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Market technicians say that 70% of the stock market volume is computer trading. We saw it in full effect today when the S&P 500 hit the double bottom lows from yesterday. This is a technical level and computer programs are set to buy hard. They sure did. The $SPY (tracking ETF for the S&P 500) jumped over a full Dollar (10 S&P points) when the double bottom was tagged. Knowing how to trade the charts is unbelievably important.

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How I Made 10K Today: The Killer Stock Market Fakeout I Spotted And Acted Upon

The stock market collapsed again today, following Friday's sharp decline and the hard bounce yesterday. Average investors saw the bounce yesterday and assumed this was a repeat of past drops and pops. Meaning, in the past six months, every drop was met with a pop that took the market right back up to new all-time highs. Today's sharp decline was definitely a shock to most investors but not…

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) broke a major trend line last Friday when the stock market collapsed. While it is bouncing today, the damage has been done based on technical analysis chart reading. Any retrace back to that trend line is a shorting opportunity for smart investors. This stock confirmed the break down and has its sights set on an eventual decline to $50.00. Look for the bounce to take the stock back to $61.25, then short it hard.…

Let Starbucks $SBUX Serve You Profits With That Latte Looking at the weekly chart of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), a good buy level for a swing trade is coming up at roughly $50. There are at least FIVE factors aligning at this level increasing the odds of a bounce here. A couple to note are the 3rd hit of an up-sloping trend line and a 0.618 fib retrace. $SBUX action today is very weak. It can’t catch a bid with the markets up, so it may hit the $50 level sooner than later. Be ready!…

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) has had problems of late. Between auto pilot deaths, an attempted Solar City aquisition and Elon Musk's SpaceX explosion, the stock has been hammered. A drop in stock price yields opportunity. There is major support on the stock at $150.00 based on the trend line that forms the bottom of the triangle pattern. Look for this target to be hit in September, and be ready to buy.…

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) has a 52 week low of $57.20 and just last week made a 52 week high at $104.30. This is nearly a 100% move for the year. Sound fantastic right? Not so much when you see the weekly chart. Institutional investors and traders brought this to my attention when they noted the bearish mega signal, telling me $BABA is likely made its high for all of 2016. They are accumulating large short positions after today's bounce, looking for a price target of…

Last week, Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) formed a strong bearish signal on the weekly chart called a topping tail. Today, price traded back up into the topping tail taking out nearly 50% of it. This makes for a real easy swing trading opportunity. A good entry price would be at today's close of $17.15 or a tad higher up to $17.40 where there is some substantial resistance on the hourly chart. Your stop would be any weekly close above the topping tail high of $17.86. Lastly, a good…

Studying the charts after a massive stock market drop is always fun. It brings excitement but more importantly opportunity. I always look at the three biggest time frames when looking for a major top or bottom in a stock or a market. In this case I am focussing on the S&P 500. I analyzed the three main chart time frames, the daily, weekly and monthly. The next step is to find a level that is significant on all three time frames. In other words, a pivot, moving average, trend line..ect,…

Home Depot quickened its sell-off on Friday as the stock market tumbled. There is a major support level coming into view at $124.70. This level is a double bottom from June 2016 and should create a solid bounce in the stock. This is a swing trade which means you are not married to Home Depot, instead hold it for a few days to weeks looking for a bounce to approximately $130.00, then sell.…

A real stock market goes up and down based on real things. Like earnings, economic news and other normal factors. When a stock market can drop in one day on the whiff of an interest rate hike, erasing over 40 days of neutral to upside in a single thrust, you know something is definitely wrong. That is what happened this past Friday. The stock market has been in a 1.75% range for over 40 days, and one person simply suggests the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates and the whole world…

It took just THREE days for 48 days of gains and sideways action to be wiped out for the Colgate-Palmolive Company (NYSE: CL). Most investors would stay clear of $CL after this big drop, but the smart investor is looking for major support to buy and profit from a short-term bounce. I have found that support on the $CL charts. It is at $70 which is very near Friday's close of $70.86. You can see on the daily chart, the 200 moving average is at $69.91. There is also a gap fill at $69.99…

acebook is a great company and makes billions-of-Dollars a year. The fact that I shorted it changes nothing in regards to its king status. As an investor, I simply look for near-term opportunities where a stock is going to drop or pop and swing trade accordingly. This is one of those situations on Facebook. I strictly focus on logic and stock charts so as not to let emotion get in the way. The Facebook chart hit a key trend line today that has a history. This history dicates that every time…

After studying the chart of the Dollar vs. Yen (USD//JPY), it becomes clear it is trading in a triangle pattern that is near breaking. The big question is, in which direction will it break? Considering the carry trade, a breakout or breakdown could have serious consequences for the stock market. If the USD/JPY breaks down, it will likely head to 94.75. If the USD/JPY breaks out, it will likely head to 107.15.…

Amazon, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) surged dramatically higher today as the risk on trade surfaced again. After the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index was the worst in six years, odds of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike fell sharply. The stock closed the day at $788.87, +16.43 (+2.13%). While investors wonder if a bullish breakout is in progress, pro investors are noting a key trend line that when hit, seems to cause a pull back in the stock every single time. This has happened four times in the past…

Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), the Amazon of China, kissed major resistance today. You can see price got sooooo close to the trend lines I've drawn in on the daily chart below (and there are more in this same area!). In addition, there's a 0.75 fib retrace at $104.30 adding to the resistance. Interesting enough, $104.30 was the high today. In the way of time cycles, today was the 49th trading day since the last major pivot low, and today was the 6th consecutive day of upwards movement. If today…

Mylan NV (NASDAQ:MYL) continues to collapse off the EpiPen fiasco. While minimal to their net revenues and profit, the negative press and public scorn is causing massive investor selling. That is where I look to step up and score a great swing trade by buying. The first step is to look at the stock chart and see the support level. I have been eyeing Mylan for days now and it finally hit a major support level at $40.00. The key is the long term trend line conneting the lows going back…

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) hit the radar today on the bearish side. The reason is on strong bear flag formation. A bear flag formation is seen after a strong  down move when price goes sideways, forming a right angle. This is one of the most bearish signals you can get on a stock chart. In addition, to add insult to injury to the AT&T chart, the daily 20 moving average has crossed the 50 moving average and is nearing price. This is called an igniter, because when it gets to price it…

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) is nearing key support. If you look at Gilead over the last few months you will see that there is a trend line connecting the lows. The current price of Gilead Sciences is just above the trend line. History tends to repeat itself, thus when Gilead hits that trend line, investors should expect a stock chart bounce. The level of the trend line is $75.00 while the current price is $76.89. Investors who buy at $75 should expect a bounce back to at least $85…

In late June, shares of the Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) skyrocketed higher upon receiving a $23 billion takeover bid from Mondelez International (NASDAQ: MDLZ). Hershey rejected the deal, but their share price maintained at these new all-time highs around $110 for two months as investors expected a higher bid to emerge. Two days ago, that hope died for those investors when Mondelez decided to no longer pursue Hershey, and $HSY quickly sank 10%!

For the smart investor, who didn’t buy…

Dollar General Corp. (NYSE:DG) is signaling a strong buy signal on the stock chart. This is coming after $DG was crushed on earnings last week. The stock collapsed from $91.70 to its low today of $73.07. The signals flashing strong buy come from volume trends changing, major stock chart support being hit and institutional chatter. The signals are showing a likely bounce to $80.00 in the next few weeks.…