When you do you take profits and when to use short? This is the advantage candlestick charts provide for investors. Just because it is time to sell does not necessarily mean you want to short. Candlestick signals and patterns show when a powerful sell force is coming into a price. This Saturday, our full day training on when to sell is going to be accentuated by the indicators that produce the best probabilities for getting out of a bullish trade and identifying the strongest selling signals that would warrant shorting trades. This is based upon reoccurring human nature through the centuries.
The Dow is currently revealing a bullish Harami at a potential support level. This makes it very important to see what the premarket futures are demonstrating tomorrow. These market conditions are providing excellent bullish trades as well as excellent short trades. Obviously when the market conditions do not show a decisive consensus in all the indexes, having the ability to make profits both long and short dramatically reduces the risk. There are currently some very strong sell signals in specific sectors. There are also some very strong bullish patterns in other sectors.

Join us this Saturday for a full-day training on when candlestick charts are revealing the probabilities going against long position trends, indicating when it is time to take profits. This information is also applied to when to take profits on short trades. You will gain an immense amount of insights for when to close profitable trades without giving back some of those profits. Join us Saturday, you will get much more information than you anticipate. Click here to register.

The T-line is one of the most accurate and powerful trend indicators. It is a natural support and resistance level of human nature. To ignore it dramatically reduces your capabilities of trading profitably. When you add the T line, a natural support and resistance level of human nature, to the graphics of candlesticks, the illustration of investor sentiment, the combination produces a very high probability trade strategy. The Dow broke down through a wedge pattern but more importantly, it traded back below the T line. Having the ability to recognize when the overall market trend is changing allows for the profitable positioning of a portfolio. Being prepared to close out long positions on weakness frees up investment funds to add to short positions. Candlestick signals and patterns produce high probability results, whether trading long or going short. No matter what trading system you are using, adding candlestick analysis to your chart evaluations will dramatically improve your trading. The probabilities of being in a correct trade have already been back-tested for hundreds of years from Japanese rice traders identifying what is going on in investor sentiment.
Join us next Saturday, September 18, for a full-day training on recognizing when the probabilities are going against you in a position. If you took the mini spotlight profit-taking training a few weeks ago, this will greatly improve your perceptions of when to move out of profitable trades and into new trades.

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The strong selling Today in the Dow showed a bearish candlestick formation, reaching the lower end of a wedge formation. This demonstrates a change of investor sentiment, especially when applied to a pattern everybody is watching. Add the information that the NASDAQ, although trading higher Today, traded as another indecisive day after the gap up Doji from last week. This combination indicates the market trend is starting to get tired. The probabilities are starting to change. This information allows the candlestick investor to be more aggressive for taking profits or closing out long trades that are starting to show weakness. It also allows for more emphasis to be placed upon scanning for going short positions. Although numerous trends are not showing confirm sell signals, by closing below the T line, the nature of candlestick charts allows for identifying when investor sentiment is starting to change. This is the evaluation that is much easier to identify when investor sentiment is changing. Our full day training on when to take profits scheduled for September 18 will be an in-depth analysis of when to take profits even though a confirmed candlestick sell signal has not yet occurred. Candlestick analysis allows investors to identify when the probabilities are starting to change. Join us September 18, this is information that most investors do not get enough of.

The J-hook pattern is still producing good high probability/high profit results even though the market, in general, is starting to show weakness. The candlestick investor gains a huge advantage of knowing what should result after specific candlestick signals and patterns. This is based upon the most consistent trend indicator in the world, human nature. You gain valuable insights into market and stock price trends when you know what the candlestick signals are telling you.

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When to take profits? That is one of the most difficult decisions most investors encounter. However, it is greatly simplified knowing the indications created by human nature as to when a price reversal is about to occur. Join us September 18 for a full day training on when and what candlestick indicators allows investors to take profits at the optimal times. These indicators are based upon human nature creating the same scenarios time after time. Having the ability to see what type of signals are being created at technical levels, such as moving averages, that everybody else is watching allows a candlestick investor to close or take profits at the optimal levels, well before everybody else starts taking profits.

These indicators are merely common sense evaluations as seen in price moves from recommendations such as LPI that showed resistance at the 50 day moving average. Candlestick charts, on multiple time frames, make for much more clear trading decisions. This is also illustrated for covering short positions such as with our short recommendation on FIVE. It has moved to a trading level, the 200 day moving average, that everybody else can see. A bullish signal at these levels would immediately reveal this is where the selling has stopped. This is not rocket science! Join us Saturday, September 18 to learn the common sense aspects of candlestick analysis for when to buy and more importantly when to sell.

