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The market structure
One of the most important skill that you need
as a trader is the ability
to read the market structure, it is a critical skill that will allow you to
use the right price action strategies in the right market condition.
You are not going to trade all the markets the same way; you need to
study how the markets move, and how traders behave in the market.
The market structure is the study of the market behavior.
And
if you can master this skill,
when you open your chart, you will be
able to answer these important questions:
What the crowds are doing? Who is in control of the market buyers or
sellers? What is the right time and place to enter or to
exit the market
and when you need to stay away?
Through your price action analysis, you will experience three types of
markets,
trending markets, ranging markets, and choppy markets.
In this chapter, you will learn how to identify every market, and how
to trade it.
1-Trending markets
Trending markets are simply characterized by a repeating pattern of
higher highs and higher low in an up-trending market, and lower high
and lower low in a down trending market.
See the example below:
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As you can see in the example above, the market is making series of
higher highs and higher lows which indicates
that the market is up
trending.
You don’t need indicators to decide if it is bullish or bearish just a visual
observation of price action is quite enough to get an idea about the
market trend.
Look another example of a downtrend market.