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$CCL breaks months-long flag and is cruising for a ~50% moveThe break of the flag which was followed up with a near perfect bounce off a retest of structure. Went long after it was noticed that this move coincided with significant dark pool buying activity and unusual options activity on August 6 and 7. In the short-term, looking to target $17-$17.50 in the next few days to take most profits off and then add back in during a pull back. Long-term will look to take profit around $20.
NYSE:CCLLong
by tradefarmer
What's going on with Hertz?Yesterday, I carefully watched HTZ due to its bankruptcy announcement on Friday night. The price had opened at $2.84 and after careful observation, it literally did not move throughout the day. There was absolutely no information on Level II, trading volume, etc. Somehow, after literally not moving during market hours, the price dropped to $0.55 right before close. Today, the stock price is up almost 60% pre-market. Is there someone out there, who on top of watching the mainstream news, also questions their origin, like me? What the fuck is going on with these massive levels of corruption in plain sight? Is Icahn causing that massive surge in price so that we can cover some of his losses and peace out? And who the f*** bought the millions of shares that were dumped on Tuesday that drove the price from 2.84$ to 0.55$? I need my skeptics and theorists on this one because the stock market is really making me question if the public knows at all about the BS going on behind the curtains. How can we expect transparency in the markets when the SEC is the same body regulating dark-pool exchanges that happen to be privately owned but operate within the same brokerages we use? I'm 21 and currently working on an experiment to observe trading patters daily in order to understand algorithmic behaviour. I write daily hypotheses as to what I believe the price will do based on the evidence, and when the market closes I write the behaviour observed. My background in CompSci helps me understand most algorithmic behaviours, but this??!! So, if there are any quants out there who also question the world around them, please contact me.
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by normaescobarca
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SBUX: Speculative with declining volume, no Dark PoolsThis chart pattern is highly speculative. This doesn’t mean the stock won’t go higher but that buying it at this price is a very risky situation. On the weekly scale, the trend is bending under selling pressure as smaller funds and retail buy because the stock has been moving up. This is NOT a Dark Pool accumulation mode. Volume is declining steadily also. Volume that declines precedes a correction, either sideways action which means more upside eventually, OR a downside correction to a support level where fundamentals meet technical price levels.
NASDAQ:SBUX
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader
JNJ: Stuck in a trading range, buybacks are supporting the stockA weekly chart reveals the long-term trading range in which JNJ has been stuck. This Dow component ran up due to buybacks around the start of this year. But the trend and volume-based indicators show a lack of quiet accumulation by Dark Pools. The stock slid down ahead of its earnings release today and gapped up slightly on the report, but there has been considerable profit-taking today as well. So JNJ remains bound in a narrower range just below the trading range highs, where it could languish for some time.
NYSE:JNJ
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader
ATVI: Rounded Bottom with Dark Pools WaitingActivision Blizzard Co is developing what will become an intermediate-term rounded bottom formation, aka bowl bottom. It is about 25% to completion. Large-lot indicators have not formed a shift of sentiment pattern yet, as smaller funds’ VWAP orders continue to trigger in capitulation mode. The smaller funds are giving up on ATVI as it bottoms. The Dark Pools will wait to see if the stock will drop further due to the smaller funds dumping before they decide where to set their TWAP orders. ATVI is a gaming company that is gearing up for Augmented Reality.
NASDAQ:ATVI
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader
Small Cap Stock to Watch: NSTG with Dark Pools, Pro TradersNSTG had a speculative momentum run out of a short term bottom. This small-cap stock has finally broken out of its long term trading range to a new high. Now it needs to shift sideways to avert a falling stock price. There is some mild accumulation in the consolidation patterns that are representative of one or two Dark Pool giants and some pro traders who both stabilize and control price to a neat and tidy-looking consolidation. NSTG is not a buy at the moment as the run is overextended at this point, but it is worth considering for a possible watchlist candidate since it is in Nano technology, which is finally forging ahead again with more products moving to the market acceptance phase.
NEducation
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader
KO Earnings: Dark Pool Rotation vs. BuybacksCoca Cola has been in a major buyback mode for its stock in an attempt to move the price up. The buybacks have faced heavier than normal Dark Pool rotation (large lot selling) against the automated buyback orders. Recently the buybacks have increased, creating some interesting anomalies in the large lot indicators as well as in price patterns. Retail traders, who trade this stock heavily, are often fooled by buyback candlestick patterns. Institutional holdings has declined, which is unusual during a buyback mode.
NYSE:KOEducation
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader
AKAM: Dark Pools & Pro Traders Patterns Ahead of Earnings TodayAkamai Technologies Inc. reports earnings today with a solid start to a bottoming formation with Dark Pools' and then Pro traders’ footprints. The stock is currently at a completion level for the short term bottom. A Shift of Sentiment™ pattern formed between October and January. AKAM moved lower before finding the final low support from a previous Dark Pool Buy zone while Accumulation/Distribution indicators exposed the positive divergence. The pattern is a setup for a swing trade, not a position trade opportunity yet.
NASDAQ:AKAMEducation
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader