Hedged; LAD: cup-with-handle break-out?

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On Thursday, I bought some January call options on the bearish leveraged ETF, SQQQ to hedge my long position in the bullish leveraged ETF, TQQQ.   With the news that “Plan B” has failed, the index futures look very weak.   My hedged position should reduce any losses resulting from a decline in TQQQ.   I hope my readers have also been only cautiously bullish……..

While I would not buy any individual stocks right now, one of the 16 stocks to come up in my TC2000, New High with Good Fundamentals Scan, Thursday night was LAD.   It turns out that LAD hit an all-time green-line high on Thursday.   This a a break-out above the high reached in 2006. Any stock that can come through a tough market like this and go to a new all-time high is worth researching.   The weekly chart below suggests to me that this a a cup-with-handle break-out.

 

The weekly Guppy chart below also shows LAD to have an RWB rocket stock pattern. Click here to read this interesting article   about LAD.

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17th day of QQQ short term up-trend; cautiously bullish

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This is a very volatile market.   Time to be cautious even though the QQQ remains in a short and longer term up-trend. This is not the time to make large bets.

This weekly Guppy GMMA chart of the SPY shows a bullish RWB pattern.   The large cap nontech stocks represented in this index ETF (S&P 500) are stronger than the growth stocks represented in the QQQ. It looks like the SPY is moving up after a period of consolidation.   All of the shorter term averages (red) are rising above the longer term averages (blue).