August 14 Chart of the Day - Walmart
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Retail giant Walmart (WMT) is set to release their quarterly earnings before market open on Thursday. The results could set the stage for other retailers such as Target and Lowe’s, which also report earnings in the coming weeks.
Walmart’s performance may shed some light on how consumers are dealing with inflation and skyrocketing costs, and whether recent concerns by some of an economic slow down are justified.
Today we'll cut through all the "news chatter" and review their chart strictly from a price action technical analysis perspective.
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Monthly Chart
On the monthly chart we can see that after setting its $71.33 all time high (ATH) last month price is doing what price does when that happens... chilling just below that level.
Whenever price is trading at or near all time highs like this we are often limited in the price action tools that can reliably be used to help identify potential price levels of interest.
Namely: Fibonacci, Trend, and occasionally support/resistance in the form of a previous ATH.
Weekly Chart
On the weekly chart we can see with much more clarity price setting ATHs and fading and cycling back down towards previous structure.
We've layered in multiple bull Fibonacci stacks and noticed that the last bull impulse Fibonacci's 50% retracement aligns with a previous trend line breakout in the $64 area.
Trading at $68.50 earlier today the market is implying about a $3.83 move in either direction as marked on the weekly chart by this Friday August 16.
Will earnings be the catalyst to push price back up towards ATH or will it further push price to the downside for a possible retest of the trend line?
Only time will tell for sure what price will do next...
Armed with precision oriented charts like these both traders and investors can formulate their respective plans.
So what's next?
We don't make predictions...
Nobody knows for sure but using these 5 price action tools traders and investors can develop levels of interest in both directions.
- Support/Resistance
- Trend
- Fibonacci
- Supply/Demand Zones,
- Change Control Zones
ChartPros provides the exact methodology in its price action technical analysis courses to create charts like this with the most precise and accurate levels from which investors and traders can formulate their respective trade plans.
Take a look at the charts and let us know what you think.
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