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Key Concepts of Smart Money Concepts (SMC) 1. Market Structure – Higher Highs and Higher Lows (HH, HL): In an uptrend, the price creates higher highs and higher lows. – Lower Highs and Lower Lows (LH, LL): In a downtrend, the price creates lower highs and lower lows. – Understanding these patterns helps traders identify the overall trend direction. 2....

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Value Area Trading Advantages of Value Area trading: Provides a clear picture of the market’s value. Helps to identify key levels of support and resistance. Can be used to generate trading signals. Disadvantages of Value Area trading: Can be difficult to identify the value area during volatile market conditions. May not be...

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Volume Profile indicators are calculated using the data for the same symbol from the lower timeframes. For example, to calculate the Volume Profile for one daily session, we load all 1m bars that were traded in that daily session, analyze the price levels where they were traded and the direction that the price moved in – if the bar closes above or equal to its...

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• Understanding VWAP – The theory behind VWAP and why it’s essential in trading. • Calculating VWAP – Step-by-step breakdown of VWAP calculation. • VWAP as Support & Resistance – How to use VWAP levels to improve trade execution. • Intraday VWAP Trading Strategies – Techniques for scalping, momentum trading, and • Multi-Day VWAP Analysis – How to use...

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the Volume Profile is a charting technique (indicator) that shows the trading activity of a specific financial asset over time. This indicator uses horizontal bars to reflect trading activity at different price points. The bars are stacked vertically, with the highest indicating the areas with the most trade activity. The Volume Profile is a relatively new...

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Standard Deviation Explained Standard deviation (SD) is a statistical measure of volatility, dispersion, or risk in a data set. In trading and investing, standard deviation helps traders understand how much an asset’s price fluctuates relative to its average price over a given period. Key Concepts of Standard Deviation: 1. Measures Volatility: A high standard...

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Standard Deviation Explained Standard deviation (SD) is a statistical measure of volatility, dispersion, or risk in a data set. In trading and investing, standard deviation helps traders understand how much an asset’s price fluctuates relative to its average price over a given period. Key Concepts of Standard Deviation: 1. Measures Volatility: A high standard...

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Tightening from left to right within the base: You want to see multiple contractions, at least two, within the base. Relative strength and accumulation signs: Watch for these signs before this price base and within the overall pricing structure. Volume dry-ups and bursts upwards within the base: On the downtrends within the base, you want to see declining volume....

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Tightening from left to right within the base: You want to see multiple contractions, at least two, within the base. Relative strength and accumulation signs: Watch for these signs before this price base and within the overall pricing structure. Volume dry-ups and bursts upwards within the base: On the downtrends within the base, you want to see declining volume....

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Identifying Fakeouts: So how can traders identify fakeouts and avoid being trapped? Here are a few strategies: Look for volume: One way to differentiate a genuine breakout from a fakeout is to look at the volume of the move. If the volume is significantly higher during the breakout, it is more likely to be genuine. On the other hand, if the volume is low during...

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Support and resistance represent key junctures where the forces of supply and demand meet. In the financial markets, prices are driven by excesses of supply (down) and demand (up). Supply is synonymous with bearish, bears and selling. Demand is synonymous with bullish, bulls and buying. These terms are used interchangeably throughout this and other articles. As...

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BCLX—Buying Climax. This event typically arrives with wide price bars and exceptional volume increases. Often this price advance is accompanied by bullish news or earnings. Trader, speculator, institutional and public buying is intense on this ‘good news’ breakout to new highs. The C.O. must sell into this advance and therefore the volume will be large. At times...

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How does a trendline work? The classic way to draw trendline is by drawing a straight line connecting a series of swing highs or swing lows. An up-trend line is drawn through the swing lows and a down-trendline is drawn through the swing highs. In that way the trendline is acting as support to an uptrend or as resistance to a downtrend. Trendline are often...

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Price doesn’t stay under the last swing lows because there’s no supply from sellers to keep it down. The demand from buyers forces price action back up over the last swing low support. If there is no selling pressure at lower prices then demand will come in and the chart will rally. Wyckoff Springs can occur in any market and on any time frame. Considering higher...

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Here is a simple price action strategy anyone can trade on almost any time frame. This forex breakout strategy is based upon a simple price action formation called the Breakout-Retest formation. The key element involves price breaking a major high or low with a very impulsive move. The impulsive move suggests commitment from the institutions pushing price and...

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In a downtrend, prices fall because there is an excess of supply over demand. The lower prices go, the more attractive prices become to those waiting on the sidelines to buy the shares. At some level, demand that would have been slowly increasing will rise to the level where it matches supply. At this point, prices will stop falling. This is support. Support can...

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Learning chart patterns might be the fastest way to making consistent money in the stock market. For centuries, the market has displayed the same characteristics, over and over again. After all, it’s all about the buying and selling, supply and demand. Human emotions plotted on a graph in ticks and candles and lines and bars. To that end, the more you learn about...

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How a Flag Pattern Works Flags are areas of tight consolidation in price action showing a counter-trend move that follows directly after a sharp directional movement in price. The pattern typically consists of between five and twenty price bars. Flag patterns can be either upward trending (bullish flag) or downward trending (bearish flag). The bottom of the flag...