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Mastering Gaps & Breakouts: Five New Patterns

Released on Wednesday, August 21, 2024•TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

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In this presentation, Ken Calhoun will show you exactly how to identify and trade these volatile patterns for both swing and intraday trading. Bring one or two of your favorite stock or ETF tickers and we'll give you tips for trading those, as well. He will discuss:

a) Avoiding False Breakouts: We're seeing more of these in today's choppy markets; discover how to dodge these bullets.

b) Swing Trading Sustained Gaps: For many stock traders, these lucrative breakout runners can last for several weeks. Learn what to look for on daily swing charts.

c) How to day trade gap continuation and reversal patterns with confidence and skill. Nuances in these patterns are what make them challenging; learn what I've seen in 25+ years of day trading stocks.

d) 3-Bar Breakouts: Whether you use bars or candles, these "triple play" setups are a favorite from my institutional traders. I'll show you how to trade them as well.

Be sure to mark your calendar for this special fast-paced professional trading event.

Ken Calhoun

DayTradingUniversity.com , President

Popular trading professional Ken Calhoun is a former corporate statistician, quality engineer, and Fortune-500 consultant. He brings a wealth of professional real-money trading experience to the markets and has traded over $4 million in equity trades in a single year. Mr. Calhoun is a graduate of UCLA and has been featured in CBS, MarketWatch, TheStreet, Fidelity, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, and MoneyShow events.

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