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Trading is a skill mastered through discovery, practice, and application
Our Approach
Trading Markets
We recognize that traders strive for simplicity and consistency in their trading. That’s why, at Language of Markets, we dedicate ourselves to using simple and objective trading methods designed to give you control over the things you can control, making your trading grounded, stable, and balanced.
What We Do
We structure the language of price into functional methods of trading.
Price flow represents a collective story of human behavior and emotions, the tension between buyers and sellers. This makes a chart more than just a graph of dead lines and bars. Charts tell a story, alive with nuance, inflection, and intricacies. As traders, it’s our job to read and understand that story and then apply a consistent, disciplined trading plan.
Learn
Learn trading methods for building and executing consistent trade plans and bring structure to your trading by integrating the method into function.
To independently structure and follow markets
To form up price action into rule-based methods
To put it all together into a precise trade plan
Learn discipline and consistency
Method, Management & Mindset
A trader’s mindset is as important as method and management.
All three must come together in order to trade effectively.
Learn From Price
Map
Read and structure any market to understand price flow and trade independently.
Go With the Flow
Follow
Listening is the trader’s greatest tool. Our methods guide the trader in moving with markets.
Follow Price Action
Plan
Put it all together into a consistent and disciplined trade plan with the most effective mindset.
Learn How to Learn
Practice
Only trading can teach you trading. Become consistent with deliberate practice.
Who We Are
Masters of the Trade
We are traders striving for mastery in effortless trading. This is trading that allows markets to move us in alignment with them. With this focus, mastery becomes the directive of everything we do. A personal commitment to transforming our whole structure of thinking, feeling and way of action. So in trading markets, we listen, follow and join. This is our practice. Mastery of our tools, ourselves and our craft.
Trade Craft
Latests Posts
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
Trading the First Pullback in PEP Play When It’s in Play
In this post, I will break down the First Pullback Pattern and use a real example in PEP to show exactly how the trade is structured. First, we identify the context (the . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
Context: The Difference Between Random and Quality Trades
A setup is only a small part of a trade. Context determines its meaning. The same WRB setup will often behave differently depending on where it forms within the swing. . . .
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
WRB Trade Planner Indicator – How to Plan WRB Trades
This video is a tutorial on the WRB (Wide Range Bar) Trade Planner indicator. I cover what it does, what it does not do, and how to use it. At the end, . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
How to Develop a Trading Method
Today we will work backward from the trade plan back to how to develop a method for that plan. You don’t have to develop your methods but never just depend . . .
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
Taking On Discipline In Stages
Once you have decided that you need discipline in your trading, knowing where to start can be difficult and overwhelming. There are many pieces to a trading plan, and it’s . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
A Good Practice Destroys Itself
We take on a discipline to do something we don’t naturally do or want to do. We set some rules that will be uncomfortable and ride out the restless energy. . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
What Is Flowing With The Market?
We have all heard that it is a good idea to go with the flow of the market but what does that look like? It’s not enough to just read . . .
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
Organized Volatility: More One-Line Practice
In this video, I follow up on the trend line exercise I introduced in the last post. The exercise is designed so that you can learn about markets and price . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
One-Line Practice: Set Yourself Aside And Follow
In this video, I set up a trading plan and introduce a trend line exercise you can practice in any market and in any time frame. There is no one . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
Trading Rules Are Not a Suggestion or an Option
When you make a trading rule, it’s not a suggestion or an option. Mostly, when we want to be flexible with our rules, it’s an emotional impulse pulling us to . . .
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
The Wash and Rinse To See True Support/Resistance
True support and resistance are found in the meat of the move, not at the extreme highs and lows. To find it, simply draw a zone or box, look for . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
Learning Price Action Through Observation
Learning Happens when you’re open and curious and making observations from what you see. From there, you must be mentally balanced to take action on your observations. In this post, . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
The Gap Between What Is and What Will Be
There are 5 basic ways to trade a Gap or any line. In this video, I discuss two ways to enter the market using a Gap. The Gap entry techniques . . .
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
Gaps and How Markets Move In Contraction and Expansion
There are several ways to trade gaps but first, there should be a solid understanding of what Gaps are and how they show up. Markets aren’t that hard to read . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
Tracking The Footprints of WRB Gaps
This is the first in a series of posts on Gaps. Gaps are the expansion that comes after a contraction. It’s a sudden supply/demand imbalance that shows up in the . . .
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
Median Lines and Finding The Right Path
When it comes to learning about markets and trading, finding the right path and committing to it is the hardest part. The right path has little to do with any . . .
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
Defining Target for Risk Reward: Maybe you shouldn’t?
The trade plan is broken up into parts. We have an objective and consistent entry, stop, and exit plan. Here I will be talking about the exit plan and setting . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
What Is an Expanding Swing?
Markets move in contraction/expansion. Small swings can be thought of as a form of contraction and the bigger swing is a form of expansion. An Expanded Swing is simply a . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
Review: Did You Make a Clear Plan? Did You Follow That Plan?
We can break up the review section of the trading into several distinct sections. 1. Review for discipline and personal insight2. Review for performance (statistics)3. Review for market insight4. Review . . .
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
Position Sizing: Learning to Lose
Position sizing is one of the components of a trading plan, and it’s important to be just as disciplined and consistent with this as with all other parts of the . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
Market Structure: Seeing In Swings
Market Structure is simply making distinctions in price flow. its putting structure around what looks like chaos so that we have a way to measure and orient ourselves to any . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
Do You Know What You Are Being Patient for?
Patience in trading is the discipline of being with your restless energy when things aren’t happening the way you want them to. If we are to be patient, we must . . .
30 Planned Trades, Trade Craft
Context and Learning To Change With Change
One of the hardest things for traders, or anyone for that matter, is to adapt to change. Mostly we get stuck when things change, which makes trading difficult since the . . .
Trade Craft, 30 Planned Trades
A Bad Trade Plan Is Better Than No Trade Plan
Traders often talk about the need to be patient but to be patient, we must know what we are being patient for. That is why we have a trade plan . . .