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Reblog: Ascending Triangle Chart Pattern (Trading Strategy)

Here’s the deal:

I’m not a chart pattern trader.

However…

The Ascending Triangle chart pattern is one of the few patterns I trade.

Why?

Because when other traders get stopped out, they help “push” the market further in your favor.

In short, you EXPLOIT the stop-loss orders of losing traders — and that’s why it works.

And because this is so powerful, I’ve created a new trading video on Ascending Triangle chart pattern.

You’ll learn:

What is an Ascending Triangle chart pattern and why does it work
You should always go short when the price is at Resistance, right? Wrong! I’ll explain why…
How to better time your entries & exits when trading the Ascending Triangle
When is the best time to trade Ascending Triangle (and why)
How to find high probability breakout trades with the Ascending Triangle chart pattern

You ready to learn this powerful chart pattern?

Then go watch this video below now…

Now, here’s a question for you…

How do you trade the Ascending Triangle chart pattern?

The original post by Rayner Teo appears on tradingwithrayner.com and is available here.

stockarchitect October 24, 2018

Ascending Triangle / Chart Reading / Pattern / Rayner / Rayner Teo / trader / Trading / TradingwithRayner /

Reblog: Thinking two steps ahead

It’s easy to understand how there might be a pattern in the market that shows we have an edge or a reason to put on a trade. Maybe some combination of factors or patterns shows us that a market is more likely to go up over a certain time period, so we buy it. That’s pretty easy to understand, and it’s how most people think about trading.

There is another way to think about patterns, and I think this is more powerful. We can take a pattern, and then think several steps ahead. Through much the same process a beginning chess player might go through, in which he thinks “ok I move here and then maybe he moves here… and when he moves there I’ll do this… but wait… if he does this instead, then I would do this…” We can play a similar game with the market, looking at how prices and patterns are developing, and thinking a few steps ahead. Take a look at the chart below, which shows the S&P 500 futures a few days after a sharp selloff. I’ve also highlighted two possible scenarios, in light orange and blue, that might have played out. Here’s the chart:

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stockarchitect April 9, 2018

Nasdaq / Pattern / S&P 500 / Trade /

Reblog: The ABCD and the Three-Drive

The ABCD

Let’s start this lesson with the simplest harmonic pattern. So what could be more basic than the good old ABC’s? We’ll just pop in another letter at the end (because we’re cool like that), and we’ve got the ABCD chart pattern! That was easy!

To spot this chart pattern, all you need are ultra-sharp hawk eyes and the handy-dandy Fibonacci tool.

For both the bullish and bearish versions of the ABCD chart pattern, the lines AB and CD are known as the legs while BC is called the correction or retracement. If you use the Fibonacci retracement tool on leg AB, the retracement BC should reach until the 0.618 level. Next, the line CD should be the 1.272 Fibonacci extension of BC.

Simple, right? All you have to do is wait for the entire pattern to complete (reach point D) before taking any short or long positions.

Oh, but if you want to be extra strict about it, here are a couple more rules for a valid ABCD pattern:

The length of line AB should be equal to the length of line CD.
The time it takes for the price to go from A to B should be equal to the time it takes for the price to move from C to D.

Three-Drive

The three-drive pattern is a lot like the ABCD pattern except that it has three legs (now known as drives) and two corrections or retracements. Easy as pie! In fact, this three-drive pattern is the ancestor of the Elliott Wave pattern.

As usual, you’ll need your hawk eyes, the Fibonacci tool, and a smidge of patience on this one.

Bearish Three-Drive Bullish Three-Drive

As you can see from the charts above, point A should be the 61.8% retracement of drive 1. Similarly, point B should be the 0.618 retracement of drive 2. Then, drive 2 should be the 1.272 extension of correction A and drive 3 should be the 1.272 extension of correction B.

By the time the whole three-drive pattern is complete, that’s when you can pull the trigger on your long or short trade. Typically, when the price reaches point B, you can already set your short or long orders at the 1.272 extension so that you won’t miss out!

But first, it’d be better to check if these rules also hold true:

The time it takes the price to complete drive 2 should be equal to the time it takes to complete drive 3.
Also, the time to complete retracements A and B should be equal.

Here’s a forum thread discussing the ABCD pattern and a trade setup with the three-drive pattern.

stockarchitect January 30, 2017

ABCD / Bearish / Bullish / charts / Fibonacci / Pattern / Technical /