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Price Action is one of the foundational skills for any trader. This TradingLens guide is written for the intermediate audience and walks through what Price Action is, why it matters, and how to practice it without taking on more risk than you can afford.
Most traders treat Price Action as a vague concept. The TradingLens team treats it as a set of explicit rules. The difference matters.
Price Action is the practice of making a small number of decisions, sticking to them under pressure, and reviewing them after the close. It is not a personality trait. It is a workflow.
A trader with a strong Price Action workflow will, on average, survive longer than a trader with a great strategy and a poor Price Action workflow.
The market does not reward intelligence. It rewards discipline. Price Action is the discipline that turns analysis into a trackable, improvable process.
Three things change when you take Price Action seriously:
Pick one rule you can hold yourself to. Not five. One. Examples for Price Action include: never risk more than 1% on a single trade, or always write the plan before clicking buy.
Rules that are not written down are preferences. Preferences bend under pressure. Writing the rule down makes it a contract with yourself.
At the end of each week, score yourself on the rule. The score matters less than the fact that you scored it.
The most common pitfall is over-engineering the rule. A complex rule is harder to follow and easier to abandon. The simplest rule you will actually follow beats the perfect rule you will not.
The second is treating a single good week as proof. A good week of Price Action is data, not validation. So is a bad week. The point is the trend, not the print.
The mechanics take an afternoon. The practice takes months. Treat Price Action as a skill you build, not a fact you memorise.
Yes. Price Action is for every trader, regardless of experience. The intermediate trader benefits from it most because the habits are still being formed.
A journal is the cheapest edge in trading. If you can write down the date, the setup, the entry, the stop, and the outcome, you have a journal.
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