Video 33 A, B, C, D, E, F & G: Protective Stops Flashcards
A beginner in a loss refuses to consider that math now favors the bears. Relies on hope and denial. And does not want to take a loss and feel like a loser.
If the price falls below a Major Higher Low, the premise of a bull trend is no longer valid.
It’s either in a Trading Range or a Bear Trend
So it is a reasonable place to place your stop
A bull trend needs higher highs and higher lows, but it especially needs ____________
Major Higher Lows.
Sometimes a strong rally doesn’t reach a higher high.
Al calls this a High 2. Two legs.
This is a good section to review for examples of price action. Not a lot of new information to study. But goes over how to manage a price action in a trend. Similar dialogues to his books
In a strong bull trend, bulls will buyer a 50% Pullback.
If it falls much below 50%, then premise of strong bull is less likely true
When you have a Double Top is a tight trading range like this, and the trading range lasts for 20 bars or more bars, especially if you get a decent sell signal bar the bears have a __% chance of a swing down.
40%
It’s very difficult to make a living as a scalper. Need to only take the best scalps and trade huge size. Rick (stop) usually has to be bigger than reward.
Requires unrealistic probability for most traders.
Expert scalpers scale in.
Focus on swing trading. You can use reasonable stops and only need to be right 40% of the time.