Trading Idea 026: AppleMarket Conditions:
- bullish trend
- possible false breakout / reversal
- bullish sentiment in the market
Key Level and Lines:
- $152.00 resistance
Trading Ideas:
- go short using a false breakout / reversal signal from the resistance
- go long if the price moves above the resistance and consolidates above for a few days.
AAPL
Tesla TSLA - The Bottom Is In, But It's Still BearishTesla has collapsed for five straight months, much to the delight of everyone who hates Elon Musk. To tell you the truth, I think Musk is something of a combination between a psyop, a Fabian, and a guy with some conservative values who wants to protect the happy life he has, but am not particularly a fan of his and don't trust him.
Regardless, the Mastodon socialists, the Reddit Marxists, and much of the supposed "liberals" just hate the guy because he purged the pro-child grooming pro-human trafficking pro-censorship communist old guard when he bought Twitter.
The way life under Communist Party rule works is this:
1. If the Party says you're good, you're good
2. If the Party says you're bad, you're bad
3. The Party is Great, Glorious, and Correct, and is always right
Thus, it really is self evident that it is time for mankind to sober up and eliminate the Chinese Communist Party's things from the areas outside of Mainland China. The Chinese people will soon deal with the CCP inside the Mainland, and Xi and the Party will be gone overnight.
The reason I bring the above up is not to get political or soapbox, but to point out to readers that when you get yourself caught up in these campaigns, you are going to bottom short and lose money because your vision is clouded and you're listening to a political campaign and not a professional.
I've seen so many people calling for $80 TSLA or for Tesla to go the way of Enron and collapse to zero in the next few months that it's actually both alarming and amusing at the same time.
The more your vision is clouded by prejudice as a trader the more likely you are to be one of those guys on r/WallStreetBets posting his 6 figure account that went busto buying $200k worth of short term $25 call options on Peloton, lol.
Black swan risks:
Because of the situation in Mainland China under the Chinese Communist Party as it faces the disaster of the Wuhan Pneumonia epidemic, Tesla and its Shanghai Gigafactory faces significant risk that could cause any successful long trade to endure a market-open gap down exceeding 20%.
For the reality is that the CCP has always been lying and covering up the pandemic situation. All its data and all its narrative are bogus. Really, the epicenter of COVID and a country of 1.5 billion people is posting positive case counts and death counts 95-99% lower than literally every single other country on the entire planet?!
The Party did the same thing during the 2003 SARS epidemic and yet nobody seems to have learned to not trust what that murderous regime says or the numbers it reports.
But you can't do anything for a fool who believes in the Marxist-Leninist atheism and evolution hoax and actually wants the genocidal CCP Red Dynasty in the first place.
The problem for Tesla is the Shanghai Gigafactory seated in Babylon is "our main export hub, supplying vehicles to most markets outside of North America," according to the Q3 earnings Shareholders Deck .
The Babylon Gigafactory has the capacity for three times as many units as Berlin and Texas, and even exceeds California's production capacity.
This is significant for longs because when the Communist Party falls, 6:00 PM Beijing time is 7:00 AM New York Time, and you won't like getting caught in the 1,000 point SPX gap down that the regime's collapse causes and what Wall Street does during that session as it runs for its life when everyone is caught off guard like they were when the USSR fell.
In my opinion, $108 in the last week of December was Tesla's bottom, evidenced by bounce back to $124 that happened Thursday and the strong weekly close to end the year.
However, for long-term Tesla bulls, this is a very bearish indicator, as evidenced on the monthly chart:
For long term bulls, you really do not want a stock to break a major 2-year-old bullish order block, which is exactly what Tesla did. It should maintain it and sharply reverse if there's to truly be another leg up.
There's a direct precedent for this principle on the Nasdaq NQ CME Futures, which did exactly this in March, had an impotent bounce, and has since not been bullish at all. Tech has just been a slaughter house with the exception a few days like November CPI.
Tesla gives you some greater clarity on the weekly candles:
What's strange about Tesla's price action is:
The triple top at $315 before it started dumping. This becomes a big target on a reversal.
