A Chart Testing Ground

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SRRA finviz 20/50/200

https://www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=SRRA

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$Gold - Something To Love? From: StockCharts.com
http://stockcharts.com/articles/chartwatchers/2019/05/gold---something-to-love.html

Greg Schnell, CMT, MFTA

As I have mentioned in the last three Market Roundup shows (which you can find here on the StockCharts YouTube channel), the Gold-related charts have been setting up for weeks now. Friday's price action to close out the month looks like an initiation move that has more room to run. While that is hard to call on the first few days, the move was a very significant one at an important zone on the charts.

Focusing in on price, Gold has been able to hold above the 40-week moving average since the December move where price originally crossed up above it. Gold also finished at the top of the weekly price bar for the first time since February, its highest close since mid-March. There are not many asset classes in equities or commodities that finished the past week at the top of the price bar for the first time in months. Another bullish perspective is that the PPO turned up (without crossing the signal line) while above zero. In two past instances where it has crossed the signal line while above zero, the price rallied for at least a couple of months. Next week, we'll see if the price holds here as well as if the PPO finishes crossing above the signal line, as that has not happened yet. The bullish pattern is set up, but we'll need to see it play out.

The relative strength (shown in purple) is at a 3-month high for the first time since last year. Typically, that is a positive signal, as the relative strength is making higher highs ahead of price. One of the first signals on a weekly chart will be a move on the stochastics above 20, which also happened Friday.



One of the big clues regarding Gold is how well the miners outperformed the Gold price to finish the week. Gold was up 1.3% Friday, but the miners were up 3.9%, which was triple Gold's performance for the day. There are also a couple of other things on this chart that make it interesting. On the left side of the chart, the SCTR was never above 75. After surging up above 75 and going on a run, the gold miners gently pulled back and the SCTR dropped under 10. After a brief period down at 10, the SCTR has now surged back to become one of the top performing ETFs. This change in behavior compared to other stocks is important and is one of the gems that shows up in the SCTR indicator. While the relative strength did not make new three-month highs, it did pop up to new one-month highs. I'll be watching for that to keep outperforming next week. One of the reasons we have been watching Gold on Market Roundup is that the volume was getting extremely low. I have drawn a horizontal line at the May 21st volume level and May 20th was also low. Comparing that level by looking left, this was the lowest volume on the chart, including half-days around Thanksgiving and Christmas. When the volume goes eerily quiet, the behavior is changing.



From my Market Roundup charts, we can see what the volume profile looked like on GLD. Three of the last five weeks had the lowest volumes in three years! While we don't know how that will play out, it definitely suggests watching for a potential trend change.



As Gold appears to be one of the bright spots this week, I'll have more information on the gold and silver setup in my Market Roundup on Saturday evening on the StockCharts YouTube channel. There are numerous other charts that I have been following to confirm the move in gold that ramped up as well. This bullish setup definitely looks promising for GDX and GLD. I would buy the miners more than the metal, as they tend to move farther and faster. I will work through the gold mining stocks on the video to point out which ones are set up nicely right now.

Good trading,

Greg Schnell, CMT, MFTA
Senior Technical Analyst, StockCharts.com
Author, Stock Charts For Dummies

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About the author: Greg Schnell, CMT, is a Senior Technical Analyst at StockCharts.com specializing in intermarket and commodities analysis. Based in Calgary, he is a board member of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) and the chairman of the CSTA Calgary chapter. He is also the author of Stock Charts for Dummies (Wiley, 2018). Learn More
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TSLA finviz 20/50/200

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COTY finviz 20/50/200

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JNUG finviz 20/50/200

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GFI finviz 20/50/200

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EGO finviz 20/50/200

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NGD finviz 20/50/200

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WCG finviz 20/50/200


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OHGI finviz 20/50/200

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FinViz chart test RVLT daily 20/50/200

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NVAX Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA


https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=nvax

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SGYP Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=SGYP

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KHC Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=KHC

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ONCI Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=ONCI

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GAHC Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

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SALT Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

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PLUG Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=PLUG

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EQLB Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=EQLB

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ONCI Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

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FCEL Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=FCEL

