RECTANGLE BULLISH CONTINUATION

Every week Tech Charts Global Equity Markets report features some of the well-defined, mature classical chart patterns under a lengthy watchlist and the chart pattern breakout signals that took place during that week. Global Equity Markets report covers single stocks from developed, emerging and frontier markets, ETF’s and global equity indices. The report starts with a review section that highlights the important chart developments on global equity benchmarks. This blog post features from the watchlist section a rectangle chart pattern that is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

SINO BIOPHARMACEUTICAL LTD (1177.HK)

Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited is an investment holding company principally engaged in the medicine products business. The stock is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Price chart formed a 6 month-long rectangle with the horizontal boundary acting as strong resistance at 12.15 levels. The horizontal boundary was tested several times over the course of the chart pattern. A daily close above 12.5 levels will confirm the breakout from the 6 month-long rectangle with the possible chart pattern price target at 14.8 levels. Please note that this is a weekly scale price chart and the last weekly candle includes two days of trading. (Data as of April 21, 2020)

The chart below highlights previous well-defined chart patterns and the breakout signals. It is a good case study to go through what I usually look for on price charts.

  • A bullish chart pattern should complete above the 200-day moving average. Likewise a bearish chart pattern should complete below the 200-day moving average. I use 200-day average as a trend filter.
  • Preferably a well-defined chart pattern should have horizontal boundary and the breakout should take place through the horizontal boundary.
  • Before the breakout takes place, the horizontal boundary should be tested several times. Several tests of chart pattern boundary suggests that the technical level is recognized by market participants.
  • Breakout should be taking place from a low volatility condition. Volatility is cyclical. Low volatility is followed by high volatility and vice versa. A low volatility condition presents itself in one of the well-defined classical chart patterns.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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GLOBAL EQUITY MARKETS – April 18, 2020

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The benchmark for the Global equity markets performance, the iShares MSCI All Country World Index ETF (ACWI.O) recovered above the lower boundary of a possible upward trend channel at 64 levels. Support area between 61-64 area was broken down and now price is above this area. From the lows, the ETF recovered 50% of the decline that started in February. The 200-day moving average is far from the price at 72.6 levels. There is no clear chart pattern development on daily and weekly scale price charts. The ETF is in a downtrend below the 200-day average.

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RECTANGLE BULLISH CONTINUATION

Every week Tech Charts Global Equity Markets report features some of the well-defined, mature classical chart patterns under a lengthy watchlist and the chart pattern breakout signals that took place during that week. Global Equity Markets report covers single stocks from developed, emerging and frontier markets, ETF’s and global equity indices. The report starts with a review section that highlights the important chart developments on global equity benchmarks. This blog post features from the watchlist section a rectangle chart pattern that is listed on U.S. Exchange.

MOLINA HEALTHCARE INC (MOH)

Molina Healthcare, Inc. offers Medicaid-related solutions for low-income families and individuals, and assists government agencies in their administration of the Medicaid program. The stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Price chart formed a 17 month-long rectangle with the horizontal boundary acting as strong resistance at 154.00 levels. The horizontal boundary was tested several times over the course of the chart pattern. The daily close above 158.60 levels confirmed the breakout from the 17 month-long rectangle with the possible chart pattern price target of 203.00 levels. Please note that this is a weekly scale price chart and the last weekly candle includes two days of trading. (Data as of Apr 14, 2020)


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With this knowledge, you can merge them with your investing system. In fact, some investors use my analyses to modify their existing style to invest more efficiently and successfully.

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As a Premium Member of Aksel Kibar’s Tech Charts,

You will receive:

  • Global Equities Report. Delivered weekly.
  • Classical charting principles. Learn patterns and setups.
  • Actionable information. Worldwide indices and stocks of interest.
  • Risk management advice. The important trading points of each chart.
  • Information on breakout opportunities. Identify the ones you want to take action on.
  • Video tutorials. How patterns form and why they succeed or fail.
  • Watch list alerts. As they become available so you can act quickly.
  • Breakout alerts. Usually once a week.
  • Access to everything (now and as it becomes available)
    o Reports
    o Videos and video series
  • Multi-part webinar course. You learn the 8 most common charting principles.
  • Webinars. Actionable and timely advice on breaking out chart patterns.

For your convenience your membership auto renews each year.

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GLOBAL EQUITY MARKETS – April 11, 2020

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The benchmark for the Global equity markets performance, the iShares MSCI All Country World Index ETF (ACWI.O) recovered above the lower boundary of a possible upward trend channel at 64 levels. Support area between 61-64 area was broken down and now price is above this area. From the lows, the ETF recovered 50% of the decline that started in February. The 200-day moving average is far from the price at 72.9 levels. There is no clear chart pattern development on daily and weekly scale price charts. The ETF is in a downtrend below the 200-day average.

