Today’s reversal in the market was expected. Candlestick analysis has a very simple indicator based upon the Japanese rice traders. If you see a gap up in the overbought conditions, start watching for selling. Today the NASDAQ gapped up and traded higher. The logical stop for candlestick investors is the open. Logic dictates that if the prices come back down through the gap up open, profit-taking is in progress. This was also illustrated in the big stocks, AMZN, NFLX, AAPL, TSLA, gapping up in the overbought conditions illustrated the enthusiastic buyers at the top. Today’s gap up in the market indexes was a good alert to take profits in positions that were showing excessive strength in the overbought area.

However, big profits can still be made by identifying the strong signals and patterns. The Biotech’s have been producing excellent profits over the past week. ALT has moved up nicely and showed a profit-taking sell signal in today’s trading. VXRT was identified early in today’s trading based upon the best friend gap up off the T-line, creating a methods rising signal as well as setting up a J-Hook pattern. Knowing what human nature does time after time allows the candlestick investor to take advantage of the potential big-price moves.

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Today’s weakness in the Dow reveals the sideways mode of the market after it resisted at the 200-day moving average. However, the NASDAQ continues to trade higher. This combination indicates there is no major change of the overall market trend, merely shifting of funds from sectors to sectors. Big profits are being made utilizing the pattern breakouts. The slow curve breakout of ALT produced a 52% gain in the stock and with much greater returns in the calls. This is not to brag about being in a big price move trade, it is basically illustrating how utilizing the information built into candlestick patterns allows investors to be in the correct trade right at the ultimate entry points.

Utilizing the patterns provided by candlestick charts allows an investor to identify the exact time to get into a trade, not having to wait around to see if that trade was going to work or not. Identifying the breakouts instigates adding a position right at the appropriate time. Numerous stocks have broken out of patterns this past week, producing excellent profitable trades. Adding the T-line as an indicator creates a trading strategy that takes the emotions out of when to close out a trade. A bullish price move can be maintained as long as there is not a close back below the T-line. These market conditions enhance the prospects of big bullish price moves when there is a lack of concern of bearish sentiment possibly reversing the markets. Currently, with the market trend more of a sideways mode, identifying bullish candlestick pattern breakouts are further enhanced.

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With the market indexes continuing to trade positive, it confirms the uptrend remains in progress as long as the indexes continue to trade above the T-line. The strongest index was the NASDAQ. It actually gapped up and opened at a resistance level and traded positive from there. Economic indicators, such as the manufacturing index was up strong from May to June. This information appears to be overriding the increase in Corona virus numbers. Let the market tell you what the market is doing, the Japanese rice traders professing. We may not know what is producing the bullish sentiment, but candlestick investors do not need to know. Candlestick investors have the benefit of visually analyzing what everybody else’s decision is doing to the market trends. Currently there does not appear to be any exuberant buying in the market. However, TSLA and AMZN have been producing huge profits and are showing signs of exuberance. Be ready to take profits in price moves that are moving too far too fast.

J-hook patterns have produced significant profits. NIO and NIU J-hook patterns produce the prospects of much more upside. The candlestick patterns have produced consistent profits even as the market indexes oscillate. Pattern breakouts are indicating which sectors are now showing new strength. The chemical companies are showing good pattern breakouts ie SQM. CZZ has a very strong chart, showing a kicker signal breakout of a fry pan bottom through the 200 day moving average. This is what we call convergence analysis or 2+2 analysis, the more factors you can put into a visual analysis showing improved probabilities with multiple bullish indications merely improves the probabilities of not only being in a correct trade at the correct time, but a very strong price move.

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