The uptrend remains in progress. However, with the Dow trading slightly higher after opening much higher and the NASDAQ continuing to trade higher reveals the nature of this potential next uptrend. It will probably be choppy and sectors/stock specific. This is where simple candlestick scanning techniques allow the candlestick investor to identify which stocks are going to act the strongest. The J-hook patterns are the predominant strong patterns in this market.

There are numerous J-hook patterns that are in the process of breaking out, especially in positive trading tomorrow. APPS is set up for a J-hook pattern breakout. SONO and EHTH were recommended today based upon a positive open confirming J-hook patterns. The major advantage of trading the patterns is that they produce high probabilities that you will be in the correct direction and the magnitude of the price move will be much more excessive than merely up trending stocks during an uptrend. Other pattern breakouts can be seen based upon candlestick patterns. TSLA has broken out of a wedge formation. ARWR will be breaking out of a wedge formation if it opens positive tomorrow. Candlestick investors have great advantages by knowing the probabilities of a price move expectation based upon reoccurring results of human nature. We will be doing a two-day training on how to dramatically enhance your profitability by combining candlestick analysis with the T line. Join us October 17 and 18th for a very comprehensive understanding of how to dramatically improve your probabilities with this combination.

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How does the candlestick investor enter trades before the rest of the crowd? Simple! Candlestick reversal signals, appearing in the market indexes, immediately reveal there has been a change of investor sentiment. As illustrated in Friday’s trading, the indexes formed MorningStar signals in the oversold area. The NASDAQ formed a MorningStar type signal and close above the T line. The S&P 500 formed a MorningStar signal and close at the T-line. The Dow formed a MorningStar signal and close just below the T-line. This made entering bullish trades very easy. If the premarket futures revealed the markets were going to start trading positive on the open, the individual stock charts that revealed strong bullish signals are patterns could be entered immediately. This creates a huge advantage. It allows the candlestick investor to enter positions that are showing pattern setups that will produce the strongest price moves during an uptrend.

The J-hook pattern was evident in a number of individual stock charts. WKHS, SGMS, DKNG all had J-hook pattern setups.SRNE has good J-hook pattern potential based upon a positive open tomorrow, creating a Doji sandwich/J Hook pattern breakout. This type of analysis not only puts investors in high probability trades but also in trades that will produce much stronger profits based upon the pattern expectations. The positive trading in the market indexes today produces high probable results of more upside. The place to have investment funds is in individual stock chart patterns that are going to produce excessive profits. The T-line is a very informative trend indicator tool. Join us on October 16 42 days of training on how to use the T-line to produce high probability profitable results.

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One of the most powerful trend indicators is the T-line, a natural support and resistance level of human nature. Add that to the graphics of candlestick signals and patterns which are the graphic depiction of investor sentiment, you have created an extremely accurate trend indicator combination. The mental process is very simple. If you see the market indexes closing below the T-line, the mental strategy should now be oriented toward closing out long positions that are showing weakness and establishing short positions. This process allows you to consistently be in correlation with the overall trend of the market, putting the probabilities in your favor.

There will be stocks that go up in a down market but obviously there will be more bearish opportunities with more strength in a down trending market. The same is obviously true in an uptrend, the uptrending stocks are likely to have much more strength. Identifying positions to start shorting is a very simple visual process with candlestick analysis. Signals, followed by a gap down’s, are very high probability short trades. Add the additional confirmation of a gap down in price closing below the T line produces additional confirmation the bears are definitely in control. Having the ability to recognize the direction of a price trend with a high degree of accuracy allows investors to keep their emotions out of their trading decisions. Join us this Saturday, September 26 for a full day of applying candlestick logic and information into your analysis that eliminates emotional decision-making. The effectiveness of any trading strategy is the combination of applying the mechanics of the trade and having the correct mental status to trade successfully. You will dramatically improve your trading abilities and profitability with this combination. www.stephenbigalow.com/fight-the-fear

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The buildup of investor sentiment in specific candlestick patterns has the probability of producing bullish trade profitability even when the overall market is selling off hard. Our recommendation on CLSK a set up for a frypan bottom pattern. It traded up 28% on the day. The candlestick investor has the advantage of having positions in the portfolio that are still going to produce profits or at least not selloff dramatically when the overall market is selling off.

