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DownloadSwing Trading VIX Reversals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month's column will give you useful tips to confirm upward reversals in UVXY...
Swingtrading Price Channels
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a pattern that provides an effective technical entry point and trade strategy. It builds on trend continuation, using the upper and lower trendlines...
Small/Large Candle Pair Sequences
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You can look for two or more expanding-range candle pairs to find long momentum trades. Here's how (and why) it works...
Ascending Triangle Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The search for technical entry signals used to find tradable pivots can be a challenge. This month's strategy uses ascending triangles following a sustained downtrend...
Swingtrading News Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...One way to take advantage of price action that results from major news headlines is to scan sector or commodity ETFs for trading opportunities when the news is affecting that particular sector or commodity. Here's an example...
Swing Trading 90-Day 25-SMA Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a way to identify setups to buy the pivot as price action moves up following a downtrend, using a 25-day simple moving average on a 90-day candlestick chart. The technique is well-suited to a position-sizing approach and to high-volatility instruments...
Swingtrading Downtrend Reversals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trends rarely go straight down for long periods of time without interruption, not even in strong, swift selloffs. You can capitalize on quick relief rallies during major selloffs if you learn to spot them on the chart. Here's an example of locating such opportunities...
Wide-Range Gap Continuations
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A sequence of taller-than-average range candle days can be a technical breakout signal. Here's how to find and use it for a swing trade...
Swing Trading 52-Week Low Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a trading technique based on a pivot pattern that buys following a 52-week low support level...
Daytrading The 10am Reversal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Professional traders are always on the lookout for chart patterns that repeat. An easy one to recognize is the daily 10am reversal pattern...
Breakouts Using Green:Red Candle Ratio
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a simple momentum strategy to use for swing trading breakouts...
Average True Range Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The ATR was originally designed to indicate when daily ranges are increasing or decreasing. Here, we show you how you can use the indicator to spot upside breakouts...
Bollinger Band Reversals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Bollinger Bands do an especially good job of visually representing variance, trading range expansion/contraction, and potential trend reversals...
Swing Trading In The 50/200MA Channel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You can use the popular 50-day and 200-day moving averages for more than looking for crosses of the two lines. You can also use the channel that the two lines create to swing trade in a continuous uptrend. Here's how...
Daytrading The FOMC Release
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's an approach you can use to daytrade major economic news or report releases using ETFs...
Swing Trading Uptrends With Wide Candles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Finding the best stocks and ETFs to swing trade can be quite challenging. In this month's column, you'll learn how to use a simple wide-candle approach to help you visually scan for strong breakouts...
Swing Trading $10 Ranges
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders often struggle with deciding how to enter and exit their positions. In this month's column, you will see how to trade within $10 ranges...
Using Bollinger Bands With The VIX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Bollinger Bands are a brilliant tool that can be used to identify reversals, so using them with the VIX makes sense...
Using Two-Year Support Levels For Entries
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You can use multiyear support and resistance levels to help enter positions...
Range-Based Day Trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Whenever you are looking for technical signals to help you day trade, one of the most important things to keep in mind is the prior day's range...
Daytrading ETF Gap Reversals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's a gap-reversal pattern to watch for, especially in leveraged ETFs...
Day Trading Whole-Number Ladders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Climbing the ladder of trading success may be made easier by laddering your trades. Find out how...
Daytrading Small Caps: End-Of-Day
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a simple momentum daytrading breakout strategy that is designed to capitalize on volatile moves in small-cap stocks...
Daytrading Shorts Using Two-Day Lows
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The strongest short setups occur when price action loses the prior day's low...
Swing Trading Wide-Range Candles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...As an active trader, you may often face the difficult decision of figuring out when to add to a current position that is open...
Swing Trading 50SMA Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...One of the more valuable strategies you can use as a technical trader is to look for patterns that repeat consistently over time...
Buy The Open, Sell The Close
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If fast-paced day trading is too hectic for your preference, and swing trading is too slow, then you may want to look at the strategy outlined in this month's column...
Swing Trading The 50/200 SMA Channel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this month's column, we'll look at using the channel formed by the 50 and 200 SMA to help make trading decisions...
Price Projection Daytrading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's how you can use the previous day's range to project the expected maximum range for the current trading session...
