Quote from Trend Fader:
Maybe all of these patterns like bases, triangles, flags... are patterns of randomness.. which what the stock market really is.
Been trading successfully for many years... I got a lot of email from sincere ET traders that wanted me to post some charts... so they can learn from them....
When I swing trade.. I am right usually about the same as I am wrong.. but my profits are usually 2.5x my loss.
Further... some of those pretty charts you have seen are purely random..
Let me phrase it better... " profitable characteristics " of randomness. In my book it is the same thing.
These characterisitcs include, basing, triangles, flags, simple pullbacks alongside the major trend. These are apparent in random charts and stock charts....
So here is the oxymoron.... within randomness there are patterns... randomness is not exactly random because the characteristics of randomness are not random.... make sense??? lol