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Stock Charts For Dummies
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Stock Charts For Dummies

by Greg Schnell, Lita Epstein
February 2018
Beginner
360 pages
8h 20m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 16

A Quick Check of the Week’s Action

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Counting up, down, inside, and outside days

check Responding to one-off weird days

check Tracking option expiration days and Fed meetings

check Looking at breaks of support on indexes

Sometimes we study the individual charts so closely that we fail to see the big picture and get caught wrapped up in the day to day. Sometimes you need to step back and take a weekly look so you don’t risk selling your winning trades just before another breakout. The news media commentary won’t affect your perspective as much when you step back and periodically take a longer view.

In this chapter, we describe a few handy tasks for taking stock of weekly action in the market (no pun intended!): counting up versus down days, responding to unusual price action, keeping track of certain key events, and noting a break of support on indexes.

Counting the Days

It is not uncommon for one day a week to be down and the rest of the week to be up. Commonly, Monday can be a down day, which taints the opinion of the week. One suggestion you may hear is to try to avoid ...

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