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So you are starting out in trading and you’ve come up with a stock trading strategy of your own . You have gone through technical analysis training course and after some consideration you’ve deciding on trend trading for the style you prefer .

Trend trading is a strategy that is very attractive. The trending patterns just pop out when you retrospectively look at stock charts. You can salivate at the idea of catching a trend at its inception and riding it through to its final conclusion many months down the road . Success is ahead of you and that money calls you!

Unforunately, in reality, trading isn’t that easy. You manage an entry – you get in near the beginning or a bit late, but in any case you are aboard . Now that you are in the trade you move into a small profit as your predictions start to come true . But then there is a very strong day and after that then the market stops dead in its tracks as the stock hits resistance . You tell yourself that you can’t make the whole move in a day and there is more ahead and then you add to the position you are in . Then the next day the market opens , goes absolutely nowhere, and then it starts heading down fast. Because you decided to add to the position you are fast back to breaking even and then you take a loss by the time you get your orders in place . What occured ? How could you have know beforehand that the trend wouldn’t go on and that instead you should take your profit when the market opened strongly up and paused ?

Here are several tips for trading that will tell when a trend will stop and when it will continue . If you use the tips along with the technical analysis training you’ll be on top of your game.

Most importantly: to set your targets use higher time period charges ; look for logical areas of resistance and support to know when the market is going to stop or start.

If you can’t preduct areas of future resistance and support, or are uncertain how to coordinate time-frames in your trading , then consider using technical analysis training course for more information. You’ll find Drummond Geometry to be a top option but there are many schools of thought which are valid as well .

The second element is that you need is a tool that will help you judget robustness and trend strenght. Resistance or support will be broken through by a strong trend and when a point or resistance or support is hit by a weak trend it will go into congestion or stop or it will reverse and move in the opposite direction . If in the analysis tool kit you have the perfect tool you can predict the more probable action; you’ll have to wait and see without the right tools , and you have a high possibility of getting disappointed.

To appropriately measure, momentum tools should be used and apply them to a timeframe that is smaller than the one you are trading … to make it plain if the daily chart is what you’re trading , with your trades try to pick the day’s high or low, then you look at the half hour or hourly chart to support the decisions you make intraday .

More information will be discussed in part 2 of the technical analysis training series.