Bulkowski’s Stock Market Research

Written and copyright © 2005-2009 by Thomas N. Bulkowski. All rights reserved.

This page is the gateway to research studies, listed alphabetically, that I have conducted on price patterns and the stock market.

1. Buy low or buy high? Buy near yearly low for larger gains, less risk.
2. Dead-cat bounces: Which industries have the fewest?
3. Double tops. Shows a new way to predict the time to reach a price target.
4. Dutch auction tender offers. Can you make money trading these?
5. Factors influencing stocks. Find out how important trends are.
6. Failure rates. Chart patterns fail more often than before.
7. Fibonacci retrace. Place a stop 67% of the prior rise.
8. Hardware survey. How many monitors, computers, etc. should you have?
9. Height and width study. Tall patterns outperform.
10. High and tight flags: Do they live up to the promise of the best performing chart pattern?
11. Long or short? Selling short is a losers game. Or is it?
12. Low priced patterns: Do they outperform? Yes. Best is $0-$10 range.
13. Market cap. Chart patterns in small cap stocks outperform.
14. Market & stock trends. Buy in a downtrend, sell on the uptrend.
15. Money management. Where should you place a stop on breakout day?
16. Moving averages. Boost performance using chart patterns with moving averages!
17. Overlap. Does congestion before the breakout matter? Yes.
18. Pattern frequency. How often do patterns appear?
19. Pattern width I examined pattern width and time to reach the ultimate high/low.
20. Price mountains. How long to recover after a price run-up and run-down?
21. Price stages. Does Stan Weinstein’s four stages work? Yes!
22. Price trends. Consecutively higher/lower closes before the breakout offers performance clues.
23. Price trends. Price trends over the last year helps make buying stock easier.
24. Price velocity is similar on entry and exit from chart patterns.
25. Price volatility. Stocks with volatility too high or low hurt profits.
26. Price volatility vs. performance. Higher volatility is good.
27. Relative strength Index (Wilder RSI). Works best with new settings.
28. Relative strength (industry). Holy Grail of investing?
29. Relative strength (stocks, part 1). Not a Holy Grail
30. Relative strength (stocks, part 2). Trading relative strength
31. Seasonality. What are the best months to buy and sell stocks?
32. Shadows. Do tall candle shadows predict price turns? Yes and no.
33. Stops. Research reveals how often stops are hit.
34. Study of studies. An intriguing snapshot of various studies.
35. Symmetry. Do head-and-shoulders with extended right shoulders underperform? Yes.
36. Tall candles at peaks and valleys. Tall candles appear at turning points.
37. Tall candles show support and resistance.
38. Top 10 reversals and continuations. A short list plus download.
39. Triangle apex and turning points. Price turns at apex 60% of the time.
40. Ugly patterns: Do they outperform? Yes.