Time For Yet Another Pairs Trade As Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems Plunge

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 26, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} I became so comfortable with the JNPR side of the trade that I never blinked while accumulating a fresh JNPR position over the past two and a half months without … Read more

How to Play The End of Google’s “Nine Lives” Around $600

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 20, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) For almost five years, GOOG has not been able to make a clean break from the $600 price level. {snip} Each time GOOG peaks just above $600, the subsequent sell-off has … Read more

Chart Review: Apple’s Revenge Part Two

It seems Friday’s stalemate was indeed a demonstration of Apple buyers finally putting up a fight. Apple’s stock is still in a short-term downtrend, but the trading action has been electrifying almost the entire way down. The wild swings and near symmetry of the move downward are the kind of “art” that only a chart … Read more

Chart Review: Apple Buyers Finally Put Up A Fight – For Now

After gaining as much as 55% this year, sellers have peeled Apple (AAPL) back to a year-to-date gain of 31%. Certainly much better than the average stock, but it still represents a large loss from the highs. An index that falls this much from highs is considered to be in a bear market! In my … Read more

Chart Review: Apple Breaks First Critical Support As Downtrend Continues

On Friday, May 4, Apple, Inc. (AAPL) essentially filled its post-earnings gap up. It took another week for AAPL to retest support that had held in the days before earnings. The selling into that test formed a downtrend in April that Apple has yet to shake. This downtrend has been so persistent that Apple has … Read more