OTE Pattern Recognition Notes
Version 3.2 by Drunk Monkey on 2020-06-27 19:49
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Optimal Trade Entry Primer
- one of many trading patterns, one of the easiest
- trading plan needs to be simple:
- what's your risk model
- how to frame that?
- what makes your entry
- what gives you indicators of bullish/bearish market?
- how do you execute the trade?
- how do you manage the trade?
- where do you take profits?
- what make the market predisposed to go higher or lower?
- look at HTF (M, W, D, 4h) and look for key levels where price has moved away from in the past
- HTF shows where the big players are most likely going to push things around.
- LTF is too noisy to show this detail.
- Assuming bullish market, we are looking for where the market wants to trade higher. OTE is based on buying during the retracements that occur before the further push upwards.
- The impulse move has to incorporate a break in Market Structure.
- Using Fib Retracement as a visual guide, set the following levels
- -1 - Symmetrical Price Swing
- -0.62 - TP2
- -0.27 - TP1
- 0 - First Profit - Scaling
- 0.5 - Equilibrium
- 0.618 - 62% retracement
- 0.705 - OTE 70.5%
- 0.79 - 79%
- 1 - 100%, or likely SL
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