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Will 2018 Be Another Losing Year For You?

Rob Taylor

Rob TaylorEinstein once said that the definition of madness is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.

So will 2018 be your year for Forex trading success? Not if you are doing the same things that you were doing in 2017 it won’t.

Less than 5% of retail traders consistently make money in the market. Why?

Retail trading strategies don’t work, its as simple as that.

What do I mean by a retail trading strategy? A retail trading strategy is any strategy that uses beliefs about the market that are incorrect. Beliefs that are built up by years of watching YouTube video’s and visiting sites like Forex Factory and Baby Pips.

Retail traders do not understand how professional traders trade. Despite all the so-called Forex gurus that claim to be able to teach you how to trade price action, or teach you how to trade order flow, or teach you how the big banks trade, or teach you how the institutional traders trade, retail traders are still in the dark about what really goes on in the Forex market.

The big banks do not trade how you think they trade, the institutional traders do not trade how you think they trade, professional traders do not trade how you think they trade.

Why are you doing the same things over and over again?

Because you don’t know any different that’s why. You have been brainwashed by charlatan educators who claim that they know what they are talking about when they don’t. You have taken too many courses for a few 100 bucks, and you think you know how to read a chart, but you don’t.

If you don’t know that you are doing it wrong then you cant change it. But trust me if you are losing money in the markets then you are doing it wrong, and you need to change what you are doing.

Thank you for visiting my site, but don’t go just yet.

How ever you may have reached my site today I would like to thank you for visiting, but before you click away just stop for one second and listen to this. This is a pivotal moment in your Forex trading career. If you read some of the articles on my site and click away then you have just missed an incredible opportunity to find out what you have been searching for your whole trading career. How the Forex market really works.

I am a real life professional trader. I have been where you are now, I have done what you are doing now. And now I am prepared to share all of my years of knowledge and experience with you, to enable you to change the way you look at the market forever. I don’t just claim to know what I am talking about. I actually do know what I am talking about, and I prove it to my students day in and day out in my live trading room.

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So here is an offer you can’t refuse. Just to prove to all the doubters out there that I am the real deal I am going to put my money where my mouth is. For all traders who enroll for my 15 or 30-hour course this month, I am going to give you free access to my live trading room, and my earn while you learn offer, for life. That is a saving of £1000.

Why am I doing this? Because the feedback that I have been getting from students that are in the live trading room is amazing, and I feel that everyone that takes my 15 or 30-hour course should have the benefit of the trading room, as it really does transform the way you look at the market and turbocharges your learning.

So now you have no excuses. Make 2018 the year that you do something different. Make 2018 the year that you finally realize your dream of becoming a successful trader. Make 2018 the year that you get a proper trading education from a real trader that makes his money from trading, not from training.

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Thanks for visiting, and remember this is a pivotal moment in your Forex trading career, are you going to click away, or are you going to contact me and see what I have to say?

Make over 100 pips profit with this strategy for trading the news.

Rob Taylor

Trading the news can be very profitable if you can predict which way price is going to move. Entering a trade just before a news release can net you 30 or 40 pips very quickly if you get the direction right. But predicting which way price is going to move is very much a gamble, so most traders do not trade the news, as its just too risky, and you often get stopped out, as price quickly moves one way, and then the other. This type of move is known as a whipsaw. Most traders have experienced this whipsaw effect, when price goes up then down very quickly, and it seems no matter which way you trade, you always seem to get stopped out.

Now i look at the charts in a very different way to 95% of traders out there, and i can always see an opportunity in whatever the market throws at me. When you understand why the market moves as it does, you can profit from almost any trading scenario, and trading the news can also be a great opportunity to profit from the market.

A strategy for trading the news is probably one of the hardest things to develop, but if you understand what is happening to price then its a lot easier. Now i am not going to go into the ins and outs of price action, and how i use it, but i would like to give you a simple but effective strategy for trading the news. This strategy can give you over 100 pips profit on a major news release if used on multiple pairs.

