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My short entry for GBPUSD .... this is the last time i will inform here about my entry ... if someone is interested then just subscribe my thread because i dont want make a double posting ... sorry i'm a bit lazy ....

https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...6#post13406296
Quoting Cyberforex
{quote} max out margin, its a risky position....
Lets look at this from a different perspective.

You have Trader A who risks 10% on a trade and take 1 trade per week.

You have Trade B who risks 1% per trade but take 5-10 trades per day.

Who is risking more money? Trader A, if he loses his one trade is out 10% for the week, Trader B who is risks potentially 5-10% per day, worst case scenario he could potentially lose 50% in a week.

On average I take 1-2 trades a week sometimes I do take more and sometimes I don't take trades for weeks at a time. When I do max out my margin I always use a stop loss which on average my losses tend to be between 8-15%. I did get caught last year and lost something like 25 or 26%. That may seem like a lot, but the frequency in which I trade is a lot lower than most I think.
Quoting titann
{quote} Actually, do you know what makes him open so much "sell" position in terms of VSA? I cant think of strong fundamentals progress that motivates him to do so....(maybe im wrong as VSA requires huge experience and wide expertise to dissect such judgement.... i wander what malcolm can say about this....) it reminds me of myself in the past.....it is just too much of a position executed ..... when i cant fight with those fundamental guys, and it makes me open too many positions, without proper justification, it just makes the whole scenario mimicking...
Its strange that you would ask someone else why i would take a sell.

As far as fundamentals go, I do pay some attention to them but they don't take a front seat to my trading decisions.

In VSA terms, look at Bar A and Bar B, there is buying on the pair but look at Bar C. If the pair was being accumulated with active buying across Bar A and Bar B, why is there such strong selling on Bar C? It doesn't make sense, if the pair was being actively bought you wouldn't see such strong selling.

What does make sense is that Bar A and Bar B were probably profit taking and as price was marked up sellers stepped in again.
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Quoting Anotan
{quote} Its strange that you would ask someone else why i would take a sell. As far as fundamentals go, I do pay some attention to them but they don't take a front seat to my trading decisions. In VSA terms, look at Bar A and Bar B, there is buying on the pair but look at Bar C. If the pair was being accumulated with active buying across Bar A and Bar B, why is there such strong selling on Bar C? It doesn't make sense, if the pair was being actively bought you wouldn't see such strong selling. What does make sense is that Bar A and Bar B were probably...
H4 weakness plus the widespread down bar just before Friday's close.. Should be smooth sailing down to 5320, will need to pay attention there to see if sellers will keep driving price down.

If you look at Bar A it looks like potential buyers here, but the volume doesn't match the spread which is a cause for concern. Look at Bar B, if you see a potential buying bar, like Bar A, then you see a bar like Bar B you know that the buyers are in trouble.
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Lowered stops, risk is minimal. Original stop was about 20 pips and first area of interest is 5325 which is about 50 pips target, not a great RR.

Trade does have potential to go much lower than 5325, but do need to keep an eye on volume to see if any serious buyers step in.
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Quoting Anotan
Lowered stops, risk is minimal. Original stop was about 20 pips and first area of interest is 5325 which is about 50 pips target, not a great RR. Trade does have potential to go much lower than 5325, but do need to keep an eye on volume to see if any serious buyers step in. {image}
Added a bit more, my margin is maxed out between EC short and CJ longs.

I'm done trading for the week.
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Hello, there is an essential occurrence in VSA that i do not understand why it sometimes fails and more importantly how to avoid trading it. It is no follow through after climactic actions. Lets say the chart shows a selling climax with large volume like the one in my picture but then retraces a little and doesnt follow through. I get that in that picture specifically theres no change of behavior and the background is weak but I have seen it plenty where the background is not as weak as my picture and there is a change of behavior and yet the selling climax still fails to reverse the trend for a tradable leg to the long side.

The second picture is a minor issue i hope someone can chip in. It shows a no demand and a no supply right beside each other. I get its a lack of interest in the intrument in general but is there anything more to say that would help in the analysis and trading?

Thanks
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Sachko

Try this .. look for what are known as Skyscraper bars (SS) .. literally a couple or one bar that is/are massively out of place and look like the empire state building

These are the VSA changes in sentiment, especially Ultra Wide Range coupled with this Ultra Wide or Ultra High Volume. Both your examples have no SS bars at the turning points you were looking for or i think expected.

