Farley's Tactics

These classic technical strategies and tactics, many inspired by the writings of legendary futures traders, have stood the test of time over 25 years of dramatic changes in the financial markets.

Bottoms & Tops

Trading bottoms and tops have the highest reward:risk ratios of all short-term trades. But it's still very easy to miss your opportunity. Use these informative strategies to locate outstanding entry points.

Adam & Eve & Adam

Learn two variations of the double bottom that get you in at the lowest risk.

Adam & Eve Tops

Use this classic topping formation to identify profitable short sales.

Hell's Triangle

The development of three descending highs and a horizontal floor often sets the stage for a major selloff.

Lowdown on Bottoms

There are many variations on the theme, including rounded bottoms, triple bottoms and V-bottoms.

The Big W

Use the Big W to trade your way through major reversals.

Breakouts

Breakouts through key support or resistance signal price movement that will likely persist for some time. Use these key trend and breakout patterns to capture large pieces of the move.

Breakout Trading

A market starts rising when it stops falling. Hidden in the final twists and turns of long bottoms, new uptrends go unnoticed by the crowd.

Buying The Pullback

The pullback is a great way to lose money if you jump in too early or too late.

Catch The Dow and Elliott Waves

Dow Theory hasn't missed a beat in over 100 years. So what does Charlie Dow have to offer modern traders?

Morning Gap Management

Gap hurl positions and assumptions into unknown territory.

Morning Gap Strategies

Having trouble with those irritating morning gaps? You're not alone.

Recognizing False Breakouts and Whipsaws

Common knowledge of price levels is being used against traders in a conscious and diabolical manner.

The Gap Primer

Old traders' wisdom advises that gaps get filled. However, some gaps never fill.

Corrections

When markets break down, they display common characteristics over and over again. Identify the current phase of the decline and position yourself to capitalize on the panic of the crowd.

Anticipating a Selloff

How You Could Have Seen ImClone's Implosion Coming.

5 Wave Declines

Declines are not chaotic events. Look for the orderly 1-2-3-Drop-Up in corrective movements.

Selling Declines

The fearful crowd provides a rich source for profits on trades initiated during corrections and declines.

Surviving Bear Markets

Most players wrongly believe that profits will continue in a major decline as long as they just flip their long strategies upside down.

Ten Roadblocks To Profitable Short Selling

Short-selling has come back into vogue, with the major averages convulsing in response to the mortgage crisis.