ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
With each passing day in the April downtrend, Apple’s stock chart gets more and more interesting. Today, Apple (APPL) almost pounded out a hammer. Given the final resting point on the 50-day moving average (DMA), I would throw caution to the wind and call today’s pattern a hammer, but I am showing some deference to … Read more
It now looks like Monday’s deep dive in Apple (AAPL) may have indeed represented a crescendo of selling. The buyers finally showed up in Apple after taking a five-day hiatus. The results were just as impressive as ever when buyers step up for more bites of Apple. It looks like Apple’s reawakening is Apple’s revenge. … Read more
Apple (AAPL) has had a rough five days. The stock has sold off for five straight days on very high selling volume with losses increasing the last two days. The 9.7% loss pales in comparison to the year-to-date 43% gains. However, this recent selling is just as ominous as the last topping pattern Apple printed … Read more
One month ago, Polycom (PLCM) dropped 10% seemingly out of nowhere on relatively high volume. On April 5, PLCM dropped 20% in the wake of an earnings warning in which the company stated their “…growth rate was below our overall expectations, driven primarily by shortfalls in Asia Pacific and North America.” On a GAAP basis, … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on March 29, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} This is the change in “guidance practices” and outlook that beleaguered mobile company Research In Motion (RIMM) announced in its latest earnings report today. It has all the trappings of … Read more