Trade Craft A Blog About Trading Skill comes through learning, application and practice. The Gap Between What Is and What Will Be Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE March 1, 2024 Gaps and How Markets Move In Contraction and Expansion Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE February 25, 2024 Tracking The Footprints of WRB Gaps Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE February 21, 2024 Median Lines and Finding The Right Path Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE February 18, 2024 Defining Target for Risk Reward: Maybe you shouldn’t? Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE February 13, 2024 What Is an Expanding Swing? Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE February 7, 2024 Review: Did You Make a Clear Plan? Did You Follow That Plan? Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE February 6, 2024 Position Sizing: Learning to Lose Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE February 5, 2024 Market Structure: Seeing In Swings Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE February 1, 2024 Do You Know What You Are Being Patient for? Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE January 30, 2024 Context and Learning To Change With Change Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE January 29, 2024 A Bad Trade Plan Is Better Than No Trade Plan Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE January 29, 2024 Previous 1234…10 Next
