What is the bladerunner strategy?
The bladerunner strategy is a forex trading strategy which market participants use to determine the best levels at which to enter and exit a trade. It can be used to speculate on prices rising by going long, or falling by going short. Whether you go long or short will depend on whether the bladerunner strategy gives a bullish or bearish signal.
Bladerunner trading strategy top tips
The bladerunner strategy relies on a 20-day exponential moving average (EMA). It doesn’t use any other technical indicator. The EMA is a moving average that places greater significance on the most recent price movements and data points. A 20-day EMA does this over a 20-day timeframe.
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You’ll also need to make sure you understand support and resistance levels, and what they mean for a market’s potential future price movements:
- A level of support is a floor in a market’s historical price movements below which it rarely falls
- A level of resistance is a ceiling in a market’s historical price movements above which it rarely rises
Typically, when a forex pair’s price falls below support, it’s indicative of lower lows and when it rises above resistance, it’s indicative of higher highs – though this isn’t always the case. This is where the bladerunner strategy gets its name from as the underlying market’s price ‘cuts’ above resistance or below support, with the 20-day EMA serving as the blade.
As a final tip, you’ll need to be aware of whether a session has closed above or below the EMA. If a bullish trend closes below the EMA, it could be indicative of a bearish reversal and if a bearish trend closes above the EMA, it could indicate a potential bullish reversal.
Setting stops and limits on your positions can help to prevent you from being caught out by these reversals if they occur.
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How to trade using the bladerunner strategy
Now we’ve established what you need to know in order to understand the bladerunner strategy, let’s go through how to trade using it.
Generally speaking and with the information regarding higher highs and lower lows from the previous section in mind, you’d go long and ‘buy’ if the price is above the EMA and retests it to profit from the upward momentum in the market’s price. Or, if the price is currently below the EMA and it remains there, you’d go short and ‘sell’ to profit from any potential declines in value.
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Bladerunner buy trade example
For an example of a bladerunner buy scenario, look to the graphic below. It shows that the market’s price is above the EMA and it is retesting the level of support before rebounding and continuing its upward momentum.
In this case, you’d likely want to open a long or ‘buy’ position when the price retests this level in the hopes that the upward momentum continues. But, keep in mind that if a session closes below the EMA in this scenario, it could be indicative of lower lows and a bearish reversal.
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2020-10-13 13:36:20Z
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