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Walgreens Boots Alliance Kicks Up WBA

Greg Schnell

Greg Schnell

Chief Technical Analyst, Osprey Strategic

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has recently pushed above a breakout level and then pulled back to retest. Today, the stock looks ready to breakout above the previous resistance shown in red again. Thinks looks like an important area to watch. If defensive stocks start to accelerate, this is well positioned to be one of the first to break out.


The MACD is bouncing close to the zero line after pushing to a fresh 6-month momentum high in December. The down days recently have been on light volume while the up days have been on higher volume. Thats a positive. The overall market is close to its highs, but a lot of stocks that recently tried to rally have pulled back. Perhaps this is a clue that there is some rotation to defensives. Anyway, its definitely one to watch.

Good trading,
Greg Schnell, CMT, MFTA

 
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