Trade The DAX30 With The Open Range Breakout Strategy
After fears around the Coronavirus resulted in a short-term drop below 13,000 points, DAX30 bulls quickly regained control and the German index recovered not only most of its losses but brought new all-time highs. The mark around 13,800 points has the focus of market participants again.
And after the remarks from Fed chairman Powell at his semi-annual testimony couldn't negatively affect the current bullish bias, it comes hardly as a surprise that also breakout traders could profit from bullish stints on an Intraday basis.
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Source: Admiral Markets MT5 with MT5-SE Add-on DAX30 CFD Daily chart (between November 8, 2018, to February 21, 2020). Accessed: February 21, 2020, at 10:00pm GMT - Please note: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results or future performance.
But before you are given a deeper look into the trading setup and the trade of this specific day, let's recall the 3 steps of the DAX30 CFD Open Range Breakout strategy:
- Define Open Range between 8:00am and 9:05am (CET)
- Identify the advantage: based on the 5-min-EMA (50)
- DAX30 CFD trades above > Long,
- DAX30 CFD trades below > Short
- Trade the break of the Open Range in direction of the identified advantage, Stop above/below the high/low of the range (= 1R), Take Profit: 2R away from the entry point of the trade
In the following, let's go through these three steps and see how the setup would have performed on February 12, 2020:
1. The high and low between 08:00 and 09:05am (CET) can be found between 13,652 and 13,686 points, so the Open Range is 34 points wide.
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Source: Admiral Markets MT5 with MT5SE Add-on DAX30 CFD 5min chart (between February 11, 2020, to February 13, 2020). Accessed: February 18, 2020, at 11:35 GMT - Please note: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results or future performance.
2. As you can see in the chart above, the DAX30 CFD traded above the EMA(50) on a 5-minute time frame (blue line). That means that only long trades will be taken and only if the DAX30 CFD breaks out on the up-side of the Open Range.
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Source: Admiral Markets MT5 with MT5-SE Add-on DAX30 CFD 5min chart (between February 11, 2020, to February 13, 2020). Accessed: February 18, 2020, at 11:35 GMT - Please note: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results, or future performance.
3. As shown on the chart above, the DAX30 CFD broke out of its Open Range on the upside and started to move strongly in the direction of the breakout on the downside.
The stop was placed at the bottom of the range at 13,652 resulting in a risk of 34 points.
Since the setup works with a Take Profit 2R away from the entry point of the trade, a Take Profit was placed at 13,754 points, 68 points away from the entry point.
The target was hit within the next hours, resulting in a profit of 68 points and a profit factor of 68 points: 34 points = 2:1.
In 2015, the value of the DAX30 CFD increased by 9.56%, in 2016 it increased by 6.87%, in 2017 it increased by 12.51%, in 2018 it fell by 18.26%, in 2019 it increased by 26.44% meaning that after five years, it was up by 34.2%.
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