What Makes a Good Reversal Trade?

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#471: What Makes a Good Reversal Trade?

In this video:

00:24 – What do we look for when looking for a reversal trade?

01:08 – Getting ready for a new trade

01:26 – What exactly are we looking for?

03:13 – Don’t forget to look at the price

05:00 – Bollinger bands give us more clues

06:45 – We trade Reversals and Continuation Patterns

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What clues do we look for to suggest that a trend is about to reverse? Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey there, traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 471.

What do we look for when looking for a reversal trade?

Want to talk about reversals today and what constitutes a good reversal, what do we look for to suggest that a reversal is about to take place.

You can use this in many different ways. You could use this, let's say, you were in a buy trade and the market's moving up beautifully. It hasn't quite got to your profit target, let's say, and you might see some form of indication that the market is about to reverse against your long or your buy position. That's something that could help you to suggest to either get out of the trade altogether early, or maybe partially close from trade, or maybe move to stop loss. But there's clues there that I'm going to talk about that can help protect that trade if you are already in a trade.

Getting ready for a new trade

If you're not already in a trade and you've seen the market moving up and you've missed that trend, but all of a sudden, you now see a few clues that I'm going to mention that will help you to take a short position against that uptrend, then that is also a very good trading opportunity.

What exactly are we looking for?

What is it that we're looking for? To start with, to make things easy, I'm going to be talking about a current uptrend and then a bearish reversal.

If we're looking for a bearish reversal for me, I look at candle patterns and I'm looking for outside or engulfing candles. But I don't just look at every single engulfing or outside candle go there as a sell trade. Absolutely not. There's other things that we want to see.

If we're looking for a bearish reversal, first of all, we need to see there's been a good, strong prior uptrend first. The reason for that is not every uptrend can keep going obviously. Everything will stall and exhaust and then turn around. We're looking for that turnaround because this is talking about reversal trades.

First of all, we need that good, strong prior uptrend. If we have a reason for that to look like it's stalling, it could be an indecision candle such as a pin bar, hanging man, doji candle, where basically the price has gone up, formed a new high, and it's come back and it's closed near the low of the candle, or it's an indecision candle it's gone up, it's gone down and it's closed near it's open, something like that is giving us an early warning system, basically. It's saying after this big, strong bullish trend, all of a sudden, the next candle has given a clue that the market's gone up, reached a point and it's coming back, or it can't decide whether it wants to go up or down any further. That's our first indication. Then to get confirmation, then we need the bearish candle to come next.

Now, again, not every indecision and bearish candle is a setup. We need lots more. First of all, as mentioned, we need that prior trend. We need that exhaustion. Then we're looking for other clues.

Don’t forget to look at the price

Now a lot of people fail to look at the actual right-hand side of the chart, which is the most important, and that is the actual price. You have to look to see why that indecision and then potential reversal has happened...