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This Social Media Stock May Be Squeezing Toward a Breakout: Technical Alert

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Snap is an expensive growth stock. It’s the kind of name investors have mostly avoided this year, although recent weeks have seen a shift back to such companies.

This chart highlights SNAP’s last four months of consolidation. It isn’t exactly a cup and handle, but there are important similarities: It’s a high basing pattern well above old highs. There’s no single punctuated drop but a gradual fading as momentum slows, followed by incrementally higher lows. The social-media stock is also forming …

For more, please click here to view the related idea and chart analysis on TradingView.

Snap (SNAP), daily chart with selected patterns, courtesy of TradingView.

About the author

David Russell is VP of Market Intelligence at TradeStation Group. Drawing on two decades of experience as a financial journalist and analyst, his background includes equities, emerging markets, fixed-income and derivatives. He previously worked at Bloomberg News, CNBC and E*TRADE Financial. Russell systematically reviews countless global financial headlines and indicators in search of broad tradable trends that present opportunities repeatedly over time. Customers can expect him to keep them apprised of sector leadership, relative strength and the big stories – especially those overlooked by other commentators. He’s also a big fan of generating leverage with options to limit capital at risk.