What is a major advantage of candlestick investing over most investors trading? Most investors have mediocre returns because even during a strong uptrend, they will hold positions that are not working or even trading lower. Candlestick investors circumvent that mediocrity. Simple scanning techniques allow for identifying which sectors are the strongest and which sectors are not working. This produces the trading strategy for investors to quickly close out trades that are not working and moving to sectors that are showing the best strength. This produces much better returns because all the trades should be moving in the right direction. Currently, electric vehicles, lithium mining, and the oil sector are acting the strongest. Having the portfolio oriented toward the strong sectors during a market uptrend dramatically enhances the profitability of the portfolio.

Lithium mining stocks such as WWR, LTHM and PLL are producing strong returns. There will always be uptrending stock prices in an uptrending market, but the strongest profits come from identifying candlestick reversal signals and patterns that produce much better probabilities of profitable trades. The bobble breakout is a very powerful bullish price pattern set up. The shipping stocks, STNG, FRO, and TNK are all showing bobble breakout potential. Oil stocks have shown support and breakouts at the 50 day moving average making the 200 day moving average likely targets. Taking advantage of the information that is built into candlestick analysis allows an investor to take the guesswork out of which stocks/sectors will work the best. Having the majority of the portfolio positions in the sectors during an uptrend dramatically reduces the potential of mediocrity returns. The more pieces of evidence you can put into your analysis, the better the probabilities of being in a correct trade. Join us this Saturday for a a candlestick training on Convergence Analysis, identifying multiple confirming indicators that dramatically improve the probability of being in the correct trade at the correct time.

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The bearish left/right combo in the NASDAQ is still the relevant sell signal. The Dow has shown selling after the gap up Shooting Star type signal failed at the recent all-time high in the Dow index. The current selling is likely to bring the Dow back down to test the T-line, after moving up excessively away from the T line. This would imply having short positions in the portfolio. At this point, any long positions should have been closed out if they were showing sell signals and signs of weakness, closing below the T line. This shows the relevance of the Japanese rice traders saying “Let the market tell you what the market is doing.” The market does not like indecision. The current political atmosphere and the increase in the virus cases is producing an indecisive outlook for investors.

There still remain some good long positions as long as they stay above the T line. Simple candlestick scanning techniques also identifies good short positions, as in our recommendations to short RUN and CYH. Candlestick charts also reveal when there is not any clear analysis on a charts movement. This is demonstrated by the big traders, AMZN, NVDA, NFLX, TSLA, not showing any decisive trend movement. Simple candlestick logic implies you do not trade these stocks until there is better definable trend movements. The candlestick charts tell you when to buy, when to sell, and when to stay out of a trade. The more visual evidence that you can apply to candlestick signals and patterns, what we call convergence analysis, the higher the probability the trend will perform. Join us on November 21 for a full-day of training on how to utilize convergence analysis to dramatically improve the probabilities of being in the correct trades at the correct time.

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Warning, warning, Will Robinson! Today’s large gap up held up most of the day but saw selling going into the final hour. This created a Shooting star type signal in the Dow after it had exceeded the all-time high in the market. This may be the classic buy on rumor, sell on news. At these levels and witnessing indecision/sell signals in the Dow, the NASDAQ, the S&P 500, and the transportation index, be ready to take profits. Any long positions that have shown weakness, candlestick sell signals, be ready to close out and start shifting to short positions. There remains a lot of unknowns in the political theater. These market conditions warrant adding short positions to the portfolio, maintaining any long positions that have not shown sell signals, and maintaining a heavier cash position. This means any trades being established should have very compelling buy signals or sell signals.

There are some very strong sell signals, OSTK and LRN had bearish best friend signals formed today. These positions can be shorted on a week market open tomorrow. Investor sentiment may be in a whipsaw mode if investors are watching the Senate race. As a candlestick investor, you may not know the outcomes of specific events that will affect the market, but the visual aspects of candlestick charts allow you to analyze what everybody else is thinking based upon possible future events. A good example is witnessing the airlines stocks opening much higher but closing at the low end of there trading ranges. This produces valuable information as far as continued strength or the lack of continued strength in the sector. On the other hand, the cruise lines open positive, closed positive but indecisively positive. Knowing what to expect after those type of graphics allows for much more accurate assessment of which way the sectors/stocks are likely to move.

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The Candlestick Forum team.