hey guys welcome back to another episode in this video we will be going through our haikanasi

trading strategy in depth and how we use it in combination with price action high kanasi candlesticks
are great because they smooth the price action as a result much of the noise shown in traditional
japanese candlesticks is eliminated with high kanasi charting and it helps make the trade entry and
exit decision simpler if you want more videos more often please smash the like button subscribe and
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important point before we start everything we discuss in this video can be used for currency trading
stock trading and crypto because price action stays relatively consistent across different assets so
we're going to go very in depth in this video are you confused with not knowing exactly how or when
to enter into a trade with so many different candlestick patterns traders can get paralyzed by over
analysis on whether a certain candlestick is an entry or not and have you gotten into a trade where it
was going in your favor but you got out too early it's frustrating to get out of a position only to see
the trade go further in the direction of the trade you exited let's face it as a trader we have many
things to analyze at any given time if you take too long to decide whether it's time to enter into a
trade because of your complicated entry rules it might mean a missed opportunity for you and if you
exit your position too early then it could affect your profitability in the long run but what if you had a
simple way of knowing exactly when to get in and out of your trade without any complicated
analysis then you want to consider using the high kanasi bars to time your entries and exits in this
video i will share with you a simple haikanasi strategy to simplify your entries and exits so you will
know exactly when it's time to enter or exit a trade and now what is the haikanasi technique the
haikanasi technique is a japanese candlestick based technical trading tool that uses candlestick
charts to represent and visualize market price data it is used to identify market trend signals and
forecast price movements the haikanasi method uses average price data that helps to filter out
market noise the absence of market noise results in a clear illustration of market trends and
direction which helps determine potential price movements the trading technique assists traders in
identifying when they should hold on to a trade pause a trade or identify if a reversal is about to
occur the haikanasi trading technique was developed by munich hama in the 1700s the technique
shares some characteristics with the traditional candlestick charts used in trading but differs in how
the values for candlesticks are computed in japan the word heiken means average for balance and
the wordasi means bar per foot hence high kanasi means average bar resonating with the trading
technique which uses the average price of the security the difference between hikanasi and
traditional candlesticks the main difference between the traditional candlestick chart and the high
kanasi chart is that the latter uses a modified formula based on two period moving averages instead
of open high low and close prices hence the technique generates a smoother chart making it easier
to spot trends and reversals the high kanasi charts also obscure gaps and some price data the left
chart is using traditional candlestick bars and the right chart it's using high kanasi bars you can see
that with the high canassi bars it's much more smoother this is why some traders prefer to use the
haikanasi candles since it reduces the noise on the chart and allows them to analyze trends more
clearly what makes haikanasi different from a traditional japanese candlestick chart is how the price
is displayed in terms of the open and the close if you look closely at the heiken aussie chart you'll
notice that each of the haikanasi candlesticks start from the middle of the candlestick before it and
not from the level where the previous candlestick had closed high kanasi candlesticks act this way
due to the way they are calculated if you're interested here's the calculation high kanasi close equals
average of open high low and close high can i see open equals midpoint of previous high kanasi bar
high kanasi high equals highest of high close and open high can i see low equals lowest of low close
and open by the way please don't bother to memorize this formula and don't even think about
trying to understand why it's calculated this way it will not help you be more profitable or help you
become profitable at all just understand that it's meant to help you identify trends better in the
market also don't mistake the haikanasi bars as a trading system because it's not if you go long
whenever you see a bullish bar or go short whenever you see a bearish bar then you will go broke
very quickly like the candlestick bars it's just giving you information on the market haikanasi price
action patterns with candlestick bars you have many different types of price action patterns you
have the doji gravestone doji and the dragonfly doji you have the pin bars you have the engulfing
candlesticks and the list goes on and on there are literally tons and tons of candlestick patterns but
with the high kanasi bars i've categorized them to just three main types of price action patterns first
bullish bars with the bullish high kanasi bars you will notice that there's only a wick at the top of the
bar but there's no wick at the bottom as long as this is an up bar with no wick at the bottom we
consider this a bullish signal second bearish heikenosi bars the bearish hikanasi bars are simply the
opposite of bullish high kanasi bars they have a wick at the bottom but not wick at the top as long as
this is a down bar with no wick at the top we will consider this a bearish signal third indecision heiko
nasi bars to simplify the haikanasi bars i've categorized all bars that have wicks at the top and