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UAPC Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

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AMD Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

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CPST Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

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VGTL Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=VGTL

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EKSO Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=EKSO

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UAMM Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=UAMM

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DSGT Conference call 07:43 Is the company considering a reverse split?

https://www.startmeeting.com/wall/recorded_audio?audioRecordingUrl=https%3A%2F%2Frs0001.freeconferencecall.com%2Fstorage%2FsgetSM%2FaHPiB%2FpaT8&subscriptionId=722069

Robert Silzer ANSWER:
"I think that questions been asked a thousand times in the last I don't know if whether it was a week or a year but it certainly is a question that I get issued from emails everyday and we absolutely understand the negative implications of doing that, without a question. However I think I've said this once before, is that I have not ruled out any method for increasing long-term shareholder value, period."

Translation?

Reverse split is almost guaranteed.


https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/DSGT/security

Authorized Shares
3,000,000,000
01/04/2019
Outstanding Shares
2,537,680,977
01/04/2019

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DSGT possible reverse split : forewarned is forearmed.

Announced in Conference call on 2/6/19

They said it would only be done if "blah, blah, blah, BS"

If they mention it in a conference call, do not be surprised to see a reverse split soon.

50 SMA heading down

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=dsgt


Note to self: Lower your bid and trade the bounce.

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$MUX updating chart test

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RNKLF Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

https://www.stockscores.com/charts/charts/?ticker=rnklf

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MUX Daily Candles, 20EMA, 50SMA

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stockscores.com vs. stockcharts.com right click the chart and then select copy image address and use

[ c h a r t ] and close with [ / c h a r t ] without the spaces

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https://stockcharts.com/ can no longer hot link to charts

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ROKU Daily Candles, 20EMA, VTX

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Just A Short Minute! The Long & Short Of The REG SHO List!

Written especially for PumpsAndDumps.com
by Brenda Hamilton, Attorney, Hamilton & Associates


The Naked Short Seller

When a manipulated stock’s price declines, it has become common practice for penny stock issuers and their disciples to scream foul play and claim their company is the victim of a stock basher-naked short seller conspiracy, working with nefarious clearing firms to send their stock price to the triple-zero graveyard. These same issuers also complain vociferously about the purported “agenda” of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to wipe out penny stocks altogether by turning a blind eye to illegal short sale activities. It has become common practice for issuers and some Stock Bangers, also known as stock promoters or touts, to point to the Threshold Security List--the “Reg SHO List”--as evidence of illegal short sale activity that supposedly explains their declining stock prices.

The internet is flooded with misinformation about what the Threshold List reveals about a security. This makes it difficult for many investors to differentiate between legitimate short selling and unlawful manipulative short selling, and often causes investors to believe a stock’s price has dropped because of short selling rather than because of selling by insiders or the Stock Bangers themselves.

Let’s take a look at the Threshold Security List and what the list really reveals.

The Creation of the Threshold List

A “failure to deliver” is the outcome of a transaction where one of the parties in the transaction fails to meet his respective obligations. When failure to deliver occurs, either the party with the long position does not have enough money to pay for the transaction, or the party in the short position does not own the underlying assets that are to be delivered.

Regulation SHO, promulgated by the SEC in 2005, created the Threshold Security List to address failures to deliver in an orderly manner. It was not created to punish short sellers or reveal short positions. Regulation SHO was designed to clean up open failures to deliver in certain securities when they reached a relatively low aggregate level without creating a short squeeze. Failures to deliver may result from either a short or a long sale. There may be legitimate reasons for a failure to deliver. For example, human or mechanical errors or processing delays can result from transferring securities in physical certificate rather than book-entry form, thus causing a failure to deliver on a long sale within the normal three-day settlement period. A failure to deliver may also result from lawful naked short selling. There are many circumstances in which naked shorting is legal.

The Definition of a Threshold Security

A security will be placed on the threshold list if it has a significant fail to deliver position for at least 5 business days. This list includes failures to deliver for both long and short positions. The standards are different for SEC reporting issuers and non-SEC reporting issuers.

