How To Get Early Entries Into Winning Stocks

Daniel Beighley

Analyzing the big picture enables you to determine how far a stock can potentially go after it has made its intial breakout to new highs. Here is a method that helps you enter when the move is just beginning (more)

The Five Traits Of Flat Bases That Explode

Loren Fleckenstein

Some of the most explosive share price advances launch from tight, range-bound structures rather than deep correction-recovery patterns such as the cup-with-handle. (more)

How To Find Ascending Bases That Lead To Powerful Advances

Loren Fleckenstein

In a choppy market, leadership stocks sometimes act like runners on base. The player leads off, is forced back when the pitcher throws to first, then steals second and leads off again. When the next batter up blasts one for the fences, the man at second explodes, rounding third base, then slides home. (more)

Characteristics Traders Should Look For In Double-Bottom Bases

Loren Fleckenstein

One trick to buying off correction-recovery patterns is spotting the point where new buyers have overcome the so-called weak holders. Long, flat bases wear out the weak holders. Cup-with-handle bases scare and wear them out. Double-bottom bases lull the weak holders into optimism, then take them out and shoot them. (more)

Using Weekly Charts To Detect Stealth Buying

Loren Fleckenstein

Pretend that you run a mutual fund with $1 billion in assets. You want to put just 1% of that money to work in the stock of a publicly traded company. That amounts to $10 million worth of stock. (more)

How To Use TradingMarkets.com's 'Stock Building A Base' Screen

Kevin N. Marder

Successful traders realize the importance of buying a stock as it emerges from a base-building period. Kevin N. Marder shows how he uses the "Stocks Building A Base" screen to search for potential buy candidates. (more)