Activision - Possible BreakoutFor the past week and a half, ATVI has successfully consolidated in the highlighted zone. With the Call of Duty Mobile World Championship kicking off on April 30th presented by SNE and lasting until May 24th, the price may breakout upwards on investor confidence of the revenue generated by the broadcasting of the Championship this upcoming week. Also with the stay at home order in place for the time being people are playing more video games than ever and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future as technology continues to advance and the coming releases of the PS5 (SNE), and the Xbox Series X (MSFT) on the horizon.
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Another speculative bubble: Alcatel-Lucent [Banking] [Crypto]First... a little introduction about mainstream speculation, then I will talk about 50 year market cycles, and then about banking & currencies.
Coronavirus: The "best" models by "the brightest minds" predicted - taking into account lockdown & social distancing - "tens of millions of deaths".
MrRenev predicted - it's only a few months old - that this was extremely exagerated. By Late April, 200,000 people have died. The rate is high in cold countries (~40°N, interestingly this is New York and Rome latitudes), I think deaths of colds by this coronavirus are as high as all other colds combined. Anyway, I got alot of heat but I was right, as usual. I also predicted that lockdown was useless and did no good (but does a whole lot of harm), and I will soon compare lockdown countries to non lockdown ones to show it, plus studies will say the same thing, same old, same old. A study has shown New York had several millions infected! More than 1 in 5! (As I predicted...got patronized and everything but I was right - AGAIN! - so don't mind me if I am arrogant and condescending).
Cough cough:
11,544 deaths in New York City
15,740 in the New York state
A death rate around .5%, it's a little higher than other places, but it's pretty cold there, and air quality isn't great, and americans are fat so obviously it will be worse.
Also there is another reason why the rate could be higher there but I won't even mention it because the USA sees racism everywhere and they still control the world (not for long ;}) and I can't be bothered.
I had the numbers for all colds but idk where they are now, but for the flu & pneumonia last years they were almostas many deaths as for covid-19 alone.
And if I remember correctly covid-19 had about as many deaths as all colds combined. So it's pretty big but way smaller than all the clowns predicted.
"Low end mortality prediction 3%, but could be as high as 10%" "Worse than the spanish flu" "Deadlier than feared" LMAO clowns!
CO2 : Sigh. CO2 will kill us all. Another pathetic dogma and ridiculous calls. "World hunger will be extreme", actually earth population went up exponentially and hunger went down even in nominal terms.
30-50 years ago: "Temperature will go up 5 to 15 degrees" (15? really? Chimp). Went up 1 degree. In the North Hemisphere. And 0 in oceans & around the equator. 0.5 overall. They're desperate to make "adjustment" to make it look worse lmao, but then there are inconsistency and they deviate from other measurements and other countries etc and keep coming up with excuses to cover up their previous lies.
"12 years left" We've had 12 years left for the past 30 years boy.
Terrible, really terrible calls. I could make a long list. There are really funny ones, well they're all funny, another example is the "end of the world millenium bug", heard of that one? Oh, every one knows this one :"The Titanic is unskinkable" OOOH MY this one DID NOT AGE WELL! "Prosperity Will Never End" (1929). "We have to transitions to renewables because our advanced economics predict Oil will cost $380 a barrel in 10 years and it's fundamentally impossible we are wrong" (economists in 2005 - barrel priced at minus 40 a few days ago and Trump fighting to keep the long term price above 20 bucks).
Cycles:
So I remind you,
1780-1830: Steam Engine, Mechanisation
1830-1880: Railway, Steel, Comm (telegraphs), ( Start of wageslavery )
1880-1930: Electricity, Chemicals, Heavy Engineering
1930-1975: Automobiles, Oil, Mass Production & Consumerism
1975-2020: IT, Comm (satelittes, computers, internet, phones)
2020-2060: Banking (& Currencies), Health (billions of obese...), ( Decline of Wageslavery/Change in Work structure )
Comm continued between 1880 and 1975 and was growing before 1830, but it made its biggest revolutionnary gains in the 2 periods mentionned I think.
Idk maybe traders are communists after all, alot want freedom and hate the exploitation of man by man, the difference with official commies is we are smart enough to understand freedom comes from making money by yourself (profit) not by electing dictators that control everything and put chains around your neck (so obvious...).
Banking & Currencies :
A banking revolution is necessary, by revolution I mean changing this rotten system completely. All this money printing... In the US retail banks are making ridiculous loans to uneducated people that won't ever be able to pay, squeezing them, and then taking away their houses and more...
Cryptocurrencies were the earliest element in this new banking Kondratiev cycle, like computers of the 60s (first popular computer game spacewar that you might have heard of run on a 1960 model), and the space race. If you stored very pricey Disk Storage Drives and CRAM from 1962 you might be able to sell a few to collectors but that's it. Wouldn't get your money back and I didn't say inflation adjusted.
Companies are developping in this area, I mean quick payments, they're starting to replace banks. There are issues but it's growing.
I better perform well in this cycle and know what to invest in, I can proudly say I am an engineer in security & electronic payments, isn't that funny, in another life I might have been part of the next bubble, at least I learned something useful at school. Forgot it all thought.
