Amazon (AMZN) Chart Review

Amazon has been on an incredible bullish run over the last 6+ years for investors and traders that have held long term positions in Amazon.  For the loyal shareholders they have been well rewarded as the stock has climbed by over 370% since the lows reached in March 2011. If you had held the stock over a longer period the returns would be even higher.

Back in April of last year it broke out of a consolidation period and accelerated its uptrend pace as the stock started to climb faster, as the stock continued to make new record highs reaching a closing high back on the 5th of October of $844.36.

Fast forward to the end of November 2016, and it appears that Amazon has broken its most recent uptrend (See chart below) with the current price sitting at $762.52.

Amazon's Uptrend Within An Uptrend

The good run for Amazon appears to be slowing down for now, as the current uptrend has ended on a monthly chart. With one more trading day left for the stock it appears unlikely to jump back within the uptrend. If the break of the uptrend occurs the most likely target over the medium term for Amazon is a move towards its previous uptrend which is highlighted within the chart.

The first level of support for the stock to reach is around the $676 level. Given the price is above $500 per share you have to give a little bit more flexibility with support and resistance levels as the levels are not as closely defined.

Consolidation Pattern Possible

Amazon may not necessarily fall considerably over the next few months, as its a very strong bullish stock relative to the S&P 500 market. Its quite possible that you could see the stock struggle to move higher with the likely outcome that it move sideways to slightly down as it heads for the previous uptrend forming a consolidation pattern.

Lastly the momentum has fallen sharply over the last few months making a lower low even though the stock is near all time highs, indicating there is divergence and the rally is running out of steam.

The break of the uptrend for weekly chart below is not as clearly defined. The stock had recently closed below the uptrend 4 weeks ago only to pop above the uptrend again, with a rally to coincide with the overall market move higher from the US election results.

With only 1 trading day completed into the week the stock has once again closed below its uptrend. As its a weekly chart it would be ideal to wait for a completed weekly candle at the close on Friday to confirm that Amazon has also closed below its uptrend on a weekly chart.

If the confirmation is complete for a reversal in trend, expect the stock to move towards its first support level around the $681 - 682 level. If support is respected and it holds that level you could see the stock once again attempt to reach its prior all time highs around the $842 - 843 resistance level.

I have circled the previous false attempt to close below its uptrend back in February this year, so make sure to be patient and seek confirmation.

Momentum is only marginally positive at 2.38 haven fallen from over 157 several weeks ago. This indicates that the strength of the trend has practically disappeared. Look for momentum to move to the negative soon to coincide with the stock moving towards support.

The trend is clearly over on the short term daily chart, where I have circled on the chart where it popped lower closing below the long term uptrend.

After breaking its previous support of $788 it proceeded to the $717 / 718 level of support, after retracing back to the new resistance level of $788 creating a change of polarity. Once it reached resistance it has proceeded to begin falling again confirming the new resistance level. This is a bearish signal as the bears are now in control on a short term basis.

The price is currently sitting below its 50 day moving average and the 10 day moving average has crossed below the 50 day moving average signalling a reverse in trend.

Caution Ahead

Normally based on the price action only I would say that the stock is moving next to its $717 / 718 support level again. However the momentum indicator is showing divergence having recently turned positive and accelerating higher. This indicates to me that we could see Amazon make a push higher to break above resistance of $788. If this was to occur it would also reverse it new daily chart downtrend.

Based on the conflicting indicator we would need to see more price action from Amazon to determine its likely direction in the short term.

By the end of the week we should have confirmation on all 3 charts the trend of Amazon moving forward.

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Netflix (NFLX) reported its quarterly earnings with strong subscriber numbers, which was posted after the US markets closed. Because it reported strong than expected subscriber growth of 370k in the US and 3.2mil internationally the stock is up close to 20% at $199.25 in pre-market trading at the time of writing this.

Can The Bull Run Restart For Netflix?

Today we take a closer look at Netflix after it reported strong earnings and subscriber growth, propelling the stock (in pre-market) within its all time high prices around the $130 mark.

Since 2012 Netflix has enjoyed a spectacular run in price climbing from around $7.50 - 8.00 level back in 2012, all the way up to $130.93 closing high price last December. In a short 3+ year period Netflix has climbed over 1500%.

After the huge run in price the up trend ended and the price fell back to around the $85 level on 3 occasions marked with the 3 black circles on the support line. (See chart below)

The pre - market trading price is shown with the horizontal line inside the circle, to give you an indication on where its likely to trade when the market reopens based on the price at that the time of writing.

Since the price has confirmed the break out of the mini downtrend and is now approaching the resistance level of $129.25 it has a good chance to break out to new record highs and restart its bullish uptrend that ended last December.

Viewing the Netflix chart on a shorter time frame with a daily chart, we can see that the price had been struggling to break out of the range in price. In fact the range of prices was being squeezed as the market tried to determine the new direction. (See chart below)

On a daily chart the next level of resistance is around the $111.50 as noted in the chart. However based on the pre - market price it looks to open comfortable above resistance. This puts it in contention to reach the next level of resistance of $129.25.

If Netflix can close on a daily chart above resistance level of $129.25 and hold above it for the weekly close as well, than Netflix can recommence its uptrend to new record highs.

