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  • $COMPQ Forms Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two head & shoulders patterns on two different time frames.

  • A Bond and its Head and Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is the 30-year bond the most bullish buy around?

  • A Completed Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a head & shoulders formation has completed its retracement, do you buy the stock?

  • A Developing Head & Shoulders Formation

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a head & shoulders pattern looks as though it is forming, do you sell the share or wait for the pattern to finalize before selling?

  • A Double Head And Shoulders For Bombardier?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bombardier, Inc. is a manufacturer of business jets, regional aircraft, rail transportation equipment and motorized recreational products. In Canada it is considered a blue chip company, but since 911 it has fallen on hard times as the purchase of aircra

  • A Failed Inverse Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On July 14, I wrote an article titled "American Axel & Manufacturing Inverse H&S In The Making."

  • A Head & Shoulders Bottom In Triple H?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Has the long, year-to-date nightmare in Internet stocks finally passed?

  • A Head & Shoulders For AIG

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...AIG formed a nice head & shoulders over the last few months, and a break below neckline support would confirm the bearish reversal pattern.

  • A Head & Shoulders For Fossil

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fossil formed a head & shoulders pattern and confirmation would project sharply lower prices.

  • A Head & Shoulders For Goldman

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Goldman Sachs formed a large head & shoulders pattern over the last four months, and a neckline support break would have long-term bearish implications.

  • A Head & Shoulders Negative For The DJIA?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The pattern is there, a very obvious head & shoulder pattern.

  • A Head & Shoulders Top Awaits Confirmation On The Russell 2000

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A head & shoulders top on the Russell 2000 could be hinting that a major top is setting up in the market.

  • A Head & Shoulders Top In Housing Stocks

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The homebuilding boom bumps up against a classic reversal pattern.

  • A Head & Shoulders Top In Oil Service?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Car bombs in Iraq, nuclear profileration in Iran, airstrikes in Lebanon ... so why aren't these oil stocks smiling?

  • A Head & Shoulders Top In REITs

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Has the great REIT rally finally run out of upside?

  • A Head & Shoulders Top In Retail?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An autumn consolidation in the retail HOLDRS hints at the possibility of a move lower for retail stocks.

  • A Head (And Shoulders) Of Cattle

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A nearly five-month topping pattern in December live cattle futures looks set to resolve itself in a breakdown.

  • A Head And Shoulders Bottom In Natural Gas

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Countertrend bounce or new bull market, natural gas is poised to move higher.

  • A Head And Shoulders Consolidation And Reversal

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A head and shoulders pattern can be both of the consolidation and the reversal variety. American Medical Systems Holdings Inc. has one of each in its daily and weekly chart, with both suggesting the same outcome. Volume is a critical factor in determin

  • A Head And Shoulders Top For May Crude Oil?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...May crude oil has been hitting new highs in recent months but the head and shoulders breakdown could indicate a correction in the near-term.

  • A Head And Shoulders Top In IGT

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A reversal pattern develops after two months of gains in the gaming stock.

  • A Head And Shoulders Top On The NASDAQ A/D Line?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The A/D line is an effective gauge in determining the overall strength of the stock market. It is by far the most commonly used measure of market breadth.

  • A Head and Shoulders Bottom in Beans

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the CRB Index going parabolic, May soybeans look to break out from a five-month bottom.

  • A Head and Shoulders Kiwi

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a May breakout and rally, a top has developed in the New Zealand dollar in June and July.

  • A Head and Shoulders Top in Crude

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The summer ascending triangle breakout runs into a head and shoulders top.

  • A Head and Shoulders Top in Hogs

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a bull market run from under 61 in October to over 68 in March, a head and shoulders top looks ready to take June hogs back down.

  • A New Slant On Head And Shoulders by Charles E. Miller

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Slant On Head And Shoulders by Charles E. Miller Here's a detrending technique that will help you visualize slanted head and shoulder top patterns more clearly. When the good old reliable head and shoulders (H&S) pattern emerges simultaneously in

  • A Painful Head and Shoulder is Lurking for Merck & Company

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A head and shoulders pattern with diminishing volume signals a shorting opportunity.

  • A Reverse Head And Shoulders Formation For The Oil Services Index?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Another potentially bullish pattern for the Oil Services Index could lead to a resumption of the long-term uptrend.

