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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Being a Chart Whisperer

by Bruce Fraser

Trend analysis using trendlines (Wyckoff Method) is one of the most valuable skills of a Wyckoffian. The main idea is that a stock will advance at a set Stride, or rate of advance...Read More 

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Making the Trend Your Friend

by Bruce Fraser

The Wyckoff Method is primarily a trend following system. The orientation and goal is to discover and campaign the best leadership stocks for the biggest and best price moves. The jumping of the stock price out of the Accumulation and into an uptrend is an important event. Mr...Read More 

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Wyckoff Power Charting. Let's Review

by Bruce Fraser

Previous posts have been devoted to the process of Accumulation. What distinguishes Power Charting with the Wyckoff Method from other chart pattern recognition tools is our focus on tracking the footprints of the Composite Operator...Read More 

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Jumping the Creek

by Bruce Fraser

Prices behave differently when a trend begins. Each price bar tells a story during the sideways action of an Accumulation Range and each bar tells a different story when the trend starts. A big, long trend is born inside the inconspicuousness of an Accumulation area...Read More 

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Francis Bacon Reveals the Nature of Trends

by Bruce Fraser

Francis Bacon said; “As in nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place…”. It seems that Mr. Bacon understood the stock market very well. Stocks tend to move calmly, gently, listlessly in their trading ranges and then they move violently into trends...Read More 

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Fun With Current Charts, Wyckoff Style

by Bruce Fraser

Accumulation, Markup, Distribution and Markdown are the four basic stages of the Wyckoff Cycle. Prior posts have been focused on the primary phases of Accumulation...Read More 

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Accumulation Phase; Absorbing Stock Like a Sponge

by Bruce Fraser

What are the conditions that need to be in place prior to a long and sustained rally in a stock? That is an important question to ask because it is not a random accident when a stock rises bigger, better and faster compared to most other stocks...Read More 

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The Stopping Action of a Downtrend

by Bruce Fraser

A downtrend occurs when the supply (of shares) is greater than the demand. The float of a stock is the total number of shares owned by investors and traders in the marketplace...Read More 

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Richard D. Wyckoff's REAL Rules of the Game

by Bruce Fraser

Stock prices are constantly impacted by large and small forces. These forces propel prices endlessly up and down. If we can make sense of these forces and identify their influence, we can learn to anticipate stock price movements. Richard D...Read More 

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Getting some Basic Wyckoff Terminology Under our Belts

by Bruce Fraser

The stock market is a mystery. Sometimes it makes sense and it seems rational, such as when stock prices rise with expanding earnings growth and general business conditions. And conversely when stock prices typically fall with declining earnings and sales growth...Read More