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  • A Bond and its Head and Shoulders Bottom

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

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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 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

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

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An Internet service provider.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 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 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.






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