{"id":6836,"date":"2010-09-01T21:26:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T01:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2023-08-03T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T03:30:28","slug":"3-pushes-to-end-a-trend-an-important-pattern-illustrated-in-todays-market-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/3-pushes-to-end-a-trend-an-important-pattern-illustrated-in-todays-market-action","title":{"rendered":"Identifying the ABC Trading Pattern: A Key Trend Reversal Indicator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to write from a more theoretical perspective in these blogs, but today&#8217;s market action provides a few interesting lessons.\u00a0 By way of background, I have not been happy with my trading performance over the past few months.\u00a0 I am just not achieving the level of consistency in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/how-to-day-trade\">intraday trading<\/a> that I know is possible.\u00a0\u00a0 In response to the frustration I have been feeling, I have scaled back both the size and scope of my trading and am now focusing on the broad market by only trading a few hundred shares of SPY at a time.\u00a0 (This is also a return to my days when I traded S&amp;P futures exclusively.\u00a0 In this post I will speak in S&amp;P futures points, where each ES point = .10 in SPY.)\u00a0 My focus over the past several weeks has been working to refine my practical application of the interaction of smaller and larger timeframe patterns, but always using the patterns to get to an understanding of the relative balance of power of the buyers vs the sellers.<\/p>\n<p>(I started writing this to illustrate one simple pattern, but as I&#8217;m writing, this post spiraled a bit out of control.\u00a0 I find myself mentioning quite a few other patterns that are also important, and I think this post actually became pretty good illustration of a pure technical version of Bella&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/what-is-your-big-picture\">&#8220;What&#8217;s in your circle?&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 Technical trading is never as simple as &#8220;see this pattern then buy&#8221;, but it&#8217;s more about seeing evolving market structure to try to understand how the relative balance of buyers and sellers is playing out.\u00a0 I ended up numbering all of the smaller patterns with numbers in parenthesis, just to highlight what I think are the important, relevant, and repeatable patterns.)<\/p>\n<p>-The big gap up on the open is a welcome sight in late summer, because it sets up a high probability for a directional day(1).\u00a0 Finally.\u00a0 I know most true gaps (today&#8217;s open outside of yesterday&#8217;s range) tend to fail(2) and at least to fill a significant percentage of the range, if not all.\u00a0 However, I also know that bigger picture the (cash S&amp;P) market has tested support at 1,040 three times over the past two weeks, with good price rejection at the level, we put in what looks like a significant higher low on the hourlies, and there was some strange buying after the close.\u00a0 In addition, I know what happened overnight with economic released from Asia, but more importantly I saw the price action in those broad equity indexes overseas.\u00a0 My bias is strongly up for the day, but there&#8217;s too much potential for a 5-8 point flush on the open to ignore that possibility, so I have to trade what I see as the price action evolves.<\/p>\n<p>-I actually shorted the new lows about 10 minutes into the day, but was very aware that a standard pattern is to drop the lows, trap some bears, and then go screaming to new highs(3) early in the day.\u00a0 You have to take the short because there is too much good downside potential, but you have to realize it is probably a trap so it puts you in an interesting state of mind.\u00a0 I also know potentially significant (in retrospect, that turns out to be a humorous understatement) reports at 10AM today so I will not be holding my full size into those reports, regardless.<\/p>\n<p>-The short was short-lived.\u00a0 Flipped long a point and a half above my entry a few minutes later as the market held the lows and took out some swing points to the upside(4).\u00a0 Nice little ding to start the day, and of course the potential for being round-tripped now, but you have to do the right thing regardless of how you feel about it.\u00a0 Sold enough of my longs into the rally to be very small in front of the number.<\/p>\n<p>-Now we get the real fun:\u00a0 A huge rally off the number&#8230; 10+ S&amp;P points in a single 5 minute bar.\u00a0 I know two things:\u00a0 this is unsustainable behavior so it is probably some kind of buying climax(5), but anyone thinking short after what has just happened, is a complete idiot.\u00a0 I will hold my small remaining long until I see clear reason to get out, and then will reestablish lower.\u00a0 I also know that a giant climax after a gap up like this can easily leave us rangebound in a tight range for most of the rest of the day(6), but I know there&#8217;s a very good statistical edge for that range to resolve the upside(7), if not today then tomorrow morning.\u00a0 I also know that, even though people like to think about measured moves, the probability of having a clean measured move off of a climax bar like this is rather small(8), so I will have to be happy with a smaller upside target.\u00a0 I make a mental note to only short today if I see clear and sharp downside momentum (which never happened).<\/p>\n<p>-Now we get the reason I originally started writing this blog.\u00a0 A very common trend-ending pattern occurs when a market makes three symmetrical pushes (on any timeframe).\u00a0 Depending on how extended the trend is, you may start thinking countertrend, but at least you must be very, very careful about holding with-trend positions through this pattern.