In this post, we'll delve deep into market structure, presenting insightful examples to enhance your understanding of this concept.
Introduction: ✅ Market structure is a framework for comprehending the movements and behaviour of markets. In layman's terms, it is a basic form of understanding how markets move. ✅ It can be seen as the flow of the price between a series of swing highs and swing lows. ✅ The market moves in trends, which are the result of various patterns and structures that form and evolve over time.
Exhibit: Various structures and patterns evolving over time into different trends
The market structure allows you to be in sync with the market and avoid counter-trend trading, which enhances the probability of your setups.
Exhibit: Market structure favouring longs
There are broadly 3 types of structures: 1. Bullish (Uptrend) 2. Bearish (Downtrend) 3. Ranging (Sideways)
Illustration: Bullish market structure
Illustration: Bearish market structure
Illustration: Range market structure
📈 What is an uptrend?
✅ Characterised by a bullish market structure. ✅ Formation of higher highs followed by higher lows. ✅ For an uptrend to stay intact, it must preserve its ascending structure - higher highs must follow higher lows.
📉 What is a downtrend?
✅ Characterised by a bearish market structure. ✅ Formation of lower highs followed by lower lows. ✅ For a downtrend to stay intact, it must preserve its descending structure - lower highs must follow lower lows. ✅ Lower highs are allowed if the price goes into compression or re-distribution.
⚡ What is a range?
✅ A range is a zone where the price finds itself bouncing between two levels. ✅ These levels are - range high and range low. ✅ The size of the range is dependent on different factors such as asset class, demand-supply, volatility, etc.
A lot of times, the structure won’t be as clear as you want it to be. Conversely, sometimes the structure will replicate the textbook. Hence, you need to be flexible in your approach.
Sometimes, trading in range-bound markets can be challenging due to the choppiness in price movements. However, when the price action is more defined, some traders may prefer to trade the range by executing breakout trades or mean reversion trades from the range high to the range low or vice versa.
It is better to combine market structure with other concepts/indicators for better results.
Exhibits: Bullish market structure
ATUL Industries
Tata Consultancy Services
Rain Industries
Indian Hotels
Navin Fluorine
Delta Corporation
Gujarat Gas
Page Industries
Titan Company
ITC
Exhibits: Bearish market structure
Birla Soft
Tech Mahindra
Indiabulls Housing
L&T Housing
Grasim Industries
Biocon
Tata Power
Canara Bank
NMDC
Bharat Petrol
Exhibits: Ranging market structure
Granules
ITC
Syngene
Hindustan Copper
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope you found it to be informative and useful.
Much love, ❤ Rajat Kumar Singh (@johntradingwick) Community Manager (India), TradingView
Hi, nice post.. could you share something on trend reversal and key indicators to gaze it beforehand
zerumeih
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I'm gonna make money with this! 🤑
Jade_Aurora_Crypto
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very 👍 thank u
ZuDa999
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Thanks for taking the time to make this thread. So if we find a range bound stock post a bearish downtrend would that be a good indication of a stock to do further studies on?
vibhor19781
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@ZuDa999 Stock may trade within zone for unlimited amount of time. it may further go down also. keep an eye on stock fundamental to take clues on price movement.