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LUV · Southwest Airlines Company

$42.85 +2.63% Oct 26 close

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Southwest Airlines Company

Southwest Airlines Company is a large-cap Airlines company in the Transportation sector with a market cap of $20B.

Transportation Airlines stock Stage 3 · Topping Base 1

$42.85 latest close

Market Structure

Trend structure: downtrend

Latest event: bos (bearish)

Support 40.45–40.85 · 6 touches · strong

Support 41.67–41.84 · 4 touches · moderate

Resistance 43.15–43.42 · 4 touches · moderate

Resistance 44.19–44.44 · 3 touches · moderate

Support 38.09–38.20 · 3 touches · moderate

Momentum Turn Watch

Bollinger Squeeze Bollinger band width (11.4%) is in the bottom quartile of its last 120 sessions — Legend's width-percentile squeeze (not a TTM/Keltner squeeze), so volatility is compressed and a sharper move often follows.

Early technical context only. Wait for price, volume, and the canonical setup trigger to confirm; this signal does not change readiness or the setup score.

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Earnings

Normal technical setup

Next earnings Thursday, October 22, 2026 Report time not confirmed by the source

Deterministic evidence

LUV+2.63%

Sector proxy · XLI+1.42%

Broad market · SPY+0.71%

Same completed session window ending 2026-10-26. LUV was +1.21 points vs XLI. +1.92 points vs SPY.

Session internals Strong momentum

Rule: closed up, at or above the open, in the top third of the day's range. Judged on internals, not on the size of the move.

Vs prior close+2.63% From the open+2.56% Range position73% GapNo gap

QQQ confirmationConfirming (+1.11%) SMH confirmationConfirming (+2.74%)

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Price $42.85 +2.6% Oct 26 close

52W High $55.11 22.2% below high

Wks Since High 34w

Base Depth 35.2%

SMA 50 $40.63

Avg Vol 5,947,119

Rel Vol (Oct 26) 1.21× 1.92× on up days

More stats

52W Low $29.26

Tight Wks 0

Base B1

SMA 200 $43.46

ADR% 3.4%

ATR(14) $1.60 (3.7%)

Vol Pace (live) N/A

A/D Days 15A / 4D

A/D Rating A+

Power Trend 3d

Earnings past

Position in 52-week range 53rdpercentile of the 52-week range

$29.26low

$55.11high

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Technical Analysis Report Card

$LUV · $42.85 · as of 2026-10-26 · multi-factor read

/ 100

Buy

Trend · Daily / Weekly / Monthly

Daily ▲ Uptrend

Weekly ▬ Sideways / consolidating

Monthly ▬ Sideways / consolidating

Moving Averages

50-day$40.63 ↑

100-day$43.87 ↓

200-day$43.46 ↓

Bearish (50 < 200)

RSI (14)

Reading58.8 · Bullish

Bullish momentum — comfortably in buyer territory.

MACD (12/26/9)

StateBullish

Histogram+0.200

Bullish — MACD above its signal line and above zero. Histogram expanding.

Bollinger Bands (20,2)

%B / Width86% · 11.4%

Squeeze — volatility compressing

Near the upper band — buyers in control. Bands are squeezing — volatility is compressing, often a precursor to a sharp move.

Volume · Buyer vs Seller

Up/Down vol1.92 · Accumulation

Rel volume1.21×

Pocket pivots · 10d0

5d vs 50d vol166%

Heavy vol up / down3 / 1

Accumulation — volume is concentrated on up days; buyers dominate. Recent volume is expanding versus its baseline.

3 heavy-volume up days vs 1 down in the last 20 sessions.

Support & Resistance

R · $43.30swing level

R · $44.68swing level

R · $49.92swing level

Price · $42.85now

S · $40.82swing level

S · $37.58swing level

S · $37.04swing level

Fibonacci · Uptrend swing

23.6%$49.38

38.2%$47.06

50.0%$45.18

61.8% ◄ price here$43.30

78.6%$40.63

Retracement support zones measured from the recent swing low up to the high.

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Daily uptrendBelow 200-day MA50/200 bearishVolume accumulation

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Base & Breakout

Breakout follow-through

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RS Line vs SPY 52-week relative strength · blue = RS line · dashed = MA50 · dot = NH

Accumulation / Distribution last 65 sessions · green = acc on high vol · red = dist on high vol Net +8 A+

Forming Patterns (predictive — not confirmed)

Inverse Head & Shoulders bullish forming

80% built

Possible inverse head & shoulders — not confirmed. Watch for a daily close above ~44.90 (neckline) to confirm, with a measured move toward ~52.21. A drop under the right shoulder near 40.45 weakens the structure; a close below the head near 37.58 invalidates it.

Confirms above 44.90

Invalidates at 37.58

Left Shoulder 39.83

Head 37.58

Right Shoulder 40.45

Neckline 44.90

Target 52.21

LS 39.83 / head 37.58 / RS 40.45, neckline ~44.90, 4.6% below confirmation

Head & Shoulders bearish forming

75% built

Possible head & shoulders top — not confirmed. Watch for a daily close below ~36.85 (neckline) to confirm, with measured-move risk toward ~20.57. A push back above 50.13 weakens the pattern; reclaiming 53.13 invalidates it.

Confirms below 36.85

Invalidates at 53.13

Left Shoulder 44.92

Head 53.13

Right Shoulder 50.13

Neckline 36.85

Target 20.57

LS 44.92 / head 53.13 / RS 50.13, neckline ~36.85, vol_fading=yes

Predictive pattern recognition is educational — most forming structures never confirm. Wait for the confirmation level before treating this as a setup.

No patterns detected

This symbol didn't match any pattern in the latest scan.

Minervini Trend Template

3/8

Grades the price structure — moving-average stacking, distance from the 52-week high/low, and relative strength above the ≥70 uptrend bar. This is the technical trend check; the company's fundamentals and ≥80 RS leadership are scored separately in the Grade Card.

Price above SMA 150 & 200 $42.85 vs SMA150 $42.53 / SMA200 $43.46

SMA 150 above SMA 200 SMA150 $42.53 vs SMA200 $43.46

SMA 200 trending up Slope -0.04 over 20 days

SMA 50 above SMA 150 & 200 SMA50 $40.63

Price above SMA 50 $42.85 vs SMA50 $40.63

30%+ above 52-week low +46.4% from $29.26

Within 25% of 52-week high -22.2% from $55.11

RS score above 70 RS 50

Fundamentals

52W Range

53%

Mkt Cap SEC

20.4B

EPS QoQ

-22%

Rev YoY

+2%

ROE

11%

Gross Margin

74%

D/E

0.61

EPS TTM

$0.79

P/E TTM

54.2x

Float

490M

Insider

No Buy

Company

Company profile

Southwest Airlines Company

LUV · NYSE · Transportation · Airlines

Scan History

Aug 10

Trend Only ✓ Gate

Aug 07

Trend Only ✓ Gate

78 -8.9%

Aug 07

Trend Only ✓ Gate

78 -8.9%

Aug 06

Trend Only ✓ Gate

81 -8.7%

Aug 06

Trend Only ✓ Gate

81 -8.7%

Aug 05

Trend Only ✓ Gate

82 -12.2%

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