As of 03/27/2024
  Indus: 39,760 +477.75 +1.2%  
  Trans: 16,029 +177.70 +1.1%  
  Utils: 875 +23.30 +2.7%  
  Nasdaq: 16,400 +83.82 +0.5%  
  S&P 500: 5,248 +44.91 +0.9%  
YTD
 +5.5%  
 +0.8%  
-0.8%  
 +9.2%  
 +10.0%  
  Targets    Overview: 03/13/2024  
  Up arrow40,000 or 38,500 by 04/01/2024
  Up arrow16,300 or 15,350 by 04/01/2024
  Up arrow885 or 830 by 04/01/2024
  Up arrow16,600 or 15,200 by 04/01/2024
  Up arrow5,350 or 5,100 by 04/01/2024
As of 03/27/2024
  Indus: 39,760 +477.75 +1.2%  
  Trans: 16,029 +177.70 +1.1%  
  Utils: 875 +23.30 +2.7%  
  Nasdaq: 16,400 +83.82 +0.5%  
  S&P 500: 5,248 +44.91 +0.9%  
YTD
 +5.5%  
 +0.8%  
-0.8%  
 +9.2%  
 +10.0%  
  Targets    Overview: 03/13/2024  
  Up arrow40,000 or 38,500 by 04/01/2024
  Up arrow16,300 or 15,350 by 04/01/2024
  Up arrow885 or 830 by 04/01/2024
  Up arrow16,600 or 15,200 by 04/01/2024
  Up arrow5,350 or 5,100 by 04/01/2024

Bulkowski on Extended V-Bottoms

Initial release on 7/3/2019. Stats updated on 8/27/2020.

Extended V-bottom chart pattern
Extended V-bottoms

Extended V Bottoms: Important Bull Market Results

Overall performance rank for up/down breakouts (1 is best): 24 out of 39
Break even failure rate: 10%
Average rise: 40%
Throwback rate: 62%
Percentage meeting price target: 51%*

The price target is the high at the start of the pattern.

The above numbers are based on 288 perfect trades. See the glossary for definitions.

Extended V-Bottoms: Identification Guidelines

I programmed my computer to find V-bottoms because to do it any other way would be unfair. I'd pick the patterns which worked and would not see those which didn't.

Some of the guidelines shown in the table reflect the automation.

CharacteristicDiscussion
DowntrendLook for price to make a straight-line run downward with few or no pauses, often fitting inside a channel.
WidthAt least 3 weeks to 3 months wide.
ReversalPrice at the bottom of the V will form a one-day reversal, island reversal, or tail, usually on heavy volume, perhaps gapping upward.
TrendlineAfter the reversal, price pierces a down-sloping trendline drawn along the price tops, confirming the trend change.
ExtensionThe extended V bottom is a variation on the v-bottom. After price reverses at the bottom, price climbs for a bit then moves sideways before continuing higher.
RetracePrice on the right side must retrace at least 38.2% of the left side, but be flexible. The retrace value is arbitrary.
BreakoutThe right side of the V forms a peak. When price closes above this peak, that's the breakout signal.
No SpikeI removed any extended V-bottom with a single long price bar as the bottom.
AnglePrice drops and reverses, forming an angle with the vertical. In some extended V-bottoms, the left angle will mirror the right one. For example, if price dropped by 30 degrees, price might rise following a similar angle.

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Extended V-Bottoms: Trading Tips

Trade an extended V bottom once price exits the extension, but you can also get in at the breakout, which is a 38.2% retrace of the left side peak to valley drop. Expect price to approach the price level of the left side of the V (where the decline started), but that could be wishful thinking.

Extended V-Bottoms: Example

Extended V bottom chart pattern example

The above figure shows an example of an extended V bottom chart pattern. The decline into the pattern is unusually steep, meaning it cannot last long, and it doesn't. Price rebounds in a V-shape and then levels out, forming the extension. The extension appears on the chart as a descending triangle -- a flat base with down-sloping top in this example, but the extension can take any shape. The breakout from this congestion pattern is upward and that means a powerful move up, retracing much of the drop leading into the V bottom.

-- Thomas Bulkowski

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