markets technical analysis and algorithmic trading chapter 4: consolidation formation
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Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi. Faculty of Business and Economics Department of Banking and Finance. Markets Technical Analysis and Algorithmic Trading Chapter 4: Consolidation formation. Saeed Ebrahimijam Fall 2013- 2014 . FINA417. Contents. Flags Pennants Head and shoulders - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Markets Technical Analysis
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Algorithmic Trading Chapter 4: Consolidation formation
Saeed EbrahimijamFall 2013- 2014
Faculty of Business and EconomicsDepartment of Banking and Finance
Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi
FINA417
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Flags Pennants Head and shoulders Symmetrical Triangles Rectangles
Contents
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While the share price fast up/down trend stops because of supply and demand equilibrium. In this situation one of three states are expected to happen:
1- Reversal trend 2- prices can decline or rise to a support
level before building up steam again. 3- prices can move sideways, and then
continue it’s previous trend (consolidation formation)
When consolidation forms?
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Consolidation formations occur when security prices move up or down too fast and reach a level at which the demand or supply that produced the move is completely absorbed.
the temporary oscillation of the price during an up/downward trend which stops
Consolidation formations
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Discussions of flags go back to the classic works on technical analysis by Schabaker and Edwards and Magee. Little progress has been made since then.
The price trend oscillate between two parallel lines and then, again continue it’s previous trend, which looks like a flag.
Flags
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Flags
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It represents a pause in a quick, almost vertical, up or down move in prices. Prices move sideways forming a flag like pattern, break out from that pattern, and then continue in the same direction as before.
Typical Price Action A flag pattern,
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Typical Volume Action Volume is extremely heavy before the flag formation begins. As the pattern develops, volume diminishes to a relatively low level. Finally, volume explodes as prices complete and break out of the flag pattern.
Flags Typical Volume Action Volume
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Frequency of Occurrence Flags appear regularly on daily charts, but because of the short time they take to develop (typically less than four weeks), they are rarely seen on weekly charts, and are nonexistent on monthly charts.
Frequency of Occurrence Flags
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typically appear at the halfway point of an up or down move. Therefore, one can expect prices to move about the same distance after the breakout from the flag pattern as they did just prior to the pattern.
Swing traders should learn to identify the flag because it is a highly reliable pattern with very strong profit potential.
Technical Significance Flags
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If a share’s uptrend started from 10$ and the flag forms on 18$, the investor’s expected price after oscillation will be to increase around 26$.
Technical analysis signal of flags
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Pennants
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have the same characteristics of flags, except that a pennant is formed by converging, rather than parallel, boundary lines. Pennants slant down in uptrends and up in downtrends. As with fl ags, pennant consolidations are characteristic of fast up and down moves in prices.
Typical Price Action Pennants
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Typical Volume Action Volume is extremely heavy before the pennant formation begins. As the pattern develops, volume diminishes to a relatively low level. Finally, volume increases significantly as prices complete and break out of the pennant pattern.
Pennants volume
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Frequency of Occurrence Pennants should take less than four weeks to complete and
break out. Therefore, like flags, they are more identifiable in daily charts than in weekly charts and never appear on monthly charts. They occur most frequently in the last phase of bull markets and in the second stage of bear markets.
Frequency of Occurrence Pennants
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typically appear about midway through an up or down move. Therefore, expect prices to move about the same distance after the breakout from the pennant pattern as they did just prior to the pattern appearing.
Technical Significance Pennants
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Bullish Bearish
HEAD-AND-SHOULDERS CONTINUATIONPATTERNS
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Typical Price Action Head-and-shoulders continuation patterns are inverted relative to the direction of the price trend before they appear.
When prices are trending lower, a head-and-shoulders continuation pattern appears similar to a head-and-shoulders top. (Refer to Lesson 3 for a complete description of head-and-shoulders tops and bottoms.)
In an uptrend, a head-and-shoulders continuation pattern appears like a head-and-shoulders bottom.
Typical Price Action Head-and-shoulders continuation patterns
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volume decreases instead of increasing (as with the head-and-shoulders top) on the left shoulder and head, as well as on the right shoulder. Volume does resemble that of head and- shoulders tops and bottoms on breakout from the continuation patterns; it is relatively heavy.
