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0:00 Introduction
1:30 What are Candlestick Charts?
4:00 What are Candlestick Patterns?
8:00 The Six Different Candlestick Pattern Trade Setups
13:50 Finding the MOST Profitable Pattern for Your Market
14:20 Use Tradingview to Find Candlestick Patterns
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I back tested over 700 million trades
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across 81 different Candlestick patterns
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in the stock futures and Forex markets
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so I could identify the very best
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Candlestick patterns for me and my
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algorithms to trade you might say Leo
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how does this help me well guess what
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I'm going to share with you the result
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and I've also built an interactive tool
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that you can use to identify the very
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best Candlestick patterns for your
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market and your trading style but if we
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haven't met yet my name's Leo Smiggle
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I'm an algorithmic Trader who loves to
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study the market and trade Based on data
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and that's what we're going to do here
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today here's how we're going to roll
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this out first we're going to cover what
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are Candlestick charts then we're going
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to cover water Candlestick patterns then
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we're going to see a few examples so
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that you get comfortable with
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identifying the patterns and at that
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point we're going to learn the six
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different setup types that you can do on
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these Candlestick patterns we're going
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to cover the interactive tool that I
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built so that you can identify the very
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best Candlestick patterns for your
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Market whether it's in an uptrend
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downtrend or your scalp or swing Trader
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Etc and then finally we'll wrap up by
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how do you act actually find these
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things using your charting software so
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if this sounds interesting to you hit
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the like because quite frankly these
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data back videos do take a lot of time
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and if this is something that you're
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interested in I want to hear about it
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let's get to it Candlestick charts are
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just a Tool Traders use to understand
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past Market moves and to profit from
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future price action Candlestick charts
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are named as such because when you group
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prices into periods they form a
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candle-like shape what you're seeing in
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front of you is a chart of the S P 500
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Index on the minute time frame each bar
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is one minute we could easily change
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this to make each bar five minutes one
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hour 15 minutes day week month it
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doesn't really matter all we're doing is
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taking our open high low and close
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prices and grouping into periods making
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them look like candles so we can
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visualize them so let's keep this on the
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one minute chart so we can see some live
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price action and try to understand
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exactly what I mean by open high low
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close a green candle means the price
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during that period moved higher we see
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these minute periods or bars the first
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price which is the opening is right here
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and the last price is the close which is
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right here again open here close here
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open here close here those are green
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candles also know known as bullish
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candles bearish candles means that
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prices moved lower During the period it
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opened here closed here open here closed
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here open here closed here open here
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close here now the only other thing that
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we need to understand are Wicks Wicks
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show you the high and low During the
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period so if we come to this candle
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right here this was the high of that
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candle and here's the low of this candle
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and we can see looking at this live
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candle right now we don't know if it's
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going to close bullish or bearish it
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looks like it's going to be green so
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it'll be bullish but price opened here
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but trying to push higher but it
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actually pushed all the way down here
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and now we see here's the high it's
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moving back down so here's the high
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during that period And it closed right
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here so now there's the next minute
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period it opens here push down a tiny
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bit you know the bulls and bears are
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fighting a little bit and now we'll see
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if price pushes up it pushes past the
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previous candles High it keeps moving up
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likely going to close bullish but
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essentially that's the idea you only
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need to know the Open high low and close
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and if it closes bullishly it means that
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the open was lower than the close or
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Price moved up during that period And if
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it's bearish means that the price moved
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down during the period it opened higher
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than the close but always remember what
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you're looking at you're not just
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looking at red and green bars what
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you're really looking at is Market
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psychology which is just human
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psychology and the forces of supply and
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demand mapped visually so that you can
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make sense of it and the sooner that you
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understand that you're looking at the
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psychology of people and supply and
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demand the sooner this stuff can make
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sense and you can shift the
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probabilities in your favor with an
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understanding of what Candlestick charts
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are now let's turn our Focus to
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Candlestick patterns Candlestick
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patterns are a technical trading tool
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that simply means it's based on price
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and not fundamentals used for centuries
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to help predict price movements each
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Candlestick pattern has a distinct name
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and a traditional training strategy but
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what you'll find out is that these
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traditional trading strategies that are
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passed from generation to generation and
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that most Traders use today are
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typically wrong and at best you'll
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likely break even and at worst you'll
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lose money because they all depend on
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which Market you're trading but a
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picture is worth a thousand words so
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let's take a look at our very first
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Candlestick pattern the bullish closing
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maribozu it is a single bar pattern with
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a long bullish or white body with a
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closed price that's very close to the
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high and Traders traditionally expect
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this pattern to continue the bullish
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Trend and in fact in the stock market
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they're correct minus frictions which
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are fees slippage Etc and this goes for
