Current Megaphone Price Pattern Starting to Favor Bulls

The bears are letting yet another opportunity to correct this market slip through their hands. It is quite astounding really. I mean, you have a solid opportunity with last Friday’s sell-off to put the bulls against the ropes, and they do, but along the way, they let them off of those ropes and start dancing around the middle of the ring sparring with each other while throwing a few meaningless jabs. 

Once again, the market saw the bulls rally off the lows and prevent any kind of monumental sell-off with a 14 point rally off of the lows of the day. 

On the technical front, the bulls managed to hold the 20-day moving average perfectly, which hasn’t’ always been the case of late. 

The VIX managed to only close higher by 2.9% to 10.90, while breaching 12 at one point yesterday. 

This doesn’t make for an easy market for the bulls or the bears because price keeps meandering in an expanding price pattern with absolutely no direction until there is a definitive break of said price pattern. 

Last Friday, the Nasdaq gave us quite a surprise, we’ll get to see today whether we the bears can repeat that remarkable sell-off once again today. 

S&P 500 Technical Analysis

Current Stock Trading Portfolio Balance: 

• 1 Long Position, 2 Short Positions

Recent Stock Trade Notables:

• Whirlpool (WHR): Long at 190.46, closed at 195.19 for a 2.5% profit. 
• Ferrari (RACE): Long at $84.60, closed at $89.93 for a 6.3% profit. 
• Amazon (AMZN): Long at $964.70, closed at $1001.23 for a 3.8% profit. 
• American Airlines (AAL): Long at $49.18, closed at $50.62 for a 2.9% profit
• Alibaba Group (BABA): Long at $124.95, closed at $137.51 for a 10.1% profit. 
• Starbucks (SBUX): Long at $61.78, closed at $63.68 for a 3.1% profit.
• Western Digital (WDC): Long at $91.24, closed at $89.29 for a 2.1% loss. 
• Broadcom (AVGO): Long at $236.65, closed at $241.15 for a 2% profit.
• SPXU: Long at 16.60, closed at $16.98 for a 2.3% profit.
• JP Morgan Chase (JPM): Long at $87.84, closed at $85.98 for a 2.1% loss.
• Micron Technology (MU): Long at $29.00, closed at $28.04 for a 3.3% loss.
• Alibaba Group (BABA): Long at $116.25, closed at $124.09 for a 6.7% profit. 
• Southwest Airlines (LUV): Long at $58.35, closed at 57.23 for a 1.9% loss.  
• Broadcom (AVGO): Long at $223.63, closed at $228.65 for a 2.2% profit. 
• Workday (WDAY): Long at 86.00, closed at 90.32 for a 5% profit. 
• Univar (UNVR): Long at $30.96, closed at $32.20 for a 4% profit.
• Alibaba Group (BABA): Long at $111.91, closed at $115.48 for a 3.2% profit. 
• Redhat (RHT): Long at $85.21, closed at $87.21 foor a 2.4% profit. 
• Darling Ingredients (DAR): Long at $15.19, closed at $14.90 for a 1.9% loss. 
• Apple (AAPL): Long at $143.82, closed at $147.11 for a 2.3% profit.
• Teradyne (TER): Long at $31.16, closed at $33.03 for a 6.0% profit.
• UPRO: Long at $92.75, closed at $94.78 for a 2.2% profit. 

See my entire swing-trading past performance here.