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    Swing Trading using the 4-hour chart 1-3: 3 Manuscripts
    Swing Trading using the 4-hour chart 1-3: 3 Manuscripts
    Swing Trading using the 4-hour chart 1-3: 3 Manuscripts
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    Swing Trading using the 4-hour chart 1-3: 3 Manuscripts

    By Heikin Ashi Trader

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    Swing Trading using the 4-hour chart 1-3: 3 Manuscripts


    Part 1: Introduction to Swing Trading


    Swing trading is too fast for investors and too slow for day traders. It takes place on a timeframe in which you will find very few professionals traders.


    Swing traders usually use 4-hour charts. This period falls exactly between that of the investor and the day trader. As a swing trader, you are prone to sit on the fence, and that's good, because here you are almost alone.


    This book describes the swing trading method of the Heikin Ashi Trader. It is ideal for individual investors who do not want to sit all day in front of the computer screen.


    Part 1: Introduction to Swing Trading


    Why Swing Trading? Why should you trade using the 4-hour chart? Which markets are suitable for swing trading? What instruments you can swing trade? Swing Trading Setups Support and Resistance double top and double bottom breakouts flags and pennants Money Management Why you need a Trading Diary What is it all about?


    Part 2: Trade the Fake!


    In the second part of the series "Swing Trading using the 4-hour chart" the Heikin Ashi Trader speaks about the phenomenon of stop fishing and Fakeouts as well as the many deceptions that major players and algorithms stage in today's financial markets. These often seem more the rule than the exception.


    A feint at its finest! How to identify fakes? How do I trade Fakes? Fakes at technical chart patterns flags triangles Trend Channels Trading cross rates More complex patterns


    Glossary


    Part 3: Where Do I Put My Stop?


    In the third part of the series on "Swing Trading using the 4-hour chart“, the Heikin Ashi Trader treats the question on where the stop should be. Once a trader stops introducing stops, he will discover that his hit rate will worsen. However, by doing this he gains full control of the trade management. Stops are therefore not unavoidable, but remain an integral part of a trading system that is profit-oriented.


    Table of Contents


    Are Stops Necessary? What Is a Stop Loss Order? Stop Management Play Your Own Game Cut Your Losses And Let your Profits Run Stop Management in Trending Markets Stop Management with Price Targets The Swiss Franc Tsunami, a Healing Moment of the Trader Community How Many Positions Can I Keep at the Same Time?


    Glossary


    About the author:


    Heikin Ashi Trader is the pen name of a trader who has more than 17 years of experience in day trading futures and foreign exchange. He specializes in scalping and fast day trading. In addition to this, he has published multiple self-explanatory books on his trading activities. Popular topics are on: scalping, swing trading, money- and risk management.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDAO Press
    Release dateMar 27, 2018
    ISBN9781537546520
    Swing Trading using the 4-hour chart 1-3: 3 Manuscripts
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    Heikin Ashi Trader

    ​Heikin Ashi Trader is the pseudonym of a trader who has over 19 years of experience in day trading futures and currencies. He traded for a hedge fund and then went on his own. He specializes in scalping and fast day trading. His scalping book "Scalping Is Fun!" is an international bestseller and has been sold more than 30.000 times. His books have been translated into 11 languages.

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      This book offers a comprehensive guide into the world of Heiken Ashi swing trading. The author does a remarkable job of spelling out in detail the nuances of trading with HA candles, specifically in a swing trading time frame, which can sometimes be difficult to gather. From entry signals and where to place stops to specific patterns that work most reliably, this can be considered one of the most useful works on the subject. Highly recommended!
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    Swing Trading using the 4-hour chart 1-3 - Heikin Ashi Trader

    Swing Trading Using the 4-Hour Chart

    3 Manuscripts:

    Book 1: Introduction to Swing Trading

    Book 2: Trade the Fake!

    Book 3: Where Do I Put my Stop?

    Heikin Ashi Trader

    DAO PRESS

    Table Of Contents

    Book 1: Introduction to Swing Trading

    1. Why Swing Trading?

    2. Why Should You Trade Using The 4-Hour Chart?

    3. Which Markets Are Suitable For Swing Trading?

    4. What Instruments You Can Swing Trade?

    5. Swing Trading Setups

    A. Support And Resistance

    B. Double Top And Double Bottom

    C. Breakouts

    D. Flags And Pennants

    6. Money Management

    7. Why You Need A Trading Diary

    8. What Is It All About?

    Glossary

    Book 2: Trade the Fake!

    1. A feint at its finest!

    2. How to identify fakes?

    3. How do I trade Fakes?

    4. Fakes at technical chart patterns

    A. flags

    B. triangles

    C. Trend Channels

    5. Trading cross rates

    6. More complex patterns

    Glossary

    Book 3: Where Do I Put my Stop?

