All About Trends’ Market Review
by Chart School - September 27th, 2009 2:25 pm
MARKET IN REVIEW
BUYING STOCKS AT SAFE, ALTERNATIVE ENTRY POINTS
Courtesy of David Grandey at All About Trends
The big questions on a lot of folks minds are: "Was That It? and Did We Just Top?" In order to answer those questions let’s look at what the daily index charts off the March 2009 lows have to say about that.
The Nasdaq, Dow and S&P indexes have uptrends that are still intact. The green lines, the blue line and the 50 day moving average are your guides. As of this moment, we see NO TOP on the market.
HOWEVER, IF we see a quick run sometime next week to a retest of the highs and then a pullback off of that retest, those developments will create a double top and we’ll be more apt to call a short term top at that time.
Why does the presence of a Double Top cause us to be more likely to change our position on the market? Because the Double Top is one of the most common early warning alert patterns warning of a change in trend.
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HOW TO BUY STOCKS AT SAFE, ALTERNATIVE ENTRY POINTS
So now that the indexes are pulling back, but remain in a clearly defined uptrend above their uptrend lines and 50-day moving averages, we want to focus on stocks that are in the same position and have simply pulled back off of their highs to those support levels. This is called trading in tandem with the market.
Now there are two ways to buy stocks. The first way is to find a stock that has formed a base and buy it when it breaks into new highs above the base. This is called buying a traditional breakout. Here’s a look at some recent breakouts:

As you can see with each of these, after breaking out, they quickly turned tail to retest what was resistance (now should be support), and each of them actually closed under support or back in the base. If you had bought them with a stop loss, chances are after a few feel-good days, you were stopped out.
Now let’s look at the second way:
As you can see here, this issue broke out. But most breakouts…