BREAKOUT CANDLE TAKEN OUT BY SHARP REVERSAL
Last week, the EURO USD provided another example of how Consolidation Breakouts with Large Candles lead to False Breakouts -another "trap" set by the market. In the Daily Chart below taken from the Daily Market Update of Monday August 24, you can see the Large Candle that attempted to start the breakout above the Resistance of the Consolidation... However, as you can see in the note below the graph, I expected it to at least pause here before either moving sideways or reversing. A few days later, a sharp reversal took out that Bull Candle to start a False Breakout Reversal, taking us back inside of the Pennant... This reversal is due to the fact that these Large Candles- as attractive as they are -hardly lead to successful breakouts. Across the Currency Market these signals, as well as what are known as Weak Candles, are notorious for either leading to sideways, erratic moves or pullbacks. Traders who are not aware of this can get caugh...