{"id":39072,"date":"2019-04-10T12:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/?p=39072"},"modified":"2019-04-10T13:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T18:01:42","slug":"strategic-swing-trader-lesson-4-the-only-3-trend-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2019\/04\/10\/strategic-swing-trader-lesson-4-the-only-3-trend-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Swing Trader &#8211; Lesson #4: The Only 3 Trend Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, Director of Education Sami Abusaad jumps in on another important <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">topic you must learn on your path to trading success: the three directions of a trend. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reversal bars form pivots and pivots form trends. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that you\u2019ve learned about reversals and pivots, understanding their relationship to trend is the next step.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you missed those lessons, catch up with these three lessons before continuing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/25\/strategic-swing-trader-lesson-1-how-to-read-the-japanese-candlestick-chart\/\">Lesson #1<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/strategic-swing-trader-lesson-2-understanding-candlesticks\/\">Lesson #2,<\/a> & <a href=\"https:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/strategic-swing-trader-lesson-3-reversals-pivots-trends\/\">Lesson #3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This video helps you understand the criteria of each trend action, how to choose your moving average based on the size of your time frame, and what moves must be your objective once your criteria is met on each kind of transaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch below to grow your trading knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FT3Live%2Fvideos%2F2250207125075604%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Director of Education Sami Abusaad jumps in on another important topic you must learn on your path to trading success: the three directions of a trend. 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