How Chart Patterns Suggest Reversals and Trend Continuations
Summary
This overview explains how chart patterns may help traders assess the likely direction and scale of a subsequent price move. It divides patterns into reversals, which can signal that the preceding trend is ending, and continuations, which can indicate that the existing trend may resume after a pause. A breakout from the pattern is treated as the point that offers directional evidence.
Trendlines drawn through chart highs and lows help define the pattern and identify a possible breakout. The document also notes that patterns can inform entries, stop-loss placement, and price targets, though traders may adapt those rules. It offers general guidance rather than measured evidence: there are no examples with outcomes, statistics, or formal testing. Pattern boundaries and breakouts depend on how a trader draws the lines, so interpretation can differ between observers and affect results. The approach calls for experience and judgment and does not guarantee that a pattern will predict the next move.
Key ideas
- Chart patterns are grouped into reversal patterns and continuation patterns.
- A completed reversal pattern may indicate that the prior trend is ending.
- A continuation pattern may suggest that the existing trend will resume after a breakout.
- Trendlines through highs and lows help define patterns and possible breakout points.
- Pattern interpretation is subjective, and the overview provides no performance evidence.
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