PRICE ACTION:
• In a downtrend, price action finds first resistance (1) that forms left shoulder's low, where it reverse direction and goes upwards till finding support (2), completing the left shoulder formation.
• Price action reverses direction from that support (2) and goes downwards till finding second resistance (3) that forms head's low, where it reverses direction and goes upwards till finding support (4), completing the head formation.
• Price action reverses direction from the last support (4) and goes downwards till finding third resistance (5) that forms right shoulder's low, where it reverses direction going upwards.
• The pattern is completed when price action breaks the neckline at point (6) upwards.
TRADING THE PATTERN
• Trade entry: the pattern is traded after price action breaks the neckline at point (6), either with an entry after the breakout, or after a -possible- retest to the neckline which turned into resistance.
• Take profit: identified by measuring the vertical distance from head (3) to neckline, that measurement is then applied from the breakout point (6).
• Stop loss: can either be the neckline breaking rate (6), or the right shoulder's high (5).
• In a downtrend, price action finds first resistance (1) that forms left shoulder's low, where it reverse direction and goes upwards till finding support (2), completing the left shoulder formation.
• Price action reverses direction from that support (2) and goes downwards till finding second resistance (3) that forms head's low, where it reverses direction and goes upwards till finding support (4), completing the head formation.
• Price action reverses direction from the last support (4) and goes downwards till finding third resistance (5) that forms right shoulder's low, where it reverses direction going upwards.
• The pattern is completed when price action breaks the neckline at point (6) upwards.
TRADING THE PATTERN
• Trade entry: the pattern is traded after price action breaks the neckline at point (6), either with an entry after the breakout, or after a -possible- retest to the neckline which turned into resistance.
• Take profit: identified by measuring the vertical distance from head (3) to neckline, that measurement is then applied from the breakout point (6).
• Stop loss: can either be the neckline breaking rate (6), or the right shoulder's high (5).