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Frontline FX:

Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades


Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

Frontline FX:
Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades

With
Steve Nison, CMT
President: Candlecharts.com

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Frontline FX:
Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

• Easy to Understand 
• Early Reversals
• “Safety First”
• East + West
• All FX markets
• All Time Frames 
• Accelerates Analysis

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

• Current volatility in FX very high.  
Especially good time to  trade
• Almost purely technical 
• Largest financial market 
• No “insider” information
• Longer running trends
• Far fewer instruments
• Trade all hours while the market is open 
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• Trade just as easily in up or down 
markets
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• Easy entry: $50 minimum account size

"Forex trading is highly speculative in nature and Forex market should only be
conducted with risk capital you can afford to lose"

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

Nison Candlesticks for FX

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Frontline FX:
Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

 Quick review of candlestick essentials


 Doji essentials
 Using real bodies to gauge force of trend
 Importance of shadows
 Correctly using single, double and triple
candlestick patterns
 Avoiding “Profit Leakers”
 Helping to avoid buying on false
breakouts
 Candlestick pattern variations for FX
 When to use a candlestick signal for a
new trade and when to use to exit an
existing trade.
 Using candlesticks as protective stops
 Importance of short term trend

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

Candlestick   Candlesticks +
Charting  Western 
Techniques  Indicators

Candlesticks + Trade Management

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

 Using candlesticks + West for


increased trade confidence

 Candlesticks with moving averages

 Candlesticks with Bollinger Bands

 Candlesticks with trendlines

 Change of Polarity

 Falling off the Roof

 Crack and Snap

 Candlesticks with Oscillators

 Candlesticks with Retracements

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

 Candlesticks in context

 Adapting to the market

 Candlestick confirmation

 Steve’s most important trade


management rule

 Avoiding #1 mistake made by FX


traders

 If… Then trading rule

 Importance of Trend
 Adapting to the Market
 Identifying is support/resistance is
strong or weak

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

FX Profit Leaker

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

Candlestick   Candlesticks +
Charting  Western 
Techniques  Indicators

Candlesticks + Trade Management

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

FX Profit Leaker

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

Benefits of Nison Candlesticks
Simple to use

© Steve Nison’s Candlecharts.com

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The Framework:
Analyzing Real Bodies
and Shadows

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

“Without oars you cannot


cross in a boat”

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ANATOMY OF THE CANDLESTICK LINE

high Shadow
close open

Real 
Body

open close
low

Real Bodies / Shadows

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Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

Reading the Market’s Message


Using the data below, draw the candlestick lines and then analyze what 
each candlestick line says about who’s in control of the market

28
session open high low close
27
1 22 26 21 26
26
2 26 27 26 27
25
3 23 27 22 22 24
4 25 28 22 25
23
5 27 27 24 24 22

21
1 2 3 4 5

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Reading the Market’s Message


Using the data below, draw the candlestick lines and then analyze what 
each candlestick line says about who’s in control of the market

28
session open high low close
27
1 22 26 21 26
26
2 26 27 26 27
25
3 23 27 22 22 24
4 25 28 22 25
23
5 27 27 24 24 22

21
1 2 3 4 5

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Nison Power Concept

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“The Real Body is the Essence of the Price Movement”

Who’s in control?

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
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Basic Criteria:
Small real body - black or white

Market Implication:
Immediately preceding trend
losing momentum.

Who’s in control?
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READING THE MARKET’S MESSAGE

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Basic Criteria:
• Market in up or down trend
• Open and close prices are the same
(or nearly the same)

Market Implication:
Market at a point of indecision

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Doji = Caution

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CANDLES GIVE YOU TWICE THE INFORMATION AS A BAR CHART

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
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What does this bar chart say?

Holding the highs very


well so looks fine

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

Saved by the light of the candles!

Who is in charge at 
the green arrow sessions?

Who is in 
charge 
here?

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

One of the Best Ways to Make Money…..


What are the candle
signals at the new highs?

Resistance zone

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Candles and early reversals

doji

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Doji compared to spinning tops in FX

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Reading the Market’s Message

What is happening at the 1.25 area?

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
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FX Profit Leaker

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Candles to Exit

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Doji to lock in profits

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NISON CANDLES GIVE YOU X-RAY VISION

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
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Think this market had trouble near 91.90?

