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How to trade Uptrend, How to trade down trend, sideways, sell on the news, How to draw trendline, Head and Shoulder Pattern, Left Shoulder, Right Shoulder

Course: [ Profitable Chart Patterns in Stock markets : Chapter 4. Head and Shoulders Pattern ]

Let us emphasize here what we suggested at the beginning —that the term "Head and Shoulders” is a pretty abstract and highly imaginary title for a pattern of market behavior. As with all other patterns of behavior involving people and many other unpredictable elements, chart configurations do not follow a rigid formula.

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Let us emphasize here what we suggested at the beginning —that the term "Head and Shoulders” is a pretty abstract and highly imaginary title for a pattern of market behavior. As with all other patterns of behavior involving people and many other unpredictable elements, chart configurations do not follow a rigid formula. Sometimes the Head is not a point, or a curve, but a flat-top, representing a "sideways congestion range.” Sometimes the shoulders are deformed: one does not appear to balance the other. And sometimes, Complex Head and Shoulders take form, which is to say that a small pattern is contained within a larger one, or that there are two left shoulders, two heads and two right shoulders. This need not frighten a public that pays fortunes for paintings by Picasso. (For the chart variety, see Figure 19.)

In spite of such variations, the alert chart reader should be able to detect in many actual market charts behavior that is basically similar to that of the classic Plead and Shoulders we described earlier. If this similarity is there, it will serve as an indicator of a probable reversal in trend.





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