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Issue: November, 2006

Find the Slam Dunks: Combine VSA with Technical Analysis
by: Todd Krueger

In any competitive sports game there must be a specific set of boundaries for the game to make any sense.

This actually is similar to the concept of a trend channel, also known as parallel trend lines, in trading. Let’s use the game of basketball as an example. The game is played on a basketball court (playing field) that has set boundaries that allow the referee to see when each team is in the field of play or outside the playing field (out-of-bounds). If a team goes out-of-bounds the other team gets the ball. The basketball court also has an area around the basket called “the paint.” This is where the highest probability shots are executed by the individual players. The dunk is the highest probability shot that can be taken and this always happens inside the paint, which is the high-probability scoring zone in the game of basketball. We are now going to apply this same approach to a price chart.

When a trend channel is drawn correctly, here is the information a trader can find: The so-called playing field reveals:

• The likely market trend into the immediate future,
• The likely future support and supply lines,
• Projected likely intermediate market tops and bottoms,
• Projected future overbought and oversold price levels,
• Future high probability buy and sell zones.

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