2026 CME Holidays & Swing Trend Series
2026 started with two practical challenges traders often overlook: ensuring your baseline market data is correct, and using price action in a disciplined, objective way. During the Kick Off, we first looked at how standard reference levels like prior session OHLC, VWAP, and pivots are affected by holiday session rules in the CME markets. Then…
Trading Reversal Setups in Sideways Markets
On of the main challenges with trading is to determine whether we’re in a ranging or trending market. However, because the market goes through cycles we can anticipate that after a period of contraction, chances of a trend move will increase. Likewise, a ranging scenario is likely to follow after a period of range expansion,…
How to Choose Between Directional and Reversal Setups
The key concept behind the Range Projection indicators, is to determine whether price moves are driven by “noise traders”, or if there’s also institutional participation. Noise Bands represent support & resistance levels, showing us how far retail traders typically drive prices. Once these levels are breached, it indicates participation from higher timeframe traders. At that…
Trend Confirmation with Price Action Benchmarks
In this post, we use the premium Ichimoku indicator to align a trend and momentum bias across multiple time-frames. However, just as with legal or medical advice, it’s always good with a second and maybe even third opinion, before making an important decision. In this post, we’ll look at how the regular open may be…
A Hybrid Approach to Price Action Breakouts
In this post we’ll discuss a hybrid approach to price action breakouts, as discussed in our 2023 SharkWeek presentation. To learn more, watch the video or continue reading below: Discretionary trading is largely based on fear and greed, i.e. the human sentiment that traders experience from time to time, as reflected in price action setups.…
The MAD Ichimoku Squeeze
In this post we’ll discuss Ichimoku trend and momentum setups may be improved by using narrow range analysis in higher timeframes. For information on how the Ichimoku trend and signals are calculated, please refer to this post. Qualifying Ichimoku signals by applying higher timeframe narrow ranges is similar to the squeeze setup. Basically, we’re looking…
Pullback Trading: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
It is said that the main differences between successful and unsuccessful trend traders is the ability to distinguish between good, bad and ugly pullbacks. Another way of putting it is that one should read between the lines… On one hand, you’ll want to avoid trend pullbacks that are overly aggressive. On the other hand, make…
Analyzing Candlestick Patterns
In this post, we’re looking at how candlestick patterns can be used to predict future price movement. Throughout history, humans have used patterns to make sense of the current environment and to make predictions for the future. Our ability to recognize all types of patterns has been essential for our learning process and capacity to…
Trend Trading System Design
When setting up a trend trading system, it is generally a good idea to review the trend bias from different perspectives. Just as with legal or medical advice, you‘ll want to get a second opinion before making a decision. Therefore, you will want to look review different methods for determining trend biases, combining them in…
Swing Trend Analysis
Swing trend analysis is a classic tool you may use to determine the general direction in which the market is moving. Trends are characterized by a series of highs and lows, forming a series of successive waves. Specifically, a swing trend analysis indicator plot connects the alternating swing highs and lows. When a new price…