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Dr . Manish Dadhich
PhD, M.Com, NET
MBA, NET, SET
Technical Analysis (Content)
 Introduction
 Explain stock price movement (Dow theory)
 Technical analysis
 Technical Vs Fundamental Analysis
 Advantages of Technical Analysis
 Challenges to Technical Analysis
Introduction
 Two major types of analysis for predicting
the performance of a company’s stock
 fundamental
 technical
 Fundamental
 The movement in share prices are analyzed
on the basis of economic, industry and
company statistics.
 If price of a share is lower than intrinsic
value, investor buys and vice versa.
Technical Analysis (assumptions)
 Process of identifying trend reversals at an
early stage to formulate the buying and
selling strategy.
 To analyze the stochastic nature of data.
 Analyze Price-volume, demand-supply for the
overall market.
 Interactions of D-S determine the market
value of scrip.
 The market always moves in a trend.
 History repeat itself and also true about the
stock.
Cont’d Technical Analysis?
 Method of evaluating securities by
analyzing statistics generated by
 Market activity
 Past Prices
 Volume
 Do not attempt to measure intrinsic
value.
 Bird eyes for patterns and indicators on
charts to determine future performance.
What is Technical Analysis?
 Technicians believe
that securities move
in very predictable
trends and patterns
 Trends continue until
something happens to
change the trend
 Until that change
takes place, price
levels are predictable
History and Background
 Technical analysis is, perhaps, the oldest form of
security analysis. It is believed that the first
technical analysis occurred in 17th century Japan,
where analysts used charts to plot price changes in
rice.
 Indeed, many present-day Japanese analysts still
rely on technical analysis. which is the second
largest in the world. In the United States, technical
analysis has been used for more than 100 years
Technical Analysis vs. Fundamental Analysis
 Technical analysis involves the development of
trading rules based on past price and volume
data for individual stocks and the overall stock
market.
 Fundamental analysis involves economic,
industry, and company analysis that lead to
valuation estimates for companies, which can
then be compared to market prices to aid in
investment decisions.
Advantages of Technical Analysis
 Unlike fundamental analysis, technical analysis
is not heavily dependent on financial accounting
statements
 Problems with accounting statements:
1. Lack information needed by security
analysts.
2. Many psychological and other non-
quantifiable factors do not show up in
financial statements.
Advantages of Technical Analysis
3.Fundamental analyst must process new
information and quickly determine a new
intrinsic value, but technical analyst merely has
to recognize a movement to a new equilibrium.
4.Technicians trade when a move to a new
equilibrium is underway but a fundamental
analyst finds undervalued securities that may
not adjust to “correct” prices as quickly
Challenges to Technical Analysis
 Challenges to basic assumptions
 Empirical tests of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)
show that prices do not move in trends.
 Challenges to technical trading rules
 Rules that worked in the past may not be repeated.
 Patterns may become self-fulfilling prophecy.
 A successful rule will gain followers henceforth
become less successful.
 Rules all require subjective judgment.
Dow Theory
 Explain the movement of the indices.
 He develops 3 hypotheses
I- No single individual or buyer can influence the
primary trend of market
II- Market discounts everything e.g. Natural
calamities etc.
III- the theory in not infallible.
 Market has three movements:
 Primary- Upward or downward movement for a
year or two.
 Intermediate- corrective movement, 3-4 weeks.
 Short-term- day to day movement, fluctuation.
Dow Theory
Revival of
Market
Confidence
Phase -1
B1
B2
T1
T2
T3
Good Corporate
Earnings
Phase -2
Speculation
Phase -3
PEAK
●
●
BULL MARKET
P
RI
C
E
Days
Dow Theory
Falling trend line
Flat trend line
Rising trend line
Trend Line
Days
P
R
I
C
E
X
Y
Types of Charts
 Bar Chart
 Line Chart
 Candle Stick Charting
 Point and Figure Chart
The Bar Chart
The Bar Chart
 Some of the most
popular type of
charts
 Advantage is that it
show the high, low,
open and close for
each day
full Technical Analysis is explained.ppt
Candle Stick Charting
Candle Stick Charting
 Green is an example
of a bullish pattern,
the stock opened at
(or near) its low and
closed near its high
 Red is an example of
a bearish pattern.
