Never initiate position in the middle of a Range!!
The reward is too small with big risk. Bar E is a
good setup bar, but horrible follow-ups, a Doji.
Now let’s look at the
*
bar. When the bar was forming, it probed below the bottom boundary,
triggered all of the buyers’ stop-loss, and closed at high. That’s a TRAP! That is our signal bar to go
long! The confirmation came on the second bar. This tiny little bearish bar shows the sellers are
losing interest. Place a buy-stop order 1 tick above that bar (46.87) and stop-loss below the * bar
(46.67). Measure the target by risk-reward ratio 1:2, exit at 47.27. And that’s exactly what happened,
to the tick! When price got rejected at 47.28 and got slammed down, it shows a lot of traders were
taking profit at the same spot. Another way is to enter with market buy orders as the price was trading
downward, approaching the bottom boundary line. You are betting that multiple breakout attempts
will fail in sideway price action. Set a specific stop loss placement, i.e.:$150 or $200. It’s a
probability bet with pre-defined loss, your edge is most breakout of range fails and your confirmation
is long the wick. Once that bar did close and confirmed your edge, then you can move your stop to
46.67. Target is same, 1:2 ratio or more (1:3), since you enter at the very extremes, risk is relatively
smaller.
Fourth, the 20 EMA
. EMA is arithmetic calculation. When price is trending strong and fast, it’s hard
for EMA to catch up with the calculation. Therefore, in a strong trend, there is distance between EMA
and bars. In trading range, it’s the opposite, there is lots of touching. Sometimes it’s the body, most of
the time is the wick. The “physical” contact is frequent. Because price movement in a Range is not
very volatile, most of the time it’s not going anywhere. The EMA cuts through the range, often in the
middle. The 20-day EMA is like an axis where price is moving around it, from top to bottom.
There is one scenario to note here: when a Range is about to breakout, watch the price action closely,
you will notice the EMA is somehow holding the bars and push them out to the breakout direction.
For an upside breakout, price will halt around the middle of Range around the EMA. Though many
bars may probe below the EMA, they never close below it. Vice versa for downtrend. Price will halt
at the EMA and being pushed to the downside. Nothing is written in stone, but watch closely on the
closes of the bars and relationship between bars and EMA. A bearish breakout is more likely when
it’s below the EMA, and a bullish breakout is more likely when the bars are above EMA.
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