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Technical Analysis: Oil Giant Hasn’t Done This All Year

Technical Analysis: Oil Giant Hasn’t Done This All Year

Exxon Mobil has been drifting since the late spring along with other energy stocks. But now it’s trying to do something it hasn’t done all year. The main pattern on today’s chart is the 200-day moving average, one of the most basic measures of long-term support. XOM...

Chart of the Day: Target Could Be Breaking a Triangle

Chart of the Day: Target Could Be Breaking a Triangle

Target gapped lower on weak earnings four months ago. Now it may be showing signs of the bearish trend continuing. The main pattern on the retailer is a converging squeeze between the 50-day moving average and the 100-day moving average . This has produced ... For...

Technical Analysis: Tight Consolidation in Another Clean Energy Stock

Technical Analysis: Tight Consolidation in Another Clean Energy Stock

Clean-energy stocks have been one of the strongest parts of the market lately, and today’s chart focuses on a new battery-tech name: Stem. The first pattern is the quick uptrend in late summer, fueled by the Inflation Reduction Act and strong quarterly results on...

Options Alert: Call Volume Swells in Apple as IPhone 14 Hits the Market

Options Alert: Call Volume Swells in Apple as IPhone 14 Hits the Market

The options activity may be turning bullish in Apple as the smart-phone giant rolls out the iPhone 14. Some 1.1 million call contracts traded in AAPL yesterday. That was the most since the earnings came out in late July, according to TradeStation data. Our analytics...

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...