Day Trading Gap Reversals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Day trading gaps can be challenging due to their volatile nature...
Day Trading Mid-Range Gaps
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We usually think about gaps above previous highs or below previous lows. This month's strategy can help you trade gaps that are neither of those, but rather are gaps down inside the previous day's trading range...
Buy Support, Sell Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's what to look for if you want to trade within a price channel...
Ratio Of Red To Green Candles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...One of the most important skills to develop as an active trader is to know when to scale out of a position to lock in profits once price action starts to reverse...
Daytrading Bitcoin ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this month's column you will discover new tips for daytrading these popular instruments with unique technical trading signals...
Three-Candle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...One of the big challenges that we face in trading breakouts is avoiding false breakouts, where price looks to be taking out a new high but then goes back down...
Swing Trading Volatile Reversals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this month's column you will learn tips for trading secondary breakouts following the initial big move up and back down...
High-Volume Golden Cross Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...It often pays to wait for confirmation to avoid false breakouts. Here are two indications you can use as confirming signals...
Price Channel Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you have ever wondered where to enter an uptrending chart, then you may find this month's trading strategy helpful...
Swing Trading High-Volume Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading pivots can be tricky. Here's what will help...
Scaling Into Swing Trades
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's a favorite decision-support strategy for swing trading that uses a unique visual pattern...
Golden Cross & Cup Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Using multiple entry points to scale into winning trades can increase your odds for a successful outcome. Here's an example of one way you can do that by combining signals from a golden cross and a bullish cup breakout...
Hammer And MACD Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In volatile markets, whipsaws are common. Using these two technical signals to confirm your entries can provide better support for your trading decisions...
Dual-Candle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Simply buying into an uptrend in isolation often leads to false breakouts. Instead, you may find more success if you scan for dual-candle breakout patterns. Here's how to find them...
Scaling In To Swing Trades
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Position sizing is an important concept in trading. Here is a look at using multiple entry points to reduce the risk of any one entry point...
Swing Trading MACD Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...After sustained selling, you may be interested in purchasing shares of a stock that is starting to pivot back to the upside. Here is a signal you can use to help time that...
Mean-Reversion Pivot Zones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This price retracement pattern can help you when daytrading stocks...
End-of-Day Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The open is where the excitement is. But the close may be a smarter place to be...
Closing Range Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Learn to identify a closing range breakout entry using a two-day chart...
ETF Arbitrage Swing Trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In the July 2019 issue in this column, ETF arbitrage for daytrading was presented. This month, the same concept is applied to swing trading. Find out how...
High-Volume Close Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...As with many trading techniques, looking for confirmation before taking action is smart. Here's one way you can do that...
ADX & 50SMA Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The more technical signals that line up in your favor, the better the odds of making a successful trade. Here's an example of how to confirm a technical signal with another signal...
Mean-Reversion Daytrading, Revisited
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Take it a step further with a second look at this common scenario in daytrading...
Intraday Swing Trading Basics
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Does "intraday swing trading" sound like a contradiction in terms? Well, it may actually not be because it combines the best of both worlds. Find out how this approach can solve some of the trouble spots of both daytrading and swing trading and ultimately boost profit potenti...
Conditional OTO Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Using one-triggers-the-other (OTO) conditional orders is ideal for breakout trading. Here's why...
ETF Arbitrage Daytrading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...There are few guarantees in the stock market, but here is one you may be able to start using...
Daytrading VWMA Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Adding in a volume component to your moving average calculation can help you know when momentum may be slowing, which may improve your trade timing. Here's how...
Daytrading Pivot Channels
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...It turns out that yesterday's news actually can be valuable information. This professional trader explains how...
45¡ Angle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...One of the strongest swing trading breakout patterns is the 45¡ angle multi-week uptrend. Here's what to look for and how you can trade it...
Swing Trading 10-Point Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Some numbers have an important psychology attached to them. Find out how you can use this to your advantage in swing trading...
Swing Trading 50/200 SMA Channels
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Could a moving average channel help you find stocks that are reversing and have some momentum behind them? Try this technique for finding entries and exits while avoiding false breakouts...
Two-Day-High Cup Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Bullish cup patterns often continue upward. Here are two technical entry signals to look for...
