tinhat
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Stick 'em up, give me all your money. lol.
Hope you are keeping an eye on it tinhat, that gap looks like it needs closing.
Good one for you.
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I don't plan to die any time soon but I will die poor.
I've benefited from a few technical analysts who have corrected me on my technical reading of charts. I'm not a T/A. I buy and hold on fundamentals but time entry/exit and dabble around at my exposure based on my crude T/A skills.
'enclyclopedia of chart patterns', Bulkowski (2013, Second edition), p362 states:
"Bull market gaps do well when they appear near the yearly high. Large gaps perform better than small ones."
While Bulowski finds that most breakout gaps (66%) close after one year, my observation of the KZA chart posted above shows that this does not imply that gaps signal any break to a long term uptrend.
I do use gaps and retracement levels as potential entry and top-up (trend reversal) levels.