Ticker Tape Digest

Friday - January 7, 2022

By Leo Fasciocco -- TTD

   Ticker Tape Digest presents its daily stock market report containing stocks to go long as Breakout Trades, Quick Trades, or Bargain Accumulation Trades.

  We also feature stocks under Significant Accumulation that are poised to breakout.

   The TTD report also contains stocks to short as  breakdown plays and as bargain (swing trade) shorts.

  Investors should  tend to try to go with a strategy that fits with the stock market's trend, unless there is a special situation play.

  TTD's Breakout Stocks - Long are most suitable for aggressive investors seeking ideal entry points into leading stocks, especially during bull markets. They can do extremely well in bull markets with gains of as much as several hundred percent.

 These stocks can also do extremely well during strong market rallies, or if they are in a industry group that is performing very well. They tend to have strong earnings outlooks and are near new-52 week, or all-time highs.

  TTD Swing - Quick Trade Stocks - Long These are leading issues that have pulled back in recent days, but could move higher soon. They are most suitable for Aggressive Investors willing to trade short term. These stocks will do extremely well during market advances. They have about 74% win rate. During market rally sequences the win rate is even higher. The return is small 3% to 8% in just a few days.

   TTD also presents Stocks To Sell or Sell Short. These issues are suitable for aggressive investors willing to take short positions both as trades or for longer-term plays. These stocks will do very well during bear markets or market pull backs.

  TTD's Bearish breakdown stocks to sell short. These issues have potential to fall sharply. They often show a technical breakdown and also some fundamental business problem such as weak earnings.  

 TTD's multi-media updates include a slide-show that presents charts and analysis at midsession. Some times TTD presents feature analysis on stocks and the market. TTD uses Windows Media Files. (WMV).

 TTD also presents a "Breakout Watch List" that is up dated daily. This list consists of key stocks in position to breakout. A close watch of this list can put you in the stock just as it breaks out. A good idea is to study the list and be ready to move into a stock quickly as it hits its breakpoint.

TTD often suggests using stop buy orders to enter. It is very important to buy a breakout stock as close as possible to the breakpoint. The idea is to get "elbow room" if the stock should follow through to the upside. This is very important in being successful in making big money with breakout stocks.

It is also essential to have a stop loss strategy for all stocks in which positions are taken. Not every stock will work as expected. It is important for investors to "police" their portfolios and avoid getting trapped in any bad positions.

 Quality rating of breakout  Two key factors: 1 - Stock near all-time high in price or near a 52-week high. 2 - earnings growth current year is strong. The ideal play is a stock with an Above Average Quality Rating. The stock is near a new high and will have strong earnings. TTD's other ratings are Average and Below Average.

   TTD also has  special feature sections on  Educational Tips on Investing.

   To email Mr. Leo Fasciocco  leo@tickertapedigest.com.   

   For service, email Beverly Owen owen@tickertapedigest.com. TTD’s Tel: 1-480-878-8381 or 480-704-3331.

Friday - January 7, 2021

TTD's Breakout Stocks

  Stock Market Overview

Total Buy Breakout Stocks -  10

Quality of Breakouts - Below Average.

Stocks Screened - 12.234.

Bull side - Small list of breakouts and very selective. Bulls be conservative.

Stock market  - Market moves lower Friday. Daily Nasdaq and S&P is bearish.

Comment - One needs to be alert for earnings pre-announcements and stock price movements prior to an announcement.

See Latest Earnings Reports -  A company that tops the Street's highest earnings estimate has potential to go higher. Key earnings beats - AYI.

Stock Market Momentum

(Daily is based on a moving average)

Ticker Tape Digest's

Timely Breakout Stocks From Tape Action

(The “breakout List” gives all stocks breaking out of a base of five weeks or more. These stocks have a good chance to trend higher. However, a stop should be used to avoid those that do not work.

They are ranked according to percentage change and classified as leaders or other.

