Quote from The Trojan:
I don't understand all those lines? How can you trade off them? Would it not just be easier to use the horizontal lines of what looks like support/resistance?
Aloha mate i hadnt forgotten about your question..,
but wanted to wait till i wasnt in any rush so i could answer it fully,
as it is very important.
You can trade of the lines in a whole range of different ways,
depending on your style of trading;
*All they actually are are lines that show you the 'only' places you need to look to see reactions in the market.
What this means is when you look at a chart on the right hand side (blank empty space as its the future), you basically need to make money by getting trades in the right direction that the line (price) will move in when its in that space in the future.
Sounds extremely hard because well how the fuck can anyone look at a blank screen and say 'this will happen over the next 2hours....??
However with these lines you trade off the ''reactions'',
as they will 'cause the future by how they do react'.
The market will make 100,000s of movements throughout the day though,
and so it would be very very hard to look the 1min chart as the price line is moving and know when to get in and out.
But so when you have these lines that show the levels that you need to look at when the price crosses them, it makes it alot lot easier to know 'WHERE' and 'WHEN' you would be making a trade if you were going to make one.
Since the price simply moves between these lines, reacting at its touches on them, and either boucing up of them, or falling through them to go test teh next line.
So-
You could trade it by entering longs off the touch on the line, stoploss maybe 11ticks below the line.
=Market bouces off, your in profit, and just follow it up to the next lines.
Or market breaks through, you have tight s/l so only lose 11ticks.
And watch it then fall about 36ticks more down to the next level.
You do same there and if that one holds you make MINIMUM 40ticks profit for when goes back up to the higher line.
So endup profitable
And then onc eyou get more advanced and confident and knwoing the levels that will and wont hold, and how far market can stretch in 1direction even if its really really ralling hard...
Then you can just let it fall down through quite a few of the lines,
so wait until theres been a big move in 1direction,
when you see it reach the next line down and its really really looking to struggle to go even lower there,
you then go long very big and hard with very big stoploss.
(As the lower it falls the better it is for you as you can add more longs so get better average price and at higher £ per tick, for whne it is forced to bounce back.
Or if you prefer to make smaller but safer trades to build up confidence (the way you should always trade, but i gotten lazy lol),
You- see big move down trhough lots these levels, so thats your guide that you can get a long for the ullback move taht will follow.
You then waut till you see it strugglung at a level to go lower and it starts to form head n shoulders formation (V-shape basically), you then go in long from there with tightish stoploss.
And the reason you use these diagonal lines not horizontals is because the markets moves that will happen in the future they will only happen under certain time frames.
What i mean by this is you see oil fall $4s straight in 30seconds, there will then be a big sharp pullback that will come at a very steep angle, and so will bounce higher.
However if that $4 fall takes 2hours then the rise will be alot slower too, and so your exit level will be lower as more time will have passed, and so the energy of the move will have died down and will ahve managed to get a strng new hold and consolidate at the lower level without any strong objection.
Ive attached a chart to help demonstrate-
On the chart i circled a low touch..,
the 1st near circle is where market would react if it rose fast so hit the line at ''that TIME''.
2nd circle is where market would react, since it was slower to bouce so less bounce left.
and 3rd is the higher market could make it before reacting if it took that long for price to rise to that level.
So you see if you had simply 1 resistance level at a set price, it would be too low for a quick bounce, and too high for a slow 1.
However with these lines you just wait and see where market touches the line, as it automatically does the time adjustment for you.
(I hope this post answers your question, and helps give a few people in a good solid safe to use style of trading).
