EUR/USD Monthly Technical Analysis for August 2014 The stronger U.S. economy and the possibility of higher interest rates helped drive the EUR/USD lower in July. At the same time, Euro investors are starting to believe the European Central Bank may have to impose more aggressive economic stimulus on the Euro Zone in order to avoid deflation. Additional sanctions on Russia because of its active involvement in Ukraine is also influencing the price action as investors price in the possibility ...
Pre-Trend Chart Patterns Every Trader Should Know: Part I Talking Points: Benefits of Pattern RecognitionThe First Pre-Trend Pattern: Zig-ZagSetting Stops & Profit Targets “…markets are chaotic in nature, but within this chaos are non-random patterns that repeat and are predictable” -Larry Pesavento, Some traders love to look for common price action patterns before entering in the direction of the overall trend to improve ...
Talking Points: The AUDUSD is trading in an ascending triangleWith the absence of a new high, traders can wait for a breakoutThe triangle low and high can be used to extrapolate price targets At some point, market trends will come to an end. These market transitions can be difficult for those that are used to using a directional market to make trading decisions. These market conditions don’t have to spell disaster for traders however. Those traders that can properly ...
Talking Points: Recap of the Zig-Zag & The Study of CorrectionsThe Second Pre-Trend Pattern: TrianglesSetting Stops & Profit Targets “All patterns fail, but the key is to know when to trade them and when to avoid them.” -Suri Dudella Trading patterns can be seen as a short-cut to in-depth technical analysis. You were recently introduced to the first type of corrective trading pattern known as a 3-wave correction or zig-zag, which commonly plays ...
Bull Flags and Bear Flags Bull and Bear Flags are one of the simplest and potentially profitable patterns in chart analysis. Generally, this is because one can achieve a “Dual Edge” in trading the pattern, meaning the pattern tends to ‘work’ more times than not, and when the target is achieved, it yields more profit (up to two or three times as much) as the stop-loss that is incurred when the pattern ‘fails.’ Let’s look at the idealized representation of this ...
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