Not exact matches
Additionally,
right before a stock breaks out and rockets higher, there is typically a period of volatility contraction and
declining volume within the base of consolidation (learn about basing and consolidation patterns here).
Drilling down to the shorter - term daily chart interval below, notice how the
volume was heaviest on the
decline from the top of the head to the bottom of the
right shoulder.
As you can see by the 10 - week moving average of
volume (the pink line on the
volume bars above),
volume has indeed been
declining during the formation of the
right shoulder.
The
right - hand (secondary) axis, which plots the Fed purchase
volume, is inverted so that the increase in bond - buying corresponds to a
decline in the curve.