Ichimoku Technical Sessions 2013

Would this picture qualify as a KIJUN cross..??

Should I wait until it goes below the recent low,, so CHIKOU SPAN has a clear look..??



Cheers,

Hi again, I have flipping through the charts and would appreciate your viewpoint

US/CAD DAILY


Looking like an uptrend

I think this the kind of thing you meant 30 MINUTE CHART


Entry Order at the ready....

May be, but on my chart the future ichimoku says "sell" (the arrows), that means (for me) - we have a range

more food for thought

gb/us 30 mins

I have one open sell Euro sell but its quite boring since yesterday.
Cyprus needs to do something about it...haha

Steve just stick to two timeframes: one higher for the bigger picture and
one lower for entry.......thats more like it

definitely a KIJUN cross though on M30, it isn't as strong as the crosses on
highrt time frames.

Hi again, here is another chart EUR/USD..I have looked at the 4 hour and 30 mins, good advice, thanks,

hope to post the new platform...still demo, though




Bedtime for me....G'nite all

Thanks for the advice, Steve D... I decided to follow it, dive in and just start trying to trade Ichimoku with what I already know. I can always backtest with the simulator to my heart's content later and enhance the strategy as I go. Certainly, as I start to properly read through this thread, there are plenty of good ideas and resources mentioned

For now my plan is to trade off the H4, but take my trading bias (bullish/bearish/neutral) from the Daily and only take trades in the direction of that bias. My mission statement is: "If there is a trend in the markets I am watching then I will participate in it." Plain vanilla Ichimoku charts for now and I will see how I get on with it....

Here's the chart of my trade, short EUR/USD. I entered on the breakout of the prior low, as indicated by the red horizontal line on the chart. I put my initial stop on the other side of the Kijun-sen as shown by the green horizontal line. If the trade goes my way I will move it down in line with the Kijun-sen and hopefully lock in some pips!

steve, if you are trading the 30m.. you should be watching the 4h for bias

ja, today I followed his trade in USD/CAD - the entry/buy was based on 30min chart and the 4 h chart showed sell. The daily chart is buy, but there was not realy good signal on 1 hour chart (at least for me)

Sorry for my English - I use it only for trading-communication and studying

O.k , thanks for the heads up...I have jumped from DAILY TO 30 MINS...!!!

I will look at 4 H then 30 mins.......I think it is difficult, sometimes, to decide, on 4H, if the price is in a trend or pullback or reversing altogether..!!

I suppose that is what makes it interesting, I shall post some 4H charts later for perusal..!!

Cheers, S

remember if you trade the 30m, you will have tighter TP and SL

i keep telling you how to go about entry..

Hi, thanks for all you help, it does get confusing though, apologies for becoming a pain...!!! I will be keeping it simple today,

How's this for 4 hour trend.??



Looking Bearish for a while, but the price has moved across the cloud to BULLISH---yet still below the 240 m.a

I would want to go short on the 30 MIns....maybe set an order for short and long and see what gets hit..???

Now looking at the 30 MIN for an entry...to SELL and BUY.. see how it goes ??

based on the 4h, get long around the 1.51382 area. just above the tenkan.. if you want to play it save, put 5 pips on top of that and go long above that previous " pin " candle high


Remember.. trend changed on the 4h. from short to long.. (cloud break) . so you are only looking for long positions. you can get more accurate entry on the 30.

here's a closer view

Gonna see some volatility though







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