FXCM Research Team

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Technical analysts can use simple geometric patterns such as triangle chart patterns to unveil signals that can indicate where the market could go next.

Among visual chart patterns, the head and shoulders pattern has gained status among the most reliable predictors of future price action.

Among visual indicators, the double top and double bottom are considered amongst the most convenient and reliable for trying to predict a turnaround in price tendencies.

The easily identifiable double-top and head-and-shoulders chart formations are well known patterns for trying to predict trend reversals. Another reversal pattern that shows similar characteristics is the triple-top, triple-bottom formation. This formation can be understood as a variation on double tops and head and shoulders that presents some of the same telltale signals as those other patterns. Whereas double tops and double bottoms make familiar M and W formations on…

A pattern that is similar in shape to the triangle, but with some special differences, is the wedge. Like the triangle, the wedge is characterised by converging price lines and falling volume. But where it differs is how the wedge can often signal an impending reversal of the price trend in effect. Wedge patterns occur in two varieties, the rising wedge and the falling wedge. Wedge Or Triangle: What's The…

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Elections, whether they are presidential, parliamentary, or referenda oriented, provide an abundance of uncertainty to the marketplace. Over the course of an election cycle, issues such as international trade, national security, and government spending become focal points of the national discussion. Contrasting ideologies are put on display as opposing factions compete for political power, each with a different vision for a nation's future. Perhaps the election looked upon with the…

The U.S. and world markets are in the midst of another presidential election year, as of this writing (August 2016). The election-year rhetoric from candidates and their partisan supporters has ramped up to a din capable of bringing confusion to all but the most attentive and dispassionate observers. Analysts like to note that investors don't like uncertainty. However, with a divided U.S. electorate and candidates disposed to fight tooth and…

The rectangle pattern is a common and easily identifiable formation on charts when prices momentarily move into range-bound behavior.