AUD/USD Bullish Setup?

Today at the close of the US trading session I scanned over the charts of all the forex pairs to see if there was any interesting developments and I came across this setup on the Australian Dollar. On the one hour chart there is a beautiful two low with divergence setup. If you notice on the chart bellow there is a monster one hour bullish engulfing candle that engulfs the previous three candles by a wide margin. This is an indication of big buying pressure. There is very clean divergence showing between both swing. We also have a round number 1.3000 acting as support. The 1.3000 area has acted as support and resistance on several occasions in the past and is a very proven level.

1 Hour Chart:

4 Hour Chart:

Good Forex Trades Need Great Context

On your path to becoming a profitable trader, you will test many different methods for entering and exiting trades. At some point you may find a method which works pretty well for you and which you feel comfortable using. You may take a lot of great trades using this method, only to find that one day your method just stops working. What happened? Did your system break? Will you have to start all over?

Sometimes the answer to questions like this is simpler than you might expect. A lot of traders pay attention to entry triggers like moving average crossovers, price action patterns, and other indicators lining up on their charts, but don’t pay as much attention to what the market is doing on a given day. The market does slowly transform, and like any other living system it will evolve with time. Some things about Forex will never likely change, but others are sure to do so. The “mood” of the market can change considerably as the years go by, and a system which worked great in one context may fail in another—or simply need an adjustment to keep working.

If you are in a situation like this and your system has abruptly “failed,” you may want to ask yourself if this is what has happened to you. Has the economic climate changed substantially since you were last profitable? If so, then perhaps the context around your trades has stopped being quite as optimal as it once was. You may have been placing trades in an excellent context before without even knowing it or attempting it by complete coincidence. And now that the context isn’t as great, your trades aren’t working out.

Here are some questions to consider. Ask yourself, “Am I trading against the trend?” This can often work against you. “Am I trading in a choppy market?” Choppiness kills a lot of traders. If there are a lot of fake outs, sometimes you need to take a break and wait for the market to even out a bit before you come back in. “But I’ll have to wait forever,” you might say. If this is the case, then look at more currency pairs. If you only trade a couple of pairs, and great setups are coming half as often in the current market climate, then think about looking at twice as many pairs each day. This phase of the market, like all others, will pass. It doesn’t mean your system is broken, it just means that right now it’s a little harder to make it work than usual. All traders face this sometimes. Once in a while you may indeed find you need to go back to the drawing board, but more often than not it’s a waste of time to start all over. If what you have makes sense and it works often enough, than you probably should just adapt to the market conditions and stick with what you’ve got.

Develop a technique to find the best setups in the best locations. Great Forex traders point out that finding excellent setups is like using a rifle, not a shotgun. They’re right—good trades don’t take good setups, they take great setups.

Forex PDF

PDF is the popular file format for the electronic books (or e-books) and Forex traders always search for Forex PDF to read about the currency trading from their own PC without having to buy a physical book or installing some additional software for e-book reading. Of course, there are many strictly proprietary e-books that aren’t available in PDF format, but there are also free e-books that allow reading about Forex in PDF format.

There are several sources of the Forex PDF books on-line. Some of them are great and feature tens of interesting and useful e-books; others aren’t that cool but still allow downloading one or two free Forex PDF books:

• Forex E-Books from EarnForex.com list more than 70 free PDF e-books that can be freely downloaded. All the books are divided into 6 thematic categories.


• Trading Naked Library — the site isn’t too visitor-friendly but it has ton of Forex PDF and other financial trading e-books.


• Phildun’s Forex Trading Library is a great source of free Forex PDF books but it lists them without descriptions and the download process isn’t very easy from this website.


• The Forex Village has four categories of free Forex PDF books with a lot of rather rare strategy descriptions.


• FX1618 lists a lot of interesting e-books but, unfortunately, only few of them are about the actual Forex trading.


• Forex-Book.org — the majority of the listed books are paid but there are also several free ones there (not too great).


• Forex Newbies Library - 9 carefully picked newbie-friendly Forex PDF books. Nice choice if you don't want to spend a lot of time to go through the dozens of them to find what you really need.

When you set yourself into a Forex trading, it’s very important to have a good level of knowledge in the markets. Downloading and reading at least some of these e-books can be a good start before your open your real money account and buy some real books on trading.

If you know some other good on-line sources of free Forex PDF e-books, please, feel free to mention them in the comments.

Update: One more source added.