Category: Company Chart Analysis
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Monday, March 24, 2014
Apple Stock Price Setting Up For a Big Pop or Hard Drop / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
A quick technical heads up for Apple traders and investors
Following its 45% fall from grace last year, Apple has been on the rebound since printing its 385.10 low in April 2013. Since then, despite rallying more than 38%, and retracing nearly 62% of its bearish decline, the stock price remains almost 200-pts away from its all time high.
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Sunday, December 08, 2013
Rising Stock Market Does Not Lift All Stocks / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
We advocate a proactive stance in managing one’s stock portfolio as the most prudent way to preserve and grow capital, by capturing gains and limiting risks. The days of buy and hold are finished, at this stage of a central bank propped-up market, fed by fiat and highly questionable reports issued by the Bureau of Lies, which seems an accurate assessment.
There are several charts to be shown, and where a picture may be worth 1,000 words, we can limit we say and defer to what the market has to say. After all, the market is the best source and always the final arbiter.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Apple AAPL Stock Price to Test Key Near-Term Resistance / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
From a near-term P&F perspective, although Apple Inc. (AAPL) remains confined within a sideways range between 528 and 514, the price structure is clawing its way towards a confrontation with the top of the range.
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Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Starbucks Solid Growth Stock Expected to Keep Ticking Higher into 2014 / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Mitchell Clark writes:
If volatility is the name of the game with stocks right now, consistency of performance is a very attractive asset.
Over the last several years, few companies have been able to deliver consistently rising financial metrics like Starbucks Corporation (SBUX).
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Starbucks Bull Market in Expensive Coffee / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Today's chart is yet another reminder that things "can't be all that bad" for the U.S. economy. After all, Americans are still buying expensive coffee.
Over the past couple years, we've featured many charts that demonstrate America may not be booming, but it can't be doing "all that bad." For example, we've shown you the strength in home-improvement stocks, banking stocks, manufacturing stocks, and hotel stocks. Today, we're adding "luxury coffee" to the list. Starbucks is soaring.
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Monday, July 15, 2013
Why Great Stocks Drop Hard and Reverse / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
One thing that will always over rule charts and technical analysis is fundamentals in the long run. To be sure, I love technical analysis but I always combine my work there with fundamental research. I rarely if ever buy a stock just because the chart looks nice, that is almost always a recipe for disaster.
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Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Nike - The One Stock that Always Seems to Keep on Rising / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Mitchell Clark writes:
There are lots of benchmark stocks, but NIKE, Inc. (NKE) is an incredibly important one in retail.
It’s actually quite surprising that such a mature brand can continue to do as well as it does. Not only is the company succeeding operationally, but it continues to be an excellent stock market investment.
Friday, April 05, 2013
Stocks Flying High, but What About Risk? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Mitchell Clark writes: The performance of many blue chips—consumer staples stocks, in particular—is really stunning. And looking at the shares and how much they’ve moved on the stock market, even since the beginning of the year, you really have to wonder how sustainable this stock market rally is.
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Why The Financials And Google Are Lagging the Stock Market / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Well now that we've got that out of the way
Get what out of the way you ask?
Breakout into new all time highs in the S&P 500 that is. We're not really excited about this breakout errr eek into a new high rather as it took place into a holiday and into quarter end window dressing. But it is what it is. Don't forget to be on the lookout for a shake and bake shake out high here folks. If that's going to happen, it's going to happen soon.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Stock Market Indices v Individual Stocks - Hold/Sell? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Few actually invest in an index, like the Dow, S&P, NASDAQ, etc. Most have individual stocks that may or may not be a component, yet what everyone hears about are how the various indices performed. "The Dow was up/down 80 points, today." "The S&P is near all-time highs." The more pertinent question is, where is/are your stock[s] relative to the market? If the indices are up but your stocks are down or not up by much, what does that say about your portfolio?
Where the Dow and S&P are at/nearing historic highs, does that mean you should be long the stocks in your portfolio? Because charts do not lie, we decided to look at individual stocks to determine if one should buy/hold/sell them. Which stocks? Warren Buffett is purported to be a market "oracle," before he joined the Dark Side. Six of his stocks were in the news last week, so we looked at three of the best performers. Then, we randomly selected several more for an unscientfic grouping.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
BHP And RIO – Are Stocks Different From Futures? No / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
We asked a metals specialist to select two stocks of interest. BHP and RIO were the choices. Are stocks any different from futures? Absolutely not. Why not? All markets are a function of supply and demand. When demand is greater, price will rise; when supply is greater, price will decline. It is the essence for any market, stocks or futures.
