Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

The market's bestselling and most comprehensive reference on chart patterns, backed by statistics and decades of experience When the smart money trades the securities markets, they leave behind financial footprints. Combine enough footprints together and you have a trail to follow. That trail becomes what s called a chart pattern. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition expands upon Bulkowski's immensely popular Second Edition with fully revised and updated material on chart patterns. Whether you re new to the stock market or an experienced professional trader, use this book as a reference guide to give you an edge. Within the pages of this book, you ll learn how to identify chart patterns, supported by easy-to-understand performance statistics describing how well a pattern works, what the failure rate is, and what special quirks suggest better future performance. You ll discover how often a stop loss order will trigger at various locations within a chart pattern, how the chart pattern s performance has evolved over the past three decades, and how to profit from failure by trading busted patterns. This broadened and revised Third Edition offers investors the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to this popular method of market analysis. Written by a leading expert on chart patterns, Tom Bulkowski, this edition includes revised statistics on 75 chart patterns including 23 new ones, with pictures and performance statistics, packaged within easy-to-read text. Gain essential knowledge of chart patterns and how they are used to predict price movements in bull and bear markets New tables include how often stops are hit, busted pattern performance, performance over the decades, and special pattern features Joining Tour, Identification Guidelines, Focus on Failures, Statistics, Trading Tactics and Sample Trade is Experience. It puts you in the passenger s seat so you can share lessons learned from Bulkowski's trades This edition reports on statistics from nearly four times the number of samples used in the Second Edition and ten times the number in the First Edition The Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition further solidifies the reputation of this book as the leading reference on chart patterns, setting it far above the competition.

The market's bestselling and most comprehensive reference on chart patterns, backed by statistics and decades of experienceWhen the smart money trades the securities markets, they leave behind financial footprints. Combine enough footprints together and you have a trail to follow. That trail becomes what's called a chart pattern. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition expands upon Bulkowski's immensely popular Second Edition with fully revised and updated material on chart patterns. Whether you're new to the stock market or an experienced professional trader, use this book as a reference guide to give you an edge.Within the pages of this book, you'll learn how to identify chart patterns, supported by easy-to-understand performance statistics describing how well a pattern works, what the failure rate is, and what special quirks suggest better future performance. You'll discover how often a stop loss order will trigger at various locations within a chart pattern, how the chart pattern's performance has evolved over the past three decades, and how to profit from failure by trading busted patterns.This broadened and revised Third Edition offers investors the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to this popular method of market analysis. Written by a leading expert on chart patterns, Tom Bulkowski, this edition includes revised statistics on 75 chart patterns including 23 new ones, with pictures and performance statistics, packaged within easy-to-read text.* Gain essential knowledge of chart patterns and how they are used to predict price movements in bull and bear markets* New tables include how often stops are hit, busted pattern performance, performance over the decades, and special pattern features* Joining Tour, Identification Guidelines, Focus on Failures, Statistics, Trading Tactics and Sample Trade is Experience. It puts you in the passenger's seat so you can share lessons learned from Bulkowski's trades* This edition reports on statistics from nearly four times the number of samples used in the Second Edition and ten times the number in the First EditionThe Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition further solidifies the reputation of this book as the leading reference on chart patterns, setting it far above the competition.

Introduction 11 How to Trade Chart Patterns 92 AB=CD®, Bearish* 273 AB=CD®, Bullish* 364 Bat®, Bearish* 445 Bat®, Bullish* 526 Big M* 607 Big W* 778 Broadening Bottoms 959 Broadening Formation, Right-Angled and Ascending 11410 Broadening Formation, Right-Angled and Descending 13211 Broadening Tops 15312 Broadening Wedge, Ascending 17513 Broadening Wedge, Descending 19214 Bump-and-Run Reversal, Bottom 20815 Bump-and-Run Reversal, Top 22716 Butterfly®, Bearish* 24517 Butterfly®, Bullish* 25518 Cloudbanks* 26319 Crab®, Bearish* 27720 Crab®, Bullish* 28621 Cup with Handle 29422 Cup with Handle, Inverted 31123 Diamond Bottoms 32624 Diamond Tops 34425 Diving Board* 36226 Double Bottoms, Adam & Adam 37927 Double Bottoms, Adam & Eve 39828 Double Bottoms, Eve & Adam 41929 Double Bottoms, Eve & Eve 43830 Double Tops, Adam & Adam 45831 Double Tops, Adam & Eve 47632 Double Tops, Eve & Adam 49433 Double Tops, Eve & Eve 51034 Flags 52635 Flags, High and Tight 54236 Gaps 55537 Gartley, Bearish* 56838 Gartley, Bullish* 57739 Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms 58540 Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms, Complex 60141 Head-and-Shoulders Tops 61842 Head-and-Shoulders Tops, Complex 63643 Horn Bottoms 65344 Horn Tops 66845 Island Reversals 68246 Measured Move Down 69947 Measured Move Up 71348 Pennants 72649 Pipe Bottoms 74350 Pipe Tops 76051 Rectangle Bottoms 77352 Rectangle Tops 79253 Roof* 81154 Roof, Inverted* 82555 Rounding Bottoms 83956 Rounding Tops 85557 Scallops, Ascending 87158 Scallops, Ascending and Inverted 88859 Scallops, Descending 90360 Scallops, Descending and Inverted 92161 Three Falling Peaks 93662 Three Peaks and Domed House* 95263 Three Rising Valleys 96064 Triangles, Ascending 97665 Triangles, Descending 99766 Triangles, Symmetrical 101967 Triple Bottoms 104068 Triple Tops 105769 V-Bottoms* 107570 V-Bottoms, Extended* 108971 V-Tops* 110472 V-Tops, Extended* 111873 Wedges, Falling 113174 Wedges, Rising 114875 Wolfe Wave®, Bearish* 116476 Wolfe Wave®, Bullish* 1174Statistics Summary 1184Glossary 1197Visual Index of Chart Patterns 1212