Now the big problem with developing a strategy for trading the news is stop losses. When most traders enter trades they set a stop loss. That stop loss could be anything from 10 pips to 30 pips, or more if you are trading higher time frames. Now if you are trading the news on the 15 min time frame, and you set a stop loss how big should it be? 10 pips, 20 pips, 30 pips, more? It is very difficult to set a stop loss for a news announcement, as you don’t know how big the move is going to be? So if you don’t know how big the move is going to be, how can you set a stop loss? You can set a stop loss above a recent high, or below a recent low, but a big whipsaw like the one in the screenshot below will still wipe you out. So what do you do? How do you profit from a move like that? Well the trading strategy below will describe what you need to do to make money from a news based whipsaw move.

strategy for trading the newsIf you think about what happens in a whipsaw, price goes up, stops out short traders, price goes down, stops out long traders. Now you know price is going up, to stop out shorts, and you know its going down to stop out longs, so this is what you do. You enter two trades, one long, one short, as close as you can to the the mid price of the move that leads up to the whipsaw. If you look a the screenshot above, this would be the middle black line. You set a take profit on both trades of 15 to 20 pips. You can go for more pips if the news is big, and you are going to get a bigger whipsaw, an interest rate decision for example, but 15 to 20 pips is a safe amount to go for.

Now the important part of this strategy is NOT to set a stop loss. Your take profit becomes the stop loss. Most traders will be trading this with a 20 to 30 pip stop loss, you trade it with a take profit instead of a stop loss. Price goes up, hits your take profit, price goes down hits your take profit. As price is hitting other traders stop losses, its hitting your take profit. But because you are trading without a stop loss, it does not matter which way price goes first, you are not going to get stopped out, you are only going to get your take profit hit. Does that make sense? Read it again if you are unsure.

Now there are a couple of important things you need to be aware of before you use this type of strategy for trading the news. The news release must be a high impact release, ( you can check which news releases are high impact on the calendar on the homepage ) NFP, interest rate decision, FOMC etc. A high impact news release is much more likely to produce a whipsaw move. The market also has to be moving in a tight range before the news is released. Check the screenshot above for an example of what you are looking for. This is VERY important. When the market has been moving in a tight range before the news traders stop losses are in easy reach of the whipsaw. If price has been going up, or going down before the release, then the whipsaw is less likely to happen. If you have the tight range that you need, you must enter as close to mid price as you can, so you are not exposed at the end of the range. If you are, your 15 or 20 pip take profit may not get hit in both directions.

Something else you can do to maximize your profit, is to trade this strategy on more than one pair. If the news is euro related, trade all euro pairs, if its dollar related, trade all dollar pairs, if its Yen related, you get the idea. As long as you have the tight range you are looking for before the news release you can trade any relevant pair. Trading more than one pair will also spread your risk, just in case you do not get the whipsaw on all the pairs. As long as you get it on the majority of pairs you will still make plenty of pips, and your take profit will get hit one way or another.

Please note: I am not a news trader. The strategies i employ for trading are low risk high probability trading strategies. A lot of my trading is based on chart logic, and this strategy is a logical way to trade the whipsaw on this type of news release. If you are a news trader then this strategy will hopefully help you understand the whipsaw, and how to profit from it. If you decide to use this strategy or not, i hope its been enjoyable reading, and made you think about the market a little differently. Making money from trading is all about understanding what is happening on the chart, and thinking outside of the box. 🙂

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What Is Advanced Price Action Forex Trading?

Rob Taylor

What i trade and what i teach is advanced price action Forex trading. There is lots of free information online about price action trading, some good some not so good. I have some free info on here about price action set ups like how to trade pin bars or how to trade outside bars, but its just basic stuff that you can find on many free sites. Don’t get me wrong this information will help you in your trading, but it will not enable you to make money consistently, week in week out from your trading. To be consistent you need to understand advanced price action Forex trading.

So what is advanced price action Forex trading?

advanced price action forex tradingAdvanced learning by its nature is to learn something at a higher level, so you are learning price action trading at a much higher level than the majority of price action traders. Every candle on a chart is a representation of price action over a set period of time. A daily candle is made of six h4 candles, 24 h1 candles, 96 15 min candles, or 288 5 min candles. To really understand what is happening in a daily candle, you have to understand what has happened on the lower time frame candles. This is part of advanced price action Forex trading as i see it. We break every candle down, and understand what is happening on the smallest time frames, to give us an indication on which way price is most likely to move.

