Trend-Basics

Trend is the direction in which price moves. Identifying the trend of currency pair is the most important part of any forex trading strategy.Once you have a clear idea about where the price is heading taking a trade will be much more easier. That means if the price is going up then a buy trade will give you profit and vice-versa. So let's look at the different trends. 

Price will move mainly in 3 directions.

1. Up
2. Down
3. Range

UPTREND:

When the price is moving up it is called an uptrend.

See the above chart. The price on 8th January was around 93.83, but as on 14th January it is around 97.99. Price has moved up. This is a typical example of up trend. 

Support and Resistance

The most basic and important step during chart analysis is marking the support and resistance areas. Support and Resistance play an integral part in any successful trading strategy. So first lets look in to what is support and resistance.

Let's look in to a candlestick chart of EUR-USD.

In this chart we can see that the price is moving up.The price on 10th October was around 1.2868 and as on 17th October it is around 1.3117. So the price has moved up for about 249 pips. But the movement is not through a straight line. After 10th October the price has come down and the again went up till 11th October then again it came down and so on.The price has created a number of high's and low's before reaching the value of 1.3117.

The yellow circle you see in the chart is one such high and it is called a PEAK.

Candlestick chart pattern-Part II- Hammer/Hangingman

Hammer/Hanging man.

This is a reversal signal,which indicates that there is a chance for change in the direction of price.

Features:

• When the candle appears in an uptrend it is called Hanging man.

See the chart above,the price was moving in upward direction and at the peak hanging man appeared. After that the price reversed its direction and started downward journey.

• When candle appears in a down trend it is called hammer.

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Browse through the website (the link list on the right panel) to find and learn more about different currency chart patterns and indicators.

Browse through the website (the link list on the right panel) to find and learn more about different currency chart patterns and indicators

Japanese candlestick chart patterns- part1

The basic idea behind trading is to buy at low price and sell at higher price there by taking a profit and vice versa. So how will you know that the price is going to move up by looking at the chart. This is where Chart patterns comes to play it's role.

Candle stick chart will provide a lot of patterns which will act as a warning signal that the price is going to change it's direction.There are several types of candlestick chart patterns like

• Reversal patterns
• Continuation Patterns

Let's look at the Reversal patterns.

Reversal patterns show the trader that the price is likely to change it's direction. If a particular currency is in uptrend and a reversal pattern appear on the chart,this means that the trend may change to downward direction or is going to range.
Reversal pattern doesn't mean that the trend has been completely reversed. Sometimes the reversal will only be for a short time and after that the price will regain its strength and continue it's former trend. The length of reversal depend on various factors like Support and resistance areas, major fundamental developments,market sentiment etc.

1) Engulfing Pattern:
One of the important candlestick  reversal signal. This is a 2 candle pattern which means the pattern include 2 candlesticks. The engulfing pattern can be

• Bearish engulfing-- occurs in uptrend
• Bullish engulfing.--occurs in down trend

Bearish Engulfing pattern:

In this pattern there will be 2 candlesticks. The second candlestick will engulf the body of the first candlestick completely.The first one will be a bull candle (or a doji) and the second a bear candle. This pattern gives a warning signal that uptrend is coming to an end.

See the chart above the rectangle enclosed shows a bearish  engulfing bar pattern. In this the second bear candle is so long that it has covered almost 5 previous candles. The more candles enclosed by the second bar the stronger it is.