(Trading strategy: One should buy breakout stocks near breakpoint by using market order or stop buy.  They can also be bought soon after a follow through move, sometimes on an intraday pullback.

Friday - Breakouts  

Today's Featured TTD Breakout Stock

Chubb Ltd. (CB) - 201.19, up 3.20 - Breakpoint 198.06

Net To Jump 64% for 2021, TTD Targets 240

  CB, based in Zuerich, Switzerland, provides insurance products worldwide. Annual revenues: $36 billion. CB's stock pushes higher Friday and breaks out from its 11-week flat base.

  So far today, CB is trading 1.9 million shares. Its average daily volume is 1.5 millin shares.

  CB is a conservative play, but TTD sees more on the upside due to an improvement in earnings.

  CB's stock moved steadily hihger through the day.

  It cleared its breakpoint line in the morning.

  The stock reached a peak at $200.76 around noon.

  It then trended sideways with a modest lift in the last two hours.  

  Tape Action

  CB's tape action shows the recent block trades.

  One can see the price for the blocks rising from $197.66 in the morning to as high as $201.19 near the close

  A key bullish trade came in the morning when a block of 5,900 crossed the tape at $198.54.

  That was up from the prior block at $197.66 on 29,385 shares.

  Near the close a big block of 362,888 shares crossed at $201.19.

  That was up from the prior block of 116,741 shares at 200.50.

   Business  

   CB sells insurance and reinsurance products around the world.

Its segments include North America Commercial property and casualty  Insurance, North America Personal P&C Insurance, North America Agricultural Insurance, Overseas General Insurance, Global Reinsurance and Life Insurance.

It also sells insurance for homeowners, automobile, valuables, umbrella liability and recreational marine products.

In addition, it supplies personal accident, supplemental health and life insurance to individuals in select countries.

  Charts

CB's 12-month performance chart shows the stock up 28% versus a 24% gain for the stock market.

CB's insider activity was not available.

CB's long-term chart shows the stock climbing from $115 back in 2016 to a peak at $$167 by early 2020. The stock then fell back to $67 in early 2020 when the stock market tumbled.

 Sine then the stock has rallied to $201. 

  CB's daily chart shows the stock rising from $171 in Octoberr to a peak at $198 by November.

  The stock put down a flat base with one shake out to the downside.

 CB has since rallied and now breaks out.

  The CCI momentum indicator is strongly bullish.

 Earnings Outlook

  Net for 2021 is projected to surge 64% to $12.02 a share from the $7.31 the year before.

  The stock has a current price-earnings ratio of 16.

  Going out to 2022, the Street projects a 17% rise in net to $14.01 a share from the anticipated $12.02 for 2021.

  Quarterly net will be improving.

  Net for the fourth quarter ending in December should rise 4% to $3.30 a share from the $3.18 the prior year.

  For the first quarter, the Street projects a 42% leap in net to $3.58 a share from the $2.52 the year before.  

Strategy Opinion: TTD is targeting CB for a move to $240.

 A protective stop can be placed near $190.

Intermediate-Term Rating: Average.

Suitability:  Average Bulls. 

           Stock's Prior Performance After A Breakout

    (In actual trading, entry and exit points could vary depending on broker execution.

Also, ideal are breakouts to a new 52-week high or better, perhaps all-time highs. Sell point can be a cut below the 50-day M/A.)

  Stock's Long-term Chart

   Stock's Price Performance after Reporting Earnings

 Stock Performance Chart with Quarterly Earnings Markers vs. S&P 500

Insider Buying in Green  - Insider Selling in Red

TTD's Breakout Stocks

Ticker Tape Digest's

Pre-Market Breakout Watch List

Selections for - Monday - January 10, 2021

Ticker Tape Digest provides a list of potential breakout stocks from our screen of companies that will show some of the strongest earnings gains. One of the best ways to play these stocks is to study the list and then place a stop buy order to catch the stock on the breakout.