So anyway ye, all those mobile phone companies, and optic cable companies (Alcatel was both), went way way down. Mobile phones got really big, optic fiber too, doesn't mean their share price HAVE to go up, if they started already 500% too high duh, and there are other factors. People are so dumb. That's why it is called dumb money.
Finance is getting more and more complex, probably because of the Flynn effect, mmm because the smart are getting smarter and the dumb are getting dumber.
And people are getting fatter and fatter + the world is open so diseases can spread on easy mode. Plague inc casual difficulty.
Next big things banking/currencies/and even the rest of finance, and Health / bio-tech.
The cattle that gets excited and greedy about potential profit and becomes obsessed and blinded with reasons to go up (the halving, bakkt, cme futures, etc) will get slaughtered and turned into delicious steaks, smart money will keep profitting I wonder... finance becoming more advanced efficient complex... Gives an even bigger edge to the smart. And dum dums get punished harder (as Robinhood users positions demonstrate). The dum dums breed like rats, the smart (especially women) not much... So this means more brainlets money to end in the pocket of less smart players. And all the little cockroaches that were cheating before everything got computerised (floor traders) stopped making money so now only pure skill / smarts is rewarded.
The smart can make more money but then have to pay for dum dums that can't even survive on their own. And get dumber and so on.
Without brains humans are just animals that don't run fast and aren't very strong.
Nothing is more risible that delusional dumb money that gets blinded by 1 fact and ignore everything else and gets excited.
The Alcatel chart, like many others, is not available anymore. There is still a remnant on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
Those bubbles, those dumb money movements happen ALL THE TIME. And they never learn, and it gets forgotten, and it's always the same story.
And they are cocky when the price goes up, and they are persuaded they can't be wrong, and they get wiped out and turn silent.
History will keep repeating itself for a long long time.
Don't be one of those idiot gamblers. Investing and speculating take a very large amount of learning and a very large amount of thinking.
This is what happens to gamblers 99.999% of the time:
$GLOB can rise in the next daysContextual immersion trading strategy idea.
Globant S.A. offers machine learning, pattern recognition, natural language understanding, future of organizations, customer insight, behavioral change, product innovation, design thinking, product management discovery and delivery, and product coaching services.
The company announced that it expects first-quarter 2020 revenues to be at least $190 million, implying at least 30.0% year-over-year growth and that it continues to expect first-quarter 2020 adjusted diluted EPS to be at least $0.62 — finance.yahoo.com
This and other conditions can cause a rise in the share price in the next days.
So I opened a long position from $97,43;
stop-loss — $93,74.
Information about take-profits will be later.
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Ahrvo Weekly Sector Rankings: 4/20/2020Earnings season is well underway. For Q1 2020, 45 S&P 500 companies have reported earnings. Of the companies that have reported, 66% have reported a positive EPS surprise (beat earnings expectations) and 70% of S&P 500 companies have reported a positive revenue surprise (beat revenue expectations). The earnings decline for Q1 2020 thus far has clocked in at -14.5%, which would make it the largest earnings decline for the S&P 500 since Q3 2009. Revenue growth has averaged .6%. All sectors have a slower growth rate than they did on March 31st. The stock market’s performance continues to deviate from economic fundamentals/ Eventually, that will need to be reconciled. Over the next week, 96 companies are expected to report, providing additional clarity on the state of corporate America.
According to Factset, the net income margin (a measure of profitability) for S&P 500 companies has fallen to 9.4% based on reported Q1 results. This is below the 5-year average of 10.6%. The fall in profitability did not start this quarter. S&P 500 companies’ net income margins (profitability) have declined for the last four quarters. The largest decrease in profitability has been experienced by cyclical sectors- Financials (down 60%), Energy (down 250%), Consumer Discretionary (down 155%), Industrials (down 136%), and Materials (down 21%). Defensive sectors profitability has held up much better- Consumer Staples (down 3%), Healthcare (down 5%), Technology (down 3%), and Utilities (up 1%). Overall, analysts expect net margins to decrease in the 2nd quarter and make a rebound in the 3rd and 4th quarter of 2020.
For the first time in two weeks, all S&P 500 companies did not have a positive price performance. By and large, defensive sectors outperform cyclical sectors. Signaling that investors are becoming more cautious as the stock market continues to rise. Defensive sectors- healthcare (ticker: XLV), consumer staples (ticker: XLP), Utilities (ticker: XLU), and technology (ticker: XLK) returned 6.5% (outperform), 2.9% (outperform), -1.1% (underperform), and 2.9% (outperform). Cyclical sectors- consumer discretionary(ticker: XLY), energy (ticker: XLE), financial (ticker: XLF), materials (ticker: XLB), and industrial (ticker: XLI) returned 4.1% (outperform), -2.7% (underperform), -2.4% (underperform), -2.4%, and .2%, respectively. The S&P 500 (ticker: SPY) was up 2.3%.
