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If you can combine trading supply
and demand areas with the
engulfing bar price action signal, you will
increase your chances to
make money as a trader.
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Money management trading rules
So far you have learnt how to identify high probability setups in the
market; this doesn’t mean that all engulfing
bar patterns are worth
trading.
Price action signals with low risk /reward ratios should be ignored.
Once the criteria for a high probability setup are in place, there is no
more analysis to be made, just make sure your trade has a potential of
2:1 risk to reward ratio.
I mean that the amount of money you will win has to be twice the
amount of money you will risk or more.
See an example below:
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As you can see all the conditions were in place to take a buying order,
the market was ranging, as we discussed before, major demand and
supply zones are the best price levels in sideways markets.
The formation of an engulfing bar in the demand area is a good trading
opportunity, but you have to look at the risk /reward to make sure that
the trade respects your money management’s rules.
This trade has 3:1 risk to reward which increases your chances to be
winner in the long term, because if you risk 200 dollars in this trade,
you are likely to win 600 dollars. It is very important to calculate your
risk to reward ratio before taking any single trade.
Case study
Imagine you take 10 trades with 3:1 risk /reward
on each single trade,
I mean when you win you get 600 dollars, and when the market goes
against you, you lose 200 dollars.
Let’s suppose you lost 7 trades and you won just 3 trades. Let’s do the
math to know if you are winner or loser.
Seven losing trades will cost you 1400 dollars, and 3 wining trades will
make you 1800 dollars.
As you see you lost seven trades, but you are still making money. This
is the magic of money management.
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