  • AIG Forms Potential Head And Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Despite weakness in the finance sector over the last few months, AIG has held up relatively well. That may be about to change as a potential bearish reversal pattern evolves.

  • AIG's Head And Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Given the topping action in American International Group, the stock may want to take out an insurance policy on itself.

  • Amex Composite Forming Head & Shoulder Top?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Amex Composite may see a major downside with a head & shoulders top reversal pattern. Is the right-shoulder formation complete, or are multiple shoulders getting constructed?

  • An Intraday Head And Shoulders Top In EUR/USD

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An old rally, a MACD negative divergence, a 1-2-3 trend reversal ... after bouncing at the beginning of August, the euro starts to slip against the greenback.

  • An Intraday Nasdaq Head And Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This bullish chart pattern suggests new 52-week highs in the Nasdaq in the near term.

  • An Inverse Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a chart of an exchange traded fund suggests an inverse head & shoulders formation, with a larger one in the offing, is this a signal of what is to come overall?

  • April Heating Oil's Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...April heating oil has formed a characteristic pattern as it beats a hasty retreat from its October 2000 peak.

  • BID On A Bullish Head & Shoulders?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This is a first, certainly for Sotheby's.

  • British Pound - Head & Shoulders Formation

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The British pound is poised to move lower after completing a head & shoulders reversal formation.

  • Bullish Head & Shoulders For Apple

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In the daily time frame for Apple Computer, the bullish reversal formation now needs confirmation with a breakout of the neckline.

  • CTX Tests Head & Shoulders Support

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Centex has formed a bearish head & shoulders pattern over the last few months and looks poised to break support for a bearish signal.

  • Cabot to Head Lower?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Like many stocks, Cabot (CBT) enjoyed a nice run off October lows. It now looks like it is getting set to resume its long-term downtrend.

  • Coca-Cola: Bullish Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After the breakout of the neckline on heavy volume, the stock gains momentum to the upside.

  • Conexant Systems' Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While the Semiconductor index starts to round over, shares of Conexant Systems start to head south.

  • Crude Oil's Hourly Head And Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A look at crude oil through the lens of the 60-minute chart suggests a possible reversal in crude oil's bull run.

  • Digging Into The Head & Shoulders Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What do you really know about this classic chart pattern?

  • Digging Into The Head & Shoulders Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What do you really know about this classic chart pattern?

  • Do Weak Sector Funds Have A Head Start On The Summer Selloff?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the broad US markets prepare for a summer corrective move, traders shorting the stocks from the weakest industry groups might have a distinct market edge.

  • Do You Buy When A Head & Shouders Has Bottomed?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a head & shoulders pattern has hit the target suggested by the pattern, do you buy the share or do you wait for a more definite buy signal?

  • Does The Head & Shoulders Formation Work? by Martin Boot

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does The Head & Shoulders Formation Work? by Martin Boot Rarely will you come across a technique that detects an imminent change in trend, but here's a method that can help you do just that. The head and shoulders pattern has long been considered one o

  • EMC's Inverted Head & Shoulder?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Patterns are an important indicator in a chart pattern, and there is none more convincing than a head & shoulder inverted pattern, especially in a bear market.

  • Electronics for Imaging's Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS..."E" may stand for effort. But shares of Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (EFII) have corrected sharply after three attempts to close above 30.

  • Failed Inverse Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...No pattern is a perfect buy or sell pattern, especially when the "Buy on rumor and sell on fact" takes precedence.

  • Fedex's Hourly Head And Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What do you do when a pattern absolutely, positively has to be a reversal?

  • First Philippine's Head and Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Down as much as 90% in the wake of the emerging markets fallout, countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines look ready to rebound.

  • Following A Reverse Head & Shoulders Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does a possible reverse head & shoulder pattern tell us what to expect?

  • Gap Inc. Forms an Inverse Head and Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is GPS with the mother of all inverse H&S patterns (well, maybe).

  • Gap Inc. Tracing Out Reversal Head And Shoulders Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gap Inc. (GPS) was featured on September 25 with a rising flag (magenta trendlines). The stock broke rising flag support to signal a continuation lower, but suddenly found support at 17 and then advanced to around 20. The flag failed to produce the expec

  • Gilead's Head & Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As signs of weakness emerge in biotechnology indexes, bearish reversal patterns appear in a number of biotech stocks.

