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WRB Analysis

Introduction

M.A. Perry (that's me) begin developing this type of price action analysis of the markets in the early 1980's and begin trading one strategy derived from WRB Analysis in the late 1980's.

Thus, I concentrated on understanding the price action (trends, range, chop et cetera) for many years prior to developing my first strategy with rules from entry to exit...prior to my very first trade.

Further, in the 1980's when I first started studying the markets (no trading at this time for many years)...I came upon the price action of a WRB accidentally when a hand drawn chart I was preparing for a floor trader was missing one interval.

That missing interval was a wide range body in comparison to prior intervals and I noticed how that missing interval had impact on a few swing points later on the hand drawn chart.

I immediately began studying other charts of different markets and started seeing other similar like price actions to prompt my initial curiosity into what I would later call WRB Analysis.

Yet, I initially called them Wide Range Bars until I had access to candlestick charting software in the early 90's. The traverse from bar charts to candlestick charts changed my definition of WRB's to Wide Range Bodies especially when I became more of a price action only trader along with becoming more aware of changes in supply/demand via changes in volatility.

Today, many of my clients and I are using +17 different strategies for different types of market conditions...all via WRB Analysis.

Further, I have other clients that use my WRB Analysis to improve the performance of their own strategies and a general list of these types of strategies are discussed further below.

What exactly is WRB Analysis

WRB Analysis is a method that helps traders to understand and exploit changes in volatility.

It identifies changes in supply/demand that's occurring between buyers and sellers along with providing a map for exploiting the price action from swing point to swing point regardless if your a day trader, swing trader or position trader.

The word WRB means wide range body and there are different types of WRBs based upon volatility analysis, gap analysis or support/resistance analysis.

A wide range body is an interval that has a body (difference between Open and Close) with a price area larger than the bodies of each of the prior three intervals.

You can use any number greater than the above three intervals as long as its not less than three due to the behavior of volatility analysis because its too difficult to analyze the volatility via less than two intervals regardless if the intervals are based upon time, volume or tick.

Further, don't mix the definitions of a Wide Range Body with a Wide Range Bar even though both are called WRBs.

The Wide Range Bar is a term associated with Bar charts and represents the price area between the High and Low.

In contrast, Wide Range Body is a term associated with Candlestick charts and represents the price area between the Close and Open.

Therefore, base upon the above definitions, I obviously have a preference for candlestick charts even though WRB Analysis can be performed on bar charts, volume based chart or tick charts. 

In fact, about 25% of our clients use bar charts instead of candlestick charts.

Chart of WRB (wide range bodies)

We ask for you to take a closer look at the chart below for the mini-sized Dow YM futures on March 30th Friday 2007 to see price action our clients have answers to and many were able to exploit for big profits.

Click on image to view actual size

 

WRB Analysis in combo with your Strategy

WRB Analysis can be used as stand alone strategies and many of our clients have access to +17 profitable strategies to choose to exploit different types of market conditions.

However, WRB Analysis is an understanding of the price action and that in itself makes it much more important than just entry signals.

It can be used just to get a better understanding of what really is leading your trading instrument for a particular trading day, used only as profit targets for those that have trouble staying with their winners used to improve the trade management (after entry) of many different types of methods or trading styles (day trader, swing trader or position trader).

Just as important, WRB Analysis can easily be integrated into your own methods to enhance their performance of any strategy based upon the following:

     Breakout Strategy

    Fading Breakout Strategy

     Divergence Strategy

     Support/Resistance Strategy

     Double Bottom/Double Top Strategy

     GAP Strategy (Regular Session Gaps and Globex All Session Gaps)

     Trend Strategy

     Range Strategy

     Profit Target Strategy

     Volume Spread Analysis (TheStrategyLab.com has a few clients using VSA even though we ourselves do not use this methodology)

     Intermarket Analysis

     Market Seasonal Tendencies (Cycles) Analysis

     Volatility Analysis and it replaces the need for volume analysis

     Japanese Candlestick Patterns (time and volume based candlestick charts)

     Traditional Chart Patterns (ex. triangles, wedges, head and shoulders, flags, pennants and rectangle price action)

     Technical Indicators (ex. rsi, cci, macd, stochastics, moving averages, average true range, obv and many others)

The above are mentioned by clients of TheStrategyLab.com that uses WRB Analysis to improve their own strategies or that exclusively uses our strategies involved with a few of the above.

Trading Instruments suitable for WRB Analysis

The nature of WRB Analysis makes it suitable for any trading instrument.

However, we do not follow every type of market in the world and because of such can only tell you specifically which markets its applicable for due to the fact we ourselves currently trade, have traded or monitor closely the following markets on a daily basis:

     CME Emini Futures EMD, ES, NQ and ER2

     CBOT mini-sized Dow Futures YM

     Eurex Index Derivatives (futures) DAX and DJ Euro Stoxx50

     Eurex Fixed Income Derivatives BUND, BOBL and Schatz

     Euronext Futures FTSE-100 and CAC-40

     CME Futures EuroFX EC

     Treasury Futures T-Notes ZN, ZF and T-Bonds ZB

     Forex Currencies EurUsd, EurYen and UsdCdn

     Exchange Traded Funds DIA, IWM, QQQQ, SPY, OIH, XLE and GLD 

     NYMEX Energies Light Crude Oil CL, e-miNY QM and Natural Gas NG

     COMEX Metals Gold GC

     Hang Seng Index Futures HSI

Further, we do have some clients that are profitably applying WRB Analysis to trading stocks and many other markets not mentioned above.

However, we are not able to provide proper support to stock traders because we ourselves to not trade stocks nor make any attempts to understand the price action of any specific stock.

With all that said above, if your not interested in our strategies and only want to learn about using WRB Analysis to improve your own strategies along with developing a better understanding of the price action of your trading instruments...

The free content and fee-based monthly subscription content involving the WRB Analysis Tutorials that's being discussed at the discussion forum is what you need.

   WRB Analysis Tutorials @

http://thestrategylab.com/forum/index.php?board=43.0

Our Strategies from Entry to Exit

However, the following strategies are for those traders interested in learning about our actual pattern signals (strategies from entry to exit) via WRB Analysis (all strategies are applicable for day trading, swing trading and position trading):

    Swing Trading Report (STR) @

http://www.thestrategylab.com/SwingTrading.htm

    Advance Price Action Only Report (APAOR) @

http://www.thestrategylab.com/AdvancePriceActionOnly.htm

    Advance Japanese Candlestick Trading Report (AJCTR) @

http://www.thestrategylab.com/AdvanceJapaneseCandlestickTrading.htm

Last of all, if you have any trading related questions that has nothing to do with WRB Analysis...please do not hesitate to contact us because we've helped hundreds of traders that have no interest in our methods.

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Best Regards,

M.A. Perry
http://www.thestrategylab.com

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