This is a stock that went on my students' watchlists this week for potential swing trading. NASDAQ:TWST is coming out of a long-term down-trending correction and has completed the bottom. Accumulation ended and a HFT gap and run up followed on May 3rd. The stock retested the sideways trend highs which are now support for the current price. Pro traders are...
There is an interesting phenomenon that occurs often: when a gap down of this size occurs, followed by a bottoming action and a large white candle forms, this often becomes an island gap. HFTs that gapped the stock down gap it up again. The fact that the gap down candle is a huge white candle for this chart indicates that the gap down is below fundamental values...
The Giant Banks and Credit Card companies benefit the most from the Federal Reserve Board's overnight interest rate hikes. As the FRB increases its lending rate, it allows big banks and credit companies to increase their interest rates to consumers, small businesses, etc. That usually means higher revenues. NYSE:V is in a sideways trend that is not as...
NASDAQ:TSLA reports on Wednesday of this week, October 18th. Last quarter, it had a gap down on its earnings news based on Year over Year comparisons which triggered High Frequency Trading (HFTs) to gap the stock down. Quarter over Quarter, however, NASDAQ:TSLA has shown consistent growth this year. The problem with determining if the HFT gaps are likely to...
The big season for vacations starts this week as schools close, graduations begin, weddings increase, and families plan big vacations this year. BKNG has had HFTs attempting to sell it down several times but it holds within a sideways trend still. This implies hidden accumulation. If it breaks to the upside, then this sideways trend becomes support. BKNG...
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) reported earnings today for the 4th quarter. There was no surprise for the professionals and for the Dark Pool Buy Side Institutions. They already knew what the numbers would be. Today's candle was not just a bullish engulfing candle. It is what we, at TechniTrader, call a major fundamental REVERSAL candlestick pattern. This is a huge...
Ramblings about a secret little stock I was trading and strategy on how I traded this stock. Penny flipping is not for everyone but when you find a stock that resonates the strategy, it can become fun and profitable...
United Technologies Corp Weekly Chart removes the white noise of the daily candlestick patterns, revealing a cleaner perspective of who controls price for this stock. UTX is bouncing up after hitting support levels AND with professional traders setting up for earnings news. The precision trading of the professionals is not impacted by the slow hidden rotation...
Deere & Company is one of the last to report earnings of the Dow 30 components today. High Frequency Trading firms (HFT) focus on blue chip earnings reports. DE is holding above the topping completion level for now but remains in a volatile trading range. All black lines on this weekly chart were drawn in the last quarter. Bounce support areas are defined in...