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I find Ascending Triangles to be a fantastic pattern for swing trading. This thread is to keep a journal of some of these and hopefully others can find some good ones that I don't.

 

Idea is to play the short-term 'momentum off opening price' with intraday risk of maybe -2% stop loss with an upside of 5-10% if the intraday momentum leads to daily momentum (ie, the daily chart 'kicks in').

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I find Ascending Triangles to be a fantastic pattern for swing trading. This thread is to keep a journal of some of these and hopefully others can find some good ones that I don't.

 

Idea is to play the short-term 'momentum off opening price' with intraday risk of maybe -2% stop loss with an upside of 5-10% if the intraday momentum leads to daily momentum (ie, the daily chart 'kicks in').

 

No reason to limit it to ascending, a descending triangle is as good for a short as an ascending is for a long.

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No reason to limit it to ascending, a descending triangle is as good for a short as an ascending is for a long.

 

Thats true only if you've got a broker which will allow you to short that particular stock!

 

The triangle formation is a very usefull pattern in swing trading. The safest method is playing the breakout of the base straight away, on a candlestick, or getting in at any retracements. They are usually pretty high probability trades. I'll try dig up some charts!

 

On stocks however, you do need to be carefull with company announcements and the correlation between price and announcements on that particular stock.

 

One of the stocks that I swing trade, Bannerman Resources (BMN on the ASX) has a habit of actually going down in price on good news. This has often caught out quite a few people who have been waiting for breakout on triangles.

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Tin, I just noticed that first chart you have up. That's a wild movement to the upside on the last two barson some gigantic volume. What sparked that off?

 

In situations like those its pretty hard to get in on those trades because you're forever carefull of not chasing the market. 2 days of gap ups with strong solid candles with very wide bodies. That particular stock unless backed up by strong fundamental reasons may actually have overheated itself, and a retracement back down towards the base line of the triangle looks like it may be viable, especially as the volume on the second gap up seems to be 1/2 that of the break out.

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