The Breakout That Fooled You
46sIt challenges a common trading mistake and promises a strategy to avoid it.
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This video explains a practical trading strategy for trading breakouts of support or resistance levels. It emphasizes the importance of waiting for price consolidation after a breakout, using a tight stop-loss, and setting a realistic take-profit ratio to secure quick gains.
Chapters
[00:01]
Preparing for a Breakout
After drawing a level and seeing the price approach it again, you can prepare to trade the breakout.
[00:17]
Wait for Consolidation
Do not enter immediately on the breakout. Wait for the price to consolidate behind the level, typically by the second or third candle.
[00:31]
Entry After Rollback
Once you see a breakout, consolidation, and a rollback, you can set your position.
[00:46]
Stop-Loss Placement
Place the stop-loss carefully behind the nearest candle, not far away. This is because hidden stop-losses behind the level can fuel further price movement.
[01:01]
Take-Profit Ratio
Use a take-profit ratio of 1:3. This allows you to complete the trade quickly and avoid sitting in the market until the price reverses.
The key to successful breakout trading is patience: wait for consolidation, use a tight stop-loss, and take profits at a sensible 1:3 ratio to avoid greed and market reversals.
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When should you enter a trade after a breakout?
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When should you enter a trade after a breakout?
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After the breakout, wait for consolidation and a rollback before entering.
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Why should you wait for consolidation after a breakout?
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Why should you wait for consolidation after a breakout?
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To avoid jumping in too early and to confirm the breakout is valid.
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Where should the stop-loss be placed?
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Where should the stop-loss be placed?
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Carefully hidden behind the nearest candle.
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What take-profit ratio is recommended?
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What take-profit ratio is recommended?
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1:3 (risk to reward).
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💡 Key Takeaways
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Consolidation is key
Emphasizes patience over impulsive entries, a core principle in trading.
00:17
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Tight stop-loss logic
Explains why hidden stop-losses can drive price further, informing placement.
00:46
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1:3 take-profit ratio
Provides a concrete, actionable risk-reward guideline to avoid greed.
01:01Full Transcript
[00:01] works, what it is, and how to use it correctly. We have already learned how to conduct levels. We have an approach, a point where the price hit and level drawn. Now the price has approached it again, and we can already prepare
[00:17] to work out that very breakout. Now an important condition. Even if the price has already broken through the level, it is important for us to wait for it to consolidate. That is, we don’t jump up as soon as a breakthrough appears. There is no need to set a position anymore. We
[00:31] wait for the second candle, the third candle behind the level. But that's not all. We got a breakout, consolidation, and a rollback. We can start setting our position. At the same time, if we place a stop-loss somewhere God knows where, behind a level somewhere even higher
[00:46] and a huge take-profit, the price simply may not reach it. While we are experiencing an impulse breakout, there is every chance that the price will continue to fall for some time due to the stop-losses that were hidden here behind the level. Therefore, the stop loss can be
[01:01] behind the level. Therefore, the stop loss can be carefully hidden behind the nearest candle. Moreover, we have a four-hour timeframe in one candle. There is a whole trend here on the five-minute timeframe. Take profit 1: t. No need to be greedy. It is precisely one to three that makes
[01:16] it possible to quickly complete a transaction and not sit in the market until the price not sit in the market until the price reverses. Then we calmly collect learn trading and make money together.
