Quote from melb-nyc:
... If prices makes a new high and backs off, that is a reversal... - no it does not necessary be a reversal. so you are saying that after 1 or 2 candles of new high and the price backs off and made new low is called a reversal.?
When price continue to make new highs or new lows it doesn't necessary mean there's a big reversal waiting for you. it could just mean that the price settled at one stage waiting for a push or it could just retrace and continue its current trend..
Obviously you need to do some study about price action. Go over your charts again. I give you a hint, closing price after new highs and new lows is a lot more important piece of information than simply a new high and a new low, because it gives you confirmation. and do pay attention on support and resistance, as well as swing high and low.
Avery, with all due respect, if you want to trade and master price action, throw away your indicators. they are all nuisance. forget about being a pirate, be humble, because market will humble you.
I know price action:
1) Price will either breakout of the high, low or both of the previous bar
2) Price will not breakout of the previous bar.
You cannot reduce it any further. Anything else complicates the issue.
It looks like we do not agree on how to define the term "reversal". Reverse usually means a change in direction opposite of the original direction. Based on that definition, if price makes a new high and changes direction, then price has reversed. This is real not conceptual like support, resistance and trend which exist only in the mind of the trader. This definition of reversal is time frame independent.
My indicators are real time gauges that tell me where price is relative to the current OPEN, HIGH and LOW. They do NOT lag like moving averages. I use them to monitor where price is relative to the daily and weekly open, high and low.
I appreciate your civil reply.
