The Ultimate Forex Trading Course (For Beginners) — Transcript
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- 0:00hey hey what's up my friends so welcome
- 0:02to the ultimate forex trading course
- 0:04for beginners so this is a comprehensive
- 0:07trading course that will teach you
- 0:08everything from a to z right to becoming
- 0:10a proficient forex trader so the cost is
- 0:12structured in a step-by-step manner so
- 0:14this is really for you if you have no
- 0:15forex trading experience or
- 0:17very little forex trading experience so
- 0:19the course is structured in such a way
- 0:20where the
- 0:21earlier lessons right builds on the last
- 0:23so you can't just you know
- 0:24maybe let's say skip to the last section
- 0:26because it might not make sense to you
- 0:28especially if you have no forex trading
- 0:29experience so my suggestion is to go
- 0:31through this
- 0:31program step by step as the techniques
- 0:34the strategies the concepts right
- 0:35builds on the foundation that you have
- 0:36learned earlier at the same time some of
- 0:38you watching this might be
- 0:40an experienced trader if that's the case
- 0:42right i will put the timestamps
- 0:43in the description you can see you know
- 0:45which part of this training video
- 0:47might interest you which topic right and
- 0:49just go to the relevant
- 0:50section of this video so without further
- 0:52ado let's get started
- 0:58so in this section you will learn number
- 1:00one what is forex trading
- 1:02who are the biggest players in forex
- 1:04trading the advantages of forex trading
- 1:06over the other markets
- 1:07like stocks and what are the forex
- 1:09market hours so let's get started
- 1:11so first and foremost what is forex
- 1:13trading well forex
- 1:14stands for foreign exchange in case you
- 1:16haven't you know realized it yet
- 1:18it is simply an exchange of one currency
- 1:20for another
- 1:21and you might be thinking why do i want
- 1:23to you know exchange currencies right
- 1:24now
- 1:24very simple let's say for example you
- 1:26want to go on a vacation
- 1:28and let's say you're in the u.s and you
- 1:30want to come to singapore for holiday
- 1:31well guess what
- 1:32if you bring your us dollars into
- 1:33singapore and buy a bowl of noodles the
- 1:35lady will give you the
- 1:37you know like what you're trying to do
- 1:38man so clearly right you can't use
- 1:40us dollars in singapore so what you need
- 1:42to do is to go to a money changer maybe
- 1:44in the us
- 1:44and what you'll do is sell your us
- 1:46dollars in exchange for singapore
- 1:48dollars and then you can you know come
- 1:49to singapore
- 1:50have a nice holiday have a bowl of
- 1:51noodles rice and you know have fun
- 1:53so that's pretty much you know one
- 1:54example of uh forex trading or
- 1:57rather you know the exchange of currency
- 1:58and what the purpose is for
- 2:00on the other hand for corporations let's
- 2:02say a company like toyota
- 2:04who produces car let's say they need to
- 2:06buy some
- 2:07rubber for their tires for example okay
- 2:09and you know
- 2:10uh you know they in japan right maybe
- 2:12they are not a producer of rubber and
- 2:14they need to go to
- 2:15india to buy some rubber for their cars
- 2:18so what do toyoto toyota cooperation do
- 2:20what they do is they will
- 2:22sell their yen in exchange for indian
- 2:24rupee so they can use that indian rupee
- 2:27go to india and buy some rubber for
- 2:29their tires make sense so that's another
- 2:31example of
- 2:32forex trading one is from a retail
- 2:33perspective and one is from a
- 2:34corporation
- 2:35perspective and this is a six point six
- 2:38trillion dollar market the forex market
- 2:39is a six point six
- 2:41trillion dollar market look at the
- 2:42number of zeros my man it has
- 2:44more the number of zeros is even more
- 2:46than the the hair i have on my head so
- 2:48that's a huge
- 2:49huge market so who are the players
- 2:52of forex trading so let me just you know
- 2:54give you a very simple
- 2:55chart right to kind of you know break
- 2:57down who trades the forex market
- 2:59so you can see over here primarily the
- 3:00forex markets are traded by you know the
- 3:02major banks this could be due to you
- 3:04know hedging their portfolios
- 3:05feeling they are you know uh meeting
- 3:06their requirements of their clients
- 3:09like commercial companies which i'll
- 3:10explain shortly uh this could
- 3:12a forex market is also you know traded
- 3:14by hedge funds for you know speculative
- 3:16purposes
- 3:16maybe to hit their portfolios and done
- 3:19by commercial companies for example like
- 3:20toyota as i've mentioned earlier
- 3:22so for example how does commercial
- 3:23companies and bank work hand in hand so
- 3:25very simple
- 3:26so let's say you know a company like
- 3:27again toyota they know they need
- 3:29let's say they want to buy rubber from
- 3:31india they can't use
- 3:32yen in india because you know the
- 3:34indians might think you know what is
- 3:36this piece of paper right am i supposed
- 3:37to make a paper plane out of this
- 3:38no so what toyota will do is they might
- 3:40go to a bank and say hey i need to
- 3:42exchange you know
- 3:43x number of yens right in exchange for
- 3:45indian rupee so
- 3:46commercial bank will go to i mean a
- 3:48commercial company will go to the bank
- 3:49right and you'll
- 3:50settle this uh this transaction so this
- 3:52is how they kind of
- 3:53work interrelated together and of course
- 3:55banks can you know trade them
- 3:56within uh among one another to hate
- 3:59their portfolio and stuff like that
- 4:00and finally at the bottom of the food
- 4:02chain you have the retail traders like
- 4:03us
- 4:04who you know go into this for maybe uh
- 4:07speculative purposes could be you know
- 4:08going for vacation you need to change a
- 4:09bit of
- 4:10currencies so yeah this is uh largely
- 4:12you know what
- 4:13what are the players in the forex
- 4:14markets do
- 4:16so advantageous of forex trading so
- 4:19what are the advantages number one right
- 4:21it is low barrier
- 4:22to entry so you can start with you know
- 4:24as little as 100 so unlike you know
- 4:26futures or stocks where you probably
- 4:28would have to start with a larger amount
- 4:29for forex trading right to open an
- 4:31account
- 4:31100 right is i'll say enough right to
- 4:34open an account
- 4:36it has high liquidity so you can enter
- 4:37and exit your trades easily so if you
- 4:39trade forex and you want to buy let's
- 4:40say
- 4:41a currency pair like euro dollar you can
- 4:43pretty much get at the price right that
- 4:45you see on your screen unlike you know
- 4:46certain
- 4:47markets like let's say penny stock
- 4:48sometimes uh market is moving quickly or
- 4:50market is illiquid when you
- 4:52thought you buy it hundred dollars and
- 4:53end up you buy the stock 105 dollars due
- 4:55to you know slippages and stuff like
- 4:56that so in forex trading
- 4:58you still have slippages but i would say
- 4:59it's lesser compared to the stock
- 5:01markets
- 5:02then uh the market is open 245 for forex
- 5:04right you can trade pretty much any time
- 5:05you want unlike the stock markets which
- 5:07is you know just open for a fixed number
- 5:08of hours in a day so what are the forex
- 5:12market hours so as mentioned right forex
- 5:14is open 24 hours
- 5:16five days a week so it's open from
- 5:18sunday to friday right depending on
- 5:20where you are in the world if you're
- 5:21like me
- 5:22in singapore it's open from monday to
- 5:23friday if i mean monday to saturday if
- 5:26you're in us then you'll be from sunday
- 5:27to friday because of the uh
- 5:28hours in the forex market because of
- 5:30your time zone so what are the forex
- 5:32market hours okay so let me just break
- 5:34this down so you can understand this
- 5:35chart
- 5:36so first one over here is the daylight
- 5:38saving time so this refers to the summer
- 5:40months
- 5:41in u.s okay in the overseas in other
- 5:43countries
- 5:44in singapore we don't have daylight
- 5:45saving time so this is a bit uh
- 5:47new to you if you are in asia and the
- 5:50time that we use to depict the hours we
- 5:52use gmt over here
- 5:53okay so for example let's say uh london
- 5:56market right for summer period the
- 5:59london
- 6:00session right starts at 7 00 am gmt and
- 6:03ends
- 6:04at 4 00 p.m gmt so 1600 is in essence
- 6:07at 4 pm if you convert it okay for new
- 6:10york
- 6:11it starts at 12 p.m gmt
- 6:15the new york session and it ends at 9 pm
- 6:17gmt new york session so you can see how
- 6:19this uh
- 6:20this uh table right breaks down the
- 6:22different forex sessions and their
- 6:24open and closing hours so this is for
- 6:27daylight savings time during the summer
- 6:29period
- 6:30and for standard time right during the
- 6:31winter period right the hours right are
- 6:33slightly different they are
- 6:34different by an hour so if you look now
- 6:36at london again now
- 6:38we open at 8 am whereas previously it
- 6:40opened
- 6:41at 7 00 am okay so previously 7 am here
- 6:46so during winter months right it starts
- 6:48at 8am
- 6:49and ends at 5pm for new york it starts
- 6:51at 1 pm
- 6:52and close it or ends at 10pm so you can
- 6:55see this table here
- 6:56i would say it's useful right to to know
- 6:59what time a certain forex
- 7:00market session opens or closed in your
- 7:02particular time zone
- 7:04and some of you might be wondering hey
- 7:05ray how do i know whether is it a winter
- 7:07or summer period simple just google
- 7:09if you google right then you know
- 7:10whether hey is it now standard time or
- 7:12is it daylight savings time so i'm not
- 7:14going to put that down here because
- 7:15it really depends on the time of the
- 7:16year so let's do a quick recap
- 7:19number one forex trading is simply an
- 7:21exchange of one currency for another
- 7:23it's traded by banks corporations
- 7:24brokers and retail traders like you and
- 7:26me
- 7:27forex trading has a low barrier to entry
- 7:29high liquidity and the market is open 24
- 7:315. and finally the forex market hours
- 7:33are broken down into four different
- 7:34sessions the sydney session the tokyo
- 7:36london and new york and one thing to add
- 7:38right a bonus thing is that uh
- 7:39the most volatile session right in the
- 7:42forex market is during the london
- 7:44and new york overlap so it's actually
- 7:45during this few hours from here
- 7:48to here because both the london and the
- 7:50new york session
- 7:51are open and these are kind of like the
- 7:52biggest financial markets in the world
- 7:54so a lot of transactions are going on
- 7:55during this
- 7:56forex market hours and if you look at
- 7:58the forex charts like the 15 minutes or
- 8:00one hour time frame
- 8:01you can see that during this period
- 8:02right the candles are moving a lot
- 8:04a lot more during this a few hours of
- 8:06the day so this is just one additional
- 8:08thing to
- 8:08share with you okay so we have done the
- 8:10recap so
- 8:12that's pretty much it now moving on
- 8:15right you will
- 8:16learn what is a currency pair
- 8:19what is the base and code currency what
- 8:21are the different types of currency
- 8:23pairs so
- 8:24let's get started number one what is a
- 8:26currency
- 8:27pair so one thing to note is that you
- 8:28trade currency in pairs not as a
- 8:31standalone so just like you know when
- 8:32you go to a supermarket to buy an orange
- 8:34you don't say hey i want to buy some
- 8:35orange they will tell you yeah you want
- 8:38to buy some orange right but
- 8:39you have to you know exchange right your
- 8:41money for an orange so same thing for
- 8:43currency pairs right when you want to
- 8:44trade currencies you have to exchange
- 8:46one currency
- 8:47for another currency you can't just say
- 8:48i want to buy some euros
- 8:50then the other person on the or the
- 8:52other party will be thinking
- 8:54sure you're gonna buy some euros so what
- 8:56are you giving me in exchange
- 8:57so this is why currency pairs or rather
- 9:00why currencies right trade in pairs
- 9:02not as a standalone so in essence right
- 9:05currency pairs help you
- 9:06measure a currency's value against
- 9:09another currency
- 9:11so for example let me explain right euro
- 9:13against the dollar so when you
- 9:14let's say buy the euro dollar in essence
- 9:17what you're doing is you're buying
- 9:18the euro currency all right and you're
- 9:21selling
- 9:22the us dollar so in essence right when
- 9:23you are buying the euro
- 9:25you're giving the other party us dollars
- 9:27in exchange for
- 9:28the euro currency so just like you're
- 9:29buying an apple from the supermarket
- 9:31you're giving your money in exchange for
- 9:33that apple so
- 9:34it works in pair likewise for dollar
- 9:37against the yen
- 9:38you are buying the us dollar and in
- 9:40return right you give the other party
- 9:42japanese yen make sense moving on
- 9:46what is a base currency or what is a
- 9:48base currency so let me explain the base
- 9:49currency is in essence right the first
- 9:52currency that appears in a currency pair
- 9:54so this will illustrate so for example
- 9:56euro against the dollar
- 9:57the first currency of the pair is called
- 10:00a base
- 10:01currency and i'll explain why shortly
- 10:04so what is a code currency so the code
- 10:06currency is
- 10:07the second currency that appears in the
- 10:09currency pair
- 10:10and for the euro dollar example the us
- 10:12dollar is the
- 10:14quote currency and now you might be
- 10:15wondering hey wayne and what's the
- 10:17purpose purpose
- 10:18of all this man so let me explain the
- 10:21purpose of all this is to
- 10:23tell you how much it cost in one
- 10:26in code currency to buy one base
- 10:27currency i know that sounds like a
- 10:29technical full so i'll break it down
- 10:32very simply which i've
- 10:33actually done earlier so for example
- 10:35euro dollar
- 10:36at 1.3500 what it means
- 10:40is you know that euro is the base
- 10:43currency
- 10:44right let's call it b base and the
- 10:47dollar as mentioned
- 10:48is the quote currency that's pretty cute
- 10:51so this
- 10:51tells you how much it costs in code
- 10:53currency to buy one based currency so in
- 10:55essence what this tells you is that
- 10:57for one euro dollar it will cost you
- 11:01one dollar and 35 cents
- 11:04usd so let's say you go to a money
- 11:07changer hey i'm gonna buy one euro man
- 11:09and the guy said sure my man give me one
- 11:12dollar and 35 cents
- 11:14usd and i'll give you one euro that's
- 11:16how it works right and that's how you
- 11:17kind of
- 11:17interpret this right okay it tells you
- 11:20how much
- 11:21it costs in code currency to buy one
- 11:23base currency
- 11:24and i think that should be a pretty
- 11:26self-explanatory
- 11:28if you don't understand this just rewind
- 11:30this video and i'm pretty sure you'll
- 11:31get it
- 11:32so when you're trading currencies right
- 11:34there are different types of currency
- 11:35pairs and i'll explain
- 11:36what are the three different types of
- 11:38currency pairs that you'll encounter
- 11:40number one is what we call the major
- 11:41currency pairs number two we have cross
- 11:44currency pairs and number three
- 11:45exotic currency pairs so let me explain
- 11:49major currency pairs these are in
- 11:50essence right
- 11:51or rather they refer to the most traded
- 11:53currency pairs in the world
- 11:54so these are the seven most traded
- 11:56currency pairs in the world they're all
- 11:58uh dollar denominated like you know the
- 11:59euro against the dollar
- 12:00the pound against the dollar dollar
- 12:02against the canadian etc so if you are
- 12:04new to forex trading right now these are
- 12:06i would say the seven
- 12:07currency pairs that you might want to
- 12:08consider starting
- 12:10i mean to trade first because they are
- 12:12usually uh i'll say their transaction
- 12:13costs are lower due to lower spreads
- 12:15and you know you get less slippages when
- 12:17trading this uh most
- 12:19seven most popular currency pairs so
- 12:21these are the major currency pairs
- 12:23the next one cross currency pairs this
- 12:24refers to currency pairs
- 12:26which are non-usd which doesn't have the
- 12:28usd you know denomination in it
- 12:30so for example let's say you have the
- 12:32euro crosses euro crosses simply means
- 12:34that their currency pairs that has the
- 12:36euro currency in it like the euro
- 12:38against the british pound euro against
- 12:40the aussie dollar euro against the new
- 12:41zealand dollar
- 12:42then you have the pound crosses like
- 12:43pound yen pound against the aussie
- 12:45dollar pound against the new zealand
- 12:46dollar etc pretty pretty simple stuff
- 12:49and finally the last type of currency
- 12:51parents that we have is the exotic
- 12:52currency pairs
- 12:53this is when one may when one major
- 12:55currency pair
- 12:56is paired with a developing country's
- 12:59currency so for example
- 13:02us dollar against the mexican peso us
- 13:04dollar is a major
- 13:05currency pair and mexican
- 13:08that's all right this is a developing
- 13:10country's currency so again this meets
- 13:11the requirement right one
- 13:12major currency is paired with a
- 13:15developing country's currency
- 13:16next one the euro against the turkish
- 13:18lira euro is a major currency turkish
- 13:20lira is a
- 13:21developing country's currency and
- 13:23finally the indian rupee against the
- 13:25british pound
- 13:25again so this is what we mean by exotic
- 13:28currency pairs
- 13:29so one thing to note right is that when
- 13:31you trade exotic currency pairs the
- 13:33spread
- 13:34tends to be wider so if you don't
- 13:36understand what the spread means right
- 13:37don't worry
- 13:37as you progress on your trading journey
- 13:39you understand but in essence right the
- 13:40transaction cost to trade
- 13:42exotic currency pairs they are more
- 13:43expensive compared to the
- 13:45major currency pairs so a quick recap
- 13:47number one currencies they are traded in
- 13:49pairs not as a standalone
- 13:50the base currency is the first currency
- 13:52in the pair the code currency is the
- 13:54second currency in a pair
- 13:56and then there are three types of
- 13:57currency pairs major cross and exotics
- 14:00so with that said let's move on
- 14:04so moving on in this section you will
- 14:06learn number one what is a bit
- 14:08number two what is a paypal and number
- 14:10three how to read a currency pair
- 14:12code so let's get started so first and
- 14:14foremost right what is
- 14:16a pip a pip stands for percentage in
- 14:18point in essence right what it's trying
- 14:19to do is to measure
- 14:21it's a measure right of a change in
- 14:22value in the currency pair
- 14:24don't worry we'll get to that later so a
- 14:27pip right remember it's the fourth
- 14:29decimal place in the currency pair code
- 14:31so let me explain right let me give an
- 14:33example
- 14:33so let's see let's say right euro
- 14:35against the us dollar moves from 1.3500
- 14:38to 1.3505
- 14:40now let me ask you where is where
- 14:44is the number to look at when you want
- 14:45to find out what is the the p value
- 14:47change so remember
- 14:48pip is the fourth decimal place so this
- 14:50is basically the fourth number
- 14:51after this dot so one two three four
- 14:53you're looking at this number here
- 14:55so you're comparing the difference
- 14:56between this number here and this
- 14:58number here okay so quiz time
- 15:01how many pips difference is this so
- 15:04let's find out
- 15:05an answer is quite straightforward this
- 15:06is actually an increase right of five
- 15:08pips from 1.3500 to 1.3505
- 15:12it's a difference of five pips so you
- 15:14can see right the last
- 15:15digit the fourth decimal placing digit
- 15:17right it has moved from zero
- 15:19to five that's an increase of five pips
- 15:23let's do another example let's say this
- 15:24time around the euro
- 15:26against the dollar moves from 1.3400
- 15:29to 1.3350 now how many pips
- 15:33is this right let's uh give you five
- 15:35seconds to figure this out
- 15:36one two three four five okay so the
- 15:39answer is
- 15:40a decrease of 50 pips so in essence
- 15:42right this uh
- 15:44euro against the dollar it has dropped
- 15:4650 pips from 1.3400 to 1.3350
- 15:50so quick tip that i have for you that if
- 15:51you have difficulty you you know using
- 15:53your fingers counting and stuff like
- 15:54that you just take a calculator
- 15:56take this last four digit minus this
- 15:58last four digit and you'll get 50.