If we notice a price action set up on a higher time frame, we can also use the lower time frames to give us a great entry point. Traders that trade the daily and weekly time frames have massive stop losses, we can enter the same trade at a precision entry, and have a much tighter stop than they have. By studying the lower time frames, we will also know if the trade is going to fail before they do. Whats the point of being stopped out for 200 pips. If you know the trade is going to fail, you can take a much smaller hit instead, many times you can get out with breakeven.

Why so many Forex traders lose money.

As you are probably aware the majority of Forex traders lose money in the markets, and the reason for this is that they only have a basic understanding of Forex trading. To be a consistently profitable trader, you have to have a complete understanding of what is happening to price on every time frame, from the 1 min chart, right up to the monthly chart. When you have this understanding, and you know what makes the market move, you can enter and exit the market safely, and make profits consistently.

What the experts say, lol.

Many so called experts will tell you that you cannot make money trading the lower time frames, because price is too volatile. You need to trade the daily and above to be successful. This is complete rubbish, and anyone that says this does not fully understand advanced price action. There are many well respected price action traders, that sell their courses to people on the understanding that this is a fact. The only good thing about trading the higher time frames, is it takes longer for you to lose your money, as the set ups on the higher time frames are less frequent. This is great for the people that sell these courses, as they will have more time to fob you off, and you are less likely to demand your money back if it takes you 12 months to realise their stuff don’t work.

What other websites are saying.

A lot of websites make bold claims that they can teach you advanced price action Forex trading, but they are mostly teaching you how to trade pin bars off support and resistance levels, or doji’s or engulfing candles of the same levels. They are teaching you how to read price action after it has happened. Anyone can teach reversal signals on daily and weekly time frames, but how many people can teach you how to get in right at the top of a pin bar, or an engulfing candle, before the candle has even formed? That’s what I’m talking about when i talk about advanced price action trading. Identifying pin point entries and exits on the chart, whether you are trend trading, or counter trend trading, that’s real advanced price action trading.

Many paid Forex training courses are a complete waste of money.

The majority of paid Forex training courses are a complete waste of time and money to be honest, and there are many experts that claim to be able to teach you how to trade, but they will only teach you basic stuff that you can find online for free at babypips or similar sites. They will not teach you how to really trade, because they do not know how to really trade themselves.

waste of moneyBefore paying these people ask yourself “if this guy can trade why is he selling me a course for a few hundred bucks” and you will get your answer. The reason my course costs almost 4k is because its worth a 100k. I am a professional Forex trader, and what i can teach you will transform your trading and change your life. If you want the same old rubbish that you can get online for free, keep throwing away your few hundred bucks, plus all the time and money you are losing while you are testing this rubbish, before you find out its the same old stuff yet again that does not work.

Don’t get me wrong just because you pay 1000s for a training course, does not mean it will be the real deal. There are also many companies that charge a lot more than i do, and their training courses are just as bad, if not worse that the ones you can get for a few 100 bucks. These big Forex training organizations have huge marketing budgets, and they can make it sound like Forex is they key to making a fortune very quickly. You need to be really careful of these companies. I have heard stories of people that have paid these companies 25k and they still cant make money. How these companies are still allowed to operate their businesses is beyond me.

Forex Trading is not easy at first, and you need the right education.

I will be honest with you, Forex trading is not easy at first, and you are not going to make big money from it right away. Its a hard job that has to be learned fully if you want to be successful consistently. I can give you the right education, but its up to you to put in the time required to make yourself successful. What i teach is not a get rich quick scheme. If you can imagine Forex trading as a journey. I can take you 80% of the way very quickly, by teaching you stuff that could take you 5 or even 10 years to learn on your own, stuff you really need to know in order to be successful, but you need to invest chart time and practice what i teach, to complete the rest of the journey. With my support of course. 🙂

If you are prepared for a little hard work initially, then Forex trading will become a lot easier as you progress.

So if you are reading this and thinking “how do i know that you are not another con artist that is going to take my money and give me the same old rubbish i have paid 300 bucks for”. Well the short answer is you don’t. But you are welcome to contact any of my students for a review of what i offer, and they will tell you i am the real deal, and what i teach is true advanced price action Forex trading.

As Morpheus says. All I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.

How To Stop Losing Money In The Forex Market.

