Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis

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The ascending broadening wedge is a chart pattern that can be traded in several ways; either as a bullish/bearish breakout or with a swing trading strategy.

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A broadening wedge is a range where the price is holding between two trend lines that are moving apart. The pattern is also named a "megaphone" because of its shape.

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Not all channels are easy to trade. In practice most aren’t. So an essential part of a price channel trading system is deciding which to trade and which to ignore.

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Both rectangles and price channels appear in virtually all forex charts. Price channels can provide excellent opportunities for trend trades.

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A bullish engulfing candlestick can be a useful buy signal. But in order to trade them we have to be able to recognize reliable patterns from the false ones.

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If you’d blindly traded the bearish engulfing candle over the past decade, you’d probably have done slightly worse than if you’d traded on a coin flip.

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Crossing support and resistance lines meet at so called convergences or confluent areas. Is there anything significant about these areas?

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The first step in trend trading is spotting key support and resistances. This post looks at trend trading with support, resistance and confluence lines.

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Trend reversals are often led by double top or double bottom chart patterns. If the reversal fails it can lead to a double top/bottom breakout.

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When a falling wedge pattern appears in a forex chart it hints at bullish sentiment. Like the rising wedge, this pattern is quite common at all time scales.