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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

Cup and Handle

Pattern Description:

The Cup and Handle is a bullish continuation pattern that marks a consolidation period followed by a breakout. The cup is in the shape of a "U" and the handle has a slight downward drift. The right-hand side of the pattern has low trading volume. It can be as short as seven weeks and as long as 65 weeks. As the stock comes up to test the old highs, the stock will incur selling pressure by the people who bought at or near the old high. This selling pressure will make the stock price trade sideways with a tendency towards a downtrend for four days to four weeks... then it takes off.

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.

How to Take a Loss

by Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D.

There are quite a few books written on how to make money in the market. Some of them are even written by people who have made money as traders! What you don’t see often, however, are books or articles written on how to lose money. “Cut your losers and let your winners run” is commonsensical advice, but how do you determine when a position is a loser? Interestingly, most traders I have seen don’t formulate an answer to this question when they put on a position. They focus on the entry,...

Royal Bank of Canada - the air is getting thin up here.

2026-01-23 by Tim Straiton

Current price is $168.86 and 15% above its 40 week moving average. There are a number of reasons why one should look to secure profits on long positions here.

The weekly choppiness index at 33 suggests that a bout of panic buying or short covering has recently taken place. Furthermore, the MACD-V level of +224 stands at a multi-year high. The Fibonacci 78.6% upside projection target of $174.32, based on the $49.55 to $119.41 range traded between March 2020 and January 2022 has recently been reached and rejected.

Disclaimer

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Featured Site

The Stock Trading Reality Podcast by ClayTrader

Site Description:

It is designed to educate investors of all experience levels. We interview real traders, discuss their trading journey, and lessons they learned along th e way, both positive and negative.