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Friday, 19 December 2014

An hindsight example of supply and demand analysis

This is a Japanese candle sticks 3 minute intraday price-volume chart.


fig 1.* These are not actual live trades ,this is a   hindsight analysis for explanation.
  what we have to do?  
   
    we need to develop a system with our method which include techniques to enter and exit our trades to be consistantly profitable. in other words we need to have a complete system which include trade plan (what to do before entry, entry/skip and exit plan),risk and money management,rules and limitaions, pshycology,performance review,trading journal etc to identify the signals of right trade (short or long) opporthunity at supply demand imbalance points.
  
     In simple words when supply is more than demand , price will decrease and when demand is more than supply,price will increase(see fig 2).
fig 2. supply and demand relation
       we need to sell at areas where supply is morethan demand and we need to buy when demand is morethan supply, we need to make profit from supply and demand imbalance. now you may think that even every fool know that. what actually we need to know by our analysis is where will be the    saturation area of supply demand imbalance?. 
                                                                                                                                                             
       we need to know and develop our  system  to give signals of when to go short(sell) ,when to  go long(buy)  and even very important is to know when to do nothing.
    
     In the above chart (fig 1),

1. price opened  gap up ,what the reason? may be due to global markets cues and overnight positive sentiment.

2. After open at point A area supply increasing then demand, here supply increasing means more traders selling than buying, we need to look for short(sell) signal with risk: reward,we can entry short or skip based on R:R ratio .risk is our initial stop loss (where it proves our trade is wrong)and reward is our target(where we book profits).

3. If we entered short we need to manage the trade, at area B demand increasing than supply. we need to book profits of earlier short(sell) and look for other trade signal.
fig 3. effect of supply, demand & quantity on price.

4. We may go long(buy) at B if all other factors of our system favourable and book profit at C area, where supply and demand seems to be balance

5. In that rectangle area the supply and demand  are  almost balanced,  that is equilibrium stage(see fig 3). This is where we need to stay out.
                                                                     
         its very easy to identify trades hindsight. we need to do this on live charts, which needs time,effort,practice ,knowledge, expereince , patience and  much more.........but its very much possible, this is what basically i do and try to do every day and for every trade. so many are doing it, we can(will) do it.

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Trading and farming

Trading and farming have many similarities,  so many concepts, strategies, ideas ,philosophies, pshycology     and logics of trading works for farming  and viceversa. i do both.

1. Script selection : in trading which script to trade ex:equities or currency or commodities or derivatives etc..
                              in farming which crop to grow  ex: u know them.....

2. Method            : which method to use to trade. ex: fundamental or techincal analysis etc..
                              which method to use to grow the crop. ex: organic or inorganic etc..

3. Duration           : scalping or intraday or postional or investment etc...
                              commercial ( lessthan 3 months crops) or longterm ....

4 .Entry & Position size  :   when to enter and how many lots
                                         which season to grow and on how much of land

5 .Management     : trade management after entry ex :where to put initail SL,when to move trail S L, when
                              to book profits etc...
                              crop management to increase yield ex: water ,fertilizers etc....

6. Exit                   : when to exit from trade. no one 100% perfects the exit strategy in both trading and   farming. we cant get price as expected when we exit from both , we cant control it, what we can control is   our entry into trade or crop with risk and money management, knowledge, experience ,pshycology(mindset) etc... actually we dont  need to be right every time, we can mint money if we are right less than 50% of trades or crops with proper method , mindset, risk and position size management which suits our requirements and personality.

         These are only some of the similarities, there are still so many similarities if we think off .
the same elements of philosophy and pshycology sinks with trading, farming and human life also.off course its difficult to survive in markets but not impossible, if we are successfull in markets we will be successfull in all aspects of life.