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“Forex Scalping”

Maxx your Profit!

 

Are You Finally Ready To Start Making Money Easily?

 

Hold on to the Large Traders tail, and enjoy the ride!

 

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Table of contents
1.
  Is it possible to earn money on the stock exchange? ......................................... 21 

1.1.  What the brokers think ...................................................................................................21 

 

1.2.  What the institutional investors think............................................................................22 

 

1.3.  What the managers think................................................................................................24 

 

1.4.  What the traders think ....................................................................................................25 

 

1.5.  What do people starting out in trading think................................................................26  1.6.  What I think .....................................................................................................................26 

2.  The price moves without reason.......................................................................... 28 

2.1.  Technical analysis ............................................................................................................28 

 

2.2.  Oscillators .........................................................................................................................30 

 

2.3.  Automatic systems............................................................................................................32 

 

2.4.  The Holy Grail..................................................................................................................33 

 

2.5.  Money moves the price ....................................................................................................33 

 

2.6.  Who has money, decides..................................................................................................34  2.7.  Who has power, has money.............................................................................................35  2.8.  95% of the losses end up in the hands of 5% of the rich..............................................36 

3.  The trading method ............................................................................................. 37 

3.1.  The method’s ups and downs..........................................................................................37 

 

3.2.  Maximum duration of losses in time ..............................................................................40 

 

3.3.  Number of consecutive losses..........................................................................................41  3.4.  The trader’s goal is to “last” ...........................................................................................43 

4.  The model of the successful trader ..................................................................... 46 

4.1.  No trader has been trading all his or her life ................................................................46 

 

4.2.  All traders have had some difficulties............................................................................47 

 

4.3.  How a successful trader does face difficulties ...............................................................49 

 

4.4.  The approach of “start with a loss”................................................................................50 

 

4.5.  Everybody makes mistakes with operations..................................................................52 

 

4.6.  Daily and monthly balance..............................................................................................54 

 

4.7.  Earnings, losses and emotions.........................................................................................56 

 

4.8.  Trader or gambler ...........................................................................................................60  4.9.  My advice for those starting, and for those who have already started .......................61 

5.  Let me introduce the Forex ................................................................................. 62 

5.1.  The broker ........................................................................................................................62 

 

5.2.  The trading platforms: Metatrader................................................................................65 

 

5.3.  The Forex market.............................................................................................................66 

 

5.4.  Volatility in the Forex market in relation to the stock exchange.................................71 

 

5.5.  News on the Forex market...............................................................................................73 

 

5.6.  Leverage............................................................................................................................74 

 

5.7.  The PIP, the true star of the Forex.................................................................................76 

 

5.8.  Lot, mini-lot and micro-lot..............................................................................................78 

 

5.9.  Commission applied by the brokers: the spread...........................................................80 

 

5.10.  The broker “is the banker”.............................................................................................84 

 

5.11.  Reference currencies........................................................................................................85  5.12.  Swap ..................................................................................................................................89 

6.  The charts............................................................................................................. 91 

6.1.  How to set up a chart .......................................................................................................91  6.2.  The linear chart................................................................................................................93 

 

6.3.  The bar or OHLC chart ..................................................................................................94 

 

6.4.  Bullish bar.........................................................................................................................97 

 

6.5.  Bearish bar .......................................................................................................................98 

 

6.6.  Japanese candlestick chart............................................................................................100 

 

6.7.  Bullish candlestick .........................................................................................................102 

 

6.8.  Bearish candlestick ........................................................................................................104 

 

6.9.  The market trend ...........................................................................................................106 

 

6.10.  The primary trend and its four phases ........................................................................108 

 

6.11.  The trend.........................................................................................................................111 

 

6.12.  Upward trend .................................................................................................................112 

 

6.13.  The downward trend .....................................................................................................115 

 

6.14.  Trend and reversals .......................................................................................................117 

 

6.15.  Trend: fundamental concepts .......................................................................................117 

 

6.16.  Upward trendlines..........................................................................................................118 

 

6.17.  Channels..........................................................................................................................119  6.18.  Ascending channel .........................................................................................................119 

 

6.19.  Descending channel........................................................................................................119 

 

6.20.  Supports and resistances ...............................................................................................121 

 

