The ultimate candlestick pattern is easily visually identified. The ultimate candlestick pattern is one that works with an extremely high degree of probability time after time. The Japanese rice traders identified these patterns through 400 years of observations. The J-hook pattern is one of the most powerful patterns. It also becomes an ultimate candlestick pattern based upon adding additional technical levels that everybody else watches. Witnessing a J-hook pattern supporting at or breaking through a technical level, such as a major moving average, the 50-day moving average or the 200-day moving average, greatly increases the expectation the pattern is illustrating where investor sentiment was turning bullish. With the market indexes demonstrating a relatively indecisive nature, having both long and short positions in the trading portfolio is prudent, and having the ability to identify the strongest/most powerful candlestick patterns gives the candlestick investor a huge advantage. There will be plenty of bullish stock positions identified in an uptrending market. But the candlestick investor has the advantage of identifying which bullish stock price moves will have the strongest profitable potential.

Bank crisis profits are big when utilizing candlestick signals and patterns. Bank crisis profits illustrate the probability factor of candlestick charts. Recognizing when a stock/sector is starting to roll over based upon bearish candlestick chart patterns, such as a bearish dumpling top/very slow curve chart setup, allows the candlestick investor to identify where to be in a profitable short trade at the correct time. Do all candlestick chart patterns produce huge profits? Not, but they put you in the correct trades at the correct time giving candlestick investors a much bigger probability of being in substantial profit trades. How long will the selling occur in the banking sector? Candlestick charts, especially utilizing the 10-minute chart in many of the banking stocks that have sold off hard, provide a much more clear evaluation of what the price moves are continuing to do after being slammed into the oversold area. The information built into candlestick charts provides a much more accurate read of what is occurring in investor sentiment on any time frame. The banking crisis, in addition to interest rate concerns, produce a market environment where the bears are likely to still be in control. The T line confirms the market trend. The downtrend has been producing strong bearish trade profits. Join us Saturday, March 25 for a full day training on simple but logical option trade strategies applied to the appropriate candlestick signals and patterns. This information dramatically reduces the guesswork when applying option trades during price moves.

A candlestick market reversal was illustrated in Thursday and Friday’s trading. The candlestick market reversal consisted of a MorningStar signal in the Dow that closed at the T-line on Thursday. The reversal confirmation was a positive open on Friday and trading positive. This both confirmed the MorningStar signal and demonstrated the T-line would not act as a resistance level. Additional confirmation came from a bullish engulfing signal confirming in the NASDAQ and a left/right combo confirming in the S&P 500 and witnessing the reversal signals confirming allowed candlestick investors to start moving into sectors such as artificial intelligence immediately. It also provides the mental alert that short positions should be covered and long positions being added to the trading portfolio. The visual graphics of candlestick charts cut through the hopes/expectations of existing position moves by showing precisely what investor sentiment reveals. Prices do not move based on fundamentals! Prices move based on the perception of fundamentals. The graphics of candlestick signals allows investors to make the correct investment decisions immediately. Expect the market to remain in an uptrend as long as the indexes remain above the T-line.

Option trading strategies can significantly enhance profitability when accurately assessing the market trend. Option trading strategies can dramatically improve the profitability of an individual stock price move when working in conjunction with the overall market trend. Currently, the downtrend of the market is based upon the realization that inflation is still going to be investors’ primary concern. Although current earnings in individual stocks are proving to be positive, the future outlook of earning prospects is being diminished going into the future; inflation is a critical factor. Analyzing the candlestick charts provides a much more precise assessment of the market conditions based on strong candlestick sell signals and patterns and the condition of stochastics. Strong sell signals in individual stocks, especially in the high-tech area, have allowed option trading strategies to perform strong profitability. Until there are changes in Fed policy and administration policies, the markets are likely to continue in a downward trajectory. This is not a genius analysis! This is merely identifying what the market conditions are producing based on current economic conditions. Lower opens in the indexes on Monday will reveal significant support levels not going to act as support. Join us Saturday, March 4, for a Candlestick Forum mini spotlight training on the appropriate bearish option strategies in a downward market direction. You will gain more insights that will dramatically improve your trading abilities

Stock market analysis becomes much easier when knowing the nature of each candlestick signal and the common sense perspectives of the Japanese rice traders. Stock market analysis can utilize the typical reactions of human nature. Where do most people buy? They buy exuberantly at the top. This becomes much more visible when using candlestick charts. The gap up in the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 on Thursday, in the overbought conditions, becomes a high probability alert. Start looking for profit-taking/selling. At some point, the weight of higher interest rates will start showing their effect on the overall market trend. The candlestick investor becomes much more prepared when witnessing sell signal indications in the market indexes. The candlestick forum chat rooms provide a constant educational perspective, teaching investors when reversal signals and patterns are showing a change in investor sentiment. Candlestick signals and patterns illustrate the strength of a price trend or price movement continuation. As illustrated in AI and ZIM charts, fry pan bottoms produce continued price trend movement despite a change in investor sentiment in the overall markets.