One can take either a full position on the breakout if they are aggressive, or scale-in looking to add to the stake later if they are conservative. TTD's premarket breakout watch list gives you a great opportunity "to be prepared for the next key breakout stock just before it happens." The list will be updated daily and the screen monthly.

TTD's Breakout Watch List Set up on January 1, 2022

Latest prices are Friday - January 7, 2021

Stocks with Gain in blue have surpassed their breakpoint and have broken out of their base

Guide: Symbol=Ticker, Name=Corporate name, Entry is the buy price to enter on the breakout, Last=prior close, Change=change from last close to prior, Date=date of price of close etc, Gain in blue is price above breakpoint (entry), Gain in red is price below breakpoint (entry)., % Gain in blue is % over breakpoint (entry), Gain in red is % below breakpoint (entry)

TTD takes no responsibility for trading by those using this information. The stocks presented in our report are those we deem the best looking Trade Setups for the long side. We take no responsibility for the accuracy of this data, although every effort is made to present the information correctly. Copyright Ticker Tape Digest.

Copyright --- Ticker Tape Digest - 2021

Ticker Tape Digest’s

Stocks To “Sell or Short”

    Ticker Tape Digest’s Daily List of “Stocks To Sell or Sell Short” ranks stocks well timed to be sold immediately based on daily trading. The list can be used as an alert to reduce current long-term positions.

Shorts from tape action - 

Stocks Screened - 12,234

Long-Term Environment for bears: Neutral.

Bear Side -  

List of Stocks To Sell or Short

TTD’s Feature Bear Play

Repare Therapeutics Inc. (RPTX) - 16.66

Stock Cuts Below Support, TTD sees drop to 14

  RPTX, based in Canada, develops therapies to treat cancer. Annual revenues: $135,000. RPTX's stock cuts below key technical support.  

  So far today, RPTX is trading 183,986 shares. Its average daily volume is 134,000 shares.

  The move sends the stock to an all-time low. It came public in 2020.

 TTD sees more on the downside.

  Tape Action

  RPTX's tape action shows the recent block trades.

  One can see the price for the blocks falling from $18.86 in the morning to as low as $16.60 in the afternoon.

  A key bullish trade came in the morning when a block of 1,000 shares crossed at $17.51 in the morning.

  That was down from the prior block at $18.86 on 1,100 shares.

   Business

 RPTX is developing a synthetic lethality based therapies to patients with cancer.

 It uses genome wide, SNIPRx platform to systematically discover and develop targeted cancer therapies focused on genomic instability, including deoxyribonucleic acid damage repair.

The company is developing a treatment for solid tumors with specific DNA damage repair-related genomic alterations, including those in the ataxia telangiectasia mutated kinase gene.

 Charts:

  RPTX's daily chart show the stock trending lower. It tried to form a bottom near $20. However, the stock now breaks down  

  The stock's CCI momentum indicator is extremely bearish.

 Earnings:

  For 2021, analysts expect  a loss of $2.77 a share compared with a loss of $2.66 the prior year.

  Going out to 2022, they see a loss of $3.23 a share.

  For the fourth quarter, a loss of 74 cents a share is projected versus a loss of 41 cents the previous year.

  Strategy Opinion:  TTD is targeting RPTX for a decline to $14 within the next few months or sooner.

 A protective stop buy can be placed near $17.40..

Suitability: Aggressive Bears.

  TTD's Stock Probability research of Prior Performance:  

   Stock's Performance Chart with Quarterly Earnings Markers vs. S&P 500

Insider Buying in Green  - Insider Selling in Red

   TTD takes no responsibility for trading by those using this information. The stocks presented in our report are those we deem the best looking "Day Trades" for the long side. We take no responsibility for the accuracy of this data, although every effort is made to present the information correctly. Copyright Ticker Tape Digest. - 2021

    TTD columnist Leo Fasciocco has covered the stock market for over 30 years. His articles appear in many publications. He has also been  a speaker at the Money Show conferences. He has been on television and radio. He is author of many educational articles about stock investing and the book “Guide To High-Performance Investing.”

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