What are the Components of All Float
Charts?
What are the Components of
All Float Charts?
What's that Gray
Box with the two Red
Lines all about?
The fundamental building block of all Float
Charts is called its Float Turnover. This is the time it takes for the
stock's cumulative volume to equal the number of shares available for trading
(the float) and the price range of same. The Gray Box is the stock's float
turnover. The red lines are the highest and lowest prices reached during
the float turnover. The Float Box is constantly changing (like a moving
average) from one day to the next. At bottoms, it tends to be long and
flat. At tops it is often tall and thin. On days when the price
penetrates above (breakouts) or below (breakdowns) the top red line or the
bottom red line, the price is allowed to be seen penetrating through the
previous trading range. Thus on breakout and breakdown days the size of
the box is NOT adjusted to accommodate the new breakout or breakdown bar but is
left at the previous levels so that the red lines can be used as trigger alerts
and so that we can visually see the breakout or breakdown clearly on the chart.
What are the Solid and Dotted
Channel Lines all about?
The solid channel lines
are the stock's upper and lower float channel lines. These are created by
plotting the upper right and lower right corners of the Float Box on a day to
day continuum. Thus they plot the float boxes history and show previous
breakout and breakdown points clearly. The
dotted channel lines are the 50% float channel
lines and they are plotted by using a Float Box which uses only half the float
number.

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