Stand aside — setup invalidated
Setup score 77, but distribution days reach 5 or more — stand aside until the condition resets.
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TXN · Texas Instruments Incorporated
$298.12 +4.72% Oct 26 close
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$TXN
Texas Instruments IncorporatedTexas Instruments Incorporated is a mega-cap Semiconductors company in the Electronic Technology sector with a market cap of $272B.
Market Structure
Trend structure: uptrend
Latest event: structure_shift
(bullish)
Support
184.76–184.95
· 3 touches · moderate
Support
272.01–273.88
· 3 touches · moderate
Momentum Turn Watch
Bollinger Squeeze
Bollinger band width (9.6%) 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.
Verdict · setup score 77/100 · data Oct 26 close · latest session
Stand aside — setup invalidated
Setup score 77, but distribution days reach 5 or more — stand aside until the condition resets.
Recent price action · daily
What would change this verdict
What needs to turn for this to become buyable — the top failing checks across the legend council:
- Minervini 1.4 50-day MA > 150-day MA AND 200-day MA — MA50 $272.77, MA150 $274.58, MA200 $257.31
- Minervini 2. Revenue growth ≥ 20% YoY — +13.1% YoY
- O'Neil M: Market in confirmed uptrend — Market phase: uptrend_under_pressure
- O'Neil S: Volume ≥ 40% above average on breakout
- Weinstein Volume expansion above average — Volume ratio 1.24x
- Weinstein Weekly price coiling (Stage 2 consolidation) — Tightening weekly range confirms base
Minority view — the council disagrees here
- Minervini: avoid Trend-template read: fails 50-day MA > 150-day MA AND 200-day MA.
- O'Neil: watch CANSLIM read: 5/8 pass; improvement is still needed.
- Weinstein: watch Stage-analysis read: Stage 2 is present; 2 supporting checks need improvement.
65
Neutral
Legend Score · rates the stock
Neutral (65/100) — held back by eps growth
Our proprietary 0-100 rating — the answer to Wall Street's black-box scores. Five pillars, each computed from real scan data, each explained below in plain English.
- Relative Strength (25%) 92
- Trend Template (25%) 88
- Institutional Footprint (20%) 43
- EPS Growth (15%) 30
- Quality (SMR-like) (15%) 45
RS rank 91: top 9% of all stocks — true leadership. Trend template 7/8: price above rising 50/150/200-day lines — textbook uptrend structure. Institutional score 43: neutral — no clear institutional conviction. EPS up +0% — growing, but below the 25% leadership bar. Quality 45: weak fundamentals (sales growth 30, return on equity 41, leverage 100). Updated 2026-10-27.
Earnings
Pre-earnings setup
Next earnings
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
After market close
Exact clock time not supplied by source
Ordinary position sizing suppressed.
Earnings are less than three full trading sessions away; treat the gap as event risk, not ordinary stop-distance risk.
Deterministic evidence
TXN+4.72%
Semiconductor proxy · SMH+2.74%
Broad market · SPY+0.71%
CatalystPending
Stock reactionPositive
Sector reactionSupportive
Opening surgePending
Event riskEarnings-driven
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+4.72%
From the open+3.47%
Range position94%
GapNo gap
QQQ confirmationConfirming (+1.11%)
SMH confirmationConfirming (+2.74%)
Short-term conviction -1 points.
Price bars, sourced event fields, and benchmark math only. This can adjust displayed short-term conviction; it does not change the stored scanner score or readiness.
- A sourced earnings report is still pending inside the risk window; ordinary technical conviction is reduced until it is out.
Ask a Legend to interpret this evidence → Commentary only — never scanner evidence or a sizing recommendation.
