Scalping Trading Top 5 Strategies: Making Money With: The Ultimate Guide to Fast Trading in Forex and Options
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Chapter 3: Meta Scalper
The Meta Scalper strategy is an excellent scalping technique for those who have gained a little bit of experience with scalping. It relies on traders entering and exiting trades on short waves that take place when the market reaches peak overbought and oversold states. This strategy can be utilized in any market, but it is ideal to use it when the market is range bound as this minimizes the risk. While the Meta Scalper is a low yielding strategy, it still has the ability to make traders a steady profit, as it produces small yet consistent results when correctly applied. This strategy is best used in one-minute and five-minute time frames, though it can be adjusted to work on larger ones if you desire. The Meta Scalper relies on indicator triggers as well as price behaviour at each bar (candle) to determine where the best entry positions are for each long order and short order form. It is important that you spread the risk across several trades, which will ultimately create the scalping sequence. This “averaging out” technique is essential in restricting drawdowns and creating cumulative profits. Due to its exposure across multiple trades, the impact of drawdowns on the accounts balance is limited. While many scalping strategies will abandon a trade if it enters a period of loss, this one allows for drawdowns and losses. In fact, it actually requires trades to enter a loss, so it is not advisable to use this method with aggressive leverage. Indicators Used: There is only one indicator used in this strategy: the Bollinger band lines. This indicator can be a bit confusing to the untrained eye, so I will take a minute to explain it to you. The Bollinger band lines are comprised of three separate indicators, which are used to help gain a variety of information on the current state of the market. These indicators help to convey the market trend, volatility, and high and low price anomalies. This information is displayed using three different bars: the central moving average (main/middle line), the outer bands (upper and lower lines), and the bandwidth (space between the bands). The central moving average, or the middle line, is used to display the moving average of the market price. This line essentially displays a smoothed version of the market price, meaning it reflects the current average, and not each individual price change. It is incredibly useful in helping to decipher the general directional trend of the market. The “period” refers to the averaging window. For example, a twenty period main line averages over the previous twenty bars (also known as candles) in the chart. Using a higher number for your period will result in less detail portrayed by this line, as it will be averaged out over a larger amount of price changes. The upper and lower bands, portrayed in this indicator as the outer lines, expand on the idea of the moving average. These bands run symmetrically, and the central moving average line always runs the equivalent distance between the upper band line as it does the lower band line. The space between the main line and the upper band, and the main line and lower band, is called “standard deviation”. They work simultaneously with the bandwidth to indicate the price extremes of the market, or how far the price is straying from its average. These lines represent the markets extreme highs and lows. The bandwidth represents the distance between the upper and lower bands, and is used to measure the markets volatility. The more choppy the price action of the market is, the greater the bandwidth will be. The size or distance of the bandwidth correlates with the standard deviation, which is essentially just a measurement of the space between the upper and lower bands, or the sum of the standard deviation. This part of the indicator is useful for recognizing periods of decreasing or increasing |
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