Take-Profit Strategy: The Overlooked Half of Exits

You are up on a position. The chart has run your way for six sessions, the gain is real on the screen, and the only question left is where you…

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Read more about the article AXSM +865%: base breakout on a clinical-stage biotech, March 2019
AXSM on the 2019-03-07 breakout entry, from my chart archive

AXSM +865%: base breakout on a clinical-stage biotech, March 2019

AXSM is back on traders' screens this week, after the FDA accepted Axsome Therapeutics' filing for a new narcolepsy drug in mid-July 2026. The chart that's worth studying, though, is…

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Read more about the article AMC +501%: a base breakout that outran the story, February 2021
AMC on the 2021-02-22 breakout entry, from my chart archive

AMC +501%: a base breakout that outran the story, February 2021

AMC is back on the retail trackers this month, and it's worth pulling up the chart from the last time it ran rather than the headlines around it. In February…

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Read more about the article TSLA +965%: a base breakout that compounded for 15 months, November 2019
TSLA on the 2019-11-07 breakout entry, from my chart archive

TSLA +965%: a base breakout that compounded for 15 months, November 2019

TSLA is back on traders' screens, so the chart worth pulling up is the one from late 2019, well before today's tape. On 7 November 2019, Tesla tagged the 22.72…

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Trend Magic: CCI, ATR Settings and Trading Rules

Trend Magic is a trend overlay that plots a single adaptive line on the price chart. It combines a momentum switch with a volatility based distance, so the line behaves…

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Keltner Channels Settings: Best Periods and Multipliers

Keltner Channels are a volatility based price channel that wraps around a moving average. You get three lines: a middle line that represents the baseline trend, plus an upper and…

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Parabolic SAR Settings: Chart Behavior and Trade Rules

Parabolic SAR is a trend-following indicator that plots a series of dots above or below price. SAR stands for “stop and reverse,” which describes its original purpose: it acts like…

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Supertrend Indicator Explained With Practical Trade Rules

The Supertrend indicator is a volatility-based trend overlay that tries to keep you on the right side of sustained moves. It draws a single line that sits below price in…

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Gann HiLo Activator Formula and Signals Guide

An indicator does not need to be complex to be useful. The Gann HiLo Activator is a good example: it is built from two simple moving averages, yet it can…

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