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Chart of the Day: Is It Time to Go Back to the Well in Occidental?

Chart of the Day: Is It Time to Go Back to the Well in Occidental?

Occidental Petroleum is the biggest gainer in the S&P 500 this year, but was the biggest decliner last week. Is the dip an opportunity for the bulls? The first pattern on today's chart is the surge to a new 52-week high in late August. It is one of only 12 S&P...

Technical Analysis: ON Semi’s Breakout and Pullback

Technical Analysis: ON Semi’s Breakout and Pullback

ON Semiconductor is one of the few chip stocks to hit new highs this summer. It then pulled back along with the rest of the market, and is now bouncing. The first pattern on today's chart is the falling trendline along the peaks of January, March and June. ON broke...

Options Alert: Call Buyers Target Plug Power After Amazon.com Deal

Options Alert: Call Buyers Target Plug Power After Amazon.com Deal

Options traders are buying the pullback in Plug Power, two weeks after a key deal with Amazon.com. Unusual activity in the provider of hydrogen-fuel technology began less than five minutes after Wednesday's opening bell. Traders initially purchased the 9-September...

Lithium and Battery Stocks Climb as Investors Focus on Clean Energy

Lithium and Battery Stocks Climb as Investors Focus on Clean Energy

Battery stocks have climbed recently as investors focus on green energy. Today we'll examine some companies focused on this new corner of the market. This article will cover two established companies shifting to lithium production: Albemarle (ALB) and Sociedad Quimica...

Stocks Keep Diving With the Fed Still Pushing Interest Rate Hikes

Stocks Keep Diving With the Fed Still Pushing Interest Rate Hikes

Stocks keep diving as the Federal Reserve menaces investors with aggressive interest-rate hikes. The S&P 500 fell 3.3 percent between Friday, August 26, and Friday, September 2. It was the third straight negative week, with over 90 percent of the index's members...

Chart of the Day: Is This Chip Stock Rolling Over?

Chart of the Day: Is This Chip Stock Rolling Over?

Advanced Micro Devices has bounced sharply from its early-July lows, but some patterns could be pointing lower for the chip stock. The first pattern on today’s chart is the descending parallel channel that’s been in effect most of the year. AMD’s latest highs...

Chart of the Day: Does Tesla Need to Recharge its Batteries?

Chart of the Day: Does Tesla Need to Recharge its Batteries?

Tesla rallied more than 50 percent from its lows of the year through earlier this week. But now it may be running out of juice. The main pattern on today's chart is the price area around $939. It was the opening price on May 5 before TSLA knifed under its 200-day...

Health Care Leads New Highs as the Stock Market Recovers

Health Care Leads New Highs as the Stock Market Recovers

Something new happened in the stock market yesterday following a month of steady gains: some names are breaking out. Twenty three members of the S&P 500 made new 52-week highs on Monday. That was the most since April 21, according to TradeStation data. Six of...