Saturday, February 27, 2010

QQQQ analysis continued

I have been learning Elliott Wave and how to combine Fibonacci and Elliott. Below are two charts of my first attempts at combining the two.

Chart 1: Hourly chart showing a 5 wave move up (in light blue) that is part of a larger Wave A (Green) followed by a 3 wave correction (light blue) that was part of a wave B (Green). Light blue waves are sub divided into pink waves where relevant.



Chart 2: Shows a 5 wave (green) down move that is part of wave 1 of a new downtrend (Which seems to be the most popular belief) or wave A of a correction of the bigger uptrend. Combining long-term and short-term fibonacci levels, I believe the most likely most for wave c (green) is to 45.57 area. The top of C (green) will either be the top of B (blue) or top of 2 (blue).

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

QQQQ Fibonacci analysis


Here is a chart I made a couple of weeks ago practicing Fibonacci levels. I have left only the most important horizontal confluence zones.

Notice how cleanly QQQQ is bouncing off a VERY significant level (possibly the most important level in the entire chart - this level kept showing up as a confluence zone).

-Wown
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Update on AAPL



As mentioned in my previous post, I bought a put diagonal believing AAPL will decline in the coming days. This post is an update as to what happened.

After I bought the put diagonal, AAPL released earnings the next day. This had two effects:
1) I got stopped out of my long puts around the red rectangle for a pretty significant loss on the long put side.
2) The drop in volatility, however, made me pretty good profits on the short put side.

At that point I was expecting AAPL to continue to rise and so I kept the short puts and expected them to expire OTM, which would have resulted in ~80% profit.

But, AAPL quickly reversed and after consolidating a little bit at the support levels I had drawn, it continued to fall. I did buy puts again around the green rectangle, so essentially I am once again in a put diagonal.

Looking forward, the 190 support is holding up pretty well and AAPL is currently unable to break the 196 resistance I have drawn. However, I am seeing an ascending triangle which is generally a bullish pattern. This could mean that if AAPL breaks the 196 resistance, any downtrend would be negated. I would then be, once again, forced to sell my long puts.

A counter argument to the above is that the volume is quite low and falling. Also, on the longer time horizon charts (monthly and weekly), the Oscillators are VERY negative. On the weekly, the momentum is the lowest it has been in months and on the monthly chart, the oscillator has made the first bearish reversal since 2007.

Finally, a couple of companies upgraded AAPL to buy this week. Normally this would mean significant gains for any stock, but the lack of conviction in AAPL's upward movement definitely bodes poorly for the stock.

-wown
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