- 16:00okay that's another way to go about it
- 16:03so moving on one thing to share is that
- 16:06the yen pairs they are special they are
- 16:08not like you know the other currency
- 16:09pairs where the
- 16:10pip right is at the fourth decimal place
- 16:12for yen pairs like you know the dollar
- 16:13against the japanese year and the pound
- 16:15against the japanese yen
- 16:16the pip value is the second decimal
- 16:19place so bear this in mind only for yen
- 16:20pairs the
- 16:22pit value or under the the peak check
- 16:24the
- 16:25the peak when you look at the currency
- 16:26code right is at the second decimal
- 16:28place
- 16:29so let me give you an example let's say
- 16:31the dollar against the japanese yen
- 16:33moves from 100.10 to 100.15
- 16:37how many pips is that how many
- 16:41uh how much pips did this pair move
- 16:44again very simple you can just
- 16:45remember second decimal place is where
- 16:47you look at
- 16:48for the pit for en pair so you just take
- 16:5415 minus 10 and the answer is an
- 16:57increase of
- 16:585 pips next one another example
- 17:02let's say the dollar against the
- 17:03japanese yen moves from 100.25 to 100.1
- 17:07how many pips difference is this again
- 17:09very simple take the uh
- 17:121 0 which is 10 minus 25 and you get
- 17:16a decrease of 15 pips and this is in
- 17:18essence right how you
- 17:20you are measure right how many pips a
- 17:23currency pair
- 17:24has moved and to take things a step
- 17:26further because the forex got you know
- 17:28like to make your life a bit more
- 17:29difficult
- 17:29there's another thing called a pipette
- 17:32and in essence right a pipe is simply
- 17:35known as
- 17:36fractional pips they are 110 the value
- 17:39of a pit
- 17:40confusing don't worry an example usually
- 17:42solves your pain
- 17:44so and one thing to bear in mind is that
- 17:46a pipette is the fifth
- 17:47decimal place for most currency pairs
- 17:50for the yen pairs
- 17:51it's the third decimal place so an
- 17:54example
- 17:54would ease your pain let's say euro
- 17:57against the dollar moves from one three
- 17:58five zero zero five
- 18:00which this one here is the pipette to
- 18:031.3505 seven this seven here is the
- 18:06pipette value
- 18:08so how many pips movement is this
- 18:11so again you just do a simple math you
- 18:13will realize that this is an increase
- 18:15of 5.2 pips makes sense i know
- 18:18it makes sense right so let's do a quick
- 18:20recap
- 18:21number one a pip is a measure of a
- 18:23change in value right in the currency
- 18:25pair
- 18:26it's the fourth decimal place for most
- 18:28currency pairs except the yen which is
- 18:29the third decimal place
- 18:31if you want to be a little bit more you
- 18:32know particular there's something called
- 18:33the pipette which is
- 18:34in essence 110 of a pip
- 18:46so in this section what will you learn
- 18:48you will learn
- 18:49number one what is leverage number two
- 18:52how leverage
- 18:53affects your trading and finally what
- 18:55are the different types of forex
- 18:57lot sizes so let's get started what is
- 19:00leverage
- 19:01how leverage affects your trading and
- 19:04what are the different types of
- 19:05forex lot sizes so let's begin
- 19:08so what is leverage so intuitively i
- 19:10know you know
- 19:12what leverage means but let's explain
- 19:14this when it comes to the forex markets
- 19:16so leverage is in essence right the
- 19:18ability to trade
- 19:20a larger amount of money relative to
- 19:22your account size
- 19:23and leverage is a double h so and i'll
- 19:26explain
- 19:27more so let me give you an example let's
- 19:29say you have a thousand dollars in your
- 19:31trading account and you buy
- 19:3210 000 worth of euro usd
- 19:36this means you borrow the extra nine
- 19:38thousand dollars
- 19:40to trade and if you want to measure the
- 19:43leverage this is a leverage of one to
- 19:44ten why is this a one to ten you take
- 19:46the ten thousand dollars
- 19:47that is worth of the euro usd divided by
- 19:50the initial capital that you have in
- 19:51your account
- 19:52and you get 10 so this is a leverage of
- 19:541 to 10.
- 19:56now the question is what if euro usd
- 19:58goes up how does leverage
- 19:59impact your trading so recall you have a
- 20:02thousand dollars
- 20:03account and you buy 10 dollars worth of
- 20:05euro usd
- 20:07your ten thousand dollars is now worth
- 20:09eleven thousand dollars
- 20:10why eleven thousand dollars very simple
- 20:12you just take ten thousand dollars
- 20:14and you multiply by one point one
- 20:17because you actually
- 20:18earn 10 because this currency pair went
- 20:21up 10
- 20:21so 10 000 minus or rather multiplied by
- 20:241.1
- 20:25is equal to 11 000 or if you look at it
- 20:27another way 10
- 20:28of 10 000 is one thousand one thousand
- 20:30plus ten thousand equals to eleven
- 20:31thousand that's another way to to do it
- 20:34next you return the nine thousand
- 20:35dollars that you owe what you're left
- 20:38with is the two thousand dollars
- 20:39and remember the two thousand dollars
- 20:41right what you had initially at the
- 20:42start was a thousand dollars so in other
- 20:44words your profit is
- 20:47one thousand dollars all right two
- 20:48thousand dollars minus your original
- 20:50capital that you started with you made a
- 20:51profit of
- 20:52a thousand dollars on this particular
- 20:54trade and i know man
- 20:55this looks easy man i'm gonna be the
- 20:57next market wizard millionaire trader
- 20:59well not so far as my young part padawan
- 21:01because what if
- 21:03euro usd goes down 10 and how would this
- 21:05change
- 21:06so now recall you have a thousand
- 21:07dollars account and you buy ten thousand
- 21:09dollars worth of euro usd your ten
- 21:12thousand dollars is now worth nine
- 21:13thousand
- 21:13why is that because ten thousand okay if
- 21:16you lose ten percent of your capital
- 21:18now it's worth nine thousand dollars you
- 21:21return the nine thousand dollars that
- 21:22you owe
- 21:23you're left with zero dollars in fact i
- 21:25have no idea why there's four zeros here
- 21:26but
- 21:27zero is zero is zero okay and your
- 21:29original capital is a thousand dollars
- 21:31so this means your loss
- 21:33is a thousand dollars because you
- 21:34started off with a thousand dollars and
- 21:35you're left with
- 21:36zero zero zero zero so in other words
- 21:38you lost a thousand dollars
- 21:40so the key thing to point out is that
- 21:43leverage can amplify your gains
- 21:45and losses so if you think about this if
- 21:47without leverage
- 21:48this right would have been a 10 loss to
- 21:50you but because you used leverage
- 21:52you lost 100 instead of 10 so likewise
- 21:55when you had a gain earlier
- 21:58when you had a profit when the market
- 21:59went up ten percent if you didn't use
- 22:01leverage that would be
- 22:02a profit of ten percent for you but
- 22:04because you use a one to ten leverage
- 22:05it is amplified ten times you made a
- 22:07profit of a hundred
- 22:08percent so in this case it's a thousand
- 22:11dollars but in percentage term is 100
- 22:13okay so this is uh pretty much the key
- 22:15thing that i want to point across is
- 22:16that leverage
- 22:17it can amplify your gains and losses and
- 22:19for this case in this example you lost
- 22:21100 of your capital because uh you use a
- 22:241 to 10 leverage
- 22:25if you didn't use leverage at all there
- 22:26would be a 10 loss of your capital
- 22:29moving on right i want to talk about
- 22:31forex lot sizes so
- 22:32what are the different types of forex
- 22:34slot size out there number one
- 22:36we have a standard lot which is
- 22:38equivalent to a hundred thousand
- 22:40units so when you key in a hundred
- 22:41thousand units to buy in your forex
- 22:43broker you are
- 22:44essentially buying one standard lot then
- 22:47below that we have a mini lot which is
- 22:4910 000 units followed by micro lot which
- 22:53is a thousand
- 22:54units and smaller than micro lot we even
- 22:57have
- 22:57nano lot which is a hundred units
- 23:01so one thing to point out is that you
- 23:02can trade fractional lot sizes it
- 23:04doesn't mean that you only can trade one
- 23:05standard lot one mini lot
- 23:06or five standard lots you can you know
- 23:08break it up and trade something like 1.3
- 23:10standard lot you can trade 2.5 mini lots
- 23:133.7 mini lots 2.6 standard lot
- 23:171.5 micro lots it is all possible right
- 23:20when trading the forex market so in a
- 23:22way you can you know better manage your
- 23:24risk as i will explain
- 23:25how that will work in the later section
- 23:28so let's do a quick recap number one
- 23:31leverage is the ability right to trade a
- 23:32larger amount of money
- 23:33relative to your account size and yes
- 23:36you have seen right leverage is a double
- 23:37double h
- 23:38so it can amplify your gains or losses
- 23:40and finally we talk about you know the
- 23:42different types of load sizes in the
- 23:43forex market standard lot
- 23:45micro lot mini lot and nano lots
- 23:48okay so in this section you will learn
- 23:50what is a pip value
- 23:52and how to calculate a pip value so what
- 23:55is a pip value so a pip value in essence
- 23:57is trying to answer the question how
- 23:58much is
- 23:58one pip worth and to find that out right
- 24:01you need to answer two questions
- 24:03number one the lot size that you're
- 24:04trading and number two the code currency
- 24:07of the currency pair so let me explain
- 24:09number one the lot size
- 24:10so as you know right in the forex market
- 24:13there are different lot sizes you know
- 24:14standard lot mini lot etc so one
- 24:16standard lot right is actually
- 24:18equivalent to a hundred thousand units
- 24:20and it's worth
- 24:21ten dollars per pip
- 24:24one mini lot is ten thousand units and
- 24:26it's worth a dollar a pip
- 24:28and one micro lot is a one thousand
- 24:30units which is 10 cent per pip or 0.1
- 24:32dollars
- 24:33a pip and one thing to point out is
- 24:3610 mini lots is actually equivalent to
- 24:38one
- 24:39standard lot because if you look at this
- 24:4010 000 units you multiply by 10 is 100
- 24:42000 units so in other words 10 mini lot
- 24:44is one standard lot so needless to say
- 24:4610 micro lots
- 24:48is equals to one mini lot right a
- 24:49thousand units you multiply by 10
- 24:51gives you 10 000 units so 10 micro lots
- 24:5510 micro lots is one mini lot as well
- 24:57okay so so bear this in mind
- 25:00and this holds true only if your code
- 25:02currency is
- 25:03in us dollar like euro dollar aussie
- 25:05dollar new zealand dollar etc
- 25:08so clearly right what if your code
- 25:10currency is not in u.s dollar so this is
- 25:12why we need to look at the second thing
- 25:14which is your
- 25:15code currency so let's say for example
- 25:17if the code currency is in euro
- 25:19then one standard lot clearly is 10 euro
- 25:22a bit one mini lot is one euro a pip
- 25:26and one micro lot is 0.1 euro per bit
- 25:29makes sense all right so far so good so
- 25:31let's have a look at an example
- 25:33you trade euro usd and buy 2.3 standard
- 25:36lots
- 25:37how much is the value per pip so if you
- 25:39just you know look at this
- 25:41you know that 2.3 standard lot
- 25:44is equals to two standard lot and three
- 25:47mini log that's one way to look at it or
- 25:49you can look at it as
- 25:5023 mini lot that is the same thing so
- 25:53depending how you want to look at this
- 25:54let's say let's treat it as 23 mini lot
- 25:57we know one mini lot is worth one dollar
- 26:00per bit okay so clearly 23 mini lot
- 26:03means it's 23 per pip
- 26:06and there you have it moving on next
- 26:09example
- 26:10let's say you trade the pound against
- 26:12the aussie dollar and by 5.5
- 26:14mini lots how much is the value per pip
- 26:16so again just remember the two things i
- 26:18shared with you number one
- 26:20what is the lot size trader 5.5 mini
- 26:22lots okay great next thing what is the
- 26:24code currency
- 26:25aussie dollar great you know one mini
- 26:27lot is worth one dollar
- 26:295.5 mini lots means it's 5.5 dollars
- 26:34so what is the currency the code
- 26:36currency this is aussie dollar so it's
- 26:375.5
- 26:38aussie dollar per pay
- 26:42okay great so that should be the answer
- 26:44so if you look at the answer
- 26:46it's 5.5 how do i know this because i
- 26:49did these slides and
- 26:50and uh clearly i don't know what's the
- 26:51answer so yeah there you have it that's
- 26:53the answer
- 26:54so all this actually would be useful to
- 26:56you if right let's say your let's say
- 26:58right now
- 26:58your account currency is in australian
- 27:01dollar and yeah 5.5
- 27:02aussie dollar per that would make sense
- 27:04but of course as you know
- 27:05there is no guarantee that the code
- 27:07currency will be the same currency as
- 27:09your account funding maybe you could
- 27:10find it in us dollar
- 27:11you could find it in singapore dollars
- 27:13it could be different so how do you
- 27:14actually
- 27:15translate this value into your own
- 27:17account currency
- 27:18if your own account currency is
- 27:20different from the code currency
- 27:21so this is where we can take things a
- 27:23step further and to find out the pip
- 27:25value in your accounts
- 27:26currency if the currency is different
- 27:28from the code currency
- 27:30so again you need a few things number
- 27:31one the lot size number two is the code
- 27:33currency and number three is the
- 27:34exchange rate between the code currency
- 27:36and your
- 27:37accounts currency so let me give you an
- 27:39example because example is your pay
- 27:41number one let's say you buy one
- 27:43standard lot of euro usd
- 27:46your account currency is in singapore
- 27:48dollars
- 27:49the exchange rate between the usd and
- 27:51sgd is 1.3
- 27:53how much is the value per pip so let's
- 27:54again right do this a simple
- 27:56exercise you know one standard lot is
- 27:58100 000 units reynolds say one
- 28:00standalone is worth 10
- 28:01per bit okay 10 per bit
- 28:05then you realize that your
- 28:08account currency is different from the
- 28:12code currency so what now so what you
- 28:14need to do is to
- 28:16to convert right usd into sgd as you
- 28:18know right now
- 28:19one usd is worth 1.3 sgd so this means
- 28:23one us dollar is worth one dollar 30
- 28:26cents singapore dollar so if you want to
- 28:27convert
- 28:28this 10 us dollars into singapore
- 28:29dollars i just take this multiplied by
- 28:311.3
- 28:33and i have a figure of 13 singapore
- 28:35dollars
- 28:36sgd okay and that's the answer right the
- 28:39value profit will be 13
- 28:40singapore dollars per bit and there you
- 28:43have it right in case you want to know
- 28:44the
- 28:45kind of like the math breakdown is 10
- 28:47usd per bit multiplied by 1.3 because
- 28:49it's the exchange rate between us and
- 28:51singapore dollars
- 28:52and you get 13 singapore dollars per pip
- 28:55another example shall we to really
- 28:56hammer home this concept
- 28:58you buy two standard lots of pound
- 29:01against the new zealand dollar
- 29:03your account currency is in canadian
- 29:05dollars the exchange rate for new
- 29:07zealand canadian is 1.5
- 29:09how much is the value per pick so i'm
- 29:11going to give you
- 29:12five seconds to do this i'm just kidding
- 29:14five seconds too fast i'm gonna do this
- 29:15together with you
- 29:16and let's find this out but you know
- 29:18kind of like you know pause this video
- 29:19and do it on your own if you wish to
- 29:21if not i'm gonna walk you through how to
- 29:23do this step by step so again first
- 29:24thing first
- 29:25is the number of lots we are trading two
- 29:27standard lots you know that's equals to
- 29:2920 new zealand dollar per pip
- 29:34okay if you do not know why it's 20 go
- 29:36and look back at the earlier slide so it
- 29:38makes sense
- 29:39your account currency is in canadian
- 29:40dollar exchange rate between new zealand
- 29:42and canadian
- 29:43canadian dollar is 1.5 so what i need to
- 29:45do is for to find out
- 29:47how much is 20 new zealand dollar worth
- 29:49in canadian dollars how much is that
- 29:51very simple just multiplied by the
- 29:53exchange rate this prevailing exchange
- 29:54rate
- 29:55of course this is not a real number i
- 29:56just came up with this if you just look
- 29:57at the normal forex website you will
- 29:58have
- 29:59you can find out what's the prevailing
- 30:00exchange rate so 20 i multiply by 1.5 it
- 30:03will
- 30:04give me right how much 20 or rather 20
- 30:06new zealand dollars
- 30:08is worth in canadian dollars an answer
- 30:10is 30. 30 canadian dollars
- 30:13per pip okay so let's have a
- 30:17look tada okay so so yeah so with that
- 30:21said right
- 30:22let's do a quick recap number one your
- 30:24pip value depends on a few things
- 30:26the lot size the code currency and
- 30:29finally right the exchange rate between
- 30:30the code currency and your account
- 30:32currency if they are different if they
- 30:33are the same then you just need the
- 30:34first two things
- 30:35and you can find out what is the pip
- 30:37value
- 30:41so in this section you will learn number
- 30:44one what is risk management and why
- 30:46it matters number two what is position
- 30:49sizing and finally how to calculate your
- 30:51position size such that you never blow
- 30:54up
- 30:54blow up another trading account so this
- 30:56topic that i'm about to share with you
- 30:58is very important right so pay close
- 31:00attention
- 31:01so first and foremost what is risk
- 31:03management so
- 31:04if you ask me risk management is the
- 31:05ability as a trader to encounter a
- 31:08series of losses right and not
- 31:10blow up your trading account so for
- 31:11example even if you sustain a series of
- 31:1310 losses in a row
- 31:15your trading account should be pretty
- 31:17much still intact yes you have a bit
- 31:19of a losses along the way but that
- 31:20account right should still have
- 31:22still have most of the money intact so
- 31:24that's what risk management is all about
- 31:27so it's important because you can have a
- 31:29winning trading strategy but without
- 31:32proper risk management right you will
- 31:33still end up
- 31:34a losing trader i can guarantee it so
- 31:36let me share with you an example so you
- 31:38know what i mean
- 31:39so let's say for example there are two
- 31:40traders john and sally and they both
- 31:42have
- 31:43a 1 000 trading account to start with
- 31:46their trading strategy has a 50 winning
- 31:49rate so this means they win half the
- 31:50time and a one to two
- 31:52risk reward ratio so let me explain what
- 31:54risk reward ratio is
- 31:56so let's say for example you risk
- 31:59a hundred dollars on a trade okay that's
- 32:02the amount of money that you're willing
- 32:03to lose on a particular trade
- 32:05and the outcome for you is favorable
- 32:07instead of losing hundred dollars right
- 32:08the market went in your favor and you
- 32:10made a profit of 200
- 32:12so in other words this 200 right is two
- 32:14times the amount that you had intended
- 32:17to risk initially so this is what we
- 32:18call
- 32:19a one to two risk reward ratio your
- 32:21reward right it's two times
- 32:22your initial risk so another example
- 32:24let's say you have a
- 32:26500 risk on the trade and instead of you
- 32:29know
- 32:30losing the 500 market went in your favor
- 32:32and you
- 32:33made five thousand dollars in state what
- 32:35is the risk to reward ratio on this
- 32:37trade
- 32:37this is a risk to reward ratio of a one
- 32:39to ten you were risking at five hundred
- 32:41dollars and you made five thousand
- 32:42dollars
- 32:43at the end of it so this is a risk
- 32:45reward ratio of one to ten
- 32:48next john risks 250 per trade and sally
- 32:52risk twenty dollars per trade
- 32:56let's say the outcome of the trades for
- 32:57both of them is in this
- 32:59sequence right l stands for losing right
- 33:01lose lose lose
- 33:02lose then win win win win so now what
- 33:06is the outcome for both traders let's
- 33:08look at john you can see for john
- 33:10he loses 250 because the first trade is
- 33:13a loser
- 33:14loses another 250 another 250 another
- 33:16250 and then he blew up
- 33:18so before he could even smell the winner
- 33:20he lost his entire trading account
- 33:23on the other hand let's have a look at
- 33:24sally
- 33:26as you can see sally goes through the
- 33:27same losing streak right she loses 20
- 33:29dollars
- 33:30lose 20 lose 20 lose 20 and then she
- 33:32made 40
- 33:3340 40 and 40 because this was a string
- 33:36of winners at the end
- 33:37but why forty dollars again because we
- 33:39have a one to two risk reward ratio
- 33:41right
- 33:41for their trading strategy so if sally
- 33:44risk twenty dollars on each trade and if
- 33:46the market
- 33:46or rather if she achieves a one to two
- 33:48risk reward ratio this means a profit
- 33:50is two times the initial risk so two
- 33:52times of 20 is forty dollars so this is
- 33:54how
- 33:54we get forty dollars and at the end of
- 33:56it sally made
- 33:58a total return of eighty dollars so
