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Market Stalkers by: Deeyana T.

Angelo

Disclaimer
The information in this ebook is for educational purposes only. Leveraged
trading carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for all market
participants. The leverage associated with trading can result in losses which
may exceed your initial investment. Consider your objectives and level of
experience carefully before trading. If necessary seek advice from a
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Table of Contents

Disclaimer ............................................................................................. 2
Copyright Notices ............................................................................................................... 2

Introduction ......................................................................................... 4
Two Ways of Trading .......................................................................................................... 4

Chameleon, the ambush predator ........................................................... 5

Supply and Demand Basics .................................................................... 6

S/D Formation Types ................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

The Right Zones ....................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.


Scoring Table ....................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Filters ................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Odds Enhancers .................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

Trends and How to Read Them ................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Swings and Quartiles ........................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Topdown Approach (TDA) .................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Rule of Fours ....................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

Risk Management ..................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.


Risk Model ........................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

Summary ................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.

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Introduction

There are many trading books out there, some good, some bad. Most of
them will promise that their system can make anyone into a trader. I
tend to disagree.

Trading is one of the most mentally difficult jobs you could possibly
imagine. It’s almost like telling people that anyone can be a
professional footballer. While trading can be a lot of fun, it can
also bring about a lot of stress. Learning how to trade isn’t an easy
road. Even if you’re given the most profitable system in the world,
results will vastly vary from person to person. So I will not promise
to make you into a super-trader, but I will attempt to demystify
misleading concepts of trading that have plagued the traditional
trading books and courses for decades.

In this ebook I will explain, from a professional traders point of


view, what I see when I look for trades. Over the past year I have
worked with a software architect to develop an algorithm based on my
skills, firmly believing that my way of trading is systematic.
However, what I have learned is that my way of trading is quite a bit
discretionary. And extremely difficult to explain to a computer.
Luckily, this ebook is going to be read by humans not computers and
humans should find it relatively simple to grasp the techniques
described here. Without further ado, let’s sink our teeth into some
new knowledge.

Two Ways of Trading


When you break it down, there are really only two ways of trading
styles: chasing price or stalking price.
What do I mean by stalking? I wait and I wait, until the price comes
to my desired level and then I pounce. Like a puma or a chameleon.
Second way of trading is to chase price and be more like the lions,
aggressively chasing after the gazelle ie price, once it already
moves away. That way of trading works for a very few select people.
I’ve only met 2 traders who have become successful doing that. So
let’s stay away from gung-ho trading!

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Chameleon, the ambush predator

You may have noticed our little chameleon mascot on the front cover.
The reason I chose the chameleon is because a chameleon’s nature is
very shy and mild. It’s quite a sweet, non-aggressive creature and
yet its hunting style is one of an ambush predator. Camouflaged, it
sits hiding and waiting. Until a fly goes by and then BAM! One flick
of a tongue and the fly has met its end, whilst our chameleon is
happily munching away. No fuss, no drama. Pure patience and
discipline. And that’s the kind of trader that you should strive to
become.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

I used to be an accomplished musician until the after effects of


recession started to rain down on my industry. Eventually I decided
that my time is worth more than the student-rate gigs I was being
offered after 20 years in music and I decided to turn my attention to
something else. I have always been interested in the markets. But not
enough to learn anything about them at that point. I was too in love
with music. Actually I’m still in love with music, but today I am
happy to say that I am equally in love with the markets and trading.
I’m one of the lucky few who have found their second dream in life.
Nowadays I trade my own account as well as working remotely as a
professional prop trader for a Chicago-based company. I am known in
the trading circles as “Doggette”.


Chameleon is quite a sweet, non-aggressive creature and yet its hunting style
is one of an ambush predator. Camouflaged, it sits hiding and waiting. Until a
fly goes by and then BAM!

My trading style is indeed one of an ambush predator. I wait for the


price to come to my levels and then I expect a certain behavior at
those levels. I use a price action concept of supply and demand,
along with consolidation areas to get in on the moves. But I never
chase price. Ever!