The $414.50 ATH. Yes, this was pre-splits, but remember Elon is the guy who paid $5 4.20 a share for Twitter.
Breakaway gap/liquidity void at $263.55. These also become targets once the algo and its MM have achieved their downside objectives.
In my opinion, Tesla on the hourly looks like a pretty solid reversal with the gap between $113 and $118 potentially being a breakaway gap.
Another big factor to consider is that the TSLL 1.5x leveraged bull ETF has fallen from $27~ to $6 during this bear run.
A very likely and rational target for this to retrace to when it does go in the other direction is $10. This is a lot of upside and makes for a heck of a trade. TSLL also traded at double its average volume literally three times last week, with 15 million shares being traded on Dec. 29.
Someone had to be the buyer on those trades and they didn't buy so it can go to $4 so easily.
So here's some potential scenarios:
1. Tesla is extremely bearish but will retrace anyways.
If this is the case then $160 is where it should go and it should get held back at the last green daily candle that peaked at $160.93. Either way, this is a pretty good long from the $120s.
2. Tesla has achieved its downside objective and MMs will target short seller funds' buy stops
This particular outcome I regard with a high degree of probability. If so, $330 is exactly where it will go before it will die. This is an amazing long.
3. Nasdaq is about to bounce to 15,000 and Tesla follows a huge bear market rally to perform a bump and run reversal to $420.20
I have reservations about the realism of this outcome, but I definitely believe it's a significant possibility between now and April if a genuine 2008-style market crash is en route for humanity in 2023.
Things that won't happen:
Tesla will not continue on to $500 with a new leg up. Frankly speaking, we're standing at the end of the good times.
It's up to you what you believe. One thing I know is that people don't believe in anything until they see it, and then they FOMO or get scared and give themselves regrets.
But what I want to say to all of you is: if you want a future you have to "practice social distancing" and "hand sanitizing" with the Chinese Communist Party and all of that Marxist atheism and evolution junk.
You need to return to tradition and come to understand that it's no less than the Divine side of the Cosmos our Earth is seated and rotating in that brings a future.
The Chinese Communist Party is a demon that was arranged to destroy the human race. Whoever can't see this are the greatest morons.
AAPL ready to fill it's gapAAPL may be ready to drop into an expended wave 3 or 5, depending on what happens with the markets tomorrow. As far as I can tell, either wave 4 or wave 2 of 3 (of 3) was finished this morning - I've market the latter. Regardless of Elliot Wave Theory or Fibonacci, if they enter the gap under 140 and fail to recover, a major price support will have been broken. Recently I thought maybe AAPL would rally higher to 170 but now I'm having my doubts as the ratio charts I was watching have all broken down. I covered the ratio charts of AAPL in this post.
Either way, I believe it's time for AAPL to drop quite hard and outperform to the downside all other indexes into Christmas.
I know many will scoff at this idea, and I'll be happy to update if it gets invalidated. I am short aapl as of today. Good luck!
SPY divided by AAPL ratio chartAs you can see on this ratio chart, we had a breakout and backtest with weekly bull divergence, which likely means AAPL will gain less value - or lose more value to SPY in the coming weeks. Since I expect the market to fall from this area, I also expect AAPL to outperform to the downside for a while. Earnings could pump it first - and if so, I think AAPL would be an ideal short near 150 if it could get there.
The monthly charts are also showing bull divergence on the RSI. First target would be about 3.40 area resistance.
AAPL Hitting weekly resistance, a pullback is on the wayPrice pierced into the weekly resistance zone. This is a strong resistance zone. A considerable pullback is expected here before the next attempt to break this resistance.
If that expected pullback is there, the price will probably tap into this below weekly support and bounce from there.
would you buy Tesla at 10 , options market is paying $20 if yesWe can get a lot of information from the options market. Right now the options prices are saying there is a lot of uncertainty in Tesla shares. So much uncertainty that the option sellers are price some wild possibilities, like a small chance that Tesla can even go to $10 a share in 1 year (90% lower than current price of 113).