- 33:59that's about eight percent gain
- 34:01on her account whereas you look at john
- 34:04he actually lost 100 of his account so
- 34:07hopefully right
- 34:08using this simple example you can see
- 34:10the importance of risk management
- 34:12right in this case both traders they are
- 34:13trading with a winning strategy
- 34:15but because of risk management one of
- 34:18them loses his entire account and the
- 34:19other one
- 34:20is actually you know making some money
- 34:22right from trading the markets so this
- 34:23is important
- 34:24so now the question you might be
- 34:25thinking okay right now i get it right
- 34:27risk management is important but how do
- 34:29i
- 34:29manage my risk you know how do i make
- 34:31sure that every time i put on a trade
- 34:33right i don't lose everything and more
- 34:34so this is where the next topic comes
- 34:36into play
- 34:38position sizing so what is position
- 34:40sizing so position sizing is
- 34:42simply right trading the right number of
- 34:43units right such that
- 34:45even if a trade ends up being a loser
- 34:48it's only a fraction of your trading
- 34:49account
- 34:50okay let me repeat once again right
- 34:52position sizing is
- 34:54knowing right how many units you should
- 34:56trade
- 34:57such that if that trade goes against you
- 34:59you only lose a fraction of your trading
- 35:01account and as a general guideline i
- 35:03usually advocate right
- 35:04not to lose more than one percent of
- 35:06your trading account on each trade so
- 35:08for example let's say if your account is
- 35:09like a
- 35:10ten thousand dollars trading account one
- 35:12percent of ten thousand is a hundred
- 35:13dollars so this means every trade you
- 35:15put on
- 35:15you should not lose more than 100 on
- 35:18each trade
- 35:19and now brings us to the question right
- 35:21how do we you know
- 35:22calculate that in such a manner where
- 35:24you know you know you will lose more
- 35:25than 100
- 35:26on each trade so to do that you need to
- 35:28know a few things okay so
- 35:30this is kind of like the secret formula
- 35:32right so position size is equals to the
- 35:34amount
- 35:34to risk right the amount of uh dollar
- 35:37that you're willing to risk
- 35:38divided by a stop loss multiplied by
- 35:40value per pip so amount to risk is
- 35:41usually i
- 35:42recommend one percent risk on each trade
- 35:44some some traders will go with two or
- 35:45three percent
- 35:46uh that's pretty much you know up to an
- 35:48individual trader and after which you
- 35:49divide it by your stop-loss multiplied
- 35:51by your value per bit
- 35:52so i'm going to share with you a very
- 35:53simple uh way to do this okay you don't
- 35:57have to so i'll just
- 35:58go with you a manual way and then after
- 36:00which i show you how to do with a faster
- 36:01way so let's say you're risking 100
- 36:04you're willing to raise 100 and let's
- 36:05say you know your stop loss is let's say
- 36:07100 pips okay so you put 100
- 36:09and your value per pip right let's say
- 36:10you're trading euro usd is
- 36:12uh 10 per bit for a standard lot so you
- 36:14put your 10
- 36:15okay you plug in the numbers you get 100
- 36:18divide by a thousand
- 36:20and if you do it you end up with 0.1
- 36:23standard lot which is equivalent to one
- 36:26mini lot
- 36:27so the trouble with this is that your
- 36:30value per bit
- 36:30is constantly changing it really depends
- 36:32on the code currency it depends on the
- 36:34account funding that
- 36:36you have funded with with your account
- 36:37so you can see that you know things can
- 36:39get really cumbersome right so
- 36:40one thing i suggest is to use a position
- 36:43sizing calculator to make your life
- 36:44really easy and i'm going to show you
- 36:45how to do this step by step
- 36:48so you can google you know position
- 36:49sizing calculator and this is one that
- 36:50i've
- 36:51found you can you know use it it's free
- 36:53so let's say you're trading again euro
- 36:54usd
- 36:55your account currency let's say it's in
- 36:56us dollar let's say your account size is
- 36:58like what i said earlier ten thousand
- 36:59dollars
- 37:00and your risk on each trade let's say
- 37:02it's one percent you can put your one
- 37:03percent
- 37:04in this case you ever switch to you know
- 37:05dollar terms let's say you want to risk
- 37:07a hundred dollars
- 37:08which is also one percent that is fine
- 37:09as well but in this case let's go with
- 37:11the percentage
- 37:12let's say one percent let's say your
- 37:13stop loss in pips right is 100 pips put
- 37:15in hundred
- 37:16contract size let's leave it at hundred
- 37:18thousand which is equal to one standard
- 37:20lot
- 37:20you click calculate and there you have
- 37:22it right tells you the lots to trade is
- 37:230.1 which is equals to
- 37:250.1 standard lot or one mini lot can you
- 37:28see how fast this is
- 37:29let's do another example let's say this
- 37:30time around you're not trading euro usd
- 37:32you're trading pound against the aussie
- 37:34let's say your account currency is in
- 37:36new zealand dollars okay and let's say
- 37:38this time you're a baller your account
- 37:39size is hundred thousand dollars
- 37:41and you're a baller and you still risk
- 37:44one percent on this trade well done and
- 37:46let's say your stop-loss this time
- 37:48around is 350 pips
- 37:49contract size again hundred thousand you
- 37:51click calculate it will tell you
- 37:52how many units to trade right such that
- 37:55if even if the trade hits your
- 37:57stop loss you will only lose one percent
- 37:59of your account so you click calculate
- 38:01and in this case it tells you that you
- 38:02can trade 0.263
- 38:04standard lot which is about 26 uh sorry
- 38:07uh
- 38:082.63 mini lots make sense so again this
- 38:11is very useful so
- 38:12again let's you know interpret this
- 38:14together so this means right
- 38:16for this particular pound or z trade and
- 38:18let's say your account is in new zealand
- 38:19dollars
- 38:19and you're risking one percent of this
- 38:21hundred thousand dollars this means
- 38:22right if
- 38:23the trade goes against you right with a
- 38:25stop loss of 350 pips right
- 38:27you will lose right a thousand dollars
- 38:30thousand new zealand dollars right in
- 38:32your trading account which is the one
- 38:33percent that we have defined
- 38:34over here right and this is the position
- 38:36size that you should be trading with
- 38:372.6 mini lots okay it makes sense
- 38:42so this is how you use a position sizing
- 38:44calculator so okay let's do one more
- 38:45example so you really understand this
- 38:47big time
- 38:48so let's say this timer we do something
- 38:49simple like aussie dollar you want to
- 38:50trade the aussie against the us dollar
- 38:52let's say your account currency is in
- 38:55aussie how about that
- 38:56same uh just put aussie dollar let's say
- 38:58your account size this time around is
- 39:00five thousand dollars
- 39:01and let's say you are risking a little
- 39:03bit more two percent risk on each trade
- 39:04which is still about
- 39:06uh hundred dollars so your stop loss
- 39:08this time around let's say it's only 50
- 39:09pips
- 39:10okay contract size again hundred
- 39:11thousand units so now the question is
- 39:13how many
- 39:14units right should you be trading such
- 39:16that if this trade goes against you and
- 39:18hit your 50 pip loss
- 39:19the loss of on this trade is only two
- 39:21percent of your account two percent of
- 39:22this five
- 39:22thousand dollars five thousand aussie
- 39:25dollars
- 39:26click calculate and it tells you that
- 39:27you should only be trading 1.53
- 39:30mini lots make sense okay so don't worry
- 39:32i'll share with you uh
- 39:33uh we'll talk more about you know
- 39:34position sizing risk management with
- 39:36chart examples later on but for now i
- 39:38just want you to
- 39:38to know how to use this very useful
- 39:40calculator just click google there are
- 39:42many free available ones and just pick
- 39:44whichever that you know you're
- 39:45comfortable with so let's do a quick
- 39:48recap number one position sizing is the
- 39:50tool to manage your risk
- 39:52and use a position a position sizing
- 39:55calculator right to make your life
- 39:56easier i don't expect you to
- 39:58manually you know calculate it most
- 39:59brokers usually have an inbuilt
- 40:01calculator function if it doesn't have
- 40:02right then just you know you go to any
- 40:04of the free website
- 40:05via google and you can use the
- 40:07calculator to help you calculate the
- 40:08number of units to trade such that you
- 40:10know
- 40:11even if the trade is a losing trade
- 40:12right you only lose a fraction of your
- 40:14account
- 40:15now moving on let's talk about the
- 40:18different types
- 40:19of forex orders right so in this section
- 40:21it's all about you know learning the
- 40:22different types of forex orders and one
- 40:24thing to point out is that
- 40:25uh there are many more different types
- 40:27of orders that you can use especially
- 40:28when you're using professional trading
- 40:30platforms but the ones that i'm about to
- 40:32share with you right now is i would say
- 40:33the ones that you are likely to use
- 40:34right most of the time
- 40:36okay so let's get started first one
- 40:39market order second one is a limit order
- 40:41third one is a stock order and finally a
- 40:42stop loss
- 40:43order so let me explain each one of them
- 40:45step by step
- 40:46first one is a market order so let's say
- 40:48it's a buy market order order
- 40:50because it could also be a sell market
- 40:53or the concept is the same but in this
- 40:54case
- 40:55let's go with let's let's say a buy
- 40:56market order this is in essence right
- 40:58you're trying to you know
- 41:00buy at the current market price right
- 41:03now no matter what so this is like you
- 41:04know sending an
- 41:05order to your brokerage platform and say
- 41:06hey i want to enter euro usd
- 41:08right now no matter what now so your
- 41:11broker will fill you
- 41:12at a trade at the current prevailing
- 41:14price
- 41:15so the pros to it is that you know
- 41:18you're guaranteed to enter a trade there
- 41:20is no
- 41:20what if but or whatsoever you're
- 41:22guaranteed to enter a trade but the
- 41:23downside to this
- 41:24is you might get sleep page right during
- 41:27fast
- 41:27moving markets and you might be thinking
- 41:29right now what is slippage man
- 41:31so here's the thing right in the forex
- 41:32market yes it's liquid
- 41:34most of the time but when it when
- 41:36there's a big piece of news coming up
- 41:38like let's say you know
- 41:38nfp non-farm payrolls or fomc meetings
- 41:41right let's say euro usd is currently
- 41:42trading at one three
- 41:43zero zero zero right but during fast
- 41:46moving markets
- 41:47you if you hit market order right you
- 41:48could get slippage right where you
- 41:50thought hey
- 41:50i'm gonna buy a 1.3 but you end up you
- 41:52know buying actually at one three
- 41:53zero let's say two zero you had end up
- 41:56paying 20 pips more than expected so
- 41:58this is kind of like the downside to
- 41:59using market order because of this uh
- 42:01slippages so instead of you know buying
- 42:02at one point three zero zero zero you
- 42:04end up buying at one point three zero
- 42:05two zero
- 42:06a slippage of 20 pips so in other words
- 42:08you're paying 20 pips more than
- 42:10you expected okay so this is a market
- 42:12order
- 42:13the other type of market order right is
- 42:15limit order
- 42:17so again let's talk about buy limit
- 42:18order sell limit order is just the
- 42:20opposite
- 42:20so for a buy limit order right it's an
- 42:22order an order to buy
- 42:24below the current market price so let me
- 42:27give you an example
- 42:28so let's say market is in a range
- 42:31between these highs and this lows it
- 42:33goes up comes down goes up and now it's
- 42:35in the middle and you
- 42:36think to yourself ah man price right now
- 42:39is in the middle right i want to buy
- 42:40i want to be a cheapskate i want to buy
- 42:41the best price and it seems like the
- 42:43best price
- 42:44is near this lows over here and let's
- 42:46say this is zero usd this lows is around
- 42:48one point
- 42:50five okay so what you can do is you can
- 42:52place a buy limit order
- 42:54at one point five zero zero zero so such
- 42:57that if the market
- 42:58comes down into this level you will
- 43:01get filled on that buy trade but of
- 43:04course if the market doesn't come down
- 43:05you won't get fuel so that is kind of
- 43:07like the pros and cons
- 43:09to using a buy limit order so let me
- 43:10give you a chart example you can so you
- 43:13can see what i mean
- 43:14so this is uh for example pound canadian
- 43:17let's say you're looking at this chart
- 43:18maybe on the eight hour time frame
- 43:20okay and you zoom out a little bit and
- 43:22you realize oh this
- 43:23this market right this seems like a good
- 43:25place to buy this is an area of support
- 43:28don't worry if you're not familiar with
- 43:29this technical term i'll explain more in
- 43:31the later section but let's say hey
- 43:32you want to buy around 172 right this
- 43:34looks like a good place to buy because
- 43:36the market has bounced once twice
- 43:38you know and three times over here this
- 43:39looks like a good place to buy but the
- 43:41current market price is at this point
- 43:42over here which is almost
- 43:44near 1735 so what can you do you can
- 43:47place a buy limit order
- 43:48over here a buy limit at 1.72
- 43:52so this means only if the market comes
- 43:54down low
- 43:55enough into this 1.72 level
- 43:58only then will you get filled if not you
- 44:00won't be in this trade so this is what a
- 44:02buy
- 44:03limit order means so of course all right
- 44:06the good thing about it is that you get
- 44:07to buy at the price you want
- 44:09the downside is you might not get filled
- 44:11on the trade so maybe you're waiting for
- 44:12that level but the market doesn't come
- 44:14to the level and instead
- 44:15you know if it continues you know going
- 44:17up higher then clearly right you
- 44:19wouldn't you know be
- 44:20in the trade so vice versa right for a
- 44:22sell limit order the
- 44:24concept is just the opposite so moving
- 44:26on the third type of
- 44:27order is a stop order so again let's
- 44:29talk about buy stock order so this
- 44:31in essence right is to in order to buy
- 44:34only if the market moves above
- 44:36a specific price level so you might be
- 44:37thinking what does that mean
- 44:39so again i can give you an example let's
- 44:41say
- 44:42market is uh let's say it's trending
- 44:44higher it goes up pulls back goes up
- 44:46pulls back and it's starting to go up
- 44:48and you tell yourself
- 44:50i'm looking at this chart and it would
- 44:51make sense right that
- 44:53i want to buy only if the price can
- 44:55breaks above this highs because if you
- 44:57can breaks above this highs
- 44:58then there's a good chance that this
- 44:59market could continue higher so you want
- 45:01to tell yourself i will only
- 45:02buy if the price can breaks above this
- 45:05high if it doesn't break above this high
- 45:07i will not you know enter a trade so
- 45:09what you can do is to use a
- 45:11buy stop order so an example is this one
- 45:14here
- 45:16if you look at this chart dollar against
- 45:17the chinese yuan this is the eight hour
- 45:18time frame so again you can look at this
- 45:20and say hmm
- 45:21at this point right right now i have no
- 45:22idea when the price might go up and come
- 45:24back down
- 45:25you know and again i don't want to enter
- 45:26right now because you know this could
- 45:28happen
- 45:28and then you're thinking to yourself i
- 45:30feel more confident if the price
- 45:32can break above this highs only then i
- 45:34would be willing to buy
- 45:36so if that's your thought process what
- 45:37you can do is you can use a buy stop
- 45:39order you can place a buy stop order at
- 45:41this price
- 45:41around six dollars and 59 cents around
- 45:45this price point
- 45:46which is somewhere about here so you can
- 45:47place a buy stock order here
- 45:49let's call it bs buy stop not not not bs
- 45:52that you're familiar with but
- 45:53buy stop order at 6.59 so such that if
- 45:56the price goes up and breaks above
- 45:586.59 this is an order that would
- 46:01automatically you know get you
- 46:03into this trade right because it broke
- 46:05it broke about broke above this key
- 46:06level
- 46:07659 that you have you know uh put into
- 46:09your broker platform
- 46:11so it's in order to buy if the price
- 46:13moves above a specific price level
- 46:16so this is useful right with your
- 46:17trading breakouts this order is
- 46:19you know absolutely useful because in
- 46:21breakout trading the price will break
- 46:22out
- 46:22of a specific level and then you'll
- 46:24continue with the momentum right to hit
- 46:26higher so if you have a buy stop order
- 46:27you
- 46:28are you know kind of like assured to
- 46:29enter right if the price could break out
- 46:31of a level
- 46:32the downside to this is that it might be
- 46:34a false breakout so again what could
- 46:35happen is that let's say
- 46:37pound the dollar against the chinese yen
- 46:39so this is the highest
- 46:41price could go up break out and then
- 46:43boom reverse right this is possible as
- 46:45well
- 46:45anything can happen in the market so
- 46:47this is a one possibility that could
- 46:49happen right if you're
- 46:50you know using buy stock order to enter
- 46:52a trade
- 46:53so the next type of order right will be
- 46:56uh
- 46:57stop loss order so the first three
- 46:58orders that i shared with you right
- 46:59those
- 47:00are orders right to get you into a trade
- 47:02so for stop loss
- 47:03order is the opposite because this is an
- 47:05order to get you
- 47:06out of a trade so so let's say we are
- 47:09going with a long entry
- 47:11okay so a stop loss order is in order to
- 47:13sell your position if the price
- 47:15exceeds a specific level so for example
- 47:17let's say
- 47:19you market this in a range up down up
- 47:22down
- 47:23they start to go up okay and this is the
- 47:25area of support and you start to buy
- 47:26over here
- 47:27okay and what happens is that you know
- 47:29as you know in trading
- 47:30nothing is certain there's a possibility
- 47:32that this market could continue to
- 47:33reverse down lower
- 47:35and lower and if you don't bail out of
- 47:37your trade in time right you could you
- 47:38know lose a lot of money so this is
- 47:39where you can use a stop-loss
- 47:41order and say you know hey you can tell
- 47:43your broker hey you know what if the
- 47:44market
- 47:45you know breaks below this level in rate
- 47:47okay if the market
- 47:48reaches this level in rate i want to get
- 47:50out of that trade so to tell that you
- 47:52will tell your broker to set a stop loss
- 47:54order at this particular price let's say
- 47:55this price is at
- 47:56two dollars right and you will exit your
- 47:59trade so this is what we mean by a stop
- 48:01loss order is in order to sell your
- 48:02position if the market moves against you
- 48:05and reaches a specific price level so
- 48:08a chart example would help so let's say
- 48:11you look at dollar against
- 48:12usd against the singapore dollars so you
- 48:15can look at this right market right now
- 48:17looks a little bit bullish right this
- 48:19area of support
- 48:20and it's starting to hit higher but of
- 48:21course as you know market could possibly
- 48:23you know reverse down
- 48:24and break lower so to protect your
- 48:26downside what you can do is to set
- 48:28a stop-loss order okay so this is the
- 48:31area of support and what i would say a
- 48:33proper stop-loss order could possibly be
- 48:35at one thirty three
- 48:37six level around here so this means i
- 48:39can tell that broker and say
- 48:40hey you know i i am long
- 48:44usd against the singapore dollars but i
- 48:46know the trade could go against me so
- 48:48i'm going to set a stop loss order at
- 48:491.336
- 48:51so if the market let's say reverse down
- 48:53lower and hit my stop loss level which
- 48:55is
- 48:55this one over here the stop loss level i
- 48:58will want to
- 48:59sell the position that i have to protect
- 49:01my downside so i can leave to fight
- 49:03another day so this is how
- 49:04a stop-loss order works is to protect
- 49:07your downside
- 49:09okay and of course right the downside to
- 49:11using a stop-loss order is that you
- 49:13might get stopped out of your trade
- 49:14prematurely so what could happen also
- 49:16is that okay let's say you set your stop
- 49:20loss
- 49:20at this level here there's no
- 49:23there is you know nothing to stop the
- 49:24market from coming down lower
- 49:26when you hit your stop loss and then
- 49:28reverse up higher that could also happen
- 49:30so this is kind of like
- 49:31the downside downside to using a
- 49:32stop-loss order but as a forex trader
- 49:35as a trader who uses leverage in your
- 49:36trading i still suggest you use a
- 49:38stop-loss order
