By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 26 October 2026 The trend before a price pattern tells you how to read the pattern. In an uptrend, you want to be looking for continuation patterns, which give you a way onto a move that is already working. When a trend has run for a long time […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 16 September 2026 A continuation pattern is a pause in a trend, after which the same trend carries on. A reversal pattern marks the end of a trend and the start of a move the other way. Flags, pennants, rectangles and most triangles are continuation patterns, while the […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 26 October 2026 Price patterns, also called chart patterns, are the shapes that price draws on a chart as buyers and sellers fight for control. They form when a market changes state. An uptrend, a downtrend or a sideways range turns into one of the other two, and […]
What Is a SPAC? How It Differs From an IPO, and the Risks for Investors Last updated: 8 August 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe A SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) is a shell company with no products and no operations that raises money from public investors through its own IPO, holds that cash in […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 10 October 2026 Every trading strategy you will ever be shown is a version of one of four types: Break, Swing, Bounce or Turn. Break trades a sideways range as it snaps, Swing rides a trend that is already moving, Bounce fades a move that has stretched too […]