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When you are Day Trading, you are essentially buying and selling the same day.
Whenever I come into the market, I never have a bias of where a stock may go.
If a stock that I’m looking at, meets my requirements for an entry, I will enter it in the direction
that the stock price is potentially pushing / breaking.
For example,
Let’s say the Market just opened.
You are looking at stock XXX because there was great news the previous day.
You should never have a bullish BIAS, just because of the news.
The price will always usually react to sentiment, not news.
Although news can create sentiment, it may not be the case for some occasions.
Back to the stock, let’s say stock XXX falls at market open, and continues to go down, and
passing the support line.
In this case, if it meets your requirements for a potential PUT entry, that’s what you execute.
Just because it had great news the previous night, does not determine its “bullishness” the next
morning.
To have an established SUPPORT & RESISTANCE, you must use the 2-3 touch rule.
Here is an example of an ESTABLISHED Support & Resistance.
Notice how SUPPORT & RESISTANCE also creates ZONES.
Since the prices can’t be PERFECT all the time, this creates “zones”.
If the past resistance is .50 cents away from the new resistance, that .50 cent difference turns
into a zone.
Notice the top “RESISTANCE ZONE” and the bottom “SUPPORT ZONE”.
You can see that the SUPPORT & RESISTANCE from the left, retests itself on the right.
This is why you’ll have resistance & support levels from the past retest again in the future.
On the left example the VOLUME kept repeating red and the right, BUYING volume came in
every hour.
You want to either enter at the PRE MARKET high level or the level where it actually breaks out
of its range.
Let’s look at this GAP on HD.
We are currently looking at a 1 hour time frame.
You can see on DAY 10, it sold off again after retracing back.
When you see a level that has such strong sellers, you ALWAYS want to establish this on your
chart.
This selling zone let’s me know NOT to TRADE CALLS whenever we get back to this ZONE.
In this example, you want to make sure to use the PRE MARKET / OPEN RESISTANCE
LEVEL.
You want to wait until the RESISTANCE level has been tested multiple times… especially on
the first 5-20 minutes.
We’re going to do some price action analysis here.
Look at the HAMMER formed on the 2nd 5 minute candle.
The only times that CANDLE formations are considered SIGNIFICANT is when these candles
formed RIGHT AT the RESISTANCE or SUPPORT.
You want to make sure the RANGE starts at the CLOSE / AFTER HOURS.
We’re going to use the RESISTANCE LEVEL as the ENTRY for CALLS.
You can use this SIMPLE BREAKOUT as a factor in why you should enter, or if you look
CLOSELY, you can actually see a Triangle formed.
By using the triangle + the range + the resistance as a reason for entry, you are taking
advantage of FACTOR COMBINATION.
In this next example we are going to utilize Pattern Recognition on the hourly frame.
Another Pattern Recognition strategy, this time using the 15 min chart.
You want to find the next RESISTANCES ABOVE THE BREAKOUT, and USE THOSE levels
as a profit target from the breakout of the pattern.
In this case, this stock does not move much in a day, but that’s besides the point.
You see how AFTER the breakout, the price retested to the PREVIOUS RESISTANCE, and it
STRUGGLED to break it for the first 2 hours.
Here we have an ascending triangle that formed beginning in pre market throughout the first half
of the market when it finally broke out.
Here is another PATTERN RECOGNITION strategy, mainly used for swings because it’s most
beneficial, but this applies to daytrades depending on when the breakout happens.
In this case you FIRST want to have the RED stochastics line cross, THEN the EMA
CROSSOVER.
For 4 consecutive days, trading the RESISTANCE BREAKOUT by itself worked on TSLA.
To help trade breakouts like these, you can utilize the EMA CROSS / STOCHASTIC CROSS /
VOLUME.
Here is an example of EMA CROSSOVER + STOCHASTIC CROSSOVER at OPEN can help
you trade the OPENING VOLATILITY.
Why?
Because when the stochastics cross.. it signifies a SHIFT in Momentum.
When the momentum has been bearish and it crosses up, you get a SHIFT in momentum.
In this case, the LONG BOTTOM WICK that formed on the green candle at the resistance also
indicates buying pressure coming in.
Here is another example of how you can utilize the Stochastic Cross + the EMA Crossover.
In this example,
You want to MAKE SURE you have an ESTABLISHED resistance that has happened on the
SAME TIME FRAME.
ONCE a BREAKOUT happens, you have a 2-10 minute window for a false breakout signal.
In this case we are going to use the STOCHASTIC cross DOWN as one of the signals for a
false signal.
The first signal of a false breakout are the PRICE action of the candles itself.
You can see as the price breaks out, the first BREAKOUT candle shows a lot of selling pressure
shown by the 2 LONG wicks it’s formed on the top.
The stochastic slow indicates a SHIFT in momentum so this should LET YOU KNOW that there
MAY be a potential SHIFT.
Look at the 2 resistance LEVELS.
These RESISTANCE levels are very close together.
When you have resistance levels that are this close together it becomes a ZONE.
You want to focus on the SQUEEZE only when it’s happening ALONG THE RESISTANCE
LINE.
You want to then use the STOCHASTICS to guide you on the shift in momentum.
You want to make sure this shift in momentum happens RIGHT BEFORE the market opens.
As the momentum shifts, the price is already at its breakout point.. therefore the breakout ended
up being HUGE.
In this example you can see that the previous day was bearish.
After hours / Pre market formed a Support and turned into resistance all before market open.
The first candle we’re going to look at is the first 30min candle after previous days close.
This green candle with a long top wick was a full green candle until sellers came in and pushed
the price down causing the long wick.
Now, during pre market, as the candle (red candle with arrow) retested the resistance (which
was support)
Sellers came back in and rejected the price.
The rejection of the EMA + the RESISTANCE line indicates a potential sell off at open.
At the end of the day, what matters is your execution without hesitation.
In this example we’re going to look at the Price action on AAL in 2 days.
The price then formed a pre market high the next day
This pre market high will be used as an entry, and the previous day high will be used as your
PROFIT TARGET.
In this trade, you want to make sure the STOCHASTICS cross up RIGHT AT THE
RESISTANCE level.
In this last example we’re going to be looking at the previous days support.
In this case, the BEAR FLAG that formed was a perfect indication of a continued sell off
because it could not break the resistance line AT ALL!
Hope this guide helps you understand price action and understand how to Day Trade
effectively.
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