when the price breaks the upper trend line the security is expected to reverse and trend higher traders identifying bullish reversal signals would want to look for trades that benefit from the security s rise in price 
benefits of wedge patternsas a general rule price pattern strategies for trading systems rarely yield returns that outperform buy and hold strategies over time but some patterns do appear to be useful in forecasting general price trends nonetheless because wedge patterns converge to a smaller price channel the distance between the price on entry of the trade and the price for a stop loss is relatively smaller than the start of the pattern this means that a stop loss can be placed close by at the time the trade begins and if the trade is successful the outcome can yield a greater return than the amount risked on the trade to begin with 