Welcome back, mooers!
Our previous TA Challenge discussion focused on chart types and their purposes. Today, we will delve into candlestick charts—a useful tool for pattern recognition.
First, let's review the structure of a single candlestick. Each candlestick conveys four critical pieces of price data about the stock: The bottom and top of the body indicate the period's start and end price. The color indicates gain ...

Shares of $Alibaba (BABA.US)$ , $Tencent (TCEHY.US)$ , $Baidu (BIDU.US)$ , $JD.com (JD.US)$, $Li Auto (LI.US)$ and $XPeng (XPEV.US)$ rose in Hong Kong on Monday.
What’s Moving: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s shares traded 3.2% higher at HKD 125.10 in Hong Kong, while peer JD.Com’s shares have risen almost 1% to HKD 315.20. Alibaba is scheduled to hold its virtual investor day event on Dec. 16 and Dec. 17. Tech conglomerate Tencent’s shares have gained 2.7% to HKD 476.00 and technology company Baidu’s shares have risen 1.3% to HKD 147.80. Electric vehicle maker Li Auto’s shares traded 4.3% higher at HKD 127.90 and peer Xpeng’s shares are up 3.4% to HKD 186.40. Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index opened higher on Monday and was up 1.1% at the time of writing. The index snapped a three-day winning streak and closed almost 1.1% lower on Friday.
Why Is It Moving? The Hang Seng Index rose after China’s policymakers pledged to ensure economic stability next year and also hinted at easing regulations on Big Tech companies following a regulatory crackdown this year.
The annual Central Economic Work Conference concluded in Beijing on Friday, with policy markets stressing on efforts to maintain economic stability next year while pursuing progress, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Shares of Chinese companies closed mostly higher in U.S. trading on Friday after the major averages in the U.S. ended at record highs. This was despite the Labor Department reporting a 6.8% increase in the consumer price index (CPI) in the month of November, the fastest inflation growth since 1982.

$Apple (AAPL.US)$  stock closed up 3.1% on Tuesday as other stocks tumbled on concerns of the new omicron Covid variant, showing investors see the company as a safe haven during market uncertainty.
The $Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI.US)$dropped 651 points, the tech-heavy $Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC.US)$fell 1.6% and the $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ was down about 1.9% on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the Fed will discuss speeding up the bond-buying taper during its December meeting.
Since the company has prodigious cash flow, allowing it to endure any slowdowns in the economy and take advantage of falling prices.
But there's no perfect company. The biggest criticism of Apple for the last five years is no new products. It's stock price has stuck in the same place for a while when others are going up. Maybe the crisis is the turning point for Apple.
Do you have faith in the company? 
What percentage does apple take on your portfolio?
Source:
Why Apple was the only tech stock that went up on Tuesday

$IBM Corp (IBM.US)$ no matter what they announced, it’s becoming a new norm to expect quite the opposite in the market as against what should really have happened based on the news! recent announcements and performance results are classic examples including of Palantir Technologies🤐
any logic - No Logic!