  • Goldman Sachs' HUGE Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The developing head and shoulders top in Goldman Sachs might not complete itself until the spring of 2001. But a downside breakout could send share prices plummeting to levels not seen since 1999.

  • Google's Head And Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will the world's greatest search engine become the speculator's greatest short?

  • Head & Shoulder Pattern Reverses The S&P 500

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A head & shoulder pattern has developed and signals a major trend reversal for the S&P 500.

  • Head & Shoulder Warnings Should Not Be Ignored

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On August 2, I warned that head & shoulders top patterns were popping up on a number of major indexes and ETFs. So what does that mean?

  • 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

  • Head & Shoulders For GLD

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders are likely to get a fresh trading opportunity with the breakout of StreetTracks Gold Trust Shares.

  • Head & Shoulders Pattern Plays Out For 3M

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...3M was featured at the end of April with a potential head-and-shoulders pattern. The stock held neckline support, but another bearish pattern is taking shape.

  • Head & Shoulders Top For FSAVX?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the broad market indexes falling so quickly, it helps to have a scorecard to keep up with the various rates of descent in the weakest industry groups. Some big changes appear to be in the offing.

  • Head & Shoulders by Alexander Sabodin

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Head & Shoulders by Alexander Sabodin Here's a look at a familiar reversal pattern, the head & shoulders pattern. IN this installment of the price model series, we will look at a well-known trend reversal model, the head & shoulders pattern. In part 1

  • Head & Shoulders or Cup & Saucer?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Often a pattern will start developing a left shoulder and a head. Then there will be the inevitable wait for the right shoulder to develop in order to form a true head and shoulder pattern. If the right shoulder does not develop, could it be a cup and s

  • Head & Shoulders, Algorithmically, Part 1

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ever wanted to use a simple mechanical recognition algorithm in your favorite software for spotting head & shoulders patterns? If yes, this two-part article is for you. Here's the first part.

  • Head & Shoulders, Algorithmically, Part 2

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In part 1, we looked at how to find important milestone points in a head & shoulders formation. In this, the second article of a two-part series, we present an algorithm that will let the computer find the formations for us.

  • Head And Shoulders In Hewlett Packard Forecasts Lower Prices

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hewlett Packard (HPQ) completed a head and shoulders pattern that forecasts lower prices for this hardware manufacturer. Prices had not fallen much before hitting an old support level. But other factors suggest this is only a temporary stop in a longer-t

  • Head and Shoulders Double Take

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sell YELL.

  • Head and Shoulders Top in European Currencies

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Look out below for the euro ... and the Swiss franc, too. Both of these alternatives to the American dollar appear headed for correction.

  • Head and Shoulders: An Introduction to Reversal Patterns by Timothy A. Maguire

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Head and Shoulders: An Introduction to Reversal Patterns by Timothy A. Maguire ""A picture is worth a thousand words""- Chinese proverb. The first thing a novice to the stock market would likely notice about individual security prices is that they are

  • Housing Stocks Head Higher

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When "BusinessWeek" magazine starts panicking, savvy traders start buying.

  • IBM - Potential Head & Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...IBM has remained in a steady downtrend since February this year after topping out around the century mark. Is a new uptrend about to commence?

  • IBM: Head & Shoulders, The Sequel

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...IBM continues to develop characteristics that suggest it is attempting to arrest the slide from this past February, and price activity in the coming days could qualify its trend.

  • Inverse Complex Head & Shoulders Patterns Form A Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...All the major averages recently moved above overhead resistance, breaking out of inverse complex head & shoulders patterns. They are now resting right below their intermediate downward trendlines as handles are forming off the patterns. Do the indexe

  • Inverse Head & Shoulders?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What looks like an inverse head & shoulders pattern does not mean it is. Through the analysis of how volume relates to price it is possible to make a distinction between what looks to be an inverse head & shoulders reversal pattern and what is no

  • Inverted Head & Shoulders. Should We Be Jumping For Joy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wherever I look, I see this pattern on shares. Is it a pattern that can be ignored?

  • Is This A Reverse Head And Shoulders Buildup For Earthlink?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An Internet service provider.

  • Is This An Inverse Head & Shoulders Or A Flag?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Goldman Sachs: the share price at $153.51 is enough to scare anyone away.

  • July Soybeans Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After breaking out from a seven-month consolidation, soybeans' higher days may be behind it.

