Aksel Kibar, CMT
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Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and Classical chart trader. Ex-Fund manager. 📈 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mt3cad33 📺 ➡️ tinyurl.com/5dsv4wde

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A Framework for Classifying Chart Pattern Breakouts

Extending Peter Brandt's Last Full Day Low Rule: A Framework for Classifying Chart Pattern Breakouts Introduction Peter Brandt is widely recognized for his disciplined approach to classical chart

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Crowd vs. Individual

“From Chaotic Minds to Predictable Crowds: The Emergence of Order in Collective Behavior” The Unpredictable Individual, the Recognizable Crowd Walk into a busy train station at rush hour. Ask any

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Stop-limit orders & early entry

Pros of using a stop-limit order for early breakout entry (from an R:R perspective) A stop-limit order lets you automate entry right at (or just beyond) the breakout level while capping your maximum

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The Illusion of "Winning" Investments

The Illusion of "Winning" Investments: Why Contribution Beats Attribution in Personal Finance In the world of financial decision-making, many people fall into a common trap: they celebrate the

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Staying positive in everything you do

Naysayers are people who habitually say "no," deny, oppose, refuse, or express skepticism and negativity toward ideas, plans, goals, innovations, or other people's ambitions. The word comes from old

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Don't force trades

1. Sample Size & Market Context Matter Trading results depend heavily on the environment in which they’re collected. A strategy that works well in strong trends may fail in choppy markets. Breakouts

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Uncharted Territory

Breakouts to all-time highs are often described as “uncharted territory.” There is no historical overhead supply, no obvious resistance level, and no prior price memory to anchor expectations.

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Power of automation in execution

The Real Edge of Automation in Trading Isn’t Finding Trades — It’s Executing Them One of the most persistent challenges traders face is not strategy — it’s execution. Two critical moments repeatedly

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Focus on characteristics of winning trades

Many traders obsess over losing trades. They dissect false breakouts, add filters, stack indicators, and attempt to engineer systems that avoid getting stopped out. This often leads down a dangerous

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Trends & Consolidations

Markets rarely move in straight lines. Instead, they move in impulse → pause → impulse sequences: Trend → Consolidation → Trend → Consolidation → Trend Those pauses are not random noise — they

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Simplifying Signals into Outcomes

The fear of failed breakouts is not really about breakouts. It’s about uncertainty. And uncertainty is not a bug in markets — it’s the operating system. Traders who struggle with breakout failure are

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Out of line movements

A temporary price thrust that breaks outside an established pattern or trend — but quickly reverses back into it. This concept appears most clearly in classical chart analysis traditions that grew out

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