TSLA AAPL MCD
12/20/22 : TSLA Has Bottomed - 137.66Fib retracement from previous 2020 ATH .. 0.786 level is precisly the same value as the low of this year (12/20/2022)
Fundamentals for the stock are clear as day, BULLISH
Saving the idea, 2023 will see the 260 level tested. Bear trap initiated, shorts get smoked like cigars!
Happy hunting.
SPX500 / ES / SPY - Enjoy the Party While It LastsThe period of market activity following the November CPI pump has been both a choppy grind and hard to get a handle on. I had personally believed that the market makers would run 3,700 long ago, but that we wouldn't set new lows.
Turns out, after much deliberation, they ran 4,150 instead and dumped it back to 3,800 but still haven't taken 3,700.
When trading, anyone who genuinely "knows" what is going to happen also isn't allowed to speak to the public. There are contracts binding their mouths with big penalties for violation.
Ergo, literally all of us who are trying to do this are making a best-basis effort to anticipate what's going on and what's going to happen with limited information available.
What this means is that to increase your accuracy and avoid blowing yourself up, you have to continually revaluate what you think is going to happen on the basis of what is actually happening in front of you. This is an important ability to build, but there's a lot of inner obstacles. You can only do it via determined and diligent mental and emotional self cultivation and improvement.
All on its own the last 45 days of price action tells us something. The December FOMC rendezvous with the September CPI dump formed a double top where big, big fund positions selling short will be carrying market buy orders to exit their positions as part of their risk model because "resistance was broken."
In terms of the market retracing and coming back to take out that level, this doesn't always work out, as seen on both Tesla at $315 and WTI Crude at $93.
But, when combined with this three week period of "bear flagging" (it's just consolidation) and, as we saw on Friday with an unwillingness to trade lower even on Non-Farm Payroll day, arguably the third most volatile news driver of the month behind CPI and FOMC, it tells us more.
Looking at daily candles,
The fact that the market makers appear to want to trade higher without trading just a little bit lower to take the giant fund sell stops at 3,700 indicates to me that the biggest cowboys are actually long and the intention is to keep selling.
Now, you're probably used to thinking, "Doesn't the price go down when big money is selling? Doesn't it go up when they're buying?" The answer to that is yes, but no.
Think about it: if the banks were to sell low and buy high and then buy high and sell low, like you do, wouldn't there be a 2008 financial crisis all the time? Wouldn't they also blow their accounts like you do?
Instead, although it takes a lot of money to buy and sell the orders planted along the way, the reality is that big funds and banks are selling on green and buying on red.
Selling on green and buying on red.
I've heard if you work at a trading desk and you buy on green and sell on red you'll quickly find yourself holding a filing box on the sidewalk waiting for the Uber to take you back to your apartment.
This is really worth thinking about.
Looking at monthly bars, last January was a 600 point nuclear month. The algorithms, although they do perform fractals on a consistent basis, generally, do not like to repeat themselves in such an obvious way.
Ergo, expecting January '23 to be a big nuclear month may be a bit of an error in judgment.
I think everyone now understands that the global economy is in big trouble, the living environment is in trouble, and on top of that the central banks aren't in the mood to run a bailout or a rate cut to save markets from crashing.
And yet, they don't crash.
That's because it's the same idea as the blade of a guillotine. Before you drop the hammer and decapitate your victim, you first slowly pull the rope so the knife is hanging high over head.
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall."
I believe that what we're about to see happen is SPX 4,230. There's a gap conveniently placed right above the double top from before September CPI. Both this and the late December pivot @ 3,79x are both very obvious on weekly candles.
Once we get there and everyone has turned bullish again and forgotten where they are in the diagram, then it's time to start looking seriously at getting risk off and buying puts.
Once the calamity really starts to unfold, you aren't going to see consolidation like this and we're not likely to get big bounces along the way. The kind of 200 points down one day 200 points up the next saw during COVID hysteria also isn't likely to unfold.
It's just a question of what the catalyst will be.
And that catalyst may very well come in the form of "China."
I say "China" because although it may unfold in the nation of China, the issue is the Chinese Communist Party. You really have to separate that rogue regime from "the Chinese people" and "the Chinese nation."
