Sunday, July 15, 2007

A little bit about my method


I'd like to share with you the basics of my trading method.

1) Trade the right market
  • How do you know if that market is the right one for you ?
    Open up your charts (Daily timeframe). The market must be clearly trending up or down.
  • To see the trend, look at the bars, if the left-hand side is lower than right-hand side, that's a bullish market. Vice versa for bearish market.
2) Once the trend is identified (bull or bear), plot the psychological price levels. Why is this level so important ?

3) Look for price levels where
  • Resistance turn to support or vice versa
  • 50% retracement from a major bull/bear run.
4) Buy at support or sell at resistance level. Use pending market order.

5) When the order is triggered, use trailing stops. 50 pips is good for EUR/USD.

6) Never ever trade against the trend. If the trend in daily charts is bull, never short the market.

The above is the snapshot of EUR/USD. Why do I trade this pair? It's because the market trends beautifully. The long-term trend is bullish.

2 comments:

SHR said...

Nice blog.

Keep up good work (and trades ...)

I'll be waiting to read your posts.


regards
Shahrouz

Luqman Ismael said...

Thanks for reading ... :-)

Happy trading to you as well.