More stats
52W Low
$152.73
Tight Wks
0
Base
B3
SMA 200
$257.31
RS Line vs High
-12.7%
RS Line Slope
+5.7% ▲
Group Rank
#10/66
ADR%
3.0%
ATR(14)
$10.25 (3.4%)
Vol Pace (live)
N/A
A/D Days
10A / 16D
A/D Rating
E
VDU Bars
0/10 d
Power Trend
2d
Earnings
TODAY
TXN Chart
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Technical Analysis Report Card
$TXN · $298.12 · as of 2026-10-26 · multi-factor read
90
/ 100
Reference read from price & volume only — the verdict at the top of the page decides the action.
Trend · Daily / Weekly / Monthly
Daily
▲ Uptrend
Weekly
▬ Sideways / consolidating
Monthly
▲ Recovering / early uptrend
Moving Averages
50-day$272.77 ↑
100-day$282.46 ↑
200-day$257.31 ↑
Bullish (50 > 200)
RSI (14)
Reading64.5 · Bullish
Bullish momentum — comfortably in buyer territory.
MACD (12/26/9)
StateBullish
Histogram+0.296
Bullish — MACD above its signal line and above zero. Histogram expanding.
Bollinger Bands (20,2)
%B / Width99% · 9.6%
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 vol1.46 · Neutral
Rel volume1.24×
Pocket pivots · 10d1
5d vs 50d vol166%
Heavy vol up / down1 / 2
Balanced — up/down volume is roughly even; no clear hand. Recent volume is expanding versus its baseline.
- Pocket pivot 3 sessions ago — up-day volume beat every down day of the prior 10 sessions.
- 2 heavy-volume down days vs 1 up in the last 20 sessions — supply is showing.
Support & Resistance
R · $298.75swing level
R · $310.29swing level
R · $315.34swing level
Price · $298.12now
S · $274.83swing level
S · $264.74swing level
S · $255.18swing level
Fibonacci · Downtrend swing
23.6%$268.40
38.2%$280.94
50.0%$291.08
61.8% ◄ price here$301.22
78.6%$315.65
Retracement resistance zones measured from the recent swing high down to the low.
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Daily uptrendMonthly uptrendAbove 200-day MA50/200 bullishRS 91 (leader)
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Legend Verdicts
6 methodology checks
Who would consider this setup, why it qualifies, and what blocks it — calculated from the same deterministic methodology rules used across Legend AI.
How to read the numbers: the setup score (77/100, in the verdict band) rates this trade setup. Each legend's A–D grade rates the same setup against that legend's own checklist — so a high score next to a C grade is not a contradiction. The setup can be strong without fitting that legend's style. When the council disagrees, the verdict band breaks the tie.
Council consensus:
7 of 9 legends are Watching — building, not yet a confirmed buy.
Minervini
Avoid
B
Trend-template read: fails 50-day MA > 150-day MA AND 200-day MA.
partialRule check says AVOID (10/13 checks passed) — Trend-template read: fails 50-day MA > 150-day MA AND 200-day MA.
Passing evidence
1.1 Price > 150-day MA AND 200-day MAPrice $298.12, MA150 $274.58, MA200 $257.31
1.2 150-day MA > 200-day MAMA150 $274.58 vs MA200 $257.31
Failing evidence
1.4 50-day MA > 150-day MA AND 200-day MAMA50 $272.77, MA150 $274.58, MA200 $257.31
2. Revenue growth ≥ 20% YoY+13.1% YoY
O'Neil
Watch
C
CANSLIM read: 5/8 pass; improvement is still needed.
mediumDarvas Box still forming in a top industry group — ideal buy point at $299.05 on big volume. CANSLIM 80.
Passing evidence
C: Quarterly EPS acceleration ≥ 25%+32.3% QoQ
L: RS rank ≥ 80 (IBD leadership)RS rank 91
Failing evidence
M: Market in confirmed uptrendMarket phase: uptrend_under_pressure
S: Volume ≥ 40% above average on breakoutNot confirmed
Weinstein
Watch
C
Stage-analysis read: Stage 2 is present; 2 supporting checks need improvement.
mediumClassic Stage 2 advancing phase — strong weekly trend confirms uptrend. This is Weinstein's sweet spot: buy and hold while price remains above the 30-week MA.
