Classic swing trading strategies for stock chart patterns

Swing trading strategies are mostly based on technical analysis of stock market charts.

One style of swing strategies use technical analysis of classic chart patterns. Trading such chart patterns can be extremely profitable. If you are able to combine described know-how with strong discipline for trade and money management then it is good way to trade the markets.

Cup with handle chart pattern strategy

The classic swing strategy is to buy a breakout at this horizontal price level. You as a trader need define the point where you consider a breakout as successful, and it is already “safe” to buy. You can use the technique of fixed value distance from resistance level.

I traded this situation as a breakout with entry near 40.45.

Strategy for bearish pennant in a downtrend

The basic rule how to trade a bearish pennant is to sell short immediately after a breakdown of support trendline of this chart pattern. I did a short trade in GOOG based on this bearish pattern with entry near 631.50.

More swing trading strategies for chart patterns

There’s another possibility for stock trade based on chart patterns. This option can be used when:

• A breakout style strategy is too aggressive
  or
• A market is in a downtrend and does not support a long breakout.

In such a case you could choose to trade a pullback-type of swing strategies. Look at this example of MYGN graph.

It was possible to enter a swing trade after the pullback with the $40 USD level acting now as a support. Both strategies brought nice results. (I traded them both as a swing trade and as a position trade.) Here are results of these trades for illustration purposes.