Two notable candlestick factors are being illustrated today. First, the T line rule! As the indexes were demonstrating, when trading below the T line, the probabilities of the down trend is extremely strong. Although the Dow appeared to be supporting at the 50 day moving average on Friday, it did not do any candlestick formation that illustrated the bulls were back in control. The NASDAQ and the S&P 500 did not show any evidence of bullish sentiment on Friday, trading below the T line, indicating more downside. Secondly, numerous recent recommendations, that were based upon candlestick patterns, are holding up well, either trading positive, CLSK, VVPR, SHLL, ZM or trading relatively flat today PEIX,WKHS,APPS. This demonstrates an underlying benefit of trading pattern. It allows for more time to get out of a trade reasonably well even though the overall market is dropping heavily.

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Today’s market action clearly illustrated how candlestick patterns work effectively in spite of the overall market direction. Frypan bottom patterns are producing very strong profits, DKNG, WKHS, and PENN all moved up with good strength even though the indexes were trading off. The “message” is another high-profit trade set-up that works extremely effectively. Today KODK confirmed the “message” of yesterday.SRNE provides the same opportunity. Today’s gap up, followed by profit-taking, produces a high probability trade entry on any positive trading tomorrow. Utilizing the patterns and signals setups allows candlestick investors to constantly produce profitable trades in their portfolio.

Today’s gap down in the indexes showed a little bit of recovery but not enough to indicate the bulls or the bears being in control. This provides a sideways market potential. Fortunately for the candlestick investor, the sideways mode of the general market does not deter being able to scan for high-profit trades. Once a good trade is executed, the T line is one of the most productive trend indicators. When used with candlestick signals and patterns, the natural support and resistance level of the T-line dramatically enhances the probabilities of a trend continuing. Utilizing this combination keeps investors from getting whipsawed in and out of profitable trades. Having the ability to analyze a trend correctly keeps the emotional decision-making process out of one’s investing. Join us September 26 for a full-day training of how the common sense aspects built into candlestick analysis dramatically reduces your emotional investment flaws.

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Is the market trend reversing? Candlestick signals at relevant technical levels, that everybody else is watching, produces good evidence the bulls are starting to take control again. The Dow formed a MorningStar signal today, off the 34 EMA, and closed above the T-line. The NASDAQ gapped up, above the open of Friday, and formed a Doji. This sets up a strong probability that a positive open tomorrow is going to create a bullish flutter kicker signal, one of the strongest reversal signals, and the likelihood of closing above the T-line. This adds good evidence the uptrend may be back in progress. Utilizing the transportation index also allowed for assuming there was not going to be a major reversal in the markets with the simple logic that if one index is trading strong while other indexes are trading lower, it merely indicates funds moving from sector to sector, not leaving the market.

Fry pan bottom patterns continue to produce very strong profitable trade results. A number of fry pan bottom patterns are in effect, i.e. WKHS, DAR, PENN, DKNG. All boats will rise in a rising tide but the results of candlestick pattern breakouts are boats that are going to rise a heck of a lot faster. The information built into each candlestick signal allows the candlestick investor to have a much more clear analysis of a price move based upon the historical results of the candlestick signals and patterns. This also creates a trading program that dramatically reduces emotional trading. Expected results that have been proven for hundreds of years, based upon normal human nature reactions, allows the candlestick investor to be in high probability trades with a high degree of accuracy.

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The T-line is a very accurate trend indicator when used in conjunction with candlestick analysis. A close below the T-line after a candlestick sell signal produces extremely strong probabilities the downtrend will remain in progress, until you see a candlestick buy signal and a close back up above the T-line. This rule kept candlestick investors from investing heavily to the long side yesterday when the buying came back into the market indexes, demonstrating good strength. The strength did not close the indexes above the T-line. The combination of candlestick signals and patterns in conjunction with the use of the T-line dramatically improves the probabilities of remaining in a trend, keeping investors from getting whipsawed out of a profitable position too early. The fact that candlestick signals and patterns are the graphic depiction of investor sentiment and the T-line acts as a natural support and resistance level of human nature, combining these two visual aspects produces extremely high probability trade results.

