Forex Lesson 3 : Market Trending Forex Tips & Trading Strategy For You Disclaimer This Document is for educational purpose only. By viewing this you agree that it is general educational material and you will not hold anybody responsible for loss resulting from the content provided by pipsumo website. Forex currency trading have large potential rewards but also large potential risk. Don’t put your Money that you can’t afford to loose. Market Trending Forex Lesson 3 • Trending Market – 3 Types Market Trending – Understand Market Structure – 3 ways to know weakened trending market. – Trending Reversal – Best entry on trending market. What is market trending? • 'Trending Market' A market that is trending in one direction or another. • A bull market is trending moving upward, while a bear market is trending moving downward. • A trending market can be classified as such for either the short, mid or long term Chart • OHLC is Open, High, Low and Close • We can know the information from candlesticks. OHLC high high close open open close low low 3 Types Market Trending • Uptrend • Downtrend • Sideways Uptrend People Believe Uptrend is moving like this Real Market Movement is like this. The price is moving with zig-zag pattern. To understand this, you need to count HH High and Low in market movement HH HL H HL HL HH- Higher High HL- Higher Low Downtrend Downtrend People believe trend is moving like a straight line. • Real trendline is moving in zig-zag pattern. In high and low pattern. LH LH L LH LL HH- Higher High HL- Higher Low LH LL LL Confirmation • Break! High/low • In order for you to know the market are trending. • You need to count the high and low. • Look at high and low of the previous candle. • If it uptrend, the previous high was break with the current candle. • If it downtrend, the previous low was break with the current candle. • This candle you need to Look At bigger time frame. • Daily and weekly Uptrend Uptrending Market • Wait for the candle to complete before deciding what is the market trend. • From the breakout of previous high candle, we know that price is going to find its higher high position. • Please remember Price are moving in high and low condition. • After price break previous high. It may find its higher low before continue climbing up. Look at Daily and weekly Candlestick HH HH HH Break! HH HL HL • Smaller Time Frame • Usually H4 and H1 HH HH HH Break! HL HL Downtrend Downtrending Market • Wait for the candle to complete before deciding what is the market trend. • From the breakout of previous low candle, we know that price is going to find its lower low position. • Please remember Price are moving in high and low condition. • After price break previous low. It may find its lower high before continue going down. Look at Daily and weekly Candlestick LH LH Break! LL LL LL LL • Smaller Time Frame • Usually H4 and H1 LH LH Break! LL LL LL Sideways • Sideways happened when there is not much price moving. • If we look at the higher time frame, candlestick formed as doji. • The market are indecisive. • Some of traders, they don’t trade at this market condition. Higher Time Frame Lower Time Frame How to know weakened Trending • Shadow • Volume • Stochastic Shadow • By looking at the shadow. The longer the shadow. The higher the pressure from the opposite trader. shadow volume • Decreasing volume of each candle Vol 3 Vol 2 Vol 1 Stochastic • Stochastis is use for trend confirmation. • This is to know what market condition is overbought/oversold. • You can just use the standard settings indicator of stochastic. • 5,3,3 • %K - 5 , %D - 5 , Slowing – 3 • Stochastic use to support your decision on looking at the market trending. overbought oversold • If you want to know more about stochastic and divergence, you can download this ebook. Click here to download Market Reversal HH HH HL HH HL LL HH HL LL HL HL Break! LL Downtrend HL HL LL LL uptrend Best Entry Buy HH Target Profits HH Buy HL Stop Loss Best Entry Sell Stop Loss HL Sell LL Target Profits LL Forex Trending • For More Forex Trending to discover, can also download this ebook. Conclusion • Market is moving in high and low condition. • To determine the market trending, always refer to higher time frame. • Entry at smaller time frame Forex Lesson 4 • Forex Strategy – 3 killer candlestick reversal signal – How to trade forex with candlestick reversal – Parabolic SAR and moving average strategy – Settings on indicator – Entry in the market visit