For the better part of 2006 the price action in AMAT produced a huge base-like pattern that is nearing completion, and which could trigger a powerful advance during 2007. Today's up-spike off of the July-Jan uptrend (especially the series of higher lows) is approaching a test of critical intermediate-term resistance at 19-20, which if (when) hurdled should unleash a powerful upside follow-through towards a next target of 22.
Only a failure to do so, followed by a decline that breaks 18, will significantly weaken the developing chart pattern.
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