Apple (AAPL): Q1 EPS of $3.33 beats by $0.88. Revenue of $13.5B vs. $12B. Sees Q2 EPS of $2.28-2.39 vs. $2.70, on revenue of $13B-13.4B vs. $12.97B. Sold 2.94M Macs (up 33%), 8.75M iPhones (up 131%), 10.89M iPods (down 1%). Shares halted just before release.
TZA opened down 1.4%. Today’s gap was not filled. TZA was down 0.1% at the high, and closed down 4.0%.
Unfilled gap: $6.14 – $6.15
We are now in a New Moon Trade, which tends to favor TZA AmericanBulls had TZA with a BUY-IF signal for today. Under AmericanBull’s BUY-IF rules, TZA would not have been a buy today, so this trade remains in cash.
Volume for TZA today dropped from the two previous days, at normal levels today. Neutral for TZA.
$RVX (VIX for $RUT) closed down 8.3% with TZA down 4.0%. No divergence.
TZA was down for 6 days, up for 2 days, and down today. Bad for TZA.
The low for TZA 3 days ago was $5.80, the lowest TZA price ever. Today’s low was 9 cents higher. Good for TZA.
Ultimate Oscillator for TZA fell for 9 days to 23, then rose for 2 days to 29, then fell today to 28. Bad for TZA.
MACD on the monthly chart has been flat far below zero for days, and remains that way today. Bad for TZA.
Bollinger Bands for $RVX (VIX for $RUT): Today’s long black candle closed above the bottom Bollinger band. MACD seems to be heading back down. Looks like $RVX might rise tomorrow. Bad for TZA.
Bollinger Bands for $RUT: Today’s white candle for $RUT returns $RUT near its high, but away from the upper Bollinger band, which is rising. MACD might be topping. Bad for TZA.
Bollinger Bands for $RUT:$RVX ($RUT vs VIX for $RUT): today’s white candle rose to close below the upper Bollinger band. The upper Bollinger Band rose today. Two days after what appeared to be a successful 3-day sell signal, not so sure the sell signal worked. Bad for TZA.
TZA had a lower high, lower low and lower close – Bad for TZA.
Money flow for the Total Stock Market was $5,934 million flowing out of the market 2 days ago, $1,037 million flowing out yesterday, and $364 flowing in day. Bullish – Bad for TZA.
I will post the AmericanBulls candlestick interpretation a bit later.
Apple (AAPL): Q1 EPS of $3.33 beats by $0.88. Revenue of $13.5B vs. $12B. Sees Q2 EPS of $2.28-2.39 vs. $2.70, on revenue of $13B-13.4B vs. $12.97B. Sold 2.94M Macs (up 33%), 8.75M iPhones (up 131%), 10.89M iPods (down 1%). Shares halted just before release.
Yes but they always do.
Seems like it has been since I started going short!
Did AAPL lower giudance?
Yeah… it's seems everything is coming up roses now!
Do you know when it reopens for trading?
I saw that. I don't know what to make of any of this.
We also hit the 121.03 spy into the close. It was 121.06 at 4:00 pm est. Of course we are higher now on Apple news.
AAPL reports 3.33 vs. 2.45
TZA opened down 1.4%. Today’s gap was not filled. TZA was down 0.1% at the high, and closed down 4.0%.
Unfilled gap: $6.14 – $6.15
We are now in a New Moon Trade, which tends to favor TZA
AmericanBulls had TZA with a BUY-IF signal for today. Under AmericanBull’s BUY-IF rules, TZA would not have been a buy today, so this trade remains in cash.
Volume for TZA today dropped from the two previous days, at normal levels today. Neutral for TZA.
$RVX (VIX for $RUT) closed down 8.3% with TZA down 4.0%. No divergence.
TZA was down for 6 days, up for 2 days, and down today. Bad for TZA.
The low for TZA 3 days ago was $5.80, the lowest TZA price ever. Today’s low was 9 cents higher. Good for TZA.
Ultimate Oscillator for TZA fell for 9 days to 23, then rose for 2 days to 29, then fell today to 28. Bad for TZA.
MACD on the monthly chart has been flat far below zero for days, and remains that way today. Bad for TZA.
Bollinger Bands for $RVX (VIX for $RUT): Today’s long black candle closed above the bottom Bollinger band. MACD seems to be heading back down. Looks like $RVX might rise tomorrow. Bad for TZA.
Bollinger Bands for $RUT: Today’s white candle for $RUT returns $RUT near its high, but away from the upper Bollinger band, which is rising. MACD might be topping. Bad for TZA.
Bollinger Bands for $RUT:$RVX ($RUT vs VIX for $RUT): today’s white candle rose to close below the upper Bollinger band. The upper Bollinger Band rose today. Two days after what appeared to be a successful 3-day sell signal, not so sure the sell signal worked. Bad for TZA.
TZA had a lower high, lower low and lower close – Bad for TZA.
Money flow for the Total Stock Market was $5,934 million flowing out of the market 2 days ago, $1,037 million flowing out yesterday, and $364 flowing in day. Bullish – Bad for TZA.
I will post the AmericanBulls candlestick interpretation a bit later.
Overall, it looks bad for TZA.