Volatility Contraction Pattern: Reading Shrinking Swings
Picture a growth stock that ran from 40.00 to 72.50 in about four months and then stalled. The first pullback took it down to 58.00, a drop of 20.0%. Weeks…
Picture a growth stock that ran from 40.00 to 72.50 in about four months and then stalled. The first pullback took it down to 58.00, a drop of 20.0%. Weeks…
A growth stock clears a base at 54.80, runs for six weeks, and then the weekly chart goes quiet. Three Friday closes land at 61.20, 61.65 and 61.05. On the…
A growth stock runs from 32.00 to 60.00, pulls back to 44.40, works its way back up to 58.90, then drifts for two weeks inside a narrow range just under…
Two growth stocks finish their bases in the same quarter. Each one ran more than 100% in the months before, built a tidy six- or seven-week consolidation about 10% deep,…
A growth stock has spent seven weeks moving sideways between 46.80 and 52.10. The 50-day moving average sits at 48.90 and is still rising. On a quiet Tuesday the stock…
A growth stock climbs from 18.40 to 39.10 in seven weeks, a gain of 112.5%. Most charts that go vertical like that give a large part of the move back.…
A stock runs 30% in six sessions, then goes quiet. The candles shrink, the volume dries up, and price drifts sideways for a week. Most traders read that stall as…
Most traders who study Oliver Kell focus on his 2020 U.S. Investing Championship win and assume the story is about finding the right stocks at the right time. The more…
Most chart pattern books describe what patterns look like and claim they work. Thomas Bulkowski's contribution was to ask a harder question: how often do they actually work, and under…