I'm new to this game. I would like to know if there are any software or scanning programs that look for certain patterns, ie head and shoulders, rising wedge, broken trend line, etc. Sorry for the remedial question, and thanks in advance.
If you use Metastock, there is a John Murphy (the great technical analyst) "plug-in" they sell that looks for and identifies specific technical patterns.
neotick (tickquest.com) has a pretty cool scanner where you can find the pattern from a chart, zoom a box around it, and then scan databases for it. they have a free one month trial, and support multiple data feeds. ensign also has this, but it requires some programming. i think neotick's is the quickest and dirtiest.