The Fluid Trader

An Individual’s View on the Markets

April 18th, 2008

Quick AAPL thoughts

I was reviewing my charts today when I saw AAPL making a cup & handle formation.  The handle of course is a bull flag which broke out of it channel on 04/15/08.  I want to see if it does make a measured move upwards to around 181.  The reason for that because price created a low on 3/17/08 with a “flagpole” movement of 37 that ran into the bull flag. 

 Let’s keep an eye on AAPL!

April 18th, 2008

Strong finish toward the weekend

We saw another triple digit day on the Dow with a 228 point gain, a 61 point gain in the Nasdaq, and a 24 point gain on the S&P 500.  The catalyst was earning reports of major companies like Citi Group and Google.  Citi Group’s report wasn’t a surprise and we found that Google blew the analysts out of the water.  Google drove the tech heavy Nasdaq today with a big gap up that wasn’t quite expected!

Its interesting to see what else will happen in this time of earnings season.

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