Inside-Range Gap Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...They may not be your traditional gaps, but they can end up with breakouts that are just as big as or bigger than some of the more popular type of gaps. Discover how to use these gaps in your trading...
Wide-Range Chart Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Skip the narrow, choppy trading ranges and look for a chart with enough range to have some momentum behind it...
Moving Average Hammer Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Combine a Japanese hammer candle with a moving average line to confirm a pivot and generate a trading signal...
Bull Flag Swing Trading Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Missed your entry on a big breakout? A trend continuation could give you a second chance. Here's how to spot a pattern that gives you the opening you need...
Inverse ETF Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Find out how this trader applies breakout trading techniques in a falling market...
Daytrading Tall-Candle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Tall green candles are easy to spot on a chart, and entering above a tall candle's high can set you up for a profitable breakout trade. Here's how to do it...
Daytrading ADX Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Would you like to know about a technical indicator that provides a consistent way to spot volatile breakouts in a timely manner? This tool may be sitting right in front of you. If you aren't already using the ADX, here's how to use it to determine whether a breakout is strong enough for a daytrade entry...
Price Action And Volume Correlations
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The market always brings us something we can at least eke out a little profit from, but we often miss those signals. This is why it's necessary for traders to continuously search for opportunities, whether it be patterns that keep repeating themselves, pattern breakouts, or a pattern that's your best secret. Here's one pattern that can help you identify breakout opportunities...
Dual-Candle Momentum Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Green candles in this scenario can be a sign of momentum. Here's how to incorporate them into your breakout trading...
Acceleration Ramp Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The acceleration ramp is a pattern that points to stocks that are building strong demand over the course of several weeks. Here's how to look for this pattern...
Tape Reading Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The time & sales window can reveal valuable information about the strength of a trend. Learn more about how trading professionals use it and how you too can use it to your advantage...
Daytrading Within Whole Numbers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Keeping your entry and exits based on simple concepts makes it easier to manage your trades. Here's a strategy you can apply...
Swing Trading Four-Day Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When trading breakouts, one challenge is to find charts that will continue to move in your favor. Here's one pattern that could help you identify those strong moves...
Swing Trading 100SMA Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Learn to combine a classic moving average crossover technique with a specific daily candle signal to confirm a pivot entry...
Consolidation Channel Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When price trends between two parallel trendlines it is said to form a channel, and a consolidation channel is a sideways action where price is in a trading range. This month, this professional trader describes what to look for to have the best chances of success when trading breakouts from this pattern...
Golden Cross Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A "golden cross" on a chart is typically defined as when the 50-day moving average crosses above the 200-day moving average, seen as a bullish sign. In this monthly column on trading breakouts, this professional trader shows how you can use this pattern as an entry signal for swing trad...
Daytrading Gaps & Cups
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Learn to combine intraday gap and cup continuation patterns for strong entries. This professional daytrader shows you how...
Swing Trading Bull Flags & Pennants
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Finding strong swing trading breakouts is often a matter of looking for exceptionally volatile chart patterns, like the flags and pennants you'll be learning about in this month's column...
Mean-Reversion Daytrading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Last month, this professional trader discussed swing trading mean-reversion pivot entries. This month, he continues on the same topic but this time for daytrading...
Volume-Weighted Moving Average Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's a moving average crossover technique to help spot strong breakout trading patterns in volatile markets...
Price Projection Swing Trades
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Finding technical breakout entries using the patterns we covered in earlier columns can be helpful. It is equally important, if not more so, to know your exits by identifying likely technical targets when you are managing your trades. Using box trading ranges can help you identify where to exit winning trades or when to tighten trailing stops...
Avoiding False Breakouts: "No 9
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month, the breakout strategy discussed isn't so much about what to do as what not to do...
Ascending Triangle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month in our Trading On Momentum column, this professional trader introduces you to the ascending triangle pattern that you can use to help spot buying pressure as it builds...
Multiday Sequential Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this monthly column covering the topic of breakout trading techniques, this professional daytrader and educator explains how looking for a multiday pattern where volume and price continue upward can simplify your trade scanning...
Bollinger Band MA Crossover Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This monthly column written by a professional daytrader and educator covers the general topic of breakout trading techniques. This month, he explains how you can use a particular combination of signals to help avoid false breakouts while gaining earlier, stronger indications for entering...
