Sunday, December 12, 2010

Forex Flags And Pennants Chart Pattern

Pennants and Flags are short-term continuation patterns and are among the most reliable of all continuation patterns, they are formed when there is a sharp price movement followed by a consolidation phase (sideways action), thereafter the previous up or down trend is expected to resume.

Flags and Pennants are marked by two trend lines. At its top, there is a line of resistance where traders are willing to sell the currency pair.
At it's bottom, there is a line of support where traders are willing to buy the currency pair.

What do Flags and Pennants Formations look like? 
Flags and Pennants Formations
What's the main difference between Flags and Pennants? 

A Flag consists of 2 parallel trendlines (support and resistance) that slope against the previous trend. The Pennant consists of two converging trendlines that begins wide and converges and is a very short term Symmetrical Triangle.

How to trade these patterns? 

Always trade Flag and Pennants in the direction of the previous (main)trend:

(1) If the previous trend was up, wait for a break out to the upside and go long when the currency pair rises above the upper resistance trendline.

Place your stop a few pips below the lower support trendline.

(2) If the previous trend was down, wait for a break out to the downside and go short when the currency pair falls below the lower support trendline.

Place your stop a few pips above the upper resistance trendline.

Chart examples

Bullish Pennant and Bullish Flags

Bullish Pennant and Bullish Flags

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