The stock opened at
(or near) its high and
dropped substantially
to close near its low
Point and Figure Chart
 Somewhat rare in nature.
 Plots day-to-day increases and declines in price.
 A rising stack of XXXX’s represents increases
 A rising stack of OOOO’s represents decreases.
 Typically used for intraday charting.
 If used for multi-day study, only closing prices
will be used.
Point and Figure Chart
Point and Figure Chart
 Helps to filter out less-significant price
movements allowing analyst to focus on most
important trends.
 Used to keep track of emerging price patterns
 No time dimension
 Two attributes affecting the appearance of a
point & figure chart
 Box size
 Reversal amount
Technical Indicators
 There are, literally, hundreds of technical
indicators used to generate buy and sell signals.
 We will look at just a few that I use:
 Relative Strength Index (RSI)
 On Balance Volume
 Bollinger Bands
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
 A comparison between the days a stock finishes
up against the days it finishes down.
 Big tool with momentum trading
 Ranges from 0 to 100
 Stock considered overbought around the 70 level
 Stock considered oversold around 30
 The shorter the number of days used to
calculate the more volatile.
full Technical Analysis is explained.ppt
On Balance Volume
 On Balance Volume was developed by Joseph
Granville, one of the most famous technicians of
the 1960’s and 1970’s.
 OBV is calculated by adding volume on up days,
and subtracting volume on down days.
A running total is kept.
On Balance Volume
 Granville believed that “volume leads
price.”
 To use OBV, you generally look for OBV to
show a change in trend (a divergence from
the price trend).
 If the stock is in an uptrend, but OBV turns
down, that is a signal that the price trend
may soon reverse.
Bollinger Bands
 Bollinger bands were created by John Bollinger.
 Bollinger Bands are based on a moving average of
the closing price.
 They are two standard deviations above and below
the moving average.
 A buys signal is given when the stock price closes
below the lower band, and a sell signal is given
when the stock price closes above the upper band.
 In my experience, the buy signals are far more
reliable than the sell signals.
Resistance and Support
 Price levels at which movement should stop and
reverse direction.
 Act as floor and ceiling
 Different strengths (major and minor)
 Support
 Price level below the current market price at which
buying interest should be able to overcome selling
pressure and thus keep the price from going any
lower
Resistance and Support
 Resistance
 Price level above the current market price, at which
selling pressure should be strong enough to overcome
buying pressure and thus keep the price from going
any higher
Resistance
Support
Resistance/
Support
Head and Shoulders
 Resembles an “M” in which a stock’s price
 Rises to a peak and then declines, then
 Rises above the former peak and again declines, and
then
 Rises again but not the second peak and again
declines
 The first and third peaks are shoulders, and the
second peak forms the head.
 Very bearish indicator.
full Technical Analysis is explained.ppt
Double Bottom
 Occurs when a stock price drops to a similar
price level twice within a few weeks or months
 The double-bottom pattern resembles a “W”
 Buy when the price passes the highest point in
the handle.
 In a perfect double bottom, the second decline
should normally go slightly lower than the first
decline to create a shakeout of jittery investors.
 The middle point of the “W” should not go into
new high ground.
 This is a very bullish indicator.
full Technical Analysis is explained.ppt
Double Tops and Bottoms
 Similar to the H&S
formations, but there
is no head.
Target
Double Top
Double Bottom
Target
Source:
Double Bottom Example
Source: www.stockcharts.com
Triangles
 Triangles are
continuation
formations.
 Three flavors:
 Ascending
 Descending
 Symmetrical
Ascending
Descending
Symmetrical
Symmetrical
Source:
Resistance
Level
Support Level
DJIA Oct 2000 to Oct 2001 Example
Double bottom
Nov to Mar
Trading range
Descending
triangles
Source: www.stockcharts.com
Support Level
Triangles
Flags and Pennants
Elliot Wave Theory
 Ralph Nelson Elliot gave this theory in 1920.
