This 50-Year-Old Company Just Cut Its Dead Weight, and the Chart Lit Up

Publisher’s Note:

There is a little-known federal meeting happening outside Washington, and according to our friends at TrendLabs, it is about to crack open a narrow profit window that closes in roughly a month.

Here is why it matters. Every company in the Magnificent 7 has quietly been pouring a combined $30 billion-plus into a single technology that barely anyone is talking about.

Not energy, not rare earths, not chips. Something else entirely, and the biggest money on earth has been quietly building positions in it for months.

Market technician JC Parets is joining Ryan Fitzwater and Bryan Bottarelli live on Wednesday, June 24, at 2 PM ET to lay out what it is, which small group of stocks sits in front of it, and why that federal meeting makes the timing so urgent.

Attendees get live trade recommendations, free.

Grab your free seat here.

Stephen Prior, Publisher


FedEx finally cut loose the thing that was holding it back.

For years, the company hauled around a slow, low-margin freight division that weighed on the entire operation. On June 1, FedEx spun it off into its own separate company and walked away lighter.

What is left is a leaner, faster business that has spent months pulling more than a billion dollars in costs out of its system, and the stock has been quietly rewarding every bit of it.

How quietly?

Here is the number that stopped me. Over the past year, FDX has beaten the entire U.S. stock market by about 47%.

While everyone was busy staring at AI and chip names, this old-school delivery company was outrunning the whole market and barely getting mentioned anywhere.

That kind of steady relative strength is the first thing I hunt for, because it tells me big money has been quietly loading up on shares while the crowd looked the other way.

Now look at where it trades. FDX is hovering around $329, sitting right up near its highs after a powerful climb off last year’s lows.

The Exponential Moving Averages are stacked on both the weekly and daily time frames.

This matters because if the stock were to pop from here, it wouldn’t be met with selling pressure.

The trend and pattern are there. The other thing I look for is a squeeze, and that’s present as well.

FDX has a squeeze on right now.

When a stock goes quiet and its daily range keeps pinching in tighter, that is volatility coiling, pressure building up behind the dam with nowhere to go yet. The longer it holds back like that, the harder it tends to move when the water finally breaks through.

And this squeeze is loading up near the highs, which is the strong side for it to happen on.

Then there is the timing, which is what makes this one urgent. FedEx reports earnings in just a few trading days, on June 23.

So you have a stock that is already beating the market, already trending hard, and already wound up tight, walking right into the one event with the power to set it off.

Relative strength, a clean stack of rising averages, a loaded squeeze, and a catalyst sitting on the calendar all at once. That is the kind of lineup I go looking for.

I will be straight with you about the other side, though. Earnings can cut both ways, and they can knock a coiled stock down just as easily as they launch it.

FedEx still has real things to prove, from softer global shipping demand to Amazon pushing harder into its own delivery network.

Which is why this is likely a stock I will look to trade AFTER earnings if it makes a strong move.

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