Let’s break down the different parts of a Japanese candlestick. Sexy Bodies Just like humans, candlesticks have different body sizes. And when it comes to forex trading, there’s nothing naughtier than checking out the bodies of candlesticks! Long bodies indicate strong buying or selling. The longer the body is, the more intense the buying or selling pressure….
While we briefly covered Japanese candlestick charting analysis in the previous forex lesson, we’ll now dig in a little and discuss them more in detail. Let’s do a quick review first. Japanese Candlestick Trading Back in the day when Godzilla was still a cute little lizard, the Japanese created their own old school version of technical analysis to trade rice….
In the previous lessons, you learned about trading support and resistance. Let’s review what you’ve learned. When the price moves up and then pulls back, the highest point reached before it pulls back is now resistance. As the price continues up again, the lowest point reached before it climbs back up is now support. Support and Resistance are Zones…
Now that you know the basics of how to trade support and resistance, it’s time to apply these basic but extremely useful technical tools in your trading. Because here at BabyPips.com we want to make things easy to understand, we have divided how to trade support and resistance levels into two simple ideas: the Bounce and the Break. The…
If we take this trend line theory one step further and draw a parallel line at the same angle of the uptrend or downtrend, we will have created a “channel”. No, we’re not talking about ESPN, National Geographic Channel, or Cartoon Network. These channels aren’t television channels, they’re trend channels, sometimes also called price channels. Still, this…
Trend lines are probably the most common form of technical analysis in forex trading. They are probably one of the most underutilized ones as well. If drawn correctly, they can be as accurate as any other method. Unfortunately, most forex traders don’t draw them correctly or try to make the line fit the market instead of the other…
“Support and resistance” is one of the most widely used concepts in trading. Strangely enough, everyone seems to have their own idea of how you should measure support and resistance. Let’s take a look at the basics first. Look at the diagram above. As you can see, this zigzag pattern is making its way up (a…