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Bar Chart Patterns Flashcards

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Books

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Thomas N. Bulkowski

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  • Pullbacks occur more frequently
  • Throwbacks occur more frequently
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  • on downward breakouts with less-than-average volume
  • on upward breakouts with above-average volume
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Breakout on a gap

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Reduces the odds that a retracement will occur

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Volume on a rectangle pattern

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Tends to decline

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Shortfall

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When, in a rectangle formation, the price fails to reach either the support or resistance zone

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Buying the support and selling the resistance

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Works better in a trending channel than in a rectangle

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H&S, rectangles, triangles, channels, flags, pennants, wedges and bottom picture

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Diamond pattern

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  • A broadening pattern followed by a triangle
  • Usually happens at the top of a sharp upward rise in prices
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Ideal situation for trading triangles

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  • Definite breakout
  • High trading range within the triangle
  • Upward-sloping volume
  • Gap on the breakout
  • *Seems to work better with small-cap stocks in a rising market
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Broadening pattern alternative name

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Megaphone, funnel, reverse triangle and inverted triangle

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  • Rising wedges
  • Declining wedges
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  • tend to breakout downward (69%)
  • tend to breakout upward (92%)*
  • *Bulkowski 2010
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Cup and handle pattern

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Flags and pennants

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are usually continuation patterns

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Island reversal

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Breakaway gap

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Runaway gap

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Exhaustion gap

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Common gap

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Sequence of gaps

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One-bar reversal

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When a trading bar high is greater than previous bar high and the close is down from the previous bar close

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Two-bar reversal

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Horn pattern

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Similar to a two-bar reversal but with a smaller bar in between

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Bullish Hook reversal

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Bearish Hook reversal

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Hikkake pattern
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Correction within a trend
Are usually profitable entry points
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Knockout or KO pattern
1. When a throwback occurs on a strong upward trend, place a stop buy at the high of the bar with the second low 2. If the next bar is lower, move the stop buy to its high 3. Once the position is executed, place a protective stop below the last low
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Oops buy pattern
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Oops sell pattern
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Shark pattern
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Marubozu
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Shark pattern (candlestick)
* Works better if the pattern is symmetrical * Buy at the height of the base high
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Inside bar conventional belief
When the price breaks in a direction from an inside bar, they will likely continue in the same direction
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NR4 (or NR7)
On day NRn + 1 place a buy order at dayn high and a sell order a dayn low
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Opening Range Breakout (ORB)
A method of entering a position once a setup has been established from a previous short-term pattern
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Doji pattern
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Windows pattern
Synonym for gap
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Kicking pattern
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Harami pattern
* Can indicate a reversal on an increase in volatility * Only the body of the second candle needs to be inside the range of the first one (not its shadow)
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Spinning tops pattern
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Three soldiers pattern
* The three bearish soldiers pattern is sometimes called the three black crows pattern * Can signal a reversal
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Morning and Evening star pattern
* The body of the star should not overlap the body of the preceding bar * The star can be of either color
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Hammer and hanging man pattern
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Inverted hammer and shooting star pattern
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Engulfing pattern
* Can indicate a reversal * Is stronger when the second bar is considerably larger than the first one
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Piercing line and dark cloud pattern
* The opening of the piercing line should be below the inferior shadow of the preceding bar * The opening of the dark cloud should be above the upper shadow of the preceding bar
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Three inside up and down pattern
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Three outside up and down pattern
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Three line strike pattern
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Upside Tasuki gap
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Downside Tasuki gap
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Tweezer pattern
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J-hook pattern
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Inverted J-hook pattern
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Matching low pattern
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Abandoned baby pattern
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Two black gapping pattern
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