Bull Flags and Bear Flags Bull and Bear Flags are one of the simplest and potentially profitable patterns in chart analysis. Generally, this is because one can achieve a “Dual Edge” in trading the pattern, meaning the pattern tends to ‘work’ more times than not, and when the target is achieved, it yields more profit (up to two or three times as much) as the stop-loss that is incurred when the pattern ‘fails.’ Let’s look at the idealized representation of this ...