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Strategy #0000000093 · Price-pattern recognition

Chart patterns and breakout scenarios
Choose a pattern, fit threshold, breakout direction, target, stop and cost to calculate a scenario expectancy.

Head-and-shoulders, triangles, rectangles, double tops/bottoms and broadening patterns can be algorithmically defined from highs and lows. Studies test conditional returns after pattern completion, but definitions, windows, smoothing and selection bias matter. This simulator does not detect charts; users enter fit, breakout direction and target/stop scenarios.

Beginner-friendlyAbout 8 minutesEvidence and practical analysis

Three ways in

Understand the story. Then inspect the risk.

Start with a familiar situation, check the payoff, then test how the numbers change.

The idea · in two minutes

How do pattern fit and breakout direction change a target-versus-stop scenario?

Head-and-shoulders, triangles, rectangles, double tops/bottoms and broadening patterns can be algorithmically defined from highs and lows. Studies test conditional returns after pattern completion, but definitions, windows, smoothing and selection bias matter. This simulator does not detect charts; users enter fit, breakout direction and target/stop scenarios.

Choose a pattern, fit threshold, breakout direction, target, stop and cost to calculate a scenario expectancy.

Fit is not a success probability; no high/low series is loaded and no empirical pattern return is estimated.

  • Input assumptionsChoose a pattern, fit threshold, breakout direction, target, stop and cost to calculate a scenario expectancy.
  • Model outputFit is not a success probability; no high/low series is loaded and no empirical pattern return is estimated.

Illustrative research examples only. They are not live signals or a recommendation.

Variants · same family, different risk levers

Related structures use different exposures and loss conditions.

Compare allocation, financing and payoff assumptions.

Related strategyRelationshipWhat changesNew cost or risk
Base structureScenario allocationHead-and-shoulders, triangles, rectangles, double tops/bottoms and broadening patterns can be algorithmically defined from highs and lows. Studies test conditional returns after pattern completion, but definitions, windows, smoothing and selection bias matter. This simulator does not detect charts; users enter fit, breakout direction and target/stop scenarios.Fit is not a success probability; no high/low series is loaded and no empirical pattern return is estimated.
Conservative versionLower exposureReduce notional, leverage or multiplier.May reduce upside participation.
Dynamic versionPeriodic rebalanceReset exposure by risk or regime.Needs more trading and model governance.

Fit is not a success probability; no high/low series is loaded and no empirical pattern return is estimated.

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References

Primary sources and research used to describe the strategy and its limits.

  1. 01Hsu & Kuan (2005), Re-examining the Profitability of Technical Analysisresearch