Reversal Indices Trading Chart Patterns

These patterns are formed after the indices trading market has had an extended move up or down and the indices price reaches a strong resistance or support respectively.

 

When indices price reaches such a point it starts to form a pattern. Since these formations are frequently formed it is easy to spot them once you learn how and start using them. There are four types:

 

• Double Tops
• Double Bottoms
• Head and shoulders
• Reverse Head and shoulders

 

This learn indices trading tutorial will only cover double tops and bottoms, for the other 2, read this other tutorial: head & shoulders and reverse head & shoulders

 

 

Double Tops

This is a reversal indices trading pattern that forms after an extended upward indices trading trend. As its name implies, this formation is made up of two consecutive peaks that are roughly equal, with a moderate trough in between.

 

This formation is considered complete once indices price makes the second peak and then penetrates the lowest point between the highs, called the neckline. The sell indices trading signal from this formation occurs when the indices trading market breaks below the neckline.

 

In Indices, this formation is used as a early warning signal that a bullish indices trading trend is about to reverse. However, it is only confirmed once the neckline is broken and the indices trading market moves below the neckline. Neckline is just another name for the last support level formed on the Indices chart.

 

Summary:

• Forms after an extended move upwards
• This formation indicates that there will be a reversal in the indices trading market
• We sell when indices price breaks below the neckline; see below for explanation.

 

 

The double tops look like an M-Shape, the best reversal indices trading signal is where the second top is lower than the first one as shown below, this means that the reversal can be confirmed by drawing a downward indices trading trend line as shown below. If a indices trader opens a sell indices trading signal the stop loss will be placed just above this downward indices trading trend line.

M-Shaped

 

 

Double Bottoms

This is a reversal indices trading pattern that forms after an extended downward indices trading trend. It is made up of two consecutive troughs that are roughly equal, with a moderate peak in between.

 

This formation is considered complete once indices price makes the second low and then penetrates the highest point between the lows, called the neckline. The buy indication from this bottoming out signal occurs when the indices trading market breaks the neckline to the upside.

 

In Indices, this formation is an early warning signal that the bearish indices trading trend is about to reverse. It is only considered complete/confirmed once the neckline is broken. In this formation the neckline is the resistance level for the indices price. Once this resistance is broken the indices trading market will move up.

 

Summary:

• Forms after an extended move downwards
• This formation indicates that there will be a reversal in the indices trading market
• We buy when indices price breaks above the neckline; see below for explanation.

 

The double bottoms pattern look like a W-Shape, the best reversal indices trading signal is where the second bottom is higher than the first one as shown below, this means that the reversal can be confirmed by drawing an upward indices trading trend line as shown below. If a indices trader opens a buy indices trading signal the stop loss will be placed just below this upward indices trading trend line.

W-Shaped