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Technical Analysis: Amazon.com Could Be Struggling After Uncertain Guidance

Technical Analysis: Amazon.com Could Be Struggling After Uncertain Guidance

Amazon.com may be showing signs of weakness after another post-earnings drop. The first pattern on today’s chart is the rising trendline along the lows of March and April. AMZN fell to that support last week after issuing so-so guidance and has remained there since....

Chart of the Day: Potentially Bearish Candlestick Pattern in Amazon.com

Chart of the Day: Potentially Bearish Candlestick Pattern in Amazon.com

Amazon.com tried to rally a week ago. It proceeded to fall on weak quarterly results, leaving some potentially difficult patterns on the daily chart . First, the single candlestick on February 2 was isolated above the other recent prices. That is sometimes known as a...

This Year Could Be Starting to Look Like the Mirror Image of 2022

This Year Could Be Starting to Look Like the Mirror Image of 2022

Stocks just rose for the second straight week, potentially raising an important question: Will 2023 be a mirror image of last year? The S&P 500 advanced 2.7 percent between Friday, January 6, and Friday, January 13. It's gained the first two weeks of 2023. Last...

Attention Amazon Traders! Check Out This Chart

Attention Amazon Traders! Check Out This Chart

Amazon.com has declined along with the broader Nasdaq-100. But other consumer-facing companies have fared much better. The chart below compares AMZN with competing retailers. It uses percentage-change charts with a six-month interval. Notice how the e-commerce giant...

How This Correction Is Unlike Anything in the History of the Stock Market

How This Correction Is Unlike Anything in the History of the Stock Market

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on March 12, 2020. If the coronavirus is shaking your faith in stocks, you need to keep reading this article. Why? There are three reasons. Reason 1: This Selloff Is a Total Aberration Pretty much every previous...

Stock Investors Could Gain Optimism as Fed Officials Eye Smaller Hikes

Stock Investors Could Gain Optimism as Fed Officials Eye Smaller Hikes

Conditions may be improving in the stock market as investors prepare for a busy week before the homestretch of the year. The S&P 500 slid 0.7 percent between Friday, November 11, and Friday, November 18. The index held its ground following a rally of almost 6...

Stocks Keep Climbing Before the Fed: Will Jerome Powell Finally Slow Down?

Stocks Keep Climbing Before the Fed: Will Jerome Powell Finally Slow Down?

Will Jerome Powell finally hit the brakes? Stocks could be moving like the Federal Reserve is near the end of its rate-hiking cycle. The S&P 500 rose 4 percent between Friday, October 21, and Friday, October 28. It was the second weekly gain of at least 4 percent,...

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...