    1. Are Stops Necessary?

    2. What Is a Stop Loss Order?

    3. Stop Management

    4. Play Your Own Game

    5. Cut Your Losses

    6. And Let your Profits Run

    7. Stop Management in Trending Markets

    8. Stop Management with Price Targets

    9. The Swiss Franc Tsunami, a Healing Moment of the Trader Community

    10. How Many Positions Can I Keep at the Same Time?

    Glossary

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    About the Author

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    Part 1: Introduction to Swing Trading

    1. Why Swing Trading?

    Most newcomers to the stock market try their luck with day trading. By this, is not saying anything wrong. You can earn a lot of money indeed with day trading if you are good at it. IF! The problem is that many aspiring traders significantly underestimate the difficulties in day trading. I just list a few on:

    In this short timeframe you are competing with hundreds of thousands (mostly young) traders who are very well trained and equipped with the most advanced technology possible.

    A quite significant competition you can expect from the so-called algorithms. In other words, you fight expensive computer programs that were developed by the best minds.

    More competition you can expect from the lack of volatility in recent years. It happens more often that the typical trading markets, such as the E-mini, mini Dow future, EUR/USD and crude oil go sideways all day only to suddenly make a big jump without warning. Do you have the right position at this very moment?

    Your biggest competitor is not at least yourself. Do not underestimate the psychological pressure when day trading. Many traders have run aground using this method. Even if you have a moment of success, it does not mean that this must always be so.

    If in spite of these drawbacks you still want to day trade; then go for it!

    Unlike day trading, position trading with daily charts or even weekly charts is a much more comfortable way to make money in the stock market. And, frankly, I would recommend most people to use this method.

    But beware! Again, there is also a lot of competition, here! Here you have to compete with the major operators: investment funds, insurance companies and hedge funds that speculate in medium-term time frame with stocks, indices, commodities and currencies.

    Those highly capitalized pools could, for example, have the idea to sell in large numbers the stock you just bought. Not because the stock has suddenly become bad. It could be, for example, that they need money for another investment. Or, they need it in order to pay their disgruntled customers. You see, even investing is not that simple. You may as well call the stock market a snake pit and you would not even be in the least, exaggerating. Is there no alternative?

    I think there is. This alternative I call swing trading. It is a style of trading that takes place in a timeframe that is too slow for day traders and too fast for investors. In other words, in this timeframe, there are very few professionals trading. You will also hear nothing about it in the press. When was the last time you ever read an interesting article in the newspaper about swing trading? Probably never...

    What timeframe do I mean? The charts that swing traders usually use are hour charts, or even better, 4-hour charts. In some cases, swing traders also work with daily charts. This is a period which falls between the investor and the day trader. You sit as if between the chairs, and that's good, because here you are almost alone.

    2. Why should you trade using the 4-hour chart?

    There are good reasons to work with the 4-hour chart. The smaller time frame, such as the 5-minute chart or 15-minute chart (typical of the day traders), are not representative of the Money Flow. What the big money does, you do not see here. However, you can clearly see it on the 4-hour chart. A technical pattern has a much higher information value here. This indicates rather, who controls the market at the moment: the bulls or the bears. You want to know this as a trader, right?

    Unlike most other traders who like to work with candlestick charts, I use the heikin-ashi chart. This chart type has several advantages: The trend is more visible thanks to the visual smoothing of the candles (unlike Candlesticks). The strength of the trend is visible by the size of the candle and the occurrence of pins (long shadows above or below the body of the candle).

    In other words, the heikin-ashi charts illustrate the imbalance between supply and demand very well and even show the inflection points clearly. Thus, they are an excellent tool to identify the capital flows in the markets. The example below from the Dow Jones index illustrates this.

    Figure 1: Dow Jones, 4-hour chart, HeikinAshi

    The 4-hour chart shows the swings very clearly. Those movements usually last a few days. Upswings (white, rising candles) and downswings (black, falling candles) are clearly seen in this example of a HeikinAshi chart. To illustrate this, I will show you now the same segment of the Dow Jones index in the candlestick representation:

    Figure 2: Dow Jones Index, 4-hour chart, candlestick

    I hope you can see the difference. Of course, you can work well with the candlestick charts. But, I prefer the visual presentation of the HeikinAshi chart against that of the candlesticks. I like it when I can detect at first glance whether a market is in an uptrend or a downtrend.

    On candlestick charts you will often get contradictory signals. In an uptrend, suddenly black candles could appear that could give the trader the impression that the trend is over. Such false signals are mostly filtered out on the HeikinAshi chart. This is an advantage not to be underestimated.

    This example also shows very clearly what experienced traders know for a long time: market movements usually last 3 to 5 days. After the market has had a rally for 5 days, it mostly calms down again. It then forms a consolidation or sideways movement.

    In the above example, the upward movement took place in three waves that you can identify very well thanks to the white candles in the HeikinAshi chart. These waves lasted about 24 hours (or eight 4-hour candles). The intermediate correction phase (usually black candles) also lasted about eight candles. Overall, this movement took the Dow Jones five days. For three days, the Dow was in an upward motion and two days in a correction movement. This pattern you will see over and over again.

    As a swing trader you want to, of course take advantage of these swings. The 4-hour chart visualizes these movements very well in the context of the current market situation. Incidentally, swing trading works even if the market is not in a trend, but in a volatile sideways

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