Price Aligned will teach you day trading with price action.
The easiest way to succeed at day trading is to ensure that your trading is aligned with what the price is showing you in the present moment.
I started my trading journey years ago and initially became a trend trader. I had some early success, yet I often gave back most of my gains in non-trending markets by continuing to trade trends and breakouts when market conditions no longer supported them.
Price Action (PA) is a form of technical analysis that teaches you how to look at price alone and identify the prevailing market “mood,” or current state of the market cycle — in other words, how to read PA.
It then goes one step further.
It shows you how to trade appropriately for the current market mood — how to trade PA.
How to Read Price Action
The four main market moods taught by price action trading, and easily observed on price charts, are:
- Trends or Breakouts (powerful directional price swings)
- Tight Trend Channels (tight directional price movement between trend lines)
- Wide Trend Channels (directional price movement between trend lines with meaningful counter-trend pullbacks)
- Trading Ranges (horizontal price movement between support and resistance levels)
There are many other price action patterns and chart patterns that we will explore in detail elsewhere, but these are the four primary market moods.
In the Price Action trading section of this website, we will go into detail on how to identify each of these market moods in live market conditions, regardless of timeframe. Topics such as support and resistance levels and practical price action signals are covered in depth, while tools like pin bars, Bollinger Bands, and classic candlestick patterns play a far smaller role in my personal trading approach.
How to Trade Price Action
I developed a system of simple trading hacks that I call Price Alignment. These trading hacks can be applied to each of the four market moods identified on the price charts.
The three core trading hacks within the Price Alignment approach are:
- Trend Tracker (for trading breakouts and tight trend channels)
- Channel Slider (for trading wide trend channels)
- Range Scalper (for trading ranges)
Each of these is taught in detail through the articles and videos on this website. Together, they form the foundation of various price action strategies that we will explore over time.
Day Trading with Price Action Strategies
I’m a futures day trader. My rule-based day trading system, the One Hour Edge, applies the price action trading principles described above and trades exclusively during the first hour of market activity after the U.S. session opens.
I also offer a paid program where I teach the One Hour Edge in a structured hybrid group-coaching environment. The One Hour Edge is one example of a complete price action trading strategy. I recently used this same price action trading approach to become funded with two $100,000 prop trading accounts.
However, I will also teach you how to day trade with price action free of charge on this website through a free day trading course. In that course, we build a complete day trading system from scratch, using a statistically viable sample size suitable for live market conditions.
Dries Cronje
My name is Dries Cronje. I have been trading live accounts since 2012 and have coached and mentored hundreds of traders since 2015.
Since mastering price action trading, I have been consistently profitable, trading my own capital and as a funded prop trader.
You can read more about my trading journey and my price action strategies on the About Dries Cronje page.
Other Applications
Day trading is only one application of the Price Alignment approach.
Price Action can be traded on any market and any timeframe. I have personally used this approach to develop and execute strategies to:
- Day trade CL, NQ, and ES futures for full-day sessions
- Day trade ES futures for half-day sessions
- Day trade ES futures for one hour at the open (the One Hour Edge)
- Swing trade futures and forex pairs on one-hour, four-hour, and daily charts
While I have not personally used Price Alignment to trade stocks or crypto, the underlying PA principles apply equally well to those markets across all timeframes.
What you learn here can be used to develop stock and crypto price action strategies. Core technical analysis concepts such as support and resistance levels, range breakouts, and reversal patterns behave consistently across instruments and chart types.
Other Topics
Additional essential topics — including trading math, risk management, stop-loss orders, take-profit orders, and trading platforms — will also be covered on this website.
Welcome
Welcome. I hope the price action trading articles and videos published here help you avoid some of the pitfalls I had to endure on my own trading journey.
I started this website at the beginning of 2026, and I aim to publish new articles and videos a few times per week. In the video content, we will go deep into price movement and the fine details of price charts.
Be sure to subscribe to the newsletter to stay informed about newly published content. I won’t email frequently, but you can expect at least one update per month highlighting new material.
Talk soon,
Dries Cronje