[...]... fail, traders need to be selective Day trading Now that readers understand price action, they can use it to trade The chapters on day trading, trading the first hour, and detailed examples show how Daily, weekly, and monthly charts These charts have very reliable price action setups Options Price action can be used effectively in option trading Best trades Some price action setups are especially good,... designing trading systems In other words, every pattern subdivides into standard price action patterns in smaller time frame charts, and trading decisions based on price action analysis therefore work in all time frames HOW TO READ THESE BOOKS I tried to group the material in the three books in a sequence that should be helpful to traders Book 1: Trading Price Action Trends: Technical Analysis of Price. .. need to understand scalping, swing trading, and scaling into and out of trades, as well as how to enter and exit on stops and limit orders The mathematics of trading There is a mathematical basis for all trading, and when you see why things are unfolding the way they do, trading becomes much less stressful Book 3: Trading Price Action Reversals: Technical Analysis of Price Charts Bar by Bar for the Serious... when they see a good price action setup, they start looking for indicators that show divergences, different time frames for moving average tests, wave counts, or Fibonacci setups to confirm what is in front of them In reality, they are price action traders who are trading exclusively off price action on only one chart but don't feel comfortable admitting it They are complicating their trading to the point... they go through the books again At the time of publication, I am posting a daily end-of-day analysis of the Emini and providing real-time chart reading during the trading day at www.brookspriceaction.com All of the charts in the three books will be in a larger format on John Wiley & Sons’ site at www.wiley.com/go/tradingtrends (See the “About the Website” page at the back of the book.) You will be able... them that I don't want to hear about anyone else's trading techniques I tell them that I haven't even mastered my own and probably never will, but I am confident that I will make far more money perfecting what I already know than trying to incorporate non -price- action approaches into my trading I ask them if James Galway offered a beautiful flute to Yo-Yo Ma and insisted that Ma start learning to play... to divide it into three separate books This first book covers price action basics and trends The second book is on trading ranges, order management, and the mathematics of trading, and the final book is about trend reversals, day trading, daily charts, options, and the best setups for all time frames Many of the charts are also in Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar, but most have been updated and the discussion... existence of trends and trading ranges Trends These are the most conspicuous and profitable components of every chart Book 2: Trading Price Action Trading Ranges: Technical Analysis of Price Charts Bar by Bar for the Serious Trader Breakouts These are transitions from trading ranges into trends Gaps Breakouts often create several types of intraday gaps that can be helpful to traders, but these gaps are evident... to a 20 percent or more sell-off over a short time on a daily chart and was widely used only twice in the past hundred years, a price action trader looks for shape, and the same crash pattern is common on intraday charts Since crashes are so common intraday, there is no need to apply the term, because from a trading perspective they are just a bear swing with tradable price action Figure I.4 Crashes... other The small-volume trades made by individuals can only take place if an institution is willing to take the same trade If you want to buy at a certain price, the market will not get to that price unless one or more institutions also want to buy at that price You cannot sell at any price unless one or more institutions are willing to sell there, because the market can only go to a price where there . (cloth); ISBN 97 8-1 -1 1 8-1 662 3-9 (ebk); ISBN 97 8-1 -1 1 8-1 662 4-6 (ebk); ISBN 97 8-1 -1 1 8-1 662 5-3 (ebk) 1. Stocks–Prices–Charts, diagrams, etc. I. Brooks, Al, 1952– Reading price charts bar by bar. II Reading price charts bar by bar : the technical analysis of price action for the serious trader, was published in 2009”–T.p. verso. Includes index. ISBN 97 8-1 -1 1 8-0 665 1-5 (cloth); ISBN 97 8-1 -1 1 8-1 662 3-9 . Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Brooks, Al, 1952– Trading price action trends : technical analysis of price charts bar by bar for the serious trader / Al Brooks. p. cm. – (The Wiley trading series) “The