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Candlestick trend analysis makes assessing the direction of a trend very easy. Last week, the indexes showed a potential bearish reversal, bearish candlestick signals. However, the NASDAQ, although showing a very signal, did not close below the T line. Friday’s positive trading all the way back up through the open of Thursday’s trading negated the sell signal, revealing continued bullish strength. A major benefit of the information built into candlestick chart graphics is indicating with a high degree of probability the direction of the market indexes and also revealing when those signals are not confirming. This is as important information as recognizing when a reversal signal is confirming.AMZN, AAPL, NFLX are all reviewing strengths. These stocks being the well-followed stocks reveal there is a lack of bearish sentiment in the markets, confirming what the indexes are revealing.

Candlestick analysis is simply a common sense trend analysis put into a graphic depiction. As experienced in our daily chat rooms, numerous profitable trades are recognized by a good number of candlestick investors, consistently supplying a good supply of profitable trades.

Today’s bearish engulfing signal/left-right combo in the Dow indicated they were not moving in the market up further. Witnessing this below the previous high is a strong probability indicator that investor sentiment has changed. This immediately alerts the candlestick investor to start closing out long positions that were not showing good strength. The previous three trading days produced an advanced block signal in the NASDAQ, indicating the diminishing strength of bullish sentiment. Utilizing this information allows the candlestick investor to move much more aggressively for closing out long positions that were not showing strength. This leads to our candlestick mini spotlight training oriented toward when to close out positions utilizing the information built into candlestick analysis. The candlestick signals and patterns allow investors to see when there is a change of investor sentiment well before the full-fledged selling occurs.https://special.stephenbigalow.com/101-profit-taking/

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The Morning Star signal off the 50-day moving average allows candlestick investors to identify when the selling has stopped in the indexes are moving positively again. Today’s positive trading moved all the indexes back up above the T line. This is an extremely high probability indicator the uptrend is remaining in progress. The market reversal signals also provided the extra impetus to take profits on short positions, especially when bullish reversal signals were appearing. This simple visual analysis allows investors to move much more quickly to close out profitable positions and move to other potentially profitable positions. Currently, the J-hook pattern is producing extremely good high probability/high-profit trades. This also creates the opportunity to put on good option spread strategies.

Join us this Saturday, August 28 for a candlestick mini spotlight training on how to identify all the elements for taking profits. The logic built into candlestick analysis is very simple. These sessions give you more than your money’s

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Simple logic dictates that when you start seeing indecisive signals in the overbought area, investors can start scanning for potential short positions with a much greater degree of accuracy. Strong bearish candlestick signals allow for identifying which short trades will have the greatest downside strength. Candlestick signals also reveal when a trend is about to reverse. The nature/makeup of candlestick signals allows for identifying when investor sentiment is starting to change. This is been clearly demonstrated in some of the short recommendations we are participating in over the past few weeks.

Although the market is in a downtrend, strong signals such as the kicker signal still provide bullish profits, as demonstrated in our recommendation today in XAIR. However, in a downtrend, scanning for bullish trades becomes less likely to find good bullish trades. Obvious deduction! Knowing which direction the overall market is moving allows for having the appropriate trade positioning in the portfolio. The short trades have been working extremely well.

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The simple visual analysis allows investors to identify when it’s appropriate for adding short positions to the portfolio. The indecisive trading in the indexes, in the overbought condition, dramatically increases the probabilities of short positions starting to work well. Strong bearish candlestick signals also pinpoint which stocks are going to be selling with the most force. That has been illustrated with bearish kicker signals and bearish best friends. Having the ability to analyze what the overall market trend is doing and then applying the strongest candlestick signals/patterns in that market environment dramatically improves the probabilities of being in the right trades at the right time.

The oil stocks have sold off as illustrated by the MorningStar signal in LPI. Maintaining that short position is merely applying the T-line rule. The visual aspects of candlestick charts also reveal where the targets are that everybody else will be watching. Bearish kicker signals as well as bearish best friend signals have been providing good strong short profits when the market direction has become indecisive. This step-by-step analysis dramatically improves the probabilities of being in profitable trades.

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Simple candlestick scanning techniques allow for identifying the big profit moves even when the overall market trend is very slow. The lack of any selling pressure in the market indexes allow fry pan bottom breakouts to perform. Simple scanning processes also identify what the results are from outside influences, such as the passing of the infrastructure bill. Steel stocks are benefiting. Knowing that sector is gaining investor sentiment, the candlestick investor has a huge advantage by identifying which stocks in that sector are going to benefit the most. This is illustrated in our recommendation of STLD, producing a J-hook pattern off the 50 day moving average and then breaking out into new territory. The simplicity of candlestick analysis allows an investor to constantly have high probability trades in their portfolio. This is based upon one simple factor, human nature works the same way time after time.

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