1) On 5Min time frame, open line graph
2) Everyone knows how to draw a trendline. A channel is drawn just projecting it nearest pivot high (if trendline was drawn down) ...vice versa.
3) the pivot high or low as the case may be should have been formed between (in time) the two points.
4) in a down channel look for SELL first somewhere near the top channel line and vice versa.
5) if price is between the channel dont trade. however if you have loosing hedged positions like below .... try to SELL higher ... or BUY lower. How?
a. When adding new BUY positions above the existing one, add only smaller size. So if market moves against you, you can cover the one that is already in table ... vice versa for SELL
b. When adding new BUY position below the existing one, add same position size as the one on the table.. use only limit order when CMP is above. let it come and pick up your order, so chances are high that the original BUY position on table is closed with a small profit
Phew! That was very difficult to write.
The next piece of puzzle is how to adjust the channel according to the changing Market
1) the top line of the channel was originally drawn between A and B.
2) We already broke that. So we now move the channel line ... to the previous Pivot High.
3) We also needed to move the down channel line to connect the previous Pivot Low, because the Pivot high should be formed "between" the two connecting points of the down channel line
4) the channel becomes up channel, indicating a trend change .... only when it breaks the pivot high (A1 in the above picture).