00:41:46significant it's almost like you're
- 00:41:48trading blindfolded I mean you're you're
- 00:41:51missing that much there are times where
- 00:41:53you'll see okay we connected one 2 3
- 00:41:55this is a trend line here that's showing
- 00:41:57in 2023 this connects back to 2020
- 00:42:00that's 3 years ago right so these are
- 00:42:04very significant technical levels so you
- 00:42:06have to be aware now some Traders will
- 00:42:08ask how to draw ascending and descending
- 00:42:10support and resistance levels and my
- 00:42:13rule of thumb is that you want to make
- 00:42:16sure the trend line is touching in the
- 00:42:19most places possible because the fact is
- 00:42:22it it can be a little bit arbitrary you
- 00:42:24know do you connect the the high of
- 00:42:27candles or do you connect the low right
- 00:42:30here should I connect this trend line to
- 00:42:33the top of that candle wick right there
- 00:42:36the very top because see how if we zoom
- 00:42:38in on this there's a candle wick at the
- 00:42:40very top do we connect that to the
- 00:42:42candle wick or do we connect it to the
- 00:42:44candle body because obviously it's going
- 00:42:46to change you know if we connect to the
- 00:42:49body it draws it pull pulls it down if
- 00:42:51we connect to the top it's up there so
- 00:42:54my rule of thumb is that I'll I'll sort
- 00:42:57of connect the line and then I'll move
- 00:42:59it around and see which one feels more
- 00:43:02valid the more times a ascending or
- 00:43:06descending resistance support line is
- 00:43:07tested the more validity it gains so
- 00:43:11while you might initially have drawn it
- 00:43:14this way and then it's not really
- 00:43:17respected you realize oh if I adjust it
- 00:43:19there actually that does seem to be what
- 00:43:22probably most the most uh people have on
- 00:43:24their charts so that's how I should keep
- 00:43:26it in other words it should be fairly
- 00:43:29obvious so down here connecting this and
- 00:43:32this area you know that that does kind
- 00:43:35of look fairly accurate you've got to
- 00:43:37dot a connection there connection here
- 00:43:40approximately through here it is okay if
- 00:43:43um we do break through some candle wicks
- 00:43:46because what can happen is the stock on
- 00:43:48a particular day might have a candle
- 00:43:50wick that tests this daily level and it
- 00:43:53tries to break through it and then it
- 00:43:55gets back above it it tries to get above
- 00:43:57it it get and then it goes back below it
- 00:43:59so if we switch this to let's say the
- 00:44:0215minute
- 00:44:03chart we're able to actually see that
- 00:44:06daily trend line and like right in this
- 00:44:09area for instance look at how the
- 00:44:11intraday price action how much it's
- 00:44:14driven by this daily level right so it
- 00:44:18tries to get above it and then slams
- 00:44:20back down it tries to get above it slams
- 00:44:23back down it gets above it and then
- 00:44:24sells off hard it comes back up to that
- 00:44:27level tries again and it's not able to
- 00:44:29hold so it's like you can tell this is a
- 00:44:31very well-respected
- 00:44:33level breaks below it try gets back
- 00:44:36above break back
- 00:44:38below right in here this is where we saw
- 00:44:42that um consolidation around I think it
- 00:44:45was um on the F minute chart we were
- 00:44:48looking at that consolidation there that
- 00:44:50was just above that level so you could
- 00:44:53tell that these are significant uh
- 00:44:56levels where we have support and
- 00:44:57resistance so now let's step back from
- 00:44:59the technical analysis for a moment and
- 00:45:01just talk about strategy so when it
- 00:45:03comes to strategy high level how are we
- 00:45:06using and incorporating this technical
- 00:45:08analysis into the decision-making
- 00:45:10process so this is the way I do it what
- 00:45:13I'm going to share with you right now is
- 00:45:14based on over 24,000 trades I've taken
