Technical Analysis- Biotech (BBH)

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By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas

Let’s take a look at Biotech.

It’s clearly evident that the rising tide lifts all boats. In this case strength in market indexes has led to strength in BBH, but look at the volume! In technical analysis slang, we’re witnessing higher highs for the stock while volume is making somewhat higher lows.

In the below chart look at the first box with the blue arrow. Do you see the increase in volume when BBH sells of? Similarly, do you see the rise in volume vs. average when the stock rises back for the next two weeks? Now compare that with the volume since the April rise, almost non-existent.

Also, the circle on top shows that a bearish engulfing pattern is forming. If it breaks back below 188, where it dropped of from Feb 27th, could retrace to the 62% level in the third chart.

Ever since the March mid-week high volume pop, we haven’t seen a similar volume rise for a gain which is 2x that of the 3rd and 4th March weeks.

This is my favorite chart of ’em all. Do you see the trading signals one could have had? Will you be left saying ‘coulda woulda shoulda’ this time or will you jump the gun and take the red arrow signal? (look at the falling volume from Oct 06 to present)

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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