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THE CANDLESTICK TRADING BIBLE
The Ranging Market
Ranging markets
are pretty straight forward,
they are often called
sideways markets, because their neutral nature makes them appear to
drift to the right, horizontally.
When the market makes a series of higher highs and higher lows, we
can say that the market is trending up.
But when it stops
making these consecutive peaks, we say that the
market is ranging.
A ranging market moves in a horizontal form, where buyers and sellers
just keep knocking price back and forth between the support and the
resistance level.
See the example below:
The chart above shows a ranging market, as you can see, the price is
bouncing between horizontal support and resistance level.
The difference between trending markets and ranging markets is that
trending markets tend to move by forming a pattern of higher high and
higher lows in case of an uptrend, and higher low and lower low in case
of a downtrend.