Reading Stock Charts Like the Professional Traders All Technical Traders need to have very high visual pattern skill development so that they can click through charts quickly and identify patterns that they prefer to trade. Unfortunately for most Retail Traders, this skill is underdeveloped, leaving them to rely too much …
Moves in Opposition to Price During Volatile Market Conditions Most Technical and Retail Traders are familiar with high and low range oscillators or what is often called an Overbought or Oversold Oscillator. However, few really understand or use a Center Line Oscillator, which is extremely useful during Volatile Market Conditions …
Recognizing Who Is Controlling the Stock Price There is a plethora of analysis training on Candlestick Patterns and interpretation, and yet this remains one of the most problematic areas for Technical Traders who want to trade at the expert level earning high income from just trading stocks. The candlestick chart …
Recognize Shift of Sentiment™ Patterns in Indicators One of the more frustrating patterns for many Technical Traders and Retail Traders are the Flat Top Candlestick Patterns that form today. These new Topping Formations surprise many traders and result in whipsaw trades and losses with breakouts to the downside. What appears …
Identify Stock Market Participant Groups by Price & Indicator Patterns The StockCharts.com indicator Accum/Dist was designed to help track the large-lot versus small-lot activity. Decades ago, when the concept of distinguishing between the large lots versus the small lots started being discussed by the Sell Side Institutions, the Stock Market …
To Identify Dark Pool Buy Zones™ The Shift of Sentiment™ pattern in the stock chart example below clearly and easily shows that Buy Side Institutions using Dark Pools entered this stock and would quickly take control of price. Sideways bottoming stock trend analysis of the chart shows that a sudden …
Basing Bottoms Formed by Dark Pool Buy Zones™ One thing that is a constant in the Financial Markets and especially in the Stock Market over the past few years is change. Everything about Technical Analysis is changing. It is often hard for Retail Traders who trade from home and Technical …
Identifying Large Lots Dominating Buy Side or Sell Side of Momentum Run The most common mistake Retail Traders make in choosing stocks for Swing Trading is to not identify whether the large lots are dominating the buy side or the sell side during the price action momentum run upward. This …
Sideways Candlestick Pattern Breakout Direction Oftentimes, traders may be confused with conflicting indicator patterns. Contrarian patterns between indicators and between Price and stock Volume-based Indicators are very common these days. In the stock chart example below, the stock gapped up on earnings news and shifted to a sideways candlestick pattern …
Identify Momentum Price Action Ahead of Runs One of the most exasperating experiences for many StockCharts.com Users is to open their charts to find a stock that has run or gapped with momentum energy price action. These huge one-day gains occur when High Frequency Traders (HFTs) fill the queues ahead …