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BULLISH FLAG ON MERCK KGAA

Every week Tech Charts Global Equity Markets report features some of the well-defined, mature classical chart patterns under a lengthy watchlist and the chart pattern breakout signals that took place during that week. Global Equity Markets report covers single stocks from developed, emerging and frontier markets, ETF’s and global equity indices. The report starts with a review section that highlights the important chart developments on global equity benchmarks. This blog post features from the watchlist section a bullish flag chart pattern that is listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The short-term bullish consolidation can be utilized for trading opportunity. A link is provided here to learn more about Flag as a measuring pattern.

MERCK KGAA (MRCG.DE)

Merck KGaA is a Germany-based science and technology company. The Company operates in three business segments: Healthcare, Life Sciences and Performance Materials. The stock is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Price chart formed a multi year-long consolidation range with lower boundary acting as strong support at 76.20 levels. The stock rebounded from the support.  Over the past few days MERCK formed a tight consolidation which can be identified as a bullish flag (shown on the daily scale price chart). The upper boundary is at 94 levels. A daily close above 96.8 levels can confirm the short-term bullish continuation with the possible chart pattern price target at 110.4 levels. (Learn more: Flag as a measuring pattern) (Data as of April 6, 2020)


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With this knowledge, you can merge them with your investing system. In fact, some investors use my analyses to modify their existing style to invest more efficiently and successfully.

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As a Premium Member of Aksel Kibar’s Tech Charts,

You will receive:

  • Global Equities Report. Delivered weekly.
  • Classical charting principles. Learn patterns and setups.
  • Actionable information. Worldwide indices and stocks of interest.
  • Risk management advice. The important trading points of each chart.
  • Information on breakout opportunities. Identify the ones you want to take action on.
  • Video tutorials. How patterns form and why they succeed or fail.
  • Watch list alerts. As they become available so you can act quickly.
  • Breakout alerts. Usually once a week.
  • Access to everything (now and as it becomes available)
    o Reports
    o Videos and video series
  • Multi-part webinar course. You learn the 8 most common charting principles.
  • Webinars. Actionable and timely advice on breaking out chart patterns.

For your convenience your membership auto renews each year.

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GLOBAL EQUITY MARKETS – April 4, 2020

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The benchmark for the Global equity markets performance, the iShares MSCI All Country World Index ETF (ACWI.O) found resistance at 64 levels, the lower boundary of a possible upward trend channel. Support area between 61-64 area was broken down and now it is acting as resistance during the rebound. The minor low of 2016 stands as the next support at 49 levels. I will continue to monitor short-term price charts for a possible bottom reversal chart pattern. Patterns I’m looking for are double bottom, rectangle and H&S bottom. A re-test of the lows or another down leg to test 49 levels can offer a short/medium-term bottom opportunity. There is a gap opening between 55.5 and 57.2 levels. I will monitor next week, if any weakness develops, the GAP area as a possible support.

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SUPPORT & RESISTANCE

Every week Tech Charts Global Equity Markets report features some of the well-defined, mature classical chart patterns under a lengthy watchlist and the chart pattern breakout signals that took place during that week. Global Equity Markets report covers single stocks from developed, emerging and frontier markets, ETF’s and global equity indices. The report starts with a review section that highlights the important chart developments on global equity benchmarks. This blog post features from the watchlist section a rectangle chart pattern that is listed on U.S. Exchange. The well-defined range can be utilized for trading opportunity between the boundaries until price experiences a confirmed breakout/breakdown. A link is provided here to learn more about Support and Resistances.

KULICKE AND SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC (KLIC.O)

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells capital equipment and expendable tools used to assemble semiconductor devices, including integrated circuits (ICs), high and low powered discrete devices, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and power modules. The stock is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. Price chart formed a 2 year-long rectangle with the horizontal boundaries acting as strong support at 18.15 levels and resistance at 28.6 levels. Both boundaries were tested several times over the course of the chart pattern. A daily close below 17.6 levels will confirm the breakdown from the 2 year-long rectangle with the possible chart pattern price target of 11.6 levels. Until a breakdown takes place the stock can offer a trading opportunity between the wide range 18.15-28.6. A re-test of the previous low and the support area can form a short-term reversal chart pattern. The daily chart is added below. (Data as of March 27, 2020)


Tech Charts Membership

By becoming a Premium Member, you’ll be able to improve your knowledge of the principles of classical charting.

With this knowledge, you can merge them with your investing system. In fact, some investors use my analyses to modify their existing style to invest more efficiently and successfully.