Our recommendations in TUP and ANF continue to act well because of the fry pan bottom expectations. Candlestick patterns will continue to produce good profits when the market in general turns the opposite direction because of the buildup of investor sentiment that was creating that pattern. The J-hook pattern has the same characteristics as illustrated in our recent recommendation of HIBB. These trades illustrate the fact that bullish profits can still be made when the markets are trading lower. However, going with the flow is enhanced with the visual ability to analyze the overall direction of the market. Identifying the strong sell signals when the market is heading lower dramatically improves the probabilities of making good profits in short positions. This is merely simple candlestick analysis logic.

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Candlestick investors have a distinct advantage. The graphics of candlesticks allows an investor to take profits at the appropriate time, not always having a sell signal occur. As illustrated in the market indexes last week, the gap up in the overbought condition was an alert to start taking profits. Where do most people buy? Exuberantly at the top! This is constantly professed by the Japanese rice traders that had studied the graphics of human nature for hundreds of years. Join us tonight with a demonstration of the indicators that human nature produces for when it’s time to take profits.

Another major benefit of candlestick patterns is not only the direction and magnitude of a price trend, but also the residue strength that continues to keep that pattern from selling off if/when there is a strong market reversal. This is illustrated in our recommendation on TUP and SHLL, fry pan bottom continuation patterns. Our recommendation on ANF was based upon a bobble breakout/J Hook pattern which also will continue to show strength in spite of the overall market trend. The underlying factor of candlestick analysis is that it puts investment funds in the appropriate trades at the appropriate time. This dramatically improves the probabilities of producing profits in spite of the overall market direction

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Candlestick investors have a huge advantage for identifying when a reversal is about to occur. The Japanese rice traders profess very simple results of human nature, where do most people buy? They buy exuberantly at the top. Yesterday, it was recommended, in our afternoon comments, to take profits. This recommendation was the result of witnessing the markets gap up in the overbought condition. This illustrated exuberance. The NASDAQ gapped up and formed a Hanging Man/Doji signal. This produced the alert for a reversal in the market trend. A lower open, after a Hanging Man signal, induces taking profits immediately. Having this type of forewarning, based upon normal human nature, allows the candlestick investor to create much better profitability by getting out of positions knowing that the market trend has a high probability of reversing.

There are very strong benefits of utilizing candlestick patterns. Our recommendation of TUP was based upon a fry pan bottom breakout this past week. There are three major advantages to trading candlestick patterns. First, the probabilities of being in the right direction is extremely strong. Secondly, the magnitude of a pattern breakout move will be much greater than merely up trending stocks during an up trending market. Finally, because a pattern is a buildup of investor sentiment, prices will usually hold up much better even when the general market might move excessively in the opposite direction. This gives the investor more time to get out of a trade profitably. Individual candlestick signals, such as the kicker signal and the bearish left/right combo provided strong short trade expectations. The candlestick signals and patterns produce dramatically greater probabilities of being in strong profitable trades.

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The Dow traded lower while the NASDAQ traded higher, indicating there was no major change of investor sentiment in the current market trend. This merely indicates rotation of sectors. Gold has started to trade higher again, making the gold stocks a viable sector. LABU is a good indicator to illustrate the biotech sector is starting to show strength. The major advantage of candlestick analysis is allowing an investor to identify where bullish funds are moving to. Having this information dramatically improves the probability of having trades applied to the stock/sectors that will have better bullish results. Adding the analytical factor of candlestick signals and patterns to individual stock charts increases profitability when trading the candlestick patterns that are starting to breakout. This is not a difficult process. The high probability signals and patterns are easily identified.

The frypan bottom pattern is working exceptionally well during this uptrend. New fry pan bottom setups are identified in MCRB and TUP. NIO is currently benefiting from the frypan bottom trajectory. There is a very simple trading rule when entering a frypan bottom pattern. You can stay long as long as the trend continues to trade above the T line. Last week, numerous J-hook patterns are performing very well. Our recommendation tomorrow on TRIL will be based upon wave three of a J-hook pattern confirmed today. Recognizing when a pattern breakout is about to occur provides the optimal entry point, whether buying stock or options. This produces a trading platform that minimizes having to sit in a trade waiting for it to perform. A pattern breakout is the exact point for entering a trade knowing that it is going to perform well right at that time.

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