XIV dome …. now what?
Bulkowski calls the dome a “Rounding Top Pattern” and “inverted bowl” and he notes that “When the right rim is above the left [higher low], the pattern outperforms [to the upside].” That is not the case here.
For a breakout, he waits for a 32% retracement bounce to confirm a buy signal.
A breakdown would be confirmed by a lower low breaking the pink line dome base. [That just happened; this chart is late.]
http://thepatternsite.com/roundingtop.html
Martha Stokes notes that the Accumulation/Distribution indicator (gray behind price) usually shows a rounding pattern that “leads the stock price”, while Bulkowski notes that straight volume shows a “rounded, U-shaped, appearance” [like the gray “smile” on the volume panel], and that “patterns with U-shaped volume outperform” and “Heavy breakout volume suggests better performance.”