Recognizing Bottoms earlier. Identifying Earnings before gaps.BlackRock, Inc.BATS:BLKMarthaStokesCMT-TechniTraderThis earnings season requires the ability to recognized bottom formations before the bottom is fully developed or obvious on the chart. Relational Technical Analysis helps traders see the relationship between price and volume, volume oscillators that indicate the start of a bottom. This provides the analysis for earlier entries and opportunities to ride a gap up rather than chasing a gap after it has occurred. Earnings season trading activity starts 2-4 weeks ahead of the earnings release date. When following stocks for earnings, monitoring the stocks you wish to trade into earnings release dates starts with Relational Analysis of price and volume oscillators and volume bars as you will be able to pinpoint exactly where Dark Pools started accumulation weeks ahead of the earnings report release or if Dark Pools rotation to lower inventory of a stock due to their knowledge that the earnings report was not going to be a stellar growth report for revenues or other factors.