Price Action Trading - Daily Review Flashcards

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Here is a comprehensive list for training the eyes to find the price action relationships that can help you improve your trading when live. These flashcards are my personal interpretations and study notes based on public technical analysis concepts from sources like Dr Brooks, Edwards & Magee, Murphy, and modern price action teachings

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Daily Chart

Daily chart traders

  • Buy the Close (BTC)

  • Sell the Close (STC)

  • Buy on a Stop 1 Tick above (B STP)

  • Sell on a Stop 1 Tick below (S STP) traders

  • Could they get in? Or did they miss out?

  • Did they get disappointed?

  • Will they stay in, scale in or breakeven?

  • Test OHLC?

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Daily Chart

Daily Rhythm

  • Trading Range vs Trend traders

  • 3 in a row?

  • Breakout vs Failed Breakout

  • How is the daily chart moving which will influence twhat we expect today?

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Daily

Daily Gaps

  • Are we testing gaps on the daily chart?

<p><strong>Daily Gaps</strong></p><ul><li><p>Are we testing gaps on the daily chart?</p></li></ul><p></p>
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Daily Chart

Daily - 60m patterns

  • How is the 60m chart building the daily pattern?

  • ie Daily pullback bar = 60m spike and channel

  • ie Daily chart pullback is 10 legs sideways to up correction on the 60m chart

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Daily Chart

Daily - Is Yesterday a Good Signal Bar?

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Daily Chart

Daily

  • Measured Move of Yesterday’s Range (MMYD)

  • Success / fail

  • MM of a prior day?

<p><strong>Daily</strong></p><ul><li><p>Measured Move of Yesterday’s Range (MMYD)</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Success / fail</p></li><li><p>MM of a prior day?</p></li></ul><p></p>
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Daily Chart

Daily - Yesterday

  • Where are we opening?

  • ie 50% pullback of YD, test the lows again?

<p><strong>Daily - Yesterday</strong></p><ul><li><p>Where are we opening?</p></li><li><p>ie 50% pullback of YD, test the lows again?</p></li></ul><p></p>
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Daily Chart

Daily

  • 2 tests of Yesterday’s high or low

  • Should try twice to breakout either way

  • Inside days are rare

<p><strong>Daily</strong></p><ul><li><p>2 tests of Yesterday’s high or low</p></li><li><p>Should try twice to breakout either way</p></li><li><p>Inside days are rare</p></li></ul><p></p>
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60m

60m- Actions & targets

  • Did traders BTC/STC of 1st/2nd 60m bar?

  • Did traders B STP Above or S STP Below the 1st/2nd 60m bar?

  • Did their trades work or fail by bar 36 or 42?

<p><strong>60m- Actions &amp; targets</strong></p><ul><li><p>Did traders BTC/STC of 1st/2nd 60m bar?</p></li><li><p>Did traders B STP Above or S STP Below the 1st/2nd 60m bar?</p></li><li><p>Did their trades work or fail by bar 36 or 42?</p></li></ul><p></p>
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60m

60m

  • ES 20pt Swings usually line up with the 60m immediate probability

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60m

60m - Good SB H/ L (Live / Done)

  • Good Signal Bar Live means we are still on a 60m buy or sell that hasn’t failed / reached target yet, probably from yesterday

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60m

60m - HTF - LTF BO Trading

  • Higher timeframe → lower timeframe

  • ie 60m Breakout trading means that we have had consecutive 60m bars and are expecting a second leg up on the 60m chart. So fading it for scalps at best only

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60m

60m - Always in / Structure / Legs

  • On the 60m chart are we always in long or short?

  • What 60m pattern are we in?

  • How many legs on the 60m chart do we have?

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60m

60m - Scale in traders

  • Is the 60m bar good enough to:

  • Buy below as a bull?

  • Sell above as a bear?

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60m

60m chart traders

  • Buy the Close (BTC)

  • Sell the Close (STC)

  • Buy on a Stop 1 Tick above (B STP)

  • Sell on a Stop 1 Tick below (S STP) traders

  • Could they get in? Or did they miss out?

  • Did they get disappointed?

  • Will they stay in, scale in or breakeven?

  • Test OHLC of the 60m bar?

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60m

HTF → LTF

(Higher time frame - Lower time frame)

Look for market structure

ie

  • Tight Channel on 60m chart, what to expect on 5m chart?

  • Always in Short on 60m chart - what to expect on 5m chart?

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15m

15m chart traders

  • Buy the Close (BTC)

  • Sell the Close (STC)

  • Buy on a Stop 1 Tick above (B STP)

  • Sell on a Stop 1 Tick below (S STP) traders

  • Could they get in? Or did they miss out?

  • Did they get disappointed?

  • Will they stay in, scale in or breakeven?

  • Test OHLC of the 15m bar?

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15m

15m - Actions & targets

  • Did traders BTC/STC of 1st/2nd 15m bar?

  • Did traders B STP Above or S STP Below the 1st/2nd 15m bar?

  • Did their trades work or fail by bar 9 or 12?

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15m

15m

  • ES 20pt Swings usually line up with the 15m immediate probability

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15m

15m - Always in / Structure / Legs

  • On the 15m chart are we always in long or short?

  • What 15m pattern are we in?

  • How many legs on the 15m chart do we have?

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Open

Open - Hot Zones

  • Wide stop at a critical point out of current structure

  • ie breakout point or gap from last structure

  • We are usually in the middle of these two zones

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Open

Open - Wide Stops

  • Can bears use a bear bar from yesterday RTH?

  • Can bulls use a bull bar from yesterday RTH?

