Chart Review: Tesla’s Breakout Runs Into Resistance

On November 6th, I identified a budding downtrend for Tesla (TSLA). The remaining portion of the downtrend only lasted another two weeks before a consolidation phase took over. I switched my bias from bearish to bullish at that point. A tremendous breakout on December 3rd confirmed that the primary downtrend had ended, and the 50-day … Read more

T2108 Update (December 3, 2013) – Bears Get An Invitation, But Quasi-Oversold Conditions Temper Their Prospects

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are … Read more

T2108 Update (November 18, 2013) – A Tantalizing Pause Ahead of 2013’s “Last Stand” for Bears

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are … Read more

An Elon Musk Day: Downtrend Forming for Tesla; A Post-Earnings Opportunity for Solar City

Elon Musk took a small hit on his two high-flying darlings Tesla (TSLA) and Solar City (SCTY) in the wake of recent earnings. Both represent some intriguing technical trading opportunities that I review in brief here. Tesla (TSLA) I used twitter to talk about Tesla pre and post-earnings. On Tuesday, November 5, I noted a … Read more

T2108 Update (July 19, 2013) – A Key Juncture As the Market Creeps Toward Overbought; Google and Apple Earnings Technicals

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades … Read more

T2108 Update (July 17, 2013) – Small Stall At All-Time Intraday High; Chart Review Madness

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades … Read more

Chart Review: Apple Changing, BlackBerry Pushes On, Facebook On the Edge, Autozone Breaks Out, Fossil Still Abandoned

Here is my latest review of a few charts that have my attention: Apple (AAPL), BlackBerry (BBRY), Facebook (FB), and Autozone (AZO), Fossil (FOSL). Apple (AAPL) Fourteen (14) trading days have passed since Apple (AAPL) made a new low in its standing downtrend from last September’s all-time highs. The stock has closed above the downtrending … Read more

Chart Review: Autozone on the Edge of a Breakout

Autozone (AZO) was a banner stock coming out of the 2001 recession. In 2001 alone, AZO logged a 152% gain. Over the next six years, AZO gained another 67%. During the financial panic in 2008, AZO plunged but did not even come close to erasing all those hard-fought gains. In 2009, the stock barely paused … Read more

T2108 Update – October 24, 2011 (Overbought)

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are posted on twitter using the #120trade hashtag) T2108 Status: 77% (almost overbought) VIX … Read more

What Happened to Ener1? The Disappointment and the Promise

(This is an excerpt from an article I published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) Ener1 (HEV) lost 36% last week after reporting earnings that disappointed with the news of a massive $73.3M write-down of the company’s investment in Norwegian electric vehicle company THINK. HEV management insisted this action should not … Read more