 Elliot stated that stock market moves in repetitive cycles
Impulse and Corrective Patterns
 The impulse pattern consists of five waves, the
five waves can be in either direction, up or
down
 Corrective patterns can be grouped into two
different categories:
• Simple Correction( Zig-Zag )
• Complex correction (Flat, Irregular,
Triangle)
Fractal Structure
 The structures Elliott described meet the common
definition of a fractal ( self-similar patterns appearing
at every degree of trend)
 Elliott Wave patterns that show up on long term charts
are identical to, and will also show up on short term
charts
Fractal Structure
Exercise
 Find out the bond price of the year 2014 of XYZ
company listed with Tel Aviv Stock Exchange with
least square method.
Yea
r
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Bon
d
Pric
e
20 25 30 35 40 45 ?
Exercise
 Find out the bond price of XYZ company
listed with Nikkei 225 TOPIX of the year
2014 with least square method.
Yea
r
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Bon
d
Pric
e
20 25 27 35 38 41 ?
Year
X
Production
Y
X
X2 XY Y=a+bx
2008 20 -2.5 6.25 -50
2009 25 -1.5 2.25 -37.5
2010 27 -.05 0.25 -13.5
2011 35 .05 0.25 17.5
2012 38 +1.5 2.25 57
2013 41 +1.5 6.25 10.5
N=6 ∑Y= 186 ∑X =0 ∑X2=17.5 ∑XY= 76
a= Y/N
∑ 31
b= XY/ X2
∑ ∑ 4.34
(2014) Y= 31+4.34X 31+4.34x2.5 41.85
Conclusion
 Technical analysis is a particular approach to
investing that will appeal to some investors and not
to others.
 Whereas most investors concentrate on the
fundamentals of a company (turnover, profits,
growth etc), technical analysts are concerned with
the share price itself.
 They believe that prices are driven by the
psychology of investors rather than fundamentals.
By understanding investor psychology, they can
predict which way prices will move.
full Technical Analysis is explained.ppt

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full Technical Analysis is explained.ppt

  • 1. Dr . Manish Dadhich PhD, M.Com, NET MBA, NET, SET
  • 2. Technical Analysis (Content)  Introduction  Explain stock price movement (Dow theory)  Technical analysis  Technical Vs Fundamental Analysis  Advantages of Technical Analysis  Challenges to Technical Analysis
  • 3. Introduction  Two major types of analysis for predicting the performance of a company’s stock  fundamental  technical  Fundamental  The movement in share prices are analyzed on the basis of economic, industry and company statistics.  If price of a share is lower than intrinsic value, investor buys and vice versa.
  • 4. Technical Analysis (assumptions)  Process of identifying trend reversals at an early stage to formulate the buying and selling strategy.  To analyze the stochastic nature of data.  Analyze Price-volume, demand-supply for the overall market.  Interactions of D-S determine the market value of scrip.  The market always moves in a trend.  History repeat itself and also true about the stock.
  • 5. Cont’d Technical Analysis?  Method of evaluating securities by analyzing statistics generated by  Market activity  Past Prices  Volume  Do not attempt to measure intrinsic value.  Bird eyes for patterns and indicators on charts to determine future performance.
  • 6. What is Technical Analysis?  Technicians believe that securities move in very predictable trends and patterns  Trends continue until something happens to change the trend  Until that change takes place, price levels are predictable
  • 7. History and Background  Technical analysis is, perhaps, the oldest form of security analysis. It is believed that the first technical analysis occurred in 17th century Japan, where analysts used charts to plot price changes in rice.  Indeed, many present-day Japanese analysts still rely on technical analysis. which is the second largest in the world. In the United States, technical analysis has been used for more than 100 years
  • 8. Technical Analysis vs. Fundamental Analysis  Technical analysis involves the development of trading rules based on past price and volume data for individual stocks and the overall stock market.  Fundamental analysis involves economic, industry, and company analysis that lead to valuation estimates for companies, which can then be compared to market prices to aid in investment decisions.