- 49:39sometimes yes this could happen it sucks
- 49:41but in the grand scheme of things right
- 49:42you
- 49:43will likely right have a longevity in
- 49:45your trading career because your losses
- 49:47right or
- 49:47are always kept small and that's
- 49:49achieved by using proper risk management
- 49:51and position sizing and again
- 49:52those are things that you have learned
- 49:53earlier and we'll revisit them
- 49:55later with chart examples but for now i
- 49:57just want you to be familiar with a
- 49:59stop-loss order
- 50:01okay and the opposite for stop-loss or
- 50:03the right is can be used for both the
- 50:05long trade
- 50:05and a short trade the concept is the
- 50:07same just you know the inverse so let's
- 50:09say for example you are
- 50:10in a short trade let's say market comes
- 50:12up into this area of resistance and you
- 50:15sell
- 50:15right you can put your stop-loss order
- 50:17above this high so if the market breaks
- 50:19out higher
- 50:19you would exit this trade if the market
- 50:21hits your stop-loss at this particular
- 50:23price point so it's just the inverse
- 50:24right of a long entry
- 50:26[Music]
- 50:27so let's do a quick recap right of the
- 50:29four market orders you have just learned
- 50:30number one market order gets you into a
- 50:32trade immediately no matter what
- 50:34a limit order gets you into a trade only
- 50:36if it comes to a specific
- 50:38price level that you have dictated a
- 50:40stop order gets you into
- 50:42a trade if the market exceeds a certain
- 50:44price level for example let's say buying
- 50:46breakout only if
- 50:46let's say breaks above let's say a
- 50:48hundred dollars will you be entering the
- 50:50breakout trade so that's
- 50:51what a stop order a buy stop order can
- 50:53do for you and finally a stop-loss order
- 50:56right would get you out of a trade if
- 50:57the market you know
- 50:58exit a certain price levels to protect
- 51:01your downside
- 51:03now moving on in this section you will
- 51:06learn
- 51:06the two prices in the financial markets
- 51:09not just the forex markets
- 51:10what is the spread and why it matters
- 51:13and how
- 51:13to reduce the spread okay so let's get
- 51:16started the two
- 51:17prices in the market so here's the thing
- 51:19right when you are trading the forex
- 51:20market the stock market
- 51:22or any of the financial markets there is
- 51:23always two prices
- 51:25so they are number one the bid the bid
- 51:28is the price which you can
- 51:30sell at and the ask this is the price
- 51:33which you can
- 51:34buy at so this concept is the same as
- 51:36you know going to a money changer
- 51:38whenever you let's say for example you
- 51:39want to you know buy and sell
- 51:41a certain currency let's say euro
- 51:42against the usd you are always being
- 51:44quoted two prices to beat
- 51:46and ask and it's the same concept over
- 51:48here so let me
- 51:51share with you you know and explain what
- 51:53this means so the bid right let's say
- 51:54for example if you look at a chart i'm
- 51:56going to bring up my charts
- 51:58over here you see this is the dollar
- 52:02the usd against the singapore dollar
- 52:04this over here
- 52:05is the bid and this is the ask so as of
- 52:08right now if i want to
- 52:10sell the us dollar against the singapore
- 52:12dollar
- 52:13i can sell it at 1.34101 and if i want
- 52:18to buy
- 52:19u.s dollar against the singapore dollar
- 52:21right now i will look at this blue box
- 52:22and i can buy it at one three four one
- 52:25one five
- 52:26make sense so there's always two prices
- 52:28right which is being quoted
- 52:30in the forex market the bid and the ask
- 52:34and depending you know what you're
- 52:35trying to do if you're trying to buy
- 52:36then of course you will
- 52:37pay attention and see what's the asking
- 52:40price
- 52:40if you're looking to sell if you're
- 52:42looking to short a currency pair
- 52:44you will pay attention to what is the
- 52:46bid price
- 52:48what is the spread well the spread very
- 52:50simply is this
- 52:51is the difference between the bid and
- 52:54the ask
- 52:56so let's say for example euro usd is
- 52:58trading at
- 52:59one three five zero zero this is the
- 53:03b and the ask is trading at one three
- 53:06five
- 53:06zero one this is the ask so the
- 53:09difference right
- 53:10between the bit and ask in this case is
- 53:12one pip
- 53:14so this is the spread on euro usd
- 53:18and now you might be wondering hey right
- 53:19now you know why does the spread matter
- 53:21as many what has it got to do with me
- 53:23well a lot right he has to do a lot with
- 53:25you
- 53:26and your own trading and here's why
- 53:29spread right if you look at it right you
- 53:30can look at it in the form of
- 53:32transaction cost in forex trading most
- 53:35of you probably don't pay commission to
- 53:36your broker
- 53:37so your transaction cost is in the form
- 53:39of a spread so let me explain how this
- 53:41works
- 53:42so the higher the spread the higher your
- 53:44transaction cost and likewise the lower
- 53:46the spread
- 53:46the lower your transaction costs and i'm
- 53:48going to give you an example
- 53:49so you can see what i mean so let's say
- 53:51you buy one standard lot of euro usd
- 53:54and the spread is three pips how much
- 53:57does a spread cost you in in dollar
- 53:59terms
- 54:00so you know as we have you know
- 54:02discussed earlier one standard lot is
- 54:04100 000
- 54:05units 100 000 units
- 54:08and the value per pip is 10 dollars
- 54:11so if your spread is three pips
- 54:14this means right the moment you put on a
- 54:16trade when you trade one standard lot of
- 54:19euro this should be usd it's not sure
- 54:20why it's i okay when you
- 54:22buy one a standalone of euro usd you are
- 54:24immediately down
- 54:2530 on this trade that is
- 54:28the cost of the spread in terms of us
- 54:31dollar to you
- 54:33so if you think about this right what if
- 54:36the spread
- 54:37now is one pip can you see how much of a
- 54:39difference this make
- 54:41if the spread now is one pip the cost to
- 54:43you is just ten
- 54:45dollars see see what i mean by
- 54:48having a wide spread and a tight spread
- 54:50the higher the spread
- 54:52the more expensive your transaction cost
- 54:53is going to be the lower the spread the
- 54:55cheaper your transaction cost is going
- 54:57to be
- 54:58so now the question is how can you
- 55:00reduce the cost
- 55:01of the spread so one thing to point out
- 55:03is that it's near impossible to you know
- 55:05tell your broker to give you
- 55:06a tight spread right because it's pretty
- 55:09much fixed and there's nothing you can
- 55:10do about it but what you can do on your
- 55:12end
- 55:12is just focus on major currency pairs so
- 55:16as mentioned earlier major currency
- 55:17pairs these are the most
- 55:18popular currency pairs that are actively
- 55:20traded in the world and if you look at
- 55:21their spread right they are
- 55:23usually right smaller tighter than the
- 55:25other currency pairs like the exotic or
- 55:27even the uh
- 55:28the uh cross currency pair so let me
- 55:31share this with you and you can see over
- 55:32here i'm going to pull up trading view
- 55:35if you look at our daily time frame and
- 55:37in case you guys are wondering right
- 55:38this platform is trading view it
- 55:39provides uh charting services in case if
- 55:41you need it
- 55:42so if you look at euro usd you can see
- 55:44what is the spread right now so for
- 55:46example
- 55:46the difference between the bit and us is
- 55:48actually shown over here in this middle
- 55:49the spread on euro usd right now is
- 55:510.2 pips if you look at pound dollar
- 55:54the spread now is about 0.3 it's moving
- 55:57you know up and down just pay attention
- 55:59to this
- 56:00portion here about 0.5 and if you look
- 56:02at aussie against the dollar it's about
- 56:040.23
- 56:050.2 right now but what if you look at
- 56:07other currency pairs maybe you look at
- 56:09you know something like the cross
- 56:10currency pair like
- 56:11pound new zealand the spread here is now
- 56:131.2
- 56:14if you look at something exotic like
- 56:16dollar against the turkish lira is 66.3
- 56:19pip so you can see right
- 56:20if you want to have you know lower
- 56:22transaction costs all right focus on
- 56:23major currency pairs the spreads are
- 56:25usually
- 56:26tighter usually lower and
- 56:29another thing that you can do is to
- 56:30trade the higher time frame so the cost
- 56:32of your spread is lower in terms of
- 56:34percentage so let me explain what this
- 56:36means
- 56:38so let's say you have one pip spread
- 56:41with a five pips stop loss if you think
- 56:43about it right your
- 56:45spread is 20 right of the size of your
- 56:48stop-loss so let's say if your stop-loss
- 56:50is five
- 56:50pips your spread is one pip right the
- 56:53spread as a function of your stop-loss
- 56:55eats up about 20 of it so this means
- 56:57right in essence your stop-loss is only
- 56:59four pips if the market moves four peeps
- 57:01against you you are going to get stopped
- 57:03out of your trade
- 57:04on the other hand if you have a one-pip
- 57:06spread but your stop-loss is
- 57:08100 pips and the reason why you can
- 57:10afford a hundred pip stop loss is
- 57:12because you're trading off the higher
- 57:13time frame
- 57:14you have a wider stop-loss right because
- 57:15you're trading on a higher time frame in
- 57:17this case the one pip spread is only one
- 57:19percent
- 57:20of the size of your stop-loss so in
- 57:22terms of cost it's only one percent
- 57:24of the size of your stop loss so you can
- 57:26see that in the way right your
- 57:28spread right you're paying or rather a
- 57:30percentage of your stop-loss is smaller
- 57:32when you have a wider stop-loss and to
- 57:34have a wider stop-loss is usually
- 57:36because you are trading off the higher
- 57:37timeframe and if you think about this if
- 57:39you trade on a five minutes chart on the
- 57:4015 minute chart
- 57:41the price action right the way the
- 57:43candle moves up and down right the range
- 57:45is usually
- 57:45smaller compared to trading off the
- 57:47daily time frame where the range is much
- 57:48larger so when you are trading off the
- 57:50higher time frame with a larger range it
- 57:52makes sense to have a wider stop-loss to
- 57:54accommodate right
- 57:55the largest swings on that time frame so
- 57:57this is why if you trade off the higher
- 57:58time frame
- 57:59your stop-loss is usually wider and if
- 58:01your stop-loss is
- 58:02wider you will realize that this spread
- 58:04right as a function of your stop-loss
- 58:06right in terms of
- 58:07percentage is usually lower compared to
- 58:09you know let's say you trade off the one
- 58:10minute or five minutes time frame
- 58:12the spread as a function of your
- 58:13stop-loss right is usually
- 58:15wider and you're gonna you know end up
- 58:16pay more in transaction costs
- 58:20so let's do a quick recap number one the
- 58:22spread is the difference between the
- 58:23beat and ask
- 58:24the bid is the price that you can sell
- 58:26it the ask is the price that you can
- 58:29buy at number two the lower the spread
- 58:31the lower
- 58:32your transaction cost and finally if you
- 58:34want to reduce the cost of the spread
- 58:36what you can do is to focus on the major
- 58:37currency pairs
- 58:38or trade off the higher time frames
- 58:41hey hey what's up my friend man i miss
- 58:44saying that because you know
- 58:45these videos actually they're all done
- 58:47separately and then stitch up together
- 58:48because
- 58:49if i were to say hey hey at the start of
- 58:51every section right you're gonna get
- 58:53irritated by me
- 58:54so anyway welcome back uh in this
- 58:56section you will learn
- 58:58the different types of forex traders
- 59:01and you know let me explain so there are
- 59:04different types of forex traders out
- 59:05there
- 59:05you can classify them as short-term
- 59:07traders medium-term traders and
- 59:09long-term traders so let's analyze you
- 59:10know
- 59:11uh what are the differences right
- 59:12between these type of traders number one
- 59:14short-term traders
- 59:16so for term traders right your time
- 59:18frame it's usually below the one hour
- 59:20time frame you will likely operate on
- 59:21the five minutes 15 minutes time frame
- 59:24your potential target in terms of pips
- 59:25right you're usually aiming anywhere
- 59:27between five
- 59:28to 50 pips and your holding time it's
- 59:30usually
- 59:31less than three days and one thing to to
- 59:33share is that whatever i'm sharing with
- 59:34you is just
- 59:35general guidelines it's not really cast
- 59:37in stone because short-term traders
- 59:38there are some
- 59:39really really short-term traders like
- 59:40scalpers who can be in a trade for just
- 59:42a few minutes
- 59:43and then you have some short-term
- 59:44traders traders which are slightly
- 59:46longer which could be under day traders
- 59:48where they could hold their trade for a
- 59:49day or two so what i'm sharing here is
- 59:50just
- 59:51uh a general guideline right to to take
- 59:53into consideration
- 59:55next one medium term traders so these
- 59:56are the type of traders who trade
- 59:58between the one
- 59:59and four hour time frame their potential
- 1:00:01target is usually anywhere between
- 1:00:0250 to 200 pips and they can hold their
- 1:00:05trades anywhere between three
- 1:00:07to 10 days and finally you have the
- 1:00:09long-term trader
- 1:00:10who trades right the four-hour time
- 1:00:12frame and above could be the four hour
- 1:00:14eight hour daily
- 1:00:15or even the weekly time frame then their
- 1:00:17potential target is usually you know
- 1:00:18more than 200 pips on each trade that
- 1:00:20they are aiming for
- 1:00:21and they can hold their trades you know
- 1:00:23for 10 days or more weeks or even
- 1:00:25months so a super quick recap this is a
- 1:00:29fast
- 1:00:29section right so you have short term
- 1:00:31traders medium term traders and long
- 1:00:33term traders and personally for me i'm a
- 1:00:35medium to long term trader so
- 1:00:37the key here right to share with you is
- 1:00:38to get you to understand the different
- 1:00:40type of
- 1:00:41trading time frames that you can be on
- 1:00:42and to find a type of trading style that
- 1:00:45suits you are you more towards
- 1:00:46short-term trading medium-term trading
- 1:00:48or long-term
- 1:00:48long-term trading and the only way to
- 1:00:50find out is to through trial and error
- 1:00:52right you know
- 1:00:52trading across the different time frames
- 1:00:54to see what works for you and also
- 1:00:55another thing is time commitment
- 1:00:57plays a part because if you have a
- 1:00:59full-time job it's unlikely that you can
- 1:01:00be a short-term trader because
- 1:01:01you just can't afford to be glued in
- 1:01:03front of the screen right all day to
- 1:01:04watch the markets while having a
- 1:01:05full-time job
- 1:01:06so probably i'll say medium term to
- 1:01:08long-term trading would suit you best
- 1:01:10but on the other hand let's say you are
- 1:01:11a someone who is very free
- 1:01:13uh you have a lot of time and you have
- 1:01:15you know interest in short-term
- 1:01:17day trading then hey you know maybe that
- 1:01:18is something for you but ultimately you
- 1:01:20have to explore experiment trial and
- 1:01:21error
- 1:01:22to see which type of trading approach
- 1:01:24would suit you
- 1:01:25best
- 1:01:30boom boom shakalaka hi my name is raynor
- 1:01:34pleased to meet you all right stop stop
- 1:01:36messing around so in this section right
- 1:01:37you will
- 1:01:38learn number one what is technical
- 1:01:39analysis what is market structure
- 1:01:41what is an area of value what is an
- 1:01:43entry trigger and more importantly
- 1:01:45how do you use technical analysis in
- 1:01:48your trading so let's get started
- 1:01:50so first thing first what is technical
- 1:01:52analysis so i define technical analysis
- 1:01:54as using past
- 1:01:55data to help you make your trading
- 1:01:58decisions and this past data could be
- 1:01:59things like volume indicators chart
- 1:02:01patterns candlestick patterns etc
- 1:02:03and of course right technical analysis
- 1:02:05is not the only way to treat the markets
- 1:02:07because you also have things like
- 1:02:08fundamental analysis
- 1:02:09sentiment analysis but me primarily i'm
- 1:02:12a technical trader so this is why in
- 1:02:13this video
- 1:02:14i would focus more on technical analysis
- 1:02:16and i want to share with you
- 1:02:17the three things right that you should
- 1:02:19focus on right when you kick-start this
- 1:02:21trading career of yours so technical
- 1:02:23analysis all right i would say there are
- 1:02:24three
- 1:02:24components which is very important to
- 1:02:26master the first component here
- 1:02:28is what i call market structure so
- 1:02:30here's the thing right when you look at
- 1:02:31the price chart
- 1:02:33the the first thing that comes to your
- 1:02:35mind should be no
- 1:02:36hmm should i be buying should i be
- 1:02:39selling or should i stay out of the
- 1:02:40market that's really the first
- 1:02:41thing that should come to your mind you
- 1:02:43shouldn't you know look at the chat and
- 1:02:43say oh let me buy now oh let me sell now
- 1:02:45no
- 1:02:45you should first ask yourself is this
- 1:02:47the type of price action is this
- 1:02:49chart telling me that i should be
- 1:02:50looking for buying opportunities
- 1:02:53or selling opportunities or maybe i
- 1:02:54should stay out completely of this
- 1:02:55market this is the first
- 1:02:56question right that you must answer and
- 1:02:59everything else right is secondary
- 1:03:00so the way to do that right is market
- 1:03:02structure helps you to answer this
- 1:03:03question it tells you what to do
- 1:03:05so market structure helps you to define
- 1:03:07the current market condition so you know
- 1:03:09whether to be buying selling or staying
- 1:03:12out of the market so let's dive
- 1:03:13a little bit deeper into market
- 1:03:14structure so market structure there are
- 1:03:16different types of market structure but
- 1:03:17for this video i will share with you
- 1:03:19three broad categories of market
- 1:03:20structure number one being
- 1:03:22an uptrend if you know a stock or sorry
- 1:03:25a market is in an uptrend not
- 1:03:26necessarily stock can be currency pairs
- 1:03:28etc you want to look for
- 1:03:30buying opportunities so let me explain
- 1:03:32to you what an uptrend is
- 1:03:33so in the grand scheme of things grand
- 1:03:35scheme of things an uptrend
- 1:03:37forms a series of higher highs and
- 1:03:40higher lows so it looks something like
- 1:03:41this
- 1:03:42market goes up but as you know market
- 1:03:43doesn't go up you want straight line he
- 1:03:44goes up he needs to take a breather it
- 1:03:46needs to pause and then he makes a
- 1:03:47pullback
- 1:03:48then once the pullback ends he will
- 1:03:50continue up higher breaking above this
- 1:03:52previous swing high this previous high
- 1:03:54if you want to call it and goes up again
- 1:03:56it doesn't go up in one straight line
- 1:03:57you need to take a breather
- 1:03:58pause once it pause once it rests
- 1:04:01finished and then it continues up higher
- 1:04:03breaking out above the previous swing
- 1:04:04high again and then the pattern rings
- 1:04:06repeat itself
- 1:04:07so when you look at this you will notice
- 1:04:08that an uptrend consists of
- 1:04:10a series of higher highs and higher low
- 1:04:12look at this high
- 1:04:13another higher high a cluster disc as
- 1:04:16one and another higher high
- 1:04:18if you look at the lows it's a higher
- 1:04:20low
- 1:04:21higher low high low okay had to do that
- 1:04:25so this is what i mean by an uptrend a
- 1:04:27series of higher highs and higher lows
- 1:04:29and if you see a market has this
- 1:04:32market structure this currency pair has
- 1:04:33this market structure then what you want
- 1:04:35to do
- 1:04:35well you want to look for buying
- 1:04:37opportunities because the market is in
- 1:04:39an uptrend the path of least resistance
- 1:04:41is higher so this is why you want to be
- 1:04:42looking for buying opportunities so if
- 1:04:44you see a chart that looks like this
- 1:04:46tell yourself promise me you will only
- 1:04:48look for buying opportunities right you
- 1:04:49don't want to look for
- 1:04:50selling opportunities not they can be
- 1:04:52done they are traders who specialize in
- 1:04:53counter trend trading but for you
- 1:04:55the beginner is much easier to be
- 1:04:57trading along the path of least
- 1:04:58resistance
- 1:04:59trading in the direction of the trend
- 1:05:01then against it okay so uptrend look for
- 1:05:03buying opportunities
- 1:05:05next one downtrend this is just a
- 1:05:07reverse you want to look for selling
- 1:05:08opportunities
- 1:05:09so downtrend right in essence is a
- 1:05:11series of lower highs
- 1:05:12and lower low so market hits down lower
- 1:05:14makes a pullback
- 1:05:16heads down lower again breaking below
- 1:05:18the previous low
- 1:05:19makes a pullback heads down lower
- 1:05:21breaking the previous low
