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Start or enhance your trading education with these illuminating video clips, which cover a broad variety of market topics. See why Forbes called Alan Farley "one of the top market educators on the scene today". These jewels of wisdom come from DVD sets you can now add to your collection. Be sure to check back often for new material.
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Cash In: Instead Of Getting Crushed
Clip 1: Multi Time Frame StructurePrice dynamics in different time frames interact in a predictable manner, yielding major buying and selling opportunities.
Clip 2: Traps & WhipsawsThe market utilizes highly efficient technical roadblocks and infuriating fakeouts to keep you from making money.
Clip 3: 1-2-3 Trend ReversalsTrends in all time frames evolve in three stages: action, reaction and resolution. Each stage exhibits unique characteristics that help the trader get in and out at the best possble time and price.
Clip 4: Crude OilThe volatile energy markets create unique trading opportunities that reverberate through equities, currencies and other futures contracts.
Clip 5: Intraday SignalsAction-reaction-resolution cycles in small time frames help day traders uncover outstanding short-term positions.
Clip 6: Opening Price PrincipleThe opening prints in equities and the major indices define notable support-resistance levels that can remain in play through the trading day and often into the next session.
Mastering Breakouts & Breakdowns
Clip 1: Classic BreakoutsThe classic breakout shows repeating elements that generate momentum and profits. Traders need to watch for these elements whenever an instrument moves into breakout or breakdown mode.
Clip 2: Building BlocksFarley takes a typical price pattern and breaks it down into component elements, to illustrate how to analyze and recognize a new trading oppportunity.
Clip 3: Popular PatternsClassic patterns build the foundation of a modern system of trade selection and risk management.
Clip 4: Action-ReactionBreakouts and breakdowns can be sub-divided into action, reaction and resolution phases. Understanding the dynamics of each phase helps the trader to master the patterns and take high probabability positions.
Clip 5: Opportunity-CostLearn to recognize the best times to be in the market, and when sitting on your hands offers the most profitable strategy.
Clip 6: GoldFarley looks at the 2009 gold breakout over 1000 and how his techniques uncovered key trades throughout the historic rally.
Turning Pattern Cycles Into Profits
Clip 1: Breakouts-BreakdownsPatterns transition from trading ranges into breakouts or breakdowns and back into trading ranges, in an axis of repeating price action in all time frames.
Clip 2: 50-Bar EMAUse this key intermediate moving average for analysis and price targeting on intraday, daily and weekly chart patterns.
Clip 3: Trend PsychologyThe crowd acts and reacts to different emotional states at the start of, in the middle, and near the end of an active trend.
Clip 4: Pattern ToolsThis toolbox of indicators and techniques will find your place within pattern cycles in all time frames.
Clip 5: Short SellingSelling short within pattern cycle development requires different trading strategies at different intersections of price and time.
Clip 6: Buying & Selling MomentumLearn key strategies to tap into momentum markets without getting burned by whipsaws, reversals, fakeouts and failures.
Predicting Market Trends
Clip 1: Price ActionPrice action and time frame analysis overrule every other aspect of chart investigation, including bull-bear sentiment, technical indicators and market direction.
Clip 2: Multi-Time FrameAll financial instruments grind higher and lower in multi-time frame pattern cycles that comprise the foundation for all trade analysis and opportunity.
Clip 3: PriceLearn why price is doing what it does because identical patterns will produce different outcomes, in response to shifts in seasonality and program trading activity.
Clip 4: VolatilitySmart traders enter the majority of positions during the mild times of low volatility and exit positions during the wild times of high volatility.
Clip 5: GapsGaps generate entire sets of repeatable market dynamics that traders use to identify key price pivots and to find low risk entry points.
Clip 6: ConflictLonger-term time frames take importance over shorter-term time frames when uptrend or downtrends move into key zones of price conflict.
Targeting Profitable Entry & Exit Points
Clip 1: Mental ChangesTraders undergo physical and mental changes as soon as they enter new positions so make sure you know exactly what you're buying or selling before hitting the button.
Clip 2: Trend-Range AxisThe trend-range axis overrides all other strategic considerations in swing trading because price can only go sideways, or up and down.
Clip 3: TargetsProfit and failure targets are dynamic market numbers that define reward and risk on every new trade.
Clip 4: OddsControlling risk and getting the odds to line up in your favor are more important to long-term profitability than being right or wrong.
Clip 5: DefensePrice sensitive trade execution is a defensive strategy that gets you into the market against the order flow of the majority.
Clip 6: Support & ResistanceIdentify major and minor support/resistance levels in order to pick out reasonable profit targets that are acheivable within your time frame of interest.
