Inverse Head And Shoulders

A chart that looks like shoulders and a head upside-down...if you squint really hard or have had too many martinis at the company lunch.

When the chart is showing sales, company earnings, or stock market prices, a chart of this shape shows that a downward trend has reversed.

The first upside-down shoulder shows a drop, then prices or sales go up. Then there's a huge drop, followed by an increase (that's the head), and then a smaller drop followed by an increase (that's the second shoulder).

The idea is that this is the time to breathe a sigh of relief that the downturn is getting better.