Thomas N. Bulkowski’s successful investment activities allowed him to retire at age 36. He is an internationally known author and trader with almost 30 years of stock market experience and widely regarded as a leading expert on chart patterns. His four books, including the best selling Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, have been translated into six languages. He may be reached at

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Bulkowski’s Event Pattern Resource

Market

Industrials (^DJI):

Transports (^DJT):

Utilities (^DJU):

Nasdaq (^IXIC):

S&P 500 (^GSPC):

As of 03/12/2010

10,624.69 12.85 0.1%

4,325.35 4.97 0.1%

376.80 -1.99 -0.5%

2,367.66 -0.80 0.0%

1,149.99 -0.25 0.0%

YTD

1.9%

5.5%

-5.3%

4.3%

3.1%

Tom’s Targets

10,700 by 04/01/2010

4,350 by 04/01/2010

380 by 03/15/2010

2,450 by 04/01/2010

1,200 by 04/01/2010

Mkt Overview: 03/05/2010

Test Portfolios and CPI

Indus. strength: 9.9%

Mutt Losers: None YTD

Mutt Winners: 5.0%

Wilder RSI: 10.1%

CPI: on 02/09/2010

Event patterns are price patterns caused by significant events that affect securities. Events such as earnings releases, Dutch auction tender offers, stock broker rating upgrades and downgrades, I call event patterns. This page serves as the gateway to examining those patterns and how to trade them.

Event patterns have failure rates that are often significantly higher than your average chart pattern. For example, an Eve & Eve double bottom chart pattern has a bull market break even failure rate of 4%. The earnings flag event pattern has a 10% failure rate. A good earning surprise event pattern has a 29% failure rate. Ouch!

Despite the high failure rates, traders should know how to recover from or take advantage of event patterns. That is what the below links discuss.

Statistics and other information on most of these event patterns can be found in the book, Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Second Edition

Bulkowski’s Event Pattern Resource

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