T2108 Update (January 22, 2014) – Finally Overbought (Includes IBM and NFLX Chart Reviews)

(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

Meritage Supersizes Its Warchest On the Heels of Another Outstanding Quarter

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on January 12, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) Meritage Homes (MTH) rolled out a series of announcements last week culminating in the pricing of 2.2M shares in a common stock offering at $45.75/share. With net proceeds of $95.9M, this … Read more

Model N – A Potential Comeback Story for 2014 And Beyond

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 23, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} MODN started publicly trading in March of this year, but it did not catch my attention until it fell a gut-wrenching 32% on September 10th after a disastrous update on … Read more

Cambpell’s Soup Still Not Cheap Enough to Risk Playing A Post-Earnings Recovery

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 21, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) You know it must be a good year in the stock market when a soup and food products company can deliver 11% gains year-to-date. Unfortunately for Campbell Soup (CPB), its 11% … 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