Investing Education Stories

The stick sandwich pattern certainly has a humorous name, but patter happens relatively frequent and should be spotted with ease. Searching for the patter, there are three candles involved, with a bearish, then bullish, followed by a bearish, forming the sandwich.

When trading in the markets or investing, it is important to understand where the market is at in that point of time and the Williams R Percentage can help with that. The equations for this is taking the highest high and subtracting the closing price. Then, divide that by the highest high and lowest low, multiplied by negative one hundred.

The evening star candlestick patter is a pattern that technical traders and investors recognize as a potential bearish reversal. As with all patterns, they are not one hundred percent certain, but rather give you the investor an opprotunity to be alert for the potential move.

Price floor movement is an event that may not affect too many of you but it is important to know. Not in a too distant past, a country removed their price floor so to speak on their currency, causing people to lose unimaginable amounts of money.

When looking for a stalled pattern in the chart, you can be looking during a bull market or a bear market, and the pattern is typically set up after a run over several days.

There are many different trading patterns out there and it is important to find the one that fits you. Matching low is a wonderful pattern to use if you are searching for a potential bottom in the market.

Breakaway investing and trading is when there is a signal that could be indicating a short term trend reversal. There are different types of breakaways, but one of the most seen is the gap up or the gap down, indicating the market is moving quickly and depending on volume, with momentum.

The three line strike candle pattern is interesting in that it may not look like something you would keep an eye out for. The pattern in a bull market is three consecutive bull candles followed with a fourth bear candle that wipes out the gains of the three bull candles. The same if for the bearish candles except the fourth candle will be bullish.

When looking at the future, forecasting is an important element to investing and one that is difficult to hone the skills for. With a time series forecast, this is allowing you to see data in a quantifiable way and present it.

When looking at a potential investment, it is important to weigh as many important factors as you can. From cash flow, to revenue, all the way to probability of a bankruptcy, these are important data points that can factor into your decision making.