  • Kellogg Co. Shows A Head And Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The head and shoulders formation is the most intuitive bottoming or topping out pattern. In it, the weaker of the bulls and bears prior to the pattern wins the post-pattern battle. On the strength of this pattern Kellogg Inc. is set to touch $43 in the

  • Kenneth Cole Has Potential Bullish Head & Shoulders Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Head and shoulders reversal patterns are the Labrador retrievers of chart formations--reliable and popular. Kenneth Cole Productions is setting up for a bottom head and shoulders reversal pattern.

  • Lennar's Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...High volume on the left shoulder of this topping formation adds to a bearish picture for this downwardly sloping H&S top.

  • Looking At A Head And Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A head and shoulder formation is pretty accurate in suggesting a target.

  • MELI Inverse Head & Shoulders Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Both independent thinking and being able to spot strong chart patterns can help you profit more than following the herd.

  • MEMC Electronics' Complex Head & Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Insiders have sold a whopping 170 million shares in this company in the last three months and their chart is forming a complex head & shoulders top signal. Coincidence?

  • Microsoft's Ugly Head and Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You don't have to call it a head and shoulders bottom. But this bottoming movement in Microsoft may boost the Software King to 80 or more.

  • Mmm... A Head and Shoulders Formation?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...No matter who the company is, when a head and shoulders formation starts developing, caution prevails.

  • Mr. Softy's Head & Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A breakout meanders before gapping higher on the day of options expiration.

  • Newmont's Head & Shoulders Top Redux

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Another year, another head & shoulders top sends gold stocks on a correction course.

  • Newmont's Head And Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does weakness in the stocks anticipate weakness in the metal?

  • Oracle's Head and Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is Larry Ellison's software outfit headed for higher ground?

  • Petroleum's Head and Shoulders Complex

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Natural gas broke down from a head and shoulders top in July. Will other energy futures follow suit?

  • Potential Head And Shoulders Top For Devon Energy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Devon Energy looks to be completing the right side of a head and shoulders pattern, which could indicate a recent top in the stock price.

  • Precision Drilling's Double Head & Shoulders Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This Canadian oil field services company has had a small head and shoulders pattern fuflilled and now may test a much bigger pattern.

  • QQQs 24-Hour Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Whether you're looking at a weekly chart or a five-minute chart, a head and shoulders top spells trouble for the bulls.

  • Rational Software Corp. is Head and Shoulders Above the Crowd!

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A rush of volume should push Rational Software as well as several other equities into finishing their patterns.

  • Revenge of the Euro: A Head and Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will the "since-inception" euro bear market end with a H&S bottom?

  • Reverse Head And Shoulders For AT&T?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Right now, AT&T seems to be bottoming out in what would be the right shoulder of a reverse head and shoulders formation. Because the price isn't very much above the low part of the shoulder, right now would be a good time to buy before it start

  • Revisiting the "S&P 500's 60-minute Complex Head and Shoulders Top"

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How a bearish complex top got even more complex--and more bearish.

  • Revisiting the Yen's Head and Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In the land of the rising yen, it appears as if the bottom is in.

  • S&P 500 To Head Lower

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Elliott wave theory shows that the S&P 500 has much farther to go on the downside before we can consider the market ready to start moving higher.

  • SBC's Head and Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SBC Communications has been struggling to put in a bottom since falling from nearly 60 per share in November 2000 to under 40 by April 2001.

  • 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?

  • Sandisk: Head & Shoulders Or Just A Support Test?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sandisk has a potentially bearish pattern working, but the stock is assumed bullish until the bear is confirmed.

  • Shipper Slips From Head And Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many stocks in this group bottomed in December 2004 and spent January 2005 in rally mode. In this stock, a failed topping pattern helped anticipate the advance.

  • Short Setups For The S&P 500's Head & Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The classic head & shoulders pattern has a very high success rate, triggering the expected result 74% of the time. What's it say about the market ahead?

  • So Many Inverted Head & Shoulder Patterns

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A large number of shares appear to be forming inverted head & shoulder patterns. What is this telling us?

  • State Street Forms Large Head And Shoulders Reversal

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the prospects of higher interest rates on the horizon, key banking stocks like State Street (STT) could come under selling pressure.

  • Swiss Franc's Head and Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The bull market in the Swiss franc looks due for a mild correction.

