SPERANDEO'S 1-2-3 SYSTEM

Few things in a trader’s life are more annoying than a trend reversal or a failed breakout. These are so common that a number of trading setups, such as Victor Sperandeo’s 1-2-3 reversal pattern and the 2B rule, have been developed to take advantage of the inability of markets to follow through after breaking out (or down) beyond a previous price extreme.
Writing about the 1-2-3 trend reversal in his second book, Principles Of Professional Speculation, Sperandeo notes that there are three conditions involved in a true change of trend.

1.  A trendline is broken.
2. The stock has stopped making “higher highs in an uptrend, or  lower lows in a downtrend.”
3. Prices must break out above a previous “minor rally high” in a downward market or below a previous minor selloff low in an upward market.

At the point where all three of these events have occurred, there exists the equivalent of a Dow Theory confirmation of a change of trend.
The first indication that the trade may be in trouble is from the so-called 2B rule, a special case of the second condition.

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