Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated ...

Correctly identifying and subsequently trading the triangle chart pattern has benefitted many technical forex traders. The triangle pattern is traditionally categorized as a continuation chart pattern ...

Stock chart patterns can be a vital tool for investors. They provide an exceptionally detailed level of a stock’s trend lines. This can give a major leg up against the competition. This is why they ...

As you begin to get familiar with technical analysis, you’ll start to see three distinct types of forex chart patterns emerge. While you might be looking for wedges, flags, channels and triangles, the ...

Fundamental analysis tries to determine value and estimate the future market price based on a stock's underlying fundamentals. Technical analysis relies on charts to forecast prices. The goal of ...

News-driven FX Trading: How to Trade Events Like the FOMC, CPI, and NFP Chart patterns reveal trader psychology and can signal trend continuation, reversal, or market indecision—specially when ...

You might be familiar with “island reversals” or “pennants”, “double bottoms” or “falling wedges”. These are some of the many recurring patterns that appear in stock charts that now have their own ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, writer, fact-checker, and ...

In this lesson, we dive into the head and shoulders chart pattern: a powerful tool widely recognised for its ability to signal potential trend reversals in financial markets. It typically indicates a ...

A bull flag pattern resembles a flag on a pole and appears when a cryptocurrency is experiencing a significant price rise. Many security price forecasters use technical analysis, sometimes referred to ...