Source:

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Intel (INTC) Stock Review

When you think of a technology stock in 2016, most people would not consider Intel as one of their top 3 picks for technology names. Yet Intel who during the Tech boom rode to dizzy heights, climbing from just under $30 a share back in June 1999 to an all time high of $75.81 in the first week of September 2000, which was a 152% return in a 15 month period.

After the tech boom crashed in late 2000, Intel like many technology stocks fell sharply and continued falling as Intel languished lower for the next 8 years to a multi year low of around $12 a share back in February 2009.

Intel Begins To Recover From Tech Bubble Crash

After touching the low in 2009, Intel eventually reversed its downtrend and followed the market higher as the recovery from the 2008/9 crisis lifted the whole market.

Intel has not looked back since than, as the stock has steadily continued higher over the last 7 years and last week reached a multi year of high $38.05 before pulling back from $37.25 resistance level on the monthly chart. (See chart below)

Can Intel Reached the Tech Boom Highs?

If Intel is able to close above the $37.25 resistance level on a monthly chart the next resistance level is around $41.15.

The interesting thing is that after the $41.15 level, there is not much resistance until you reach the $63 a share level. This would be a big move for Intel to move to from the $41.15 level. So if Intel could sustain the momentum and close above $41.15 on a monthly chart it has the opportunity to head significantly higher.

Viewing Intel on a weekly chart, you can see over the last 2 years that Intel has been a wild ride. After making multi year highs back in December 2014 around the $37.65 level, it fell all the way back down to $25.00 a share in August 2015. It then preceded to climb back higher again to the previous highs of 2014, shown with the 2 black circles (see chart below).

Failure to close above the current resistance level of $37.65 on a weekly basis, Intel would most likely head back to $35.00 support level. (Shown in weekly chart below)

Zooming in on a daily chart below for Intel over the last few months, you can see that the chart is quite bullish. Intel is currently above the 50 day (black line) and 100 day (red line) moving averages, and its within its uptrend .

Last week Intel tried on 3 occasions to close above resistance intra-day (see circle below), before closing below resistance on each attempt.

After rejection of resistance Intel could test support area and its uptrend shown with the square box (see chart below), before trying again to close above resistance and break out to new highs.

If Intel failed to hold the $36.55 support level, its next support level would be at $34.25, which would also mean that the daily uptrend would of reversed. However this is unlikely given the bullish indicators Intel is currently displaying on all 3 charts shown here.

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Apple Inc - NASDAQ: (AAPL) the largest market cap company in the world with a market cap of just over USD $580 billion, has recently been in the financial news headlines for claims it has underpaid taxes within the European Union (EU) region. The EU has ordered Ireland on its behalf to collect from Apple back taxes of EUR $13 Billion plus interest payments for underpaying corporate taxes over several years. However the ruling may not stand as the Ireland Government is debating on whether to enforce the EU's decision.

Overnight Apple released to the world the latest updates on the iPhone, iPhone accessories and the new Apple watch, so I thought today would be a perfect time to review Apple's chart in 'Stock In Review'.

Looking at the long term chart below you can see that for Apple shareholders who have owned the stock over the last 7.5 years have been rewarded with a close to 10 fold share price appreciation from a low of around $11 (share split adjusted) that was reached at the depths of the financial crisis in Jan 2009 to the current price in Sep 2016 of $108.36.

The long term monthly chart of Apple below shows an impressive uptrend that has continued since making the lows in 2009,  with the price comfortably above its trend line and moving averages.

On a weekly chart Apple overall picture looks a little different, as Apple had been in a downtrend after breaking its strong uptrend in the first week of Aug 2015,  shown in the chart below at around $115 a share. Once it broke the downtrend it continued to fall for the next 12 months.

Interestingly Apple broke its down trend in the first week of August 2016 one year to the date of its trend turning down.

 Zooming in on a daily chart, you can see that once Apple formed a strong support level around $92.50 a share on 4 occasions (see chart below), Apple was able to reverse  and break its downtrend channel.

After breaking out of its downtrend Apple experienced a short pullback in price before starting to rise again which is a bullish sign for Apple.

So overall even though Apple has some tax issues to sort out with the EU over the coming months, the market doesn't seem to mind, or the market doesn't believe it will be forced to pay the large tax bill ordered by the EU.

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Australia has had an infatuation with real estate for a number of decades now, as many Australians have generated significant wealth through real estate as the local market has been rising steadily since the  early 1980's.

Among a number of industries that have done very well from the popularity and boom of real estate prices has been real estate agents who typically charge around 2% plus marketing costs to vendors wanting to sell their real estate. Based on the median price property in Australia of just over $600,000 nationally the typical cost charged by agents averages around $12,000 plus marketing cost which can range but usually are around $2,500 bringing the total to around $14,500.

This where a new entrant to the Australian market comes in, based in the UK and has just expanded to Australia, Purplebricks is launching and is bringing a new low cost fixed fee disrupting listing model to the Australian real estate market.

By tapping into the latest digital media technology Purplebricks can lower the cost to sell real estate and is offering their service for a fixed fee of $4,500 per property. This includes all marketing costs including advertising on popular local online real estate sites like realestate.com.au.

Having listed in the UK and with a decent starting marketing budget of $17.2 million Purplebricks are looking to make a big impact in Australia as they look take market share from the local competitor real estate agency's.

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