Passing evidence
Stage 2 (Advancing phase) confirmedStage 2 (Advancing)
Price above 30-week MA (200-day proxy)Price $298.12 vs MA200 $257.31
Failing evidence
Volume expansion above averageVolume ratio 1.24x
Weekly price coiling (Stage 2 consolidation)Tightening weekly range confirms base
dennis
Watch
B
Turtle read: no breakout yet. Price is pressing the 20-day high. The system waits for the print; it never anticipates.
Passing evidence
No breakdown below the 20-day channel20-day low $272.01
Volatility-unit sizing (1N ≈ 1% of equity)1N = $9.38 (3.15% of price); the Turtles size 1 unit so a 1N move ≈ 1% of equity, making the 2N stop ≈ 2% equity risk
Failing evidence
S1: 20-day Donchian breakoutNot confirmed
S2: 55-day Donchian breakoutNot confirmed
zanger
Avoid
C
Zanger read: a hard gate is broken — either the pattern is not one of his six, or the entry is more than 5% past the breakout. He would not touch this.
Passing evidence
Not extended (≤5% above the breakout point)Measured as passing
Partial-profit plan: sell 20-30% at +15-20%Scale 20-30% at $342.84-$357.74; trail the rest
Failing evidence
Named Zanger pattern onlyDarvas Box is not one of Zanger's six
Breakout volume 1.5-2.0x averageNot confirmed
zweig
Watch
D
Zweig read: part of his screen passes but not all: Reasonable price for the growth (P/E ≤ 35); Insider buying — wait for the full growth screen before treating this as a Zweig setup.
Passing evidence
EPS growth above the market (≥15% QoQ)+32.3% QoQ — Zweig wants growth above the S&P average
Price strength (RS ≥ 70)RS score 91 — Zweig buys strength, not bargains
Failing evidence
Reasonable price for the growth (P/E ≤ 35)Trailing P/E 54.7x — no PEG or forward P/E stored
Insider buyingNo insider buying flagged
Livermore
Watch
B
Pivotal-point read: constructive evidence is present, but volume vs average is unresolved.
Passing evidence
Price$298.12
Relative strengthRS 91
Failing evidence
Volume vs average1.24x
Pivotal point cleared on expanding volumeNot confirmed
Darvas
Watch
B
Box-theory read: constructive evidence is present, but volume vs average is unresolved.
mediumConsolidating within the box (10.8% from 52W high) — patience until it approaches the prior high.
Passing evidence
Price$298.12
Relative strengthRS 91
Failing evidence
Volume vs average1.24x
Box top broken on heavy volumeNot confirmed
Wyckoff
Watch
B
Supply-and-demand read: constructive evidence is present, but volume vs average is unresolved.
Passing evidence
Price$298.12
Relative strengthRS 91
Failing evidence
Volume vs average1.24x
Sign of Strength confirmed on expanding volumePrice hasn't cleared the pivot yet — confirmation pending
Base & Breakout
Breakout follow-through
No active breakout tracked — Legend AI monitors daily for pivot-point breaks. What's a breakout?
RS Line vs SPY
52-week relative strength · blue = RS line · dashed = MA50 · dot = NH
▲ Rising
Accumulation / Distribution
last 65 sessions · green = acc on high vol · red = dist on high vol
Net -4
Fundamentals & leadership quality — Minervini’s published criteria · 6/7 met
A
6/7 criteria
Separate score from the Minervini Trend Template (7/8): the Trend Template grades the price structure, this grades the company & leadership (earnings, sales, margins, RS rank). A stock can ride a clean trend while its fundamentals lag, so the two often differ by design — they are not the same checklist.
