Don't Ignore This Chart!

Etsy (ETSY) Finds New Buyers

Greg Schnell

Greg Schnell

Chief Technical Analyst, Osprey Strategic

Every day, we continue to see big name stocks join the new 52-week highs. This week, a great chart of ETSY kept finding new buyers at higher prices. The stock has been a top performer since May of 2017. Notice the SCTR ranking soaring into the top of the range; it has stayed up in the top quartile for 7 quarters. Today, the stock soared above an ascending consolidation and closed near the high of the day.

The investor that continues to stare at a very high price/earnings ratio could talk themselves out of this stock. But institutional investors continue to invest in the story. This is what the price action, the volume, the momentum and the relative strength continue to tell us. More importantly, the website continues to attract attention with new offerings. This year, I ordered products from ETSY for the first time. It is the finding of new buyers that continues to propel the stock higher. New buyers are reaching out for the products on the site and investors are hitting the buy button for shares of the company.

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