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by Koos van der Merwe
Yahoo! was the web search ruler, then Google took over. What is the future like for Yahoo!?
Position: Sell
Koos van der Merwe
Has been a technical analyst since 1969, and has worked as a futures and options trader with First Financial Futures in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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ELLIOTT WAVE
A Look At Yahoo!
06/03/13 04:23:57 PMby Koos van der Merwe
Yahoo! was the web search ruler, then Google took over. What is the future like for Yahoo!?
Position: Sell
| Yahoo! was once the ruler in search engines. Google took over and is now the most popular, but various attachments that were added to Google Chrome, may hurt its popularity. Is it time to look at Yahoo! once again? Yahoo.com remains one of the web's most trafficked sites. It had 119 million monthly visitors in January, up 9% from a year earlier, according to ComScore (SCOR). With Yahoo! Chief Executive Marissa Mayer giving her company a radical polish, the share does deserve a look. |
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| Figure 1: Monthly chart for YHOO. |
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| The monthly chart in Figure 1 shows how the price of Yahoo! fell from a high of $125.71 in January 2000 to a low of $4.42 by October 2001. This drop was in line with the technology bubble bursting. The share price then rose on an RSI buy to a high of $43.59 by November 2005, before falling to $8.74 by November 2008. Since then the price has gradually risen to $28.456 by May 2013, the RSI indicator at overbought levels. This suggests that we could see a correction to $13.07, the major support line. |
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| Figure 2: Weekly chart for YHOO with Elliott wave count. |
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| The weekly chart in Figure 2 shows Yahoo! with an Elliott wave count. The Elliott wave does show that a Wave 3 could have been completed, with the possibility that the share price could still rise to $29.52 for a Wave 3 top. With the RSI indicator at overbought levels, however, and with the probability index (PTI) at 65, the likelihood of a fall to either $24.57 or $22.56 is more than likely. |
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| Figure 3: Daily chart for YHOO with JM internal band indicator and Elliott Wave count. |
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| The daily chart in Figure 3 shows an Elliott wave count and a JM internal band. The Elliott wave count is suggesting that a Wave 5 has been completed and that we could now expect an ABC correction to the fourth wave of lesser degree, that is, somewhere between $24.24 and $25.45. The JM internal band indicator gave a buy signal on September 12, 2012 and although the price tested the lower band on four occasions, a sell signal was not given because the closing price did not break below the lower band. The JM internal band indicator is a 15-period simple moving average offset by 2% positive and 2% negative. I would not be a buyer of Yahoo! at present levels. I would rather wait for the correction to somewhere between $24.24 and $25.45 to occur. |
Has been a technical analyst since 1969, and has worked as a futures and options trader with First Financial Futures in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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