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Article Archive For Keyword: Failure

  • An Early Trend Failure For Gold Or A Bounce Setting Up?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders who anticipated the likelihood of a possible double top move towards the troughline test were rewarded.

  • Bearish Failure Swing For The Dow

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Dow suffered its largest two-day decline since 26-Sept and a key momentum oscillator flashed a sell signal. Even though the near-term outlook is cloudy, any decline from current levels would still be deemed a correction within a larger uptrend.

  • CBOE Gold Index: Triangle Breakout Failure

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This gold index has failed to break out from an ascending triangle formation, developing a high-volatility move to the downside.

  • Failure Of A Bottoming Out Pattern In Peoplesoft Inc.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Peoplesoft Inc. was forming a head and shoulders pattern on the weekly chart, indicating a bottom formation. But the pattern seems to be failing as prices refuse to cross the neckline.

  • Failure Patterns Can Lead To Great Trades

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Allegheny Technologies is currently trading at nose-bleed levels above $65. How it got there (in part) contains an interesting trading lesson.

  • GS: Failure Swing Hints At Bigger Pullback

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After hitting a five year high in early November 2014, shares of Goldman Sachs are reversing lower in the wake of a failure swing.

  • Head & Shoulders Failure by Kenny Gilliland

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Head & Shoulders Failure by Kenny Gilliland How can you effectively trade one of the most recognizable chart patterns? Imagine this scenario: You are reviewing the charts of stocks that recently declined when a pattern jumps out at you from the screen

  • Intel: Intraday Failure Of An Ascending Triangle

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The semiconductor stock printed on Friday the worst performance of the DJIA--is weakness ahead in the short term?

  • Microsoft In Failure Mode

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The violation of a significant moving average line often is a tipoff to a trend change or start of a correction.

  • Pattern Success or Failure - Follow the "Elephant Tracks"

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...PeopleSoft Inc. illustrates a good example of bullish pattern failure. To the alert and flexible trader, it didn't matter which way it went. The move was tradable.

  • Profiting From Failure

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading busted chart patterns might be the way to riches. Or not

  • RSI: Platinum's Failure Swing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using the relative strength index to spot potential turns in the market.

  • SMH: Failure Swing Forecasts Pullback

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of the Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF are beginning a turn lower toward the $50.00 area.

  • SPY Head & Shoulder Failure

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On April 18, SPY exhibited a bearish head & shoulders top pattern on the hourly chart. It's been invalidated since then. What does this mean?

  • Short Entry Failure, Or How To Reenter A Short Move If Stopped Out

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shorting a stock is not a game for amateurs, and even skilled traders struggle with trading during a bear market, but using this three-step process can put the odds greatly in your favor.

  • TSLA: Failure Swing Playing Out?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As expected, shares of Tesla Motors Inc. staged a solid rebound rally from the 200-day average, but the run-up now appears to be out of gas.

  • The December Dollar's Diamond Bottom: Pullback or Failure?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What started as a diamond bottom reversal has begun to retrace as quickly as it broke out.

  • The QQQQ Gets A Top Failure Swing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The relative strength index gave an early signal to the current weakness on the QQQQ by forming a top failure swing. Additional clues in other time frames suggest that there may be further downside to come.

  • Trading The Failure Of Candle Patterns

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As all traders know, chart and candle patterns may or may not follow through in an ideal fashion. But not all is lost when they don't. Sometimes, you can observe quite a lot about market action and market participants even with failed patterns. Here, we

  • Trading The Failure Of Candle Patterns: Shooting Star

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What should you do when a candle pattern does not behave as expected? Here's a closer look at the shooting star.

  • Trading The Failure Of Technical Patterns

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Yes, you can potentially trade patterns profitably even when they fail. Here's how to spot and take advantage of these types of opportunities

  • Trading the Failure of Technical Patterns: Double Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...All is not lost when a reversal chart pattern like a double top fails to materialize.

  • UPS Forms Bearish Failure Swing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...UPS has been one of the top market performers, but waning volume and momentum could foreshadow a reversal.

  • WTI Weekly: Dual Probability Path Provides Insight Into Failure Of Key Market Level

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into the breakdown below key support and subsequent sell-side price discovery for Wednesday, September 18, 2019's auction. Market st

  • Winning With Failure by Christopher Narcouzi

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Winning With Failure by Christopher Narcouzi Believe it or not, you can take advantage of failed patterns and profit handsomely. Have you ever bought a stock after it broke through the resistance line, only to see the price drop a few days later? Have







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