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This Stop-Loss Method Saved So Many of My Swing Trades

Video Transcript Have you ever been stopped out of a perfectly good trade by just a tiny wick, only to watch the price immediately reverse and move in your direction? Well, that used to happen to me a lot. So, I started using what I call the alternative stop-loss method. I use it for all my swing trades because it helps me avoid getting kicked out too early and, in many cases, turn a potential loser into a winner. Let me now show you exactly how this works. Take a look at this example here. We have this heavy volume zone followed by this sell-off here. So, you’d want to trade from the beginning of that heavy volume zone. That means somewhere in here would be a short. The stop-loss would be behind a barrier, and the barrier is this heavy volume zone. So, normally, the stop would be somewhere in here. But what I do, and what this alternative stop-loss method is all about, is that when a candle, if a candle, just wicks past my stop-loss like in here, I don’t close the trade. I only close ...
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The Failed Breakdown Setup: How Institutions Trap Retail Traders

Do you want ME to help YOU with your trading? Learn my proven Volume Profile & Order Flow trading strategies! Get my proprietary indicators and start making progress. We even set the indicators up for you so you can hit the ground running TODAY! Start Learning to Trade Now! Video Transcript: All right, good morning, everybody. Dan with Funded Trader Academy here, and in this video, I want to cover the failed breakdown trade. Okay, so this setup has a few key elements: an entry model and a trigger, and we’re going to cover that today using the DeltaFlow Order Flow tool on TradingView. So let’s start with an initial framing of the day. We’re going to go back to September 25th, and I’m going to show you the elements of a failed breakdown. Okay, so we start off just by framing our day. We’ve got a couple of volume profiles here just to kind of track the movements, volume, and imbalances on the day, and we’re watching the Asian session here, the London session surge, and this pre-market...

🎯 Top Volume Profile Levels to Trade This Week on ES, USD/CAD & USD/CHF

Do you want ME to help YOU with your trading? Learn my proven Volume Profile & Order Flow trading strategies! Get my proprietary indicators and start making progress. We even set the indicators up for you so you can hit the ground running TODAY! Start Learning to Trade Now! Video Transcript: Hello everyone, it’s Dale here, and in this video, I’ll show you the strongest Volume Profile levels to trade this week. We are going to take a look at the ES, Canadian dollar, and Swiss franc. So, let’s check them out. What you see here is the TradingView platform, and we are looking at a 30-minute chart of the ES . And what I want to talk about is a support which is in here. The support is at 7,695 . The reason behind this support is that if you take a look at the price action first, what the price did here when it was dropping, then it suddenly turned, made a sharp reversal, and went into this very, very aggressive buying activity. So, buyers were dominating in this place. I talked about tha...

🎯 Trade of the Week | Volume Profile + 2 Price Action Confirmations

Do you want ME to help YOU with your trading? Learn my proven Volume Profile & Order Flow trading strategies! Get my proprietary indicators and start making progress. We even set the indicators up for you so you can hit the ground running TODAY! Start Learning to Trade Now! Video Transcript: Hey everyone, it’s Dale here. In this video, I want to show you the most interesting trade of my week. This time, it was a swing trade on USD/CHF . So, let’s check it out. Here you can see the TradingView platform and the Daily chart of USD/CHF. I’m using the Daily chart for all my swing trades. And what caught my eye here initially was this strong uptrend on USD/CHF. Now, when I saw this candle—this was the FOMC candle formed during the FOMC on Wednesday—I knew that I wanted to participate in this uptrend and look for a significant place to go long from. So, what I did was I used the Flexible Volume Profile, or in TradingView it’s called the Fixed Range Volume Profile. And what I did was look ...