Thread: P&F Super Pattern

An effective price pattern defined using properties of P&F charts.

#Superpattern #Pointandfigure #Definedge

Point & Figure is an oldest charting method where price is plotted vertically, and the chart moves only when price moves. It is a different way of looking at the price, the objective box-value and reversal value offers advantage of identifying objective price patterns.
When price is moving up, it is plotted in a column of 'X'. When it is going down, it is plotted in a column of ‘O’. Normally, three-box reversal criteria is used to define the trend & reversal. Unlike a bar or candle, the P&F column can have multiple sessions in it.
Link to know more about the subject:
https://t.co/2xtLAVPBvm

See below chart. Price is in a strong uptrend, P&F chart would produce a long of column of 'X' with more number of boxes in it.
If such a trend is followed by some time bars without meaningful price correct, P&F chart would not move, and it will remain in column of 'X' in such a scenario.
If there is a price correction, P&F chart would turn to column of 'O'. If price correction is not large or significant, boxes in 'O' column would be less.
If it turns out to be a shallow correction and price bounces back immediately, it indicates that weak bulls are shaken and weak shorts are in - in a strong uptrend. There is a trade opportunity when price goes above previous high.
Column of ‘X’ in a P&F chart would go above previous high. It is known as a basic Double-top buy pattern when column of X goes above high price of previous column of X.
The strong trend should not be a corrective move. There has to be a breakout before that.

So, the pattern is: Breakout, strong trend, shallow retracement & follow-through price action.

How it is defined clearly and made objective on a P&F chart?
Breakout = Double-top buy

Strong trend= More than 10 boxes of 'X' after breakout

Shallow retracement = Not more than 4 boxes after strong trend

Follow-through = Double-top buy after correction
The trade plan is also objective. Buy upon follow-through breakout (double top buy) and place a stop-loss below the bottom of shallow retracement.

Initial stop-loss in affordable and risk-reward is high that makes it a tradeable pattern with positive expectancy.
Vice versa for bearish super pattern. The objective definitions can help us in trading this price pattern on any instrument and timeframe. I suggest Daily chart for EOD segment and one-min timeframe for intra & derivative trading. One-min on P&F is v different & useful timeframe.
The pattern was introduced in my book on P&F charts. It has clear entry-exit and risk management rules. The logic and definition is Super, hence I gave that name. I have defined many such price patterns using important properties of different charting methods.
This simple looking pattern & combination is a result of lots of efforts & experience. More filters & variations are possible. It can be traded objectively, or chart analysis can improve the results. It can also be traded in combination with candlestick patterns or other methods.
The pattern can help in identifying stocks in momentum, strong breakout and offer affordable RR. Most of the momentum indicators are in favor during such breakouts. The pattern and setup has stood the test of time for me. Its not about P&F, its about objective price setups.

More from Prashant Shah

More from Finance

You May Also Like

First thread of the year because I have time during MCO. As requested, a thread on the gods and spirits of Malay folk religion. Some are indigenous, some are of Indian origin, some have Islamic


Before I begin, it might be worth explaining the Malay conception of the spirit world. At its deepest level, Malay religious belief is animist. All living beings and even certain objects are said to have a soul. Natural phenomena are either controlled by or personified as spirits

Although these beings had to be respected, not all of them were powerful enough to be considered gods. Offerings would be made to the spirits that had greater influence on human life. Spells and incantations would invoke their


Two known examples of such elemental spirits that had god-like status are Raja Angin (king of the wind) and Mambang Tali Arus (spirit of river currents). There were undoubtedly many more which have been lost to time

Contact with ancient India brought the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism to SEA. What we now call Hinduism similarly developed in India out of native animism and the more formal Vedic tradition. This can be seen in the multitude of sacred animals and location-specific Hindu gods
I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x


The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x