Over the last month, the S&P 500 is up ~17% while the U.S. economy has lost 22 million jobs- more than erasing the jobs created over the last decade’s economic expansion. The decrease in earnings, coupled with the rise in stock prices has led to the S&P 500’s multiple to expand. Making stocks more expensive at a time when economic uncertainty is at an all-time high. The forward 12-month P/E ratio for the S&P 500 is 18.5x. This P/E ratio is above the 5-year average (16.7x) and above the 10-year average (15x). Analysts project that Q2 earnings will decline by -26.6% and a revenue decline of -5.7%. For Q3, analysts are projecting an earnings decline of -13.3% and a revenue decline of -1.6%. Things are expected to improve in the last quarter of the year, with earnings expected to fall -4.8% and revenue expected to increase to 1.1%. However, I would not be surprised in Q4 estimates get revised downwards as analysts tend to overestimate future expectations. Going forward, I expect the S&P 500’s P/E ratio to contract to at least its 5-year average and for stock prices to fall. Defensive sectors should continue to outperform cyclicals, as fundamentals deteriorate.
-Appo Agbamu, CFA
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Slack Technologies $WORKSlack Technologies again hit the the pivot resistance and back. #RSI is weak to break out. It may pull back till 10SMA
Ahrvo Daily Movers⬆: Citrix System- A Coronavirus Proof BusinessWhat is CTXS?
Citrix Systems ( ticker: CTXS) , Inc. provides workspace, networking, and professional services worldwide. The company offers workspace services, including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops; Citrix Content Collaboration, a cloud-based file sharing, and storage solution, which provides enterprise-class data services on various corporate and personal mobile devices for businesses; Citrix Endpoint Management for mobility and device management capabilities; and Workspace Intelligence that customizes and streamlines user workflows, as well as microapp creation with low-code tooling, automates tasks and functions. In addition, the company offers customer services, hardware maintenance, consulting, and product training and certification services. The company serves health care, financial services, technology, manufacturing, consumer, and government agencies. It markets and licenses its products through resellers, distributors, systems integrators, independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, and service providers. The company was formerly known as Citrus Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Citrix Systems, Inc. in March 2009. Citrix Systems, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Ahrvo Stock Rankings
CTXS has been a top-ranked for quite some time. Over the last three months, Citrix Systems AhrvoScore (overall score) has remained flat and solidly in strong buy range at 99. In fact, Citrix System’s Momentum Score, Quality Score, and Growth Score are all in the top decile (top 10%) of 7,000+ companies we track, clocking in at 98, 95, and 94, respectively. The Company’s rankings have remained stable over the last three months, with its Momentum Score and Growth Score remaining flat and Quality Score up 1 point. CTXS has Value Score in at 72, up 1 point over the same time period. Citrix Systems ranks higher than its industry average across all scores: Ahrvo Score 99 vs. 76, Momentum Score 98 vs. 72, Value Score 72 vs. 56, Quality Score 95 vs. 70, and Growth Score 94 vs. 71.
Our Take
Since the beginning of the year, Citrix Systems is up 35.68%. The S&P 500 (ticker: SPY) and the technology sector (ticker: XLK) are down 13.09% and 4.01% over the same time period. As the S&P 500 and technology sector fell by 28% and 24% from the middle of February to the end of March, Citrix System remained flat, down ~.02%. Given CTXS's strong/resilient price-performance, its relative strength indicator (RSI) of 66 is approaching overbought territory. Investors should wait for CTXS’s RSI to pull back to the 50-60 (neutral range) before purchasing the stock. With its suite of workplace, networking, and professional service offerings, CTXS is strategically positioned to benefit from the work-from-home (remote work) movement that will continue after coronavirus is contained. Citrix Systems has substantially outperformed the S&P 500 and the Technology sector over the last five years, returning 188.5%, while the market and technology stocks returned 34% and 109%, respectively. I expect that to continue going forward.
-Appo Agbamu, CFA
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CYBERARK SOFTWARE: The Underdog of the CybersecurityCyberArk is a smallcap security company offering Privileged Account Security ( e.g. financial services, energy, retail, healthcare).
Cause of the Covid19-Crash the Cybersecurity section crushed down to -33% but we are seeing fast recovery in the Cyber Sector recording to the First Trust NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF (Blue Line).
I expect that Cyberark is going to have a big bound upwards. Your Christian S.
Roku Has Weekly Breakout as Coronavirus Boosts StreamingCoronavirus has benefited some technology stocks like Zoom Video , Netflix and Amazon.com . Another name on that list is streaming-video firm Roku .
The stock gapped higher yesterday after seeing a 49 percent pop in first-quarter streaming hours. While the advertising side of its business took a hit from business shutdowns, usage keeps growing. There was a time last year that people worried competition would kill ROKU, but so far the eyeballs keep coming.
ROKU has formed a pair of inside weekly candles, and is now breaking out. Like Nio yesterday, this signal shows that a highly volatile name has calmed down and may be ready to start trending again.
The daily chart also shows a breakout of the 50-day simple moving average (SMA). In the very near-term it may be overbought. But as long as the shares hold this area, buyers may return in coming sessions – especially when you consider the relative strength in Covid-benefiting tech stocks like Zoom Video and NFLX .