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Divergence Cheat Sheet
Have you had your fill on learning how to trade divergences? Let’s review! Divergence is a popular concept in technical analysis that describes when the price is moving in the opposite direction of a technical indicator. There are two types of divergences: Regular divergence Hidden divergence Each type of divergence will contain either a bullish bias or a bearish bias.…
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9 Rules for Trading Divergences
Divergences are used by traders in an attempt to determine if a trend is getting weaker, which may lead to a trend reversal or continuation. Before you head out there and start looking for potential divergences, here are nine cool rules for trading divergences. Learn ’em, memorize ’em (or keep coming back here), apply ’em to help you…
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How to Avoid Entering Too Early When Trading Divergences
While using divergences is a great tool to have in your trading toolbox, there are times when you might enter too early because you didn’t wait for more confirmation. If you keep entering too early, you’ll keep getting stopped out (you do use stops right?!) and you’ll slowly rack up losses. And you know what happens when…
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How To Trade Divergences
Now it’s time to put those Jedi divergence mind tricks to work and force the markets to give you some pips! In this lesson, we’ll show you some examples of when there was a divergence between price and oscillator movements. How to Trade a Regular Divergence First up, let’s take a look at regular divergence. Below is…
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Hidden Divergence
We covered regular divergences in the previous lesson, now let’s discuss what hidden divergences are. What’s a hidden divergence? Divergences not only signal a potential trend reversal but can also be used as a possible sign for a trend continuation (price continues to move in its current direction). Always remember, the trend is your friend, so whenever you can get a signal…
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Regular Divergence
What is a regular divergence? A regular divergence is used as a possible sign for a trend reversal. There are two types of regular divergences: bullish and bearish. Regular Bullish Divergence If the price is making lower lows (LL), but the oscillator is making higher lows (HL), this is considered to be regular bullish divergence. This normally occurs at the end of a…
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Trading Divergences
What if there was a low-risk way to sell near the top or buy near the bottom of a trend? What if you were already in a long position and you could know ahead of time the perfect place to exit instead of watching your unrealized gains, a.k.a your potential Aston Martin down payment or future Christian Louboutin high heels,…
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Summary: Harmonic Price Patterns
Harmonic price patterns enable us to distinguish possible areas for a continuation of the overall trend. Six Harmonic Price Patterns There are six harmonic price patterns: The ABCD Pattern The Three-Drive Pattern The Gartley Pattern The Crab Pattern The Bat Pattern The Butterfly Pattern 3-Step Price Pattern Recognition Process The three basic steps in spotting harmonic price patterns are the following Step 1:…
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3 Steps to Trading Harmonic Price Patterns
As you may have guessed, profiting off Harmonic Price Patterns is all about being able to spot those “perfect” patterns and buying or selling on their completion. There are three basic steps in spotting Harmonic Price Patterns: Step 1: Locate a potential Harmonic Price Pattern Step 2: Measure the potential Harmonic Price Pattern Step 3: Buy or sell on the…
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Trading The Gartley Pattern
Once upon a time, there was this insanely smart trader dude named Harold McKinley Gartley. He had a stock market advisory service in the mid-1930s with a huge following. This service was one of the first to apply scientific and statistical methods to analyze the stock market behavior. According to Gartley, he was finally able to…