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
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FX Profit Leaker

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
Candlestick Essentials and Beyond for FX

DOJI AS RESISTANCE

Criteria: Use the highest high of 
those two sessions (top of upper 
shadow) as resistance 
Implication: Close over that 
area: market is “refreshed”

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DOJI AS RESISTANCE

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Doji as resistance

Doji

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Doji as resistance

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Doji as resistance

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Doji as Resistance

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Doji and Trend

Doji in a “Box Range” is


not a trading signal
Is there a trend to reverse?

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Candles in Context

Middle  of range

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Candles in Context of Trend

Isn’t this doji in a trading range?


Chart courtesy
Chart of
courtesy
GenesisofFT
Genesis FT

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Doji in context of trend

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Candles in Context

Analyze these doji in the context of what happened before. Are


any of these a more likely reversal and why?

A B C

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FX Profit Leaker

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Reading the Message of the candle line

The longer the real 
body the stronger 
the momentum.

The relative size 
and position of the 
shadow displays 
the extent of price 
rejection.

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Shadows

Remember: location and size of the shadow should be considered when


analyzing the market psychology.
Implication: Bearish long upper shadow offsets “rallying strength.”
Bullish long lower shadows hints bears losing force.
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Bull shadows

Long lower shadows 
reflect where market 
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Bull shadows reinforce support

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Bearish Shadows

Chart courtesy of Genesis FT

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Bear shadows and lower highs

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Importance of Shadows/Hammer

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Basic Criteria
• Market in a downtrend
• Small real body (either color) at, or
near, top of range.
• Lower shadow at least 2x height real
body

Market Implication
“A chance to buy at the bottom “

Support or Resistance
Low of hammer as support

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Hammer

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Quickly reading the “Mood of the Market”

Hammers 
confirming 
support

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Dual hammers

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Dual Hammers

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DUAL HAMMERS- EXPANDING ON A BASE

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Hammer at a higher low

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Hammer to Enter- Doji to Exit

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Did this hammer work?

If this was target, 
then no

If this was target, 
then yes

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
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FX Profit Leaker

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A candlestick line or pattern


requires two criteria:
• The shape of the line or pattern
• The preceding trend

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Hammer Shape Wrong Trend

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Introducing:
Nison Candle Highlighter for MT4

With 28 Nison Certified


Candlestick Signals

For MT4

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For MT4
Is it a valid Nison candle?

Not hammers!

nisoncandlescanner.com/mt4/

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Key Candlestick Strategies for Profitable FX Trades
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FX Profit Leaker

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Hammer as support

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Increasing confidence factor

Hammer and building a base

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Hammer as Support

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Hammers as Support

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Hammers as Support

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The market will often retest the


lower shadow of the hammer

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Patience to lower risk

Will often
retest
lower
shadow

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Expanding on a base

Will often retest lower shadow

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Dragonfly Doji

Which three prices


of the session are
on the high?

What happened
during the session
and by session’s
end?
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Hammer your way to profits

Dragonfly doji

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Basic Criteria:
Same shape as Hammer but market
in downtrend

Market Implication:
In theory, potential bottom reversal

Support or Resistance:
Not used as support

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Inverted hammer with bullish confirmation

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Inverted hammer with bullish confirmation

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Inverted hammer with bullish confirmation

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Inverted hammer w/o confirm

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Inverted hammer w/o confirm

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Evolution of Charts:
The 1st Dimension

Line chart 

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Evolution of Charts:
The 2ND Dimension

Bar chart 

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Evolution of Charts:
The 3rd Dimension
Candlestick chart 

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The Shooting Star

Basic Criteria:
• Market in up trend
• Small real body (black or white) at,
or near, bottom of session
• Upper shadow at least twice height
of the real body

Market Implication:
Potential top reversal

Support or Resistance:
High of signal as resistance

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These 
are NOT  
shooting 
stars!‐
Why?

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Dual shooting stars

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LOOKING AT THE STARS

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“Trouble Overhead”
Think the £ had trouble here?

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THINK THE £ HAD TROUBLE NEAR 1.7040?

If I had only seen this!

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Shooting Star confirms resistance

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Candles as support/resistance

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Shooting Star as resistance

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SHOOTING STAR AS RESISTANCE

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Increasing the confidence of your trade

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Shooting Star shape – wrong trend

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Gravestone Doji

Which three prices of


the session are on the
low?

What happened during


the session and by
session’s end?

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Gravestone Doji

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Shooting Star near resistance

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Gravestone doji

Close under m.a.


support area but
note how we got
25 day an earlier
reversal with the
moving gravestone
average

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Importance of correct knowledge

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Basic Criteria
Same shape as Hammer but market
in uptrend

Market Implication
In theory, potential top reversal

Support or Resistance
Not used as resistance

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“If it appears from below,


buy. If it appears from
above then sell.”

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There must be bearish confirmation for


the hanging man. This means waiting for
an open– or even better – a close under
the bottom of the hanging man’s real
body.

www.candlecharts.com

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Hanging Man with bear confirm

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Hanging Man without confirm

Why is this not 
a hanging man

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Hanging Man without confirm

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Shooting star

Hammer

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High Wave Candles

Criteria: very long shadows and lower


small real body - color not important

Implication: Trend is losing force

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Long Legged Doji – “Rickshaw


Man”

Criteria: very long shadows and lower


small real body - color not important

Implication: “Market has lost it’s sense


of direction”

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High Wave Candle

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High Wave candles

Market is confused

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 Review of FX and candle benefits


 Using real bodies to gauge force of
recent move
 How candles can preserve trading
capital

 How candles can be used not only for


early entries, but also for exiting
 Shadows as part of your candle
analysis
 Importance of short term trend to define
candle signals
 Single candle signals
 Why the hanging man and inverted
hammer need price confirmation
 Using candles as support or resistance

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“Combinations of bullish and bearish


candle lines indicate the direction of the
market and investors psychological
conflicts at important turning points.”

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www candlecharts com

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Non FX Bullish Engulfing Pattern

Criteria:
• White real body wraps around
preceding black real body
• Market in down trend

•Implication: Market bottoming out

open
close

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FX Bullish Engulfing Pattern

Criteria:
• White real body wraps around
preceding black real body
• Market in down trend

•Implication: Market bottoming out

open

close

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Bullish Engulfing

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Bullish Engulfing Pattern

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BULLISH ENGULFING PATTERN

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Bullish Engulfing Pattern

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Getting into the market before it makes its move

Another bullish engulfing


pattern confirming support
area

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Bullish Engulfing Pattern as Support

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Bullish Engulfing Pattern as Support

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FX Profit Leaker

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Power of Education

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Non FX Bullish Engulfing Pattern

open

close

Criteria:
•Black real body wraps around
preceding white real body
•Market in up trend

Implication: ‘Bulls have been


constrained”

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FX Bullish Engulfing Pattern

close
open

Criteria:
•Black real body wraps around
preceding white real body
•Market in up trend

Implication: ‘Bulls have been


constrained”

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Bullish Engulfing Pattern to Bearish Engulfing Pattern

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Bearish Engulfing

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Bearish Engulfing Pattern

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Bearish Engulfing

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Bearish Engulfing Pattern

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Bearish Engulfing Pattern

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Bearish Engulfing Pattern as resistance

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Western Outside Reversals

Top
outside
reversal

Bottom
outside
reversal

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Engulfing Patterns compared to Outside Reversal

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Bearish Engulfing near resistance

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Reading the Market’s Message: Quickly and Accurately

If I had only known this!

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Engulfing Patterns

Bullish Bearish
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Engulfing Patterns

Bullish Bearish

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Both are Bearish Engulfing

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Bullish Engulfing Pattern

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Misinformation can cost you

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Is it a valid Nison candle?

Not Bullish Engulfing Pattern!

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FX Chart Challenge
1. What gave us a hint bulls
losing force during rally?

3. What candle
signals gave u a
hint the market 2. What pattern is
was basing out this?
even before the
bullish engulfing?