- 00:45:18so I have a lot of metrics that back up
- 00:45:20the choices I make when it comes to the
- 00:45:23price of stocks I trade why I choose
- 00:45:25stocks and instead of Forex you can
- 00:45:27apply technical analysis generally
- 00:45:29speaking to any Financial instrument
- 00:45:31because the Candlestick charts and doing
- 00:45:33this type of analysis is valid as long
- 00:45:35as you've got the chart okay but for me
- 00:45:39what I do each day my number one goal is
- 00:45:42to try to find an instrument that is
- 00:45:44moving quickly and that's going to be
- 00:45:46the vehicle that I'm going to trade so
- 00:45:47if you're trading cryptocurrencies
- 00:45:49you're looking for a currency that's
- 00:45:50moving quickly right so for stocks I'm
- 00:45:53looking for a stock that's moving
- 00:45:54quickly for futures you're looking for a
- 00:45:56commodity that's moving quickly
- 00:45:58typically that happens because there is
- 00:46:00some type of underlying Catalyst that's
- 00:46:03driving the move some type of news it
- 00:46:05could be Global News it could be
- 00:46:07specific to that instrument but there's
- 00:46:09some type of news and what that
- 00:46:11effectively does is it brings a lot of
- 00:46:13volume into that Financial instrument
- 00:46:16when you have volume high volume you've
- 00:46:18got a lot of retail traders that are
- 00:46:20participating in the move we see that
- 00:46:22high relative volume that's where we're
- 00:46:24going to see more volatility that's when
- 00:46:26we're going to see those bigger green
- 00:46:27candles those bigger red candles when
- 00:46:29it's bad news this is the volatility
- 00:46:32that as active Traders we thrive on this
- 00:46:35is what we need we need to see things
- 00:46:37that are moving so my first order of
- 00:46:39business is not to search the news every
- 00:46:42single morning my first order of
- 00:46:44business is I sit down I open up my
- 00:46:46platform here and I'm pulling up my
- 00:46:48scanners to try to figure out you know
- 00:46:51what what's actually moving today what
- 00:46:52are our top gainers uh this morning so
- 00:46:54I'm looking at my top gapper scanner and
- 00:46:57I'm looking at my top Gainer scanner and
- 00:46:59this is showing me the the Securities in
- 00:47:01the stock market that are moving the
- 00:47:03most today so 89%
- 00:47:0687% and then from there I'm pulling up
- 00:47:09the charts and I'm doing my due
- 00:47:11diligence so for me it begins with
- 00:47:13looking at the scanners and then that's
- 00:47:15how I find what's moving once I found
- 00:47:19something that's moving that's when I
- 00:47:21get into the charts and so one of the
- 00:47:23first things that I look at is I is the
- 00:47:25daily chart I want to look big picture
- 00:47:27what's the daily chart on this and you
- 00:47:29know I say daily chart actually let me
- 00:47:31correct that I would say the first thing
- 00:47:33the very first thing I look at when I
- 00:47:34see a stock that's on my scanners the
- 00:47:37first thing I look at is some of the
- 00:47:38data points I check the float how much
- 00:47:41it's up on the day how many shares of
- 00:47:43volume it has uh the relative volume and
- 00:47:46then I check the news then I open up the
- 00:47:48chart and I look at the chart and
- 00:47:50actually the first chart I look at is
- 00:47:52our intraday chart because sometimes I
- 00:47:54look at the intraday chart and you'll
- 00:47:55see that the price popped up and is
- 00:47:58already down a lot the price may be up
- 00:48:0125% versus yesterday but it was up 50%
- 00:48:04and now it's down a lot from the high
- 00:48:06and so I would say no that chart's
- 00:48:08broken if I pull up that one minute or
- 00:48:10the five minute chart and I like what
- 00:48:13I'm looking at so far the we've got some
- 00:48:16nice longbody green candles we've got
- 00:48:18some good-look price action we're above
- 00:48:21volume weighted average price volume
- 00:48:23profile looks good that's when I open up
