And FTK has faltered in the finals, as well. It confirmed Thursday's bear signal by trading below the 20-day price channel today, and the three-year chart is definitely bearish, as is the company's ranking from Zacks Investment Research.
The problem is technical. For my purposes, a bear position can only be built out of options, and the front-month, at-the-money bid/ask spreads on FTK options is extremely wide -- 32% on the puts.
So FTK isn't tradable under my preferences, and I won't be doing further analysis on it or any symbol that gave a bear or bull signal on Thursday.
-- Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Oct. 3, 2014
References
My shorter-term trading rules can be read here. My longer-term trading rules can be read here. And the classic Turtle Trading rules on which my rules are based can be read here.
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