This is another article on the topic of VSA and cluster analysis. Earlier we have considered: Bag Holding and End of Rising market patterns; No Demand and No Supply patterns; Buying and selling climax patterns. In each previous article, we have grouped two patterns that are in many ways “mirror images” of each other. Shakeout […]
Bar-by-bar analysis is a term that came from price action. A great contribution to the popularization of bar-by-bar analysis was made by Al Brooks, a private trader and author of several books describing the technique of reading charts by bars. Bar-by-bar analysis has important meaning. It aims at a deep understanding of the market situation […]
In the articles of technical analysts for the forex market, you can find conclusions about some test like: “On Friday, the price fell and tested the 200-hour moving average” What does it mean? Read in the article: What a test means in trading. Example 1. Tests in VSA. Example 2. Tests on Mondays. Example 3. […]
“All trades leave indelible tracks on price and volume charts” – Alexander Elder Understanding of the market and search for profitable trades is the goal of any trader. Analysis of interconnections of movement of the price and vertical volumes increases chances of its achievement. In this article: What the vertical volume is Rules of volume […]
This is the final article of the Cluster Analysis and VSA series. We considered the following in the previous articles: Bag Holding and End of Rising market patterns; No Demand and No Supply patterns; Buying and Selling climax patterns; Shakeout and Upthrust patterns. Today’s topic is Accumulations and Distributions. Two out of four stages of […]
This is the first article in the series of publications in the ATAS blog on the VSA and cluster analysis topic. What is VSA? VSA – Volume Spread Analysis – is a universal approach to assessment of the strength and weakness of the market on the basis of analysis of the price and volume action. […]
Aggressive trades are moments of splashes of volatility, when the Time and Sales Tape shows a series of major buys and sells. These actions testify to activity of major exchange players. But what do they do? How to act in a harmony with professionals?
We continue the topic. This is the second article of our VSA and cluster analysis series. The first one was about the End of Rising market and Bag Holding signals. In the end of it we mentioned the Effort and Reward Law – one of the laws of the Richard D. Wyckoff theory. Today we […]