Trend Following

Understanding how trends form is obviously vital if you want to time entry and exit points for buying and selling. This makes Elliott theory an interesting model.

The hanging man is Japanese candlestick pattern that appears in uptrends. It can in some circumstances be a sign that a trend is about...

The Aroon is a trending indicator that’s long been used for momentum trading strategies. It’s especially good at locating places where a market is...

A rising window is usually found in bullish surges where the price is rising quickly. The pattern represents a “break in the market” where...

A falling window is a type of candlestick pattern that can appear in market selloffs. It forms where the price falls rapidly and produces...

A bearish breakaway is a chart formation that can appear in a rising market when the price starts to pull or break away gradually...

A bullish breakaway is a chart reversal pattern that can appear in either a bullish or bearish market. In cases it can also be profitable to trade it on the sell side, as a contrarian trade.

The basic aim of “the turtle” is to enter trends at the early stages - it uses range breakouts to time these entries.

In the early 1980’s an experiment took place to find out if it is possible or not to take a bunch of ordinary people off the street and turn them into trading moguls.

If markets were completely logical and responded only to hard facts we’d see them moving more or less in straight lines with a few jumps here and there when new information arrives.