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Supply and Demand Basics

In order to start grasping price action concepts, a lot of


professional traders use supply/demand to find their levels. They are
clearly visible if you know what to look out for. S/D analysis
comprises of looking at the chart horizontally, which means you will
always be looking to the left of the current price to see what came
before. But first, let us remind ourselves exactly what supply and
demand is.

What is supply?
Supply means providing something that people need or want:

səˈplʌɪ/
verb
make (something needed or wanted) available to someone; provide.

And demand is:

dɪˈmɑːnd/
noun
desire for something, a service, product, item, etc…

As traders, we will be using technical analysis to determine when


supply is plentiful and prices are too high – ie when to start
selling. Or opposite – when demand outweighs the supply, when prices
are too low and we want to start buying.
Market is an auction that works based on balance and imbalance of
supply and demand. On any given day, there will also be a fair price,
as determined by price action from the previous day. But more on that
some other time.
How do we transfer this to trading various asset classes? To do this,
you need to start looking to the left of the chart, to find previous

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swing highs and lows where price turned. While it might seem that we
are only looking for traditional support/resistance lines, bear with
me while I explain that S/R is NOT quite the same as supply/demand.
S/R is usually represented as a single price, one key level that
you’re supposed to use to execute a trade. Trading from S/R as your
guide in reality is extremely difficult and doesn’t offer great
profitability, right off the bat. Reason for this is that markets are
rarely that precise in hitting these levels. Most of the time, price
will either fail to completely reach the level or might pass it by
quite a few pips/ticks, making it very difficult to consistently
trade the same level. To top this off, traditional books will tell
you that the more times price hits a level, the stronger it is.
Nothing is further from the truth!
Let’s have a look at a chart to illustrate this. I will use a long
term AUDUSD chart. Long term levels are more accurate and “cleaner”
looking, with very little noise purely because of the amount of
trading that went into them.

Figure 1. AUDUSD Weekly Chart with traditional


Support/Resistance key level

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On this chart you see a key level in AUDUSD. Looking at this it


should be really easy to trade right? Let’s analyse this in a
slightly more detailed manner.
The first green bubble numbered 1 is when the support line gets
created. When the price first tests the support, its gets massively
broken, needing a 200 pip stoploss to survive the “test”. In all
likelyhood, no 2 is a loss.
At bubble no 3 price fails to even reach it, so no fill. At no 4 the
level gets broken, so another loss. Now that the price went well
below the support level, traditional books tell us that support, once
convincingly broken, turns into resistance. So let’s try and trade
that idea:
At no 5 once again a stoploss of over 225 pips would have been
necessary to work out – another loss. Finally, at no 6 once again a
trade wouldn’t get a fill.
Hmmm. So that’s loss, no fill, loss, loss, no fill. Not great is it?

What is going on then? Clearly we have a key level and it’s


definitely reacting with the price but a trader is unable to catch
these moves. It looks messy, impossible, difficult, gambling etc.

Enter supply/demand analysis. Let’s have a look at the same chart but
this time using the boxes that will highlight s/d levels.

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Figure 2. Same chart, with the first demand level

When price first created the support and proceeded to move away from
it, price created a DEMAND level. This kind of a demand is defined
the minute a candle fails to advance in direction and starts to go
sideways. Remember this part. Sideways action. Even if it’s for only
2-3 candles that consolidate, whatever happens next will potentially
be a demand or a supply level. In this case, price consolidated then
moves away upwards, creating a DEMAND. This move would have been very
noticeable even on much lower timeframes, way before this weekly
demand was created. Once the price returned to the level of
consolidation, ie sideways action, now that a trader knows there is
potentially some demand here, he/she now has a clear trade direction.

