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1. THE THEORY Some call it head and shoulders pattern and others call it king's crown. Whatever the name may be this candlestick pattern is a very significant bearish reversal pattern. In the figure below, consider an uptrend represented by a solid line that passes through points 1, 3, 5...
This Is the Troubling Future of High-Frequency Trading - The Financial Times reported yesterday that high-frequency traders are leaving investment banks for hedge funds, prop trading houses, and their own startups...
The Financial Times reported yesterday that high-frequency traders are leaving investment banks for hedge funds, prop trading houses, and their own startups. Oh, you didn't realize that regular, Too Big to Fail investment banks had high-frequency trading desks? Surprise, surprise, surprise...
One of the basic foundation of technical analysis is that prices move in trends. The corollary to this premise states a trend in motion is more likely to continue until it reverses. So as long as the trend is intact, trendlines could be used as a buying and selling areas...
Flats (3-3-5) A flat correction differs from a zigzag in that the subwave sequence is 3-3-5, as shown in Figures 1-29 and 1-30...
Once you have mastered the prior statistical and time-series based texts you will be ready to try your hand at the modern research literature. Depending upon your affiliation, you may or may not be able to access some of the top financial and econometric journals...
The miserable trading conditions in USDJPY are probably explained by its long term Elliott wave position. That is, the rate has been mired in a corrective 4th wave all year. The good news is that wave 4 probably ends soon. Keep focused on the Elliott channel...
NZDUSD Technical Strategy: Sidelines Preferred Hammer May Fail To Sustain Upside Momentum Selling Pressure Looms Overhead At 0.8530 NZDUSD is back above the 0.8460 mark may fail to find follow-through with a Hammer formation lacking confirmation at this stage...
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1) Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews - Timothy Falcon Crack Heard on the Street is a classic Wall Street interview Q&A book. Many of the questions you will hear in real interviews will have been "borrowed" or modified from this book...
The Bearish Engulfing Candlestick is a powerful bearish reversal candle pattern. The Bearish Engulfing Candlestick Pattern is a bearish reversal pattern, usually occuring at the top of an uptrend...
After flirting with the line that extends off of the 2011 and 2012 lows for 3 weeks, the US Dollar found legs and trades just shy of the 50% retracement of the year’s range and 200 SMA...
CANDLESTICK REVERSAL PATTERNS A candlestick reversal pattern indicate a reversal of the trend. In order for this candlestick chart pattern to work beautifully, the prior market trend must be identified as either bullish or bearish...
Zigzags A single zigzag in a bull market is a simple three-wave declining pattern labeled A-B-C. The subwave sequence is 5-3-5, and the top of wave B is noticeably lower than the start of wave A, as illustrated in Figures 1-22 and 1-23...
Corrective Waves Markets move against the trend of one greater degree only with a seeming struggle. Resistance from the larger trend appears to prevent a correction from developing a full motive structure...
The Head and Shoulders Chart Pattern is the easiest to recognize patterns. It’s classically known as a Reversal Top Pattern, though the less common “Inverted” Head and Shoulders Pattern is known as a Bottom Reversal Pattern...
The Double Top and Double Bottom patterns are quite common and easily recognizable chart patterns which occur on all timeframes and in all markets. Let’s take a closer look at this classic reversal pattern...