Rob Taylor

Why do Forex traders lose money? There are many reasons why Forex traders lose money, but in this article i will give you 10 top tips on how to stop losing money in the Forex market.

Knowledge is power.

The most important thing that you need to be a successful Forex trader is knowledge. Knowledge is everything in Forex trading. The more you know about the market the more successful you will become at trading.

There are many websites available online that will give you a certain degree of knowledge to enable you to trade Forex, but 95% of these websites are run by marketing companies, or failed traders, so the knowledge you get from these websites will enable you to trade, but they will not give you the understanding you need to enable you to make money from Forex trading every week.

Its a fact that 95% of Forex traders consistently lose money. And the main reason for this is they do not understand how the market really works, because they have never been educated by a professional Forex trader. I am a professional Forex trader and i can teach you how to trade Forex, and make consistent profits week in week out from trading, but my time is limited so i cannot teach you for free. For more information on my Forex training course please click on the link.

top 10 forex tips

If you do not have the funds available to pay me to teach you how to trade Forex, here are 10 top tips you can use to enable you to cut down on your losses.

1. Don’t trade with more money than you can afford to lose.

Putting pressure on yourself will cause you to make the wrong trading decisions, and trading with more money than you can afford to lose will add to that pressure.

2. Don’t over trade.

Over trading can lead to an emotional roller coaster. If you are taking too many trades you are trading emotionally. Trading should be as mechanical as possible. Emotional trading will lead to big losses.

3. Don’t be greedy.

If you have had a couple of nice trades and banked some pips enjoy them. Don’t think you are on a roll and chase after more pips. This often leads to more risk taking and you end up giving back the pips you made, and some.

4. Don’t revenge trade.

Getting back into a position straight after a losing trade is called revenge trading. When you trade this way you are trading purely on emotion, and you are chasing those lost pips. If you have a losing trade, just sit back and relax, and take some time out to re focus your mind.

5. Don’t over expose yourself to a losing position.

Chasing after a losing position is probably one of the worst things you can do in trading. Adding to a losing trade in the hope that the market will come back will cost you big time. Just admit that you got it wrong and close your trade, and move on.

6. Keep a record of all your trades.

Keeping a record of all your trades may give you some insight into your trading habits. Do you trade better in the morning, or in the evening? What is your average win loss ratio? How many trades are you taking per day? How long are you holding your trades for? Understanding your trading habits will enable you to become a better trader.

7. Trade with a lot size that you are comfortable with.

This is a mistake that a lot of traders can make that will dramatically effect their trading performance. If your lot size is too big, you are anxious when you trade, so you close trades too early, and you stop yourself out of trades too soon. If your lot size is too small the reverse happens. So you need to trade with a lot size that feels comfortable, but not too comfortable.

8. Devise a rules based trading method and have a reason for entering and exiting trades.

You have to have a method. You cannot blindly enter the market in the hope that you will get a winning trade. You have to trade based on a rules based method that has been tested over time and is proven to work.

9. Be patient and wait for the set ups.

When you have your rules based method in place, stick to it. Wait for qualified set ups before entering the market.

10. Don’t rely on indicators to give you trading signals.

The majority of Forex traders rely on indicators to give them trading signals. If trading was that easy everyone would be making fortunes from trading, but that’s not the reality is it. If you want to be successful in Forex trading you have to learn to read price action. Price is the most important thing in trading and it always will be. If you understand price action you will be a much more successful trader.

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Can You Use Price Action Trading For Scalping The Forex Markets?

Rob Taylor

I am a great scalper, and price action trading can be a very successful way of scalping the Forex markets.

What is scalping the Forex markets?

For those of you that are not aware of what scalping is, its basically the process of entering and exiting trades very quickly for just a few pips profit. Scalping trades can last anything from a few seconds to a few minutes. Scalping can be a really effective way of making money from Forex trading very quickly, but it can also be a very high risk strategy if you do not know what you are doing.

Forex Scalping StrategyMany traders end up as scalpers, as they do not really understand the markets, so they try to jump in and out of trades quickly, and make a few pips on each trade. When you do not understand how to scalp effectively it becomes a very high risk Forex trading strategy, as scalpers tend to have much larger stop losses than other traders, some scalpers even trade without stop losses.

