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Basic Japanese Candlestick Patterns
What do spinning tops, marubozus, and dojis have in common? They’re all the basic types of Japanese candlesticks! Let’s take a look at each type of candlestick and what they mean in terms of price action. Spinning Tops Japanese candlesticks with a long upper shadow, long lower shadow, and small real bodies are called spinning tops.…
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Japanese Candlestick Anatomy
Let’s break down the different parts of a Japanese candlestick. Bodies Just like humans, candlesticks have different body sizes. And when it comes to forex trading, there’s nothing naughtier than checking out the bodies of candlesticks! Long bodies indicate strong buying or selling. The longer the body is, the more intense the buying or selling pressure. This…
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What is a Japanese Candlestick?
While we briefly covered Japanese candlestick charting analysis in the previous forex lesson, we’ll now dig in a little and discuss them more in detail. Let’s do a quick review first. Japanese Candlestick Trading Back in the day when Godzilla was still a cute little lizard, the Japanese created their own old school version of technical analysis to trade rice.…
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Summary: Trading Support and Resistance
In the previous lessons, you learned about trading support and resistance. Let’s review what you’ve learned. When the price moves up and then pulls back, the highest point reached before it pulls back is now resistance. As the price continues up again, the lowest point reached before it climbs back up is now support. Support and Resistance are Zones…
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How to Trade Support and Resistance
Now that you know the basics of how to trade support and resistance, it’s time to apply these basic but extremely useful technical tools in your trading. Because here at BabyPips.com we want to make things easy to understand, we have divided how to trade support and resistance levels into two simple ideas: the Bounce and the Break. The…
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Trend Channels
If we take this trend line theory one step further and draw a parallel line at the same angle of the uptrend or downtrend, we will have created a “channel”. No, we’re not talking about ESPN, National Geographic Channel, or Cartoon Network. These channels aren’t television channels, they’re trend channels, sometimes also called price channels. Still, this doesn’t…
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Trend Lines
Trend lines are probably the most common form of technical analysis in forex trading. They are probably one of the most underutilized ones as well. If drawn correctly, they can be as accurate as any other method. Unfortunately, most forex traders don’t draw them correctly or try to make the line fit the market instead of the other way…
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What is Support and Resistance?
“Support and resistance” is one of the most widely used concepts in trading. Strangely enough, everyone seems to have their own idea of how you should measure support and resistance. Let’s take a look at the basics first. Look at the diagram above. As you can see, this zigzag pattern is making its way up (a…
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3 Types of Forex Charts and How to Read Them
In order to study how the price of a currency pair moves, you need some sort of way to look at its historical and current price behavior. A chart, or more specifically, a price chart, happens to be the first tool that every trader using technical analysis needs to learn. A chart is simply a visual representation of a currency pair’s price…
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Which Type of Analysis for Forex Trading is Best?
Ahhhh, the million-dollar question… Throughout your journey as an aspiring trader, you will find strong advocates for each type of analysis. Whereas technical analysis (TA) involves poring over charts to identify patterns or trends, fundamental analysis (FA) involves poring over economic data reports and news headlines. Hardcore traders in the technical analysis camp scream, “Fundamental analysis doesn’t matter! FU…
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