Then when you have SS bars followed by NS or ND as a secondary marker you will have the fourth derivative being price movement

PLTR 30 had 1 SS bar at the LHS of your chart. Then look for ND or a failed test after and you will have confirmed weakness

The SS bars are first sign of a change and then comes the confirmation

HTH
Here is a good obvious example

SS bar UH Volume Narrow range following major testing at 1630 pm

It had to go up as the test was successful and SS bar showed the way

HTH
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Quoting sachko1
Hello, there is an essential occurrence in VSA that i do not understand why it sometimes fails and more importantly how to avoid trading it. It is no follow through after climactic actions. Lets say the chart shows a selling climax with large volume like the one in my picture but then retraces a little and doesnt follow through. I get that in that picture specifically theres no change of behavior and the background is weak but I have seen it plenty where the background is not as weak as my picture and there is a change of behavior and yet the selling...
Hi Sachko

The issue I find is the market is moved by big players which normally offer about 1 trade a day, and market makers which offers around 10 trades a day as a group. This can only be seen on M1 as the trade is all done under one minute.
They turn the market but we need to know whether they are buyers or sellers - therefore we need to see the Delta.
This will give us a better idea whether a candle has hit a cluster of liquidity and behaving irrationally or whether we are looking at a real move. So when I see a selling climax, I need to make sure it’s a major selling climax on M1 ONLY and then wait for the buyers to enter.

Then like Syntax said, big bars show the direction thereafter and often occur in a series.
Skyscrapers bars- like that.
Trading thin liquidity at the boundary of the charts
Skyscraper bares make sense, ultra high volume. I havent seen it to be consistent enough to reverse trends or make money unless you are trading the Automatic Rally (talking about stocks only).

Im currently trying to script some VSA setups as you see in my chart. The problem is getting the sweet spot between reliable enough but not excessive. I get that its mostly discretionary im not looking to automate. Which leads me to the questions of sequences. Do you wait for the high of a selling climax to break and test or test before? These small things are what make trading had compared to analyzing. Its easy to see downbar + high volume + next bar up and say strength but its hard to trade it with some reasonable risk reward.

What sequences do you find best?
Quoting sachko1
Skyscraper bares make sense, ultra high volume. I havent seen it to be consistent enough to reverse trends or make money unless you are trading the Automatic Rally (talking about stocks only). Im currently trying to script some VSA setups as you see in my chart. The problem is getting the sweet spot between reliable enough but not excessive. I get that its mostly discretionary im not looking to automate. Which leads me to the questions of sequences. Do you wait for the high of a selling climax to break and test or test before? These small things...
Hi Sachko

If you study M1 and have access to CME futures exchange, you will be able to see the big players absolutely dump ridiculous high volume onto to the markets. Forex price seems to react within seconds and perform the same task as will. For example on the MT4 tick volume, a big candle near a possible reversal is about 400 units. On the futures exchange, that same candle is about 10 to 30 times the size of every other close by candle on the exchange. We are talking about average candle size being around 300 units but the big candle being 4000 units.
So the issue is the large volume on the forex market is hidden from us on retail trading platforms.
My answer to your question is wait for large volume to occur, let volume collapse back to normal levels (about 150 units) then trade with current direction of delta. So you need to switch to a trading platform like Sierra Charts and study the delta footprint.

On MT4, I like to trade weak bullish candles that’s pushing price in a bullish trend after a big volume bearish clean out.

The key thing I learned is the chart contains very little liquidity close to price. When a large volume candle cleans out this liquidity, price has no choice but reverse. We are talking only 15-30 pips of dense liquidity on GBP pairs.
It was a light bulb moment for me when after I completed the maths.


Cheers
Trading thin liquidity at the boundary of the charts
I will jump in here

Follow your own method .. But for me M1 and M5 is madness .. its like watching a game of tennis with your chin on the centre net; all activity and you have no idea who is strong or weak or what is happening underneath the noise of the fricken ball blurring in front of you.. bing bang bong back forward is very confusing

VSA which is Wyckoff on steroids is about accumulation and distribution .. one needs to watch M15 and M30 and probably M60 and get into a rhythm

A market cannot and will not go up or down sustainably on very high or ultra high volume.

Try this ..

Print the attached schematic on your printer .. then line it up over your chosen pair OR currency and watch on the appropriate time frame that you as a human can manage .. look for the wyckoff points of change such as the test after spring and failed rally.

The chart will line up with the systematic at some point .. else no deal .. walk away and wait

When they line up as they will on the right timeframe and momentum you are in rhythm with ticker and timeframe and the jump the creek and falling through ice etc will stand out .. that is the time to take the trade with minimum but safe stop levels.

Long stop is below the last low volume sell off and short stop is above the failed rally

Try it and see

HTH
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Good day for CAD.
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This tade took some work, but I think it should be able to hit at least 5150, maybe 5050. This was a harder trade as they kept running price back to 5380.

You hear a lot that greed/fear is the reason why traders fail.. I just realized that traders are too greedy to cut their losses and they're too fearful to let their winning trades run. I always thought it was the other way around, being greedy on winning trades and giving back pips, and becoming fearful from losses and making bad trading decisions.

I was looking at a bunch of TEs its the same story over and over, traders just stacking trades that are 100s of pips against them and they have all these wins that are 25 pips and less.
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