As you begin to get familiar with technical analysis, you’ll start to see three distinct types of forex chart patterns emerge. While you might be looking for wedges, flags, channels and triangles, the ...

The inside bar pattern is a powerful tool in the arsenal of forex traders, offering insight into market consolidation and potential breakout opportunities. This two-candle formation signals indecision ...

Mastering the diamond pattern can provide technical forex traders with a significant advantage in predicting currency market reversals and breakouts. This technical analysis formation is characterized ...

You can think of forex patterns, as dance patterns. You gotta find a pattern, memorize it, and use it as a signal for the next (dance) move. As naughty as the currency pairs may be, they often give us ...

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Japanese candlesticks are a popular charting technique used by many traders. Today, we are looking at the shooting star reversal pattern which is a popular Japanese candlestick formation and how to ...

The EUR/USD and the USD index are both breaking out of a much commented upon pennant pattern today. The USD is gaining a lot of strength and the breakout looks pretty solid. However are pennant and ...

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Harmonic patterns illustrate how prices of currencies behave under different market conditions to help you identify trend reversals and initiate buy or sell orders. These patterns rely on Fibonacci ...

I have received a lot of great feedback about this series of articles on candlestick formation. This is a neglected subject in the forex for a number of reasons. Probably the most significant reason ...