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Always 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...

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VERI 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...

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Essent 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...

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Disney reports earnings today. The chart has been in a bottoming formation since April of 2018 as this company had a business contraction in 2015. The stock is below its all-time high. The bottom is on the short term within a Trading Range of 30-point dimension. Weekly Chart of DIS shows the trading range. The stock is postured to attempt a breakout of the trading...

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I started monitoring this stock shortly after it IPO’d as it appeared frequently on the large lot pre market activity list as Dark Pools accumulated this IPO early on. Roku Inc. is in the Communications Services Sector under the Pay TV Industry. It is a new young public company challenging companies like NFLX with a new form of streaming video content for...

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This is a bottoming formation that has been in a platform pattern after completion of the bottom in July. Shift of sentiment occurred in April. Quiet accumulation patterns are present from May through early July but are not present at this time. The stock had some down days but remained within the range of this platform. HFT gap potential if earnings surprise.

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As a new generation starts families and buys homes, the growth in Life Insurance also booms. There are several life insurance companies forming bottoms right now and many are nearing completion for future position trading, intermediate term holds or even long term holds. This chart has a specific footprint in the chart patterns that confirms the bottom has begun...

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Considering your risk is something that all investors and traders should do before trading or investing in any stock. Often when a stock displays this much risk on the long- and intermediate-term time frames, it also warns of risk for short-term trading as well. The Weekly Chart provides better perspective of the risk of buying the stock at this new all-time high...

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AMD has run with momentum driven by pro traders’ activity. The Pros will often be the initial driving force behind a Velocity run (see rectangle around the velocity run.) A velocity run is different from a momentum run as the candles do not overlap. One thing for options traders to remember is that when pro traders are swinging a giant lot trade for a short-term...

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Rotation has been underway most of the summer months in the AMZN chart. Rotation is the slow, methodical selling of shares held in inventory for the Trusts of Derivative Developers and the Charters of Mutual Funds. The largest institutions are lowering their risk, expecting the tariffs imposed on Chinese imports to impact AMZN with either rising prices and costs...

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The ADBE Trend is one that is often a “gottcha” for new swing traders. The problem is trading leadership. The runs are not initiated by Dark Pools or Pro Traders. The runs are initiated by smaller funds using VWAP or, worse, the retail crowd. The retail crowd is more emotional, has less experience and minimal training. Therefore, the runs they create are harder to...

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WMT 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...