- 1:05:22sometimes it could consolidate and then
- 1:05:24break down lower once again breaking
- 1:05:25below the
- 1:05:26previous swing low so if you look at it
- 1:05:30you will notice a series of lower high
- 1:05:32lower high
- 1:05:34lower high and lower low
- 1:05:37lower low lower low so if you see a
- 1:05:40market is in a downtrend
- 1:05:42then what should you be doing buying or
- 1:05:44selling
- 1:05:45well the path of least resistance is
- 1:05:47towards the downside so promise me when
- 1:05:49you see a chart that's in a downtrend
- 1:05:51you only
- 1:05:52think of selling opportunities okay
- 1:05:54that's the path of least
- 1:05:56resistance and finally you have what we
- 1:05:58call
- 1:05:59a range market and in this market
- 1:06:00condition you can know be both a buyer
- 1:06:02or seller so a range market looks
- 1:06:06something like this
- 1:06:07price is contained between the highs and
- 1:06:09the lows so
- 1:06:10when a market is in a range right you
- 1:06:11can look for both buying and selling
- 1:06:14opportunity and one thing to point out
- 1:06:15is again how do you know a market is in
- 1:06:17range is where
- 1:06:18you see the the highs of the range right
- 1:06:20the price just keep testing it right but
- 1:06:21unable to break out higher compared to
- 1:06:23an uptrend the price is able to break
- 1:06:24above the previous swing high it's able
- 1:06:26to break above the highs
- 1:06:27but in the range it's just you know
- 1:06:28getting rejected at the highs
- 1:06:30consistently over here same for the the
- 1:06:33lows of the range it just cannot break
- 1:06:34down lower
- 1:06:35it's just you know contain uh above the
- 1:06:38lows
- 1:06:38of the range so you can think like the
- 1:06:40price right it's being trapped like in a
- 1:06:41in a big giant box just can't
- 1:06:43get out of it so with that said let's
- 1:06:46have a look at a few
- 1:06:46chart examples so you know how this
- 1:06:48looks like because one thing to
- 1:06:50to know is the theory is one thing but
- 1:06:53when you
- 1:06:54look at the live charts the market it
- 1:06:56can look completely different out of
- 1:06:57whack
- 1:06:58like one is in in uh one is in heaven
- 1:07:01and one is on earth so it's going to be
- 1:07:02quite different so i want to
- 1:07:04walk through with you right when you
- 1:07:05look at the chart so if you look at this
- 1:07:07chart new zealand against the swiss
- 1:07:08franc this is the daily time frame as
- 1:07:10you can see over here
- 1:07:11on the daily chart what market structure
- 1:07:13is this
- 1:07:14well if you notice this this market in
- 1:07:16the grand scheme of things is forming a
- 1:07:17series of higher highs
- 1:07:19and higher lows higher high higher high
- 1:07:22higher high
- 1:07:23higher high higher high and higher low
- 1:07:26higher low higher low high low high yeah
- 1:07:29low there's another minor one over here
- 1:07:31okay so yeah so we can see that in the
- 1:07:33grand scheme of things
- 1:07:34in a big picture if you look from left
- 1:07:37left to right this market is
- 1:07:38heading higher it's in a uptrend and if
- 1:07:41a currency pair if a market is in an
- 1:07:43uptrend
- 1:07:43what should you be doing looking for
- 1:07:45buying opportunities or selling
- 1:07:47opportunities
- 1:07:48i'm sure you got the answer okay so
- 1:07:49let's have a look at
- 1:07:51another one dollar against canadian
- 1:07:55okay so if you look at this again this
- 1:07:56pair just identify the highs and lows on
- 1:07:58the chart this is the highs
- 1:08:00the highs the highs highs highs the
- 1:08:03highs
- 1:08:03the highs and the low the low low low
- 1:08:06low low and low so you look from left to
- 1:08:09right
- 1:08:10where is this currency pair heading over
- 1:08:11time it's heading down
- 1:08:13lower so in other words you can see that
- 1:08:15the us dollar is depreciating against
- 1:08:17the canadian dollar
- 1:08:18over you know over the last there's a
- 1:08:20number of months over here that you see
- 1:08:22at the bottom
- 1:08:22okay so this is in the downtrend and one
- 1:08:24thing to also share is that
- 1:08:26when you look at a chart right there are
- 1:08:28many swing points what i call a swing
- 1:08:30point is
- 1:08:30the heights and lows on the chart that
- 1:08:32kind of stick out like a sore thumb
- 1:08:33which is very obvious like you know this
- 1:08:35is a swing high
- 1:08:35this is a swing high i wouldn't consider
- 1:08:37this a swing high because this isn't as
- 1:08:39obvious this isn't as
- 1:08:40in your face kind of thing so when you
- 1:08:42want to identify the series of higher
- 1:08:44highs and higher lows on the chart pay
- 1:08:45attention to the swing points the ones
- 1:08:47that really
- 1:08:47stick out like a sore thumb right the
- 1:08:49minor ones you can just pretty much
- 1:08:50ignore it because if you
- 1:08:52try to pay attention to every single
- 1:08:54minor highs and lows on the chart
- 1:08:56you will get confused right and lose the
- 1:08:58big picture so for example let's say you
- 1:08:59look at this over here
- 1:09:01you might look it's oh it rainer the
- 1:09:03price you know broke out of the
- 1:09:04the uh there's high man you know this
- 1:09:07looks like an uptrend
- 1:09:08so i know it sounds silly but you know
- 1:09:10sometimes when you get too
- 1:09:12fixated on trading in the now you might
- 1:09:14actually think along those lines so just
- 1:09:15remember
- 1:09:16pay attention to the major swing points
- 1:09:18if you're unsure and look from left to
- 1:09:19right
- 1:09:19left to right don't just look at the
- 1:09:22last five six candle loops
- 1:09:23look from look at the big picture
- 1:09:24perspective bird eyes view that is
- 1:09:26important
- 1:09:26okay so dollar against the canadian we
- 1:09:28can both agree that this is
- 1:09:30in the downtrend moving on british pound
- 1:09:32against canadian
- 1:09:33dollar in this case i'll go to the
- 1:09:34weekly time frame okay
- 1:09:36and you can see over here what is this
- 1:09:39market condition and oh yeah before i
- 1:09:40continue
- 1:09:41dollar against the canadian daily time
- 1:09:44frame
- 1:09:44okay in this current market structure
- 1:09:46what do you want to be doing buying or
- 1:09:48selling
- 1:09:48i'm sure you want to look for selling
- 1:09:50opportunities that's the path of
- 1:09:52lease resistance next one pound against
- 1:09:55canadian so if you look at this one
- 1:09:58again what is
- 1:09:59this market structure well you can see
- 1:10:01that this one's a little bit different
- 1:10:02it's a bit different from the earlier
- 1:10:03ones
- 1:10:04this market seems to be contained
- 1:10:06between this highs
- 1:10:08and this lows we'll talk more about this
- 1:10:10exact highs
- 1:10:11and lows what is the terminology and how
- 1:10:13we can use them in your trading
- 1:10:14later on but for now just pay attention
- 1:10:16that this market is kind of
- 1:10:17contained in in a box stuck between the
- 1:10:20highest and the lows and this is what we
- 1:10:21call
- 1:10:21a range market and in a range market you
- 1:10:24can look to buy low and sell high buy
- 1:10:25near this low
- 1:10:26or sell near this high but personally
- 1:10:29for me i like to trade
- 1:10:30trends okay but i still want to share
- 1:10:31with you what the range market looks
- 1:10:32like because hey some of you might go on
- 1:10:34to be you know
- 1:10:34pro range traders in future but for me
- 1:10:36personally i simply like to trade trends
- 1:10:38buy in uptrend and sell in downtrend so
- 1:10:41but nonetheless this is what we call a
- 1:10:43range market you can look to buy
- 1:10:45near the lows and sell near the highs
- 1:10:48and one a couple of more examples you
- 1:10:51can see is on
- 1:10:51british pound against the us dollar what
- 1:10:54is this market structure
- 1:10:56so again if you look at this this
- 1:10:58overall seems to be
- 1:10:59in an uptrend right series of higher
- 1:11:02highs higher highs
- 1:11:03higher highs and higher lows higher low
- 1:11:06higher low higher low higher low
- 1:11:09and possibly this higher low so you can
- 1:11:11see that you know
- 1:11:12this right if you are again too fixated
- 1:11:15in the now you might think that
- 1:11:17ah rainer this looks like you know a a
- 1:11:19downtrend man look rainer
- 1:11:20this market has made a lower high and a
- 1:11:23lower low this market is in the
- 1:11:25downtrend
- 1:11:25yes i get it right if you look at just
- 1:11:27those few candles right you
- 1:11:29uh you can think that it's a downtrend
- 1:11:31but you let's take a step back and look
- 1:11:33from left to right again
- 1:11:34you want to make sure that you are
- 1:11:36taking a bird eyes view and not just
- 1:11:38looking at
- 1:11:38an individual tree and missing the
- 1:11:40forest this is a mistake that i want you
- 1:11:42to make so if you look from left to
- 1:11:43right you can see
- 1:11:44that this market overall is in an
- 1:11:46uptrend okay so this will be
- 1:11:48a swing the next or rather the swing low
- 1:11:51that is pretty much still intact if the
- 1:11:53market right can break below this
- 1:11:55low and this low over here then hey then
- 1:11:57maybe you know you can see that this
- 1:11:59up trend is getting weak right maybe the
- 1:12:00trend is starting to reverse but again i
- 1:12:02don't you know
- 1:12:02take things too far out of hand because
- 1:12:04that is where we go into more advanced
- 1:12:06technical analysis but for now
- 1:12:08looking at the big picture i would say
- 1:12:09the pound against the us dollar looking
- 1:12:11from left to right this market is in an
- 1:12:13uptrend
- 1:12:13and i'm looking for buying opportunities
- 1:12:15and don't worry you know about you know
- 1:12:16hey where to buy how much to buy when to
- 1:12:18buy we'll cover all that stuff later on
- 1:12:20now just focus on this market structure
- 1:12:24and what's one last final example is
- 1:12:26euro against
- 1:12:27the us dollar so if you look at this
- 1:12:29this market
- 1:12:30is it in an uptrend or is it in a
- 1:12:34range so you can see that you know
- 1:12:37this chart i purposely picked this one
- 1:12:39up because
- 1:12:40when you deal with technical analysis
- 1:12:42there is subjectivity involved and if
- 1:12:43you say
- 1:12:43this is an uptrend some traders are
- 1:12:45going to say this in a range i won't say
- 1:12:47anyone is right or wrong because it's
- 1:12:48kind of like in between
- 1:12:49the it's kind of like in between okay so
- 1:12:51personally i'll say
- 1:12:52that this market is more towards the
- 1:12:54range right given this uh
- 1:12:56price chart that i'm looking at right
- 1:12:57now this would be the lows of the range
- 1:13:00and this is the high even though this
- 1:13:02high is just tested one time
- 1:13:03some might argue not right now this is
- 1:13:04an uptrend or higher high high low
- 1:13:06fine that's your point of view so this
- 1:13:07is why as a discretionary trader as a
- 1:13:09technical trader
- 1:13:10there is always you know someone with an
- 1:13:11opposing view of your so
- 1:13:13and one thing to also point out is that
- 1:13:15if a chart doesn't speak up to you if
- 1:13:17the chat right makes you feel confused
- 1:13:19and frustrated and you do not know what
- 1:13:20to do
- 1:13:21remember you always have the option to
- 1:13:22stay out of the markets
- 1:13:24move on on to something else no one is
- 1:13:25pointing a gun in your head hey
- 1:13:26everybody put on a damn trick man
- 1:13:28no no one is doing that so if it's not
- 1:13:30clear if it's conflicting information
- 1:13:32move on onto another currency pair does
- 1:13:35it make sense
- 1:13:37now moving on number two area of value
- 1:13:39so you've learned right what is market
- 1:13:41structure earlier if the market is in an
- 1:13:43uptrend
- 1:13:44you want to look for buying
- 1:13:45opportunities but here's the thing just
- 1:13:46because a market
- 1:13:47is in an uptrend doesn't mean you
- 1:13:48blindly hit the buy button no because
- 1:13:51the trend right could be about to make a
- 1:13:53reversal it could could be about to make
- 1:13:54a pullback so this is why
- 1:13:56you want to look for this next second
- 1:13:57thing an area of value so this is like
- 1:13:59you know going on a date with a girl for
- 1:14:01the first time
- 1:14:01doesn't mean you go on a date once
- 1:14:03you're gonna marry her because you don't
- 1:14:04not know what type of person is she does
- 1:14:05she really like you do you really like
- 1:14:07her
- 1:14:07you know you need more confirmation and
- 1:14:09it's the same for trading we're looking
- 1:14:10for more confirmation to give us
- 1:14:12clue that this is a good time to enter
- 1:14:15into an uptrend okay so the second thing
- 1:14:18is what i call
- 1:14:19an area of value so this in essence
- 1:14:22right tell you
- 1:14:23tells you right where to buy or sell so
- 1:14:25market structure previously it tells you
- 1:14:26what to do
- 1:14:27should you be looking for buying
- 1:14:28opportunities or selling opportunities
- 1:14:30but it doesn't mean
- 1:14:31hit the buy button no you are only
- 1:14:32looking for opportunities
- 1:14:34whether to buy or sell for this one it
- 1:14:37tells you
- 1:14:39where to buy or sell the key word here
- 1:14:41is where where on the chart to buy
- 1:14:42yourself so area of value
- 1:14:44really is about this to help you
- 1:14:46pinpoint the area on your charts to look
- 1:14:47for
- 1:14:48trading opportunities and to to look for
- 1:14:51areas of value on your chart there are
- 1:14:52numerous tools that you can use but for
- 1:14:54me personally
- 1:14:55i use support resistance and moving
- 1:14:57average often and so this is the two
- 1:14:59things
- 1:14:59the two tools that i want to share more
- 1:15:01with you so support and resistance
- 1:15:03otherwise known as sr
- 1:15:04so what is support and resistance so
- 1:15:06here's my definition of it so support is
- 1:15:09an
- 1:15:09area on your chart where buying pressure
- 1:15:12could step in i didn't say mass right
- 1:15:14because in trading
- 1:15:16nothing is guaranteed trading is all
- 1:15:17about probabilities never a certainty so
- 1:15:19it's an
- 1:15:19area on your chart where buying pressure
- 1:15:22could maybe
- 1:15:23come in to push the price higher so it
- 1:15:25looks something like this let's say
- 1:15:26market is in the range
- 1:15:28so support is at near the lows of this
- 1:15:31range this is what we call
- 1:15:32support right where buying pressure came
- 1:15:34in and pushed the price up higher
- 1:15:35buying pressure came in push the price
- 1:15:37up higher
- 1:15:39support this year buying buyers came in
- 1:15:41and pushed the price up higher so let's
- 1:15:42say now price is at support
- 1:15:43what's gonna happen go up no it could
- 1:15:46also go down okay so this is why i say
- 1:15:48that
- 1:15:48it's an area on your chart where buying
- 1:15:50pressure could step it
- 1:15:53so next resistance this is an area on
- 1:15:56your chart where
- 1:15:57selling pressure could step in so again
- 1:16:00this is an
- 1:16:01area of resistance over here where the
- 1:16:03price came up
- 1:16:04hit down lower went up kept down lower
- 1:16:06went up
- 1:16:07and what happens came down lower so
- 1:16:10again anything can happen
- 1:16:11in markets it can go up it can break out
- 1:16:13of resistance or it can
- 1:16:14face selling pressure resistance and
- 1:16:16then reverse down lower once again so
- 1:16:17this is why
- 1:16:18the word is could could step in so now
- 1:16:21that you understand what is support and
- 1:16:22resistance
- 1:16:23so in essence right support is where
- 1:16:25buyers could come in and push the price
- 1:16:26up higher
- 1:16:27resistance is an area on your chart
- 1:16:29where sellers could come in and push the
- 1:16:31price down
- 1:16:31lower and another thing to add is that
- 1:16:35when support is broken it tends to
- 1:16:37become or it could
- 1:16:38become resistance so let's say this is a
- 1:16:40port
- 1:16:41okay so support support support right
- 1:16:44previous support
- 1:16:45could now become resistance right where
- 1:16:47fights where price could face selling
- 1:16:49pressure and then continue
- 1:16:50lower down for from here and vice versa
- 1:16:53if
- 1:16:53resistance is broken that area could now
- 1:16:57become
- 1:16:57support let's say this is resistance up
- 1:16:59down up
- 1:17:00down up down up break out come back
- 1:17:03previous resistance resistance
- 1:17:05resistance could become support and the
- 1:17:08price could
- 1:17:08possibly heat up higher from here so let
- 1:17:11me share with you
- 1:17:12a few charts so you can kind of like let
- 1:17:13this concept sink in to your head so
- 1:17:16first one here is pound canadian
- 1:17:19so if you look at this uh weekly time
- 1:17:21frame chart which i've marked you can
- 1:17:23see
- 1:17:23where is your support and resistance
- 1:17:25area support right tested once twice
- 1:17:27three times four times
- 1:17:28the resistance that's the ones over here
- 1:17:31and this is why i said it's an area on
- 1:17:32your chart if you look at this over here
- 1:17:33the price didn't respect
- 1:17:35this level to the peak in fact you break
- 1:17:36out people thought it's a breakout and
- 1:17:38then came back collapsed back into the
- 1:17:40range
- 1:17:40once again okay so if another
- 1:17:43one over here almost touching almost
- 1:17:45touching it broke out
- 1:17:47went back in the range again and then
- 1:17:49this was almost near to the pit and then
- 1:17:50went back into the range again so this
- 1:17:52is why we are dealing
- 1:17:53with an area but the reason why i draw
- 1:17:54support resistance as lines is because
- 1:17:57it's my habit it's something that i've
- 1:17:59been so used to doing but if you don't
- 1:18:00want
- 1:18:01to uh to to face this problem of you
- 1:18:05know treating this as
- 1:18:06a a line or whatsoever you can use a
- 1:18:09tool right i think it's called the
- 1:18:10rectangle
- 1:18:11tool to make your life easier this one
- 1:18:14over here
- 1:18:15so what you can do is just you know
- 1:18:16treat this as a box and area you can
- 1:18:17just draw it
- 1:18:18like this like an area if that makes
- 1:18:20your life easier same for this one over
- 1:18:22here right
- 1:18:23draw it like this to kind of know better
- 1:18:25interpret it but again
- 1:18:26as i've said right my preference is to
- 1:18:28use a line but if you think a box method
- 1:18:30would make more sense for you feel free
- 1:18:32to go ahead
- 1:18:33next one platinum so in this one i want
- 1:18:35to share with you the eight hour time
- 1:18:36frame so you can see over here
- 1:18:37the concept that i've shared earlier
- 1:18:40resistance right tested once tested
- 1:18:41twice
- 1:18:42almost three times fourth time here
- 1:18:44fifth time then price breaks out
- 1:18:46if price breaks out of resistance what
- 1:18:48could possibly happen previous
- 1:18:50resistance could become
- 1:18:52support buyers could possibly step in
- 1:18:54here right to push the price up higher
- 1:18:56in this case it did
- 1:18:57happen one more example or rather a
- 1:19:00second last example this one here is
- 1:19:02euro against the aussie dollar
- 1:19:04this is an area of support tested once
- 1:19:06tested twice came back here
- 1:19:08consolidate a little breakdown re-test
- 1:19:11previous support becomes resistance
- 1:19:13head down lower re-test this same area
- 1:19:15of resistance
- 1:19:16and then continue to grind kind of lower
- 1:19:19around here
- 1:19:19so again this is how support resistance
- 1:19:21looks like on your chart and again i
- 1:19:23didn't draw the full thing i just wanted
- 1:19:24to point
- 1:19:25out the obvious one to share with you
- 1:19:26the concepts that i've mentioned but
- 1:19:28really if you want to draw another one
- 1:19:29i'll say this would be another level
- 1:19:30that you could look at this heist over
- 1:19:32here
- 1:19:34okay and one final example this one here
- 1:19:36is a bitcoin
- 1:19:38just to illustrate to you that you know
- 1:19:39hey the concepts that i'm sharing with
- 1:19:40you are can be applied to uh
- 1:19:42different markets as well so if you look
- 1:19:44at this one over here
- 1:19:46can you see this area of support okay
- 1:19:49tested almost here almost the first time
- 1:19:52second
- 1:19:52third fourth fifth then what happened
- 1:19:54price broke
- 1:19:56below support okay broke down great
- 1:19:59so as you know right if price breaks
- 1:20:01below support what could happen
- 1:20:03previous support could become resistance
- 1:20:07which happened over here previous
- 1:20:08support price breakdown
- 1:20:10became resistance and again support
- 1:20:12resistance they are an area on your
- 1:20:13chart so this is why
- 1:20:15you shouldn't expect the price to reach
- 1:20:17a particular
- 1:20:19dollar amount or exact same right and
- 1:20:20reverse from there no it's an area
- 1:20:22it could exit by a lot it could exit by
- 1:20:24a little bit or you can undershoot it
- 1:20:25right doesn't even touch it and then
- 1:20:27reverse from there
- 1:20:27okay so you can see what happened next
