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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Chart Patterns (Continuation)

In this article we’re going to have a look at continuation patterns. These are in contrast to the reversal patterns we’ve already treated in a previous blog post here. My main source is the comprehensive Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John J. Murphy (purchase here in association with FuturesTechs).
As the name suggests, continuation patterns imply that the …

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Weekly Round up – 19th October

Every week we send out a weekly round up e-mail to our database, and we figured it would probably be useful to post it here as well, so here goes!
FuturesTechs Weekly Round up – 19th October.
Here is your latest roundup of price movements on the major asset classes in the Investment arena. As regular readers will …

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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Chart Patterns (Reversal)

One of the premises of tecnical analysis is that price patterns tend to repeat themselves. But what are these patterns? Today, we’re going to lookat reversal patterns, i.e. where a change of trend is indicated.
Perhaps the most famous of these is the Head and Shoulders pattern.

Here is the Dow weekly candlestick chart, showing how this topped out …

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