It has been a while since I last made an idea post. This post will come out to be very rough and rushed, since I have missed on a few entry points from watching this ticker and today shows many congruent signals to enter this position.
The purpose of this post will come in two parts.
1. Do a Hindsight 20/20 analysis and provide technical analysis for my new followers. (By popular demand, lol)
2. Make a forecast of what to occur in the next two weeks.
Defining the Chart:
To get started, let’s define the chart from the top to bottom.
The most obvious on the chart is support and resistance levels. Two resistance levels are in red; $4.58, as a hard top resistance and $4.49 as a multi-top resistance. The price action support is roughly $4.18, a key level where most candles return frequently is displayed in blue. Below that are green lines, labeled upper and lower bounds; average trade ranges from last month’s price action from the manufacturing deal announced in China.
You may also notice 3 yellow rectangles. These are defining where the relative underlying trends are within trendlines of session highs and session lows, then connecting them. They will be important later on. Something new this time that I am adding to my charts are more indicators. After experimenting with many trades, I am highly favorable of the MACD indicator. For the sake of simplicity I will only cover the Stochastic RSI and MACD.
Hindsight 20/20:
The weekend from May 13th to 16th started price action and sideways movement started to shift bullish from a change in executive management. It cracked upper bounds of where it should have been trading and it was in uncharted territory. It later market adjusted to a gap fill of $3.69. Here, I could have entered for a retest but it was above charted resistance so I stayed out. DANGER ZONE! Unfortunately for me, the price continued to more north.
Ever since that point, May 20th, each day had more and more hype and the price continued to move upward. Virtual reality, Polaris card, Needham conference etc… after it broke $4.00. I knew I missed the train on this one and did not want to chase. By the end of May, I had to withhold and exert a significant amount of internal self-discipline not to chase, not to chase, do not fucking chase, because I had the feeling that as price was getting more and more overweight it will death drop, leaving many bag-holders caught (w/ pants down) making a hard decision to turn a trade into an investment. I kept asking myself where the fuck is market correction?!!
Death Drops:
June 1st - Death Drop
June 2nd - Death Drop
This second death drop is more significant because it is exhaustion gap filling to a new price action support level, (roughly 4.10ish) from previous weeks. Possibly a short collusion, from the same sentiment that I was feeling. Later, a short squeeze brings it backs to near highs again. Crap. I missed out on the MACD signal again.
Bollinger Bands:
This is where it gets interesting. Bollinger bands tell a lot when used correctly. When bollinger bands are used, it shows, how positively or negatively the trend is tracking; it is a volatility tracker. Most traders buy in the lower half of the bands and sell in the upper half of the bands. Simple, right? Not quite. Remember, it is a volatility indicator, so if it starts pinching , expect something major to happen.
Yellow Rectangles:
The trend in the 2nd rectangle, traded 2 standard deviations above the mean (when it rides the outer dark green lines), then broke through moving average line (pink). When that occurred, a huge wave a relief is upon me. The price is finally adjusting. Phew. I highlighted in the MACD the signals of the cross. External catalysts were the poor to neutral sentiment in the pricing of the Polaris cards (later revised) and the release of Nvidia’s GeForce 1080s.