Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Head and shoulders pattern

Head and shoulders is a technical analysis term used to describe a chart formation in which a stock price reaches a peak and declines, rises above its former peak and again declines and rises again but not to the second peak and then again declines. The first and third peaks are shoulders, while the second peak is the formation's head.

A head and shoulders pattern consists of a peak followed by a higher peak and then a lower peak with a break below the neckline. The neckline is drawn through the lowest points of the two intervening troughs and may slope upward or downward. A downward sloping neckline is more reliable as a signal. Technical analysts generally consider a head and shoulders formation to be a very bearish indication.

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