Each attempt at a rally has petered out at a level below previous peaks, and with Thursday's nearly six-point decline in the index, it has now added a pattern of lower lows to its bearish repertoire.

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The stock is hovering just at its buy point of 30.77, ten cents above the high in a flat-base pattern that began in mid-June.

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Resolution to this pattern will come at one point or another, and based in the in-bound move, there will be a powerful secondary move (more than likely to the downside).

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In truth, the Tories had entered a pattern of decline from a high point in the 1950s, with sporadic mini-revivals - although successive peaks mostly tended to be lower than the last.

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Even larger leaps in sizing technology are being made by companies like Acustom Apparel, which uses 3D body scanners along with pattern-making software to scale the creation of custom-fitted clothing at a digestible price point.

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Like his idol Donovan, Casey raided the corporate world, Wall Street, academia and so forth for the kind of people he needed -- people who thought fast, could spot a pattern with the fewest possible facts, get their point across to everyone else and hit the enemy hard.

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Altera cleared a cup-with-handle pattern in so-so volume last week, and is up about 5% from its buy point.

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