Typical Volume Action For the head-and-shoulders continuation pattern,
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Frequency of Occurrence Head-and-shoulders continuation patterns occur occasionally.
Technical Significance The measurement characteristics that apply to head-and shoulders tops and bottoms sometimes work with head-and-shoulders continuation patterns, but not with enough regularity to warrant reliance on them.
Technical significance is limited to notation that prices are continuing an uptrend or downtrend upon a breakout from the head-and-shoulders continuation pattern.
Frequency of Occurrence HS continuation patterns
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Typical Price Action Prices swing in a narrowing fashion between downslanting upper and upslanting lower boundary lines that are fairly symmetrical. There must be a minimum of four reversal points in the triangle. A breakout can occur at any time between two-thirds of the way to the apex and the apex.
SYMMETRICAL TRIANGLE
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SYMMETRICAL TRIANGLE
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Volume diminishes as prices approach the apex of the triangle. On a valid upside breakout, volume is heavy; on a valid downside breakout, volume is often light at first and then picks up significantly after a few days.
Beware of upside breakouts on light volume and downside breakouts accompanied by heavy volume. They could be a warning of false moves. (No break out)
Typical Volume Action
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Frequency of Occurrence Symmetrical triangles appear regularly on price charts.
Technical Significance On a valid upside breakout, you can expect prices to continue upward until they reach a line drawn parallel to the lower boundary line. The opposite is true for a valid downside breakout.
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The rectangle is a classical technical analysis pattern described by horizontal lines showing significant support and resistance.
Rectangle Pattern
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Rectangles:
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The area within the lines is also known as a trading area or range.
Rectangles are formed when there is a consistent supply of a security at a certain price and a demand at a certain lower price.
When the price reaches the lower price, the security is purchased, driving up the price until it reaches the upper boundary, and people are ready to sell and drive the price back to the lower boundary. This occurs repeatedly until one side or the other gives way, and the pattern is broken.
A closing price outside the upper- or lower-boundary line suggests the direction of the trend. If the closing price is above the upper-boundary line, the probability is that prices will move higher. On the other hand, if the closing price is below the lower-boundary line, prices are likely to fall.
Rectangle’s Typical Price Action
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Volume action can give a clue as to whether the rectangle formation will ultimately be broken to the upside or downside.
If volume is relatively higher on upward price swings than on moves to the downside, it is likely that the breakout will occur on the upside.
On the other hand, if volume is relatively higher on downward price swings than on moves to the upside, it is likely that there will be a downside breakout of the rectangle
Rectangle’s Typical Volume Action
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Volume and break out point
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If the close price of a share was higher than upper line or lower than bottom line of rectangle, it can be considered as strong probability of up/downtrend respectively.
Rectangle technical Analysis signal
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The following are two basic strategies for trading a rectangle: The first, is to buy at support and sell at resistance (one can
also sell short at resistance and cover the short sale at support). To mitigate risk, in case the stock breaks down from support, a very tight stop can be employed of perhaps 3%. For example, if one bought ImClone at $37.50, the stop-loss would be 3% lower than $37.50 or $1.12. The trader would exit the position if the stock hit $36.38 ($37.50-$1.12).
Second, method to trade the rectangle is to wait for the breakout. As with all technical patterns, this breakout should ideally occur on above-normal volume. To know when to consider exiting the trade, the trader could use the measuring principle described below.
(Learn more about volume in Gauging Support And Resistance With Price By Volume.)
Trading with the Rectangle
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To calculate the minimum target, first establish the height of the pattern. In the case of ImClone Systems Figure shows the calculation as follows:Top: $47.50
Bottom: $37.50 Height: 10.00 points
For a bullish breakout, once the height of the pattern has been established, add the difference to the breakout level.
Since the breakout level is $47.50 and the height 10 points, the minimum target is $57.50. Of course, it may take some time to reach the target, so the trader must be patient. As well, the measuring principle is a statement of probability, not a guarantee. The trader will carefully monitor the technical picture of the stock despite the target.
Rectangular Price Target Measuring
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