Buy Side Institutions Buying in Dark Pools Prior to Runs The “Platform Candlestick Pattern” is a relatively new sideways candlestick pattern that is becoming more and more prevalent as the Dark Pools’ activity increases. Dark Pools are Alternative Trading System (ATS) venues that transact giant-lot orders off of the Exchanges. …
New Western Candlesticks Have Entry Signals in Trendline Patterns Traders learn about Trends Up, Down, and Sideways, which are the commonly taught Trends. There is also the Long-Term Trend (which is sometimes called the Primary Trend), the Intermediate-Term Trend, and the Short-Term Trend. However, few traders learn the Trendline Patterns. …
Identify Platform Candlestick Patterns for Low Risk & Early Entry The giant Buy Side Institutions control vast amounts of money on behalf of their fundholders. They are the giant Mutual Funds and Pension Funds in the US and around the world. Most of the time, Individual Investors and Retail Traders …
Use List for Technical Analysis of Candlestick Patterns The candlestick chart below is a good example of a Rounding Top Candlestick Pattern, which is the hardest of all the tops to see before it breaks to the downside, as they tend to do during a Market Correction. For Swing Trading, …
Recognizing Platform Candlestick Patterns™ There have been many changes to the technical patterns of the downside in recent years. Knowing what to study in technical patterns to improve profits is necessary in order to successfully Sell Short stocks during a Market Correction. Here are 5 Sell Short tips for stocks …
Identify Momentum & Velocity Market Conditions Using Indicators When the Stock Market moves with plenty of momentum and velocity activity, it provides opportunities for Swing Traders to hold a trade through a 1–10 day run up and then exit before the stock encounters profit taking. Below is a stock chart …
For Interpreting What Price Will Do After Stock Volume Spikes The chart example below with a Daily Chart View shows that High Frequency Traders (HFTs) caused a huge white candlestick and stock Volume spike, as indicated by the vertical red line on the right. Since then, this stock has been …
Stop Loss with Support & Resistance The least used and most often improperly used analysis by Technical Traders and Retail Traders is Risk Analysis. All too often, traders are choosing high-risk stock picks without realizing it. See the candlestick chart example below. This analysis is NOT using percentages, but rather …
Overnight Order Flow of Market Orders & Limit Orders Many Retail Traders really enjoy trading gaps because of the higher point gains that come quickly. But in order to reap the gains from a gap, you must be in the stock PRIOR to the gap. Chasing a gapping stock or …
Consider Market Condition and Stock Trend Cycle Buy the Dip is a very old-style strategy that is frequently touted as “brand-new” to new and beginning stock traders, novice swing traders, and new investors. The theory is that you want to “buy low and sell high”. But more often than not, …