China is being absolutely sacked by Wuhan Pneumonia. The pandemic situation there is not like the COVID pseudo-pandemic we saw in North America. And this situation has been true for the better part of 3 years.
Although the CCP covers it up and hides the data, just like they did during 2003 SARS, nobody seems to have learned their lesson that the regime is a chronic liar. Or at least, when it comes to the topic they exercise "Three Monkeys."
One day that isn't all that far away, Xi Jinping and the Party will really be unable to contain reality any longer. In the same way that a forest fire that's absolutely out of control and absolutely raging will eventually roll towards the city (See 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire) and start smashing up industry, people, lives, and the regime for real.
The warnings signs of this will be kept quiet by western media until it can't be hidden any longer. So you likely won't get much notice besides that prices stay high while volume drops and the USD and VIX start going on a "weird" moon mission.
When it starts, you'll be greeted by unprecedented Monday morning breakaway gap downs that never recover.
Ultimately, what I want to say to everyone who reads this is that the tribulation won't be limited to China's borders and will quickly become international. It will be the kind of thing that global governments cannot keep a handle on, either, and the problem will concern more than your stock portfolio.
To evade and escape the disaster, it's absolutely critical that you do your part to oppose, reject, and stop supporting the Chinese Communist Party and all the Marxist-Leninist, socialist things it has spread around the world during the last 23 years via the United Front Work Department.
It's a choice you both have to make, and one you'll be forced to honour by history.
Apple’s bulls to show their strength before earningsShares in Apple Inc. (symbol ‘AAPL’) gained back in full the losses incurred in the last quarter of the year. The company’s earnings report for the fiscal quarter ending December 2022 is set to be released on Thursday 2nd of February, after market close. The consensus EPS for Q4 is $1,93 compared to Q4 2021’s $2,10.
‘2022 was a hard year for the company since it lost more than 30% of its share value. The recent pump in the price might have put a smile on management’s face but they are not out of the woods just yet. The current ratio of the company (showing the ability to repay their short term liabilities) is at 0.88 where a good current ratio is above 1. This means the company is still short on assets (mostly cash flow) as of their last publication.’ said Antreas Themistokleous, an analyst at Exness ‘The payout ratio (percentage of the total earnings of the company paid out as dividends) is at 14,73% indicating that the company is looking forward to keeping most of their earnings for economic growth/strength which is a good sign for the overall performance of the company.’
On the technical side the price managed to break above the daily bearish trendline only to find resistance on the upper band of the Bollinger bands and the 100 day moving average. If the price manages to stay above its trendline in the following sessions with valid closures above the $145 price area of the 38.2% of the Fibonacci retracement level and the 100 day moving average it is possible to see a continuation to the upside with resistance levels around the $150 which is the psychological resistance of the round number and also the 50% of the daily Fibonacci retracement level.
$QQQ: Quarterly trend expiring...The quarterly timeframe chart had a trend signal that formed when the market broke out of the range that formed before and after the pandemic shock and subsequent lock public health, fiscal and monetary policies impacted equities. The stimulus driven bonanza ended and the market topped as the world knew the Fed would embark in quantitative tightening to normalize policy. Very curiously even perma bears and perma wrong value investors waiting for a dip got bullish, marking interesting contrarian signals for a top in late Nov 2021.
