As of 10/07/2024
  Indus: 41,954 -398.51 -0.9%  
  Trans: 15,783 -31.37 -0.2%  
  Utils: 1,027 -24.05 -2.3%  
  Nasdaq: 17,924 -213.95 -1.2%  
  S&P 500: 5,696 -55.13 -1.0%  
YTD
 +11.3%  
-0.7%  
 +16.5%  
 +19.4%  
 +19.4%  
  Targets    Overview: 09/30/2024  
  Up arrow43,500 or 41,600 by 10/15/2024
  Up arrow16,800 or 15,700 by 10/15/2024
  Up arrow1,125 or 1,025 by 10/15/2024
  Up arrow19,000 or 17,600 by 10/15/2024
  Up arrow5,900 or 5,600 by 10/15/2024
As of 10/07/2024
  Indus: 41,954 -398.51 -0.9%  
  Trans: 15,783 -31.37 -0.2%  
  Utils: 1,027 -24.05 -2.3%  
  Nasdaq: 17,924 -213.95 -1.2%  
  S&P 500: 5,696 -55.13 -1.0%  
YTD
 +11.3%  
-0.7%  
 +16.5%  
 +19.4%  
 +19.4%  
  Targets    Overview: 09/30/2024  
  Up arrow43,500 or 41,600 by 10/15/2024
  Up arrow16,800 or 15,700 by 10/15/2024
  Up arrow1,125 or 1,025 by 10/15/2024
  Up arrow19,000 or 17,600 by 10/15/2024
  Up arrow5,900 or 5,600 by 10/15/2024

Bulkowski on Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal

The wide ranging day upside reversal pattern
Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal

 

Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal: Important Bull Market Results

Overall performance rank (1 is best)**: 12/23
Break even failure rate*: 39% (up breakouts)
Average rise*: 8%
Percentage meeting price target*: 40%
 
The above numbers are based on hundreds of perfect trades as of 3/15/2013. See the glossary for definitions.
* Based on the trend high, not the ultimate high. See text.
** Based on the average rise compared to other small patterns with upward breakouts in a bull market

Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal: Identification Guidelines

CharacteristicDiscussion
1 barThe pattern is composed of one bar.
DowntrendLook for the pattern in a short-term down trend.
CloseThe close must be within 25% of the intraday high.
Wide RangeLook for an unusually tall price bar. For testing, I used a high-low range on the reversal day that was at least three times the one-month average.

Top of page

Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal: Trading Tips

Trading TacticExplanation
ReversalThe pattern is supposed to act as a reversal of the down trend, and it does, but only 38% of the time in a bull market. In other words, look for price to continue lower most often.
BuyOnce price closes above the top of the pattern or below the bottom of it, buy/short at the open the next day, respectively.
Measure ruleThe wide ranging day upside reversal fulfills the measure rule only 40% of the time (bull market, up breakout). That is, measure the height of pattern and add it to the high price to get an upward target or subtract it from the intraday low to get a downward price target.

Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal: Performance Statistics

For the following statistics, I used 1,138 stocks, starting from January 1990 to March 2013, but few stocks covered the entire range. All stocks had a minimum price of $5. There were two bear markets in the 2000s (as determined by the S&P 500 index), from 3/24/2000 to 10/10/2002 and 10/12/2007 to 3/6/2009. Everything outside of those dates represents a bull market.

For each wide ranging day upside reversal, I found when the trend started and when it ended. To find the trend peak or valley, I found the lowest valley and highest peak within plus or minus 5 days (11 days total) each, before the wide ranging day upside reversal and the same peak/valley test after the wide ranging day upside reversal. The closest valley or peak before the wide ranging day upside reversal is where the trend began. The closest peak or valley after the wide ranging day upside reversal is where the trend ended. I compared the peak or valley to the average of the high and low price of the wide ranging day upside reversal.

The 5-bar peak or valley number tends to find major turning points on the daily charts.

I measured performance from the day after the breakout (opening price) to the nearest trend peak or trend valley.

To determine the inbound price trend (I was looking for a down trend), I used linear regression on the average of the high-low prices in the five days before pattern. That caught the short-term trend.

Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal: Performance and Failure Rates

Table 1: Performance and Failure Rates
Market/Breakout direction 5% Failure  Average 
 Rise/Drop 
Bull market, up breakout39%8%
Bull market, down breakout45%-8%
Bear market, up breakout35%7%
Bear market, down breakout20%-16%

Table 1 lists the failure rates, sorted by market condition and breakout direction along with the average rise or drop.

A failure occurs when the stock fails to move in the direction of the breakout more than 5%.

The failure rates may appear high, but that's typical for short-term patterns like the wide ranging day upside reversal. The highest failures occur in a bull market. The 16% average drop for the bear market and downward breakout can probably be explained by few samples: 150.

Top of page

Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal: Measure Rule

Table 2: Measure Rule Performance
Market/Breakout direction Success 
Bull market, up breakout40%
Bull market, down breakout33%
Bear market, up breakout31%
Bear market, down breakout47%

Table 2 shows how often the measure rule works. Use the measure rule to estimate of how far price is likely to rise or drop.

To do this, measure from the high to the low in pattern to get the height. Add the height to the high or subtract it from the low to get the target. Price does best in a bear market after a downward breakout. It reaches the target 47% of the time, on average. The low percentages are due to the tall nature of the pattern.

Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal: Trading Performance

Table 3: Testing the open-close Reversal
Market/Breakout direction Bull/Up  Bull/Down  Bear/Up  Bear/down 
Net profit/loss$75.98$(53.46)$(105.34)$211.14
Wins56%46%45%63%
Winning trades1,63034420095
Average gain of winners$717.71$742.24$709.80$781.94
Losses44%54%55%37%
Losing trades1,27341024955
Average loss($745.71)($721.08)($760.07)($774.79)
Average hold time (calendar days)27251510

Table 3 shows the performance based on 4,291 trades using $10 commissions per trade ($20 round trip), starting with $10,000 per trade. No other adjustments were made for interest, fees, slippage and so on.

Here's the setup.

For example, in a bull market, the net gain was $75.98 for all trades. The method won 56% of the time and there were 1,630 winning trades. The average gain of winning trades was $717.71.

Forty-four percent, or 1,273 trades were losers. They lost an average of $745.71.

The average hold time was 27 calendar days.

Notice how the gains and losses were pegged near 7%, which is how the test was setup.

Top of page

Wide Ranging Day Upside Reversal: Trading Example

wide ranging day upside reversal in Alaska Air (ALK)

The figure shows the wide ranging day upside reversal at A.

Price drops in the days leading to the wide ranging day. In this example, price opens near the bottom and closes near the intraday high, making a very tall price bar.

The next day, the stock breaks out upward by closing above the top of the wide ranging day. I show that at B.

Buy the stock at the open at C.

Not shown is a 7% profit target or 7% stop loss, both based on the entry price.

-- Thomas Bulkowski

Top of page

See Also

Below are other short patterns...

 

Support this site! Clicking any of the books (below) takes you to Amazon.com If you buy ANYTHING while there, they pay for the referral.
Legal notice for paid links: "As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases."

My Stock Market Books
My Novels

Copyright © 2005-2024 by Thomas N. Bulkowski. All rights reserved.
Disclaimer: You alone are responsible for your investment decisions. See Privacy/Disclaimer for more information.
Some pattern names are registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Home Advertise Contact Privacy/Disclaimer

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.Smiley