As of 12/20/2024   Indus: 42,840 +498.02 +1.2%     Trans: 15,892 +32.54 +0.2%     Utils: 986 +14.76 +1.5%     Nasdaq: 19,573 +199.83 +1.0%     S&P 500: 5,931 +63.77 +1.1%	YTD  +13.7%   0.0%    +11.9%    +30.4%    +24.3%	Targets    Overview: 12/12/2024     44,200 or 41,750 by 01/01/2025   16,100 or 17,700 by 01/01/2025   1,050 or 975 by 01/01/2025   20,500 or 19,300 by 01/01/2025   6,100 or 5,775 by 01/01/2025
Chart Pattern Indicator: on 12/5/24

As of 12/20/2024   Indus: 42,840 +498.02 +1.2%     Trans: 15,892 +32.54 +0.2%     Utils: 986 +14.76 +1.5%     Nasdaq: 19,573 +199.83 +1.0%     S&P 500: 5,931 +63.77 +1.1%	YTD  +13.7%   0.0%    +11.9%    +30.4%    +24.3%
Targets    Overview: 12/12/2024     44,200 or 41,750 by 01/01/2025   16,100 or 17,700 by 01/01/2025   1,050 or 975 by 01/01/2025   20,500 or 19,300 by 01/01/2025   6,100 or 5,775 by 01/01/2025
Chart Pattern Indicator: on 12/5/24

Bulkowski's Event Pattern Resource

My book, Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns Second Edition, has 53 chart patterns and 10 event patterns described including performance statistics.

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Event patterns are price patterns caused by significant events that affect securities. Events such as earnings releases, Dutch auction tender offers, stock broker rating upgrades and downgrades, I call event patterns. This page serves as the gateway to examining those patterns and how to trade them.

Event patterns have failure rates that are often significantly higher than your average chart pattern. For example, an Eve & Eve double bottom chart pattern has a bull market break even failure rate of 13% (as of 10/17/2018). A good earning surprise event pattern has a 29% failure rate. Ouch!

Despite the high failure rates, traders should know how to recover from or take advantage of event patterns. That is what the below links discuss.

Latest Releases

• July 29, 2010: Stock splits. What happens to price before and after a stock split? Find out.

1. Common stock offerings.
2. Dead-cat bounce
3. Dead-cat bounce, inverted
4. Dutch auction tender offers
5. Dutch auction tender offers study
6. Earnings surprise, bad
7. Earnings surprise, good
8. Earnings flag
9. FDA drug approvals
10. Same-store sales, bad
11. Same-store sales, good
12. Stock splits
13. Stock rating downgrades
14. Stock rating upgrades

-- Thomas Bulkowski

See Also

• When patterns collide. Two chart patterns, same chart, same time. Which is right? Find out.
• Hold on. How long to you need to hold onto a stock? Find out...
• Focus on fundamentals. Picking stocks using fundamental analysis.
• How to pick stocks, part 1.
• Premature buying. Learn how to prevent buying too soon.

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