Hi OMF - My 2Cents worth:
The EJ BUEB is a good looking bar alright but to me it does not stand out from the bunch. If it was at a good swing low position I would be tempted but you have correctly pointed out that there is a strong resistance level above your head and no real room to gather in some good pips for you. If that Resistance can be broken with a bit of momentum , there is a good chance that Price could reverse back to test that area as a Support line and bounce away in a Bullish direction.
The other 2 charts showing 2Bar Reversals are technically as you have called them - however, even though they are both Bullish in character, it is recommended that the stronger signals are where the close of the 2nd bar is past the open of the previous. Not saying they will not work , but we need all the boxes ticked to have a High Probability Trade. These 2 examples show a close of the 2nd bar cannot breach the previous open so I would stay out and just watch with interest.
If you are in these trades, I wish you well and will follow your progress on these ones with interest.
YES on both counts ( D1: not @ swing value low & trading into resistance )
I ended up not taking the H4 trade when I saw it given that the FTA (first trouble area) was near entry of (nice) 2BR
If the PA had been a good pinbar, I’d have considered a go at it.
Lemme however just say: I nowadays don’t go down to H1, and even sometimes H4 is scary ( no direction, choppy candles,… ). D1 has been more reliable to deal with ( across pairs )
Hi BlueBird - how 's your trades going lately.? Just an update on our plans for a possible short on this Euro - looks like price may head down but it never went high enough to give us a Pin Bar Action. Will have to see if it will come back down far enough to give us either a 2bar or BEEB signal.
Lets see what happens. How do see this working out mate ?
Have a happy nite :59:
For a newbie, you’ve got nice clean charts, kudos on that!
As has already been said:
pinbar needs to open & close within previous bar to be valid -> this one doesn’t
even if it did: a good setup needs to form at swing low/high -> this one is not formed at swing low (means you would be buying at a high price, instead of buying at a low price)
Actually, not true. Different brokers have different feeds right from the beginning ( M1 ).
Remember that ANY timeframe is built up from the lowest timeframe ( i.e, 1 minute ), which is the basic building block.
[ 240 of them make up H4, 1440 of them make up D1, etc ]
We use New-York close charts ( e.g, Pepperstone, HotForex, AxiTrader,… ) as those are the most reliable for our style of trading, and look similar to each other.
hi friend…even if that last bar closed as a pin bar…and even closed with in the previous bar…i did not trade…
because the size of the previous bar …that is very big and bigger…
if that last bar closed as a 2 bar reversal…then i will take suggestion to trade that…because…if that formed a 2bar reversal or bearish engulfing bar…then price almost complete the place to the support…!!!
i mean…very less space to the nearest resistance… …
what do you say dudest,spongybob,bhopes,jucypip…and Mr.Johnathon…and all my friends…???
I didn’t take any of them.
Essentially looks to me like chop, and no clearly defined setup or swing points.
Other than that: taking the red and green bars [B]in seclusion[/B]:
for EURJPY: for me, the two (alone) form a 2BR BUT not a trade-able one (given the upper wick on green bar)
for GBPJPY: for me, the two (alone) would be a 2BR if the green bar had closed at or above the opening of the red bar
for NZDJPY: for me, the two (alone) would be a 2BR if the green bar had closed at or above the opening of the red bar
Again, lemme re-iterate that even if the bars (in pairs above) would have formed valid 2BRs (just as bars), I still wouldn’t trade them based on the picture around where they are formed.
i really don’t know what to say except thank you so much!!.. actually i’ve been following this thread from the last two week and this is the first time i posted my question and really hope can learn so much from here… thanks again !