Tuesday, November 10, 2015

National-Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE: NOV)

National Oilwell Varco, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling, completion, and production; and provides oilfield services to the upstream oil and gas industry worldwide. The company’s Rig Systems segment offers land rigs; offshore drilling equipment packages; and drilling rig components. Its Rig Aftermarket segment offers spare parts; and repair and rental services, as well as technical support, field and first well support, field engineering, and customer training services. The company’s Wellbore Technologies segment designs, manufactures, rents, and sells various equipment and technologies used to perform drilling operations. Its Completion and Production Solutions segment offers equipment and technologies for hydraulic fracture stimulation.
Take a look at the 1-year chart of National (NYSE: NOV) below with added notations:
1-year chart of National (NYSE: NOV)
After the stock’s yearly decline, NOV has now started trading sideways over the most recent three months. While in that sideways move, the stock has formed a common pattern known as a rectangle. A minimum of (2) successful tests of the support and (2) successful tests of the resistance will give you the pattern.
NOV’s rectangle pattern has formed a resistance at $42.50 (red), and a $35 support (green). At some point the stock will have to break one of the two levels.

The Tale of the Tape: NOV is trading within a rectangle pattern. The possible long positions on the stock would be either on a pullback to $35 or on a breakout above $42.50. The ideal short opportunity would be on a break below $42.50.

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