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    Trade Against the Trend!
    Trade Against the Trend!
    Trade Against the Trend!
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    Trade Against the Trend!

    By Heikin Ashi Trader

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    Trade Against the Trend!


    The brokerage industry usually recommends that new traders trade with the trend. But is trading this way profitable? It is said that if you go with the trend, the likelihood that you will win is higher. Unfortunately, experience shows that most traders cannot build a profitable business this way.


    Old and experienced traders used to say: You have to buy when blood flows in the streets. That means that you should act against the trend. Actually, this saying is the expression of common sense itself. The question remains: Why do  traders find it so hard to put this wisdom into practice?


    The new book by Heikin Ashi Trader gives ideas and tips on how to recognize such countertrend signals in the stock market, since these are usually the best trading opportunities.


     Table of Contents


    Part 1: The Snapback Trading Strategy


    Chapter 1: Trade when the mass is afraid


    Chapter 2: Why I do not follow the trend


    Chapter 3: Mean Reversion


    Chapter 4: Risk Management


    Chapter 5: How do I recognize extreme movements?


    Chapter 6: Patience at the entry


    Chapter 7: Does the stop really protect me from heavy losses?


    Chapter 8: Trade Management


    Chapter 9: Exit


    Chapter 10: When do the best trading opportunities occur?


    Chapter 11: Why you should study the economic calendar


    Chapter 12: Which markets are suitable for the snapback strategy?


    Part 2: Trading Examples


    Chapter 1: Examples in the stock indices


    Chapter 2: Examples in the currency markets (Forex)


    Chapter 3: Examples in the stock markets


    Chapter 4: Examples in the commodity markets


    Glossary


     


     


    About the Author


    Heikin Ashi Trader is the pen name of a trader who has more than 18 years of experience in day trading futures and foreign exchange. He specializes in scalping and fast day trading. In addition to this, he has published multiple self-explanatory books on his trading activities. Popular topics are on: scalping, swing trading, money- and risk management.


     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDAO Press
    Release dateJun 19, 2019
    Trade Against the Trend!
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    Heikin Ashi Trader

    ​Heikin Ashi Trader is the pseudonym of a trader who has over 19 years of experience in day trading futures and currencies. He traded for a hedge fund and then went on his own. He specializes in scalping and fast day trading. His scalping book "Scalping Is Fun!" is an international bestseller and has been sold more than 30.000 times. His books have been translated into 11 languages.

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      A good explanation of an alternative approach than the popular trend following. The snap back method discussed is not however for me.

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    Trade Against the Trend! - Heikin Ashi Trader

    Strategy

    Chapter 1: Trade when the crowd is afraid

    I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms, and you make all your money by playing the trend in the middle. Well, for twelve years, I have been missing the meat in the middle, but I have made a lot of money at tops and bottoms.

    Paul Tudor Jones

    Anyone who starts trading on the stock market should be fearless. I do not say callous, I say fearless. If you want to win as a trader, you have to be willing to take trades that hardly anybody dares to take. It has been like that forever. If you do the same thing as the rest of the herd, you get what the herd gets: almost nothing.

    Therefore, if you want to do something crazy, like trading, then it should be worth it. Anyone who has read my scalping books knows that I am a countertrend trader. That means: I wait until a trend is exhausted and then take the opposite position. As a scalper, it just seems logical to me to try to trade the turning points that Paul Tudor Jones talks about in the quote.

    This setup has convinced many scalpers. However, many, like me, have seen in recent years that it was not always easy to find markets where you could scalp well. The method works best in bear markets. I developed the method especially for such times.

    In long-lasting bull markets, as has been the case since 2009 (as of November 2018), volatility will continue to dry up. So, it is getting harder and harder to find a market where you can scalp well, using this method. Therefore, many scalpers have begun to trade according to classic day trading methods. They trade on a 5-minute or even a 15-minute chart. Others have started using my method on higher timeframes. Of course, it also works there, because it is based on the universal principle: the best opportunities are at the turning points.

    Do any alternatives exist for times of low volatility? One of these is the snapback strategy. What is this? Everyone knows that if you stretch a rubber band, it will snap back eventually. In addition, the more you stretch the band, the stronger the backlash will be. This principle also applies to the stock market. That is why we speak of snapback, that is, the band is snapping back after a movement has been stretched in an exaggerated way.

    This method is based on the assumption that when a market makes an extreme move in one direction, one can assume that a backlash will follow. Although it is hard to anticipate the preceding movement, the trader can expect a counter movement, with a high probability. The snapback trader relies on this probability. He does not even try to guess if a market will make a big move up or down. He waits patiently. If he perceives such a movement, he positions himself in the opposite direction as soon as the preceding movement stutters or shows signs of weakness.

    Fig. 1: Bitcoin, weekly chart 2016 – 2018

    In figure 1, you see the example of a market that was stretched quite far. It literally crashed after it had shot up like a rocket, as if there were no limits. At least, that was what the optimistic crypto traders thought, dreaming of even higher prices.

    This chart reminds me of the times of the dotcom bubble in 2000. Thousands of new traders also appeared out of nowhere, thinking that the laws of gravity had been rejected. Any experienced stock trader knows that it is only a matter of time before the house of cards collapses. That was the case after the dotcom bubble. It happened with the crypto-currencies, and it will always be like that where a market screws up, as if Newton’s laws suddenly no longer apply. This phenomenon is the topic of this book. I want to explore market situations that are just screaming for the rubber band to snap back.

    Anyone who read my scalping books will recognize the setup. I am one of those traders who does not try to predict major market moves (a specialty of analysts). I cannot predict such movements as much as I would like, so I certainly do not try. What I can very well expect, is that after an extreme movement, I usually can expect a countermovement, a correction. My method builds on this logic.

    There have always been traders who have been trading with the snapback method, or a variant of it. For example, some traders specialize in trading extreme moves in smaller stocks, so

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