Bullish Charts:
General Electric Co (NYSE: GE)
Gilead Sciences Inc (NASDAQ: GILD)
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT)
Nabors Industries Ltd (NYSE: NBR)
Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD)
Bearish Charts:
Merrill Lynch & Co (NYSE: MER)
Intel Corp (NASDAQ: INTC)
Lehman Brothers Holdings (NYSE: LEH)
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Sirius Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI)
Ford Motor (NYSE: F)
Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC)
Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ: AMAT)
Wachovia Corp (NYSE: WB)
Washington Mutual Inc (NYSE: WM)
The bullish charts distinguish themselves by breaking above their recent price ranges. Stocks like Gilead Sciences, Nabors Industries and Wal-Mart Stores are enjoying multi-month breakouts.
While investors in stocks with bearish-looking charts like Merrill Lynch, Sirius Satellite Radio and Applied Materials have seen the downtrends, even with the recent bounces, hold firmly in place and now their pullbacks have also been steeper.
I know what you're thinking -- this is just short-term technical analysis mumbo jumbo. You prefer "investing in solid companies for the long haul." I have no problem with long-term investing -- okay, maybe a little -- but that doesn't mean you should ignore what these charts are telling us. After all, investors should care only about stock performance, not company quality!
Disclosure: I have no positions in any of these stocks--as I preach on my blog, I prefer trading more predictable smallcaps and microcaps.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-31-2008 @ 2:01PM
Gumby said...
Why is everyone still so clueless on how close Ford Motor is toward bankruptcy if they dont start buying Ford cars .... Are we prepared for Ford bankrupct if not GM too... Are we ready yet? Or will we just shrug our shoulders and later on cry about how our programs got cut back...?