Near-perfect pennant pattern

• 10/22/2021 at 9:13 AM #180133
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  Thought this might be of interest to technical aficionados – image shows NASDAQ 2min chart from yesterday, v nice text-book example.

  We all know that, in theory, pennant formation is “always” a continuation pattern but it’s reassuring to see it play out in the real world.

  Confusing as hell when you’re in it – in this case 4 hours of lower highs AND higher lows – then the perfect breakout above 15450 at around 19:50 UK time.

  Gotta trust the theory.

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  10/22/2021 at 9:24 AM #180136
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  Great stuff and happens most of the time when things turn out well for a day. Btw, I see this happening after lunch time in the US.
  If it does not happen (always waiting for it) things will turn bad.

  … If it does happen I’ll have another beer and stop paying attention. Like yesterday …
  OUCH !!

  But this is a quite rare after-market happening, in this case caused by SNAP and Intel. The upside : it counts for the figures for today. So all opportunity to recover.

  Thank you for a nice post / subject !

   

  PS: The 1st attachment was meant to be the second, showing today’s “recovery” (for as long as it takes).

  

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  10/22/2021 at 9:27 AM #180140
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  PS: the 1st attachment was meant to be the 2nd, showing today’s recovery (for as long as it takes).

  

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  10/22/2021 at 9:33 AM #180144
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  nonetheless wrote:

  Confusing as hell when you’re in it – in this case 4 hours of lower highs AND higher lows – then the perfect breakout above 15450 at around 19:50 UK time.

  Or … what you can see from these patterns is how e.g. Powel is speaking, leading to a climax at some stage. Thus in general : some climax, without a real Good or Bad that I can recognize. Just “the end” of the speech or whatever it is.
  Btw, I don’t know what it really was yesterday, and I expected something about EU top gathering. But I did not see it or did not know where to look.

  

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  10/22/2021 at 9:39 AM #180147
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  PeterSt wrote:

  in this case caused by SNAP and Intel

  I was wondering why it fell off a cliff so dramatically just after the close – assumed it must have been due to bad results somewhere. no amount of theory can help you there.

  Happily I had closed out before that …

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  10/22/2021 at 9:43 AM #180148
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  I think that triangle patterns are the most representative of the investors behavior on the market: indecision and exhaustion are often the premise of something that will happen soon.

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  10/22/2021 at 10:04 AM #180156
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  I was wondering why it fell off a cliff so dramatically just after the close – assumed it must have been due to bad results somewhere.

  Not really bad results, but merely a less than good prospectus (not related to Guidance really). Intel was at -9%. SNAP at -30% !!.

  The situation was extra-ordinary (rare) because I sat there watching my phone regularly (like each few secs after closing, knowing that I have SNAP and was eager for the Q results) and with my eye on the first immediate drop of 25% to over 30%, I saw my quite unexpected gains for the evening (see your OP) vanish in one blast, with only the luck that this gain has been there;
  Only at 00:00 (23:00 for you) I saw what happened really : the whole Nasdaq had collapsed (sort of), while I thought that the loss was all caused by the SNAP I own (who ever calculates with -30% ?!?).

  Anyway, one of the things we need to take into account are the large ones which influence the whole index (like Apple, Intel, MS, now Tesla). So if they come with Q figures, be prepared that one can draw down all (or lift all). That is what happened here, in my view.

   

  PS: The attachment want not really intended (recovery of SNAP so far). No clue how to remove an attachment afterwards, after posting.

  

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  10/22/2021 at 10:26 AM #180161
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  It’s so long since I’ve traded equities I’d forgotten how crazy it can get when results come out. Unless you’re into a position long term it can often feel more like gambling than investing, esp with tech stocks.

  Never mind, next time it will go your way and you’ll be +30% !

  

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  10/27/2021 at 12:09 PM #180424
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  Hi nonetheless

  If you are interested in trading this pattern type further I can strongly recommend Kristjan Kullamagi.  A Swedish trader that trades these pattern types, very successfully.  https://qullamaggie.com/

  All free, daily stream on Twitch with historical videos on YouTube.  Similar to Dan Zanger and StockBee.  I’m working on a screener in PRT for this flag pattern, but it needs a good 30-100% run up first, then a consolidation for 10 to 40 bars before trading the breakout.

  Best of luck!

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  GraHal, nonetheless

  

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