Price Patterns.

chump said:
"How are stock prices formulated for companies that are going to be floated?"

You really want to know ? About two to 4 years years before the event they hire me... I look at their assets and realise they are undervalued ...we look at their costs and realise they are not costs at all ...we look at their marketing and lo we find a means to increase their sales and we gently do this incremently so has not make waves ...we pop it in the oven on a low light and when it is ready to be served we take it out , decorate with some nice herbs and sell it the suckers on a strictly formulated basis of course with our fees paid up front....and the promise of a bit of icing on the sell off....

If it was a car we would have buffed it and shined the rubbery bits....if it was a house we would have painted over the damp bits..get my drift

I know what your saying matey, but hey, that's corrupt isn't it? :cool: :eek:
 
mr.marcus said:
...not total pants tim...maybe thongesque....remember tim if convention was correct every weak hand would be a strong hand and as this is zero sum it just isnt possible,seems rather hard to keep these interesting threads on track at the moment....so im thinking of some sunday group skype sessions as alternatives.

think of the move in terms of fuel/energy tim....draw one out....at the intital mark up/down stage...the break.....how can energy be optimised....take a inverse head and shoulders as the basis of say the accumulation pattern and consider what is occurring in every leg....this will serve to understand the initial break phase and first leg out of the accumulation period....and please consider the h and s for yourself....do not again take the conventional wisdom :rolleyes: ....of a head and shoulders....its scary wrong....zero logic....cheers mark j

ps....if there's enough interest maybe its time for a another thread....and to laptop/cj it hasn't been done all before....a very stupid attitude and an excuse for not thinking and being lazy....if everyone had that approach there would never be progress in medicine .technology or any of the sciences...if people wanted another thread what would they want...thats not to say they'll get it ..how about why all price and volume vendors are wrong :cheesy:...or seriously maybe the anatomy of a head and shoulders...well a left hand shoulder would done correctly would be enough.

Another thread sounds great - I vote for starting with the left hand shoulder - very interested in hearing your views and what other experienced members have to say

BTW - Thanks for all of your contributions! - truly eye opening and thought provoking info to a newbie like myself

regards
 
linesniffer said:
How are stock prices formulated for companies that are going to be floated?

How does a stock get it's initial price on entry into the market?

What happens to this price if nobody buys or sells the stock?

Once the price moves, is the price ever fundamental again?

One more thing...

Did you sell yesterday? :cheesy:
 
update on miners and bank sectors of ftse....trouble is bigger trouble when it comes togther at a particular point ..in this case both sectors hitting range high zones....see earlier context chart for mining to see high zones.
 

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and no one believes it is over yet...more mining and banks
 

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linesniffer said:
What makes price patterns keep re-occuring? Triangles, whipsaws and all that.

News?

Volume?

Indicators and Systems?

Do price patterns spontaneously happen and nobody knows why? Do you know?

The market watched by millions, acts as one
 
Is there any correlation between currencies and markets and global economics?

Surely these millions of ordinary folk are not in the driving seat of oil prices, currencies etc?

Act as one it may, but on who's terms?

Joe public?

Governments?

The institutions?
 
Is there any correlation between currencies and markets and global economics?

Surely these millions of ordinary folk are not in the driving seat of oil prices, currencies etc?

Act as one it may, but on who's terms?

Joe public?

Governments?

The institutions?

Darkpools:?:
 
trading patterns reflect human greed and fear. Since those are constants, patterns work more times than they don't - enough to profit on them.
 
trading patterns reflect human greed and fear. Since those are constants, patterns work more times than they don't - enough to profit on them.

Hi.

Price patterns are formed through the structure of buying and selling, they actually NEVER fail. How a person percieves them may fail.

Patterns can draw you away from what is important.

Price forms patterns, and not the other way around.

Only support and resistance exists really, that's the way i see it, i may be wrong.

Thanks.
 
Key Levels?

S&P 500, the Dow, etc, have key levels. 1500 for the S&P is one key level, 13000 for the Dow.

There are always key levels for indices.

These indices are supposed to reflect the group as a whole, yeh.

So...

Why does an indices that is supposed to reflect the multiple stocks within it, seem to obey TA, just as well as a single stock?

I think it is a complete load of bollux.

Can you give me a serious answer, that is water tight and without holes? :)

Thanking you!
 
OK.

Let's say 3 companies from three different sectors of the, S&P.

One is in a bullish channel, the second is in a range near it's tops, the other has just made a double bottom.

What's the average pattern of these three?

The average price is easy.

% move average is easy, also.

Is the average pattern a 'head and shoulders'?

That's just 3 stocks, not 500.

Intended structured buying and selling? What can be structured when there is 500 stocks in the pot?

Totally random?
 
A head and shoulders on the S&P?

500 stocks.

Different sectors.

Could anyone explain a head and shoulders on the S&P 500, as easily as one stock?

Can you average out 'dumb' and 'smart' money, on 500 stocks?
 
Have you ever made an 'average' market?

With 500 stocks.

All moving differently.

How would you move the price?
 
If the S&P index is only an average of 500 stock,...then there is no real structure to it!
 
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