To Push The NQ or Not: The Three Types of Trades

The three basic types of trades framework help you understand what you doing when you take a trade. It also gives you a way to frame the supply/demand dynamics of momentum, expanding or reversing markets. As a principle, we can use this framework with swings, gaps, lines or any other relevant marker sloped or horizontal. In this video of the recent NQ, we see a typical pattern of minor swings pushing and then letting all those people go “Taking Out The Cheap Seats” as it expands into a type 2 major swing. Once understood, you can even specialize in the type that resonates with you learning all its nuances or train in all three.

The Uncertainty of Gaps, The Space Between What Was and What’sTo Be

In the last post, “Mapping Markets With Gaps” I showed you how to structure a market with Gaps and finished the video by marking out a few markets live. In this video Im going to follow up those charts and see what we can learn from what happened when price interacted with those levels. These are the kinds of things we do in the Language of Markets Live sessions in order to take what we are learning into practice and application. In the video, I also go over the three types of trade options related to gaps. You can see a video on the Three Types of Trades in the “Principles of Trading” section of the home page. Gaps show us an area of supply/demand imbalance that we can take trade advantage of in many ways once we understand them.