Richard Chappell

Jack is a 20 year retail trading veteran and co-founder of The Art Of Chart. He started his blog at channelsandpatterns.net in 2010 and since has published tens of thousands of charts looking at hundreds of trading instruments across most tradeable markets, doing original work mainly in the areas of trendlines, patterns and divergences. At The Art Of Chart Jack has taught trading skills, technical analysis, and the discipline and trader psychology that allow those to be used effectively in trading.

A Tale Of Two Cities

My last three posts have been a coronavirus series, so I'm going to be putting in the links here so as to refer back to them easily for now. These are the three posts so far. 18th February - Peering Through The Fog Around Coronavirus COVID-19 24th February - Some Genuine Coronavirus Numbers Coming Through...

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Falling Down The Steps

Well it has definitely been a week to remember, with the coronavirus outbreak taking position front and centre. I was expecting a strong reaction as and when this penny finally dropped, though not this fast I have to say. Let's review the bigger picture on SPX first. On the bigger picture I was noting (notes...

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Some Genuine Coronavirus Numbers Coming Through

Following on from my post last week about the coronavirus COVID-19 here, we are now seeing some genuine coronavirus numbers coming through, and the numbers at the weekend weren't great so equity markets are down this morning in response. How bad was the news? Here are this morning's numbers: Honestly these numbers are not too bad...

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Peering Through The Fog Around Coronavirus COVID-19

This is an unusual post for me, in that it is not about the markets, but rather about an issue that might be a strong influence on the markets over the next few months, namely the current coronavirus outbreak that has so far been mainly confined to China. I'll be reviewing what appears to be...

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The January Barometer

When I looked a few weeks ago at the stat for the first five days of the year I found that the correlation with the yearly close there was essentially random, so I was wondering when I had a look at the full January Barometer stat whether I would find the same but was pleasantly...

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A Feast Of Numbers

Between cancer treatments (for my wife) and some serious IT issues I didn't manage a post last week, and have a bit of a conundrum this week as the post I'd ideally like to have published today would have involved too many charts and and an likely indigestibly large quantity of numbers for a single...

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Another Week, Another Inflection Point

Apologies for the lack of a post last week. Some of you know my wife has some health issues at the moment and they have me distracted. I'm doing this post tonight because SPX is at a key inflection point and because the way this breaks may deliver the direction for the rest of January....

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There Is No …….. QE4

Boy - 'Do not try to bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead .... only try to realize the truth.' Neo - 'What truth?' Boy - 'There is no spoon' From The Matrix - 1999.  One thing that has been strange in the last few months is the virtual media silence about the Fed's increasingly aggressive...

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The First Five Trading Days Of January

The holidays are ending and volume should be coming back into markets next week as players return. New Year's Day on Wednesday is obviously a holiday as well, and the five trading days after that will be closely watched to deliver an indication of how the rest of 2020 might go. I'll be looking at...

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Not Even A Mouse

Well the holidays are upon us, and many of those of us with lives, or even just social lives, have taken a couple of weeks off to do non-market stuff. Even the algos seem suspiciously quiet and may be taking a few days off too. I'm still here because .... well ....... it's my job,...

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