market definitely moves in a direction up and down.
now technical analysis says that the trend-direction- will continue........but all trends turn and change....so the real question is WHEN IS THE TREND GOING TO CHANGE?
if you do not know that, then all you have to rely upon is 'risk management'........
after 20 years of learning all this ,some of it can only be referred to as bull shit i found Al Brooks....... i knew this guy was special because for twenty years i had read many authors-elliot gann fib Demark.. and many many others.. and traded may of them. i traded eliiot for 5 years
....add Linda Rachke, Toni Hansen..... .i may remember a lot more as i write this.....
it took me 13 years of trading of study of Brooks...YES 13 YEARS IN STUDY OF WHAT ONE MAN SAID ABOUT MARKETS....to understand him.
most people would have deserted him a long time ago ........but i knew that what i had in my hand was a diamond but covered in shit...i had to clean it up.
what Brooks said was that the market moves in two legs or waves.......this is not something new or earth shattering....the ABC move is well know by alll.
but what Brooks said was in a way earth shattering: he said that all moves however big or tiny had a ABC structure.
you can see this every where it is not difficult to understand. but it took me around 13 years to trade it and to make money out of it.
this is not a magic wand
you have to learn to read the market. it is also no secret Brooks has documented it in great detail
but you still have to read the market........and see it in real time.
took me a long time but now i am there.
if you can see the two legs...you can correctly trade even the tiniest of moves
i know the reaction this post will get from some over here.
it is ok i have struggled a long time to understand what Brooks has to say