If you aren't acquainted with Triple Screen Trading, then it is a basic technical trend following egy involving three timeframes:

- Wait for a trend to grow on the highest timeframe.
- Drop to the next timefame and await a pullback against that trend.
- Drop to the lowest timeframe and input if price turns back into the direction of the larger trend.


That really is a fundamental analysis-based variant of Triple Screen Trading.

The installation... I don't start searching for a trade until these three conditions are met:

1. The chart is indiing that a trend is in place.
2. The daily chart shows a pullback against that trend
3. The fundamental reason behind the weekly trend is still there, meaning the trend is likely to last.

Only when these three items are in place, I fall to the 4H charts and input if/when price breaks back into the direction of the weekly trend.


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Fundamental analysis can be overwhelming and intimidating if you attempt to do it all yourself. There's a huge quantity of information coming from every nation every day... economic data, trade conditions, local and international political concerns, altering fiscal policies etc... it is far too much for any one trader to examine and use. Fortunately we have te of exceptionally edued economists in each nation, absorbing this information, examining it and boiling everything down into simple summaries we can use. They are called central banks.... And while they aren't perfect they provide will place us on the correct side of all that information. If you don't trust central banks, or if you buy into the conspiracy theories about these, simply try to do that work yourself. I dare you.

In the commodity markets, COT data serves a similar function. COT positioning represents te of the sharpest minds in the business, who spend absorbing and analyzing every bit of information about every tradeable commodity. We should be place by trading in the same way as these , more frequently than not.

I think that it's pretty cool that these two tools are available to us as traders. When you consider just how much information is being gathered on our own behalf, examined and condensed into such an easy and arrangement, by te of people experienced than ourselves, it seems silly not to make the most of it.

I've simplified things here... there's a lot of nuance and discretion involved in my analysis which I'll get into later but my basic FA principles are:

- Only buy a currency if the central bank is hawkish/becoming hawkish.
- Only promote a currency if the central bank is dovish/becoming dovish.
- Only buy stock indices if all major central banks are simultaneously dovish.
- Only market indices if all major central banks are simultaneously hawkish.
- Only buy a commodity if COT shows large speculators are buying.
- Only promote a commodity if COT show large speculators are selling.

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I only trade Weekly/Daily/4H charts.... Please do it somewhere else, if you want to use unique timeframes. Among the most important items is that the different components of your egy are currently unfolding within the period of time if you are mixing FA with TA. This sounds obvious, however, it took me a long time to figure out and grasp this simple idea. If you think you have a handle on the fundamentals, the very first question to ask yourself is how frequently do the fundamentals change? If you are trading reactions to intraday news releases the fundamentals are changing several times a day, and that means you need a technical system which gets you out of the market (on average) in a few hours.

Because I am trading longer duration themes such as central bank opinion, which maybe change once or twice a month, I attempt to get in and out of the market (on average) in several weeks.... So lower timeframes don't work with this egy.