Charts - $xom

The daily negative trend is breaching.

Longer term resistance persist.

From a div yield perspective, still think xom should be higher. From an oil macro perspective, once China finalizes its next 5 yr plan, this may help oil prices firm up.

$twtr not that bad

Miss on future revenue, but that is a mute point. Last quarter they a lower guidance but they beat. User growth is still light. But these are well known.

Solid revenue growth. 

New product are popping up quickly, and hopefully we see the product execution translate to user growth. In the mean time, losses narrowed.

The ah sentiment seems much for already known issues, and with a far more up beat (compared to the last call) management. Looking for a higher low, around 26-27, from the intermediate trend.

Was a buyer in ah. Twitter is still a $50B company.

$aapl gross margins increasing

Beat estimates. The most interesting development, gross margins appear to have increased. And they are projected to increase.

Oh, has position is just insane. 

$ibm breaking down

For a seasoned management team, their handling of the street has been shit. The SEC news is kinda blah, but given the negative sentiment, this is just a good excuse to allow the 140 support to break.  If the stock does not recover, there is a legitimate risk of it going toward 120. (Thats in large part due to the consistent lowering of guidance. And with the constant lowering of guidance, the recent buy back may not make sense.)

The stock may bounce along the down trend. Unfortunately it may see lower lows until there is evidence of stability.

Charts - $aapl

Interesting position. Daily is overbought. A condition that usually merits a interim sell.

But earnings report is this week, and anything can happen. Longterm trends suggests a move higher, solidifying a breach from negative trading and a new trading dynamic. Or a move towards the highs.

Since this is aapl, and everything is viewed through a negative lens, a penny miss or a 1/2basis point miss on margin expectations could drag the stock down 10%. 

AAPL's trailing be is below average, and below SP500. A simple reversion to mean, brings the stock to 140-150. 

$yhoo - still completely correlated to $baba

A blah quarter.

Good: yr over yr revenue growth.

Blah: TAC keep rising. (Rev to TAC)

Bad: GM keep declining.

Yahoo has yet to break away from their strong correlation to baba.

Same story at $ibm

14 straight quarters. Pretty annoying when management is a bunch of highly paid suits. (Im just an annoyed supporter.)

Most frustrating is guidence. The perviously highlighted trade was that IBM maintains guidence. That was shot to shit.

Q2

Q3

Material declines, that shift target prices. With a lack of stabile revenue, low end multiple is still merited.

14.75 x 11.4 = 168

15.75 x 11.4 = 179

Of course with constant declines of these estimates, they are suspect. (More reason for the lower deserved multiple.)

The stock was at the precipice of an interim sentiment shift. But earnings results proved fruitful for the bears.

Still, longterm trend can support higher prices above, while still being its negative trend.

It just needs a reason to be testing its highend range. 

Maybe the dividend yield can be enough. Given sentiment, looking to add near 140 or even a flush into the high 130s.

Charts - $xon

Thanks to Bill Miller, this puppy has premium. But its caught in a negative trend. 

Bouncing off the 20sma and will most likely push back from the 200sma.

A look at the weekly suggest 27ish would be interm bottom. Last time it went below the 50sma on the weekly, it went ~30% below it. At the current 50sma level, this suggest a stock price of around 27.

Will look to enter near 27-28. (But will look to unload near 40-42.)

Trades - $xom $twtr

xom testing a breach of the multi-month negative trend. If the dividend is safe, xom needs to be near high 90s to $100 for the yield to approach its mean trading range.

twtr is pushing off of an obvious resistance. Next stop is 35-37. As for twitter layoffs, if Jack needs to right a wrong from over highering, so be it. Growth is still very real, and margins suggest efficiency is needed.

Market Thought... Break out or push back $spy

Not sure if the dooms day predictions will come true, but one thing that is pretty clear: European banks are a fucking mess.

Icahn is preaching about the junk bond market, but we have two very real scenarios where in the last two days EU banks have shown to be swimming naked. Seriously, after 2008, the fact that the ECB allowed for suck bullshit cushions is the real fucked up part. The real tragedy is the endless supply of arrogance in the EU that has allowed it to happen.

I mean, two companies (VW and Glencore) take a hit and now major banks are seeing losses or need to recapitalize. 

Markets rallied thanks to the Fed. Pushing the SP500 to interesting levels.

It has arrived at interesting resistances. The heaviest of resistance being the 200 sma.

Before seeing the EU bank chatter, i would normally short closer to 2060. But with the EU banks in the shitter, took on early protection.

$twtr Moments is engrossing and powerful

Twitter is a $50B company pretending to be an $18B company. 

Twitter beat last quarter numbers. They should continue to do the same. Despite the "lack of  scale" chatter. (I mean 10s of 100s of million of people is not scale enough?!? Maybe not in the world of traditional web based advertising, but in a world of native advertising, the numbers so far say it is.) Hopefully now that Jack is permanent, the message will be just as honest but the tone more uplifting. 

Twitter is already doing better than Wall Street gives it credit for. Now it has this new medium, which is totally engrossing and can lead to some crazy-awesome truly native advertising. 

Moments looks to be at its beginning. Things will start to really heat up when 

1. more publishers are on board

2. Categories can be chosen by user

3. More live / major events presented through the moments categories

4. When Moments become a platform for individual or corporate publishers

So where did the $50B number come from? $50Bis my preference of valuation. But that's a "just because" analysis. (Most of the street valuations can be boiled down to "just because".)

Realistically, I use Facebook as a previous comparison for valuation. (The networks do not compare but the way wall street treats them might.)

Back when FB ipo'd, their advertising was that of a chair. A CHAIR! With zero and limited mobile revenue, and a poor html strategy, after the ipo the street punished the stock. 

The market cap went as low as $38B, coming off of solid second market valuations.

Below is the growth associated with that revenue.

What I am trying to show is that when FB was at a $2.5-3B revenue company, its valuation was still in the +$30B range, even when it had below 45% revenue growth.

An argument can be made that twtr belongs in the +$30B range. (Its not $50B yet, but ill take $30B.)

$baba negative trend breaking

At least with the fisrt level of resistance.

Next stop, between 68-70. If it starts to break the wkly 10sma or daily 62sma, baba will be in a new trading dynamic. Yahoooooo!