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It is very important to understand the concept of support and resistance. This is my preferred method of trading.

He may for example buy (call) the right to purchase a particular piece of land at $100,000 on or before sixty days beginning on the day he takes the option. You will often hear the term INTERBANK discussed in FX terminology.

To draw a trend line, draw a straight line from the lowest low of the period to the next lowest low. Let’s take a simple example.

The forex market can have leverage of 1% with some brokerages. This identification of trend, its beginning and end, is the most important thing we have to do.

Ownership implies the cash market where you have additional costs, which leads to a difference between the cash price and the futures price where you don’t have these costs. If I enter a trade from the long side I will place my stop at the next lowest support.

The market discounts everything. Depending on which financial newspaper you buy you will either see the bid/offer price quoted separately or if there is just one price that is normally the mid price between the bid/offer spread.

There are other combinations of this but this is the most common. This to and fro, buying and selling in the direction of the trend plots out a recognizable channel of dynamic flux of the trend.

The market has moved on to such a degree now that the term interbank now means anybody who is prepared to buy or sell a currency. This smoothing effect of price change increases as you use longer and longer periods as the average.

Technical analysts look at charts the same way a doctor would look at x-rays. At this stage it may seem that the buyer of the option has all the cards but don’t forget the seller of the option receives the money for granting the option.

You can also sell options (as opposed to buying a put). Around a 1000 BC Aristotle Thales predicted by the stars that there would be a bumper olive harvest and bought options on the use of olive presses.

The market has moved on to such a degree now that the term interbank now means anybody who is prepared to buy or sell a currency. If you are at all serious about this game, approach it professionally.

Some commonly used ones are Major primary trend monitored by a 40-week (200-day) moving average. Is price moving faster?

Technical analysis is the science of human behavior. This starts the whole cycle off again if the up trend is to continue.

Resistance can also be expected at prices of previous support or resistance. For markets that have volume I would expect to see a sudden increase in volume to help confirm the breakout.

Once levels of support or resistance have been violated then invariably these reverse their roles, so that previous support becomes resistance and previous resistance becomes support. Here’s where it gets interesting.

A downtrend is present when prices make a series of lower highs and lower lows. The actual theory is fairly straightforward to explain and sensible if you take the time to think about it.

A large part of FX turnover is from banks. Recognizing the trend line and the opposing parallel channel line - channel return line - and understanding the human dynamics that account for its structure, increase the efficiency of profit making by initiating or adding to one's position at trend lines and profit taking at the channel return line.

If he doesn’t know if you want to buy or sell he will give the best prices he can find. It might be spinning a bottle, asking your Aunt Jenny what she thinks or just gut feel.

This is my preferred method of trading. If you first enter the market short you will not pay the spread initially but you will pay it on the way out.

The primary trend may take years to come to an end and develops over time. Because we don’t know if this is going to develop into a trend I like to see the price first return back to the 9 period moving average and then monitor what happens next.

The reverse of this is a put (right to sell) option on an underlying asset. We will be going into this in more detail in future chapters when we cover learning to trade.

I know to many traders who didn’t make money on paper but for some inexplicable reason thought that if they had real money in the account they would. If it where not possible to make money trading because the markets are inherently random, then why do so many traders make money?

If you are an investor it makes sense for you to know something about the thing you are investing in. The validity of a trend line is dependent on its duration and the number of times it has been successfully tested.

Dow interpretation of a trend was that each rally high be higher than the previous rally high and each rally low be higher than the previous rally low. The secondary trend is like tributary to the main trend.

A property developer may take the option on a piece of land he wants to develop. There are so many charting services out there that it would be hard to mention anyone in particular.

All this means is that anything that can effect the price of a security has already been allowed for by the market participants. Check the charts carefully.

We will be going into this in more detail in future chapters when we cover learning to trade. Is price moving faster?

Consider the following. Large banks can literally trade billions of dollars daily.

Depending on what security and how much activity there is in that market will determine the spread. This now gives him time to arrange any permits he may need to construct the building he wants.

If he doesn’t know if you want to buy or sell he will give the best prices he can find. To draw a trend line, draw a straight line from the lowest low of the period to the next lowest low.

Changes in interest rates, government announcements, etc. To simplify this think of it like this.

This starts the whole cycle off again if the up trend is to continue. The market struggled to make it above R3 and retraced to S4 Once R3 is taken I move my stop to S4 and lock in profits.

If you are going to trade daily bars and up you don’t need to see every tick of the day. We can use this in our approach.

Similar to support, a "resistance" level is the point at which sellers take control of prices and prevent them from rising higher. For those who do not wish to trade the trend so aggressively one can use the trend line for placing and moving stops and to initiate new trades.

Some times the price will just keep going through support and resistance and sometimes it will come back to test its previous support or resistance line. To buy stocks you normally need to have an account with a broker.