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I already did a series on the TL's in the other thread I started. I think it is important to go over that before reading the miscellany that will be featured this week in the various posts I'll do on TL's This is because the original series is Basic 101. Without that basic knowledge, it may be hard to grasp what I am referring to in many of the upcoming posts.
There is a lot of talk and a lot of e-books being sold on trading the breakout. They irk me because they are being sold by marketing gurus and professional salespeople rather than traders. In using hindsight, you can make that kind of thing look real good. I'm about to cut through the mustard and prove my point looking into the future and not with hindsight.
I was discussing this while it was happening and never got to posting it while it was happening. It was with someone considering trading the breakout, and I told him, "Don't do it!" Just look at the 4th candle back. If you traded the breakout on it, you would not have been a happy camper. Ones that read the e-books are asking what they did wrong. The answer is only one thing, "You bought the e-book and bought into the hype!"
We are talking about sound TL trading principles. You never trade a TL break (breakout) until all 3 steps are completed: 1. A full candle closes above it; 2. The next candle continues higher; 3. A correction back to at least the point it broke the TL.
In the form of what is probably more of a MT analysis, what is not seen on this chart will be an initial confluence of R at circa 79.00, Once that is broken, we would get a move towards 80.43. The first thing that happens as a sign we could be on our way is that TL is broken with the proper steps.
In this post, I tried to eliminate all implications with regards to the ichimoku, et al, but the confluence of R at 79.00 involves a 4-hour TL at that level along with the bottom of the cloud.