  • 9. Advantages of Technical Analysis  Unlike fundamental analysis, technical analysis is not heavily dependent on financial accounting statements  Problems with accounting statements: 1. Lack information needed by security analysts. 2. Many psychological and other non- quantifiable factors do not show up in financial statements.
  • 10. Advantages of Technical Analysis 3.Fundamental analyst must process new information and quickly determine a new intrinsic value, but technical analyst merely has to recognize a movement to a new equilibrium. 4.Technicians trade when a move to a new equilibrium is underway but a fundamental analyst finds undervalued securities that may not adjust to “correct” prices as quickly
  • 11. Challenges to Technical Analysis  Challenges to basic assumptions  Empirical tests of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) show that prices do not move in trends.  Challenges to technical trading rules  Rules that worked in the past may not be repeated.  Patterns may become self-fulfilling prophecy.  A successful rule will gain followers henceforth become less successful.  Rules all require subjective judgment.
  • 12. Dow Theory  Explain the movement of the indices.  He develops 3 hypotheses I- No single individual or buyer can influence the primary trend of market II- Market discounts everything e.g. Natural calamities etc. III- the theory in not infallible.  Market has three movements:  Primary- Upward or downward movement for a year or two.  Intermediate- corrective movement, 3-4 weeks.  Short-term- day to day movement, fluctuation.
  • 13. Dow Theory Revival of Market Confidence Phase -1 B1 B2 T1 T2 T3 Good Corporate Earnings Phase -2 Speculation Phase -3 PEAK ● ● BULL MARKET P RI C E Days
  • 14. Dow Theory Falling trend line Flat trend line Rising trend line Trend Line Days P R I C E X Y
  • 15. Types of Charts  Bar Chart  Line Chart  Candle Stick Charting  Point and Figure Chart
  • 17. The Bar Chart  Some of the most popular type of charts  Advantage is that it show the high, low, open and close for each day
  • 20. Candle Stick Charting  Green is an example of a bullish pattern, the stock opened at (or near) its low and closed near its high  Red is an example of a bearish pattern. The stock opened at (or near) its high and dropped substantially to close near its low
  • 21. Point and Figure Chart  Somewhat rare in nature.  Plots day-to-day increases and declines in price.  A rising stack of XXXX’s represents increases  A rising stack of OOOO’s represents decreases.  Typically used for intraday charting.  If used for multi-day study, only closing prices will be used.
  • 23. Point and Figure Chart  Helps to filter out less-significant price movements allowing analyst to focus on most important trends.  Used to keep track of emerging price patterns  No time dimension  Two attributes affecting the appearance of a point & figure chart  Box size  Reversal amount
  • 24. Technical Indicators  There are, literally, hundreds of technical indicators used to generate buy and sell signals.  We will look at just a few that I use:  Relative Strength Index (RSI)  On Balance Volume  Bollinger Bands
  • 25. Relative Strength Index (RSI)  A comparison between the days a stock finishes up against the days it finishes down.  Big tool with momentum trading  Ranges from 0 to 100  Stock considered overbought around the 70 level  Stock considered oversold around 30  The shorter the number of days used to calculate the more volatile.
  • 27. On Balance Volume  On Balance Volume was developed by Joseph Granville, one of the most famous technicians of the 1960’s and 1970’s.  OBV is calculated by adding volume on up days, and subtracting volume on down days. A running total is kept.
  • 28. On Balance Volume  Granville believed that “volume leads price.”  To use OBV, you generally look for OBV to show a change in trend (a divergence from the price trend).  If the stock is in an uptrend, but OBV turns down, that is a signal that the price trend may soon reverse.
  • 29. Bollinger Bands  Bollinger bands were created by John Bollinger.  Bollinger Bands are based on a moving average of the closing price.  They are two standard deviations above and below the moving average.  A buys signal is given when the stock price closes below the lower band, and a sell signal is given when the stock price closes above the upper band.  In my experience, the buy signals are far more reliable than the sell signals.
