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[SOX] Bull Flag Breakout! Upside Targets and the Risks for ChipsSemiconductor chips has broken above the horizontal flag it's been in since the strong rally off recent lows. The index ETF charted here, SOXX, was up over 13% from the 4/25 to 5/14! Today breaking out above resistance around $188, SOXX is up nearly 1% and with steadily increasing bull volume last few days. Roughly speaking, looks like the SOX is in an ascending broadening formation. It's hard pin down this pattern because of a lot uncertainty intra-formation. From here, IF this breakout follows through, I'm looking at the $195-$200 area as upside targets for a couple reasons: 1) Ideal Fibonacci extension of 61.8% puts price at $201 and the 41.4% extension level is at the $196 area. The 161.8% looks to be more likely as a top than the 141.4% area, at this point in time, due to the reason #2. 2) Upper trendline here is rising and I've taken the risk of cutting through a few candles at the peaks and using the gaps and gap fills as an alternative guide. This upper resistance aligns almost perfectly, not only with the 161.8% level of $200, but also with a rough estimate of the timing. By literally copy and pasting the solid green arrow (take with a grain of salt), using the same angle of ascent all the way to my upper trendline in purple would indicate a convergence of 3 different indicators around the same point in time and space. Assuming this continuation breakout follows through of course. Fundamental uncertainty is high and unsurprisingly so is volatility, hence the wild broadening formation. The last week or so was the bears' chance to force a head&shoulders pattern, which would have been really bad news for SOX and the entire market. It still can be possible, without a doubt. However, it seems that we have just completed a triangle/bull flag indicating continuation. We got continuation and breakout today to end the week on a positive note for the long weekend, a psychological benefit imo. The Bearish Argument: Volatility is unpredictable, many tweets could be made over memorial day weekend. Volume isn't that high, but very slowly rising. Here's a few things to watch carefully in case of a fake breakout: A) The breakout resistance around $186.50 needs to turn support (dashed red line) in the event that we see a retest. Dropping and holding below that could lead to an acceleration to the downside with or without a pause at the last resort support just below the $182 area (solid red line). This puts longer term downside potential in play if bears follow through. B) Could be nice to take a large portion of profits at target 1 given uncertainty. Perhaps this would be a spot to consolidate or slow down before potentially seeing an exhaustion gap up to the peak of target 2. Ideal scenario though, watch any consolidations or resistances carefully and assess volume intraday. Pull profits periodically on huge surges up. Being inside this large broadening formation means that clear volume spike in either direction isn't gonna be likely on this trade. Large moves can happen on low volume and be easily reversed. Before reaching either target. C) Fundamentally, watch QQQ and XLF related news. Both are looking to breakout of respective patterns but haven't yet. The markets as a whole tend to rally when both these tech and financial sectors are trending up at the same time. And also given geopolitics, I'm watching USOIL and XOP for big changes. Oil is coming off recent highs giving relief to the non-energy production sectors. Sudden moves could throw off any balance between sectors. And obviously, look at Chinese trade negotiations. It's so back and forth, on and off lately that it appears the market is giving up on listening to the developments unless some tangible and measurable actions take place. Which is exactly how the market gets blindsided when something does actually happen. I'm going to try to stay up to date with the news on trade closely even though it seems meaningless to do so.
NASDAQ:SOXXLong
by NYFinancials
PHLX SOX Index: Long term reversalWith heavyweight Intel getting hammered today, the outlook of the broader semiconductor index obviously gets dragged along. The already unconvincing outlook of the past months has taken a turn for the worst by breaking below cloud support at 1299. The minor internal trend line at 1272 is now scrutinized but a move lower seems a mere formality. Focus is on the reasonable support zone at 1211 at first. Below that a new primary down trend takes hold towards 1122 (daily projection) and probably a lot lower on a 6+ month horizon. After all, the current breakout means the start of a multi-month corrective phase with very substantial down side risks. Avoid any longs in the sector. New short-entries are justifiable as long as prices hold below ~1345 over the next weeks. Near term trend: negative Long term trend: neutral Outlook: long-term reversal expected Strategy: avoid/exit-long or trading short-entry Support: 1272 / 1211 / 1122* Resistance: 1345 / 1360+ Outlook cancelled/neutralized above 1345
TVC:SOXShort
by buyem_nl
Semiconductors hit a weekly double at the 2000 crash level.Semiconductors hit a weekly double top at the same level as the 2000 dotcom crash. I went long SOXS (3x semiconductor bear) and long SDOW (DJI 3x bear) in my 401k right before the market closed yesterday. I got lucky as a bought these right before the Cohn resignation announcement which tanked the futures market. I had also gone short 2 DJI futures. I already closed that trade last night for a solid profit after the big Cohn drop. SSG is a low volume 2x semiconductor bear etf which I would avoid due to low liquidity. I wish there was a 1x bear etf to avoid the daily rebalancing problem. My SDOW and SOXS remain open in my 401k.
TVC:SOXShort
by haug01