Chart Formation

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Definition of 'Chart Formation'

A graphical depiction of a stock's price movements over time. Technical analysts use chart formations to identify trends in a stock's price and to help them decide whether and when to buy and sell - that is, to determine entry and exit points. Technical analysts also use chart formations to decide where to place initial and trailing stops.
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Investopedia explains 'Chart Formation'

Types of chart formations include the head and shoulders pattern, which is used to identify trend reversals; the inverse saucer or rounded top, which indicates a peak in a stock's price; the triangle, which indicates the reversal or continuation of a trend and the double-bottom formation, which investors use to identify potential upside targets.
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'Chart Formation'

  • Analyzing Chart Patterns: Head And Shoulders | Investopedia

    http://www.investopedia.com/university/charts/charts2.asp
    ... This move back to the previous high creates the neckline for this chart pattern.
    The third step is the formation of the right shoulder, which sees a sell-off ...

  • Introducing The Bearish Diamond Formation

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/05/DiamondBear.asp
    ... Figure 5 - A different example of a diamond top formation using the EUR/JPY
    cross-currency pair. This chart shows all the trendlines, the highest and the ...

  • The Rectangle Formation

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/08/rectangle-formation.asp
    ... nature of the formation. In an uptrend or downtrend, the 30-week MA will slope up
    or down, not sideways. Note how in the early stages of the chart it sloped ...

  • Technical Analysis: Chart Patterns | Investopedia

    http://www.investopedia.com/university/technical/techanalysis8.asp
    ... Chad Langager and Casey Murphy A chart pattern is a distinct formation on a stock
    chart that creates a trading signal, or a sign of future price movements. ...

  • Most Commonly Used Forex Chart Patterns

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/11/most-used-forex-patterns.asp
    ... of chart patterns of varying complexity, there are two common chart patterns which ...
    Head and Shoulders (H&S) The H&S pattern can be a topping formation after an ...

  • Analyzing Chart Patterns: Cup And Handle | Investopedia

    http://www.investopedia.com/university/charts/charts3.asp
    ... com A cup-and-handle pattern resembles the shape of a tea cup on a chart. ... First,
    it's important that there is an upward trend before the formation of the cup ...

  • Backspreads: Good News For Breakout Traders

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/05/backspreads.asp
    ... wrinkles. As you can see in Figure 1, the stock has a cup and handle technical
    chart formation, with a breakout occurring on Aug. 10. ...

  • Analyzing Chart Patterns: Triangles | Investopedia

    http://www.investopedia.com/university/charts/charts5.asp
    ... The basic construct of this chart pattern is the convergence of two trendlines -
    flat ... The two trendlines in the formation of this triangle should have a similar ...

  • Gauging Support And Resistance With Price By Volume

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/06/PBVChart.asp
    ... volume, see Volume Oscillator Confirms Price Movements, Volume Rate of Change and
    Gauging The Market's Psychological State.) Trendlines, chart patterns, pivot ...

  • Tales From The Trenches: Volume Confirmed Broadening Pattern

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/07/broadening_pattern.asp
    ... pattern. Trade Recap The chart below shows an example of the broadening
    formation, considered normally to be a bearish formation. ...

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