Terminating Wedge … TXN

February 17, 2026 By in Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence, Up-Thrust, TXN, TXN-26-05 Leave a comment

Struggling, Above Resistance

Once TXN pushed past resistance, upward net distance has slowed.

Daily close chart, at left.

Now, we’re near all time highs.

For the session, price action printed higher but could not close higher (not advice, not a recommendation).

Prior updates on TXN, are here and here.

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Entegris … Divergence

February 16, 2026 By in Artificial Intelligence, ENTG, Semiconductors, Up-Thrust Leave a comment

Fibonacci, and MACD

Entegris reported earnings last week, on the tenth.

Market response was to launch into and up-thrust condition along with hitting the top of a terminating wedge, as well as printing a Fibonacci 161.8%, projection.

Technical details (up-thrust, removed for clarity) are shown on the daily chart below.

Entegris Inc., ENTG Daily

We’re looking for a new daily low at the next session (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Lattice Semi, At The Edge

February 15, 2026 By in Artificial Intelligence, LSCC, LSCC-26-01, Semiconductors, Spring-to-Up-Thrust, Up-Thrust Leave a comment

Another, ‘Repeating’ Pattern

Lattice broke out to all-time highs on its latest earnings; here, here and here.

If you believe the press, it’s ‘buy’, ‘buy’, ‘buy’ (not advice, not a recommendation).

If we look at the actual truth, the price action, we (potentially) see something else.

The chart below, shows we’re at The Danger Point®, where it won’t take much to go either way.

Lattice Semiconductor LSCC, Daily Close

At this point, LSCC is in ‘up-thrust’ position.

Being at that location, does not guarantee a reversal.

It says, we’re at the point of instability. Price action needs to decide who’s in control, bulls or bears.

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The Delta Set-Up

February 14, 2026 By in Airlines, DAL, DAL-26-01, Up-Thrust Leave a comment

‘Test’, Next Week?

At this point, the Delta Airlines breakout has failed.

Friday, the current decline slowed, which implies that next week, may be an upward ‘test’ of resistance (not advice, not a recommendation).

The failed breakout was observed in real time and traded to the short side as DAL-26-01.

Covering of the short was on Friday, with a 6.29%, profit.

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3M … Stretched

February 13, 2026 By in MMM, MMM-26-01, MMM-26-02, SAIA, SAIA-26-01, Spring-to-Up-Thrust, Up-Thrust Leave a comment

Repeating Pattern

The last update on 3M, was here.

From that point, price action declined as expected, then pushed below support, getting itself into ‘spring’ condition.

From there it rallied, posting highs above previous highs and created an ‘up-thrust’.

So, now we have ‘spring-to up-thrust’, link here.

3M, MMM, Daily

The prior short trade, MMM-26-01, was closed out on January 27th, with a slight positive, break-even.

The stop for the current short, MMM-26-02, is (or will be), the session high (not advice, not a recommendation).

Other Markets

Separately, short trade SAIA-26-01, was closed out with 2.17%, profit.

The expectation was for a lower open and immediate continuation lower (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Saia, Inc. … The Breakdown

February 12, 2026 By in Rydex, SAIA, SAIA-26-01, Transportation Leave a comment

Watch the Transports

It’s a no-brainer we’re seeing or about to see, massive corporate layoffs, link here.

If it’s as bad as reported or worse, the economic hit can’t be denied or somehow spun as ‘the best economy, ever’.

Back in the day, when the markets made some kind of sense, old-timers would tell us to ‘watch the transports’.

It’s the index which typically signals the first sign of economic trouble (not advice, not a recommendation).

SAIA, reported earnings two days ago, link here.

The market reaction was a powerful thrust lower, a slight recovery (test) yesterday, then continuation to the downside, today.

SAIA, Inc. SAIA, Daily

The trading response was to go short on the tenth, increase the position by 50%, yesterday during the test, then stand back and let the market decide (not advice, not a recommendation).

Rydex Bull/Bear

Recall, the work has already been done from a strategic standpoint, probability favors the downside, link here (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Lattice Semi … All-Time Highs

February 11, 2026 By in LSCC, Spring-to-Up-Thrust Leave a comment

Breakout or Blowout?

Earnings release, pre-market trading in Lattice, is at all-time highs.

As the chart shows, if this (potential) breakout fails, then we have a repeating pattern set-up.

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Spotify … Short Targets

February 10, 2026 By in Retail Investor, SPOT, Wyckoff, ZeroHedge 2 Comments

Dip, or Squeeze?

Spotify’s earnings release, coincided with a (supposedly) massive ‘retail’ buying spree, link here.

The article says it’s retail causing the launch; comment’s section, says otherwise.

From a Wyckoff analysis perspective, it doesn’t matter who’s doing the buying or why.

What matters, is what the market is saying about itself.

Spotify SPOT, Daily

As this link says, there’s not much sold short … less than 3% of float.

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On The Spot

February 9, 2026 By in SPOT Leave a comment

Before The Open

Spotify releases earnings tomorrow, before the bell.

From all-time highs of 785, June 27th last year, to today, SPOT is down -47.15%.

The monthly chart at left, shows we’re at a potential support level (not advice, not a recommendation).

Depending on how the market responds, we’ll discuss potential trades at that time.

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Cadence Wedge

February 8, 2026 By in CDNS Leave a comment

Hanging On

After the ‘Reversal Ready’ update, link here, Cadence never looked back.

Now, we’re at the edge of a wedge boundary with earnings coming up soon, link here.

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