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Download45ˇ Angle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One of the strongest swing trading breakout patterns is the 45ˇ angle multi-week uptrend. Here's what to look for and how you can trade it
ADX & 50SMA Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The more technical signals that line up in your favor, the better the odds of making a successful trade. Here's an example of how to confirm a technical signal with another signal
ADX Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Breakouts are a popular method to trade with, but how do you differentiate between strong and weak breakouts? This professional daytrader demonstrates one method of identifying breakouts that could make a difference
Acceleration Ramp Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The acceleration ramp is a pattern that points to stocks that are building strong demand over the course of several weeks. Here's how to look for this pattern
Advance Breakdowns And Breakouts In Oscillators by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advance Breakdowns And Breakouts In Oscillators by Martin J. Pring Oscillators have always been a popular tool for traders. Here are some guidelines from a leading market analyst on various ways to apply this widely used technique. I think of momentum
Ascending Triangle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This month in our Trading On Momentum column, this professional trader introduces you to the ascending triangle pattern that you can use to help spot buying pressure as it builds
Average True Range Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The ATR was originally designed to indicate when daily ranges are increasing or decreasing. Here, we show you how you can use the indicator to spot upside breakouts
Avoiding False Breakouts: "No 9
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This month, the breakout strategy discussed isn't so much about what to do as what not to do
BIIB: Warning Signs, False Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Biogen Idec Inc. (BIIB) has a lot of things working for it to be a potential homerun, but here is why you should avoid this stock.
Big Breakouts In Little Triangles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One tenet of swing trading suggests taking big gains as soon as you get them. The recent action in Rf Microdevices, Inc. (RFMD) is one example why.
Boeing's Beautiful BOSO Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Being overbought has its benefits for Boeing in 2006.
Bollinger Band MA Crossover Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This monthly column written by a professional daytrader and educator covers the general topic of breakout trading techniques. This month, he explains how you can use a particular combination of signals to help avoid false breakouts while gaining earlier,
Bottoms, Breakouts, And Bear Patterns
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Divergences, stars, engulfing patterns, and BOSO plays abound in three and a half months of price action in September lumber.
Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Catching a stock that is breaking out of its trading range during the early stage can result in a profitable trade.
Breakouts And Breaking Points
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In the current market, price trades near its annual highs and while it may look like a potential breakout to newer highs, the nagging question is whether the market could be at its breaking point.
Breakouts Using Green:Red Candle Ratio
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a simple momentum strategy to use for swing trading breakouts
Breakouts, Directional Movement, And The DJIA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A shift in positive directional movement accompanies a breakout in the Dow Jones industrials.
Breakouts, Pullbacks, And Gaming The 2B
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Another mild post-breakout pullback for the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index provides an opportunity to see 2B tops in action as short-term countertrend plays.
Bull Flag Swing Trading Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Missed your entry on a big breakout? A trend continuation could give you a second chance. Here's how to spot a pattern that gives you the opening you need
Buying Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buying stocks that hit new highs is a technique commonly employed by traders to catch the next big winner. Relative strength can be used to avoid buying overbought stocks likely to consolidate or decline in the short term.
CTL: Evaluation Of Channel Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Certain channel breakout setups are more desirable than others; here's a quick tutorial to help you spot the higher probability opportunities.
Channel Breakouts In Kinross Gold Corp.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Now that the projected cost of the "New Deal, Part II" is rising by the day, some analysts expect the entire precious metals (PM) complex to soar. Here's a potential channel breakout setup in Kinross Gold Corp.
Charting Breakouts With Convertible Point & Figure Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, we introduce a charting technique that builds on the classic point & figure charting style and updates it to put the time dimension into play
Closing Range Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Learn to identify a closing range breakout entry using a two-day chart
Conditional OTO Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using one-triggers-the-other (OTO) conditional orders is ideal for breakout trading. Here's why
Consolidation Channel Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When price trends between two parallel trendlines it is said to form a channel, and a consolidation channel is a sideways action where price is in a trading range. This month, this professional trader describes what to look for to have the best chances o
Daytrading ADX Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Would you like to know about a technical indicator that provides a consistent way to spot volatile breakouts in a timely manner? This tool may be sitting right in front of you. If you aren't already using the ADX, here's how to use it to determine whethe
Daytrading Cup Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Entering and exiting intraday trades using precision technical trading signals has been popular with both retail and institutional traders, since it limits overnight risk exposure. The primary elements of professional daytrading include scanning
Daytrading Price Volatility Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's how to recognize specific patterns that can be incorporated into a successful trading strategy.