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Open

Open - Magnets / MM / Spike fails

  • Where are the measured moves from the last spike which failed? Project up 1x and 2x

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Open

Open - In/out YD Range

  • Are we within Yesterday’s range or Yesterday’s channel or did we break it yet?

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Open

Open - 18-bar range

  • 90% time, the days HIGH or LOW is formed in the first 18 bars

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Open

Open - 2 - 5 Reversals

  • 50% opening moves reverse

  • 80% opens have 2 or more reversals

  • Many days have 5 mini-reversals inside an opening range

    • Double Top and Double Bottom and one more for Breakout Mode

    • For a breakout and measured move

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Open

Open - Gap - Agree

  • Does the first bar of the day agree with the gap direction?

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Open

Open - ORBOMM vs Failed

  • Opening Range Breakout Measured Move

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Open

Open - TFO / TRO

  • Trend From Open / Trading Range Open

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Open

Open - Gap Up H1 - Gap Down - L1

  • On a Gap Down, traders will usually sell below the first and second reasonable sell signal

    • Did they succeed or get trapped?

  • One a Gap Up, traders will usually buy above the first and second reasonable buy signal

    • Did they succeed or get trapped?

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Open is the 2nd leg down

Open - Open/1st move broke YD swing points / TL

<p>Open - Open/1st move broke YD swing points / TL </p>
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Open

Open - Gap Pullback (CHPB or MM)

  • The opening gap is a big bar,

    • so we are pulling back 50% - 65%

    • to do a second leg of that move?

  • Did we go a measured move of the opening gap?

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Open

Open - B1 a good trade?

  • Bar 1 is the high of low of the day 20% of the time

  • Could you fade bar 1 and make money?

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Open

Open - Gap Bigger than YD Range

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Open

Open - Gap Close Trades

  • How can traders profit from the gap closing vs gap staying open?

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Open

Open - Give DAILY traders chance to enter?

  • Did the gap prevent RTH traders a chance to enter at the best DAILY price?

<p><strong>Open - Give DAILY traders chance to enter?</strong></p><ul><li><p>Did the gap prevent RTH traders a chance to enter at the best DAILY price?</p></li></ul><p></p>
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Trend

Early Exit - Get Back In

  • Trend continues but you exit above a good opposite bar / scalp distance above any bar

  • How to get back in?

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Trend

Reverse get 1:1 loss back

  • If traders take a loss, were they able to reverse and make it back or not?

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Trend

Swing Stop Hit - 1 more leg / take $ soon

  • Last swing stop was hit

  • Don’t reverse yet

  • Last leg coming and final profits soon

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Trend

Swing back to trapped traders

  • Is it a day where ALWAYS IN traders can get out without a loss?

  • can countertrend traders also do it?

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Trend

Doubles

  • Expect DT in BL to fail

  • Expect DB in BR to fail

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Market Cycle

Spike, Pullback, Channel

  • Find Spike, PB, CH, TR areas

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Market Cycle

Channel is a test target

  • Spike Channel then,

  • TR tests start of channel

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Market Cycle

Always in

  • Find Always in areas

  • Where does always-in finish?

    • ie Find TR areas

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Market Structure

Breakout and Follow-through

  • BO+FT Close > H vs Failed

  • BO+FT Close < L vs Failed

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Market Structure

Leg counts

  • Find 2 and 3 legged moves

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Market Structure

Trendlines

Trendlines / CH Lines / test / overshoots

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Market Structure

Spike break x 3

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Market Structure

Best Trade of the Day

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Market Structure

Unluckiest trader in the World

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Market Structure

Doubles - DB MM Up / DB Fails MM Down / DT MM Down / DT Fails MM Up

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Market Structure

Day Structure - 2R of what?

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Market Structure

Leg 2 / 3 Breaks - MM Up / Down

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Market Structure

Open Gaps - Swing to hit em

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Market Structure

Pullback tells you where MM is

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Market Structure

Trendline Break New H Reversal - Jingle

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Market Structure

Swing trade?

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Market Structure

Wedges and Countertrend wedges

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Market Structure

2 tests

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Market Structure

2 closes outside of a range / failed BO range

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Trades

Breakout and Follow-through ZIGZAGS

Draw the lightning bolt for every 2 legged move

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Trades

Reasonable BTC/STC (Always in entries) / failed

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Trades

Reasonable STP entries / failed

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Trades

Microchannel entries / failed

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Trades

CSC (Consecutive) Bars - BO and FT / failed

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Trades

Correct Wide Stop Spike H1 / Spike L1 - success? fail? reverse?

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Trades

Test good entries (2nd chance entries)

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Trades

Good trade failed - graveyard - look to trade away from it, back to it

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Trades

2nd Entry trading system

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Trades

Fading countertrend traders

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Trades

BO and PB Limit order entry - 2nd Leg

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Trades

Shaved bar test - 2L

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Trades

Weak Reversal Fade

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Trades

Enter where other traders EXIT

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TRD

OoD - Middle of the day

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TRD

Split into 1/3s - 2ES/3ES Low and 2EL/3EL High

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TRD

Moves go back to entry

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TRD

Use highs and lows to enter

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TRD

Scale in 1x or 2x scalp

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TRD

Fading flags at extremes

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TRD

Fade 3 CSC (Consecutive) Bars

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TRD

Always in - AIL BB Prior Bar / AIS SA Prior Bar

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TRD

BB BL Spike / SA BR Spike

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TRD

BB Weak S Bottom - SA Weak B Top

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TRD

Test Spike break / Trendline break

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TRD

Test Good Bar Failed

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TRD

Test Weak bar worked

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TRD

Breaking DT and DB then reversing