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Delivering technical research of the financial markets
and offering professional guidance for those who wish to improve their trading performance.

Chart Patterns

Descending triangle

Pattern Description:

The descending triangle is a bearish formation that usually forms during a downtrend as a continuation pattern and indicates distribution. Once the horizontal line has been broken, the downside target should correspond to the height of the triangle, projected below the horizontal support line. While this pattern is in the process of formation, volume tends to be low but rises substantially on a break of the support line.
Descending triangle

Featured Video

Trading with MACD on MetaStock

This video is a brief tutorial about what the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is and how to use in in MetaStock Software. The presentation is given by Kevin Nelson a former employee of MetaStock who now heads up his own training firm called BreakAway training.

Featured Article

How a Simple Line Can Improve Your Trading Success

by Elliott Wave International
"How to draw a trendline" is one of the first things people learn when they study technical analysis. Typically, they quickly move on to more advanced topics and too often discard this simplest of all technical tools. Yet you’d be amazed at the value a simple line can offer when you analyze a market. As Jeffrey Kennedy, Elliott Wave International’s Chief Commodity Analyst, puts it: “A trendline represents the psychology of the market, specifically, the psychology...
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Technical Review

General Motors - Time to take profits?

2026-01-05 by Tim Straiton

General Motors Company is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning and manufacturing four automobile brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac, each a separate division of GM. By total sales, it has continuously been the largest automaker in the United States, and was the largest in the world for 77 years before losing the title to Toyota in 2008. The current price of GM as of 2nd January 2026 is $81.32 and well above its 40 week rising moving average of 58.63.

Although the performance of this stock has been outstanding over the past two years, the technical picture suggests that we are entering a phase of bullish exhaustion. The choppiness index stands around the panic area of 30 and the MACD-V indicator is at +204, the highest level for the past 5 years. The 14 week relative strength index is at an overbought level of 82%. The Fibonacci 38.2% upside projection target price of $87.41, based on the $ 14.325 to $67.21 range traded between March 2020 and January 2022 can be regarded as an excellent level to take profits on long positions.


Disclaimer

Our opinions are not a recommendation to buy or sell a security. Your decision whether or not to open a transaction should be based on your own due diligence and not on any representation we make to you.

Featured Site

IFTA

Site Description:

The International Federation of Technical Analysts
http://www.ifta.org/