The Confections Industry has had an unusually strong year thus far, with some companies’ stock in speculation mode. HSY shifted briefly to a sideways pattern after a gap. It is now back in speculation mode.
SEE has one of the harder tops to identify before the collapse called a Sheer Cliff. The rounding price action occurs because larger lots are carefully selling into rising prices. The Sheer Cliff occurs when buyers disappear. The stock is holding at the gap up support level.
Double tops seldom decline steeply. The current price has not dropped through the top completion level. If it breaks through that support, the target downside run gain is around $78.
CINF is an S&P 500 index component. The chart shows a platform sideways pattern typical of Dark Pool hidden accumulation. This was followed by a long white candle that was not HFT driven. The stock is now in another consolidation, at a new high with more hidden accumulation.
MSFT has been moving up often due to buybacks of its shares of stock moving price up. The stock gapped recently and then retraced. Additional buybacks support the current level of price. However, indicators are not all confirming more upside action.
APD is an S&P 500 index component. APD has a highly unusual inverted candlestick pattern suggesting hidden momentum. Usually candlesticks shrink in size as a stock runs up over an extended period of time. APD candles are much larger at this level than at previous price levels below.
KTOS is an S&P 500 index component. It rose on surges of HFT orders on sequential days, defying the sell down on the major indexes. Smaller funds managers often buy stocks with surges of volume, assuming this is Dark Pool activity when it is not.
HFTs rarely trade a stock more than one day. ECPG has 2 days of HFT action moving the stock with strong momentum with high volume. Often VWAP orders from smaller funds will trigger after an HFT run day. The stock breached resistance but is at risk for professional traders taking profits. ECPG is an S&P 500 index component.
CERN is a stock that was analyzed in April and continues to outperform the market at this time. CERN has shifted to a consolidation, which should provide more upside opportunities.
ARW is one of many stocks that declined recently. HFTs gapped and ran the stock down. In order to capture these high profit runs down, entries must be made prior to the gap.
NUAN had a strong run out of a platform and rose above the previous high’s resistance level. This was on a weak market day. PSHI is high for this stock. It has new technology coming this year.
ROKU gapped and ran in a long white candle pushing through prior highs’ resistance easily. ROKU recently had a strong earnings report. This pattern completes the bottom formation.
Paychex Inc. has begun a sideways pattern after a strong move out of the bottom formation of early January. The sideways pattern provides support for the next trend upward.
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is testing the resistance to begin completion of this longer-term bottoming formation. The W bottom formation has tiers of resistance to overcome. Hybrid Leading Indicators show strengthening pattern.
Incyte Corp. has overlapping white candles on a strong move out of a short-term bottom. The overlaps are caused by pre-market open selling that gaps the stock down. The run up shows strength within the buy side.
UNH defied the heavy selling due to fears of more Tariffs. An extra-long white candle formed without HFT activity. The stock has not broken through major bottoming resistance.
JD is now near completion of its intermediate-term round bottom formation. The resistance above price is weak with adequate upside potential for a swing or day trade. There has been intermittent quiet accumulation during the bottom formation.
HAS gapped up on strong earnings news. The gap is a breakaway and is now in a compression mode. Balance of Power shows some pro trader activity in the stock at this time. The next resistance level is the highs of September. This is a swing or day trading setup.