  • 30. Resistance and Support  Price levels at which movement should stop and reverse direction.  Act as floor and ceiling  Different strengths (major and minor)  Support  Price level below the current market price at which buying interest should be able to overcome selling pressure and thus keep the price from going any lower
  • 31. Resistance and Support  Resistance  Price level above the current market price, at which selling pressure should be strong enough to overcome buying pressure and thus keep the price from going any higher
  • 33. Head and Shoulders  Resembles an “M” in which a stock’s price  Rises to a peak and then declines, then  Rises above the former peak and again declines, and then  Rises again but not the second peak and again declines  The first and third peaks are shoulders, and the second peak forms the head.  Very bearish indicator.
  • 35. Double Bottom  Occurs when a stock price drops to a similar price level twice within a few weeks or months  The double-bottom pattern resembles a “W”  Buy when the price passes the highest point in the handle.  In a perfect double bottom, the second decline should normally go slightly lower than the first decline to create a shakeout of jittery investors.  The middle point of the “W” should not go into new high ground.  This is a very bullish indicator.
  • 37. Double Tops and Bottoms  Similar to the H&S formations, but there is no head. Target Double Top Double Bottom Target Source:
  • 38. Double Bottom Example Source: www.stockcharts.com
  • 39. Triangles  Triangles are continuation formations.  Three flavors:  Ascending  Descending  Symmetrical Ascending Descending Symmetrical Symmetrical Source: Resistance Level Support Level
  • 40. DJIA Oct 2000 to Oct 2001 Example Double bottom Nov to Mar Trading range Descending triangles Source: www.stockcharts.com Support Level
  • 43. Elliot Wave Theory  Ralph Nelson Elliot gave this theory in 1920.  Elliot stated that stock market moves in repetitive cycles
  • 44. Impulse and Corrective Patterns  The impulse pattern consists of five waves, the five waves can be in either direction, up or down  Corrective patterns can be grouped into two different categories: • Simple Correction( Zig-Zag ) • Complex correction (Flat, Irregular, Triangle)
  • 45. Fractal Structure  The structures Elliott described meet the common definition of a fractal ( self-similar patterns appearing at every degree of trend)  Elliott Wave patterns that show up on long term charts are identical to, and will also show up on short term charts
  • 47. Exercise  Find out the bond price of the year 2014 of XYZ company listed with Tel Aviv Stock Exchange with least square method. Yea r 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Bon d Pric e 20 25 30 35 40 45 ?
  • 48. Exercise  Find out the bond price of XYZ company listed with Nikkei 225 TOPIX of the year 2014 with least square method. Yea r 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Bon d Pric e 20 25 27 35 38 41 ?
  • 49. Year X Production Y X X2 XY Y=a+bx 2008 20 -2.5 6.25 -50 2009 25 -1.5 2.25 -37.5 2010 27 -.05 0.25 -13.5 2011 35 .05 0.25 17.5 2012 38 +1.5 2.25 57 2013 41 +1.5 6.25 10.5 N=6 ∑Y= 186 ∑X =0 ∑X2=17.5 ∑XY= 76 a= Y/N ∑ 31 b= XY/ X2 ∑ ∑ 4.34 (2014) Y= 31+4.34X 31+4.34x2.5 41.85
  • 50. Conclusion  Technical analysis is a particular approach to investing that will appeal to some investors and not to others.  Whereas most investors concentrate on the fundamentals of a company (turnover, profits, growth etc), technical analysts are concerned with the share price itself.  They believe that prices are driven by the psychology of investors rather than fundamentals. By understanding investor psychology, they can predict which way prices will move.

Editor's Notes

  • #37: Another indicator is the double tops and double bottoms and it is similar to the H&S formation without the head.
  • #38: Double bottom followed by a change in the trend
  • #39: Triangles fall under the category of continuation patterns. As you can see the ascending triangle is used to make bullish calls and vice versa. You also have the symmetrical triangles where the support or resistance level is slanted.
  • #40: You could see a trading range from November 2000 to March 2001 and you know it’s going to break out one way or the other and in this case, it broke out to the downside meaning a bearish signal. A double bottom formation in mid-March to early April which gives a buy signal especially when the second bottom is higher than the previous bottom. Some investors wait until the price breaks out of the previous support level for a double confirmation before entering the trade. A Descending Triangles between May and June and July-August which gives a bearish signal.