{"id":393910,"date":"2020-08-21T11:41:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T09:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/?p=393910"},"modified":"2024-03-15T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:59:43","slug":"trading-preparation-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/en\/trading-preparation-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading preparation routine &#8211; How to do TOP-DOWN Forex Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It is often said that being well prepared for the trading day is a battle half won. This cannot be far from the truth.\u00a0 You simply cannot jump to an empty chart, start trading right away and thinking you can profit. You need to have a plan. A trading plan. In this article, we&#8217;ll look at how to draw a simple trading plan directly on the chart and how you can implement it right away to start trading.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Trading preparation routine &#8211; How to stay ahead of the game<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All traders are different, you will hardly find two traders with the same strategy and view on the markets. Knowing that, we know we cannot satisfy everyone&#8217;s opinion but it&#8217;s ok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this article, we are going to break down the chart of GBPUSD which is a heavily traded pair and we&#8217;ll use a simple price action with horizontal and diagonal support and resistance and also a volume profile to easily spot areas of heavy distribution and path of least resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of our steps are going to be explained in depth so no worries, we are sure they are really easy to follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the preparation is best done when markets are calm, weekends are best suited for the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/academy.ftmo.com\/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=tradingpreparation \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-612136 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Seeking-trading-education-banner-EN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Seeking-trading-education-banner-EN.jpg 950w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Seeking-trading-education-banner-EN-300x41.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Seeking-trading-education-banner-EN-768x105.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Seeking-trading-education-banner-EN-705x96.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Weekly Chart<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the majority of traders specialize in intra-day and intra-week trading, we are not going to a higher timeframe than weekly. Of course, monthly, quarterly or yearly charts can uncover some macro directional details but if executing your trades on the hourly timeframe, probably won&#8217;t be important to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When looking at the weekly chart, we should always ask ourselves questions such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where is the market going?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What has been the general direction of the last few weeks?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happened last week? Was the market trending <a href=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/en\/range-trading-what-to-do-when-the-market-is-not-trending\/\">or ranging<\/a>?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-393914 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1828\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1.png 1828w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1-1030x547.png 1030w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1-1536x815.png 1536w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1-1500x796.png 1500w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1-705x374.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1828px) 100vw, 1828px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see in the above chart, the weekly timeframe functions as our broad navigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before drawing any lines to the chart, we should just take a look at the price movement alone. After this observation, we can notice GBPUSD broke out from a 2-month long trading range at the end of July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The price was ranging during the past two weeks, and this signals that some bigger move might be coming soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After this, we can draw support and resistance lines using price action and volume profile. If you don&#8217;t know how to use a volume profile in your trading, you can read our<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/market-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about this topic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When marking out your weekly chart, there is no reason to go thousands of pips above and below the market price, as there is a very little chance the price is going to reach there during the following week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-393917\" src=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1589\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.png 1589w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-1030x597.png 1030w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-768x445.png 768w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-1536x890.png 1536w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-1500x869.png 1500w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-705x409.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1589px) 100vw, 1589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can notice, we used purple colour to mark out our weekly levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We simply marked out support and resistance levels from right to left and used HVNs from volume profile for correlation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because we are looking at Forex where the volume is calculated by the executed bid\/ask movement, we put more emphasis on the price action rather than volume.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you trade Indices or Commodities, doing things another way around might be better for those assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Daily Chart<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking at a daily chart gives us a more detailed look at the actions of previous days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are going to examine the past trading week and ask questions such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was the direction last week?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Was the market in range or trending? Should I look for a trend continuation or a mean reversion?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is the market over-extended?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I could only use a daily chart for trading, which direction would I say the market will go?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the macroeconomic events planned for next week and on what time and day they are?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Responding to these questions, we can mark out our chart with lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-393923\" src=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1589\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-1.png 1589w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-1-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-1-1030x597.png 1030w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-1-768x445.png 768w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-1-1536x890.png 1536w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-1-1500x869.png 1500w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-1-705x409.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1589px) 100vw, 1589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you see, we marked out daily levels with the blue line, once again we marked out the most recent levels where the price bounced from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also boxed out the recent trading range with shaded grey colour, for reference we also shaded the areas from the past with a similar price behaviour, as you can notice from the past examples. Every time GBPUSD was in a very tight range like this one, we had a big expansion shortly after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This gives us a clue that we can expect more of a trending movement next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trader.ftmo.com\/start-challenge?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=tradingpreparation \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-608794 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Unlimited-period-banner-EN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Unlimited-period-banner-EN.jpg 950w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Unlimited-period-banner-EN-300x41.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Unlimited-period-banner-EN-768x105.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Unlimited-period-banner-EN-705x96.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Execution Chart<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is completely up to you. Some traders like to enter their trades on H4, H2, H1 or whatever time frame is suitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For this example, we use H1 timeframe for marking out levels and also entering and exiting potential trades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our intraday\/execution chart should be revisited not only during the weekend but also in the morning before we start trading, these levels change pretty often so there might be a need to adjust them accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-393926\" src=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1589\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4.png 1589w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-1030x597.png 1030w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-768x445.png 768w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-1536x890.png 1536w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-1500x869.png 1500w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-705x409.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1589px) 100vw, 1589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We marked out our hourly levels in orange, we also added arrows for better visualisation of possible movements, this is not necessary but it can help especially if you are in the learning stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also added two possible scenarios for trades to unfold. One for a short trade and one for long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this being marked out, we are ready to tackle the market next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be mindful of your levels and macroeconomic releases coming into the new trading day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, you can use indicators or anything else to mark out your levels, it&#8217;s completely up to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-393929\" src=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1589\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5.png 1589w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-1030x597.png 1030w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-768x445.png 768w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-1536x890.png 1536w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-1500x869.png 1500w, https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-705x409.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1589px) 100vw, 1589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main takeaway from this article is to understand the bigger picture of the market, what it&#8217;s trying to do and where it&#8217;s trying to go, and more importantly, being prepared for every piece of movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And as you can see, this is what the market did right after the open. Take a look at how it bounced and stopped in front of our levels and how it followed our plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trader.ftmo.com\/start-challenge?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=tradingpreparation \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-608802 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Start-Challenge-black-EN.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is often said that being well prepared for the trading day is a battle half won. This cannot be far from the truth.\u00a0 You simply cannot jump to an empty chart, start trading right away and thinking you can profit. You need to have a plan. A trading plan. 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