The Canadian Technician

MANGA - Back To Leadership Role

Greg Schnell

Greg Schnell

Chief Technical Analyst, Osprey Strategic

Recently, the big cap tech names have been consolidating. That seems about to change as "MANGA" names are leading today's rally and are pushing up to the top or above prior ranges.

Some nice moves higher as Netflix (NFLX) was the star of its own show. Earnings report last night published more than 200 million subscribers.

GOOGL is also kicking higher and breaking above the prior range.

Microsoft (MSFT) has moved sideways since July. It won't take much to blow out the top.

Amazon (AMZN) has also been sideways since July. As the pennant builds out to the right, this looks set up to break out again.

Apple (AAPL)'s SCTR has shown the weakest level since 2nd quarter 2019. Apple has been consolidating since August.

With the whole group leading the Nasdaq today, and one of the five breaking out to new highs, are we reverting to these big cannons for leadership once again? Netflix blew away subscriber expectations and Alphabet had a massive quarter in October. Seeing all five having their SCTRs drop below 75 is surprising, but it is really surprising that all 5 SCTRs were at 52-week lows a few days ago. It has been a long, long time since that happened last.

If that weakness on the SCTR is about to change and restore their typical strength, these large cap bulldogs will lift the Nasdaq a lot higher in the near future, and Alphabet leading the surge to new highs suggests it might be upon us right now.

Good trading,
Greg Schnell, CMT, MFTA
Senior Technical Analyst, StockCharts.com
Author, Stock Charts For Dummies


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Greg Schnell
About the author: , CMT, MFTA is Chief Technical Analyst at Osprey Strategic specializing in intermarket and commodities analysis. He is also the co-author of Stock Charts For Dummies (Wiley, 2018). Based in Calgary, Greg is a board member of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) and the chairman of the CSTA Calgary chapter. He is an active member of both the CMT Association and the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA). Learn More