Market Update Into 12/10: Volatility an Understatement

12/03/2018| By Brad Ritter

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A prepared trader is generally a profitable trader, and Sunday is a great day to get ready for the week ahead by studying up from last week’s price action. The theme remains the same after the first week of December, volatile… We are big believers in going back and looking at previous analyses to see which patterns materialized, which patterns did not, and what we can learn from the chart moving forward. In this weekend’s analysis, we follow up from the “Thursday Analysis” last week.

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$SPY: Daily vs. Weekly

$SPY daily and weekly charts.

Video Analysis:

$QQQ: Daily vs. Weekly

$QQQ daily and weekly charts.

Video Analysis:

$XBI: Daily vs. Weekly

$XBI daily and weekly charts.

Video Analysis:

$OGEN: Before vs. After

This weekend’s “Before and After” shows the S&P 500 ETF, $SPY, trading in a very distinct price channel on the weekly candle. Due to this setup, we created an alert below to let us know when the price enters into the purple shaded “alert area”. The alert worked perfectly and price bounced hard into the last week of November. To learn more about our price alerts and how to set them up, please click here.

Before

"Before" chart showing $SPY trading in a very distinct price channel on the weekly candle.

After

"After" chart showing $SPY trading in a very distinct price channel on the weekly candle.

Mobile Alert Sent

TrendSpider text alert for $OGEN.

Timestamps Captured This Week

$MU

$MU chart timestamp.

$QQQ

$CHK

$CHK chart timestamp.

$CRMD

$CRMD chart timestamp.

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