bottom of the bars as an indecision hike in aussie bar so regardless of whether the bar color is bullish
or bearish as long as there are wicks on both sides we will consider this an indecision high kanasi bar
why use high kanasi bars now that you know what are high kanasi bars and you know the three
different types of haikanasi price action patterns the question you might be asking right now is why
use the high kanasi bars for our trading and the answer is because it helps make the trade entry and
exit decision simpler and now how to enter into a trade using high kanasi bars while it might be
tempting to go long whenever you see a bullish hike in aussie bar or go short whenever you see a
bearish high kanasi bar please resist your urge to do so i know there are people out there teaching to
do this but i know you're smarter than that so don't do it to have an edge trading the markets you
need to have certain criteria to be met before entering into a trade buying rules or long position
criteria number one the higher time frame must be in an uptrend what this means is that the high
time frame has to be making higher highs and higher lows if you're trading the one hour chart then
the higher time frame would be the four-hour chart and if you're trading the hour chart then the
higher time frame would be the daily chart i don't like to trade any time frame lower than the one
hour chart because not only is it tiring to watch but the commissions and spread will eat away a
significant amount of your edge at lower time frames but that is not to say that it's not profitable
trading lower time frames it's just more difficult because your spread and commission would be a
bigger percentage of your trade parameters than in the higher time frames criteria number two the
10 exponential moving average is above the 30 exponential moving average i use the 10 email and
30 ema to determine the momentum of the trend criteria number three the time frame you're
trading on must have both criteria one and two as well once there are these three criteria in place i
will look to go long when the price bounces off either of the exponential moving averages and the
first bullish high kanasi is formed at a higher low like this then place stop loss below the low of the
current swing low criteria for a short trade now that we know the criteria for a long trade the criteria
to get into a short trade is just simply the opposite criteria number one the higher time frame must
be in a downtrend this is denoted by price forming lower highs and lower lows criteria number two
the 10 exponential moving average is below the 30 exponential moving average this is
straightforward and you should have no difficulties identifying this on your chart by now criteria
number three the time frame you're trading on must have both criteria one and two as well once
you have all three criteria i will look to go short when price bounces off either of the exponential
moving averages and the first bearish high kanasi is formed at a lower high how to exit a trade using
high kanasi bars as for exit because this is a trend trading play we want to exit only once the price
has formed an opposite hike in aussie bar so for long trades we only want to exit when a bearish
high kanasi bar is formed and for short trades we only want to exit when a bullish high kanasi bar is
formed as you can tell it becomes so much simpler to determine when to exit now sometimes if you
are in a long trade you will get faked out of your position because a bearish high kanasi bar only to
see the next bar become a bullish hike in aussie bar or vice versa if you're in a short trade but that's
fine there's no way you're going to catch every single bit of every trend there is ultimately if you are
profitable from your trades as a whole over a series of trades then that's all that matters trading
examples all right enough theory here's a trade example to show you exactly how to enter an exit
into a short trade in this chart you can see that the market formed a lower high and bounced off the
30 exponential moving average once you see that happen the next step is to wait for a bearish high
kanasi bar to form when it's formed go short at the close of the bar from there the market dropped
pretty quickly and indecision heiken asi bars started to form this is not a good reason to get out
because it could just be consolidating before the price goes down again however in this case the
price did not go down further instead a bullish hikanasi bar was formed and that means to get out of
the trade at the close of the bar here's a trade example of how to get into a long trade in this chart
you can see on the left hand side that the price has spiked up pretty quickly and then started
consolidating consolidation in an uptrend is a good sign because this could mean that price can go
up further and the market did bounce off the 10 exponential moving average and formed the first
bullish hykenasi bar go long at the close of the bar price did go up further before an indecision high
kanasi bar is formed immediately after the first indecision high canassi bar is formed the next bar
after that is a bearish haikanasi bar that's the signal to exit out of the trade and fortunately for us
price did eventually go much lower after we exited the trade however not all trades are going to be
like this as i've said this a number of times already it doesn't matter if you do not catch the whole
movement of the trend it's impossible to do so what you can only do is take whatever you can based
on your trading system and in the long run that will lead you to profitability here are other examples
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] high kanasi bars are great because they smooth the
price action as a result much of the noise shown in traditional japanese candlesticks is eliminated
with high kanasi charting and it helps make the trade entry and exit decision simpler as always if you
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