# @tastyliveshow on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=6rBnUZGv0m8
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-16T02:00:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** tastylive (@tastyliveshow) — https://gondola.cc/tastyliveshow

## Caption

The rounded top or distribution top is one of the most powerful bearish patterns in technical analysis. A long period of trading within a range builds a wall of owners. When price breaks down and then retraces back toward that range, those trapped owners sell. The move exhausts itself and the breakdown resumes.

Tim Knight walks through a dozen real examples including Royal Caribbean, Bank of America, Capital One, IBM, SPY, and Seagate showing exactly when this pattern works and when it fakes you out. The critical rule: if price pushes back into the pattern after the breakdown it is moot. Get out. The current live setup he is watching is UnitedHealthcare, which has a distribution top, a broken lifetime trend line, and is now pushing right up against a wall of overhead supply.

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Chapters
0:00 What the rounded top pattern actually means
1:22 Why this pattern works: the wall of trapped owners
2:44 Royal Caribbean: textbook breakdown and retracement
3:00 Bank of America: great financial crisis example
3:42 Capital One: the most perfectly formed rounded top
4:14 IBM: clean pattern that became moot
4:49 When rounded tops fake you out: IMAX example
5:47 The rule: if it pushes back in the pattern is dead
6:01 MIDD: broke down then immediately reversed
6:29 Seagate: how pattern effectiveness degrades over time
7:44 SPY: two wins then a massive fake out to lifetime highs
8:19 Allstate: same story, third time was a fake
9:07 UnitedHealthcare: the live setup Tim is shorting right now

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