If a bad scalper enters the market at the wrong time, price can quickly move against them, and a series of half a dozen winning scalping trades, can be wiped out with one single losing trade.

How can price action trading be useful in scalping?

Price action trading is all about understanding price, and predicting with high probability what will happen next. To be a successful scalper you need to have a complete understanding of price action trading, this will enable you to enter and exit the markets with precision and take your pips effectively, rather than just jumping in and out, and hoping you make some pips. This type of reckless trading is very stressful and can be very costly, and should be avoided at all times. Trading should be relaxed and calm, and you should be entering the trade logically, and with a complete understanding of what price is likely to do.

Can you teach me how to be a successful scalper?

The short answer is yes. I teach advanced price action trading. What i can teach you is as close as you will get to a perfect trading strategy. That is a bold claim i know, but i am 100% confident in what i do, and my strategy if followed correctly will produce a 90% plus win rate, so if you want to be a scalper following my strategy will make you a great scalper, if that is what you want to do.

Teach Forex TradingWhen you have completed my Forex training course you can trade how you want to trade. So if you want to be a scalper, you can do that, if you want to be a swing trader, you can do that. Whatever trading style you have, or wish to have, you can apply it to what i teach.

I like to trade based on what the market is giving me. If there is an opportunity to make 50 pips i will take them, if the opportunity is there to only make 10 pips i will take them too. I trade logically, and i take what the market gives me, and to trade that way you need to have a complete understanding of advanced price action trading, which is what i teach.

So yes you can use price action trading for scalping the Forex markets, and in my opinion you do have to have that knowledge to be a successful scalper, but when you do have a complete understanding of price action Forex trading, why would you want to be a scalper and take 3 or 4 pips from a trade when you can take 50? 🙂

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How To Trade Pin Bars Or Hammer Candles.

Rob Taylor

How to trade pin bars or hammer candles as they are also called. Pin bars or hammers can be traded successfully on any time frame, but they tend to be more reliable on higher time frame charts, such as 4 hour and daily charts. Pin bar reversal candles are great price action set ups when traded correctly.

I personally don’t take trades based solely on pin bars or hammer candles, as my trading style is based on other factors, but lots of traders do trade them, and they do make up a large part of price action Forex trading.

I do however take notice of when pin bar set ups present themselves, as it gives me extra confirmation that i am in the correct trade, and it also helps me define a logical exit for my trades.

How to trade pin bars or hammer candles.

pin bar breakout trade

There are 2 possible entries when trading pin bars or hammer set ups. You can take a breakout entry trade, or you can take a retrace entry trade.

The chart on the right shows how to trade a pin bar breakout entry trade. You enter the trade on the breakout of the low, or the nose as its sometimes called.

The low (nose) is marked by the line, and as soon as the low is broken you will enter the trade short.

pin bar retrace tradeNow lets look at a how to take a retrace entry trade. A retrace entry trade is when you enter the trade on a retrace of the pin bar.

The most common retrace that Forex traders take is the 50% retrace.

If you measure the height of the pin bar, pin to pin, and divide it by 2 you will get your 50% retrace entry target.

You enter the trade short, when the price moves up 50% of the height of the pin bar, as shown by the chart on the right. The line marks the 50% retrace entry point.

Both of these trades show short set ups, but both can be applied to long set ups too. The candles are just inverted for a long set up.

It is important to know how to trade pin bars or hammer candles, as a lot of traders do trade them, and they do work very well if they present themselves at the correct point on the chart.

This is just basic price action trading. What i trade and teach is high probability price action trading. If you wish to learn this type of trading please consider my Forex training course.

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How To Make Money From Forex Trading.

Rob Taylor

how to make money from forex trading

How to make money from Forex trading.

That is a question that many new Forex traders ask. Now if you break the question down into 3 parts, the answer to the question is a lot easier than you think.

First lets look at the last part of the question. Forex trading. What is Forex trading? Answer. Forex Trading is the speculative trading of one currency against another.

Now lets look at the second part. Make money. To make money you have to invest money. If you invest 5 pounds and you get back 6 pounds, you have made money.

Now lets look at the first part of the question. How to. Now this is by far the most important part of the question, and it will give you the answer you are looking for. If you are asking “how to” do something, what exactly are you asking for? You are asking for knowledge. How to cross the road, how to bake a cake, how to drive a car. All of these skills require you to have the knowledge needed to complete the task.

