How To Analyse And Execute Trades
How To Analyse And Execute Trades
Having understood the
workings of the currencies market and opened an account with a reliable
broker, you are ready for the action. I use technical analysis to trade
currencies because charts look more appealing.To get more news about WikiFX, you can visit wikifx news official website.
#1 Select Your Trading Session
As
mentioned, the London session is the most active session from 8am to
12pm GMT. Spreads are tight on the major pairs, and breakouts occur more
often.
#2 Screen For Trades
You
can increase your chances of success by adopting the triple screen
method for screening. Start of by determining the duration you intend to
hold your trade for. Ask if you are a day, swing or position trader.
A
day trader looks to exit his positions within the same day. A swing
trader looks to close his positions after a couple of days while a
position trader looks to exit only after a few weeks or longer.
How
does the triple screen method work? View charts of a higher timeframe.
If you are a position trader and execute trades using the daily chart,
look at the weekly and monthly charts.
If you are a swing trader and executes on the 1-hour chart, look at the 4-hour and daily charts.
If
you are a day trader and executes on the 1-minute chart, look at the 15
minute and 1-hour charts. Please take note that day trading is not for
beginners, so until then, please stay away from this.
Plot your
trendlines, support and resistance lines (as shown by the dashed lines).
Thats all you need to do on the monthly chart.
Next, have a look
at the weekly chart. Zoom in to the last few years. Start plotting the
key support and resistance levels. Do you see that I have plotted a
support and resistance level using dotted lines?
This is where you
will mark out the critical areas you want EUR/USD to hit before taking
action. Trading is like fishing as patience is rewarded.
Zoom in to
view the prices in the past year. Mark out the key levels of support
and resistance. This key level is shown in the grey zone. Remember that
prices do tend to get stuck in a zone?
With your support and
resistance zone drawn out, what do you do? Wait for prices to reach the
zone before considering an entry.
Since the primary trend of EUR/USD is down, you will want to short sell. It pays to remember that the trend is your friend.
In
the example above, prices did hit the zone and crashed after. Youll
want to short sell at the pink arrow, placing your stop loss at 1 ATR
level above the previous high (shown by the distance marker and red
line). Calculate how many lots you should sell by using the Position
Sizing calculator.
Great! Now that you have your defensive part
settled, lets discover where you should place your profit target. Recall
that you have marked out the key support and resistance level on the
weekly chart? That is where you can aim to take profit.
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