Microsoft reported today after the market close. Unlike many other big blue chip companies, MSFT didn’t have a pre-earnings run up by professional traders. There was no tight compression or consolidation in the technical patterns. There were no strong white candles forming a run ahead of the earnings report. This is a stock traded mostly by retail traders right...
LRCX has an important technical pattern. The stock chart is technically precise. Lines drawn on a weekly chart match perfectly to daily support levels. This is not always the case. The technical precision of certain areas of this chart shows where the professionals have entered and exited. The ability to see the footprints of Dark Pools and Professional Traders is...
Intel is moving rapidly to capture the 5G market, along with Verizon. This was discussed in detail in our recent annual Virtual Course, this time on Emerging Displacement Technologies for the Next Decade. INTC stock has been struggling at a support level, not moving down much but also without a strong pre-earnings run as many blue chip companies enjoyed. The...
The speculative gains of what we call a “pre earnings” run ended ahead of the market open on Friday. Netflix is reporting an increase in the number of users but had a decline in revenues, which is a worrisome pattern that is occurring in many big-name companies thus far—many banks and the early tech stock reports. NFLX was being sold on the professional side ahead...
Citigroup reported ahead of open today which indicates it hoped that the market open would inspire buying of its shares of stock. HFTs are set to trigger on earnings news. How it might gap depends on the algorithm focus, retail crowd reactions, retail broker expectations, and the triggers set ahead of open. C has the same negative divergence as AAPL has on the...
One of many things I strive to teach my students is to watch what happens to a stock immediately AFTER an earnings season. This is the telltale activity of the Dark Pools who prepare for the next earnings season weeks ahead of those reports. So when AAPL started showing signs of large-lot rotation in September and into December, that was your cue that this big...
Microsoft has been under heavy distribution and has begun a risk of top formation. The markets opened with a downside gap this morning due to Chinese markets imploding. This is a high risk factor for a potential bear market catalyst. Any US company that has a high revenue source from China is at risk of serious downside runs during such a crisis and for as long as...
MCD stock is very popular with the retail trading groups. The footprint of the retail trader systems trading the stock is very obvious on this chart. The candlestick patterns are all indecisive, there are no strong easy runs in either direction, and lots of wicks and tails, which is where retail brokers are reaping huge profits. Overall, it is a very messy looking...
Amazon was in the pre-market news today. India has put heavy restrictions on the e-commerce retailers, AMZN and WMT and others. The ruling affects many products that Amazon sells. India’s rules will bar retail e-commerce companies from engaging in an exclusive partnership with a seller. This could hurt Amazon’s expected revenues from India. This dominant...
Nike, the icon of footwear, reports today out of season which is not a good sign for earnings. The stock is not being traded heavily pre market, however, so the retail crowd appears to not know about this earnings report yet. The stock has already hit an extreme deviated peak in its business cycle after a fast-paced speculative run out of its prior bottom formed...
SBUX has now confirmed the gap gains by holding well above the trading range highs. This provides very strong support for the stock to continue moving upward. This daily chart of the stock shows a Shift of Sentiment™ Pattern with the Accumulation/Distribution indicator. The shifting pattern begins with the common gap down by HFTs in June and then the VWAP...
AMZN has a topping formation which is incomplete at this time. Incomplete means that the stock has not broken through the strong nearby, short term technical support level YET. It may or may not. The stock can always shift sideways as BA did, as an example, to pattern out the excessive stock price uptrend created by speculation. Trading range corrections, as...
Salesforce.com has had a great run up from the 2015-2016 correction. CRM stock is now showing an extreme Angle of Ascent on the weekly chart and has risk of a potential topping action. Support is weak at the bounce area at this time. The stock shows steady rotation patterns as the final peak high developed. Rotation is the lowering of inventories of a stock by...
Of the 3 big stock market indexes, the S&P500 or SPX is supported currently with the weakest technical support. This is NOT a fundamental support level. IF there is sudden panic due to some catalyst, and there are many potential catalysts waiting in the wings, this support can easily be moved through. A breakdown of this support level brings the risk for the end...
This AAPL weekly chart shows all the support levels back down to where 2019 projected revenues will be in line with the previous Dark Pool Buy Zones of 2016. The 2016 support price range is strong, fundamental support for the stock. As you can see, AAPL doesn’t have precise technical support levels. Even on the weekly chart, the stock price does not stop falling...
The Daily Chart of COSTCO Stock shows that there is some sell short potential on the short-term trend IF the stock breaks to the downside below the low of around 216. At this time, it appears that is more likely given the lack of large lot buyers in the chart patterns. Support levels show the point gain potential moving down from the current range-bound...
Advanced Micro Devices has a huge V Top formation that is now hovering above the support level of the sideways range from 2017. The Top is a Severe Inverted V Top created by irrational exuberance from a speculative buying frenzy that was not supported by the company’s fundamentals. AMD stock has peeled off about 50% of its value, which is the typical level at...
Intuitive Surgical Inc., under the Medical Instruments and Supplies industry, has had strong growth over the past 3 years but it is now facing the risk of a topping formation. The topping pattern is near the phase where a completed top could occur and then downside action would include sell short professionals and sell short HFTs. Support doesn’t kick in strongly...