So lets put all the parts of the question together. I am asking for knowledge, on how to get a return on my investment, in the speculative trading of one currency against another.

Now we know what we are actually asking, and what we are actually seeking, we can now ask the question again. How to make money from Forex trading. The answer to the question is knowledge. Knowledge of how the Forex market works, knowledge of currency pairs, knowledge of risk, knowledge of probability, knowledge of price action.

You have heard the saying knowledge is power right? Well knowledge when it comes to Forex trading is the ultimate power. Knowledge is a super power. Knowledge is success, knowledge is money, knowledge is freedom.

Knowledge is power.

If you want to be a successful Forex trader, and make money from Forex trading, you have to have knowledge. The more knowledge you have, the more successful you will be, the more money you will make, and the more freedom you will have to enjoy that money.

A lot of people tell me that they want to become professional Forex traders. They want to give up their current job, and they want Forex to be their new job. If this is you, ask yourself this question. If you saw an advert for a job as a Forex trader in the city of London would you apply for this job? The answer would probably be no. Why? because you don’t know how to trade. So if you do not have the knowledge and the required skill to get a job as a Forex trader in the city, what makes you think that you can give up your day job and become a full time Forex trader? Can you see the problem?

I am a professional Forex trader, and i can help you become a professional Forex trader, but its not going to happen overnight. To get to the stage where you can give up your job and become a full time Forex trader, you need to have the required knowledge and skill needed to enable you to apply for that job in the city.

Fore more information on how to make money from Forex trading please consider my Forex training course. I will give you all the training, knowledge, and skill needed, to enable you to give up your job, and become a professional Forex trader.

Forex Candlestick Patterns. How To Trade Outside Bars.

Rob Taylor

What is an outside bar?

how to trade outside barsAnother very common and successful candlestick pattern is an outside bar, or engulfing bar as they are sometimes called, because they engulf the previous candle. Knowing how to trade outside bars will put plenty of pips in your trading account. Outside bar candlestick patterns are far more reliable trading signals than inside bar patterns are. If you know how to trade inside bars then trading outside bars is very much the same.

The picture on the right shows a bearish outside bar candlestick pattern. Here you can see that the bearish red candle is completely outside the bullish green candle. The red candle completely engulfs it, hence the term engulfing bar.

Why are outside bars more reliable than inside bars?

Outside bars represent a total shift in sentiment (in this case from bullish to bearish). The bearish price action in the red candle is far greater than the bullish green candle, so we have had a total shift in sentiment from bullish to bearish. The red candle is twice the size of the green candle which indicates strong selling pressure.

If you compare the outside bar price action to the price action of an inside bar, where the candle is a lot smaller than the preceding mother candle, you can understand that a bigger candle means a bigger shift in sentiment, which equals a more reliable trade, and that is why outside bars are more reliable candlestick patterns than inside bars are.

How to trade outside bars.

The general rules on how to trade outside bars would be to enter the trade at the breakout of the red outside bar. Some traders prefer to see a retrace of the outside bar before taking the trade. The only problem with taking the trade on a retrace of the outside bar, is you may not get a breakout, you may get another inside bar instead, and then the trade becomes a lot less reliable.

My advice would be similar to the advice i gave on how to trade inside bars, which is wait for the breakout, and then look for the retrace, before entering.

For more information on how to trade outside bars please consider my Forex training course.

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Forex Candlestick Patterns. How To Trade Inside Bars.

Rob Taylor

How to trade inside bars.

Of the numerous price action Forex candlestick patterns that present themselves on a daily basis, inside bars are probably seen more often than any other pattern. Knowing how to trade inside bars will give you an edge in your Forex trading.

So what is an inside bar?

price action inside barsIts a pretty simple answer. An inside bar is a candle that forms inside another candle. If you look at the picture on the right you will see an example of a bullish inside bar. For a candle to qualify as an inside bar, it has to be inside the candle to its left, as per the picture. The red candle to the left of the green inside bar is commonly called the mother candle.

If the green candle was to the left of the mother candle it would not qualify as an inside bar. An inside bar has to be to the right of the mother candle. A mother candle that has an inside candle to its left is called an outside bar. An outside bar is a totally different candlestick pattern to an inside bar, and has a totally different meaning. You can find information here on how to trade outside bars.