Gaps & Bullish Cup Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This monthly column written by a professional daytrader and educator covers the general topic of breakout trading techniques. This month, he explains how you can improve your chances for success in gap trading by combining gap trades with easy-to-see cup entry patterns...
ATR Breakout Entries
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...How do you know when a breakout is truly a breakout? The more confirming indicators you have, the better. Here are two indicators you can use to identify true breakouts, and if you have even more confirming signals, there's a strong chance you'll make profitable trades...
ADX Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Breakouts are a popular method to trade with, but how do you differentiate between strong and weak breakouts? This professional daytrader demonstrates one method of identifying breakouts that could make a difference...
Scanning for Swing Trades
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month, we present a breakout strategy for finding swing trade entries based on characteristics of trend, volume, and 15-day price range. This professional trader explains what to look for...
Multiple-Gap Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month, we present a breakout strategy for finding swing trade entries based on a series of upward gaps in an uptrend. This professional trader explains what to look for...
High-Volume Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this final article in a series we've been presenting on breakout trading strategies from this professional daytrader and educator, we look at the role that volume and price-action breakout patterns play in confirming entry signals...
Moving Average Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Welcome to a new column on techniques for active traders. Each month, this daytrader and founder of TradeMastery.com will cover topics such as momentum trading, breakout trading, and other technical analysisÐbased techniques. This month, you'll learn an updated trading technique with specific, actionable technical analysis, and you'll also learn how to identify and manage the trade from start to finish...
Mean-Reversion Swing Trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month, we take a look at a technique for entering a long position in a trend continuation following a pullback after a breakout...
Price Projection Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this regular column covering the topic of breakout trading techniques, this professional daytrader and educator explains how looking for prior trading ranges can help you manage new breakout entries by helping you determine how far a new swing trading breakout is likely to trend before consolidating or reversing...
Trading Gap Reversals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's an intraday trading strategy that is useful for trading gap reversals in stocks that have a major gap down and then start to fill the gap during the first hour of the trading day...
Gap Continuation Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The objective of all traders is to find a market-beating strategy. The challenge is to find ones that are consistent...
Breakout Or Fakeout?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading false breakouts can be a costly mistake. Find out how you can minimize these types of entries using simple visual price action, volume, and volatility-scanning strategies...
Managing Breakout Trades
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Your order has been filled and your trade is breaking out in your favor. How do you manage the trade to maximize profits? Here are a few techniques you can apply that are safer and less risky than not actively managing your position...
Trading With Price-Action Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Pivot points have long been used by traders to identify entry & exit signals. Here's an effective technique that integrates classic candlestick pivot patterns with other indicators...
Trading First-Hour Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...It is well known that as soon as the markets open, there's a significant amount of trading activity, much of which is strong breakout patterns. How do you identify which of these patterns are strong enough to continue and generate successful trades? Find out here...
Swing Trading With Momentum On Your Side
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Seeing a simple breakout may convince you to place a trade, but how do you know if a breakout is really a breakout? Here's one way you can jump into a trade and not get caught off-guard....
Daytrading Price Volatility Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's how to recognize specific patterns that can be incorporated into a successful trading strategy....
Daytrading Cup Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Entering and exiting intraday trades using precision technical trading signals has been popular with both retail and institutional traders, since it limits overnight risk exposure. The primary elements of professional daytrading include scanning for volatile breakouts during the first hour of the trading day, setting specific technical entry signals to initiate new trades, and using careful risk management to scale in and out of positions once they're initiated. Daytrading stocks, eminis, forex, and exchange traded funds (Et fs) all require different entry and exit signals....
Forex Volatility Patterns by Ken Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Forex Volatility Patterns by Ken Calhoun Want to catch 40 to 100 pips in each trade? Here's how you can find those entry and exit signals to make your forex trading a success. Capturing volatile breakouts and reversals in currency pair trades has long been a challenge for active foreign exchange traders. But how often do traders actually trade high-volatility patterns correctly? Trendline projections in lagging indicators such as moving averages/exponential moving averages (MAs/EMAs) often whipsaw traders out of positions and need to be modified for successfully trading volatile currency pai...
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