- 1:20:29right for bitcoin price continues down
- 1:20:30lower and it retains right it's going to
- 1:20:33retest this area of resistance
- 1:20:34and watch what happens it didn't respect
- 1:20:38this this area that we had drawn out
- 1:20:40earlier in fact it
- 1:20:41went deeper right to re-test almost this
- 1:20:43highs over here so you can see i just
- 1:20:45pulled it back out
- 1:20:46okay so now so at this point right
- 1:20:47support resistance it's kind of fluid
- 1:20:49it's dynamic you have to
- 1:20:50make adjustments to it from time to time
- 1:20:52so if i want to look at this chart right
- 1:20:53now
- 1:20:53okay i wouldn't leave my line on my area
- 1:20:56of resistance here i might shift it up
- 1:20:57higher
- 1:20:58right to take into account right the
- 1:20:59recent price move so this one now would
- 1:21:02make more sense because they tested this
- 1:21:03one here once and twice over here
- 1:21:05so let's see what happens next then
- 1:21:07price i'm going to zoom out a little bit
- 1:21:09price then re-test this for a third time
- 1:21:12over here and then it
- 1:21:15finally broke out so price has broke out
- 1:21:17of resistance so as you know if price
- 1:21:19breaks out of resistance
- 1:21:20what could possibly happen previous
- 1:21:23resistance could become
- 1:21:25support right previous resistance could
- 1:21:27now become
- 1:21:28support buyers could possibly step in
- 1:21:31could step in
- 1:21:32and push the price up higher which he
- 1:21:34did in this case and of course all these
- 1:21:35charts are cherry picked right just to
- 1:21:37you know
- 1:21:37make sure that the teachings the
- 1:21:38concepts that i'm teaching you right are
- 1:21:40crystal clear in the
- 1:21:41real world of trading right there are
- 1:21:42things that often things will not go
- 1:21:44away and
- 1:21:45you know you have to be prepared for it
- 1:21:47[Music]
- 1:21:49okay so in this section right it's about
- 1:21:52entry trigger so let's do a quick recap
- 1:21:54what you've learned so far so so far you
- 1:21:56have learned about market structure it
- 1:21:57tells you
- 1:21:58what to do should you be looking for
- 1:21:59buying opportunities selling
- 1:22:01opportunities or to stay out of the
- 1:22:02markets
- 1:22:03there we covered about area of value
- 1:22:04there are two things we covered in area
- 1:22:06of value
- 1:22:06support resistance and moving average
- 1:22:08and these are tools that you can
- 1:22:10use right to tell you know where to buy
- 1:22:12or sell so
- 1:22:13market structure tells you what to do
- 1:22:15area of value tells you
- 1:22:16where to buy or sell and now we're
- 1:22:18moving to the third component entry
- 1:22:20trigger this tells you
- 1:22:22when to buy or sell okay so
- 1:22:26entry trigger there are many ways you
- 1:22:28know you can
- 1:22:29use the many tools out there to help you
- 1:22:31time the market but what i find
- 1:22:32personally to be very useful is
- 1:22:33candlestick
- 1:22:34patterns and i want to dive deeper into
- 1:22:36this section since i find it so
- 1:22:38useful so what is candlestick pattern so
- 1:22:42candlestick patterns is a method of
- 1:22:43reading a price chart of course it's not
- 1:22:45the only way you have bar chart you have
- 1:22:47line chart of all the different types of
- 1:22:48chart out there
- 1:22:49so candlestick pattern is just one of
- 1:22:51the methods to read the price chart and
- 1:22:52it's obviously one of the more popular
- 1:22:54approaches
- 1:22:54so how do you actually read a
- 1:22:56candlestick pattern one thing to
- 1:22:57understand is that there is four data
- 1:22:59points for every candlestick pattern
- 1:23:01you have the opening price the closing
- 1:23:04price
- 1:23:05and the high and low of the session so
- 1:23:07if your candlestick pattern is let's say
- 1:23:09on the
- 1:23:10one hour time frame then what you'll see
- 1:23:12is that the highest
- 1:23:13price point over the over the last one
- 1:23:15hour and the low
- 1:23:16is the lowest price point over the past
- 1:23:18one hour so a little bit more about
- 1:23:20candlestick patterns is that you can use
- 1:23:22it
- 1:23:23to trade different time frames so for
- 1:23:26example if you see a candlestick pattern
- 1:23:28on the one hour time frame it simply
- 1:23:29means that on a one hour time frame
- 1:23:31every one hour a new candle is formed if
- 1:23:33it's on the four hour time frame every
- 1:23:35new candle is formed
- 1:23:36every four hours and if you're on the
- 1:23:38daily time frame one candle is formed
- 1:23:39every single day
- 1:23:41same for the weekly monthly same concept
- 1:23:43so now let me explain you know
- 1:23:45how to actually read a candlestick
- 1:23:47pattern so you'll see
- 1:23:48primarily two types of candlestick
- 1:23:50pattern one is green and one is red
- 1:23:52but let's talk about the green one first
- 1:23:54so remember i said that there are four
- 1:23:56data points so how do you actually know
- 1:23:59know where the four data points so very
- 1:24:01simple for green candle it simply means
- 1:24:03right that the price has closed
- 1:24:05above right the opening price so let's
- 1:24:07say this is like a one hour candle okay
- 1:24:09let's say this is a one hour candle
- 1:24:10so what it tells you that the price
- 1:24:12right has closed
- 1:24:14right higher than where it was one hour
- 1:24:16ago so that's why it's great right he
- 1:24:18has closed higher
- 1:24:19you know compared to where it was at the
- 1:24:21opening price one hour ago so that's why
- 1:24:23it's great so the opening price
- 1:24:24will be at here and the closing price
- 1:24:28will be here this is the only way for
- 1:24:30the closing price to be above the
- 1:24:31opening price the closing price has to
- 1:24:32be higher than it so that's why it's
- 1:24:33green
- 1:24:34it's bullish so the opening price was
- 1:24:36once again over here at this line
- 1:24:38and over here is the closing price we'll
- 1:24:40add in some numbers later on so you can
- 1:24:42see how it all makes sense
- 1:24:43so what about here this simply means is
- 1:24:45the highest price point over the last
- 1:24:47one hour if you're on the one hour time
- 1:24:48frame
- 1:24:49and this is the lowest price the market
- 1:24:51has win right
- 1:24:53during the past one one hour right is
- 1:24:56the lowest price point so this is the
- 1:24:57high highest price point over the past
- 1:24:59one hour
- 1:25:00and the lowest price point over the past
- 1:25:02one hour of course if we change this to
- 1:25:03a different time frame to the eight hour
- 1:25:05time frame the
- 1:25:05daily timeframe concept is the same so
- 1:25:07let's say we try the weekly time frame
- 1:25:10let's take another one hour the weekly
- 1:25:11time frame so what does it mean it means
- 1:25:13that
- 1:25:13at this price point of the candle that
- 1:25:15is the highest price point right
- 1:25:18over the week over the past one week and
- 1:25:21this is the lowest price point over the
- 1:25:22past one week over here
- 1:25:23and this is the opening price of the
- 1:25:24week and this is the closing price of
- 1:25:26the week so same same concept
- 1:25:29so now what about great candle so this
- 1:25:31is just the inverse so if you recall
- 1:25:33this over here was the closing and this
- 1:25:35is the opening
- 1:25:36so the closing price is higher than the
- 1:25:38opening price that's why it's bullish
- 1:25:39that's why it's green
- 1:25:40but for a rate candle it simply means
- 1:25:41that the closing price is below
- 1:25:44the opening price i repeat right the
- 1:25:46closing price is below
- 1:25:47the opening price for a rate bearish
- 1:25:49candle so your closing price has to be
- 1:25:51here
- 1:25:52see and over here is your opening price
- 1:25:54that's the only way right for this
- 1:25:55candle to close lower
- 1:25:56is if the closing price is below the
- 1:25:58opening price and likewise over here
- 1:26:01is the highest and this is the lows
- 1:26:03exactly the same
- 1:26:05concept so if i do you know piece all
- 1:26:06this together you will have a chart that
- 1:26:08looks like this
- 1:26:10okay this is what i just said earlier so
- 1:26:12a little bit more uh
- 1:26:13so-called technical definition if you
- 1:26:15want so we call this color thing the
- 1:26:17body
- 1:26:18and this this line over here we call
- 1:26:20this the
- 1:26:21upper wick or upper shadow whichever you
- 1:26:23know whichever term that you prefer
- 1:26:25there's no right or wrong over here and
- 1:26:27this is what we call the lower wick
- 1:26:29or lower shadow okay so this is how you
- 1:26:32read a candlestick
- 1:26:34pattern now moving on let's let me
- 1:26:37let me share with you how it looks like
- 1:26:39right on a real chart and how you
- 1:26:41interpret it
- 1:26:43so i'm going to look at this uh
- 1:26:46currency pair let's look at the daily
- 1:26:47time frame this is aussie against the
- 1:26:49japanese here and i'm going to zoom in
- 1:26:50so you can see what
- 1:26:51so we are on the same page so you can
- 1:26:53see over here i am going to
- 1:26:55i want you to pay attention to these
- 1:26:57numbers over here right this is the
- 1:26:58opening price
- 1:27:00this is the highest price point over the
- 1:27:01last one day this is the lowest price
- 1:27:03point over the past one day and this is
- 1:27:05the closing price
- 1:27:06and is the percentage change right in
- 1:27:08pips so this number will move right
- 1:27:09depending where my mom's cursor is so
- 1:27:11pay attention
- 1:27:12so let's look at the most recent one
- 1:27:13this candle here how do we interpret
- 1:27:15this so let's interpret this together
- 1:27:17one by one so for this candle it tells
- 1:27:19you that this market
- 1:27:20opened at 83 589 so it opened at this
- 1:27:23price point
- 1:27:2483 589 the highest price point for the
- 1:27:27day is 83.788 which is over here 83.78
- 1:27:33the low of the day is 83.036 which is
- 1:27:36here the low of the day
- 1:27:3783.036 and the closing price for this
- 1:27:40this uh this market for this day is
- 1:27:4483.529 which is at this price
- 1:27:46point over here does it make sense so
- 1:27:48let's do one more example
- 1:27:49how about the dollar against the
- 1:27:51japanese yen okay now we have a green
- 1:27:52candle
- 1:27:53so same same thing right for this market
- 1:27:56the opening price what does it say
- 1:27:58109.248 this is the opening price 109
- 1:28:02248 where is the highest price point for
- 1:28:04the day
- 1:28:05109.96 109.96
- 1:28:08where is the lowest price point for the
- 1:28:10day 109.193
- 1:28:13over here 109.193 and where is the
- 1:28:16closing price for the day 109.614
- 1:28:20109.614 and along the ways you will
- 1:28:23probably see
- 1:28:24some candles where they are missing a
- 1:28:25body man the candle is weird right now
- 1:28:27where's the body
- 1:28:28so this is usually when you're opening
- 1:28:30and closing price are too near one
- 1:28:32another where you get a very
- 1:28:33almost a non-existent body kind of like
- 1:28:35this one here look at this right almost
- 1:28:37a non-existent body so yeah it happens
- 1:28:39especially when the opening price
- 1:28:40and the closing price are very near each
- 1:28:43other so if you have a look at this
- 1:28:44right
- 1:28:44let me just see what the numbers are so
- 1:28:46you don't freak out
- 1:28:48so for this candle the opening price
- 1:28:51uh opening price for this is 103.76
- 1:28:54and the closing price is 103.75 okay so
- 1:28:57this is why
- 1:28:58you can see they are just like a three
- 1:29:00pipette different 0.3
- 1:29:02pips different so that's why their body
- 1:29:05is almost non-existent
- 1:29:06so this is how you actually read a
- 1:29:08japanese candlestick
- 1:29:10chart so moving on right so now you know
- 1:29:12the basics right how do you actually you
- 1:29:14know
- 1:29:14or rather how do you use it to time your
- 1:29:16entries so to do that right you want to
- 1:29:18focus or learn a few patterns right to
- 1:29:21help you do so and there are two
- 1:29:22patterns
- 1:29:23or maybe four patterns i want to share
- 1:29:24with you so first let's talk about the
- 1:29:26bullish
- 1:29:26reversal candlestick pattern and
- 1:29:28understand you know what is it how it
- 1:29:29works
- 1:29:30and the story behind it so the first
- 1:29:32pattern i want to share with you is what
- 1:29:33we call
- 1:29:34a hammer so different candlestick
- 1:29:36patterns they have different names they
- 1:29:37have hammer harami engulfing you know
- 1:29:39dark cloud cover and stuff like that so
- 1:29:40that's really really really a lot out
- 1:29:42there but i'm not gonna teach you
- 1:29:43everything because
- 1:29:44it's not needed right as you progress
- 1:29:45and learn and grow as a trader you
- 1:29:47realize that hey
- 1:29:48most of these patterns are pretty much a
- 1:29:49variation of one another so i'm going to
- 1:29:51share with you the most common
- 1:29:52variations the most useful ones and
- 1:29:53after which you can go on and explore
- 1:29:55the other you know patterns out there
- 1:29:57and of course the basics i've already
- 1:29:58taught you so
- 1:29:58you can just you know stack upon what
- 1:30:00you've learned and to to learn even more
- 1:30:03so first one is what i call ornate i
- 1:30:05call it right people
- 1:30:07you know others out there the
- 1:30:09technicians call it a hammer so let's
- 1:30:10understand what
- 1:30:11hammer is about so again where is the
- 1:30:13opening price price open over here
- 1:30:16where is the closing price for green
- 1:30:17candle the closing price has to be above
- 1:30:19the opening price
- 1:30:20so it's here where is the high of the
- 1:30:22day
- 1:30:23over here so let's assume that this is
- 1:30:25the daily candle right the high of the
- 1:30:26day is here
- 1:30:27and the low of the day is over here so
- 1:30:29what's the story
- 1:30:30of this hammer so it's quite interesting
- 1:30:31right you can imagine like that for when
- 1:30:33the market opened
- 1:30:34over here the sellers they were in
- 1:30:36control like
- 1:30:37out of the gate right here like
- 1:30:38barbara's you know running out the gates
- 1:30:39and they pushed the market they pushed
- 1:30:41the price down near the lows
- 1:30:43of the day then when all the buyers they
- 1:30:45all defeated all right then somehow
- 1:30:46rather
- 1:30:47there's like one tour one captain
- 1:30:48america from the middle of nowhere
- 1:30:50shelter
- 1:30:50vengers assemble and then they all unite
- 1:30:52and you know push the price up all the
- 1:30:54way up higher
- 1:30:55finally closing near the highest of the
- 1:30:57day so you can imagine that this kind of
- 1:30:58tuck of four
- 1:30:59between the buyers and sellers right
- 1:31:00when market open sellers came in with
- 1:31:02smash and you know
- 1:31:03uh push the price all the way down
- 1:31:05suddenly sometimes in the middle of the
- 1:31:06day the buyers they woke up right they
- 1:31:08assemble the united and they push
- 1:31:09the market all the way up to close near
- 1:31:11the highs of the day so this tells you
- 1:31:13that hey you know the buyers are now
- 1:31:14in control that's why they managed to
- 1:31:15push the price right push the price all
- 1:31:17the way
- 1:31:18near the highs of the day and this is
- 1:31:19what we call a hammer because you kind
- 1:31:20of look like a hammer
- 1:31:23okay so another another pattern that's
- 1:31:25worth learning is what we call a bullish
- 1:31:27engulfing pattern so the story is very
- 1:31:28similar but this time around it's
- 1:31:30expressed right using two candles so for
- 1:31:32this one over here this is a rate
- 1:31:34bearish candle so you can see that the
- 1:31:35sellers took control and closed the
- 1:31:38price right near the lows of the day so
- 1:31:39the buyers were all defeated ah
- 1:31:40you know injured already painful the
- 1:31:42next day right somehow the
- 1:31:44the buyers they got revived right they
- 1:31:46grew stronger right maybe they put you
- 1:31:47know a little bit too much steroids in
- 1:31:48their body or
- 1:31:49or whatsoever it takes a magic potion
- 1:31:50and they they push the price right to
- 1:31:52close near the highest of the day once
- 1:31:54again
- 1:31:54so they pretty much just overwhelm right
- 1:31:56the selling pressure of the previous day
- 1:31:58how do i know that because you can see
- 1:31:59that the range
- 1:32:00of the candle or the range of the body
- 1:32:02over here was previous previously from
- 1:32:04this opening price
- 1:32:06to this closing price but the next day
- 1:32:08it opened low
- 1:32:09and closed even higher than the previous
- 1:32:11day opening price so you can see that
- 1:32:12the buyers has even overwhelmed right
- 1:32:14the
- 1:32:14the sellers right by a lit even a little
- 1:32:16bit more so this is what we call a
- 1:32:18bullish
- 1:32:18engulfing pattern so next one the
- 1:32:22opposite of uh
- 1:32:23bullish candlestick patterns right this
- 1:32:25is what we call the bearish reversal
- 1:32:26candlestick pattern so there are two
- 1:32:28as well this one is called a shooting
- 1:32:30star so this is actually the inverse of
- 1:32:31a hammer
- 1:32:32i'll just explain the story behind this
- 1:32:34so since you know it's a red color
- 1:32:35candle opening price
- 1:32:37is here closing price is here so what
- 1:32:40happened right so you can see that
- 1:32:42when the day started right let's say
- 1:32:43this is a daily candle buyers push the
- 1:32:45price all the way up
- 1:32:46this higher and mark this highs for the
- 1:32:48day and then
- 1:32:50suddenly the sellers came in you know
- 1:32:51took control
- 1:32:53and push the price near the lows of the
- 1:32:55day finally closing near the lows
- 1:32:57of the day i saw the buyers so you know
- 1:32:59when the market just opened oh i'm
- 1:33:01really excited
- 1:33:02you know let's push the price up higher
- 1:33:03then somehow middle of the day you know
- 1:33:04things got depressed you know maybe you
- 1:33:06know
- 1:33:06he got reminded of his ex-girlfriend
- 1:33:08item this ex-sweater let me throw this
- 1:33:10sweater let me sell sell everything
- 1:33:11and then the market collapsed and sell
- 1:33:13sold off and nearly pretty much closed
- 1:33:14near the lows of the day so you can see
- 1:33:16that
- 1:33:16initially buyers they had the upper hand
- 1:33:18but they were overwhelmed by the sellers
- 1:33:20right towards the end of the day so this
- 1:33:21is where you get
- 1:33:22a shooting star so for this
- 1:33:25bearish engulfing pattern right it's
- 1:33:27pretty much uh
- 1:33:28same uh similar story so we can see for
- 1:33:31the first candle
- 1:33:32it is bullish right buyers are happy
- 1:33:34woohoo i celebrate right they have
- 1:33:36closed near the highs of the day
- 1:33:37but for the second day right the sellers
- 1:33:38took control and pushed the price right
- 1:33:41all the way down lower
- 1:33:42exceeding even below the lows of the
- 1:33:44previous day and the and even the
- 1:33:46opening price
- 1:33:47of the previous day they closed near the
- 1:33:48lows over here so we can see that the
- 1:33:50buyers once again they were defeated ah
- 1:33:51i know
- 1:33:52you know injured hospitalized and
- 1:33:53they'll never i won't i don't want to
- 1:33:54say
- 1:33:55never to recover because in the market
- 1:33:56it always always goes up goes down so
- 1:33:58for now
- 1:33:59i would say the sellers has temporarily
- 1:34:01won the war
- 1:34:02okay for now so let me share with you a
- 1:34:05a few uh charts all right so you know
- 1:34:08how this looks like
- 1:34:09on the chart and you can see that you
- 1:34:10know all the different variations of it
- 1:34:12out there
- 1:34:13so let me point out to you the first one
- 1:34:14let's have a look at how about
- 1:34:19dollar against the japanese yen so you
- 1:34:21can see over here
- 1:34:23this one looks something like a in
- 1:34:26between a shooting star and a bearish
- 1:34:28engulfing
- 1:34:29pattern then we have this one as well
- 1:34:33more of a shooting star
- 1:34:36if you look at other example like euro
- 1:34:38against the usd
- 1:34:40you can see over here this is similar to
- 1:34:42shooting star but the difference
- 1:34:43is the body of the candle is green so
- 1:34:46again when you trade the markets right
- 1:34:47it doesn't
- 1:34:48mean that it has to be a textbook
- 1:34:49example it has to be rate to be red
- 1:34:50color sometimes it can be green as well
- 1:34:52but the meaning is pretty much the same
- 1:34:53because if you look at this right
- 1:34:54this is the price rejection that you
- 1:34:56have seen right the buyers tried to push
- 1:34:57the price up higher but got overwhelmed
- 1:34:59by the sellers and finally
- 1:35:00close right near the lows near the
- 1:35:02opening opening price of the day
- 1:35:05over here you have a bearish engulfing
- 1:35:07pattern right look at how this range of
- 1:35:09the candle has you know
- 1:35:10overcome right the body of the previous
- 1:35:13day
- 1:35:15and uh this is a bullish engulfing
- 1:35:16pattern notice how the body of this
- 1:35:18candle has you know
- 1:35:19uh is larger right and close right even
- 1:35:22above the
