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Lazy Trade Long & Short: LMCA & CPRT (by Ryan Mallory)

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Today's long and short setups involve two setups that have extreme appeal to them, and offer incredible entry-opportunities. 

The first is Liberty Media (LMCA), which for years now has been a great upward trending stock. But if you'll notice, it tested that trend-line to day on an insane amount of volume, formed a hammer, and blasted higher. 

The second setup is a short in Copart (CPRT), which ironically in the past, I have had ZERO success at going long on. So perhaps now, with a breakdown of the consolidation from the past month, it will finally give me those returns I always thought I could get out of it. 

Here's today's Lazy Trade Charts. 

Long: Liberty Media (LMCA)

Liberty Media Capital LMCA Longterm uptrending stock

Short: Copart (CPRT)

Copart CPRT

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Relative Strength in This Week’s Weakness (by SB)

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Due to an across-the-board sell-off that's occurred, so far, this week in
equities, I thought I'd take a mid-week look at the 6 Major
Indices and 9 Major Sectors to see which ones have
been holding up somewhat better than the others.

From the
Daily line chart of the Major Indices shown
below, the two Indices that haven't reached their lower Bollinger Band by
today's (Wednesday's) close are the Dow Transports and Dow Utilities. They are,
however, underperforming the other four Indices in terms of performance from
July.

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Perfect Hit SPX Support (by Springheel Jack)

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SPX hit the lower bollinger band on the daily chart yesterday and closed there at the end of the day. Unless we are going to see a trending move downwards then I would expect a reversal there with the obvious target at the middle bollinger band in the 1452 SPX area. It's worth mentioning that the bollinger band pinch here that I've mentioned a few times generally resolves into a strong trending move, and that unless we see a break below the rising channel on SPX, the obvious direction for that move would be up:

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