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Trading Ranges
By Mark So
October 27, 2007

When I started my trading education, I often read and was taught by the "trading
gurus" that there are only 3 market movements. -- Up Trends, Down Trends, and
Rangebound or Sideways. While I took this lesson pretty well, I couldn't fully reconcile
what was being promoted as gospel that in the forex market, price action is 80% of the
time "rangebound". What I have learned through the trenches though is farther from
the standard text book explanation and a whole lot simpler than anything else.  Let me
explain.

Try opening a chart, any chart, what do you see? Chances are you see a movement
up (up trend) or a movement down (down trend) and not really a sideways movement
(horizontal). I then said to myself, well this must be the 20% of the time. Problem is it's
been 3 years and all I could see is the 20% What am I missing?

Well, there was an "Aha" moment for me. It's actually quite simple really, you see the
mistake happened at the very beginning when the terms "Rangebound" was used
synonymously with "sideways". Let me say right now, they are NOT the same. You see
when the markets are moving Sideways, the price moves down to a certain same
"horizontal" lower area about 2 to 4 times and up to a certain "horizontal" upper area
about 2 to 4 times. I lead myself to believe that this price action was the only
acceptable definition of "Rangebound" - It is not. You see the simple truth is, all market
movements whether it's an Up trend, Down trend or Sideways trend are ALL
Rangebound.....
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