After Looking Strong BIDU Begins Falling off a Cliff
If you’ve been trading or following Baidu (BID) lately, then you know how much price (and investors) have been on a roller coaster lately! Let’s get a quick update on BIDU and view the recent recovery which is now being eroded in what could be shaping up to be the colorfully termed “Dead Cat Bounce” pattern.
I last covered Baidu in my prior update: October 27 Weekly Chart Update and Elliott Count on BIDU.
Reference that post to see its longer term structure.
On disappointing earnings, Baidu fell from $440 to $350 per share in a stunning overnight drop. The stock rallied through the first half of Novemer, recovering all of that decline and actually testing the waters above the prior resistance zone at a fresh new 2009 price high.
However, the new price high was short lived.
Price began forming a negative momentum divergence along with a classic “Rounded Reversal” pattern which is now playing out on the right side of the pattern – the decline.
I say “falling off a cliff” because BIDU broke the expected support levels of the 20 ($420) and 50 ($412) day exponential moving averages – common places to find support (and get long) on pullbacks in an uptrend.
We could be looking at a “Dead Cat Bounce,” which occurs after price falls suddenly, bounces back to recover part (though rarely – all) of the losses from the ‘shock’ impulse… and then price turns sideways and begins falling sharply again.
The last two days have been dominated by sellers as price pulled off of $420 and has now closed under the ’round number’ $400 level.
Keep watching this stock closely, as $400 will be the line in the sand – if we’re not already under the line in the sand at the daily moving averages – to determine whether or not price will keep falling in true “Dead Cat Bounce” fashion along with “Rounded Reversal,” or whether BIDU can use up another one of its nine-lives and rally to new highs.
Corey Rosenbloom, CMT
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(My apology to cat lovers – I did not create the term “Dead Cat Bounce.” The concept has been around for years.)
But if you connect the bottom trendline, you could take a shot at a long here with a tight stop as long as it doesn't break.
After what appears to have been a five wave expansion, the breaking of the 20 & 50 EMA is certianly a bearish development.
At the moment, price may be near a level where it can find support. Go back to the mid-October gap down. Notice the retracement that occured into early November. The candle bodies reached $398 before a doji formed and a reversal occured. Key on this doji and look at other price swings that have inflected at this level; over time it has been a key level of support & resistence (In late September, a bull flag formed that found support at this level. The expansion rally that followed, retraced into support at this level). It should have an influence here too. Watch for a pause here and a possible retracement up into the converging 20 & 50 EMA as they roll over the top and suppress. Alternately, price could gap down from this level which would indicate a severe bearish tone.
Other key price levels to watch to watch which are located just underneath include $384 (two gapps and a doji have formed at this level) and $370 (two major price retracements have found support at this level and the July rally topped there too).
Merry Christmas All!
After what appears to have been a five wave expansion, the breaking of the 20 & 50 EMA is certianly a bearish development.
At the moment, price may be near a level where it can find support. Go back to the mid-October gap down. Notice the retracement that occured into early November. The candle bodies reached $398 before a doji formed and a reversal occured. Key on this doji and look at other price swings that have inflected at this level; over time it has been a key level of support & resistence (In late September, a bull flag formed that found support at this level. The expansion rally that followed, retraced into support at this level too). It should have an influence here too. Watch for a pause here and a possible retracement up into the converging 20 & 50 EMA as they roll over the top and suppress. Alternately, price could gap down from this level which would indicate a more severe and bearish tone.
Other key price levels to watch, which are located just underneath, include $384 (two gaps and a doji have formed at this level) and $370 (two major price retracements have found support at this level and the July rally topped there too).
Merry Christmas All!