6.21.  Dynamic supports and resistances ...............................................................................123 

 

6.22.  Static supports and resistances .....................................................................................123 

 

6.23.  The importance of a chart .............................................................................................127 

 

6.24.  Technical analysis and price .........................................................................................129 

 

6.25.  Technical analysis and chart analysis ..........................................................................132 

 

6.26.  Reversal patterns............................................................................................................132 

 

6.27.  Common aspects of pure reversal patterns .................................................................132 

 

6.28.  Heads and Shoulder.......................................................................................................134 

 

6.29.  Head and shoulders........................................................................................................135 

 

6.30.  Inverse Head and shoulders..........................................................................................140 

 

6.31.  Double top.......................................................................................................................145 

 

6.32.  Double bottom ................................................................................................................151 

 

6.33.  Rounding tops and bottoms ..........................................................................................156  6.34.  Cup with handle .............................................................................................................157 

 

6.35.  Continuation patterns....................................................................................................159 

 

6.36.  Triangles .........................................................................................................................160 

 

6.37.  Symmetrical triangle......................................................................................................162 

 

6.38.  Ascending triangle .........................................................................................................166 

 

6.39.  Descending triangle........................................................................................................169 

 

6.40.  Flag & pennant...............................................................................................................172 

 

6.41.  Pennant ...........................................................................................................................173 

 

6.42.  Flag ..................................................................................................................................175 

 

6.43.  Wedge..............................................................................................................................178  6.44.  Rectangle.........................................................................................................................183 

7.  Learn to read the market ................................................................................... 188 

7.1.  Technical analysis and reading the market .................................................................188 

 

7.2.  The importance of minima and maxima......................................................................189 

 

7.3.  New maxima and minima..............................................................................................190 

 

7.4.  Price breakouts and breakdowns .................................................................................192  7.5.  Time frame and scalping ...............................................................................................196 

 

7.6.  Method, perseverance and discipline ...........................................................................196 

 

7.7.  Market sessions ..............................................................................................................197  7.8.  The session breakout technique ....................................................................................199 

8.  Price analysis: Candlestick ............................................................................... 204 

8.1.  Price behaviour ..............................................................................................................204 

 

8.2.  Candlesticks. What they are and how you draw them. ..............................................204 

 

8.3.  Long black line / Long white line..................................................................................206 

 

8.4.  Short black line / Short white line ................................................................................207 

 

8.5.  Long black / white marubozu line ................................................................................208 

 

8.6.  Long black / white opening bozu line ...........................................................................209 

 

8.7.  Long black / white closing bozu line.............................................................................209 

 

8.8.  Spinning Top ..................................................................................................................210 

 

8.9.  Lower Shadows ..............................................................................................................211 

 

8.10.  Upper Shadows...............................................................................................................212 

 

8.11.  Doji lines .........................................................................................................................213  8.12.  Reversal Pattern.............................................................................................................214 

 

8.13.  Hammer and Hanging Man ..........................................................................................215 

 

8.14.  Doji Line .........................................................................................................................217 

 

8.15.  Engulfing pattern ...........................................................................................................220 

 

8.16.  Dark Cloud Cover..........................................................................................................222 

 

8.17.  Piercing Pattern..............................................................................................................223 

 

8.18.  Star ..................................................................................................................................224 

 

8.19.  Abandoned Baby............................................................................................................226 

 

8.20.  The Tri Star ....................................................................................................................227 

 

8.21.  Shooting Star and Inverted Hammer...........................................................................228  8.22.  Price and money.............................................................................................................229 

9.  To sell or to buy? ............................................................................................... 232 

9.1.  Scenario analysis ............................................................................................................232  9.2.  We always follow the big fish........................................................................................233 

10.  Correlations or alchemy?............................................................................... 243 

10.1.  Correlation among currencies ......................................................................................243  10.2.  Correlations in intraday operativeness........................................................................248 

 

10.3.  Gaps and correlations....................................................................................................248  10.4.  Scalping and correlations ..............................................................................................254 

11.  The range........................................................................................................ 261 

11.1.  Volatility, risks and profits............................................................................................261  11.2.  Rates ................................................................................................................................265 

12.  Appendix ......................................................................................................... 271 

12.1.  Price analysis ..................................................................................................................271