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XAGEUR False Break Pin Bar
Price in this market had been moving and trending down of late before running into a really solid support level. At this support level price held and then started trading sideways and moved into a really solid period of consolidation. This consolidation was a sustained period of support holding and the bulls and bears fighting to see who could win the battle. Price made a break lower through the support and this was quickly snapped back higher with price closing back above the support level creating a false break pin bar. The key was where price closed. Note that price closed back above the support level which is crucial to where price goes next as I discuss in the trading lesson: The Price Action Secrets Traders Need to Know. This would have stopped out a lot of breakout traders who would have entered on the breakout looking for price to breakout lower of the consolidation and continue a move lower.
Because of the recent consolidation and downtrend, there was a really close over head resistance for this false break pin bar and when the pin bar broke this was exactly where price moved into. When price is in these tight and choppy situations, big moves are going to be rare and this is what price action traders need to take into account when taking and managing trades. Traders need to manage a trade differently when it is in a tight consolidation market compared to when it is a free flowing and trending. This is part of being a price action trader and trading price action. Price in this market is still now hovering around the resistance, but it would not now surprise to see price continue to consolidate before we see any sort of breakout in either direction.
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XAUEUR Daily Chart
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