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Re: [RT] H&S on the Bonds



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Does this definition mention anywhere how many bars 
(minimum) there should be to make up the pattern, or indeed, one or other of the 
shoulders?
 
Bill Eykyn
 
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  Earl Adamy 
  
  To: <A 
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  Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 6:59 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [RT] H&S on the 
  Bonds
  
  E&M 6th ed page 64 on "The Head and 
  Shoulders"
   
  A. A strong rally climaxing a more or less 
  extensive advance, on which trading volume becomes very heavy, followed by a 
  minor recession on which volume runs considerably less than it did during the 
  day of rise and at the top. This is the left shoulder.
   
  B. Another high volume advance which reaches a 
  higher level than the top of the left shoulder, and then another reaction on 
  less volume which takes prices down to somewhere near the bottom level of the 
  preceding recession, somewhat lower perhaps or somewhat higher, but in any 
  case below the top of the left shoulder. This is the head.
   
  C. A third rally, but this time on decidedly less 
  volume than accompanied the formation of either the left shoulder or the head, 
  which fails to reach the height of the head before another decline sets in. 
  This is the right shoulder.
   
  Thus E&M does not agree that the volume on 
  the right shoulder is not compared relative to the volume on the left 
  shoulder.
   
  Earl
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    Steven W. Poser 
    (psn) 
    To: <A 
    href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxx"; 
    title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxx>realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 7:40 
    PM
    Subject: RE: [RT] H&S on the 
    Bonds
    
    <SPAN 
    class=120292502-11012001>Earl -
    <SPAN 
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    <SPAN 
    class=120292502-11012001>While I agree with you that the pattern is too 
    small to call it a h&s pattern, at least as defined by E&M, the 
    volume pattern that you discuss is not a good argument only because volume 
    can rise on the right shoulder from days between the head and the right 
    shoulder, as long as it is lower than at the head. For that matter, the 
    volume I show on my chart for 8-Jan was the lowest since the high anyway to 
    that point. It looks as if your charts show previous day's volume beneath 
    the current bar (see my chart attached). The low volume on the left shoulder 
    is at least partially because it was pre-Christmas (wasn't the 22nd a 
    shortened day?). Note also that volume properly increased as prices fell the 
    next day. The volume pattern looks even better in the benchmark 10Y futures 
    (though the left shoulder is still low). 
    <SPAN 
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    <SPAN 
    class=120292502-11012001>The most incorrect thing about calling this a 
    H&S is that it is no place near being confirmed. The neckline is one of 
    those ugly downward sloping ones. It comes in tomorrow near 103:20. The 
    measured move off the high will be about 2:14, so we will get the signal 
    more than 1/2 to the target. Not a great risk/reward. There are much better 
    patterns and indicators that would have told you to be short than this 
    possible H&S. 
    <SPAN 
    class=120292502-11012001> 
    <SPAN 
    class=120292502-11012001>One thing that I strongly believe in is that the 
    requirements that E&M put on patterns as far as length go are not 
    useful. These patterns also show up, and seem to be reliable, even on an 
    intraday basis. Of course, as an Elliottician, I think all patterns can work 
    even down to very short time frames. It is a bias I have and a cross that I 
    have to bear.
    <SPAN 
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    <SPAN 
    class=120292502-11012001>Steve Poser
     
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    Strategies Inc.<A href="http://www.poserglobal.com/"; 
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      <FONT face=Tahoma 
      size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Earl Adamy 
      [mailto:eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx]Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 
      9:09 PMTo: RealTradersSubject: Re: [RT] H&S on 
      the Bonds
      I've previously reminded TBT of the required 
      qualifications for a H&S with E&M and Curtis Arnold 
      references to proper identification of H&S patterns but he keeps 
      throwing these things up as H&S. For the benefit of new traders 
      on the list who pickup such misinformation and try to use it to their 
      financial peril, I have attached a GIF which shows what disqualifies this 
      as a H&S. The idea is simple - high volume on the rally into the 
      left should indicates buying while low volume on the rally into the right 
      shoulder indicates lack of buying. Finally, the pattern here is much 
      too abbreviated (too few bars) to qualify as a H&S.
       
      Earl
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        Don 
        Ewers 
        To: <A 
        href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxx"; 
        title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxx>realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxx 
        Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 
        3:45 PM
        Subject: Re: [RT] H&S on the 
        Bonds
        
        Bill,
        I noticed that too, but as another astute investor (Earl) saw the 
        volume on the right shoulder is larger than on the left, so be careful 
        about this "topping pattern" and getting too bearish.  Could just 
        be a minor wave 4 of big wave 3 (not a big wave 4) in a continuation 
        pattern? Minor 4's screw more trades up, I have learned to respect 
        them (Vs predicting a big wave 4).
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