The speaker argues that technical analysis still works when multiple factors align, and then walks through a series of long and short setups across major indexes and individual tech names. The core message is to respect key trend lines, psychological levels, gap fills, and stopouts rather than overreacting when one setup fails.
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Benjamin Pool, the head trader at Verified Investing, frames the video as a probability-based technical analysis session. He says traders should not conclude that “the technicals aren’t working” just because a few setups fail; instead, they should combine factors like trend lines, gap fills, psychological levels, and confirmation/stopout rules to improve odds. He cites prior profitable intraday trades in Nvidia and SanDisk as examples of technical levels producing meaningful downside moves. He then reviews the S&P 500 and QQQ, arguing both are still in uptrends despite some resistance and minor pullbacks. For the S&P 500, he says a shorter-term upswing trend line is currently being respected, and until it breaks with confirmation, the broader uptrend remains intact. …
Near term, the tape still looks tradeable on both sides, but the immediate bias is to fade stretched names into resistance and respect stops if the trend line keeps holding. The index backdrop is still supportive until a confirmed break says otherwise.
Over the next several weeks, the market likely keeps grinding with selective pullbacks unless the major index trend lines fail. If those supports break and confirm, the higher-beta names discussed here should offer cleaner downside continuation setups.
Structurally, the transcript argues that markets remain best approached as a probability game anchored by levels, not certainties. The lasting lesson is that trend-line breaks, gap fills, and confirmation matter more than any single narrative about whether technicals are “working.”
Technical analysis still works when multiple factors align, but it should be treated as a probability game rather than certainty.
The speaker opens by saying technicals work when aligned with multiple factors and that trades are probabilistic.
The speaker believes the S&P 500 is still in an uptrend as long as price holds above the active shorter-term upswing trend line.
He says the markets are respecting this shorter-term uptrend line more than the longer-term one and that the uptrend remains until a confirmed break and reversal.
QQQ is extended and likely due for a pullback, but the speaker will not call a top without a confirmed break of the active uptrend.
He explicitly says the probabilities favor a pullback but that the uptrend remains intact until confirmation breaks it.
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