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One company whose success – – and amazing stock performance – – has always baffled me has been Stamps.com. I mean………stamps? But you can’t argue with success. This company did little but ascend in price, year after year.
That ended quickly this morning, when the company (perhaps unwisely) decided to ditch a little thing known as the United States Postal Service and stake its fortune on Jeff Bezos’ prospects as a shipping magnate. The effects on the stock this morning were swift.
Germany’s Manufacturing PMI continued its decline from 2017 highs and entered into contraction mode in January. Data released on Thursday shows this contraction deepening for February, as shown below.
Is this a precursor to a recession? Look for a pattern on next month’s release (March 22) for possible clues.
I’m got some awfully cool news about Slope.
In the nearly 14 years this site has been around, we’ve never done alerts. Now we do. This is the newest feature to emanate from SlopeRules. What I’m about to show you is the first method of establishing alerts. There are other, better methods coming very soon.
In order to create an automatic alert from Slope about any of your symbols which are “triggered” by a SlopeRules rule set, start by choosing the watchlist you want to monitor. Right-click on the watchlist, and choose which SlopeRules in your library that you would like to apply.
Here are four stocks with strong technical momentum moving higher on news.
Aphria Inc. (APHA) gained 44 cents to $10.15 Wednesday on 7.8 million shares. Last Friday the Canadian cannabis producer said a probe of acquisitions in Latin America found certain board members had conflicts, but that the price paid was comparable to rival deals. The stock, which had pulled back from resistance at the top of its rising channel, has since bounced off the channel bottom towards a retest of its early February high. A move through that high near $11 could accelerate the stock towards $14.
Everbridge, Inc. (EVBG) rallied $3.69 to $67.95 on Wednesday on 1.4 million shares, more than triple its average volume. The software developer reported better-than-expected quarterly financial results on Tuesday. The stock got as high as $71.61 intraday. The long-term chart shows the top of the channel extends to the low-$80’s. (more…)
I was looking this morning at the decent looking possible rising wedge resistance trendline established on SPX at the highs this week and watching with great interest as rising channel and now possibly wedge support was tested again this morning. The trendline held on the first test and then broke on the second, so there has now been a significant technical break down, and the door is open for a possible significant retracement on SPX/ES. We shall see what develops.
In the short term there is an open 60min RSI 14 sell signal that fixed yesterday, the 50 hour MA is at 2763/4, tested and the low today, and short term daily close support/resistance is at 2771. If SPX is topping out short term that we may see a high retest to set up the topping pattern for a larger retracement. (more…)
