ProfitTrader™ TREND CHANNEL
Standard deviation based Trend Channels are designed to show the trading trend. Yellow Trend Channels are plotted in rising markets; red, in declining trends.

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Chart 11 illustrates the use of the Trend Channel with the Cycle ID indicators and Bressert Double Stochastic mechanical buy signals. Cycle bottom #1 has a DBL Lo as both the longer-term, red Cycle ID and shorter-term, blue Cycle ID show a bottom simultaneously.

Although you cannot see it on the chart, this low followed an extended decline. The trend at the time was down as indicated by the red dots above prices, but the DBL Lo indicated a potential bottom and trend reversal. As prices started rising, the yellow Trend Channel line began to plot. Bottom #2 showed only on the blue short-term Cycle ID, but a cycle bottom was indicated by the blue setup entry bar, and this low could have been bought by an aggressive trader. Bottom #3 is also buyable in that the Trend Channel was up and the blue Cycle ID showed a potential cycle bottom that was confirmed by the blue setup bar and trigger entry. Prices moved up from bottom #3 to make a longer-term cycle top indicated by the DBL Hi in both the red and blue Cycle IDs. Prices then moved down into bottom #4 indicated as a low only by the red Cycle ID valley. Since this buy signal followed a DBL Hi it would not be taken. However, the sell signal that followed in the blue Cycle ID could have been taken, but since the Trend Channel was moving up, the sell signal would normally be passed over.

Bottom #5 is a great buy. It is a DBL Lo indicating a significant bottom. Prices dropped below bottom #4, moved down towards the Trend Channel but did not penetrate it, and turned up to show a bottom as the blue setup bar formed. The rise above the blue setup bar at bottom #5 triggered a buy entry and a DBL Lo. This DBL Lo saw a relatively small retracement of the move from bottom #1 to the DBL Hi indicating the potential for a sizeable upmove.

In trading with cycles, the dollar risk for a long position is generally from entry to cycle bottom with the protective sell stop placed below the cycle bottom. This was a low dollar risk trade that was followed by a substantial upmove to the next cycle top indicated by the DBL Hi. It was the Trend Channel that provided the trend overview to buy bottoms 2, 3 and 5.

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