- 00:48:26the daily chart then I check on the
- 00:48:27daily chart and what am I looking for
- 00:48:29I'm looking to see if we have any gaps
- 00:48:32if we have any windows and one thing
- 00:48:34that I look at on the daily chart which
- 00:48:35I'll show you here I want to see whether
- 00:48:37or not on the daily chart the price is
- 00:48:40above or below the 200 moving average so
- 00:48:43the 200 moving average is a very
- 00:48:45well-respected indicator on the daily
- 00:48:48chart okay so that purple line is my 200
- 00:48:51moving average and what you'll see on
- 00:48:54this uh stock is that it's well below
- 00:48:57the 200 it's been below the 200 for a
- 00:48:59long time now the S&P uh has struggled
- 00:49:01around the 200 a little bit uh in the
- 00:49:03past couple of years because we've had
- 00:49:05this uh pullback we've kind of come back
- 00:49:07up so there was a little bit of a
- 00:49:09struggle we we were above it for a long
- 00:49:12long time and we did pull back below it
- 00:49:16in 2020 during that big drop we got back
- 00:49:19above it and then really any dip off the
- 00:49:21200 was it's almost like the vwap on a
- 00:49:25day level if it's above it it's bullish
- 00:49:27if it's below it it's weak but with the
- 00:49:30S&P it doesn't stay below it for long
- 00:49:32now with individual stocks like Ino or
- 00:49:35this other one let's see which one was
- 00:49:37it um M AI these ones are stocks have
- 00:49:42been beaten up for a long time what we
- 00:49:44know about these types of stocks is that
- 00:49:46when they come out with news they can
- 00:49:48have big days we could see something
- 00:49:49like this that goes from 68 cents to $2
- 00:49:52a share in one day we had one last month
- 00:49:56it went from about 30 cents a share to
- 00:49:58$11 in one day on an FDA announcement so
- 00:50:03these beaten up uh Securities can be
- 00:50:05great for bounces off the low but the
- 00:50:07first level that I look at as resistance
- 00:50:10is that 200 moving average and so that's
- 00:50:12the first thing I'm looking I'm saying
- 00:50:14okay we've got this technical level on
- 00:50:16The Daily it's at $2 so is there room
- 00:50:19between the current price and this
- 00:50:20resistance to take a trade and if the
- 00:50:22answer is yes and I'm happy to trade it
- 00:50:24if it's above it then I'm also happy to
- 00:50:26trade it but if we're right below it I'm
- 00:50:30not likely to trade because I know we're
- 00:50:32going to have resistance at that price
- 00:50:34it's just not really worth taking uh an
- 00:50:36entry that close to that critical
- 00:50:38resistance level now as it turned out um
- 00:50:41there were a number of uh Securities
- 00:50:43that were on the scans on um just the
- 00:50:47last trading day that were lower priced
- 00:50:49and a lot of these lower priced names
- 00:50:51are going to be well below uh that 200
- 00:50:53uh moving average let's see
- 00:50:56this one is a little higher priced this
- 00:50:58one you can see was below that 200 quite
- 00:51:01a bit as well quite a bit below it got
- 00:51:03above it and then dropped back below it
- 00:51:05so now if it comes back up resistance
- 00:51:09yeah going to be around $28 a share now
- 00:51:12we can also draw descending resistance
- 00:51:14lines and things like that but at this
- 00:51:17point a descending resistance line from
- 00:51:18up there well not going to have to worry
- 00:51:21about that because we have this issue in
- 00:51:22the way first and below from this area
- 00:51:27we could say there's probably something
- 00:51:29right here but that's not really valid
- 00:51:34so we don't really
- 00:51:37have maybe there was something in that
- 00:51:39area right there you can sort of see how
- 00:51:43these candles connect so you know
- 00:51:46sometimes I'll connect these and then
- 00:51:49I'll pull up the intraday chart and I'll
- 00:51:51just sort of ask myself does it feel
- 00:51:53like this is um being respected does it
