TCB: What Pure Trend Analysis Says See if you can see a pattern in the candlestick chart of TCB. Pay attention to the 10-day and 30-day moving averages. The Technical Analysis for TCB TCB is rather uninteresting from the standpoint of technical analysis. It doesn’t have any gaps. Nor does it have any […]
May 2014 Income Report Starting this month, I will be summarizing my progress in building wealth through playing stock options. I will document each play I have made during the past month, before the expiry date of the options. I will also report on how each play paid off. At the end of the […]
FTEK: About to Head Upward Sometimes you see a stock that appears to have no clear pattern. Yet candlesticks and gaps can often give big hints on the coming direction of the stock. Here is FTEK, one such stock: The Technical Analysis for FTEK FTEK looks like a mountain range. The peaks and […]
CAR: A Stock Warren Buffet Would Love Sometimes when you play options, you’ll eventually run into a boring stock like CAR: The Technical Analysis for CAR CAR is boring for two main reasons. First, it’s held its upward trend all the way from February to May. It just keeps slowly moving up. It’s […]
AMSWA: Signs Point to a Downward Trend AMSWA is rather volatile, considering its limited range. Though consistently trading between 8 and 11 in the last six months, AMSWA has had its ups and downs: The Technical Analysis for AMSWA A pretty strong case can be made for a continued downward trend of AMSWA. […]
Let’s Play a Game: Fundamental Analysis vs. Technical Analysis: The Long Straddle ZU is a stock that has risen quickly in the past two months and fallen just as quickly. A fundamental analyst would describe the sudden fall in price as a result of a poor earnings report issued two days ago. A pure technical […]
A Strategy for a Volatile Stock: The Long Strangle FEYE is an abnormally volatile stock. But you don’t need to take my word for it; just check the stock chart below to see the rollercoaster that is FEYE: The Technical Analysis for FEYE The first thing you should notice is a strong downward trend. FEYE […]
A Spin of a (Fixed) Roulette Wheel I don’t know what Apollo Residential Mortgage Inc. is nor what they do. Nor do I care. All I care is that they have an interesting chart and some dirt-cheap call options that might be worth something in the next week. The Technical Analysis for Apollo […]
A Five-Day Short Strangle for a Quick Free $900 Today, I’m going to make $900 appear out of thin air. If you look at the line graph for AOL, you’ll see that the stock has been stable since the beginning of the year. From February to now, the stock has been stuck between […]
A Relatively Safe Bull Spread Today, we are looking at Carlisle Cos Inc (CSL). The line chart shows a relatively strong bullish trend, at least in the long term. It’s the short term where things look interesting, and why I’ve chosen this stock as the underlying for this bull spread. The […]
