TRADE CRAFT
Trading is an art. As in any artform, skill comes through application and practice. This is how we approach the craft of trading at Language of Markets. Here, in Trade Craft, you'll find a collection of posts that demonstrate our approach.
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...
Riffing off of One Little Line
This is a clip from a recent Language of Markets Live session. The session was about Press Structures which show an agenda and then a supply/demand imbalance. In the first...
Following Live: Theory Into Practice, December 2019
Last month we mapped and followed an oil and Aussie chart with simple swings and gaps and these are some of the lessons we learned from this: We saw how...
The Tough Love of Markets
After struggling with a period of frustration, a student recently shared a discovery: "Part of my learning is to join the fact that I will never be sure about a...
Taking out the Cheap Seats, Minor Expanding Into Major
In previous posts, I showed how to identify swings and then taught how to make a further distinction of minor and major swings. With this understanding, we can come up...
Map Any Market in Any Time Frame, Part 3 of 3
Changes in price flow are signaled when swings are broken—when a downswing is broken to the upside, for example. Seeing and making these distinctions intimately connects us to the rhythm...