- 00:51:56seem like this is a valid line that
- 00:51:58other people are noticing as well so
- 00:52:00what we could actually do here is switch
- 00:52:02this to a five minute time frame and
- 00:52:06take a look and see how did the price
- 00:52:08behave around that resistance level that
- 00:52:11possible resistance level support
- 00:52:13resistance so it opened far above it
- 00:52:15came back down to it bounced off below
- 00:52:18it above it below it above it I don't
- 00:52:22know it kind of cuts right through there
- 00:52:26um it seems like it does respect it
- 00:52:28maybe right there but then it gets under
- 00:52:29it here so I don't know if that was a
- 00:52:31super valid line uh but may maybe maybe
- 00:52:35one that would have been worth keeping
- 00:52:36an eye on in the future so as I said at
- 00:52:39the beginning of this class I have some
- 00:52:40recommended reading for those you guys
- 00:52:43that want to keep learning there's a lot
- 00:52:45to cover when it comes to technical
- 00:52:46analysis one of the books that I enjoyed
- 00:52:49when I was getting started and and
- 00:52:51really trying to better understand
- 00:52:52technical analysis myself was this book
- 00:52:54by Steve niss which is um it's called a
- 00:52:57Candlestick course what I do like about
- 00:53:00it is um just that it gives you a real
- 00:53:03breakdown of these candlesticks and
- 00:53:06their formations in more detail and so
- 00:53:08you can see you know I marked it up when
- 00:53:09I was going through it the hanging man
- 00:53:11the tweezer top you know for us as
- 00:53:15active Traders we really want to be
- 00:53:17experts on candlesticks so you know of
- 00:53:20course I teach classes that go
- 00:53:22extensively into this kind of depth as
- 00:53:24well but for those of you guys watching
- 00:53:26here on YouTube that want to just keep
- 00:53:27learning as much as you can I would
- 00:53:29check out this book this is a great one
- 00:53:31let's see Shameless plug here for my
- 00:53:33book how to day trade the plain truth
- 00:53:35you could check that out um intelligent
- 00:53:37investor this one I I would say this is
- 00:53:41another good one uh trade mindfully for
- 00:53:43those of you guys who have gotten
- 00:53:44yourselves into a pickle at one point or
- 00:53:47another getting emotionally impulsive
- 00:53:49while you're trading trade mindfully is
- 00:53:51a good approach for helping you find
- 00:53:53coping strategies to stay FOC focused
- 00:53:55while you're trading and to not allow
- 00:53:57emotions to overtake your trading
- 00:53:58because one of the things that we know
- 00:54:00for a lot of Traders is that you
- 00:54:02understand all the concepts you
- 00:54:03understand technical analysis you
- 00:54:05understand how to find strong stocks of
- 00:54:07trade you know how to get in how to get
- 00:54:08out mechanically you know how to do all
- 00:54:11these things but In the Heat of the
- 00:54:12Moment you screw it up and that's a lot
- 00:54:14of times because emotions are taking
- 00:54:17over and when you're trading from fear
- 00:54:19from greed from fomo that's that's not
- 00:54:23the calm cool colle Ed part of your
- 00:54:26brain that's not the analytical part of
- 00:54:27your brain That's The Reptilian part of
- 00:54:29your brain that just like is craving and
- 00:54:32alleviating emotion that's not where our
- 00:54:35best trading comes out so learning to
- 00:54:38recognize that is super important this
- 00:54:40is a book that um was written quite a
- 00:54:42while ago but um but is valuable I think
- 00:54:45uh you would find this interesting so
- 00:54:47trade mindfully this is a good one the
- 00:54:49Candlestick course by Steve niss this is
- 00:54:51a good one um and for those of you guys
- 00:54:54that want to keep learning about my
- 00:54:55strategy you're welcome to check this
- 00:54:57out um here as well all right so I hope
- 00:55:00you guys uh really enjoyed this class
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