Last November we published an article titled, “GE’s recent stock collapse: Were there advance warnings?” To read the article please click here. In the article we illustrated 3 specific phases of distribution that suggested the majority of investors in the stock were sellers – not buyers. When the sellers outnumber the buyers over time the primary trend turns negative and the stock price tends to decline.

Today, Kraft-Heinz has joined the GE club having fallen in price by over 20% since its Phase 2: FAILURE late last summer. Please refer to the chart below courtesy of StockCharts.com.

We call the three phases of distribution WARNING, FAILURE, and CONFIRMATION. As you can see from the chart above, the price of Kraft stock has not recovered since dropping below the Blue Line last summer.

We believe investors who own or owned this stock could have limited their losses by following a sell process. If you do not have a sell process and would like to learn more about ours, please click here.

We believe using a tested and proven sell process may help you prevent or minimize significant financial losses the next time the primary trend of the US stock market turns negative. Until then, who will be the next company to join the GE club?

Thanks for reading.

Jeff Link

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¹ Blue Line Investing (BLI) is an alternative to traditional wealth management. BLI uses a disciplined, rules-based investment process to seek investment opportunities, regardless of whether financial markets are rising or falling. Based on technical analysis research, the process applies trend-following using specific Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) of the market along with other technical indicators. A moving average is a widely used indicator in technical analysis that helps smooth out past price action by filtering out the “noise” from random price fluctuations. EMA’s can be calculated for any time period. Some examples include the 5 day EMA; 50 day EMA; and 150 day EMA. We have attempted to simplify this by calling the various EMAs we use in our process the “Blue”, “Purple” and “Green” lines.

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