It can identify Bullish, Bearish and Sideways market pretty easily. Problem is, traders don't know how to use it effectively. Alligator has three lines:
1. Lips - Fastest Line
2. Teeth
3. Jaws - Slowest Line
William's Alligator is probably the most underrated indicator in moving average category.
Alligator follows the premise that market is sideways for 70% of the time and trending only 30% of the time.
This is where William's Alligator can be a great tool for traders.
It can identify Bullish, Bearish and Sideways market pretty easily. Problem is, traders don't know how to use it effectively. Alligator has three lines:
1. Lips - Fastest Line
2. Teeth
3. Jaws - Slowest Line
BUT this does not make it a tradeable indicator in practice. Here is what should be done.
Now, how to use it? with Basic TA and Indicator like MACD
1. As long as price is above Alligator, BANKNIFTY is bullish.
2. As long as MACD is trading above 0 line, BANKNIFTY is bullish.
3. Horizontal Lines are the only S&R.
4. CONGESTION is followed by TREND is followed by CONGESTION.
Bearish Alligator
1. MACD < Signal Line < 0 Line
2. Candle High < Alligator Lips (total body of candle outside alligator)
Trend Change
1. Candle Close > Alligator Jaws
1. Trend was bearish.
2. Candle Closed > Alligator Jaws = Trend Changing
According to TA, once trend is finished, price enters into congestion / sideways zone. Bullish / Bearish break depends upon break from this zone.
Rectangle here denotes congestion.
1. Candle Low > Alligator Lips
2. MACD > Signal Line > 0
In this image as price is moving up, candle is completely above and outside Alligator Lips, with MACD > Signal Line > 0 line denoting trend changing to bullish.
Note - Horizontal breaks are important.
--Even if price occasionally tries to change trend to downside on Alligator, as long as MACD > 0, bias is sideways bullish.
See how price went below alligator but MACD did not.
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I spent over 100 hours studying the best patterns in Technical Analysis taught to me by @niki_poojary.
Turns out, patterns trading is simple—if you follow these 8 Patterns:
Let's start: ↓
While studying her Twitter profile and with constant talks with her, I found these to be the most important patterns she focuses on always.
Then I wrote a small summary of what each pattern means.
Also attached are some examples from her tweets.
1/ Cup and handle Pattern
Happens during an uptrend.
The cup portion has a U-shaped appearance.
The bears are getting weaker as they are unable to drive the prices below the last low.
Subhasish Pani uses this a lot in stocks to spot bullish trades.
Eg
Eg
Turns out, patterns trading is simple—if you follow these 8 Patterns:
Let's start: ↓
While studying her Twitter profile and with constant talks with her, I found these to be the most important patterns she focuses on always.
Then I wrote a small summary of what each pattern means.
Also attached are some examples from her tweets.
1/ Cup and handle Pattern
Happens during an uptrend.
The cup portion has a U-shaped appearance.
The bears are getting weaker as they are unable to drive the prices below the last low.
Subhasish Pani uses this a lot in stocks to spot bullish trades.
Eg
5: When to play directional:
— Nikita Poojary (@niki_poojary) December 18, 2022
Whenever the index is moving in a single direction, its important to go with the trend.
A few weeks ago when BNF broke out of the cup and handle pattern, all we had to do was sell PEs.
Pls note: weekly TF chart is attached to just show the C&H BO pic.twitter.com/z0wgUzJW8t
Eg
#VOLTAS Another cup & handle pattern for cash positional pic.twitter.com/Jsc99xJfwY
— Nikita Poojary (@niki_poojary) October 23, 2019
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The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
