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Thomas N. Bulkowski’s successful investment activities allowed him to retire at age 36. He is an internationally known author and trader with almost 30 years of stock market experience and widely regarded as a leading expert on chart patterns. His four books, including the best selling Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, have been translated into six languages. He may be reached at

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Mkt Overview: 08/29/2010

CPI: on 08/27/2010

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8/14/10. What chart patterns are best for swing and position trades? Find out.
8/12/10. Selling tips: Here's a dozen selling tips every trader should know.
8/2/10. Vivus trade: full retrace of gap on entry, sell on symmetrical triangle breakout and bad news, 37% in 7 months.
7/29/10. Stock splits. What happens to price before and after a stock split? Find out.
7/23/10. Price recovery. Do stocks that decline least in a bear market rebound furthest?
7/22/10. Price doubles, then what? Stocks that double or drop in half show surprising performance a year later.
7/17/10. This trading setup is good for trading ETFs, and it has a unique dual exit strategy.
7/9/10. Distribution days. Do distribution days foretell a coming price decline?
6/23/10. Flags and high and tight flags. What's the difference?
6/23/10. Ann Taylor trade: high and tight flag entry, sell in May and go away exit, 78% in 9 months.
6/18/10 Released version T of Patternz. Kinda rhymes!
6/17/10 Rectangle top trading setup. The best performing uses a 21-day simple moving average and 3 day exit.
6/16/10. Rectangle bottom trading setup. Make an average of 2.5% in less than a week.
6/11/2010. 23 tests show how difficult it can be to make money trading ascending triangles.
5/30/10. Trades double bottoms and has won 80% of the time over 20 years.
5/24/10. Hold time loss. This can help with initial stop placement.
5/13/10. Added new research on dollar cost averaging.
5/10/10. Added a new tutorial on shorting stocks.
5/5/10. I released new research on stops. Can they hurt?
5/4/10. Bearish hikkake candlestick explored.
5/3/10. Stan Weinstein has developed a unique stop placement technique.
5/3/10. I released a page describing how long to hold onto a stock.
4/18/10. I released a new candle pattern: bullish hikkake.
4/4/10. Find out what insiders are up to using SEC forms.
4/4/10. Time the market with a simple moving average.
4/4/10. Relative strength of a stock compared to the S&P 500 index. Find out more.
3/31/10 New research on the months with the most up closes.
3/29/10 I released new research on the best day of the week to buy or sell.
3/17/10 I released new research on volume.
3/6/10 I released the cloudbank setup.
3/3/10 I discovered a new chart pattern: Cloudbanks.
3/2/10 Here's a new tutorial to prevent buying too soon.
2/2/10 Do throwbacks and pullbacks occur more often after partial rises/declines?
2/2/10 This RSI trading system scales out of trades.
2/2/10 Stop overtrading!
2/2/10 Price mirrors, what are they?
2/2/10 A summary on finding 10 baggers
2/1/10 Stock trade: The 38% Exit.
1/1/10 Stocks that double. Discover what attributes they share.
1/1/10 Adam and Eve patterns. What are they and how can they help?
1/1/10. What is a MOC order or stop limit? Find out.
1/1/10. Added a page on how to predict the breakout direction.

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