Our Latest Tech Stock Recovery Idea
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Hint- This Is Our Top Cybersecurity Pick
By Abhishek Singh
A little over two weeks ago we published “Two Tech Stock Recovery Ideas”. You can read all about it here. Here is another long idea you could factor into your own work.
We believe our latest, “Accumulate” rated long-term idea has the potential to provide material gains. We can be right or wrong, of course. By way of disclosure, we own this name in staff personal accounts.
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Our latest Tech Stock Recovery Idea is Zscaler ( $ZS ). It is our top cybersecurity pick based on superior technical and economic scalability, management execution skill, and fundamental financial strength. The company is maturing, as indicated by slowing revenue growth but steadily increasing margins, but we think it has plenty of growth left yet. (read more: ZScaler (ZS) Q2 FY7/24 Earnings Review).
Technical analysis:
The stock put in an Elliot impulse Wave 1 from May’23 lows of $85 to highs of $164, followed by a shallow 38.2% retracement. Impulse wave 3 peaked at $258, a perfect 1.618 extension of Wave 1 placed at the Wave 2 low of $132. The following corrective Wave 4 has been a deep retracement, briefly breaching the prior Wave 1 high of $164.
According to Elliot Wave theory, in an impulse sequence, the Wave 4 low cannot overlap the peak of Wave 1. The corrective Wave 4 breaching this critical level might be due to one of the two possibilities: a.) Big Money move to take out stops placed right below the $164 level, or, b.) there is an alternate Elliot wave count. We will explore the latter in further detail.
For now, considering the last leg down was indeed a Wave 4, the next move up is an impulse Wave 5, which may terminate at 0.618-0.786 extension of the Wave 1-3 combined, placed at the Wave 4 low.
You can open the full page chart by clicking here.
Alternate Technical analysis:
According to this chart, Zscaler stock put in an Elliot impulse Wave 1 from May’23 lows of $85 to highs of $164, followed by a shallow 38.2% retracement. The ensuing upward move is an impulse Wave 3, which may terminate at 1.618 extension of Wave 1, placed at Wave 2 low.
You can open the full page chart by clicking here.
Rating: Accumulate
· Accumulation Zone: $164- $187
· Markup Zone: $187 - $263
One may choose appropriate risk management strategies such as position sizing and/or using stops. A sensible stop-loss placement could be somewhere below the $164 mark.
A word about our charts
· The dollar limits within the Wyckoff zones serve as guidelines rather than strict rules. They aid in maintaining disciplined buying and selling decisions, removing emotional impulses from the equation. The idea is to identify where the bulk of buying (at the lows) and selling (at the highs) is taking place; this is an inexact science but it is a useful way of trying to track those Big Money breadcrumbs.
· The blue zones in the charts are the key support/resistance levels based on historical price action. We do not approach resistance and support levels as single $$ values. Instead, we view them as price action areas that need to be materially breached in either direction to confirm a trend.
· Zone boundaries may evolve over time, adjusted according to evolving price dynamics, Elliott wave analysis, Fibonacci levels, and volume-by-price data. Once the stock approaches the upper limit of the mark-up zone, we would revisit if the target price needs to be adjusted.
Resources to Learn How To Speak The Market (No Paywall)
1. How Big Money Creates Returns Out Of Thin Air
2. How To Speak Market, Episode II - Measuring Emotion
3. How To Speak Market, Episode III - Swimming With The Tide
4. How To Speak Market, Episode IV - Charts Speak Volumes
Questions?
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Cestrian Capital Research, Inc - 18 June 2024.
DISCLOSURE - Cestrian Capital Research, Inc staff personal accounts hold long position(s) in $ZS.