Monday, April 17, 2006
What does an ascending triangle look like?
Converging trendlines of support and resistance give all three patterns their distinctive shape. This occurs, Kahn explains, because "the trading action gets tighter and tighter until the market breaks out with great force."2 Buyers and sellers find themselves in a period where they are not sure where the market is headed. Their uncertainty is marked by their actions of buying and selling sooner, making the pattern look like an increasingly tight coil moving across the chart.
As the range between the peaks and troughs marking the progression of price narrows, the trendlines meet at the "apex," located at the right of the chart. The "base" of the triangle is the vertical line at the left of the chart which measures the vertical height of the pattern.
An ascending triangle - the "flat-top" triangle - also shows two converging trendlines. In this case, however, the lower trendline is rising and the upper trendline is horizontal. This pattern occurs because the lows are moving increasingly higher but the highs are maintaining a constant price level.
http://www.recognia.com/reference/patterndescr_at.htm
As the range between the peaks and troughs marking the progression of price narrows, the trendlines meet at the "apex," located at the right of the chart. The "base" of the triangle is the vertical line at the left of the chart which measures the vertical height of the pattern.
An ascending triangle - the "flat-top" triangle - also shows two converging trendlines. In this case, however, the lower trendline is rising and the upper trendline is horizontal. This pattern occurs because the lows are moving increasingly higher but the highs are maintaining a constant price level.
http://www.recognia.com/reference/patterndescr_at.htm
# posted by Cherie : 4:58 PM
