Alaska Air Group, Inc.DAILY
potential head and shoulder
tendency is downward.
go short if it breaks 54
ALK trade ideas
ALK approaching support, potential bounce! ALK is approaching our first support at 57.47 (horizontal swing low support, 61.8% fibonacci extension) where a strong bounce might occur above this level pushing price up to our major resistance at 62.35 (horizontal pullback resistance, 50% fibonacci retracement).
Stochastic (89,5,3) is also approaching support where we might see a corresponding bounce in price
ALK bounced from the bottom of the channelALK moving in a perfect ascending channel. Right time to jump in since the stochastic is in oversold area.
Taking profit $70-71
Stop Loss $57.5 (.5 dollars below the minimum of July)
Expecting reach the goal on January 2019
ALK Technical Breakout + RSI divergenceToday 8/24/2018- I've entered a long position into Alaska Airlines (ALK) as the stock has been trading sideways for over 200 days and seems to have a strong support at 58$( average 60$ a share). There was an resistance zone at 64.00$ and it broke through it to 68$ and has now retrace back to 64.75$ a share which could now be a new support area. Not only is the price action trading sideways and now higher, but the moving averages are starting to curve higher. The RSI is also diverging with higher highs and higher lows (triangular wedge) and the stock should find a clear path forward soon. As I am trading options, I gave myself a long expiration till January 2019 but realistically, I would like to close this position for profit in a 3-6 weeks if this stock explodes higher. I would be interested to take profits when the stock goes to 70$ - 75$ a share.
I bought a vertical call spread 60$ call/ and 70$ call for a total price of 5.16$ a contract which is $516 dollars invested. There is earnings in 62 days and this gives me a good 2 months for the stock to go above 65.16$ and then this trade can make some money. When the stock goes to 70$ a share, this trade will make atleast 150$ and that is a 29% return for the stock to only go up 7% over 2 months.
ALK - Long Term BuyALK is fundamentally cheap in terms of Price/Sales per Share and Price/CF per Share. Its hard timing buys on Valuation, but I think the chart finally looks like the downside has abated. I expect it to trade up from here.
ALK may fly very soonALK continues to show interesting development on the hourly chart, as it edges toward the apex of a very large bullish falling wedge. Earlier this week, we saw price broke down from a bearish rising wedge in an attempt to take out the downward trend line of the larger bullish wedge. The price bounced off a support level yesterday, before reaching the bottom of the wedge. It is dragged down today by the downward motion of the SPY.
However, apart from the bullish falling wedge technicals, we can see that the price has made a higher high and lower low starting at the bottom of late May. If this is a start of an uptrend, then the hourly RSI and PPO indicator actually display a hidden bullish divergence, as price made a higher low, but indicator made a lower low. This suggests that selling was so hard, but demand from below stops selling from pushing the price down. This means strength in the stock. Notice that the 9 day moving average just crossed the 50, suggesting that the near term trend is down. However If SPY happens to be down next week but ALK is green, then watch for the integrity of the hidden bullish divergence and the upward trending channel. A breakout of the falling wedge may come soon.
ALK going longgoing long
it doesn't show on this chart
but RSI is over sold
we have a nice pin bar
on support
Long term predictionEnjoy the blue skies for awhile, but don't book a ticket on the final fatal flight!
ALK - Alaska Air on the radarAlaska Air is currently trading at the top of its downtrend channel, a bearish engulfing pattern is currently forming (although we'll need to wait for the close to confirm) and the RSI has already turned down from a high level....
ALK: Expecting a bounce soon1. Down action looks corrective.
2. RSI oversold with positive reversal.
3 Recent volume spike.
4 Will use any close < “C” as my stop.
Fundamentals: seekingalpha.com
October 25 Earnings: Alaska Air - Bankruptcy & PRASMAlaska Air has been absent from the recent airlines rally as the company struggles to regain momentum after weather related issues.
The company's integration of Virgin Airways is a mega-plus for the Airline after organic routes kept coming under weather-related pressures.
It's recent venture with Singapore Air will be another plus for the Airline's Asia connection flights.
However, rising costs are likely going to dampen profits and margins, worth taking note of but not enough to outweigh pros.
Recent pilot union deal, higher Virgin Air merging costs and 12% higher fuel costs are a further "downer" for the quarter.
I am starting the company with an $85.00 PT for an extended 2-3 month post-earnings move.
A stop at $75, near recent lows is subject to post-earnings review.
Alaska Airlines is recovering from hurricanesALK is bouncing off its support trendline just like other airlines. Looking to go long but beware of the red resistance line.
$ALK News: Airlines not performing well in general
Observations:
Weekly: Price in lng pullback towards the 200MA since Feb 2017 similar to what happened late 2015 until June 2016. So price may have a long way to go still but catching one of the upwards moves is the aim here
Daily: Support around $75-76 where it could bounce. This one might well be on my watch for longer term.
MACD: Still going down
RSI: like MACD strong downtrend still
Plan: Wait for the reversal and then make a definite plan
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ALK landed nicely retesting previous resistanceALK had a nice retest of a previous level. Decent pattern showed up, similar to a inverted H&S. Targets are listed short term. Fib extensions longer term if triggered and earnings make investors happy.a
