GameStop needs a miracle – and steady Eddie L&G keeps plugging away

The Reddit investing saga reinforces an expensive lesson in rationality.

GameStop (again!) and Legal & General

Our throwaway comment yesterday regarding the GameStop (LSE:GEN) frenzy certainly attracted emails, perhaps due to mentioning a share price reversal target below $10 (£7.31).

Once again, the share price received a thrashing, with the low of the day at $74, a rather horrible level for a share challenging $485 a few days ago. Price movements certainly reinforce the expensive lesson: avoid becoming caught up in the excess enthusiasm often displayed by relatively few people in public discussion groups on the internet.

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We're now able to calculate an ‘ultimate’ bottom of $10.24 against this, a probable return to the price level of November last year before it all went crazy. Near-term weakness below 74 should prove capable of travel down to an initial $39 with secondary, when broken, at $10.24.

We cannot calculate anything below such a level. It now needs a miracle to get out of trouble, visually unlikely.

Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) certainly can rarely be accused of an excess of flamboyance. Plodding and reliable, only the Covid-19 crash of last March provided a similar sized blip to that from the financial crash of 2009.

At present, the share requires exceed 280p to give hope for a slight change of pace, this trigger working out with a pretty tame ambition of 308p. Secondary is a longer term 366p. The important detail comes if Legal & General ever closes a session above 313p at any time in the future.

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This is quite a big deal. While the immediate suggestion allows travel to 308p with secondary, if bettered, at 366p, closure above 313p is something we'd regard as pretty game changing.

This is one of these all-important ‘big picture’ things, launching the price into a zone where a distant 498p is supposed to be irresistibly attractive sometime in the distant future.

For now, the price is bumbling around, requiring to dip below 203p before we'd be alarmed.

Source: Trends and Targets. Past performance is not a guide to future performance

Alistair Strang has led high-profile and "top secret" software projects since the late 1970s and won the original John Logie Baird Award for inventors and innovators. After the financial crash, he wanted to know "how it worked" with a view to mimicking existing trading formulas and predicting what was coming next. His results speak for themselves as he continually refines the methodology.

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