Daytrading Tall-Candle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tall green candles are easy to spot on a chart, and entering above a tall candle's high can set you up for a profitable breakout trade. Here's how to do it
Daytrading VWMA Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adding in a volume component to your moving average calculation can help you know when momentum may be slowing, which may improve your trade timing. Here's how
Detecting Breakouts From Flags & Pennants by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (48-57): Detecting Breakouts From Flags & Pennants by Markos Katsanos Here's a system to identify and trade flag and pennant formations. In my previous article, I wrote about the measuring implications, duration, and identi
Detecting Breakouts In Intraday Charts by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting Breakouts In Intraday Charts by Markos Katsanos Here's an important enhancement to the finite volume elements indicator that's especially useful with intraday minute charts. In the April 2003 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I introduced the finite volu
Detecting Breakouts by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting Breakouts by Markos Katsanos The finite volume elements (FVE) indicator is yet another money flow indicator -- but it takes into account both intra- and interday price action. Most technical analysts underestimate volume indicators in favor of
Detecting High-Volume Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking at hundreds of charts for high-volume breakout patterns can be tedious and time-consuming. Here is an indicator that will help identify these patterns in seconds
Donchian Breakouts by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Donchian Breakouts by David Penn Buy strength and sell weakness with this simple yet effective breakout trading strategy. There may be as many different forms of the Donchian breakout as there are moving average crossover or pattern recognition strateg
Dual-Candle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Simply buying into an uptrend in isolation often leads to false breakouts. Instead, you may find more success if you scan for dual-candle breakout patterns. Here's how to find them
Dual-Candle Momentum Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Green candles in this scenario can be a sign of momentum. Here's how to incorporate them into your breakout trading
End-of-Day Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The open is where the excitement is. But the close may be a smarter place to be
Fakeouts And Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A 1-2-3 trend reversal becomes a bear trap as positive divergences power the $SPX toward new, year-to-date highs.
Filtering Breakouts by Adam White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Filtering Breakouts by Adam White Which is more effective as a signal filter, the average directional movement index (A DX), the indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder to measure market trend intensity, or the unsmoothed version, the directional index
Gap Continuation Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The objective of all traders is to find a market-beating strategy. The challenge is to find ones that are consistent
Gaps & Bullish Cup Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This monthly column written by a professional daytrader and educator covers the general topic of breakout trading techniques. This month, he explains how you can improve your chances for success in gap trading by combining gap trades with easy-to-see cup
Golden Cross & Cup Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using multiple entry points to scale into winning trades can increase your odds for a successful outcome. Here's an example of one way you can do that by combining signals from a golden cross and a bullish cup breakout
Golden Cross Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A "golden cross" on a chart is typically defined as when the 50-day moving average crosses above the 200-day moving average, seen as a bullish sign. In this monthly column on trading breakouts, this professional trader shows how you can use this pattern
High-Volume Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this final article in a series we've been presenting on breakout trading strategies from this professional daytrader and educator, we look at the role that volume and price-action breakout patterns play in confirming entry signals
High-Volume Close Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As with many trading techniques, looking for confirmation before taking action is smart. Here's one way you can do that
High-Volume Golden Cross Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It often pays to wait for confirmation to avoid false breakouts. Here are two indications you can use as confirming signals
How To Detect Early Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...False breakouts are common, but not if you learn how to detect them early with a simple indicator.
How To Use Pocket Pivots To Catch Early Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Breakout trading can turn into "fakeout trading" as floor traders manipulate the market, but if you know this effective entry method developed by two trading legends, you can beat them to the punch for large gains.
Identifying Powerful Breakouts Early by Tushar S. Chande
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING TECHNIQUES Identifying Powerful Breakouts Early by Tushar S. Chande High-powered breakouts occur with a strong surge of momentum in the direction of the price change. Such breakouts may be short-lived, however, occurring toward the latter stages
Inside-Range Gap Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...They may not be your traditional gaps, but they can end up with breakouts that are just as big as or bigger than some of the more popular type of gaps. Discover how to use these gaps in your trading
Intraday DLB Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An excellent example of the "Don't Look Back" breakout develops in a five-minute chart of the emini S&P.
