Options give investors the ability to speculate on bullish or
bearish moves in a stock with defined risk while spending less money.
Oil has to separate itself from
the bearish moves in other markets especially in gold which got slammed overnight.
Stocks are higher for the second day in a row after the strong
bearish move in Tuesday, with the NASDAQ leading the way higher, led by Facebook, as the recently troubled social media giant is staging a strong bounce following yesterday's positive quarterly earnings report.
As
the bearish move already covered significant ground in terms of percentages, let's see how it changed the long - term view for the majors.
This is because you need to first borrow a stock through your broker, before you can sell them to profit from
a bearish move.
However, both are considered terminal patterns and both represent consolidation after an extended bullish or
bearish move.
A bearish candlestick on higher volume, especially twice the volume of the previous candle, is another great indicator that a larger
bearish move is likely to occur.
That means we'll be out with our top 500 covered calls and top stock PUT options soon as we get more confirmation of
a bearish move.
The most probable scenario is one of
a bearish move during the first weeks of the year, the time needed just for the MACD line to get closer to the signal.
While others may see this as
a bearish move, the dip is actually healthy.
Further, the lack of fundamental news leaves us with just price action analysis, which indicates heightened odds of
a bearish move.
Not exact matches
This year, the Wall Street bigwigs stuck to many lesser - known companies, but their picks — both bullish and
bearish, with several investors recommending shorting stocks, or betting that their prices will fall —
moved market prices in several cases.
I did that to eliminate any downside risk on RUT for what I anticipate to be a significant
move in the
Bearish direction for RUT, in particular.
The pattern should break soon, but we still advise traders to wait with short - term trades until a clear
move, as short - term bullish and long - term
bearish signals continue to contradict here.
Just one day later, QQQ began following through on the
bearish pattern by slicing through its 50 - day
moving average.
The idea is that once these stocks begin cracking below key support levels, institutions have no choice but to start unloading shares, thereby adding to the
bearish momentum and making for some violent
moves to the downside.
From there, $ LULU may form a
bearish base at the lows OR bounce into resistance of the declining 10 - week
moving average (similar to the 50 - day
moving average).
This would be
bearish and could easily lead to a breakdown below major support at the $ 150 area on the next
move down.
A bounce to (or near) that level of
moving average convergence, followed by a
bearish reversal candlestick or gap down, would provide me with a low - risk short selling entry point.
Based on historical patterns, when a market «flips» from bullish to
bearish after a long period of
moving in the same direction, the market will usually remain
bearish for an extended period of time.
However, we are now seeing
bearish divergence in small - cap stocks, as the Russell 2000 Index ($ RUT) has just broken below near - term technical support of its 20 - day exponential
moving -LSB-...]
A
bearish crossover is when the price drops below a
moving average.
Still, we always respect a
bearish market timing signal by
moving to cash and / or tightening up stops on long positions and waiting for conditions to improve before establishing new long positions.
Still, that doesn't make me
bearish on Snapchat: as TV
moves inexorably to a subscription - based on - demand model more and more advertising will
move online, including lucrative brand advertising.
The next
bearish crossover is a signal to go short, since the trend is now down and the price passing back below the
moving average indicates the downtrend is about to resume.
If it does,
bearish momentum could quickly spark a sell - off down to the 50 % Fibonacci retracement level (just above 4,200), which roughly converges with support of the 40 - week / 200 - day
moving average.
Analysts at JPMorgan turned incrementally
bearish on General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) on Wednesday and now see downside to the stock
moving forward.
In an open group Q&A session with tech entrepreneur Wang Feng on WeChat on Thursday, Cai disclosed that although he was holding a single bitcoin in January of this year, he
moved to increase his portfolio over the first quarter of 2018 amid the
bearish market's lower prices.
Just because a stock is popular and everyone seems to be choosing sides doesn't mean that investors should force themselves into a bullish or
bearish thesis for fear of missing out on a big
move.
The current downside
move is
bearish in nature and it seems like the price could extend declines toward the $ 1.60 level.
«Golden crosses» (the 50 - day
moving average
moving from below to above the 200 - day
moving average) are neither bullish nor
bearish.
And just as it showed it was about to cross below the green line a month ago (which was
bearish), it now shows that it is set to climb back above the green line — a bullish
move.
Key HighlightsETH price started an upside
move and recovered above the $ 640 resistance against the US Dollar.There is a major
bearish trend line forming with resistance at $ 674 on the hourly chart of ETH / USD (data...
Key HighlightsRipple price recovered nicely and
moved above the $ 0.8100 resistance against the US dollar.There was a break above a key
bearish trend line with resistance at $ 0.8200 on the hourly chart of the XRP / USD...
Further, the 5 - day
moving average (MA) and the 10 - day MA
bearish crossover indicates the short - term bias is
bearish.
That would indicate a stronger potential support area; but it was easily busted, providing emphasis to the
bearish nature of the
move.
It can be used to confirm a new trend (with a
move from below 50 % to above 50 %, or vice versa), to suggest when a given
move may be getting overbought (above 70 %) or oversold (below 30 %) and also when a potential price reversal may be possible (bullish divergence or
bearish divergence).
As we
move into the second quarter of 2018, the cryptocurrency market struggles to revive from the
bearish trend...
Peter: I'm
bearish on the dollar in the short - term but considering the
moves it has had, I'm definitely more uncertain about the very short - term
move.
Last week's
bearish price action caused the main stock market indexes to plunge through major levels of technical price support, including key
moving averages and prior «swing lows.»
- The chart of US treasuries ETF, TLT, is likewise showing oversold conditions on the RSI and could bounce short term despite the
bearish bias now warranted by the downside break of the 200 day
moving average.
I need to point out that earlier this year Hecht was slow to accept the
move being made by gold and silver and had even issued some
bearish remarks at one point.
Noting the larger trends, if this comes about it could just be a counter trend
move in the still bullish stock market and still
bearish gold sector.
Additionally, we always make sure the 10 - week
moving average (same as the 50 - day
moving average) has crossed above the 40 - week
moving average (same as 200 - day
moving average), which confirms the
bearish momentum has reversed.
When a declining number of stocks are participating in the
move higher of a stock index, it is a
bearish signal.
Bitcoin got slightly lower following the announcement, but the decline is minuscule compared to the recent
moves in the coin and it seems unlikely that it will have a meaningful effect on the cryptocurrency segment, despite the theoretically
bearish implication.
The same can be applied in the case of the
bearish impulsive
move.
Continued
bearish momentum in the US dollar ETF would likely force the 10 - week
moving average to cross below the 40 - week
moving average as well, which would produce another
bearish trend reversal signal — and that's good news for Gold bulls.
The combination of the
bearish volume patterns in the NASDAQ and an abundance of overhead resistance (such as the 50 - day
moving average), leads me to believe the next
move in the stock market will be lower.
That's made me realize that i have a rational disconnect since I have a
bearish outlook on most asset classes — I should look for ways to
move from maximum exposure to full exposure.