The definition of a threshold security for a reporting issuer is set forth in Regulation SHO and for non-reporting issuers is set forth in Rule 4320.

Regulation SHO defines threshold securities as any equity security of an issuer that is registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or that is required to file reports pursuant to Section 15(d) of the same Act, and where, for five consecutive settlement days:
there are aggregate failures to deliver at a registered clearing agency of 10,000 shares or more per security; and
the level of failures to deliver is equal to at least one-half of one percent of the issuer's total shares outstanding.
FINRA Rule 4320 defines threshold securities as any equity security of an issuer that is not an SEC reporting security and, for five consecutive settlement days, has:
aggregate failures to deliver at a registered clearing agency of 10,000 shares or more; and
a reported last sale during normal market hours for the security on that settlement day that would value the aggregate failure to deliver position at $50,000 or more.
Each Self Regulatory Organization (“SRO”), including the stock exchanges, must publish a daily list of the issuers with a significant delivery failures. This list is known as the Threshold List, and is based on information reported to the SROs by the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), the clearing arm of the DTCC. It is published every night at around 11 p.m.

What the Threshold List Does Not Reveal

The Threshold List is simply a list of the companies which, for that particular day, qualified for threshold status. The Threshold List does not:
reflect the short position in a particular security, but failures to deliver for long and short positions;
reflect the number or total amount of failures to deliver for the day;
mean that any improper short sale or long sale activity has occurred or is occurring for the securities listed;
reflect only failures to deliver because (i) a security may remain on the Threshold List longer than 13 days after broker-dealers close-out all delivery failures, since the security stays on the threshold list for five consecutive days; (ii) new delivery failures resulting from long or short sales that crossed the threshold, keeping the security on the SRO's threshold securities list; or (iii) the delivery failures may have been occurred prior to a security's appearance on the Threshold List, and may be grandfathered on the list from the close-out requirement of Regulation SHO.
It should also be borne in mind that since the threshold list is in part based on the number of shares any company has issued and outstanding, unreported stock issuances can and will land the stock on the SHO list when in reality there are no significant failures to cover.

How Stock Bangers Misuse the Threshold List



Stock Bangers sometimes build entire promotional campaigns around the Threshold List. The Stock Bangers assert that the Threshold List proves a particular stock’s decline is temporary and the result of bashers working with short sellers to conceal insider or their own dilutive selling. The Bangers tell investors to buy the stock to create a "short squeeze". A short squeeze generally refers to the sharp price increase or unavailability of a security to borrow to cover a short position. If a squeeze occurs, short sellers must purchase the stock to cover their positions. What the subsequent trade is actually reflecting is not a purchase by a short desperate to cover its position, but a purchase by a naive investor who is buying the stock the Bangers themselves are selling. Short squeezes are quite uncommon in penny stocks; covers or close-out buys of short positions rarely impact the price of the security even when the security is on the Threshold List. By blaming short sellers for a decline in stock price, Stock Bangers cause investors to hold their positions enabling the Banger to get a higher price for his shares. Promoters and their clients invariably dump into their own pump, and their object it to persuade retail traders to help them do so.

Anyone who takes the trouble to make a call to FINRA will be advised that the list to follow is the bi-monthly short interest report they publish. The Reg SHO list records only persistent fails to deliver. The short interest report records actual short positions as of the day of the report. Almost always, short interest is very low.

Jumping on the “naked shorting” bandwagon is a mistake. Falling for the fantasy of gigantic naked short positions is the stuff of fairy tales; it does not lead to the longed-for short squeeze, particularly where stocks are the subject of aggressive stock promotion. The stock in question may rise temporarily, as a self-fulfilling prophecy, but in the end it will succumb to selling on the part of the Bangers and the insiders who hired them.

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DSGT ihub chart .0008-.0012 238 million shares 08/01/18

https://ih.advfn.com/stock-market/USOTC/dsg-global-inc-DSGT/chart

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GEQU = ARGQ Daily Candles, 20EMA, VTX


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INPX Daily Candles, 20EMA, VTX

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HMNY Daily Candles, 20EMA, VTX

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ANDI Daily Candles, 20EMA, VTX

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