Momentum Trends - Trade Parabolic Price Trends

What's a Momentum Trend?A momentum trend is a trend that has more momentum than the previous one: this new trend can be drawn using a much steeper trend-line than the one that was in place before. When a new trend line forms that is much steeper than a previous one we say the market trend has gained extra momentum & becomes much stronger. These types of trading set-ups require a different type of market technical analysis.

In the illustration shown below: Also when the price is moving upward within a channel, if it breaks the upwards channel a stronger trend is formed like illustrated in the diagram below. If as a trader your price chart breaks an upward trend-line to the up-side in an upward moving market such as and like the one below, Don't Try to Sell, Buy More Contracts, Remember this XAUUSD trading tip it can make you a lot of money just like the way it did in the market analysis below.

Momentum Price Trend - Channel Break Upwards - More Momentum on Upward Trending Market

Using the same technical analysis example above we can also see how new steeper trend-lines were formed showing the trend was gaining energy.

This is shown by the steeper trend lines which can be drawn as the price movement progresses.

The newly formed upwards trend has more strength than the previous and prior one as is illustrated by the setup of the steeper trend-line.

This new trend forms trend B and C just as illustrated in the diagram below drawn using the MT4 trading analysis software, the momentum added a new steeper trend-line as drawn on the price chart.

This is shown in the example below by the three trend-lines A, B & C showing setup formation of stronger market trends as the market price continues to gather energy.

XAUUSD Price Gaining More Upward Momentum

However, when the steepest trend-line is broken then even all the others will most likely be broken too. It is best to take profit once the steep most trend-line is broken.

This trading strategy also can be used by short term Gold traders like the day traders or the scalpers, this pattern will frequently form on the 5 minute and 15 minute Gold price chart. These parabolic trend-lines can be used to know where to set take profit order. One should immediately take his profit as soon as the steepest most line is broken.

How Do I Trade These Momentum Price Trends Setups

The momentum trend lines are good trading tools for determining/figuring out where to takeprofit early before other traders. This momentum trading set-up occurs frequently on 1 minute, 5 minute and 15 minutes trading charts and thence suitable for scalpers and day traders. For day trading which is most common the best chart time frame to use is the 15 minutes sometimes the five minutes, e.g. after entering a short term trade either a buy/sell trade and the market moves some pips in your favor and you spot this pattern then it is best to exit once the steepest most line is broken and take profit at that point.

Technical Analysis Example

For this example we shall use the short term chart - the 5 minute trading chart for drawing these trading set-up, when the setup appeared as below, it was a good point to takeprofit.

Trading the Momentum Market Moves

In the above illustration a trader trading long would have waited until the steepest trend-line was broken & then closed their buy trade - taking and booking profit at this point thus earning a profit of on this buy position. The trader would have exited the trade at the best time and thus avoided the sideways oscillating market which followed.

Parabolic Trends - What is it?

Sometimes market prices move in a parabolic sort of manner, & this is seen when panic buying sets in and price of Gold is driven vertical. During a parabolic upwards move, there is almost a complete absence of sellers, which creates a vacuum of buying. When this occurs, traders dash just to get in to the market regardless of price, in fear of being left behind. This parabolic trends can make the largest price movements in the shortest amount and period of time, traders will just keep opening and placing buy orders in this setup.

For this type of move it's best to keep buying - no need for technical analysis just keep buying.

This trend will last for months on end even up to 2 years, for this time just keep buying and as long as those weekly and monthly trend lines are holding just keep buying and buying.

When the price of a Stock or a Currency pair or Gold moves in this way, the highest point that is reached often marks the end of that upwards move with the prices not returning to the ultimate highs again for a long time. When this point is reached & the most steepest trend-line is broken it's best to consider that as a price trend reversal & it is best to take time out of the market and enjoy your trading profits for a while before calculating your next market move.

The same can also happen for a downward trend when there's panic selling and price is also driven vertical. This especially happens during recession when the prices of commodities keep bidding lower & lower.

The steeper a trend-line angle, the less reliable it becomes. When the steepest trend line is broken it's best to exit this buy trade transaction. The illustration shown below is for oil trade chart which formed a parabolic setup.

Parabolic Price Trend

As a trader if you come across a parabolic trend in an upwards trending market just keep buying & buying some more - you will make a lot of profits, there will be no added trading analysis required just the trend-lines. The only thing to remember is to exit once the steepest trend line is broken because the reversal on this trading set-up is very fast you need to also be very fast. Just ensure you get out at the correct place just like in the above exemplification.

For illustration, the above parabolic movement is of crude oil trading chart, the traders had managed to drive the price of crude oil from $70 to $150 over a period of a couple of months & at the top of the market those that call themselves trade analysts were so bullish that they forecasted the price of crude oil would hit an all time high of $200, what these analysts did not know this market concept of parabolic trend a.k.a Vacuum buying, in technical analysis market trading as long as the trend lines held the direction of the price was upwards, but even after the first steep most line was broken the analysts kept insisting the price would hit $200 dollars, guess what, after the most steep trend-line was broken it didn't even take 2 weeks to take the price of oil, back to $50 at one time it was even $35 dollars. That is parabolic trading analysis, now you know.

Another example of parabolic price move is Gold that formed on the weekly/monthly trading chart during the same period shortly after the steepest trend line on the oil trade chart was broken. You can open the XAUUSD Gold chart and use the Weekly & Monthly chart time-frames to try and spot these parabolic trend setup of XAUUSD Gold prices.

Good examples of this setup on charts is the weekly & monthly price charts for XAUUSD & Crude Oil, these trade charts can be found on MetaTrader 4 platform/software depending on your online broker.

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