14 September 2018
What is the ‘Gartley Pattern’
Back in 1932 H M Gartley laid down a chart pattern in his book, Profits in the Stock Market, page 222. See below the chart.
The H M Gartley pattern becomes complex chart pattern, when added Fibonacci numbers and ratios. But this helps traders identify reaction highs and lows. The H M Gartley pattern is the most commonly used harmonic chart pattern.
To understand better, you can read Larry Pesavento’s book Fibonacci Ratios with Pattern Recognition. Larry applied Fibonacci ratios to the pattern.
Price action are moving in zigzag manner, when you study carefully you could see the Gartley pattern, ABCD or 1234. The perfect Gartley pattern AB=CD.
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We told you in our last posting, market having a weak heart. Why? We see bullish Gartley pattern in Straits Times Index, in OCBC stock, and …
Let’s study DBS stock and see what happen.
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D05 DBS Group Holdings DBS Charting
Study Support Resistance
To maximize your profit and minimize risk is to buy low sell high, or in other words, buy support sell resistance.
Study DBS Group Holdings stock price. Use buy support sell resistance strategy. Remember to take profit when the price action breakout below the bullish trend line. See chart picture worth a thousand words.
Stock price after breakout 31 dollars and begin to fail. The price action moves in a very clear and nice H M Gartley ABCD, a bearish ABCD pattern. The projection of the cd leg may end below 22 dollars. See chart picture worth a thousand words.
Trade with eyes open.
Manage your risk.
Zoom out, we see the price action breakout the resistance and climb to the high of 31 dollars. Now the price action pullback. It is likely the price may touch the resistance again. What the price be? May be near 21. Trade with your eyes open.
Upflow, ABCD, bullish Gartley Bullish pattern. See chart, picture worth a thousand words. We may be prepare to re-enter the market near 21 region. Trade with eyes open. Of course, all setup can fail.
Manage your risk.
See chart, with MACD indicator. MACD signal is below zeroline, bearish bias.
Moses
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