- 1:35:23highs and the opening price of the
- 1:35:25previous day this is a bullish engulfing
- 1:35:27pattern
- 1:35:28and then this is another bearish
- 1:35:29engulfing pattern and yeah so later
- 1:35:32we'll look at some
- 1:35:32chart examples uh you know in terms of
- 1:35:35the uh
- 1:35:36the market structure area value entry
- 1:35:38trigger and stuff like that but for now
- 1:35:40let's do a quick
- 1:35:42recap so i know i've covered a lot so
- 1:35:44number one
- 1:35:45remember market structure it tells you
- 1:35:47what to do should you be looking for
- 1:35:48buying opportunities
- 1:35:49selling opportunities or to stay out of
- 1:35:51the markets then we have area of value
- 1:35:53which tells you know where to enter a
- 1:35:55trade you know
- 1:35:56where and finally the thing that we just
- 1:35:58covered entry trigger
- 1:35:59tells you when to enter a trade
- 1:36:02and by the way if you're enjoying this
- 1:36:03training so far smash the thumbs up
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- 1:36:08then smash the thumbs up button
- 1:36:10now moving on let's look at some real
- 1:36:12world
- 1:36:13trading examples and to combine the
- 1:36:16trading strategies
- 1:36:17techniques and concepts that you have
- 1:36:18learned right and see how we can apply
- 1:36:20it to the
- 1:36:20real world of trading using real
- 1:36:23chatting
- 1:36:24examples so this is the chart of
- 1:36:28dollar against the south african rent as
- 1:36:30you can see over here on
- 1:36:31this is on the daily time frame so first
- 1:36:33and foremost let's ask
- 1:36:35ourselves what is the market structure
- 1:36:37so when we are
- 1:36:38trading the markets this is the first
- 1:36:39question that we want to ask ourselves
- 1:36:41what is the market structure this would
- 1:36:42tell us you know what to do whether to
- 1:36:44be a buyer seller
- 1:36:45or to stay out of the markets so if you
- 1:36:47look at this market structure we see a
- 1:36:48series of lower highs
- 1:36:49lower highs lower high and lower low
- 1:36:52lower low
- 1:36:52lower low so we can see that this market
- 1:36:54the market structure is in a
- 1:36:56downtrend second thing the area of value
- 1:37:00let's put it aov
- 1:37:01is there an area of value over here so
- 1:37:03you know area of value could be things
- 1:37:05like moving average
- 1:37:06support resistance so from what i'm
- 1:37:07seeing over here there
- 1:37:09is an area of value over here i can just
- 1:37:11use it this tool over here
- 1:37:13and to draw this area of resistance over
- 1:37:16here
- 1:37:17i'll just change this to black color
- 1:37:19okay so now we have an area of value
- 1:37:21over here so do we have a valid entry
- 1:37:24trigger so remember the candlestick
- 1:37:27module
- 1:37:28or section that we just covered this
- 1:37:29over here looks like a
- 1:37:31bearish engulfing pattern all right so
- 1:37:34let's
- 1:37:34call it a bearish engulfing pattern so
- 1:37:38from the looks of it right we have a
- 1:37:39numerous
- 1:37:40factor right working in our favor number
- 1:37:42one the market structure is in the
- 1:37:43downtrend
- 1:37:44area of value the price is at resistance
- 1:37:46our entry trigger we have
- 1:37:48a bearish engulfing pattern that's being
- 1:37:50formed so in this case
- 1:37:51we can look for a short trade right to
- 1:37:53shop this market in expectation of
- 1:37:55lower prices and of course right this is
- 1:37:56clearly a cherry pick chart in this case
- 1:37:59the price you know
- 1:37:59did when in our favor
- 1:38:03okay so now moving on let's look at
- 1:38:06another trading example right using the
- 1:38:07market structure area of value and
- 1:38:09candlestick patterns that you've just
- 1:38:10learned and you know use it to help you
- 1:38:12make a trading decision to to know
- 1:38:14whether to buy
- 1:38:14or sell so again let's revisit right
- 1:38:18what we have learned number one ask
- 1:38:19ourselves what is the market structure
- 1:38:21of this currency pair this currency pair
- 1:38:23is new zealand yen
- 1:38:24on the eight hour time frame so market
- 1:38:26structure as you can see this market
- 1:38:27structure is in an uptrend
- 1:38:29price forming a series of higher highs
- 1:38:31and higher lows here
- 1:38:32higher low higher low higher high higher
- 1:38:35high
- 1:38:35okay what about area of value can you
- 1:38:37see it being
- 1:38:39near any area of value so from what i'm
- 1:38:41seeing over here the price
- 1:38:42has retested this area of support right
- 1:38:45support support and support and also
- 1:38:48previously this was actually resistant
- 1:38:50so
- 1:38:50price broke out of this swing high
- 1:38:52resistance it became support
- 1:38:54now what about entry trigger is there
- 1:38:56any like signal entry trigger that tells
- 1:38:58us hey
- 1:38:58it's time to enter a trade so if you
- 1:39:01look at this candlestick pattern right
- 1:39:02this over here
- 1:39:03what does it look like to you this right
- 1:39:06i would say it's close to a bullish
- 1:39:07engulfing pattern but as per the
- 1:39:09definition of bullish engulfing pattern
- 1:39:10this isn't quite one because this
- 1:39:12green candle didn't cover the body right
- 1:39:14of this red candle but that
- 1:39:15isn't going to stop us and say hey you
- 1:39:17know this is not a bullish signal it's
- 1:39:18not time to enter because
- 1:39:19if you read the candlestick pattern if
- 1:39:21you read the price section it's telling
- 1:39:22you that the buyers
- 1:39:23they did right close higher for the day
- 1:39:26and they did show
- 1:39:27you signs of strength right closing near
- 1:39:28the highest of the day and almost right
- 1:39:30the previous day opening price so it
- 1:39:32closed pretty strongly so this
- 1:39:34few reasons right the market structure
- 1:39:36the area of value and the entry trigger
- 1:39:38right
- 1:39:38is uh the story is telling you that hey
- 1:39:41you can now look for
- 1:39:42a buying opportunity so what you can do
- 1:39:44is you can enter on the next day
- 1:39:45open let's say on this candle here the
- 1:39:47next day open which is on
- 1:39:49this candle here okay so now what about
- 1:39:52stop loss now you know where to enter
- 1:39:53which is very
- 1:39:54simple the next day open but stop loss
- 1:39:55is something that i've not covered and i
- 1:39:56want to
- 1:39:57talk about in this uh this example here
- 1:39:59since it's quite straightforward
- 1:40:00so when it comes to stop-loss right you
- 1:40:02want to set your stop-loss
- 1:40:03at a level which invalidates your
- 1:40:06trading setup so what i mean by this so
- 1:40:07for this particular trading setup that
- 1:40:09you're trading you're trading
- 1:40:10is you know in the direction of the
- 1:40:11trend uptrend and
- 1:40:13buying near an area of support so this
- 1:40:15means that if the price
- 1:40:17breaks below the pawn then it means your
- 1:40:20so-called hypothesis right is wrong
- 1:40:22right because this is the area of
- 1:40:23support that you expect
- 1:40:25the price to hold if the price breaks
- 1:40:27below this area of support and clearly
- 1:40:29this so-called theory this hypothesis
- 1:40:31that he had that this trade could hit
- 1:40:33move higher
- 1:40:34is clearly wrong and you want to exit
- 1:40:35your trade so to do this right it's a
- 1:40:37very simple
- 1:40:38what you want to do is to set your stop
- 1:40:39loss at a level right which will
- 1:40:41so-called
- 1:40:41break support so if you look at this
- 1:40:43right clearly you know anywhere from you
- 1:40:45know 72
- 1:40:4650 or below right at this level clearly
- 1:40:49clearly if the price breaks down and he
- 1:40:51hit this level this area of support
- 1:40:53is broken and you want to exit your
- 1:40:54trade but so is there a objective way
- 1:40:57you know to set your stop loss instead
- 1:40:58of just blindly you know putting it at
- 1:41:00some
- 1:41:00level that looks like you know far away
- 1:41:02from support and the answer is of course
- 1:41:04yes right and to do that you can use an
- 1:41:06indicator called the average true range
- 1:41:08so over here i've shown you this
- 1:41:09indicator below but i'll show you where
- 1:41:11to get it just
- 1:41:12go to indicator tab search atr average
- 1:41:15to range
- 1:41:16it will come out as this one over here
- 1:41:17the settings i like to use is 20 period
- 1:41:19atr using sma so this is just my
- 1:41:22preference over here
- 1:41:23and as you can see right now the atr
- 1:41:25value is about 0.32 about 32 pips so
- 1:41:28what this tells you is that on this time
- 1:41:30frame
- 1:41:31for new zealand yen on the eight hour
- 1:41:32time frame over the last
- 1:41:3420 candles right this currency pair
- 1:41:36moves an average of about 32
- 1:41:38pips on average i'm not saying every
- 1:41:40single cannon but every single candle
- 1:41:42but on average over the last 20 candles
- 1:41:44or so
- 1:41:44this currency pair has moved about 32
- 1:41:46pips so what this means is that you can
- 1:41:48actually use this value
- 1:41:50right and give it some buffer right to
- 1:41:52set your stop loss below
- 1:41:54support so let's say for example the
- 1:41:55lows of support is at this level over
- 1:41:57here
- 1:41:57what you can do is take this level and
- 1:41:59minus let's say this level is x
- 1:42:01right and you minus this atr value this
- 1:42:04one atr value
- 1:42:06okay so one atr is equal to 32 pips
- 1:42:08right and let's say you get the value of
- 1:42:09y
- 1:42:09so let's say y is somewhere about here
- 1:42:11this right can be your stop-loss and
- 1:42:13it's an objective way to set your
- 1:42:14stop-loss based on the
- 1:42:15volatility of the market since atr
- 1:42:18indicator you know
- 1:42:19takes into account the volatility of the
- 1:42:20market so let me walk you through how to
- 1:42:23actually set your stop-loss so what you
- 1:42:24want to do is to find out what is this
- 1:42:27low of support so in this case at the
- 1:42:28low of support the value is on this
- 1:42:30candle here and
- 1:42:31the value is about from what i'm seeing
- 1:42:34over here it's
- 1:42:3672 and 72.72 so you just look at this l
- 1:42:40value which is the low of the candle and
- 1:42:41you can see it's about seven
- 1:42:43seven two dot seven two so what i'm
- 1:42:45gonna do is take seven two dot seven two
- 1:42:47minus thirty two pips sorry seven two
- 1:42:50dot seven
- 1:42:50two and a minus thirty two pips which is
- 1:42:53zero point
- 1:42:54three two that is going to give me a
- 1:42:57value of about 72.4
- 1:43:00am i right okay so what i'll do is i
- 1:43:03will set my stop loss at this level
- 1:43:05at 72.4 change this to rate so you can
- 1:43:08see it better
- 1:43:09and your stop loss will be at 72.4
- 1:43:13okay so as you can see over here i will
- 1:43:15show you where your entry point entry
- 1:43:17point is on the next day open the candle
- 1:43:19i'll put it in green
- 1:43:20so you can see it green okay and there
- 1:43:24you have it right so this is
- 1:43:25this candle here this candle here the
- 1:43:27opening price is where you
- 1:43:29look to buy this rate level here is your
- 1:43:31stop loss so now let's take things
- 1:43:33a step further right if you have a 10
- 1:43:36000
- 1:43:37trading account and you want to raise
- 1:43:39one percent risk
- 1:43:40on each trade how many units of new
- 1:43:43zealand yen can you buy
- 1:43:44aha okay so now what we need to do is to
- 1:43:47again revisit the concepts that you've
- 1:43:48learned so what you'll do is
- 1:43:49first and foremost measure the
- 1:43:53the uh your entry price to your
- 1:43:54stop-loss so your entry price let's say
- 1:43:56let's make this more precise let's say
- 1:43:58your entry price is at this
- 1:43:59opening price of this candle which is
- 1:44:01about 73.31 okay so
- 1:44:03i'm going to change this to 73.31 and
- 1:44:06your stop loss is 72.4
- 1:44:08so you take 72.31 672.31
- 1:44:14minus 72.4 that gives me a 91 pip stop
- 1:44:17loss 91 pips
- 1:44:19okay so what do we do with this
- 1:44:21information so how do i get 73.31 again
- 1:44:24the entry price on this candle over here
- 1:44:26the opening price is 73.31
- 1:44:28stop loss at 72.4 which is this level
- 1:44:30here minus one atr
- 1:44:32and it gives us 72.4 as our stop loss
- 1:44:35and we take the entry price
- 1:44:36minus your stop loss right and this is
- 1:44:39your distance right
- 1:44:40in pips right for stop loss so in other
- 1:44:42words from your entry price
- 1:44:44here all the way down to here is 91
- 1:44:48pips so now the question is how
- 1:44:52many units of new zealand can we buy
- 1:44:55such that we don't lose more than one
- 1:44:56percent of our current of our account
- 1:44:58so time to revisit your position sizing
- 1:45:01so let's go to this
- 1:45:04so let's say currency pair is new
- 1:45:05zealand type in new zealand yen
- 1:45:07account currency let's keep it you know
- 1:45:09as usd let's say your account size is
- 1:45:11ten thousand dollars
- 1:45:13risking one percent on each trade your
- 1:45:15stop loss as mentioned earlier is about
- 1:45:1691 pips click calculate it tells you
- 1:45:20that you can buy
- 1:45:210.121 lot which is about 1.2
- 1:45:25mini lots okay so if you're going to
- 1:45:26trade this you know i hope it's a demo
- 1:45:28account right
- 1:45:29you can buy 0.121
- 1:45:33law okay which is about 1.2
- 1:45:36million lot does it make sense so you
- 1:45:38can see that we have you know
- 1:45:40used a number of you know concepts that
- 1:45:42you have learned earlier the market
- 1:45:43structure area of value entry trigger
- 1:45:45then we learn how to set our stock loss
- 1:45:46we learn how to calculate calculate the
- 1:45:48optimal
- 1:45:48position size right such that we don't
- 1:45:50lose more than one percent
- 1:45:52of our trading account as shown in this
- 1:45:54position sizing calculator over here
- 1:45:57okay so how are you feeling do you feel
- 1:45:59overwhelmed ah
- 1:46:00there's so much to cover well don't be
- 1:46:03because
- 1:46:04you know if this is your first time you
- 1:46:05know watching this video or you're new
- 1:46:07to forex trading yes it's perfectly
- 1:46:08normal to feel overwhelmed
- 1:46:10and confused but this is nothing you
- 1:46:12know new this is actually all the topics
- 1:46:14that we have covered in the earlier part
- 1:46:15of the video if you're unsure you can
- 1:46:16know just go back watch through the
- 1:46:18videos and to clarify you know on any
- 1:46:21concepts
- 1:46:22or techniques right that is unclear to
- 1:46:23you so i'm going to go through another
- 1:46:25example because this is so important
- 1:46:26right understanding the the
- 1:46:30position sizing the risk management as
- 1:46:32well you know how to analyze a chart
- 1:46:33and you know how to combine all this
- 1:46:35together and place a trade
- 1:46:36so that you don't blow up your trading
- 1:46:38account so let's have a look at another
- 1:46:40one using the same framework
- 1:46:41so number one ask ourselves market
- 1:46:42structure what is the market structure
- 1:46:44of this currency pair so this is
- 1:46:46dollar against the japanese yen eight
- 1:46:48hour time frame market structure is
- 1:46:50down i'm just kidding it's up right
- 1:46:52higher highs and higher lows higher
- 1:46:54highs sorry sorry higher low
- 1:46:55higher low higher low market structure
- 1:46:57is up and then you have higher high
- 1:46:58higher high higher high
- 1:47:01area of value is the price near an area
- 1:47:04of value as you can see over here
- 1:47:05it is at this previous resistance
- 1:47:08resistance which became support and yes
- 1:47:10this is an area of value
- 1:47:12and not just then right we also have if
- 1:47:15you pull out your 50 period moving
- 1:47:16average right
- 1:47:17this 50 period moving average also
- 1:47:19serves as an area of value we tested
- 1:47:21once twice
- 1:47:22three times and then fourth time over
- 1:47:23here so this is what we mean by
- 1:47:25when we have like support and the 50
- 1:47:28period moving average coming together
- 1:47:30you know from two separate area of value
- 1:47:32coming together at a
- 1:47:33at a similar area i call this uh stack
- 1:47:36areas because you have multiple factors
- 1:47:38coming together to work in your favor so
- 1:47:39this is a stack area you have the aerial
- 1:47:41value of the 50 period moving average
- 1:47:43as well as previous resistance which
- 1:47:45became support
- 1:47:46the third thing right do you have an
- 1:47:48entry trigger so from the looks of
- 1:47:50things
- 1:47:50when you studied the bullish reversal
- 1:47:52candlestick patterns earlier this isn't
- 1:47:54actually any
- 1:47:55of the candlestick pattern which you
- 1:47:57have learned but again the
- 1:47:59memorizing of the candlestick pattern
- 1:48:00the name is not important what's
- 1:48:01important is that you can see right
- 1:48:02buyers stepping in right to push
- 1:48:04and close higher it breaks and close
- 1:48:06above the 50 period moving average
- 1:48:07looking at the range of this candle is
- 1:48:09pretty nice and large as well and the
- 1:48:11price is closed near the highs
- 1:48:12so this tells you know the buyers are in
- 1:48:14control right and managed to close
- 1:48:16right near the highs of this eight hour
- 1:48:17time frame so what we can do is again
- 1:48:19uh to me this is a valid trading setup
- 1:48:22and you can look to
- 1:48:23buy so let's say you buy on the next
- 1:48:25day's open
- 1:48:26opening price of this candle over here
- 1:48:29so now what about stop loss so again
- 1:48:31stop loss we want to set it
- 1:48:33at a level which invalidates our trading
- 1:48:35setup so our area of value
- 1:48:36is over here this previous previous
- 1:48:39resistance which became
- 1:48:40support okay we want to set our stop
- 1:48:42loss right a distance
- 1:48:44below support we don't just want to set
- 1:48:45it smack below support because
- 1:48:47like for example this is directly over
- 1:48:48here because the price will just come
- 1:48:49down spike rate and then continue higher
- 1:48:51so
- 1:48:52if you set your stop loss just below it
- 1:48:53this could happen to you right
- 1:48:55pretty often and it sucks so this is why
- 1:48:57i recommend right
- 1:48:58finding the low of support right and
- 1:49:00then just minusing off one atr for it so
- 1:49:02in this case one atr it tells you it's
- 1:49:03about 34 pips
- 1:49:04so what's left for you to do right now
- 1:49:06is to find out what's the low of support
- 1:49:08the low of support is again right let me
- 1:49:09look at this candle as the low
- 1:49:11it's about one zero eight let's make it
- 1:49:13one zero nine
- 1:49:14as shown over here right is the low the
- 1:49:16low support is about one
- 1:49:18zero nine so i'm going to take one zero
- 1:49:20nine minus thirty four pips again
- 1:49:22using my trusty calculator one zero nine
- 1:49:25minus 34 pip
- 1:49:26it gives me 108.66 so this tells me it
- 1:49:29might stop more so it should be at
- 1:49:31108.66 i'm going to change this to rain
- 1:49:34i am going to also change the
- 1:49:36coordinates
- 1:49:37to 108.66
- 1:49:41okay this is my stop-loss level
- 1:49:45great so now i want to take things
- 1:49:49a step further right you know how to set
- 1:49:51your stop-loss you know your entry is at
- 1:49:53this
- 1:49:54this price over here okay let me just
- 1:49:56change this to green about here
- 1:49:58entry price is like this candle open
- 1:50:01which is about
- 1:50:03109.88 okay let me just change this to
- 1:50:06109.88 so another thing to
- 1:50:09to talk about is your target so so far
- 1:50:11so far we have talked about
- 1:50:12the trading setup right market structure
- 1:50:14area of value entry trigger to know when
- 1:50:16exactly to enter a trade
- 1:50:17i shared with you how to set a proper
- 1:50:19stop-loss so you don't get stopped out
- 1:50:20too early and the final component that i
- 1:50:22want to add as well is to
- 1:50:23where to take profits right if the
- 1:50:24market moves in your favor so coming
- 1:50:26from let's say a swing trading
- 1:50:28perspective
- 1:50:28and bear in mind there are many ways to
- 1:50:30take profits i'm going to share with you
- 1:50:31one method which
- 1:50:32is what we call swing trading which is
- 1:50:34in essence right just capturing one
- 1:50:35swing in the market so this is like
- 1:50:37one swing right from this retracement
- 1:50:39then we pull up one swing
- 1:50:41this is one swing this is uh another
- 1:50:44swing so
- 1:50:44basically one move in the market i'm
- 1:50:46going to share with you how to do that
- 1:50:47so to capture one swing in the market we
- 1:50:49usually want to set our target profit
- 1:50:52at before right previous swing highs are
- 1:50:54low in the market so you know what is
- 1:50:56swing right this is our swing point
- 1:50:57swing high
- 1:50:58swing high swing low swing low so if you
- 1:51:00are long right you want to exit right
- 1:51:02before
- 1:51:02the nearest swing high because this is
- 1:51:04where potential selling pressure could
- 1:51:05come in
- 1:51:06you know and you know push the price
- 1:51:08lower so you're gonna set your target
- 1:51:09before it
- 1:51:10so in terms of target i would say a
