Inside Bar Forex Trading Strategy

Where Do Inside Bars Form?

Well, inside bars can form anywhere. But the inside bars that are of significance that many traders take notice of must form on these level(areas) listed below:

• support and resistance areas
• pivots
• Fibonacci levels
• trend line touch areas

It's best to only pay attention to inside bars that form in the price levels listed above.

INSIDE BAR FOREX TRADING STRATEGY RULES

Selling Rules:

1. the market must be in a downtrend.
2. when you see an inside bar form, then place a sell-stop order anywhere from 2-3 pips below the low of the inside bar. You do that soon as that inside bar closes.
3. For Stop loss, place it anywhere from 5-10 pips above the high of the inside bar.
   
4. exit on the close of the third candlestick-your candlestick count should include the inside bar(which should be number 1). The chart below should make this concept clear.
5. Or another way for you to  exit a  trade is to trail stop your trade and lock your profits as the trade moves in your favour until price reverses and takes out your trailing stop loss and hopefully you walk away with a lot more profits compared to exiting on the 3rd candle:

Buying Rules:

The buying rules for the inside bar trading strategy are just the exact opposite of the selling rules. Here they are:

1. the market must be in an uptrend.
2. when you see an inside bar form, then place a buy-stop order anywhere from 2-3 pips above the high of the inside bar. You do that soon as that inside bar closes.
3. For Stop loss, place it anywhere from 5-10 pips below the low of the inside bar.
4. exit on the close of the third candlestick-your candlestick count should include the inside bar(which should be number 1). The chart below should make this concept clear.
5. Or another way for you to exit a  trade is to trail stop your trade and lock your profits as the trade moves in your favour until the price reverses and takes out your trailing stop loss and hopefully, you walk away with a lot more profits compared to exiting on the 3rd candle

AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO TRADE THE INSIDE BAR

There’s another way to trade the inside bar. It is when you really don’t care if the price is going to go up or down. It's a non-directional trading system.

What you do is place a pending buy stop and sell stop order on both sides of the inside bar…so if the price goes up or down, one of these pending orders is sure to get filled/activated. Here’s how to do it:

1. when you see an inside bar form, then you place a  pending buy stop order above the high of that inside bar and also place a stop loss below the low of that inside bar. You also need to place a sell stop pending order on the low of the inside bar and place its stop loss above the high of that inside bar.
2. if one pending order is activated, you immediately cancel the other that has not been activated.
3. For exit and take profits, you can use the techniques given above.

DISADVANTAGES OF THE INSIDE BAR FOREX TRADING STRATEGY

• false breakouts do happen and you will get stopped out as price reverses and hits your stop loss.
• avoid trying to use smaller timeframes to trade inside bars, there will be too many “noise” and false signals

ADVANTAGES OF THE INSIDE BAR FOREX TRADING STRATEGY

• pure price action trading just like the pin bar strategy.
• if you trail stop your trades to lock in profit as shown in the previous chart above, you can make a lot of profit if the trend is strong.
• if you trade using the daily chart, you need only a few minutes each day to check your chart, place your pending order (when you spot an inside bar) and walk away. Check later during the day to see which pending order was activated then cancel the other that was not activated.
• It's a very easy candlestick pattern to spot, even a housewife who has no prior experience in trading forex can use this system and make money trading forex.