Skip to Content
Visual Guide to Chart Patterns
book

Visual Guide to Chart Patterns

by Thomas N. Bulkowski
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
7h 45m
English
Bloomberg Press
Content preview from Visual Guide to Chart Patterns
image

Measuring Flags and Pennants

This chapter explains how the measure rule applies to flags and pennants, and how traders can use it to predict a trend change.

Traders knowledgeable about flags and pennants know them as half-staff patterns. That means they can appear midway in a price trend. Let me explain using Exhibit 21.1.

The position of pennant BC is about midway in trend AD. Since you know the length of the flagpole (AB), you can project the price where the trend could end. It does not always work, of course, but flags and pennants are handy when you need to determine a trend’s lifetime.

The Measure Rule

If BC is the midpoint in the price ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Getting Started in Chart Patterns, 2nd Edition

Getting Started in Chart Patterns, 2nd Edition

Thomas Bulkowski

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781118421505Purchase book