Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, Second Edition
by Michael N. Kahn
Fan Lines
There are many times when technicians are frustrated in their attempts to place trendlines. The market seems to define a trend, and then quickly breaks it to establish a shallower trend. This can happen several times before the market finally makes a clear reversal and leaves a slowly rolling-over chart pattern behind.
What’s in a Name?
The name for this pattern, fan lines, is derived from the appearance of the chart when the multiple trendlines are drawn from the same origin. It could easily have been called “rollover lines” or “trend reduction lines,” with the latter indicating that the initial steep trend is flattening into a more sustainable level.
This can often be seen just after a breakout, as the euphoria and activity surge ...
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