Blog: Wyckoff Power Charting

About the Blog

Enjoy financial market insights from a Wyckoff perspective by Bruce Fraser. Wyckoff Power Charting blogs are posted at StockCharts.com. Click on the name of the blog to be linked directly to the article including current charts.

Bruce Fraser

Bruce Fraser, an industry-leading “Wyckoffian,” began teaching graduate-level courses at Golden Gate University (GGU) in 1987. Working closely with the late Dr. Henry (“Hank”) Pruden, he developed curriculum for and taught many courses in GGU’s Technical Market Analysis Graduate Certificate Program, including Technical Analysis of Securities, Strategy and Implementation, Business Cycle Analysis and the Wyckoff Method. For nearly three decades, he co-taught Wyckoff Method courses with Dr. Pruden, and has also used this approach to the markets as the foundation of his own trading for over 35 years. Bruce publishes a widely read blog at StockCharts.com, entitled “Wyckoff Power Charting” and co-hosts the popular, online weekly Wyckoff Market Discussion. Bruce has taught numerous special topic courses at Wyckoff Analytics including Look Less, See More, Point-and-Figure Charting Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, Point-and-Figure from Stocks to Cryptos, Practices For Successful Trading, Conversations With Wyckoff Wizards and the Basic Charting Course. 2023 and 2024. Bruce has also presented at the Best of Wyckoff Online Conferences in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Latest Blogs

2024

End of Quarter NASDAQ 100 Pile-On

June 28, 2024

Only institutions, en masse, have the buying power to propel valuations higher in such a brief period of time. And this stampede of buying has been rushed into the end of a three-quarter uptrend. Such Buying Climaxes are often reversed suddenly and sharply in what Wyckoff terms an Automatic Reaction (AR).

Wyckoff at Work in the Intraday Timeframe

June 03, 2024

The Wyckoff characteristics of Accumulation, Markup, Distribution and Markdown are constantly at work in smaller periods of time.

Trifecta of Trouble

April 05, 2024

Let’s turn our attention to some classic and powerful Wyckoff chart studies to determine the present position and possible future direction of the indexes as the second quarter begins.

Energy Heats Up

March 22, 2024

Crude oil began building a range-bound structure that appears to be an Accumulation base. Now this Accumulation appears nearly complete.

What Lies Ahead? Will Early 2024 Strength Continue?

February 18, 2024

Swing trading Point & Figure studies are signaling the completion of upside price objectives. Could this indicate the fuel tank propelling higher prices is nearly empty?

Tape Reading for Distribution

February 06, 2024

This price and volume chart reading method is as powerful and relevant as it was a century ago when Mr. Wyckoff was successfully employing it.

2023

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