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HD: Earnings Stock of the DayAlways a late reporting company, HD reported today before the market opened. HFTs were ready to gap the stock in the direction the algos perceived earnings. The chart patterns were setting up for a negative reaction. The stock is in the lower area of its trading range that has similarities to the S&P500 index chart's trading range pattern. Flow of Funds indicators show heavier than normal outflow of money from this stock. That means selling is rotation or distribution by Dark Pools.
NYSE:HD
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader
Earnings Stock of the Day: VERIVERI is reporting earnings today and was chosen to remind traders that IPOs are not usually profitable. It is very rare to have a company that IPOs with high profits and revenue. Therefore, IPOs are generally speculative as this stock was. It IPO’d around the summer of 2017 and ran up for a month to a new all-time high. Retail investors and smaller funds drove price upward due to HFT activity and the encouragement of financial advisors. AccumDist shows smaller funds buying speculatively, creating the momentum run of August into September. HFTs created the huge black engulfing candle at the peak. Smaller funds and the retail crowd “bought on the dip” and have lost a lot of money since then. Preferred Clients sold into the speculative gains. It is now near the low that should provide stability to the downtrend and eventually commence the bottom formation. There is no bottom yet as there is no Dark Pool Buy Zone™ yet. There are no major companies reporting today. It is all small to mid-cap companies. Earnings Season is in the final days of reporting.
NASDAQ:VERI
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader
Earnings Stock of the Day: ESNTEssent Group LTD is in the Financial Services Sector under Specialty Finance. This is a relatively new industry that is going to have growth in the next decade as more specialty finance services companies go to IPO. The opportunities come from Cloud Technology’s second phase of new displacement technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence. ESNT is working on a bottoming formation after a correction from a recent high. It attempted to fill the gap down caused by HFTs gapping the stock in April of this year. The rectangle on the chart is when this stock had potential for a watchlist candidate as a Shift of Sentiment™ pattern occurred. The stock peaked and topped in 2018. The pattern is still at risk for more downside and is not a watchlist candidate at this time, but it is reporting earnings today. The stock must complete this bottom formation and then challenge the previous highs to resume an uptrend. That will take time.
NYSE:ESNT
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader
WMT Bottom Facing All-Time High and Trade WarsWMT has been in a bottoming formation most of this year. The big gap up was HFTs taking advantage of those who trade on earnings news. Notice how quickly profit-taking follows. The all-time high is strong resistance. Walmart is one company that is stating it will face revenue and earnings problems due to the Trade Wars and new Tariffs on the Chinese goods it imports. Since this is a discount retail store, the tariffs will eventually force the company to either find another country to import goods from or raise the cost of its imported goods, which is a far more likely scenario. That means US consumers who buy products from Walmart will start to see an increase in the cost of any products or goods imported from China. This could take effect as early as this holiday season. WMT may try to delay some cost increases until next year, but the increase in import costs will be passed onto consumers at some point.
NYSE:WMT
by MarthaStokesCMT-TechniTrader
Longterm view on S&P 500Kinda cluttered, these are areas I'm paying attention to, depending how the market enters those zones I might think about taking a long/short position. Some fun facts: - Fiat currencies get stronger in market corrections, since people are selling whatever they can for dollars/fiat. - Approximately HALF the volume on the US equity markets is generated from high-frequency trading. If I understand this correctly that means half the volume traded on markets is just a reflection of the other half. That's very precarious. - Approximately %60 of bank loans within the developed world are against real estate that already exists, ie mortgages, not for construction or business startups or whatever. Non productive assets. Kinda makes you second guess the whole mantra behind things like QE. - Despite unprecedented levels of monetary easing, money velocity has plummeted and yields are scarce. There is no happy ending here. I'm not too keen on the SPX being able to hold this upward 45 degree angle its been on, I expect a crisis/correction towards 1500 at some point. I'm not a permabear but a major change needs to occur within the design of our financial system for the world to continue running, and that won't come without some volatility. These endless loans/debts simply cannot be repaid. The central banks need inflation and they're gonna get it through permanent money creation/debt monetization. This'll probably play out between now and 2020.
FX:SPX500Short
by pjlbtv
This is SPECIFICALLY what I mean, when I say, you cannot predictThis is SPECIFICALLY what I mean, when I say, you cannot predict bot action. www.cryptocoinsnews.com How much did you lose on this? Or were you prepared for the take? There are SOOOOOO many bots out there. quatloos.org bitcointalk.org www.coindesk.com AND, soooo many more idiots that don't know how to use them. Please don't go long on a fully manipulated market. Granted, all markets, forex, stock, commodities, ALL of them, have bots... but they have volume too, to protect against aggressive bots. OBVIOUSLY, Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency/ALTcoins do NOT.
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