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Non Forex Dark Cloud Cover


Criteria:
• Opens above prior high (or close)
• Black real body closes deeply into prior
long white candle
• Market moving north

Implication: “Advance is exhausting


itself”

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Forex Dark Cloud Cover


Criteria:
• Opens at (or within few pips) of prior
close
• Black real body closes deeply into prior
long white candle
• Market moving north

Implication: “Advance is exhausting


itself”

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Dark Cloud Cover

Not dark cloud covers

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Dark Cloud Cover

Close – open 1 pip

Didn’t get
deeply into
white candle

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Dark Cloud Cover

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Dark Cloud Cover as Resistance

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Dark Cloud Covers

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Dark Cloud Cover as Resistance

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Non Forex Piercing Pattern

Criteria:
• Market moving south
• Opens below prior low (or close)
• White candle closes more than halfway
into prior long black candle

Implication: “hint that the


decline is exhausting itself”

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Forex Piercing Pattern

Criteria:
• Market moving south
• Opens at (or near) prior close
• White real body close more than
halfway into long prior black candle

Implication: “hint that the decline is


exhausting itself”

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Piercing Pattern

Not a piercing
pattern

Piercing pattern

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Piercing Pattern Confirming Support

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Piercing pattern at support

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Piercing Pattern as support

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Non Forex Harami


Criteria:
• First candle is unusually long
• Second real body spinning top or doji
• Second real body within prior real body
• Second real body can be black or white
Bearish
white or black Implication: ‘Change in flow of market”

white or
black

Bullish
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Forex Harami
Criteria:
• First candle is unusually long
• Second real body spinning top or doji
• Second real body within prior real body
• Second real body opposite color
Bearish black real body
Implication: ‘Change in flow of market”

white

Bullish
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Bear Harami

Not harami

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Chart courtesy of Genesis FT

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Bull Harami

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Bull Harami

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Harami

Bearish

Bullish

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Harami confirms resistance

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Candles in Context: Increasing your confidence

We have two harami – where 
would you be confident?

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Non FX Morning Star

Criteria:
• Market in down trend
• First candle long black
• Second real body (spinning top, black or
white) doesn’t overlap first session’s real
body
• Third candle (white) closes deeply in first
black real body

Implication: Bulls are taking control

white or black

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FX Morning Star

Criteria:
• Market in down trend
• First candle long black
• Second real body is black or doji
• Third candle (white) closes deeply in first
black real body

Implication: Bulls are taking control

Most
time
black
or doji
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Morning Star Confirms Support

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Morning Star variation

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Morning Star at support

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Evening Star

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Evening Star

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Evening and Morning Stars

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Early Reversals

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Variation of Evening Star

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Evening Star

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Evening Star as resistance area

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Windows

Go in the direction of the


window

Corrections stop at the


window

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Corrections stop at the window

A rising window is support

Support
Zone

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Corrections stop at the window

A falling window is resistance

Resistance
Zone

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Large and small windows

Large
window with
the bottom of
Small
this window
as pivotal window
support

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Small Window

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Windows

Closed over resistance 

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Closed under the window’s support

Breaks the rising 
window‘s 
support area

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Windows

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How education saves you money

Bearish engulfing
pattern, but you must
not sell here!

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How it all comes together – The highs in the NASAQ

1- Rising Resistance Line


2
2- Shooting Star
3 5
2a – Bearish Engulfing
3- Falling Window
4- Bearish Divergence
5- High-Wave Candle

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Benefit #1

Leverage

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Nison Candlestick strategies for long calls

Scenario 1 – buy at hammer


Mkt @ $395: 400 call @ $11.30

Exit at doji ( red arrow 13 days


after hammer) mkt @ 447: 400
call @ $47.50 (320 % return)

Scenario 2 – buy based on MACD


Mkt @ $418 : 420 call @ $13.45

Exit at doji (5 days later) mkt @


447: 420 call @ $31.20 (132%
return)

Result: Nison candlesticks


generated over 2x the profit!

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FX Chart Challenge
4
1 2 3

A- What candle signals at 1 to 4


reflect trouble near 1.9550?

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FX Chart Challenge
What 3 signals hint of a reversal?

Chart courtesy of Genesis FT

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FX Chart Challenge

What are the candle patterns at 1 and 
3 2 and what do you say about them 
4
1
Name the reversal signals at resistance 
near 1.4950 (remember this is FX so we 
are more flexible with the patterns) at 
3 and 4

2 4

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FX Chart Challenge

1 2
4
What patterns are at 1,2,3 and 4?
Of those four patterns which are the best trade candidate and why?

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 Effectively using double and triple


candle patterns including:
 Engulfing patterns
 Dark cloud cover
 Piercing pattern
 Harami
 Stars
 Windows

 How each of these patterns is


different in forex compared to non
forex markets

 Chart Challenges

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