Trading Strategies & Tech
The Best Price Action Trading Strategies
16 Dec 2014
Business trading is not simple anymore. You must have in-depth knowledge of hundreds of factors that could play a vital role in bringing about a change. Businesses invest time and effort to make a strategy that could help them in achieving their goals. They pay hefty amounts to business experts to help them do that and guide them about the future.
What is Price Action Trading?
In one of our recent posts, we provide detailed introduction to price-action trading strategy. Price action trading is a method by which you can analyze a few factors before making the decision and neglecting other factors. You look at a couple of indicators and trends in price action trading. Price action trading is mainly focused on the data of movement of price and the time it takes for the price movement. This data is indicated on a price chart. It shows the actions of humans and machines that are involved in trading market.
When these actions are viewed with respect to time, they become price action that it also presents in price charts. The biggest drawback of price action trading is it neglects global events which could have a positive or negative impact on the price. But the advantage is that you can trade successfully without considering global events and other factors using price action trading.
The main reason is that all the global events changes and economic data is indicated through price action on a price chart. Price action shows a glimpse of all elements that are influencing the market with respect to time using different indicators such as MACD and RSI. You must only focus on price movements and you can easily conduct profitable trading business.
Forex Trading and Price Action Trading
You will have to learn what the patterns in the market is saying and then do Forex trading. The price action may repeat itself because the same participants interact in the same way with the system. Many price trading strategies are used in different ways. Price action reflects change or continuation of market situations and opinion. Analyze the original price and leave out all other indicators out of your charts in Forex trading. Economic and currency data do influence the price in Forex trading.
Price Action Trading Strategies
There are many price action trading strategies out there. Some of them are as follows:
Fakey Trading Strategy
Fakey trading strategy is a commonly used price trading strategy and highlights the neglect of an important level within the trading market. The pattern consists of inside bar, false break of inside bar and close back inside the range in the same order as mentioned here. The entry is done when the price moves. The entry is recorded when the price moves higher than the level of inside bar. Another variation of Fakey trading strategy is bearish Fakey. The only difference is that the entry is recorded when price moves lower than the inside bar in bearish Fakey.
Inside Bar Strategy
Inside bars are completely contained within the boundaries of a previous bar. It can show a brief consolidation and start to move in the trend direction which is dominating the market. Analyzing inside bars on a daily and weekly basis can be more fruitful. There is a large reward and small risk at stake in this strategy and this is why most traders love this price action strategy.
Swing Trading Strategy
Swing trading holds middle ground between buy and hold traders or day traders. Basically, swing trading is a moderate method and focused on market trends and momentum. It gives you the chance to pocket larger profits than other trading strategies. Many traders won’t like to use swing trading strategy because they want frequent trade signals which swing trading don’t provide.
You don’t have to put in a lot of effort to be successful in swing trading. You just have to do a market analysis on a daily basis or if you want to keep yourself updated you can do it twice a day. Closing price of the day is of great importance for swing traders. When a trade signal reaches swing traders, they can set their trade order by inputting stop and target price and entry and do their business.