Understanding what usually occurs during a candlestick pattern allows an investor to improve profitability, maintaining positions that are not reversing when the overall market is reversing. Join us in our chat rooms using our two-week free trial. You will gain some insights that do not occur utilizing other charting techniques. Click here to register.

Candlestick patterns are the prevalent movers in this uptrend. The reoccurring pattern setup of human nature can easily identify candlestick patterns. The J-hook pattern has been identified in the NASDAQ and the S&P 500. Although the Dow did not form a reversal signal when it supported off the bottom of the wedge formation, the fact that the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 formed bullish signals added credence to the wedge formation support in the Dow. Candlestick patterns provide two huge benefits, a much more robust analysis of the trend, and the magnitude of the move will be much greater than mere up-trending stocks during an up-trending market. As illustrated in the AMZN chart, a belt holding a candlestick pattern enhanced the probabilities and visualization of the J-hook pattern. The solid initial price move of a J-hook pattern is the alert there is new strong investor sentiment coming into a trading entity. The J-hook portion is merely the profit-taking to be followed by another strong price move. The candlestick forum teaches investors how to identify the most prolific analysis of price moves, what human nature provides as high probability results. Join us Saturday, February 4th, for a Candlestick Forum mini spotlight training on how to trade commodities using candlestick signals.

The power of candlestick patterns have two major facets. The direction of the next move have great directional expectations and the magnitude of the move is going to be much greater than mere up trending stocks during an up trending market. The power of candlestick patterns allow for strong stock position entry strategies as well as option strategies. The market indexes continue to trade above the T-line. The NASDAQ is also revealing a strong build up of bullish sentiment based upon the identity of a fry pan bottom pattern. Utilizing the candlestick signals and candlestick patterns in combination allows an investor to analyze the set up of power candlestick patterns. The J-hook pattern is the predominant pattern in the current market conditions. The J-hook pattern has good expected results. And the expected results can be improved by analyzing the candlestick signals setting up a J-hook pattern at observable technical levels. Join us Saturday, December 10 for a Candlestick Forum mini spotlight training on how to analyze which J-hook patterns have the most powerful expected results. You will gain powerful insights into investor sentiment, making the identification of potentially strong trade set ups more visible.

A Santa Claus rally? That is the anticipation every year going into the holidays. The Santa Claus rally is usually expected because of the high percentage of the time in the past it has occurred. What does that mean for the candlestick investor? Candlestick charts will provide much more clarity as to whether a Santa Claus rally is likely to occur, and then confirm whether the rally is or is not occurring. This is based upon simple visual analysis. Our the market indexes showing bullish confirmation, trading above the T line? There are numerous adages as far as market trends. Such as “sell in May and go away”, or expectations produced by seasonality results, price movements that usually occur at the same times year after year. The candlestick investor has a huge advantage because of the actual visual results built into candlestick charts. Currently, the Dow is demonstrating an uptrending bias based upon the bobble breakout pattern at the 200 day moving average, followed by the T line producing confirmation the uptrend is in progress. However, the NASDAQ is not showing the same bullish resiliency. Although the NASDAQ is trading above the T line, the candlestick formations reveal a different story as far as investor sentiment. The trajectory is flat and the dark candles reveal selling pressure versus bullish sentiment. This creates a much better trade evaluation for specific stock/sectors. There are some sectors moving positive while other sectors are showing bearish bias. These market conditions allow an investor to have both long and short positions on at the same time. Fortunately, simple scanning techniques allow for identifying which sectors have the prospects of trading bullish while also identifying which sectors have strong bearish trends. This then allows for identifying which stocks in those sectors have the prospects of producing the strongest bullish or bearish price moves. Join us Tuesday night for the Candlestick Forum chat session demonstrating how to identify the strongest potential bullish sectors and the strongest bearish sectors going into the holiday season.