Hey Poh As you can see I use a 5pm close and mine was just a bullish bar, yours was an almost pinbar as you said. Not a whole lot here with the weak closing bar either way but as you can see by my chart nothing even more clearly. Price is showing ...

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Hey Osyrius As Bill said I think you are looking at an important market area but this is a VERY strong downtrend. I'd be cautious to want to just jump in here without more information The weekly flip sits a bit lower and might be where the market ...

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closed this one out on todays break higher

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yes sir, that's as nice a Pivot Zone as we can get!

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actually this year even other markets i've found uninteresting. The trades have been there but it's a lot of waiting My only open trade left is sgd/jpy where i've locked in some profit now. I missed a beauty on usd/zar hourly today though It's just ...

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thanks Florinellz

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if it gives you any reassurance from another guy on the internet lol It's been a choppy first start to the year. Patience is super key right now. Trades are there but they are few and far between and harder to manage. I think we will begin to break ...

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Hey Tom Welcome to the thread glad to have you posting The thing about PPZs is they are often zones as opposed to a single line. So if you draw a single line it can trick you into thinking about the area differently. Especially if you drop ...

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learning to trade is certainly a grind with ups/downs and everyone having their own journey. Once people get over the get rick quick idea and focus on the reality getting to b/e is the next step. Then I always say getting past b/e is diving into the ...

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you are quite welcome

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I did a double take when I saw your username. i remember you from way back in the day. Was a much smaller and different place here back then. Glad to see you around and drop a line any time

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man Florinellz every time I come in here your charts are just spot on. Thanks for helping! And welcome Jsbs please ask more questions if needed. Florinellz post is dead on. This was a tricky bar in a lot of traffic so price gets to the FTA(the ppz ...

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Hey Trickshady Welcome to the thread What we do here is combine S/R, with price action analysis. So we look for very critical areas on the chart to find trades. Simple but also tricky because no two situations are perfectly similar. Check out this ...

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I'm right there with you Poh, Welcome to the thread

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Hey Flor Yep the markets have been tough, was a good week but also holding a lot of stuff so I never count those chickens till they hatch. The stop loss was above the 2day BEOB. Price overshot a bit but I use half my risk in a deep retrace situation ...

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BRN is that dotted dashed line correct I do apologize not posting more in this thread i've been just absolutely beyond busy with the PF. The markets have been tough IMO but here are a few that are trying to break things open for me Closed out this ...

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Here ya go Swe This is a good starting place on PPZs. It's just the flip between support and resistance but it tells us a great deal of who has control or locations where buyers/sellers will come in url BRN simply is what i call Big Round numbers ...

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Hey Swe Welcome to the thread One of the biggest concepts we use here is called a PPZ. Not sure if you are familiar yet and if you need more info let me know! This one is trading directly into the PPZ flip. So this is where it gets tricky we have ...

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Hey P Here were my comments from the PF about this one yesterday "once again i'd agree with this. Really tough to play anyway you cut it. Might be a retrace entry in there early in the evening and quick to b/e or take profit, but Tricky with all the ...

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Hey P That's why I really like to use price action bars to confirm my breakout areas. When you just trickle and close outside of them although many work, many don't and your left with one less filter. If we get continuation PA that's much easier to ...

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