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AAPL hit an all-time high of $233.47 on October 3, 2018. After that high was not exceeded for 3 months, I drew in a green line, designating a green line top. I could then set an alert on TC2000 to alert me when AAPL traded above the green line. It had a green line break-out (GLB) one year later on October 11, 2019. Note the above average trading volume that day confirming the break-out.  AAPL has now advanced +12.5% since the GLB. Note that after the GLB, AAPL re-tested the green line for a few days, a common occurrence. If it had CLOSED back below the green line, I would have sold my position.  I would then have repurchased it if it retook the green line. I have found that the GLB strategy works really well for me in a strong market. The idea is to buy a stock that has advanced to an all-time high, then rested for 3 months or more and subsequently closes above the green line on above average trading volume. The fabulously successful trader,  Nicolas Darvas, concentrated on buying stocks breaking to all-time highs during a rising market. Every person should read his book, How I made…listed below. (It is the first book I require my students to read.)

Note that during the time of the GLB and for weeks before, AAPL had been in a nice daily RWB up-trend.

GMI remains at 6 (of 6).

One of the set-ups I am teaching my students this semester is to buy growth stocks above their last green line top (ATH not exceeded for at least 3 months)  that has bounced up off of (or close to) their 10 week average. The 10 week average (blue dotted line) must  be rising above its 30 week average (solid red line). Once buying the stock on this set-up, they must place their initial hard or mental stop loss below the low of the week of the bounce.  The idea is to buy a strong stock and hold it until the 10 week average is violated at a weekly close. Twelve stocks hitting an ATH (all-time high) on Friday met these criteria as of Friday’s close. Here are three of their weekly charts. The first two have recent earnings increases above 100% and all have already at least doubled over the past year–a sign of strength.

A few other stocks that did not reach an ATH on Friday but have doubled the past year and bounced their 10 week average last week include:  TRHC, NSP, ZEN, BJRI, EVBG, LPSN, RNG, SPSC. SPSC hit all of my favorite set-ups, including a green dot, last week. Here is its daily chart:

We came through the typically weakest month of the market, September,  unscathed. There are some warning signs, though. There were  more new lows than highs on Wednesday through Friday and the strong tech stocks are masking the weakness in much of the rest of the market. The health stocks are also surging (CURE (3x ETF), HUM, HIIQ, UNH, MOH, CNC, WCG). But the financial stocks look weak.  In fact, this weekly chart of the financial ETF, XLF,  shows it may be entering a Stage 4 decline–very ominous and worth monitoring. If the hikes in interest rates don’t help the banks to prosper, it may be telegraphing tough times to come.

But the GMI remains on a Green signal–for now.

The chart of QQQ’s daily 10.4 stochastics has arrows that show where the fast stochastic (red line) has crossed above the slow stochastic (blue line). That is what I call a green dot signal, also shown on the price chart by, you guessed it,  green dots. (A video tutorial for building the green dot signal appears in my TC2000 club.) The green dot is a very short term trend signal on the daily chart of a stock or index in an up-trend and indicates that a bounce is likely. Note that most advances begin after the daily 10.4 fast stochastic has fallen below 50 and then has a green dot. The end of a bounce usually occurs after the stochastic is above 80 (upper horizontal line) and  often when it reaches 90 or greater. I therefore think that the QQQ, with Friday’s stochastic reading of 92.67, is overbought and more likely to stall out soon. (QQQ is also near the top of its upper 15.2 Bollinger Band.) I would prefer to place a bet on a rise in the QQQ (or stock) once the stochastic falls below 50 and flashes another green dot signal….

The GMI remains on a Green signal and is at 6 (of 6).