Fitz Bits: Apache Has Limited Upside By Dan Fitzpatrick About this article: One dynamic that is occurring with increasing frequency is the impact of the 50-day moving average on the short-term advances. Traders are creatures of habit -- they'll do the same thing again and again as long as it works. It has worked to buy extreme dips and sell at the 50-day moving average. Check out the interplay between the 50-day moving average and the power of the bulls in these charts. Apache Chesapeake Diamond Offshore Dominion Petrohawk Energy Each day, I'm featuring several reader requests for the current technical take on a stock. I can't assure you that I'll get to yours, but I will certainly make every attempt to do so, as long as the stock meets the following criteria. 1. The average daily trading volume needs to exceed 250,000 shares. If a stock trades too thinly, chart analysis doesn't help much, because there just are not that many traders... Or, call us at 1-866-321-TSCM (8726) Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET. Outside the U.S. and in Canada, call 1-212-321-5200. More Stories From RealMoney Durable Goods Up Move Down the Tech Food Chain Jobless Claims Still High Bulls' Tenacity Is the Big Question Mark Should You Buy It? Pharmaceutical Product Development Bad News Trumps All Support for Banks Holds, For Now Bummer, Yields Are on the Rise Money on the Line Makes a Big Difference Structured Products: Unsafe at Any Price MORE STORIES FROM REALMONEY

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