just a chart

SPY 30-min with an Andrews Median Line (red lines), sliding parallels (dash teal color), and a Warning Line (solid teal trendline) being that price has failed to touch the mid-line.

AKAM Falling Three

The Bearish Falling Three Methods has been seen before on this weekly chart:Previously, after forming the pattern, price retraced 62% before the continuation move followed:It would make sense in this case for price to attempt a test of the earnings miss clear air

XLF

XLF looking interesting here within a range. Should price continue tracking towards $15 a strong breakout may occur

just a chart

SPY still in an up trend (purple line). Most recently, support has turned resistance.

a recurring theme

On the heels of a previous post...Short setups in RIMM and FCX
First, we have an established range with S/R which will give us potential targets on the breakdown move (also worth noting, the overhead Supply in this case is an earnings miss gap down):We get a few bounces off of support, only to see buying interest wane before the breakdown:
Same situation in FCX

How fast the tide turned:RIMM ended the day in a long-legged doji after tagging it's 50-SMA

I'm not buying it, you buy it...

Following POT earnings we saw a price liftoff on strong volume, only to see the move faded once hitting that overhead supply range ($100-$101). Have we noticed a theme yet of beat earnings moves being faded??
At any rate, here's the overhead supply zone as posted last night:Following a failure test of the highs, price formed a seed wave, giving 2 primary targets. I'll post an end of day update on this chartIt's a funny thing to see strong buying (as evidenced by the green volume bars) into a move, but the overhead supply concept will win out every time (initially anyway, this could be a mechanism to flush out "weak" hands and we could base and consolidate between this $97-$100 range for a while longer, it just depends on how much demand there is).
...should have bought it...what a move!

POT pre-earnings

The daily shows:
- Price above the 20- & 50-SMA, but below a slightly up-ticking 200-SMA
- Price within a $8-$10 range for the better part of 2.5 months now
- First trend-line break (from a strong selling phase) broke out and retraced all the way back to its trend-line.- Second trend-line break is in progress
- Highest volume day for the past 8-sessions ended selling off from it's highs, but still closed above the open.
- A strong gap up could meet with resistance at the overhead 200-SMA
- A downside gap could have support at the 20-SMA area, $93-$94
While intra-day:
- Approaching earnings, price has been bought up into an accepted range, between $95-$99.
- This past week has seen a number of sell-offs (probably a sign of covering positions before earnings?) that quickly recovered, while putting in 3-successive higher lows.
- Bulls and Bears are positioned. They met in an accepted range, and the winners/losers will be told through the tape in the morning.
Minor S/R levels include:

short setup

Along the lines of a previous post, here's a similar setup in VMW today:
Price is within a range with established Support/Resistance levels
Price broke down once buying interest waned, ideal entry is on a mini bear flagend of day update

Crude Median Line

Price failed to tag it's Andrews Median line in Crude today. IF price breaks down from the Lower Median Line we could watch for a potential target/support via the pitchfork's warning line (red dotted line):

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failed short

Shorted JOYG and got stopped out, but I still love this pattern where you can just see buying interest just die.
The Support-turned-Resistance zone was working early in the day, but the more it comes back to test it and the more the buying interest wanes, the higher probability it will break down from support.I entered on a little bear flag setup and got whipped out (stop too tight), had I stuck with it I can see the potential of where I would have gotten back in with much cleaner price behavior within the later bear flags at support

SPY midpoint

The SPY is exactly half way between the April 2010 highs (give or take a few pennies) and the June 2010 lows (+/- a few pennies), and 0.72% down on the year so far. Amazing that it has taken 45-days from high to low and only 16-days from low to midpoint. While it took 10-days from midpoint to lows.
Possible bearish scenario is the overhead 200-SMA with a bearish Wolfe Wave setting up

RIMMinent

A breakout or breakdown looks imminent in RIMM from here:
Get in on the breakout/down, or wait for the first pullback.

FCX cont.

Recent updated chart. Worked nicely. Looks to me like a correction of some sort could be expected for the early part of this coming week.

updated from here
FCX reports tomorrow morning at the open.
So far, it has had this nice channel setup, where the breakout cycle is similar to a shoulder (61.8% retracement of the previous cycle):The larger picture is still down for now
Price is currently right up against the 50-MA with the 20-MA just below
intra-day S/R:

TICK extreme

Another NYSE TICK extreme off of a previous post {here}
Going back as far as my platform allows, TICKs greater than 1600 and weaker than -1800 are few and far between. Recently, we've had two TICKs > 1600 (today was one of them) in the last 4-days. While the "flash crash" was the lowest TICK reading in over 12-years.
curious

FCX at 60

$60 is an important level on FCX. This weekly has bounced on two occasions in the past 2 months, but buyers are seeming less and less interested.
We bounced from there again today, but the lower highs scenario is in control

updated

From yesterday's post. The first scenario played out closer than anything...Big buyer's aren't stepping up unless there's an earnings catalyst.
Price gaped down slightly, made a push to test the previous day's swing high, but a failure printed a lower high, leading to selling throughout the day.

POT breakdown

A look at POT Support/Resistance levels going into the week.
It has spent a lot of energy getting back into an accepted price range and the faster it gets to $100-ish (if it goes that direction) the quicker it may be repelled lower.
The following chart shows great examples of support-turned-resistance and other classic technical patterns, so if nothing more, this chart is good to have on here just for posterity:A faster timeframe;
Following a test of $96 support the last few candles were a pennant breakout pattern.

So, scenarios ahead are:

- $96 support broken on Monday could be a sign of weakness, but in such a case $94.50 could easily be support for a re-test of $96 (support turned resistance).

- A gap up early into $98-99, which will either confirm the pennant breakout, or lead to a pennant breakout failure. If the former, $100-101 is resistance (and measured move), If the latter, refer to first scenario.

- A mild gap either way, met with dips being bought into $100-101.

charts to look at

Symmetrical cycles in FCX, potential rounding base. Also, potential 3-pushes to a bottom (bullish wolfe wave) setup:
POT broke out of an intraday pennant on Friday. Measured move is only a retest of the $98-99 range. SPY levelsMost recent SPY pitchfork setupsRIMM, $52 has price support which coincides with a 50% Fib. retracement, but under that A LOT of clear air

One chart to rule them all...

AAPL today during the press conference, short squeeze followed by a resumption of trend.
A chart to save for the scrapbook.

retrace

SPY retraced 38.2% from July 01 lows to July 13 highsIWM much less of a bounce on the way up, and much more selling on the way down, retracing 61.8%: