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# Understanding Price Action: practical analysis of the 5-minute time frame

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Review: A most lucid, thorough, engaging, and useful book on short term technical trading with actionable ideas. - Bob Volman's work stands out like a diamond in the rough amidst trading literature. For half the price of the usual offerings in this category, Volman not only delivers valuable discretionary technical trading ideas, but presents them in a way that is both responsibly thorough and extremely comprehensible - a tough challenge with any discretionary method. Key points: * A handful of technical strategies are presented: breakouts (including from sloping trend lines), breakout pullbacks, classic pullbacks, and range reversals (breakouts back inside of a range). The only technical tools used are trend lines and a 25 pd moving average. * Critical technical context is given for each setup in numerous well articulated examples, separating good trades from bad, without cherry picking. * Setups are designed for 'all-in, all-out' trading: a bonus for all one contract traders out there. * Plenty of helpful notes are given to describe the psychological issues of dealing with particular setups and their management. Key improvements that weren't in the prior book, Forex Price Action Scalping: * The key time frame is 5 minute candles as opposed to the 70 tick chart, the former of which is much more popular (a number of tick chart examples are nonetheless included). * There are extensive examples of sloping trend line breakouts as opposed to the classic horizontal line approach. * A consecutive day by day analysis is given over the course of six months - something I have yet to see in any trading book. * Volman discusses more extensive exit strategies including modifying profit taking positions, providing numerous examples thereof. * An entire section is devoted to adjusting to low volatility conditions - another thing I have yet to see properly addressed in a trading book. * The influence of different sessions is discussed (Asian vs Europe vs US). * While the bulk of the focus is the EUR/USD currency pair, several other currency pairs are also presented in the low volatility section, as well as six examples from stock index futures (YM, NQ, ES). Regardless of how good this book is on a first pass, it's critical to understand that it's not made for reading, but for re-reading. You're going to have to go out there and do your own research to make the approach yours, but that is necessary with any trading approach you read about - unless you're copying the code of an automated strategy. Even if you don't follow all of Volman's technical ideas (for example I tend to be more of a counter-trend, failed breakout trader while Volman is more trend and breakout oriented), the most valuable thing this book and its predecessor can teach is the skill of reading into technical details properly and asking yourself the right questions as you design your own approach. This alone makes this book considerably more valuable than its numerous overpriced competitors. This is a book that is as much about concept as it is about content. If you're a fan of Volman's work, you may also want to check out Forex Price Action Scalping. However, I suggest this book first, as it is a bit more rounded and provides an easier point of departure. Also, at the time of this writing there is an active group of Volman followers on the trade2win forum where one of the users posts Bob's annotated 70 tick charts every Sunday evening.
Review: Cant wait to read this book - Just ordered this Book. If its as good as Bob's other one, Its worth its weight in gold. I'll add to my review in a week. After reading review: My first impression of Bob's new book was"wow what an intense read" just like the first book it will require several complete reading to absorb all the information. It's like the first book on steroids. I think most people would be better served reading and understanding all the information in the first book before moving on to the second. The concepts and the first book are very basic and straightforward. The concepts and the second book require much more subjectivity, this will make it more difficult to learn. The book however is loaded with tons of great information and a year's worth of charts which alone is worth the price of the book. I really feel this book was meant to be a companion to the first book. However, since price action is universal I think it was modified to a five minute chart to appeal to a larger audience. This is in no way faulting the book or Bob. If anything it's allowing his work to reach out and help more traders. I think applying the additional learning material from this book to the concepts already used on the 70 tick chart will increase the when rate of the scalper. This book is not as complete of a trading methodology as the first one, therefore I do feel you should read and understand Forex price action scalping first. Then once you're getting decent results and wanting to improve upon them take on the task of the second book. One thing I would like to note is he does a much better job at describing buying and selling pressures in this book which is very important.Also I like the way this book mirrors more of my trade management of exiting based on fading buying and selling pressure versus a hard fast target. In closing my final comments is Forex price action scalping is still my number one must-read book. This new book understanding price action is now moved to number two must-read book where it's taking over the spot from Mark Douglas's book trading in the zone. Allen, http://www.wallstreet2easystreet.com/

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #404,330 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #76 in Foreign Exchange (Books) #576 in Investment Analysis & Strategy |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A most lucid, thorough, engaging, and useful book on short term technical trading with actionable ideas.
*by G***S on November 28, 2014*