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As a Premium Member of Aksel Kibar’s Tech Charts,

You will receive:

  • Global Equities Report. Delivered weekly.
  • Classical charting principles. Learn patterns and setups.
  • Actionable information. Worldwide indices and stocks of interest.
  • Risk management advice. The important trading points of each chart.
  • Information on breakout opportunities. Identify the ones you want to take action on.
  • Video tutorials. How patterns form and why they succeed or fail.
  • Watch list alerts. As they become available so you can act quickly.
  • Breakout alerts. Usually once a week.
  • Access to everything (now and as it becomes available)
    o Reports
    o Videos and video series
  • Multi-part webinar course. You learn the 8 most common charting principles.
  • Webinars. Actionable and timely advice on breaking out chart patterns.

For your convenience your membership auto renews each year.

Get Access Now

4 Types of Breakouts – March 2020 Tech Charts Webinar

4 Types of Breakouts – March 2020 Tech Charts Webinar

We are continuing our Member webinar series with a review of 4 types of breakouts. 

Type 1 are breakouts that immediately rally to price target. Type 2 are breakouts that pullback to chart pattern boundary after the breakout but do not challenge the previously broken support/resistance. These two breakouts are relatively easier to manage when compared with the breakouts that experience a hard re-test (penetrating the chart pattern boundary after a breakout) and those that fail (Type 3 & Type 4).

We will review all 4 types of breakouts with recent examples and discuss strategies to manage each condition.

Webinar Outline

  • We will review some of those chart pattern breakouts that rally to their price objective without any pullback
  • We will review some of the breakouts that complete an orderly pullback to chart pattern boundary
  • We will look at some of the breakouts that experience hard re-test and challenge chart pattern boundaries
  • We will review some of the breakouts that failed off of the starting gate.
  • We will have a member Q&A at the end of the webinar.

Live questions from Members  

  1. I know you’re a classical market technician, but with such a severe one-sided breakdown, are you ever tempted to trade something for a pullback even though you don’t have a classical pattern? 36:21
  2. Does the speed with which a pattern breakout achieves the target price indicate that you should let the trade run? 37:24
  3. Can you find signs in the chart that could indicate what type of breakout is going to occur? 38:02
  4. Do you reduce your position sizing (i.e., instead of 1% risk per trade, 0.50% risk) during extended volatility like we’re seeing? 39:42
  5. Can you explain how to calculate the trailing stop loss again? 40:10
    1. Additional links ATR Trailing Stop-Loss – H&S Top & ATR plug-in
  6. How do you incorporate sentiment measures (COT DSI etc.) into your decision making? 40:48  
  7. Do you think that in market conditions such as these, the probability of a failed chart occurring is higher? 41:02
  8. Do you ever circumvent your ATR trailing stop and place it below a newly formed chart pattern negation level that’s above the initial entry position? 42:32
  9. I noticed that on one trade, you placed an SL at the bottom of a gap, but on another, you placed it at the top of a GAP. Do you have rules for deciding this? 43:50
  10. Is it possible to use this method for long term investing? If yes, would you use the same trailing method? 45:13
  11. Can the ATR stop rule be implemented in a trading platform? 46:19
  12. How do you determine your ATR length and multiplier number? Is it historical chart based and specific to a specific chart? Are commodities different than stock charts? 47:13
  13. As volatility during the day can be larger, have you used one ATR multiple for intra-bar & a lesser ATR multiple near the close, whereby one cancels the other OCO? 49:20
  14. Over the years, the ratio between reversal patterns vs. continuation patterns? Do you cap that ratio, or you let the patterns dictate what you have currently? 50:08
  15. Do you always trade long? Never short? 51:13

Recorded live 03.26.2020 

 
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GLOBAL EQUITY MARKETS – March 28, 2020

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The benchmark for the Global equity markets performance, the iShares MSCI All Country World Index ETF (ACWI.O) had a sharp rebound. 61 levels was the low that was recorded in late 2018. 64 levels is the lower boundary of a possible upward trend channel. Support area between 61-64 area was broken down and now it is acting as resistance during the rebound. The minor low of 2016 stands as the next support at 49 levels. I will continue to monitor short-term price charts for a possible bottom reversal chart pattern. Patterns I’m looking for are double bottom, rectangle and H&S bottom. A re-test of the lows or another down leg to test 49 levels can offer a short/medium-term bottom opportunity.

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Live Webinar and Q&A with Aksel – Thursday, March 26, 8:30 am mountain

Dear Tech Charts Members,

We are continuing our Member webinar series with a review of 4 types of breakouts. Type 1 are breakouts that immediately rally to price target. Type 2 are breakouts that pullback to chart pattern boundary after the breakout but do not challenge the previously broken support/resistance. These two breakouts are relatively easier to manage when compared with the breakouts that experience a hard re-test (penetrating the chart pattern boundary after a breakout) and those that fail (Type 3 & Type 4).

We will review all 4 types of breakouts with recent examples and discuss strategies to manage each condition.

Scheduled for: Thursday, March 26th, 8:30 am mountain  (register below)

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