As a norm, we do not analyze stocks. In fact, we know nothing about BHP and RIO, beyond assuming they are mining stocks. Our premise is, when you reduce any market to price and volume, you get the most accurate information available in order to make buy/sell decisions, regardless of whatever is being analyzed.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
A Classic Impulse Wave in General Electric / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Impulse waves are an integral part of the Wave Principle. Understanding their rules, guidelines and Fibonacci multiples will improve your application and your ability to identify high-confidence trade setups.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Will BlackBerry 10 Rescue RIMM Stock Price? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
George Leong writes: I can honestly say that I’m excited to see the introduction of the new and highly anticipated “BlackBerry 10” (BB10) operating system and products by Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ/RIMM; TSX/RIM) today. The overall market also appears hyped up on the BB10 platform. Research In Motion (RIM) has surged 176% since trading at $6.43 on September 21, 2012, as traders speculate on the company.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Why Apple Stock Faces Strong Headwinds / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
George Leong writes: Have you seen the share price of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ/AAPL) lately? Since it traded at its record high of $705.07 on September 21, 2012, it has been a mess. Faced by rising competition, better products, and superior pricing, Apple has seen its price shaved by about 28.0% in what has been a trend reversal to the bearish side, according to my technical analysis. Apple is on the verge of breaking below $500.00, a move that was last encountered on February 16, 2012.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Playing the Long-term Trends in Stocks / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
How many times have you bought a stock and then a few weeks perhaps have gone by and you get frustrated with lack of real net movement? You see all kinds of other stocks moving every day and finally you give up, sell your stock and go chase another one. Inevitably what happens in many cases is you find out later that your instincts were right and your research was correct, as the stock you gave up on finally takes off leaving you frustrated.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
LinkedIn Shares Poised to Drop / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Last night Zynga tanked, dragging down Facebook with it. There’s been a lot of hype regarding everything social, but not exactly a lot of follow through regarding earnings. Recently a new member of our team here at TTT, Brennan Basnicki, put out a fundamental piece on LinkedIn that I think merits a good readover as it is applicable to many of the high flying tech stocks we’ve seen get absolutely crushed lately. Further, if we look at some more of the fundamentals and technical indicators I think we may have found a prime shorting candidate.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Should You Short Stocks? Here's How, Along With Four Suggestions... / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: With Europe on the ropes and the U.S. economy in shambles, it's important to remember that there are two sides to every trade.
Tapping into upward momentum alone is not the only way to profit. Markets can and do head south on a regular basis. Investors who fail to grasp this are leaving a lot of money on the table.
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Intel Stock Market Dynamics / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
They say the proof is in the pudding. Upon first encountering the proposed market cycle matrix of the late market analyst PQ Wall, from the Kondratieff long wave down to the 20-week cycle, it was dismissed by this author and fellow market cycle researcher. It simply could not be true. The conclusions were clearly the results of an obsessive-compulsive disorder in an otherwise gifted financial market analyst. Years later, coming to a frustrating dead end with the work of Harvard economist and cycle theorist Joseph Schumpeter, and his smaller cycle work presented in Business Cycles, PQ's claims were studied more closely. The results of further inquiry into the mind and market matrix methods of PQ Wall were shocking. PQ Wall has changed market cycle theory forever, and his maverick thinking may hold the keys to even greater mysteries of the universe.
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Thursday, June 07, 2012
How To Profit From Stocks Forming Cup Patterns / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
We’ve shown you how to profit from short-sell set-ups the past two weeks. But the next pattern that will yield profits in the near future is the Coming Up The Right Side Of The Cup pattern which we’ll talk about and show you current and past examples of here.
When we talk about issues Coming Up The Right Side of a cup understand that there can be no cup until you have an actually bottom of a cup. Take a look at a few examples from the past of what we are talking about.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Apple Stock Vulnerable / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
From my technical, point-and-figure chart perspective, it was very disconcerting to see Apple (AAPL) give up its earlier rally gains from 583 to 594, because the ensuing decline wrecked an otherwise promising PF double low at 583.
Since then, the price structure has swooned again to break the double low at 583 with a 582 print. Although AAPL recovered to 585-586 after its marginal new PF low, the fact remains that AAPL has made a new low in a series of lower-PF-lows off of Tuesday's recovery high PF print at 620.
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