Chart – Bar Type Information

This is another guest article from Big Swiss. Enjoy! Using Bar Close For Decisions The advantage of making decisions on bar close serves a few purposes. First, by restricting decisions to a bar’s close, a trader is able to review historical charts for similar situations and patterns. Without this simple reference, the myriad of variations […]

Early on I did not have much interest in the Micro equity markets, as the low volume was an issue. New markets often take a while to build interest and volume, and some times they never really achieve a large following. However, I hoped all along that eventually the volume would grow enough in the

There are many small tips and tricks that a day trader can use to filter their trade entries, but one that is often overlooked by traders is the signal bar.  This article is going to explain how to use the signal bar to filter price action trades.  First, we like to use Japanese candlesticks for

In this article I am going to explain to you why candlesticks work best when trading price action.  Price action trading is actually a visual trading strategy, and our trades are triggered by certain visual cues as the prices print to a chart in real time.  We are NOT relying on indicators or special triggers,

When trading any market, particularly the ES, we prefer to use tick charts over time based charts.  For this reason, we want to share with you the facts about tick charts and how they help improve price action trading results.  The most important reason we prefer tick charts is because they allows us another window

My goal today is to show you how I evaluate my price action trading chart at the start of each trading day.  This is a very important step and many price action students simply do not understand how important this part of your trading day is really, so hopefully this post will help you to

We trade with tick charts and we teach all of our day traders to trade with tick charts as well.  If you are not yet trading with tick charts, then continue reading to discover why you should learn to trade price action with tick charts only. Once you understand why we like tick charts and

Many traders often ask if they should use candlesticks or price bars for trading price action strategies.  Our thoughts are that you should use whichever one you feel more comfortable using, because there really is no right or wrong answer.  Having said that, we trade candlesticks, and we suggest you do too, because trading price