\u00a0 The pattern grows out of the standard ABC wave, which itself is a continuation off of a strong impulse move.\u00a0 When you see the three pushes, it just means that the normal trend leg has reached its expected target.\u00a0 This is a good warning to not press with-trend positions.\u00a0 Schematically, the pattern looks like:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6837\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6837\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6837\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1.jpg 516w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 Pushes: A common trend-ending pattern<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I was holding my long position, I saw the S&amp;P market make 3 symmetrical pushes to new highs(9), the last of which came at noon, which, as we know, is a common inflection point(10).\u00a0 I was quick to get flat after the inside bar following the third push resolved to the downside(11).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6838\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6838\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6838\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2.jpg 244w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 Pushes ended the first trend swing up in the S&amp;P today<\/p><\/div>\n<p>3 Pushes to End a Trend is a form of buying climax.\u00a0 I know that there is a chance that this is an actual end of trend which may be followed by a reversal(12), but I also know that I will have to see real weakness before even thinking short(12a?).\u00a0 For now, the highest probability play is a substantial pullback to work off the overbought condition, and at least a retest of the highs later in the day(13).\u00a0 I re-establish my long position at the 20 period EMA which simply provides a reference for a point of relative balance in an overextended market(14).\u00a0 After a very sharp move, the first pullback to the moving average is always worth a shot. In addition, we see a &#8220;ragged bottom&#8221; which is a sign of classic Wyckoff-type accumulation(15).\u00a0 Intuition tells you you would rather buy a clean test of support, but intuition is wrong in this case.\u00a0 Every little test below support was immediately met by buying pressure.\u00a0 We rallied a bit off that support, so the first pullback is another good spot to add to your position(16).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6839\" title=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/3.jpg 331w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/3-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m feeling pretty good about myself, and am positioned fully long (ok&#8230; fully long and then some) as the market is pressing against new highs at 2PM.\u00a0 Considering the structure of the day has been a very sharp up move, a long sideways consolidation with good accumulation, I know there is a very high probability of another leg up in the afternoon, and probably closing on the highs(17).\u00a0 In addition, I see the market pressing against new highs at 2PM, which we know is the ideal time for a breakout(18).\u00a0 I use this as justification to be overloaded on my long position (mistake #1).<\/p>\n<p>I realize that the Russell is rallying harder than the S&amp;P, which you can see on the chart below by noticing that the Russell is lifting farther off the EMA than the S&amp;P on rallies(19).\u00a0 If\u00a0 there was any doubt about which was stronger, the Russell makes 3 attempts to take out the high of the day while the S&amp;P is holding well under.\u00a0 This is a form of divergence.\u00a0 We want to see all indexes taking out the highs at the same time for the highest probability of a good rally.\u00a0 If we see divergence, it significantly reduces our confidence in the rally(20).\u00a0 In addition, I can see clearly on my 1 minute chart of the Russell that the Russell just made 3 pushes to new highs (you might call it some variation of a triple top), and failed fairly dramatically.\u00a0 This is bad, bad, bad for long positions(21), but I decide to hold my larger-than-full-size position a bit, just to give it a little more room.\u00a0 (This is mistake #2, and you don&#8217;t need three to do damage.)<\/p>\n<p>The blue line in the chart below is high of the day for both indexes.\u00a0 Notice how clear this pattern is, but I ignored what I knew was a very high probability pattern.\u00a0 This is fighting the market, and it is pretty stupid&#8230; and the way to really do it right is to do it on larger-than-full-size!\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 I took a nasty ding out of what had been a pretty good day up to that point.\u00a0 The market is pretty efficient in punishing mistakes and stupidity.\u00a0 Of course, the right thing to do was to have sold at least the extra size at the first sign of weakness, to have gotten very small on the 3rd push failure, and to have at least taken the rest off at breakeven.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6841\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/4a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6841\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6841\" title=\"4a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/4a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/4a.jpg 484w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/4a-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 Pushes and divergence at the highs: Mid-day breakout attempt DENIED<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The day eventually did break to new highs, which is an important reminder that these trend-ending patterns do not mean the trend is going to reverse.\u00a0 I did not repeat my mistake and ended the day with a decent profit for the size I&#8217;m trading, but easily gave half my day away with one stupid mistake &#8212; 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