  • Telus Corp. May Be Building Another Head & Shoulders Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It is too early to call a head and shoulders top, but the placement of the usually relevant 200-period EMA (exponential moving average) makes this a distinct possibility going forward. In the meantime, traders may be able to position themselves for a pos

  • Terex: An Inverted Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This classic pattern reliably offers defined risk and profitable opportunities.

  • The 10-Year Treasury Note's Head And Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A temporary respite in long rates flows from a head and shoulders top.

  • The 10-Year Treasury's Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There may be more to trade than the downside breakout when it comes to head and shoulders tops.

  • The 10-Year Treasury's Hourly Head And Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How intraday technical analysis saw the collapse in Treasury notes.

  • The Airlines' Complex Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The latest declines for the airlines industry are only a continuation of a miserable year, as the S&P Airlines Index makes plain.

  • The Canadian Dollar's Complex Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Even on an intermediate basis, chart patterns often hold form.

  • The Critical Head & Shoulders Test

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One of the most reliable chart patterns is the venerable head and shoulders. The markets are set to put this technical mainstay to the test once more. If it passes, the bears will roar. If it fails, get ready for a stampede of the bulls. Either way, is

  • The Dow Industrial's Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This bearish reversal pattern is just another sign that the October rally is over.

  • The Dow Utilities' Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Like the S&P 500, the DJUA also developed a multi-year head and shoulders top.

  • The Euro's Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The most recent rally in the common currency has stalled short of the August and September highs.

  • The Head And The Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market sold into the Democratic national convention and rallied during and out of it. Does the hourly head and shoulders top in the $OEX mean that a similar market move will take place in advance of the GOP convention in August?

  • The Head and Shoulders Formation by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Head and Shoulders Formation by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer Technical analysis as it is applied today to the anticipation and projection of impending price movement of stocks or futures markets might be broken down into three m

  • The Nasdaq's Failed Head And Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a pattern breaks down, standing aside is one option. Taking the other side is another.

  • The QQQQ's Intraday Head & Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The rally in the NASDAQ 100 lasted almost a month before a head & shoulders pattern signaled a correction.

  • The S&P 500's 30-Minute Head And Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Did somebody say "bottom"?! The head and shoulders formation in the 30-minute S&P 500 might be the bulls' best bet on an end to the March declines.

  • The S&P 500's 60-minute Complex Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Since its October 10th bottom, the S&P 500 has been half uptrend and half consolidation. But now, the S&P 500 is all top.

  • The S&P 500's 90-Minute Head And Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the S&P 500 breaks down in mid-March, a growing positive stochastic divergence in the 90-minute chart suggests a bounce may come sooner than later.

  • The S&P 500's Five-year Head and Shoulders Hangover

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Believe it or not, the equity bubble of the 1990s may have only begun to burst.

  • The S&P 500's Other Head and Shoulders Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An intraday look at the S&P 500 anticipates a near-term correction in the index's July-August advance.

  • The Yen's Head and Shoulders Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does an appreciating currency suggest more deflation for the land of the rising yen?

  • Trading Head & Shoulders Formations

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...All chartists should be familiar with this chart pattern. Here are a few pointers on ways to get long and short and where alternative exits may be

  • Utilities Select SPDR Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...XLU has been in a bull market trend since 2002, but that trend looks to be ending with a head & shoulders trend reversal pattern.

  • Whirlpool Breakout From The Reverse Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A head & shoulders pattern can be both a consolidation and a reversal. You'll see why.

  • Will A Head And Shoulders Top Stop The Bean Meal Bull?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two-thirds of the way through a reversal pattern, May meal develops a running negative stochastic divergence.

  • With IWM, A Big Head And Shoulders Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's a bit sloppy and definitely not a textbook-quality example, but a bearish head & shoulders pattern has been slowly grinding toward completion on IWM's daily chart.

Working Money: The Critical Head & Shoulders Test by Matt Blackman

  • XTO Energy's Inverse Head And Shoulders Breakout

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Though some traders may have considered the recent triple top in XTO Energy as being negative, pattern watchers would have recognized the true upside potential of the stock.

  • Xilinx Attempts Head And Shoulders Reversal

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Xilinx formed an inverse head & shoulders over the last few months, but volume is not impressive and resistance is close at hand.

  • Yahoo! Head & Shoulders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is a short-term head & shoulders on Yahoo's technical chart a valid formation?






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