One thing that helped me a lot is practicing with the daily charts. I put the notepad app in front of the bars and reveal them one by one and practice...

Thanks for you explanation. It's sometimes mind breaking that I could take this short in a similar situation like this and then I find out later th...

Thank you both, I notice that I have to remember to constantly shift between all the layers of patterns and variables in my analysis. On every bar I s...

Very insightful, thanks a lot! About this point: Then, b9-11 have nearly 100% overlapping bars so that is a warning sign as well.I know that a rever...

Sure its here:/p>

Yes I know that one. Bullish BO bars are stronger when they spend more time near the high, but how about hammers? Do they need to spend a lot of time ...

Yea so always be vigilant for these things to happen, so you're saying it has no extra value that it closed last minute like this?

Hey, I would probably use the stop above the signal bar in this case. The signal bar is good and the trend is quite possibly ending. So if you use ...

Thanks for these extra clues, indeed last of the month/friday was something I didnt consider.

Thanks for your response. So a tight bear channel is not a 75/25 chance of upside breakout? But more like 50/50? I must have missed that one.