
Explore the Ichimoku indicator, its history, and each component, then analyze charts as a whole and practice two trading strategies through chart review and paper trading.
Explore the basics of Ichimoku, tracing Goichi Suda's 1960s origin and how the indicator reveals current, past, and future trends with supports and resistances.
Compare Ichimoku with moving average, showing how Ichimoku uses highs and lows to signal price action and flatness indicates consolidation, unlike closing-price only moving averages.
Master ichimoku components: Shinkansen (tenkan) a nine-bar high-low average, conjunction (jensen) a 26-bar average, seneca span a and b forming cloud, and chikou span shifted back 26 days.
Explore how Ichimoku indicators, especially the Shinkansen, signal highs across timeframes. Higher timeframes carry more relevance, with weekly highs from nine candles and daily or four-hour highs reflecting recent ranges.
Learn how Chico, the closing price from 26 days ago, signals momentum by comparing with today’s price and the cloud, highlighting free real estate for bullish or bearish trends.
Learn Ichimoku: identify bullish setups above cloud as trend trades, and below cloud as counter-trend, with Jensen-based stop losses and a buffer at resistance or pivot for a 3:1 reward.
Explore ichimoku trading strategies like cross and cloudbreak, including entry rules on tenkan crossing kijun, cloud conditions, and risk management with pivots and chico span.
Explore ichimoku cross setups with practical trading view examples on the nifty one-hour chart, including entries on the next candle and trailing stops, with price action above the cloud.
Learn cloud break strategy in ichimoku: wait for a candle to close above cloud, then enter next candle, using scb or jensen as stop, and ska vs scb.
This cloud break example shows Chicago and the future cloud turning bullish after a neutral setup, with a potential entry and a flexible stop using Jensen and SCB.
explore ichimoku cross strategy, a consolidation breakout approach using Johnson as the stop loss, with bullish entries on closes above Johnson and the previous day high, targeting previous pivots.
Ichimoku is very old Japanese indicator that has its own unique features which makes it excellent choice amongst many other indicators.
One of the key feature of Ichimoku is that it takes into account not only the highs and lows of the price at different intervals but it also takes into account the closing price of the instrument. With this feature we can analyze the instrument in must better way because we will know if the instrument is trending (highs and lows) and we will also know whether it is trending temporarily or it is genuinely going up (closing prices).
In this course we are going to be discussing each component at length separately and understand its relevance in overall scheme of things. Once this is done we will be combining all the components together to understand how to use Ichimoku as a system.
Ichimoku as an indicator can be used on any instrument on any time frame. Multiple time frame analysis is also possible.
Once we have understood the indicator we will be discussing two strategy with examples where they have worked and where they have failed.
Towards the end we will also add some more observations that we can keep in mind while analyzing or taking a trade that can increase our probability of success.
If you want to understand Ichimoku indicator as it is meant to be used you have come to the right place. Do let me know if you have any questions.