The Only Remaining China-Based Trade I Like

The Shanghai Composite Index (SSEC) plunged 8.5% to start trading for the week. The ripple effects were wide and far-reaching even as arguments continue floating that the collapse in China’s stock market matters little outside of China and does not truly reflect on economic conditions in the country. Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook summed up … Read more

Apple Finally Flips To Oversold

Apple (AAPL) was stuck in a trading range for the past five months. For much of that trading range, AAPL neatly pivoted around its 50-day moving average (DMA). I noticed these combined behaviors starting around early May. I have written about them and traded them. Today, July 9th, AAPL finally dropped out of the trading … Read more

T2108 Update (May 5, 2015) – Broken Record: Chopfest Continues

(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

The Apple Pre-Earnings Trade: January, 2015 Edition – Soaring Optimism

At the time of writing Apple (AAPL) is down 1.6% in sympathy with a poor reaction to Microsoft’s (MSFT) that included warnings about the impact of the strong U.S. dollar (UUP). The drop has formed a bearish “abandoned baby top” kind of technical pattern just as the stock has dropped below the 50-day moving average … Read more

T2108 Update (December 31, 2014) – A Roller Coaster Year Ends With A Historic Extreme In Volatility

(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