If after a breakout your position is holding its gains and not turning negative (no challenge of pattern boundary), chances are high the move will extend way beyond the price objective.

In such cases employ a trend following tool to capture more of the uptrend. Image
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23 Sep
(1) Let's study this chart and discuss some of the concepts in classical charting & technical analysis. It is a great chart. Image
(2) Symmetrical triangle formed right below the 200-day average. Breakout took place at the same price level which I call inflection point. When such condition is met, it is a high conviction setup for me.
(3) Breakout took place with a gap opening. This was a clear breakaway gap as explained by Schabacker.

Breakout took place above the 200-day average and it was a change in trend as well. A significant technical development.
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23 Sep
Step by step analysis of price action around rising trend channels.

A breach above the upper boundary, if not followed by an acceleration on the upside, can result in a failed breakout.

Sept 4 Global Equity Markets report >> blog.techcharts.net/index.php/prem… Image
Sept 11 >> Price fails to hold above the upper boundary.

blog.techcharts.net/index.php/2021… Image
Sept 18 >> Targeting the lower boundary of the rising trend channel.

blog.techcharts.net/index.php/2021… Image
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22 Sep
Richard Schabacker - Technical Analysis and Stock Market Profits on Gaps... ImageImage
I incorporate breakaway gaps into my analysis as I mainly trade breakouts. Breakaway gaps will appear at the time of breakout through the pattern boundary. Image
An example of a breakaway gap. Image
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11 Aug
Waiting for a daily close above the resistance by 3% margin is a trading tactic Edwards & Magee discussed in their book Technical Analysis of Stock Trends.

For some of you this might be a too late entry. Remember that trading tactics can be different for each trader/investor.
As there is no perfect stop-loss placement, there is also no perfect entry condition. Sometimes you can miss the breakouts due to gap openings. I'm sure many of you managed to position well into this H&S continuation breakout. Image
There are several ways to trade a chart pattern. From anticipatory positions before the breakout to buying during re-test after a breakout...

However, there is only one way to identify a text-book classical chart pattern. This one was a H&S continuation.
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11 Jul
I will write a couple of points on #VOLUME. It's a #THREAD. I get a lot of questions regarding volume confirmation on chart patterns. Here is my story with volume as a supporting indicator.
I learned #technicalanalysis and charting with the default chart setup of volume at the bottom of each chart. I know how to read volume with price charts.
Around the subprime mortgage crisis and the financial meltdown, I was managing the largest fund in AUM in the UAE and a sizable one in the MENA.
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9 Jul
Trying to pick tops and bottoms in a trend is a low probability event.
Identifying an existing trend and trying to capture the trend periods is a high probability event.

First you are going in the direction of the existing trend. There is momentum in your favor.

Second, you have "better" levels of stop placement incase you are wrong.
Better meaning, levels that are actually recognized by market participants as they are formed by the battle (supply & demand) during their transactions.
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