How can you even claim that technicals matter?

I'm all about fundamentals. That's why I wrote that post. But the breech of that neckline was a pure T/A indicator that played out perfectly.

Fundamentals always win in the long run, but you have to understand there exists huge amounts of dollar volume moving around daily that use technicals as an intricate part of their algorithms. These build on each other as certain points are established and in a way become self-fulfilling prophesies. I've seen it play out a 100 times. Ultimately they overshoot either up or down, and the stock then reverses.

So all that said, one would be silly to ignore T/A completely, unless you are strictly buy and hold and identify companies as such. Or short and hold like Ackman does occasionally. I guess it depends what your game is and what you are trying to accomplish.

Here's TSLA after it recently went way up on earnings. Are you saying there's something after the jump that is explained by technicals?
 

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It is interesting how many posts we read complaining that news reports of Trump's tweets make markets harder to trade.
Yet news doesn't affect markets? :confused:
I think in these instances, Trump tweets are affecting futures temporarily, as we know, this is a speculative instrument, not actually the real deal market. Futures jump at Trump's sneezes, probably also they jump when a platypus sneezes.
 
I think in these instances, Trump tweets are affecting futures temporarily, as we know, this is a speculative instrument, not actually the real deal market. Futures jump at Trump's sneezes, probably also they jump when a platypus sneezes.

It's not just the futures. It's the index itself.
 
Here's TSLA after it recently went way up on earnings. Are you saying there's something after the jump that is explained by technicals?
Zoom out, the market is in an uptrend, get long. What is there to explain ?

Do you want to be right or do you want to make $$ ?
 
Government Intervention Won’t Save China’s Stock Market
Chinese authorities know their citizens are panicking over the coronavirus, and the last thing they need is a stock market collapse to make the situation worse. To prevent a crash, the government is intervening in the economy through capital injections and other strategies.

The Chinese government will pump 1.2 trillion yuan ($174 billion) [PBoC] into financial markets to try and control volatility in equity prices. The capital will come in the form of reverse repo operations – a way of buying securities. The authorities will also employ less direct measures like subsidies and loans for business in the hard-hit Hubei region. [Chinese Ministry of Finance]

But according to Bloomberg, this will only be a net increase of 150 billion yuan ($21.7 billion) because over 1 trillion yuan in short-term funds will expire on Monday [Bloomberg].

That’s a drop in a bucket compared to the 40 trillion yuan in total market cap estimated for Chinese equities in 2018 [Statista].

Expect Panic Selling on Monday
https://www.ccn.com/beijing-cant-save-chinas-stock-market-from-a-coronavirus-reckoning/
 
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