Now that the tides have turned, former winners have become the worst performers and riskiest assets to own long term due to the change in fundamental variables and the huge bubble that formed and is popping right now. The weekly $QQQ chart could flash a big weekly down trend during next week, for that reason I bot a put spread expiring on June 17 to reduce my portfolio's risk and profit, being this bear put spread OTM one of my main bearish plays I got going right now. If price stays below the weekly mode area for the whole week, the signal will confirm and we will see the Nasdaq names slide down dramatically until mid June easily. Longer term, this chart pattern points to a decline lasting well into 2024, and suggesting painful downside can happen in this ETF and associated names.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
$AAPL: Bubble popped...I think $AAPL offers a great long term short opportunity here, I specially like the idea of being long $BRK.B and short $AAPL to nullify the exposure Berkshire contains as well...Valuation could come down substantially with the on-shoring theme materializing over time as China manufacturing fueled margins would suffer. We have seen demand slumping lately, with sales slowing down, and technicals offer a great short signal in the daily, after getting overbought, while the monthly chart implies price can fall until August, and reach at least the levels where the last monthly trend started @ 128.72. Definitely a good addition to a long term portfolio, to help reduce volatility in this long term bear market we are navigating now, like it or not. Vast majority of the people remain oblivious to it, and definitely not correctly positioned to profit from the changing market conditions that we observe. We might see a similar situation as the period between 2000 and 2003 unfold next.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
🍏 Apple Inc. Resistance, New Products, New Update, Old One BustSo Apple released new computers... Great.
They also released a new update for the operating system... Yey!
Right after the update, my computer has become useless and I am feeling inspired to buy a new one... Tricky.
All updates always work great but this time, the urgent "security update" somehow makes the computer ultra buggy and slow... 🍻😌😉
Anyway, the downtrend has been broken but strong resistance lies ahead in the form of EMA300 and MA200.
Looking at past history, these levels always fail as resistance but a peak is reached soon after... Will it be different this time?
How is this stock likely to behave in the near future?
Ahhh, tough questions.
Initially, I would immediately say that a peak is soon to follow and then lower prices but then I am aware that the entire financial market moves as a whole.
I am aware of the global-financial situation from multiple perspective and have a well defined picture as to how everything is supposed to move.
The problem is that my entire study and research is mainly based on cryptocurrency...
The chart signals are saying higher so we say higher until the charts change.
There is no point in speculating, we would never buy here, we would only buy early January and at this point we would be just watching how things develop... It is too risky to jump in after the move is already on going but...
Trading is trading and there is always risks involved.
So, the first support/stop-loss comes at 143.
Above this level strongly bullish short-term.
Any trading above EMA10 also quite bullish and that's 140.
If it goes below EMA10 it would also go below the August downtrend line and so the bullish bias short-term would be lost.
Still, on a wider perspective, the bulls remain alive as long as the early January low holds.
My guess is that it can continue higher, retraces in-between is just noise, after a new multi-month high a strong correction, this correction ends in a higher low and then it goes back up again at which point we have to look at the chart again.
Here we are looking at 4-6 months in the analysis above.
I don't know how this information reads... Easy, convoluted, messy, I don't know... But if I had similar information when... Never mind.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to read and for your continued support.
Namaste.
SPX - pre market commentary plus gold, usoil, dxy, bonds, applAll in the video, basically I'm waiting for ES to break 3950 area convincingly and then retest it for a short. My guess right now is - not much will happen before FOMC and AAPL earnings, but who knows for sure. USOIl may make one more high to 84, it would be a good shorting opportunity. Gold looks strong and the dollar is still weak. Bonds also close to resistance but could get up to 133-4 first. AAPL has resistance above so a gap up and then fail after earning would be interesting to a bear like me :)
Good luck!
AAPL Apple Options Ahead Of Earnings Last AAPL chart was pretty accurate:
Now looking at the AAPL Apple options chain ahead of earnings , I would buy the $140 strike price Puts with
2023-2-17 expiration date for about
$3.35 premium.
If the options turn out to be profitable Before the earnings release, I would sell at least 50%.
Looking forward to read your opinion about it.
Week of 1/30: AAPL Supply and Demand LevelsFor those trading AAPL this week, earnings are this Thursday.
I have supply at $146.60-$147.25, if we break above this zone I will look for a retest of this level to go long. I'm looking for $143.30-$144 to serve as our demand zone. Otherwise, there is a gap to fill to $141.87 on the 5m chart (not shown).
Left Chart Indicators:
15 minute
- 9 SMA: Yellow
- 200 SMA: Red
- VWAP: Blue
Right Chart Indicators:
1 hour
- 9 SMA: Yellow
- 50 SMA: Green
- VWAP: Blue
What happens next for AAPL?As you can clearly see on the chart, the AAPL price has been bouncing back-and-forth between 2 lines (“support” & “resistance”) dating all the way back to 1981!
