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Chart Patterns

Cup and Handle

Pattern Description:

The Cup and Handle is a bullish continuation pattern that marks a consolidation period followed by a breakout. The cup is in the shape of a "U" and the handle has a slight downward drift. The right-hand side of the pattern has low trading volume. It can be as short as seven weeks and as long as 65 weeks. As the stock comes up to test the old highs, the stock will incur selling pressure by the people who bought at or near the old high. This selling pressure will make the stock price trade sideways with a tendency towards a downtrend for four days to four weeks... then it takes off.
Cup and Handle

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Featured Article

An Economy That Cannot Allow Stocks To Decline

by Charles Hugh Smith
An Economy That Cannot Allow Stocks To Decline Is Too Fragile To Survive Feast your eyes on the chart below of the Nasdaq 100 stock market Index, which is dominated by the six FAAMNG (rhymes with "famine") stocks: Facebook (NASDAQ:FB, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOGL) which now account for over 20% of the entire U.S. stock market's capitalization. Notice that despite the global...
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Technical Review

Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC) - A stock to watch

2026-05-25 by Tim Straiton

Northrop Grumman Corporation, headquartered in West Falls Church, Virginia, is an American aerospace and defense company that designs and manufactures systems for aeronautics, defense, missions, and space. The company is the 5th largest contractor of the U.S. federal government; it receives over 2% of total spending by the federal government of the United States on contractors. The company is ranked 110th on the Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations. In 2024, 87% of the company's revenues came from the federal government of the United States, while 12% was from international sources.

After reaching a high of $774 in March 2026, this stock has followed a downward trajectory and is currently trading at $555. Various technical observations however, now implicate a period of consolidation. The 14 day relative strength index has negated the downward trend. The MACD-V indicator is currently in a highly oversold level of -150. The Bollinger bandwidth is now at a relatively low level which suggests that the recent downside momentum is exhausted. A break above the upper Bollinger band at $580 would attract buying interest.


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Featured Site

The Big Picture

Site Description:

One of the most well respected blogs in finance, blogger Barry Ritholtz gives great “big picture” market commentary that is still easy enough for the average investor to digest. If you are looking for one resource for following the big picture issues in the bond market the fixed income and interest rates section of his blog is it.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/