Round numbers, ie 40, are potent
Attached are weekly and monthly charts. Noise removed. IF there's a drop "below 39" it's to pick up inventory. Translation, better sell to close that put in "short order" at 39ish.
The fascination with selling short (or leveraged derivitives with time decay) is itself, fascinatiing.
EPS reports are to move paper. It's........eh................eh........advertising.