So what does an inside bar signify?

An inside bar can mean one of 2 things primarily. In a trending market it can mean a reversal is likely, or it can mean a trend continuation is likely. The concept behind an inside bar is the market is showing indecision or consolidation after a big move. The red candle is a big move down and sentiment has changed from bearish to bullish. This could be a temporary change in sentiment, which would result in a trend continuation, or the start of an overall change in sentiment, which would lead to a reversal.

The candles preceding the inside bar are a good indication of whether a trend continuation or reversal is likely. Also the level at which the inside bar presents itself is also a good indication of what the likely outcome will be.

Trading guidelines for inside bars.

The general rule on how to trade inside bars would be to enter the trade at the breakout of the red mother candle. If you are trading the reversal, you would trade the breakout of the mother candle to the upside in this instance. If you were trading a trend continuation move, you would trade the breakout to the downside.

I don’t generally trade breakouts, but if i was trading this set up i would personally like to see a convincing breakout of the mother candle, and then a retest of the inside bar before i would take the trade. I like to enter my trades at the best possible price, and when you are trading breakouts you do often see a little retrace, or re test of the breakout area, before a continuation, and that is where i would like to get in, as you are getting a discount to the price paid by the breakout traders. This strategy does run the risk of missing the breakout though, as the price does not always come back for the re test.

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Why Do Pin Bar Reversal Candles Fail?

Rob Taylor

If you read my article on the pin bar rejection candle, you should know what one is. But not all pin bar reversal candles, or rejection candles work out. Why do some pin bar reversal candles fail, while others pay out?

Here are 3 reasons why pin bar reversal candles could fail.

1. A news release.

A classic reason for a pin bar reversal failure is a news release. I do not trade through news, but news can dramatically affect the likelihood of a successful outcome of a pin bar reversal set up. As a Forex trader you should always be aware of news releases, to make sure you are not either in a trade when news is coming up, or are about to get into a trade when news is pending. I subscribe to a news feed called Talking Forex that keeps me updated on any price sensitive news no matter how small it may be.

2. The components of the pin bar reversal candles.

bearish pin bar reversal candleHow the candle is made up can also affect how successful the set up will be. The ideal components of pin bar reversal candles are a long pin, or wick as some people call it, and a small body. If the body is too large, or the pin is too small the likelihood is it will not work.

The picture on the right is a great example of a bearish pin bar reversal candle. You can see the wick is nice and large, and the body is small. It is also beneficial that the body is red if its a bearish candle, as this one is, or that it is green in the case of a bullish reversal candle.

You can see how successful this bearish pin bar set up is by the strong move down on the candle to the right of the pin bar. A lot of Forex traders would have recognized this great pin bar set up and quickly jumped into short positions to promote the aggressive move down in price that we can see.

3. The location of the pin bar reversal candles.

 

The location of the pin bar is a common reason for a pin bar set up to fail. If the pin bar is located at the wrong position within a trend it will fail. Pin bars work best when they are located at a swing high or swing low within a trend.

If a pin bar is located between 2 candles there is also a likelihood that it will fail. The pin bar set up works better when the pin bar is protruding from the 2 candles either side of it.

failed pin bar reversal chart

The chart above shows a number of pin bar set ups. Two that have failed and one that has worked out nicely. The two that have failed are marked with arrows.

You can clearly see from left to right that the first pin bar has failed for 2 reasons. The first reason was the size of the body. The second reason is the location within the trend. Also the body is bullish (green) and it should ideally be bearish (red).

The second pin bar set up worked out nicely for 4 reasons. The pin bar has a nice small body, that is the correct colour for a bearish set up (red), and its at the swing high within the down trend, and it is protruding from the candles around it.

The third pin bar failed because of its location within the trend and the candles either side of it. You can see that the pin bar has a nice wick and a very small almost non existent body, which is very good, but its totally in the wrong position within the move down, it is positioned at a swing low, and it is overpowered by the 2 candles either side of it.

Pin bar reversal candles work very well when the correct set up presents itself. This article covers basic price action set ups. What i teach is advanced price action trading. If you wish to learn how to trade Forex using advanced high probability price action Forex trading, please consider my Forex training course.

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