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Chart Patterns

Flag or Pennant

Pattern Description:

A flag or pennant is a continuation pattern which portrays a period of consolidation in the market before resumption of the original trend. They can be observed in both rising and falling markets. A rise in volume should be observed at the breakout point. If this is not the case then the move is likely to falter.

The science of herd mentality

The tendency to follow the herd emerges from our social brain networks, explained by Michael Platt, neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania.

Detecting deterministic dynamics in stock prices

by Tim Straiton

It may appear odd to many investors, but stocks that are less volatile than their counterparts have historically produced comparable or better returns. However our analysis of stocks which display long periods of deterministic dynamics perform much better than those which tend to trend sideways over long periods. We have applied the MACD-V indicator from Alex Spiroglou to scan the S&P500 stocks over 100 days. We wanted to see how many days constituent stocks traded outside the...

Broadcom - a remarkable change in sentiment.

2026-04-16 by Tim Straiton

Broadcom Inc.(AVGO) is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets.This stock isn’t cheap, trading at a forward P/E of 33.41x against a group average of 22.84x. It holds strong positions with major AI players (Google, Meta, OpenAI), which is supportive for the stock price.

The current technical view reveals a strong case of FOMO. The previous six daily closes landed all above the upside Bollinger band, the 14 day relative strength index is at an overbought level of 77% and the choppiness index is at an extreme low level of 29. A phase of bullish exhaustion could well be close at hand.

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