Wyckoff Power Charting

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About the author: , an industry-leading "Wyckoffian," began teaching graduate-level courses at Golden Gate University (GGU) in 1987. Working closely with the late Dr. Henry (“Hank”) Pruden, he developed curriculum for and taught many courses in GGU’s Technical Market Analysis Graduate Certificate Program, including Technical Analysis of Securities, Strategy and Implementation, Business Cycle Analysis and the Wyckoff Method. For nearly three decades, he co-taught Wyckoff Method courses with Dr. Learn More

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Jumping the Creek. A Review.

by Bruce Fraser

Let’s review the concept of the ‘Creek’. This is a nuanced Wyckoff principle, but once understood, it becomes a very powerful trading edge. Support and Resistance zones are typically understood to exert their influence at linear price levels...Read More 

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Win the Race with Relative Strength

by Bruce Fraser

Fellow Wyckoffian, Dan, emailed a very good question this week. Dan is seeing the energy stocks move up and he observes that being a cyclical industry, these stocks typically move in unison...Read More 

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S&P 500. Zooming In.

by Bruce Fraser

Wyckoff Method tools can be used in multiple time frames. We can often gain clarity by evaluating larger or smaller chunks of time. We recently studied the daily bars of the S&P 500 as it approached important Support. So far, this Support has been respected...Read More 

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Detect Rotation with PnF Charts

by Bruce Fraser

The winds are shifting in the financial markets. Often Point and Figure charts offer a perspective that other chart types might obscure. Point and Figure chart construction is minimalistic. It keeps the important price swings and discards the rest...Read More 

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S&P 500 Notebook

by Bruce Fraser

I make lots of notes on my charts. As conditions unfold I have a sense for what my thinking was and whether adjustments need to be made in tactics...Read More 

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Interest Rates. How High?

by Bruce Fraser

The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) has indicated their intention to raise interest rates during 2018 and 2019. In fact, US Treasury interest rates have been rising for quite some time...Read More 

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Combining Wyckoff and Relative Strength to Find Big Trends

by Bruce Fraser

In stock chart analysis the closest thing to X-Ray vision is Relative Strength. Often Relative Strength provides us with early price direction clues. Generally, when Relative Strength (RS) is in a rising trend and price is in a rising trend, this trend will persist...Read More 

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Divining Distribution

by Bruce Fraser

In last Thursday’s MarketWatchers LIVE (recording available here) we discussed the Wyckoff Distribution concept of the Upthrust After Distribution (UTAD). Distribution and Accumulation adhere to a logical path or sequence of price and volume...Read More 

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Distribution Review

by Bruce Fraser

It has been a long time since we have explored the intricacies of the Wyckoff Distribution structure. But since 2018 has opened with a Bang, by going straight up in January and then early February’s retracement of the prior month’s advance, it is time to review...Read More 

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The Law of Cause and Effect in Action

by Bruce Fraser

The Law of Cause and Effect is a cornerstone principle of the Wyckoff Method. Cause building on the chart precedes the Effect of a Markup or a Markdown. Wyckoffians meticulously study trading ranges on the charts for Accumulation or Distribution characteristics...Read More