Trading Price 5: When/Where to Sell/Short Flashcards
Price Patterns for when to Sell/Short
- Rally Base Drop (RBD) 2. Drop Base Drop (DBD) 3. Prior Demand becomes Supply
Rally Base Drop (Downtrend)
Creates the Supply Zone to Short
What to think ahead in RBR, DBD, DBR, RBD
When See a Rally or a Drop, expect a base When see base, expect Rally or drop
What are you looking for in Base?
A momentum slow down. smaller range than rally/drop, but size really doesn’t matter. smaller the better though.
what time frame do you look for Supply/Demand zones
Intermediate time frame
how to find RBD supply zone
questions to ask self before short
- what is the higher timeframe trend 2. in intermediate timeframe, you only want to ID origin of strong drop in price, or strong rally in price.
what is main reason why people get stopped out?
They are trading against the dominant trend
Line placement of Rally Base Drop
Proximal Line - low of BODY of base, not Low of wick.
what is pattern
RBD
what is DBD
how to find DBD
What do you want to see in the 2nd drop of DBD pattern?
- want to see the second Drop’s candles CLOSE around 20% of it’s range especially on first candle of 2nd Drop -shows strength in selling pressure
how to draw line in DBD
What pattern is this?
DBD