However, with these 2 lines quickly approaching a point of convergence as the AAPL price approaches a new ATH, something’s gotta give.
And so I ask - what happens next?
Nasdaq NQ - Unpopular Opinion #2,118: 14,000 is ComingEverywhere I look I hear the narrative that we should be making new lows and everyone should be dumping because the Federal Reserve won't pivot and because the inflation keeps going up.
Yet, at the same time that they make that argument, they completely ignore what the Dow Jones did in October, which was no less than a 4,300 point rally forming an outside bar.
Dow has always been the weakest index. It fell farther during Coronavirus Disease 2019 hysteria. It rallied less during the greatest bull market of all time. It dumped more during this year's corrections.
Yet, the Nasdaq and the SPX have lagged it, and lagged it hard, during last month's 2022 Low of the Year recovery.
This should have any bull's interest piqued, and yet, because prices are low, they're not. People just want to get short. Everyone is telling you to look below October's low.
Sometimes I think to myself that people actually like buying high and selling low, if only because they're just very attached to "seeing" and "confirmation." Ordinary people all follow this idea that "I won't believe what I don't see" and are completely unwilling to exercise even a modicum faith.
It's fundamentally irrational.
Yet, if you never change this deficiency, you will never be able to leave the bottom of the Cosmos and the bottom of life. The whales will always eat you, for you will always be plankton.
As with all fractals, take a step back and look at the wider horizon. Nasdaq would have to fall another 10% from its October LOY to bounce off the pre-COVID highs, something which that pesky Dow already did in June.
Not only that, but Nasdaq left two really significant areas of low volume on its way down this year. One of those areas just happens to be right above the August bear market rally highs.
Taking a look at the weekly, we can see that for six straight weeks, Nasdaq trades under equilibrium for the total COVID-panic <--> all time high range.
When people who are trading billion dollar position sizes take a look at this phenomenon, they're looking to get long, but hedging short. Unlike retail, who wants to buy puts thinking that 6,000 will come on CPI Thursday.
On the daily, we can see that there's a lot of manipulation around this trendline superstition. "Meh June low trendline support has become resistance. This is going down!" is what every retail trader has been Pavlov's Dogged into believing and thinking.
Nasdaq tends to be the most wild of the indexes. If Nasdaq had have traded like the Dow just did, it would have traded to 13,000 points.
Assuming that SPX and Nasdaq follow in the footsteps of Dow in this bear market rally, and don't kid yourself, Friday's price action should indicate to you that we're going higher, not heading for new lows, Nasdaq is likely to be more insane than the Dow, and very likely to take out the August bear market high.
While all and all I believe you're looking at a pending 30% rally, from where we stand now, you have 1,000 points to gain being long just to take out the October equal highs. This is enough to formulate trades with and make some good money on without having to take on a lot of risk.
Specifically, some of the key (and not-so key) tech stocks are set up to go totally rocketship. At least in my opinion:
AMZN Amazon - Realistic Expectations In Both Doom and Gloom
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META Facebook/Meta - Too Much Bear, Not Enough Bull
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BBIG Vimco Ventures - A Classic Triangle Pump
Trade carefully. When the Chinese Communist Party falls, it will happen while the US equities market is closed. Indexes will gap down 20% and stocks will gap down 50%. There won't be a recovery because every single bank will be completely risk off.
Almost all of Wall Street has dirty hands providing financial "blood transfusions" to the most evil and murderous regime in all of human history, one which despite having killed many times more people than Hitler, and having perpetrated the organ harvesting persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, has not only remained in power for more than 100 years, but it and its Marxist-Leninism is supported by virtually every government and its people in the whole world.
A lot of people, institutions, governments, and companies will run for their lives the day that Xi Jinping throws the Party away like Gorbachev threw the USSR away, because the nature of having a closet full of skeletons is that once sunlight is cast upon those unprecedented sins, the game ends in Checkmate.
"What an ordinary person believes can happen and what is actually happening are always two totally different things." -Lord Wrymouth