Trade Craft A Blog About Trading Skill comes through learning, application and practice. Following Live: Theory Into Practice, December 2019 Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE December 6, 2019 The Tough Love of Markets Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE December 6, 2019 Taking out the Cheap Seats, Minor Expanding Into Major Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE November 24, 2019 Map Any Market in Any Time Frame, Part 3 of 3 Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE November 13, 2019 Following Live: Theory into Practice November 2019 Shane Blankenship Every month I will pick a futures market and a currency market for us to follow. At the end of each month, I will review these markets to see what … READ MORE November 8, 2019 Map Any Market in Any Time Frame, Part 2 of 3 Shane Blankenship This is the second of our three-part series on Mapping Any Market in Any Time Frame. In Part I, we learned how to structure markets using only swings. Simple enough, … READ MORE November 1, 2019 Mapping the JPY With Swings and Gaps Shane Blankenship In this post, I combine gaps and swings to map and trade the 20-minute JPY. You will see how I use gaps and swings to isolate a Change in Behavior … READ MORE October 16, 2019 The Uncertainty of Gaps, The Space Between What Was and What’sTo Be Shane Blankenship 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 … READ MORE October 2, 2019 Do It With Gaps Shane Blankenship In the last post “Map Any Market in Any Time Frame” I showed you how to map markets using swings. There are various ways to map a market and in … READ MORE September 28, 2019 Map Any Market in Any Time Frame, Part 1 of 3 Shane Blankenship This is the first of a three-part series in which I teach simple and objective ways to map and follow any market in any time frame. Whether you’re trading ticks … READ MORE September 23, 2019 Foundations of Trading Part 5: Trading Journals Shane Blankenship Each trader has their own brand of crazy and we need to see it all cause we can’t improve what we don’t see. The main purpose of a trading journal … READ MORE August 17, 2019 Foundations of Trading Part 4: Trade Planning Shane Blankenship We make a trade plan, execute, then evaluate to see what we can learn about price and ourselves. Making and documenting a trade plan helps us to clarify what it … READ MORE August 4, 2019 Previous 1…678910 Next