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all of the back tested results Traders
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on average will make 28 cents per dollar
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wrist but there's a better way to trade
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this in fact it's better to go in the
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opposite direction and expect a quick
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bearish move these data driven Traders
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earn 68 cents for every dollar wrist now
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granted the magnitude isn't as high
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because it's a shorter bounce but that's
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the idea and if you think about this
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logically after a big move Savvy Traders
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are going to want to book some of that
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profit and that's what I mean about
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thinking about the psychology it's not
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just a pattern right this is supply and
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demand in people's emotions and these
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patterns simply represent how people act
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and think in the markets now let's look
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at our second Candlestick pattern the
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three white soldiers it's a three bar
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pattern and it's said that the three
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white soldiers are three white knights
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fighting against the darkness you'll
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notice in this pattern there's two tick
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marks sloping down that means that this
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pattern is only valid in a downtrend
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that's why the analogy says that they're
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fighting and the darkness which is
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really just the downtrend the three
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white soldiers requires three bullish
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medium to large candlesticks with
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consecutively higher closes of
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relatively similar size each candle must
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open within or near the previous
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candle's real body and clothes at or
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near the high of the day and as
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mentioned previously it occurs in the
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downtrend it's essential to be able to
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take these picture-perfect Candlestick
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identification images and translate that
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into your charts we see here the
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agilisis July 8 2013 daily chart and on
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this chart we notice that price is in a
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downtrend and there's lots of different
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ways to determine a downtrend but for
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our intents and purposes if the last
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price of the Candlestick pattern is
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below the 50-day average I consider that
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a downtrend if it's above the 50-day
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average I consider the pattern to be in
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an uptrend so with the first requirement
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identified the prices in a downtrend we
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now need to see the three bullish medium
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to large candles that are consecutively
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closing higher with each candle opening
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within or near the pry your candle's
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real body and the real body is just the
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portion of the candle between the open
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and close excluding the Wicks so with
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these requirements filled this is indeed
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a three white soldiers Candlestick
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pattern and we do see that price does
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move up a little bit and then chops
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around but that's not the best way to
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analyze these things I've done all the
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back testing for you and I even created
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a tool that you can use freely to
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determine the best possible Candlestick
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setups for your trading strategy so in
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this instance we're looking at the white
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soldiers Candlestick pattern we can see
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that for most markets it looks like the
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best strategy is a bullish mean
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reversion if you're a stock Trader you
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can go up here select stock and that
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will filter to only show you the back
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test results for the stock market setups
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and you can see that indeed a bullish
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reversal which is the traditional
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strategy using a risk reward ratio of
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five to one means for every dollar of
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risk you take five reward seems to have
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the best payout you might wonder why the
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optimal strategy seems to be duplicated
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but if you dig in which you can actually
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click on this stuff you can see the
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setup where the entry criteria is a
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little bit different but in order to
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understand all these setups and entry
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criteria and to be able to utilize this
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tool so you are a data driven Trader you
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need to understand all of the various
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trading setups so let's dig into that
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now prices can either go up down or move
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sideways that's it and when in context
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of the trend the price movements can
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either continue the trend or reverse it
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this leads us to the following potential
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trade setups first we'll cover up
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continuations which simply continue the
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trend we've got a bullish continuation
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which is a bull move and an uptrend we
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have a bearish continuation which is a
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bear move in the downtrend and then we
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can reverse the trend a bullish reversal
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is a bull move and a downtrend again
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we're reversing the trend in a bearish
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reversal is a bearish move in an uptrend
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there's two more we'll cover but we'll
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cover those later because I don't want
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to confuse you so let's go ahead and
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look at specific examples let's start
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with the upside Suzuki Gap it is a
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bullish continuation that means the
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pattern only occurs in an uptrend and
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the pattern expects the uptrend to
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continue it requires a first Candlestick
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it can be bearish or bullish that's why
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you see both black and white here the
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second candle gaps up meaning the open
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is above the close and it creates this
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Gap or window the second candle is
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bullish and then the third candle opens
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within the real body of the second
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candle and closes within the gap which
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means it's obviously bearish and as
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mentioned previously the bull momentum
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is expected to continue the downside
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Suzuki Gap is the mirror opposite of its
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bullish brother that we just looked at
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in this case it's a bearish continuation
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so the pattern occurs in a downtrend and
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price is expected to continue lower now
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let's look at when price reverses only
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this time we're going to use charting
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software to get us more comfortable
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looking at Candlestick charts we see
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here that there is a three-way soldiers
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Candlestick pattern that occurred on the
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Autodesk daily chart on October 6 2011
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prices in a downtrend as it's underneath
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the 50-day moving average that's what
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we're using as a proxy for the downtrend
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and price does indeed reverse and move
