Chart Of The Day: Block Technicals Bottom Even As Cathie Wood Dumps Shares
Investing.com | Mar 24, 2022 20:19
In early February, ARK Investment Management sold $21 million worth of PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ:PYPL) shares after the digital payments company announced it had abandoned growth plans put in place during 2021. The Cathie Wood-led investment management firm then immediately snapped up the stock of PYPL's rival in the fintech space, Block (NYSE:SQ).
On Monday, news broke that Wood's ARK Fintech fund had "dumped 281,910 shares of Block...valued at $38 million." SQ has lost about 46% over the past six months, yet Wood's got rid of the shares less than two months after picking them up during a broad market selloff.
Why would Cathie Wood's fund sell SQ now? No known company fundamentals have changed.
Perhaps, ARK wanted to lock in profits after the price rose roughly 15% during the period in which they held the stock. Maybe the much followed stock picker knows something we don't. But then we're calling a bottom on the stock, making it a shame that Wood's didn't take note of the stock's technicals before selling it off.
The stock just completed an H&S bottom, whose upside breakout included the price crossing the 50 DMA amid confirmation by the price-based MACD and momentum-based RSI indicators.
h2 Trading Strategies/h2Conservative traders should wait for the price to make a new high in order break free of the consolidation above the neckline, then retest the would-be support of the new accumulation before taking a long position.
Moderate traders would wait for the same consolidation breakout and a buying dip.
Aggressive traders could enter a long position now.
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- Entry: $135
- Stop-Loss: $130
- Risk: $5
- Target: $155
- Reward: $20
- Risk-Reward Ratio: 1:4
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