Inverse ETF Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Find out how this trader applies breakout trading techniques in a falling market
Manufacturing Breakouts And The Market
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Manufacturing stocks are breaking out, revealing the potential to lead the market higher and offering bankable trades if you know what to look for.
Moving Average Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Welcome to a new column on techniques for active traders. Each month, this daytrader and founder of TradeMastery.com will cover topics such as momentum trading, breakout trading, and other technical analysisĐbased techniques. This month, you'll learn an
Multiday Sequential Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this monthly column covering the topic of breakout trading techniques, this professional daytrader and educator explains how looking for a multiday pattern where volume and price continue upward can simplify your trade scanning
Multiple-Gap Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This month, we present a breakout strategy for finding swing trade entries based on a series of upward gaps in an uptrend. This professional trader explains what to look for
Price Channel Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you have ever wondered where to enter an uptrending chart, then you may find this month's trading strategy helpful
Price Projection Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this regular column covering the topic of breakout trading techniques, this professional daytrader and educator explains how looking for prior trading ranges can help you manage new breakout entries by helping you determine how far a new swing trading
Recognizing Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sometimes it's useful to go back to basics to remind ourselves of concepts that underpin successful trading. One such concept is the breakout.
Spotting Breakouts From Price Channels
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explosive breakouts can occur from price channels if you understand how to spot them and use them.
Swing Trading 10-Point Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some numbers have an important psychology attached to them. Find out how you can use this to your advantage in swing trading
Swing Trading Four-Day Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When trading breakouts, one challenge is to find charts that will continue to move in your favor. Here's one pattern that could help you identify those strong moves
Swingtrading News Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One way to take advantage of price action that results from major news headlines is to scan sector or commodity ETFs for trading opportunities when the news is affecting that particular sector or commodity. Here's an example
Tape Reading Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The time & sales window can reveal valuable information about the strength of a trend. Learn more about how trading professionals use it and how you too can use it to your advantage
Three-Candle Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One of the big challenges that we face in trading breakouts is avoiding false breakouts, where price looks to be taking out a new high but then goes back down
Trade Breakouts And Retracements With TMV
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making good trading decisions involves finding indicators that cut through the market noise. But how do you do it without collapsing under the weight of information?
Trading Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discovering the optimum time to short a bottom or buy a top.
Trading Double Top Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One of the common point and figure signals is the double top breakout. This is when a column of X's break above a prior column of X's separated by a middle column of O's.This short article shows how to spot this signal and some ways to inc
Trading First-Hour Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It is well known that as soon as the markets open, there's a significant amount of trading activity, much of which is strong breakout patterns. How do you identify which of these patterns are strong enough to continue and generate successful trades? Find
Trading Flat Base Breakouts by Bill Pritchard
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (46-49): Trading Flat Base Breakouts by Bill Pritchard Here's a look at a simple stock-trading strategy that combines fundamentals and technicals. The flat base breakout pattern (FBB) is a stock market classic, a time-teste
Trend Channels: Breakouts And Breakdowns
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do two short-term moves in opposite directions end up supporting the prevailing trend?
Two Gold Stocks, Two Breakouts, And Two 52-Week Highs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold stocks have shown good strength over the last few weeks and months, but two in particular stand out from the crowd.
Two-Day-High Cup Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bullish cup patterns often continue upward. Here are two technical entry signals to look for
Volume-Weighted Moving Average Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a moving average crossover technique to help spot strong breakout trading patterns in volatile markets
Waiting For Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Good, old-fashioned breakouts from consolidations may be the technician's equivalent of a waist-high fastball. But traders who wait for the hanging change-up might find themselves with an even better pitch to hit.
Watching DJIA Breakouts by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Catching DJIA Breakouts by Mark Vakkur, M.D. Buying breakouts in the Dow Jones Industrial Average works well - but there are caveats. If the trend is your friend, the simplest way to use that idea is to buy only those markets that are breaking out to n
Wide-Range Chart Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Skip the narrow, choppy trading ranges and look for a chart with enough range to have some momentum behind it
Working Money: Bottoms, Breakouts, And Bear Patterns by David Penn
Working Money: Breakouts, Pullbacks, And Gaming The 2B by David Penn
Working Money: Waiting For Breakouts by David Penn
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