why does price move back & forth within a range?

I opened a trade and the price will not move reasonably, it keeps dancing back and forth around a particular range, please someone know why this happens? Its so annoying !

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@segun_33 - 9 months ago

I guess it is because of indecision on the part of buyers/sellers. Perhaps they could be waiting for a certain news to be released before they place big trades. On the eve of Nonfarm payrolls, CPI, interest rate news etc. we usually see this kind of ranging behavior. However, after the news is out, the market resumes its normal motion.

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@paul_petit - 7 months ago

hey, what would you do if you were trading this chart, would you buy or sell?

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@amosglad01 - 7 months ago

The dominant trend is a bullish engulfing signalling a buy. Price has not been able to close below the bullish engulfing pattern hence the support linne i drew.

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