Bob Volman's work stands out like a diamond in the rough amidst trading literature. For half the price of the usual offerings in this category, Volman not only delivers valuable discretionary technical trading ideas, but presents them in a way that is both responsibly thorough and extremely comprehensible - a tough challenge with any discretionary method. Key points: * A handful of technical strategies are presented: breakouts (including from sloping trend lines), breakout pullbacks, classic pullbacks, and range reversals (breakouts back inside of a range). The only technical tools used are trend lines and a 25 pd moving average. * Critical technical context is given for each setup in numerous well articulated examples, separating good trades from bad, without cherry picking. * Setups are designed for 'all-in, all-out' trading: a bonus for all one contract traders out there. * Plenty of helpful notes are given to describe the psychological issues of dealing with particular setups and their management. Key improvements that weren't in the prior book, Forex Price Action Scalping: * The key time frame is 5 minute candles as opposed to the 70 tick chart, the former of which is much more popular (a number of tick chart examples are nonetheless included). * There are extensive examples of sloping trend line breakouts as opposed to the classic horizontal line approach. * A consecutive day by day analysis is given over the course of six months - something I have yet to see in any trading book. * Volman discusses more extensive exit strategies including modifying profit taking positions, providing numerous examples thereof. * An entire section is devoted to adjusting to low volatility conditions - another thing I have yet to see properly addressed in a trading book. * The influence of different sessions is discussed (Asian vs Europe vs US). * While the bulk of the focus is the EUR/USD currency pair, several other currency pairs are also presented in the low volatility section, as well as six examples from stock index futures (YM, NQ, ES). Regardless of how good this book is on a first pass, it's critical to understand that it's not made for reading, but for re-reading. You're going to have to go out there and do your own research to make the approach yours, but that is necessary with any trading approach you read about - unless you're copying the code of an automated strategy. Even if you don't follow all of Volman's technical ideas (for example I tend to be more of a counter-trend, failed breakout trader while Volman is more trend and breakout oriented), the most valuable thing this book and its predecessor can teach is the skill of reading into technical details properly and asking yourself the right questions as you design your own approach. This alone makes this book considerably more valuable than its numerous overpriced competitors. This is a book that is as much about concept as it is about content. If you're a fan of Volman's work, you may also want to check out Forex Price Action Scalping. However, I suggest this book first, as it is a bit more rounded and provides an easier point of departure. Also, at the time of this writing there is an active group of Volman followers on the trade2win forum where one of the users posts Bob's annotated 70 tick charts every Sunday evening.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cant wait to read this book
*by A***B on October 30, 2014*

Just ordered this Book. If its as good as Bob's other one, Its worth its weight in gold. I'll add to my review in a week. After reading review: My first impression of Bob's new book was"wow what an intense read" just like the first book it will require several complete reading to absorb all the information. It's like the first book on steroids. I think most people would be better served reading and understanding all the information in the first book before moving on to the second. The concepts and the first book are very basic and straightforward. The concepts and the second book require much more subjectivity, this will make it more difficult to learn. The book however is loaded with tons of great information and a year's worth of charts which alone is worth the price of the book. I really feel this book was meant to be a companion to the first book. However, since price action is universal I think it was modified to a five minute chart to appeal to a larger audience. This is in no way faulting the book or Bob. If anything it's allowing his work to reach out and help more traders. I think applying the additional learning material from this book to the concepts already used on the 70 tick chart will increase the when rate of the scalper. This book is not as complete of a trading methodology as the first one, therefore I do feel you should read and understand Forex price action scalping first. Then once you're getting decent results and wanting to improve upon them take on the task of the second book. One thing I would like to note is he does a much better job at describing buying and selling pressures in this book which is very important.Also I like the way this book mirrors more of my trade management of exiting based on fading buying and selling pressure versus a hard fast target. In closing my final comments is Forex price action scalping is still my number one must-read book. This new book understanding price action is now moved to number two must-read book where it's taking over the spot from Mark Douglas's book trading in the zone. Allen, http://www.wallstreet2easystreet.com/

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Understanding the reason rather than the season
*by A***A on July 24, 2017*

I bought this book together with it's counterpart, Forex Price Action Scalping but despite having gone through UPA several times (the pages have started coming off!) I am yet to read more than 2 chapters in FPAS. The reason for this is just that I am not suited for anything below 5-mins time-frame besides I don't want to purchase a monthly subscription to a chart provider in order to trade using accurate ticks data. This book is definitely not for a once-over read but several reads before the principles can be deeply ingrained in your trading mindset. Bob opens the door of your mind to the 'why' and a bit of the 'what', concepts can be explained but if you don't get the idea behind the concept you would easily become confused when you come across a variant of such a concept hence why it is better understanding the reason behind an idea rather than the idea itself. I found out that I was always coming back to re-read the book after making some mistakes applying it's ideas to my trading and boy! each time do I discover something new like if I was coming across it for the first time! I had been breaking even in my trading before I came across this book but presently I am making considerable profit on a micro-account by applying Bob's ideas in my trading. I hope to upgrade to a standard account once I can maintain my profitability and hopefully pay Bob a visit soon. And for those complaining about the book being too wordy or too archaic...it's a trading book for crying out loud and not a comic book.

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