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Identifying Chart Patterns With Technical Analysis: A Fidelity Investments Webinar Series
Identifying Chart Patterns With Technical Analysis: A Fidelity Investments Webinar Series
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About Our He is a Chartered Market Technician, a past member of the board of directors of the
Market Technicians Association, past editor of the Journal of Technical Analysis, past
board member and vice president of the CMT Association Educational Foundation and a
Coauthor member of the American Association of Professional Technicians (AAPTA). He
coauthored Technical Analysis: The Complete Source for Financial Market Technicians,
the primary textbook for the CMT program and for university graduate courses on
technical analysis, authored Beat the Market and, most recently, Time the Markets:
Using Technical Analysis to Interpret Economic Data.
He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College (AB), and the Wharton
School (MBA) and lives with his wife in Maine.
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Techniques for
Trading Patterns
Understanding Construction
Patterns and of Common
Their Limits Chart Patterns
Agenda
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Understanding
Patterns and
Their Limits
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Defining Patterns
• Patterns are fractal, meaning that they can be seen in any charting
period (weekly, daily, minute, etc.)
• A pattern is not complete or activated until an actual breakout occurs
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Keep in Mind
Some of our human tendencies can be
dangerous for investors.
• See patterns where there aren’t any
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Techniques for
Trading Patterns
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• Breakouts
• Entry Stops
• Protective Stops
• Retracements
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Breakouts
Price
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Confirmation Filters
Types of Filters
• Intrabar
Confirmation
Filters • Multiple closes
• Time
Apply a confirmation filter to
determine whether a breakout
• Percentage or point
has taken place.
• Money
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Entry Stops
Entry Stops
Buy stop orders are used to
enter trades once the price
breaks out.
Resistance Breakout
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False Breakout
Breakout False Breakout (return
Price breaks out but almost Resistance
through breakout level)
Line
immediately returns back
through its breakout price. Failed Breakout
Failed Breakout
(Trap)
False breakout occurs and
the price then breaks out in
the opposite direction.
Trend Line
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Protective Stops
Protects Capital
Determines the amount of
capital risk before entry
Types of
placement Breakout
Resistance Line
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Example
• Enter on breakout False Breakout Protective sell stop and sell
short entry stop
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If price continues in
direction of breakout, profit
from breakout entry
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Retracements
Counter Trend
Correction Retracement (pullback)
Types
• Pullback (on breakout down) •
Throwback (on breakout up)
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Construction of
Common Chart
Patterns
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Other
• Head and Shoulders •
Cup and Handle
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Price
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Pullback
• Breakout occurs when price exceeds
the extreme of the intermittent Breakout
Price
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Characteristics: Rectangle
(entry up, breakout up) Resistance Zone
• Trading range with support and
resistance levels bounding price Throwback
action Entry
Support Zone
Shortfall Breakout
Breakout
• Slight tilt, similar to horizontal Resistance line
channel
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Triangle: Symmetrical
Entry
least twice. Many false breakouts.
Moderately successful in
performance Cradle
Price
• Things to consider:
ÿ Confirm a breakout
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Triangle: Ascending
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Triangle: Descending
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Triangle: Wedge
(rising wedge)
Price
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Characteristics: Head
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Characteristics:
• Inverted but otherwise Head and Shoulders Bottom
identical to a top pattern (breakout up)
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Price
Breakout Breakout
Neckline
Neckline
Entry Throwback
Left Shoulder
Left Shoulder Right Shoulder Right
Shoulder
Head
Head
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Wedge
= Buy
= Stop Wedge
= Exit
Triangle
Triangle
Rectangle
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Characteristics:
• Traditionally, candlestick patterns are reversal patterns, meaning they
are used to identify when a trend is ending
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Doji
Characteristics: Doji
• A one-candle pattern formed when the open
and close are the same price, and the high
and low are roughly equidistant from the open
and close
• Extremely common
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Ban
Characteristics: Ban
• A two-candle pattern of a large body of either Top Bottom
color followed by a small body of the opposite
color; The second body is completely within
the body of the large body and is called a
“spinning top”
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Engulfing
Characteristics: Engulfing
Bottom
• A two-bar pattern in which the second bar Top
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Pennant/Flag
Characteristics:
Flag and Pennant
• Pennant and flag patterns are
in upward trend Flag Pennant
variations of the same pattern
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Gaps
Characteristics
• Definition – no trading (gap) at
specific prices
Gap Up
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Gaps
Characteristics
• Gaps are generally profitable on
breakouts from patterns, trends,
support or resistance
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Volatility Patterns
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Narrow Range
Characteristics: NR4
• One low volatility pattern is called a “Narrow
Range” pattern and consists of a bar with Range on day 4 less
a range narrower than its preceding bars than days 1-3
three bars
Sell
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Important Information
Any screenshots, charts, or company trading symbols mentioned are provided for illustrative purposes only and should not be considered an offer
to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation for the security.
Stop loss orders do not guarantee the execution price you will receive and have additional risks that may be compounded in pe riods of market
volatility. Stop loss orders could be triggered by price swings and could result in an execution well below your trigg er price.
Trailing stop orders may have increased risks due to their reliance on trigger pricing, which may be compounded in periods of market volatility,
as well as market data and other internal and external system factors. Trailing stop orders are held on a separat e, internal order file, place on a
"not held" basis and only monitored between 9:30 AM and 4:00 PM Eastern.
Technical analysis focuses on market action – specifically, volume and price. Technical analysis is only one approach to analyzing stocks.
When considering which stocks to buy or sell, you should use the approach that you're most comfortable with. As with all your investments, you
must make your own determination as to whether an investment in any particular security or securities is right for you based on your investment
objectives, risk tolerance, and financial situation. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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