- 1:51:12reasonable target could be at this
- 1:51:14price point over here before this
- 1:51:16remember this over here
- 1:51:18is an area on your chart not a line so
- 1:51:21don't set your
- 1:51:22target right just you know one bit below
- 1:51:24this heist because remember it's an area
- 1:51:26the price may not get to that high right
- 1:51:27before it starts to reverse it could
- 1:51:29just you know
- 1:51:30come close into that area doesn't hit
- 1:51:32the highs doesn't hit these highs over
- 1:51:34here and then starts to collapse so if
- 1:51:35you're too like you know greedy if you
- 1:51:37take profit you set it at these highs
- 1:51:38over here
- 1:51:39or even over here you know you're making
- 1:51:41difficult for the market you know
- 1:51:43to give you a profit so be reasonable
- 1:51:45with your targets
- 1:51:46so my recommendation is to set it before
- 1:51:48the swing high so let's say we set it
- 1:51:50somewhere
- 1:51:52about here right this i would say it's
- 1:51:53reasonable and let's change this to blue
- 1:51:55color
- 1:51:56okay so let's say our target is at let's
- 1:51:59put it at a number that is easy to
- 1:52:01understand
- 1:52:03107 dot let's say seven three seven two
- 1:52:05okay
- 1:52:06okay so now if you look at this right
- 1:52:09now you can see that
- 1:52:10where is your entry price which is this
- 1:52:12green line over here
- 1:52:14where is your stop loss this red line
- 1:52:15over here where is your
- 1:52:17target which is this blue line over here
- 1:52:19so now again let's revisit you know
- 1:52:21position sizing since that is so
- 1:52:22important right that is what
- 1:52:23keeps your account intact let's find out
- 1:52:26right
- 1:52:27the size of our stop loss so basically
- 1:52:29from entry price to your stop loss right
- 1:52:31what is this
- 1:52:32distance over here so again just take
- 1:52:33the entry price minus
- 1:52:35the stop loss so what you can do is you
- 1:52:36can pause this video and do the math
- 1:52:38with me and see whether you get the
- 1:52:38answer correct
- 1:52:39so i'm going to take 109.88
- 1:52:43minus 108.66
- 1:52:48all right so basically i'm thinking this
- 1:52:49green number minus this rate number it
- 1:52:51gives me about
- 1:52:55122 pips
- 1:52:58okay that's the distance of my stop-loss
- 1:53:01so in essence from here to here is 122
- 1:53:04pips
- 1:53:04so now let's use this number and find
- 1:53:06out how many
- 1:53:08units of dollar against the japanese yen
- 1:53:10can we buy such that you know
- 1:53:11we uh we can you know still adhere to
- 1:53:14our risk management
- 1:53:15so to do that just go to look for dollar
- 1:53:17yen this is the currency pair
- 1:53:18you're trading okay let's say your
- 1:53:21account currency is funded in us dollar
- 1:53:22as well
- 1:53:23account size let's say now you're a
- 1:53:24baller right hundred thousand units your
- 1:53:26trade i mean your account size is
- 1:53:27hundred thousand dollars
- 1:53:28and let's say you are still the same you
- 1:53:30know prudent trader you still risk one
- 1:53:32percent on that trade well done
- 1:53:34stop losses 122 pips as we have
- 1:53:37mentioned earlier things about one two
- 1:53:39two if i'm not wrong here it is
- 1:53:41then you're just gonna click calculate
- 1:53:43and it tells you that you can buy now
- 1:53:45zero point eight nine nine standard lot
- 1:53:47this is equivalent to about eight point
- 1:53:50nine i would say nine mini lots right
- 1:53:52you just rounded up it's about nine mini
- 1:53:54lots or 0.9 standard lot so
- 1:53:56in other words okay if you have a
- 1:53:57hundred thousand dollars account and
- 1:53:59you're risking one percent
- 1:54:00of that account let's say one percent is
- 1:54:02a thousand dollars of your account
- 1:54:04and you're trading this currency pair
- 1:54:06dollar against the japanese yen
- 1:54:07your stop-loss is 122 pips okay
- 1:54:11how many units of this currency can you
- 1:54:14buy and according to that
- 1:54:15uh risk risk management or rather
- 1:54:17position sizing calculator you saw
- 1:54:19earlier it's about 0.9
- 1:54:21standard lot or nine mini lots it's
- 1:54:24actually 0.899
- 1:54:25i just rounded up to make my life easier
- 1:54:26so that's how you you know combine all
- 1:54:28these different uh
- 1:54:29elements together this concept
- 1:54:31strategies like to make sense right out
- 1:54:33of
- 1:54:33your forex trading career
- 1:54:37so let's now take things one step even
- 1:54:39further okay so this is actually
- 1:54:41stuff we've covered earlier i'm just
- 1:54:42revising it so we're going to take
- 1:54:44things a step further because
- 1:54:45one thing that you might not notice if
- 1:54:48you look at this hey rayner
- 1:54:49this is my entry price this is my
- 1:54:51stop-loss
- 1:54:52and this is my target it seems that my
- 1:54:54stop-loss over here
- 1:54:56okay let's call it sl stop-loss is kind
- 1:54:59of smaller
- 1:55:00than my profit target right if i just
- 1:55:02pull it out let's call it tb
- 1:55:03target profit my stop-loss is wider than
- 1:55:05my target profit then if you
- 1:55:06are thinking along those lines you are
- 1:55:08absolutely correct you can actually use
- 1:55:10a tool
- 1:55:11like this over here okay just use the
- 1:55:13long position one to help you access
- 1:55:15right your risk to reward ratio so just
- 1:55:16pull this tool out right just click this
- 1:55:18one
- 1:55:19choose long and if you're going to click
- 1:55:20let's say click on this green line this
- 1:55:22thing will come out
- 1:55:22so the way we're going to do it is that
- 1:55:23we're going to adjust this thing right
- 1:55:25such that this level here is at our stop
- 1:55:27loss
- 1:55:28okay and this one over here is at our
- 1:55:31target
- 1:55:32the blue line and this over here
- 1:55:35is smack at our entry point which is
- 1:55:37fine and you can see something very
- 1:55:38interesting what it's telling you how
- 1:55:39you actually made use of this tool
- 1:55:41is that is that you can see you are
- 1:55:44risking 122.2 pips right which is your
- 1:55:47stop-loss
- 1:55:48122 pips and this over here 84.7
- 1:55:53is your target profit what you have
- 1:55:54targeted which is about 84 pips
- 1:55:56so in other words if you look from a
- 1:55:57risk to reward standpoint
- 1:55:59you are risking one dollar to
- 1:56:02potentially make back
- 1:56:0369 cents as shown over here 69 cents
- 1:56:07how do i know 69 you can see over here
- 1:56:09risk to reward ratio 0.69 you're risking
- 1:56:12one dollar
- 1:56:12to make 69 cents so it's not exactly
- 1:56:15very favorable and most traders will say
- 1:56:17uh that's not really a trade i want to
- 1:56:19take and i can perfectly understand that
- 1:56:20so what can you do
- 1:56:22to make this risk to reward on your
- 1:56:24trade more attractive
- 1:56:26so now there are a few things that you
- 1:56:27can do number one you can of course
- 1:56:29shift your target
- 1:56:30up higher okay to to a point where you
- 1:56:33know okay
- 1:56:34you're risking a dollar and make a
- 1:56:35dollar 37 cents back in return but
- 1:56:37you know to put your target over here
- 1:56:39it's a bit of a i won't say it's a
- 1:56:41stretch right since this is a trending
- 1:56:42market but what has to happen is that
- 1:56:44the market right has to break above this
- 1:56:46highs to get to your target so that's
- 1:56:48like kind of like
- 1:56:50a little bit more work right for the
- 1:56:51market to go through to reach your
- 1:56:52target and i'll say that's a lower
- 1:56:54probability
- 1:56:55right since the market has to break
- 1:56:56through above this swing high but again
- 1:56:58right in the context of this
- 1:56:59price action that we are seeing i
- 1:57:00wouldn't say that it's impossible
- 1:57:01because we are after all in an uptrend
- 1:57:03but if it's a range market right i would
- 1:57:04say clearly a very bad
- 1:57:06decision so let's say we don't touch the
- 1:57:08target right let's keep the target the
- 1:57:09same
- 1:57:10let's say around this level over here
- 1:57:12okay this is our target
- 1:57:14right so what else can we do to make the
- 1:57:16risk to reward
- 1:57:17more favorable what we can do is again
- 1:57:19we can shift our stop loss we can make
- 1:57:20it tighter right shift it up higher
- 1:57:22but again we don't want to mess with our
- 1:57:23stop-loss because our stop-loss is at a
- 1:57:25level
- 1:57:25where it reaches right it will
- 1:57:28invalidate our trading setup you don't
- 1:57:29want to exit the trade
- 1:57:31while the setup is still there it
- 1:57:32doesn't quite make sense right you want
- 1:57:33to be buying and support and support is
- 1:57:35not broken but you already exit your
- 1:57:36trade
- 1:57:36that's that's not very you know uh wise
- 1:57:39so the last thing that you can still do
- 1:57:40is to
- 1:57:41adjust right your entry point so you
- 1:57:43know your entry point right now is about
- 1:57:46109.88 which is this green line over
- 1:57:48here this is your entry point
- 1:57:50what you can do is to use a buy limit
- 1:57:52order
- 1:57:53see this is one of the orders that we
- 1:57:54have mentioned earlier to use a buy
- 1:57:55leave in order
- 1:57:56to enter at a more favorable price so
- 1:57:58what if we
- 1:58:01shift right our entry price to somewhere
- 1:58:03about here at let's say
- 1:58:05109.5 okay so let me just
- 1:58:09just just double click this let's say
- 1:58:11our entry price now is at 109.5
- 1:58:13our take profit level the price we keep
- 1:58:16it unchanged
- 1:58:17our stop-loss level will keep it
- 1:58:18unchanged as well and we click
- 1:58:20ok so now if you look
- 1:58:23at your risk to reward right now you can
- 1:58:26see now you're risking a dollar
- 1:58:28to potentially make 1.45 cents
- 1:58:32as shown over here one dollar and 45
- 1:58:35cents now your risk to reward right
- 1:58:37let me just put it one over here your
- 1:58:39risk reward right has been now
- 1:58:40improved by using a buy limit order of
- 1:58:42course everything has its pros and cons
- 1:58:45so let me share with you the downside to
- 1:58:46using this method
- 1:58:47if you go with a buy limit order your
- 1:58:49order might not get filled and you know
- 1:58:51if the market continues higher
- 1:58:52you would have you know missed the trade
- 1:58:54but in this case right uh of course it's
- 1:58:55a cherry pick chart you would have you
- 1:58:57know gotten filled
- 1:58:58and entered you know at a more favorable
- 1:59:00price as you can see
- 1:59:01this market did deep down lower and
- 1:59:03giving you a better entry price and now
- 1:59:04it's starting to kind of you know hit
- 1:59:05higher
- 1:59:06so this is another technique that you
- 1:59:07can use in your own trading if
- 1:59:09at as of right now right if you're
- 1:59:11looking at your entry stops and target
- 1:59:12the risk to reward
- 1:59:13doesn't quite make sense you can
- 1:59:14consider using a buy limit order to get
- 1:59:16in
- 1:59:17at a better price but a few things that
- 1:59:19i would caution you is to not adjust
- 1:59:21your original stop-loss because that is
- 1:59:23at a level right that is plan right to
- 1:59:25set right where if the price reaches it
- 1:59:27it will invalidate your trading setup
- 1:59:28and you want to get out of it don't make
- 1:59:30it too tight because sometimes
- 1:59:31a slight spike right might get you
- 1:59:33stopped out of your trade if your
- 1:59:34stop-loss is too tight
- 1:59:35as for target this there's some
- 1:59:36discretion over here since as you've
- 1:59:38seen right this is a trending market
- 1:59:40it's not
- 1:59:40far-fetched to say that hey maybe i can
- 1:59:42move my target up slightly higher
- 1:59:43somewhere about here
- 1:59:44since it's a trending market the price
- 1:59:45tends to break above the previous high
- 1:59:47that is fair enough for that i would say
- 1:59:48it's a fair call
- 1:59:49but one thing to to note that if if
- 1:59:51right if the market right now is in the
- 1:59:52range market
- 1:59:54all right and you buy let's say
- 1:59:56somewhere over here and your risk to
- 1:59:57reward
- 1:59:58is not very good don't set your target
- 1:59:59above the highs of this
- 2:00:01resistance because you are expecting the
- 2:00:02price to break above that resistance
- 2:00:04to give you this target that you have
- 2:00:05over here just so your risk to reward
- 2:00:07makes sense and this is really
- 2:00:08a very bad idea if you're going to shift
- 2:00:10your target to even above resistance but
- 2:00:12for this context that we are talking
- 2:00:13about here in this uptrend i would say
- 2:00:15that is a perfectly you know fair
- 2:00:17call okay so are you still with me
- 2:00:20right i hope so and if you want to smash
- 2:00:23the thumbs up button but if your mind
- 2:00:25your soul is wandering elsewhere then
- 2:00:26hit the subscribe button
- 2:00:28okay so now let's have a look at another
- 2:00:30example this is aussie against the swiss
- 2:00:32franc
- 2:00:33as you can see over here and this is the
- 2:00:35eight hour time frame as well
- 2:00:37so you know you should be a pro already
- 2:00:39by now if you even know what i'm going
- 2:00:40to say first thing first
- 2:00:41market structure what is this market
- 2:00:43structure
- 2:00:45from the looks of things this market is
- 2:00:46in an uptrend higher high
- 2:00:48and higher low higher high higher high
- 2:00:50higher high higher high
- 2:00:52and higher low higher low higher low
- 2:00:54higher low
- 2:00:56so what about area of value so clearly
- 2:00:58this one here you can see that this
- 2:00:59market is at this area of
- 2:01:01support entry trigger do we have any
- 2:01:05valid entry trigger to enter a trade
- 2:01:06while we have this nice
- 2:01:08bullish engulfing pattern okay so this
- 2:01:11this candle
- 2:01:12has reversed and closed above the
- 2:01:14previous day
- 2:01:15closing or rather the highs of the
- 2:01:17previous day closing now near the highs
- 2:01:19of this
- 2:01:20day so this is bullish great so what we
- 2:01:22can do is that we have a you know number
- 2:01:24of factors working in our favor
- 2:01:25uh market structure is up trading from
- 2:01:28an area of value and
- 2:01:29a valid entry trigger to go long let's
- 2:01:31see we overlay for 50 ma
- 2:01:33okay not too bad as well we even have
- 2:01:34the 50 period moving average you know in
- 2:01:36our favor tested once
- 2:01:37twice and now here for third time again
- 2:01:40so now
- 2:01:40where can we enter a trade the next day
- 2:01:42open so now next day looking pretty good
- 2:01:44as well we enter on the next stage
- 2:01:45open okay so what about stop loss i pull
- 2:01:48out the atr indicator
- 2:01:50you can see the stop loss all right the
- 2:01:52atr value is about 0.003 which is about
- 2:01:5430
- 2:01:55pips so again though to way to read this
- 2:01:58stop-loss indicator is the same
- 2:01:59as you're reading a pip right you know a
- 2:02:01fourth decimal place same concept over
- 2:02:03here
- 2:02:03so now let's find out what is the low of
- 2:02:05this support right so we can set a
- 2:02:07proper stop loss level
- 2:02:08so the low over here is about 0.6818
- 2:02:12so 0.6818
- 2:02:16minus 30
- 2:02:20that gives us about 0.6788
- 2:02:23okay so our stop-loss will be at 0.6788
- 2:02:27changes to rate 6788
- 2:02:30great entry price pretty straightforward
- 2:02:32we enter on this uh
- 2:02:33opening price of this candle which is
- 2:02:36about here
- 2:02:37i'll change this to green so we can mark
- 2:02:38as the entry price that we enter
- 2:02:41so now i am not going to go through the
- 2:02:44position sizing because you should be a
- 2:02:46pro by now already as for target it's
- 2:02:48going to be quite straightforward your
- 2:02:49target
- 2:02:50could set it just before this swing high
- 2:02:53so let's say somewhere about here
- 2:02:55okay i'll change this to blue okay and
- 2:02:57that's a potential
- 2:02:59level right where you can use to set
- 2:03:01your target profit so as
- 2:03:03of right now if you just eyeball you can
- 2:03:05see that your risk to reward you're
- 2:03:06probably risking a dollar to make like
- 2:03:0880 cents or so
- 2:03:09and as you know you can use a buy limit
- 2:03:10order to improve your risk to reward on
- 2:03:12the trade
- 2:03:13and you know to manage your risk you can
- 2:03:15use a position sizing calculator
- 2:03:17to know how many units of currency you
- 2:03:19should buy right such that
- 2:03:20you risk like for example one percent of
- 2:03:22your account so that is something that
- 2:03:24we have done through
- 2:03:25previously as well so one thing to point
- 2:03:27out is that uh for this particular
- 2:03:28example i want to show you
- 2:03:30how a losing trade looks like in this
- 2:03:32case the market you know did went in our
- 2:03:33favor
- 2:03:34a little bit you can see that it goes up
- 2:03:37here
- 2:03:38halfway through to our target over here
- 2:03:40before it starts to
- 2:03:42reverse and then stop us out for a loss
- 2:03:44of this trade so this trade clearly is a
- 2:03:45losing trade it hits our stop loss
- 2:03:47and only after that right you can see
- 2:03:49this trade continue
- 2:03:51to rally and break out higher so this
- 2:03:52will happen right in your trading career
- 2:03:54i
- 2:03:54assure you i guarantee you a confirm
- 2:03:56plus chop right no matter
- 2:03:58how good a trading setup looks like no
- 2:04:00matter how proper stop-loss how good of
- 2:04:02a stop-loss that you have set now below
- 2:04:03the
- 2:04:04the price structure below support the
- 2:04:05market right sometimes will just you
- 2:04:07know play tricks on you you will still
- 2:04:08hit your stop-loss all right and to make
- 2:04:09you feel
- 2:04:10the anguish the pain only to reverse
- 2:04:13back and you know go
- 2:04:13so much in your favor right and and to
- 2:04:15you know
- 2:04:17make you feel like a loser so that will
- 2:04:18happen be prepared for it and this
- 2:04:20example is really
- 2:04:21clearly one that it and how do i know
- 2:04:23that it's because this is a
- 2:04:24it's a trait i took right and it
- 2:04:26happened to me
- 2:04:28okay so moving on right let's have a
- 2:04:31look at a few
- 2:04:32trading examples and this time around it
- 2:04:34will be a little bit different it will
- 2:04:36be traits that i will
- 2:04:38not want to trade and again we will use
- 2:04:40the same formula we will use the same
- 2:04:43uh concepts that we have talked about
- 2:04:45earlier we have a look at the market
- 2:04:46structure
- 2:04:47area of value and the entry trigger so
- 2:04:50first one
- 2:04:50aussie against the japanese yen so if
- 2:04:52you look at this chart
- 2:04:54on this time frame the daily timeframe
- 2:04:55you can see that the market structure is
- 2:04:57up great so what will we do we look for
- 2:05:00buying opportunities second thing where
- 2:05:02is the area of value so on this chart
- 2:05:05and on this time frame i see that the
- 2:05:07area of value is around the 82
- 2:05:09price point somewhere here so right now
- 2:05:11the price is kind of like in the middle
- 2:05:13of
- 2:05:13i would say nowhere so it's not near any
- 2:05:15area of value i'll give it a cross
- 2:05:17entry trigger is there any valid entry
- 2:05:19trigger at this point in time
- 2:05:20well since it's not even at an area of
- 2:05:23value i wouldn't
- 2:05:24really care if it's there's an entry
- 2:05:25trigger or not because i'm not trading
- 2:05:27from an area of value and right now the
- 2:05:29price the market is still open it's not
- 2:05:30closed yet so again
- 2:05:31uh entry trigger is pretty much i'll say
- 2:05:33no as well since
- 2:05:34this market is currently still uh moving
- 2:05:37and not closed yet
- 2:05:38so as you can see this is clearly a
- 2:05:40trade that i don't want to trade yes
- 2:05:42market structure is up it's in an
- 2:05:44uptrend but
- 2:05:45it's not from an area of value and there
- 2:05:47is no valid entry trigger for me
- 2:05:49to pull a trade second one dollar
- 2:05:52against the norwegian
- 2:05:53chrono so same same thing let's have a
- 2:05:55look at this
- 2:05:56market structure you can see that this
- 2:05:58one here is in the downtrend
- 2:05:59series of lower highs and lower lows
- 2:06:02downtrend
- 2:06:03area of value is there is it near any
- 2:06:06area of value so again area value i
- 2:06:08would say somewhere around the 8.70
- 2:06:10price point somewhere here
- 2:06:11price is over here at this point in time
- 2:06:13so i'll say no
- 2:06:14entry trigger wise if it's not at an
- 2:06:16area of value then really usually i
- 2:06:18don't even bother looking at the entry
- 2:06:19trigger but for the sake of let's say
- 2:06:21this training we look at the entry
- 2:06:22trigger we see there was a shooting
- 2:06:24start on the previous
- 2:06:25day right so there is an entry trigger
- 2:06:27but because
- 2:06:28again it's not from an area of value i
- 2:06:30would choose to skip this trade
- 2:06:32altogether so hopefully by now you can
- 2:06:33understand
- 2:06:34how market structure area of value and
- 2:06:36the entry trigger give you a good idea
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