{"id":699,"date":"2025-03-15T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2025-03-16T01:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:12:38","slug":"how-are-your-basic-stock-chart-observation-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/es\/how-are-your-basic-stock-chart-observation-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are Your Basic Stock Chart Observation Skills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Should Alibaba (BABA) Be On Your Watchlist?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 16, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the reason for a stock to be on your watchlist? Is it just to watch? Or is because you think that it will up in price? Or is it because it is already on its path of rising prices? While you monitor and\/or trade the stocks on your watchlist, what do you do with some new ones that seem worth looking at? Do you look at them and discard them? Or do you keep them on your watchlist? How many stocks are too many to place on your watchlist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What You See Is Not What Others See<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Alibaba (BABA) came into the market in 2014. Since then, it has been a tale of three phases. An initial uptrend took the stock from around a $60 price to around $300. To be immediately followed by a severe bear trend phase that gave up all of the gains and coincidentally, or maybe it was not so coincidental, when it fell from around $300 to around $60. And then came a long three year bottoming out phase as the stock hovered between $60 and $115 for the past three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phase 1 \u2013 the uptrend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-11.jpg 830w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-11-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-11-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-11-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Incredibly, the peak looked like the peak of a mountain and the downtrend began without warning and was quick and severe, almost a dream for the right short seller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phase 2 \u2013 the downtrend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10.jpg 754w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Phase 3 \u2013 the bottoming process<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are folks who look to find the bottom of a move. That is an endeavor, like all endeavors in the stock market, fraught with risks and pain. The process of finding and fixing a price bottom on Alibaba took three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"821\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-14.jpg 821w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-14-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-14-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-14-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And a closer look at this phase shows interesting action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"809\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13.jpg 809w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-13-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Phase 4 \u2013 Is this a new uptrend?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now are we in phase 4? Is a new uptrend possible? Let us see if we zoom in on the last twelve months if we see anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12.jpg 794w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bradkoteshwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If an uptrend is a set of higher highs and higher lows, has Alibaba met this requirement? Has it proved that an uptrend has begun?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Alibaba (BABA) Be On Your Watchlist? 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