Podcast:

How To Trade A Trending Market

In this weekly video:

00:25 – Good strong trends in the market

00:45 - 13 trades closed and a +6% gain for the week

01:24 – How do you know if the market is trending?

02:03 – The great thing about technical trading

03:02 – I trade using retracements

04:05 – You can profit both ways – on reversal and continuation trades

04:52 – An auto trade signal service coming soon

I'm going to explain how you can trade really well in a trending market like we've seen this week. So, let's get into that and more right now.

Hi Forex Traders. Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. This is video and podcast number 233.

Good strong trends in the market

This week we've had a fantastic change around in the market. We've had some very good, strong trends as opposed to last week when we had the American Independence Day, and we had non-farm payrolls. The market was pretty flat last week [inaudible 00:00:39] this week we've had some fantastic trades, some great opportunities to get into the market and ride the trends.

13 trades closed and a +6% gain for the week

Personally, I've had a great week so far. I've had 13 trades that I've closed out up over 6% on an account on a half-percent risk per-trade. Those have been across a variety of different time frames. Some weekly charts and daily 12 hour, 8 hour, 6 hour and 4 hour charts. Very little time per-day actually spent trading, but just over 6% return, half-percent risk per-trade. 13 trades. That's all. There's three trades still open behind me, they're all in positive territory. So, I'm looking at maybe increasing that to maybe 7% or 8% by the end of the week. So, it just shows what can be achieved.

How do you know if the market is trending?

So, how do you know when the market is trending? You can generally see that in hindsight after it's actually happened. In real time, you really don't know if it's trending, if it's range banned so it can reverse what's happening and that's the beauty of being a price action trader. A technical trader because I can only trade what I see on the charts at the time.

Now, I can have clues on the charts such as Bollinger Bands and things like that. When the Bollinger Bands widen when they get further apart, the market is generally trending more and it's moving further apart. When Bollinger Bands get tighter and closer together, then that means that the market is more range banned and it's flatter.

The great thing about technical trading

The beauty of technical trading is this: If the market is range banned and it's very flat, I generally know where to put profit targets and stop losses because I can figure out those levels according to what's happening in the market right now. Quite often when the market is range banned and flat, you don't actually find too many high-quality trade setups. So therefore, if the market is flat like last week, you don't see much happening. There's not a lot you can trade. You can take some trades, but very few.

This week, the market has been moving beautifully. Think trending markets. Therefore, it's been quite a lot of good setups. High-quality setups and it just gives us the opportunity to take far more trades, and profitable trades because the price action has been moving a lot, and profit targets are being hit on the vast majority of trades. So, it's of great time to be trading when this happens.

I trade using retracements

Now, I trade on retracements. So, that means I'm getting in at a better price than where the market is right now. With these big trends moving, you will get the up-trend, you get little pullbacks and it goes again, and that's a great way of trading. So,