Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

The market's bestselling and most comprehensive reference on chart patterns, backed by statistics and decades of experience When the smart money trades the securities markets, they leave behind financial footprints. Combine enough footprints together and you have a trail to follow. That trail becomes what’s called a chart pattern. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition expands upon Bulkowski's immensely popular Second Edition with fully revised and updated material on chart patterns. Whether you’re new to the stock market or an experienced professional trader, use this book as a reference guide to give you an edge. Within the pages of this book, you’ll learn how to identify chart patterns, supported by easy-to-understand performance statistics describing how well a pattern works, what the failure rate is, and what special quirks suggest better future performance. You’ll discover how often a stop loss order will trigger at various locations within a chart pattern, how the chart pattern’s performance has evolved over the past three decades, and how to profit from failure by trading busted patterns. This broadened and revised Third Edition offers investors the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to this popular method of market analysis. Written by a leading expert on chart patterns, Tom Bulkowski, this edition includes revised statistics on 75 chart patterns including 23 new ones, with pictures and performance statistics, packaged within easy-to-read text. Gain essential knowledge of chart patterns and how they are used to predict price movements in bull and bear markets New tables include how often stops are hit, busted pattern performance, performance over the decades, and special pattern features Joining Tour, Identification Guidelines, Focus on Failures, Statistics, Trading Tactics and Sample Trade is Experience. It puts you in the passenger’s seat so you can share lessons learned from Bulkowski's trades This edition reports on statistics from nearly four times the number of samples used in the Second Edition and ten times the number in the First Edition The Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition further solidifies the reputation of this book as the leading reference on chart patterns, setting it far above the competition.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 1 How to Trade Chart Patterns 9 2 AB=CD®, Bearish* 27 3 AB=CD®, Bullish* 36 4 Bat®, Bearish* 44 5 Bat®, Bullish* 52 6 Big M* 60 7 Big W* 77 8 Broadening Bottoms 95 9 Broadening Formation, Right-Angled and Ascending 114 10 Broadening Formation, Right-Angled and Descending 132 11 Broadening Tops 153 12 Broadening Wedge, Ascending 175 13 Broadening Wedge, Descending 192 14 Bump-and-Run Reversal, Bottom 208 15 Bump-and-Run Reversal, Top 227 16 Butterfly®, Bearish* 245 17 Butterfly®, Bullish* 255 18 Cloudbanks* 263 19 Crab®, Bearish* 277 20 Crab®, Bullish* 286 21 Cup with Handle 294 22 Cup with Handle, Inverted 311 23 Diamond Bottoms 326 24 Diamond Tops 344 25 Diving Board* 362 26 Double Bottoms, Adam & Adam 379 27 Double Bottoms, Adam & Eve 398 28 Double Bottoms, Eve & Adam 419 29 Double Bottoms, Eve & Eve 438 30 Double Tops, Adam & Adam 458 31 Double Tops, Adam & Eve 476 32 Double Tops, Eve & Adam 494 33 Double Tops, Eve & Eve 510 34 Flags 526 35 Flags, High and Tight 542 36 Gaps 555 37 Gartley, Bearish* 568 38 Gartley, Bullish* 577 39 Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms 585 40 Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms, Complex 601 41 Head-and-Shoulders Tops 618 42 Head-and-Shoulders Tops, Complex 636 43 Horn Bottoms 653 44 Horn Tops 668 45 Island Reversals 682 46 Measured Move Down 699 47 Measured Move Up 713 48 Pennants 726 49 Pipe Bottoms 743 50 Pipe Tops 760 51 Rectangle Bottoms 773 52 Rectangle Tops 792 53 Roof* 811 54 Roof, Inverted* 825 55 Rounding Bottoms 839 56 Rounding Tops 855 57 Scallops, Ascending 871 58 Scallops, Ascending and Inverted 888 59 Scallops, Descending 903 60 Scallops, Descending and Inverted 921 61 Three Falling Peaks 936 62 Three Peaks and Domed House* 952 63 Three Rising Valleys 960 64 Triangles, Ascending 976 65 Triangles, Descending 997 66 Triangles, Symmetrical 1019 67 Triple Bottoms 1040 68 Triple Tops 1057 69 V-Bottoms* 1075 70 V-Bottoms, Extended* 1089 71 V-Tops* 1104 72 V-Tops, Extended* 1118 73 Wedges, Falling 1131 74 Wedges, Rising 1148 75 Wolfe Wave®, Bearish* 1164 76 Wolfe Wave®, Bullish* 1174 Statistics Summary 1184 Glossary 1197 Visual Index of Chart Patterns 1212