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to the upside and that is a bullish
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reversal now let's take a look at a
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Candlestick pattern that expects a move
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in the opposite direction in this case
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it is a bearish reversal again price is
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in an uptrend and price is expected to
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fall to the downside the specific
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pattern right here is a three black
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crows pattern occurring on the NetApp
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daily chart on Friday December 26 2014
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the three black crows signifies Darkness
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or a bearish move oddly enough is
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actually a four bar pattern the first
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candle is bullish the second through
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fourth candles are consecutively
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declining bearish candles with little to
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noer Wicks the second candle must close
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under the prior white candles High and
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the third and fourth candles must open
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within the prior candles real body and
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again it must occur in an uptrend at
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this point you're probably oh my
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goodness how am I gonna remember this if
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don't worry your scanning software can
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help you identify it and I'll show you
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how to do that later but the real key
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point is to understand the difference
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between a bullish and bearish reversals
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and continuations so that way you can
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use the tool that I built to identify
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the very best Candlestick patterns for
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your market and your trading style
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according to history let's take a look
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at the tool that I built once again what
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do you see here we just saw the three
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black crows Candlestick pattern we
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understand that traditionally Traders
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expect bearish reversal and it does seem
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like that is the case you'll make two
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cents for every dollar risk but when you
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look up here we see that really what a
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three black crows indicates is that a
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lot of volatility is incoming but if
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you're going to want to take advantage
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of these volatility trades which I'm
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coining them bearish mean reversion or
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bullish mean reversion trades you have
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to understand what that looks like
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trading a bearish mean reversion
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strategy is very easy all we need to do
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is identify the pattern which here is
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the three black crows we've seen that a
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few times
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we identify the high of the pattern
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which occurs on the first day and we
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enter short when price moves up above
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and then back below the high and in this
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case we would have made some profit here
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depending upon your risk levels or you
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would have been in a longer trade and we
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see a pretty violent move to the
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downside again you can use the
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calculator to determine how you want to
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trade and what fits your personality
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let's take a look at the Buller side of
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things in the bullish meaner version
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strategy what we want to do is we want
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to identify the low of the pattern in
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this case it's the three white soldiers
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we identified the low which occurred on
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the first day and then we went to enter
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long when price goes below the low and
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then back above it so in this case it
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occurs on this bar here price moves down
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below the low and then moves up so we'd
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be in a long entry and price then moves
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up and to the right leading to a
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profitable trade now that you understand
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bullish and bearish continuations
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reversals and mean reversion setups now
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it's time time for you to start acting
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like a casino and what do I mean by that
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a casino will never go in on a bet where
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it doesn't have an edge and what that
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means is anytime a casino risks a dollar
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it expects to make money it doesn't
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matter how good your risk management
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skills are if you have a Negative Edge
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you'll eventually lose all your money
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and the reason why I'm talking about
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Edge and I've talked about Edge
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previously is that you have to have one
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the good news is is that if you believe
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that history repeats itself or even
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Rhymes you can use this tool that I've
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created to identify the best Candlestick
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patterns for your Market take a look at
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this we see the Dow Jones Industrial
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index versus the Invesco DB commodity
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index what's happening here there's an
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upward bias to the stock market and not
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so much with the commodity market so
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obviously Candlestick patterns or
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whatever patterns you're trading are
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going to be different and work
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differently in different markets be very
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careful of anyone that ever says oh yeah
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this will work in all markets because
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they might be misinformed you should say
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show me the data well here I'm going to
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show you the data you can either use
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this tool here or scroll down and I've
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identified the very best Candlestick
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patterns for each market you can then
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click on them to understand how each one
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works whereas your entry criteria and
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marry that to your trading strategy
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obviously if you're a swing Trader
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you're going to want to trade different
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patterns than a scalper but the point is
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all of this data is here for you to
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examine and if you have any questions on
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any of it feel free to leave them in the
14:02
comments below and now that you're
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empowered to identify the very best
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patterns for your Market the final
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question is how do you identify these
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things quickly and painlessly this might
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be the easiest part of the entire video
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Let's head back to trading view we'll go
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up to indicators and remember we've been
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looking at these three black crows we'll
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go to technicals and then patterns we'll
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scroll down to Candlestick patterns and
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now we're looking for three black crows
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which is bearish and now you'll see when
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we close this it does indeed highlight
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the three black crows Candlestick
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pattern and you can do this for any of
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the Candlestick patterns as you can see
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there's a lot of them and the good news
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is is that I have back test results for
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pretty much all of the ones that you'll
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be interested in trading isn't data
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