By recognizing that and going long once the price was inside the
demand, swing trader could have banked 1400 pips by simply holding on
to the trade for a less than 2 months then exiting once he/she
noticed a bearish engulfing pattern once the weekly candle was done.
Even if you only used a mini lot size, you’d be looking at roughly
£890 with the rollover costs included. That’s an extra £445 a month.
On a mini lot size. So far so good.

Once you’ve played a demand level once, caution is always advised on


the second test of the zone. This is because the level isn’t fresh

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anymore and contrary to what popular trading books tell you, a level
actually gets weaker and weaker with each test. Think about it like
chopping down a tree: everytime an axe hits the tree, a little piece
falls off, until there’s no more wood to support the tree and it
eventually falls down.

“ By recognizing a demand and going long, even with one mini lot size, a swing
trader could have banked 1400 pips by simply holding this trade for less than
2 months. That’s roughly £890.

So after the first trade, a trader would simply watch the price
action for confirmation on the second test of the zone. Since the
trader never gets that confirmation, price goes straight through the
level and then retraces, creating a brand new zone in its place.
To clarify this part: once price busts through the bottom/top of the
zone by more than about 12 pips, the zone is broken. Consider it
wipes. Price might continue to create a brand new zone in its place,
which we now treat as a brand new demand. So once the level was
broken, price proceeded to go on another trend up, creating a new
demand. With that in mind let’s have a look at where the second trade
would be located:

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Figure 3. New demand is created

After the move up, once the price started to come down, it actually
hit the first available supply level – a zone where price turned. Now
that there is a demand and a first obvious supply in place, we have a
trade direction, trade location and trade exit. Purely by trading
what is already on the chart – no need for guessing.
Once the demand is reached, a trader would enter a trade and hold it
until the first obvious opposing supply. This trade was worth 700
pips. Even on a mini lot, that’s again a nice chunk of £440, in about
9 weeks.

When second test of the demand comes, again caution is advised – I


never put limit orders on second tests. I desire my levels fresh and
virginal – untouched. Second tests can work on confirmation entries
(more on those later), but practice safe trading and wear a condom.
Because second tests are a bit slutty and dirty and might trick you
into thinking a trade is working out and then simply crash straight
through. Also minimize your profit expectations for the same reason.
In this case tough, a trade does work out and banks another 750 pips.

Now that I’ve given you a rundown of what S/D zones can do, let’s

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look at a way to find these zones on the chart. Here’s a Monthly


chart of EURUSD:

Figure 4. Locating highs and lows

To look for zones, first locate your highs and lows. Oh and before I
forget, later on we’re not going to be using monthly and weekly
charts to get in on the trades, but larger timeframes are cleaner
looking, so these are still only for education purposes. Back to the
highs/lows.

Mark highs/lows and then notice whether there were consolidations


prior to the moves away from highs/lows. Go ahead and mark little
rectangles around all those areas. Try looking to the left of the
chart when you see an obvious swing highs/lows. These swing
highs/lows are not allowed to cut through candles. You’re looking for
originating points of moves and once price trades through the
high/low they’re no longer valid.

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Now extend those rectangles TO THE RIGHT, like this:

Figure 5. Some of the rectangles overlap

Some of the rectangles are overlapping. What does this mean? That
they have been tested before, therefore no longer untouched. Treat
with caution. Wear a condom. Or just don’t touch! Just say no!

But seriously – overlapping rectangles also show you which zones are
currently reacting and this can give you a really good sense of
direction from a birds eye view. So the overlapping zones, aka
previously tested zones are REACTIVE zones.

“ Look to the left of the chart finding obvious swing highs/lows that don’t cut
through candles. You’re looking for originating points of moves and once price
trades through the high/low, they’re no longer valid.

Let’s clean up the chart a bit and remove the overlapping zones,
zones that dip into previous, older levels:

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Figure 6. Clean picture with REACTIVE zones, birds eye view, EURUSD monthly
chart

To learn how to correctly draw the zones, the little boxes, the
lovely rectangles filled with profit potential, let’s use two lines
of different colour…

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