Cassandra00 wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2017 3:37 am I've been trading regular price action for many years and only till recently came across PVSRA. It mentions the concept Of "MM's" Market Makers, or as they call them "Market Manipulators". It mentions all these elaborate ways they can raise price while being hidden in stealth when like their real intention is to short and all sorts of really shocking moves. It Pretty much says all the large banks are like "Robber Barons".

Is it possible to still trade using standard technical analysis or am I going to be taking stop hits and like stealth losses and not even know it?

Thanks!

Yes, of course you can still standard analyses and is done so by many traders. The problem is the markets become faster. Where pro traders traded on M5 and M30 (for locating trends or Market Profile) years ago, they switched to M3 and M15. Patterns will emerge, NTL, but the duration of the resulting impulses (the shift from range to range) is getting less.

The intension of MMs is to build up there Short position (Sell from a high point), so they move the price up. They can't do that in hard edges - noone would trade in these markets anymore. So, slowly they buy away the left Short-Positions on the market. A Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) build up months because of the big amount of money. When there is no Bear in the market anymore (testing all the time who is still in the market), the market collapses. This is the hour of making the most profit. Bullish with the stairs, Bearish with the elevator.

Inexperienced Trendfollowers who jumped in and build up their positions as well will hit hard when MMs begin to sell their positions. Good Trendfollowers go in Long and cut their position to take the wins early and let 1/4 or a 1/3 run till the trend is over.

The good thing is they leave enough footprints to see what they are up to. It there a Resistance on the way up, they buy successively all incoming Shorts what raises the Volume and TickVolume simultaneously. Selling Resistances and Buying Supports is still a good Strategy, your SL is tight and when the Breakout happens, you know it due to the incoming Volume and Ticks and close the position and reopen the counterposition. I have an example from this morning. Description on the chart.