EPS acceleration ≥25% QoQ
+32%
Revenue growth ≥20% YoY
+13%
Gross margin ≥30%
57%
ROE ≥17%
32%
RS rating ≥80 (leadership)
91
Stage 2 uptrend (Weinstein)
Stage 2
Within 25% of 52W high
-10.8%
Method Playbook
Trade it like Minervini
EXACT LEVELS · PRO
Minervini B · Avoid — The deterministic methodology check is Avoid; wait until the blocking criteria are resolved.
Pivot
Pro levelPublished-method rule: Use the tight base's structural pivot; the setup must retain Trend Template leadership into the trigger.
Evidence: Canonical setup geometry is available with Pro.
Evidence: Canonical setup geometry is available with Pro.
Entry trigger
Pro levelPublished-method rule: Require a decisive move through the pivot with volume confirmation, and do not initiate more than 5% above it.
Evidence: Canonical setup geometry is available with Pro.
Evidence: Canonical setup geometry is available with Pro.
Initial stop
Pro levelPublished-method rule: Start at the tighter structural invalidation; the initial loss limit must not exceed roughly 7–8% from entry.
Evidence: Canonical setup geometry is available with Pro.
Evidence: Canonical setup geometry is available with Pro.
Trail
Rule-basedPublished-method rule: Hold the initial stop until the trade proves itself; near +1R move to breakeven, then trail a higher low or rising 10/21-day average once well extended.
Evidence: Planned management rule; no stored stop or broker order is changed automatically.
Evidence: Planned management rule; no stored stop or broker order is changed automatically.
Exit / invalidation
Pro levelPublished-method rule: Exit when the structural stop or a meaningful higher-low/short-term trend violation fires; never widen the stop.
Evidence: Canonical setup geometry is available with Pro.
Evidence: Canonical setup geometry is available with Pro.
Deterministic educational plan, not a recommendation. No order or stop is changed automatically. Method and sources →
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Pattern Analysis
77
setup score
RS Score
91
Trend template
7/8
CANSLIM
79.8* (B)
box top: 298.75
box bottom: 272.01
box height pct: 0.098
vol ratio: 1.243
is breakout: ✗
pct from 52w high: 0.105
validation reason: valid generic setup
multi tf evaluated: ✓
multi tf reason: weekly: within 15% of 52-week high (Darvas box territory)
Why This Setup?
Darvas Box · schematic
Box: top=298.75, bottom=272.01, height=9.8%, breakout=no, vol_ratio=1.2x, 11% from 52w high | Strong trend (7/8) | Top RS (91) | High-confidence pattern (75%) | Stage 2 | Recent gap-up (5d ago) | Readiness 75/100 (watch) | CANSLIM 79.8 (B) | ⚠ Volatility widening into breakout; 3rd-stage base
55
setup score
RS Score
91
Trend template
7/8
CANSLIM
77.6* (B)
cadence: daily
lookback bars: 260
detector version: record_volume/2026-09-27
record bar ago: 2
record volume: 13872676
volume multiple: 2.37
volume ratio: 2.371
rare tier: ✗
bars since bigger: 24
since date: 2026-09-18
callout text: Highest daily volume since 2026-09-18
up day: ✗
absorbed: ✓
low held: ✗
day gain pct: -1.66
depth pct: 1.66
day range pct: 3.6
geometry: {'record_bar': {'bar': 257, 'bars_ago': 2, 'price': 279.5, 'date': '2026-10-22'}, 'record_volume': 13872676, 'callout_text': 'Highest daily volume since 2026-09-18', 'arrow_target': {'bar': 257, 'bars_ago': 2, 'price': 279.5, 'date': '2026-10-22'}}
confidence kind: heuristic_match
findings: ['Highest daily volume since 2026-09-18: 13,872,676 shares (2.4x the trailing average)', 'Price action constructive — down day fully absorbed since (record bar $284.21 -> $279.50, now $298.12)']
validation reason: valid generic setup
multi tf evaluated: ✓
multi tf reason: weekly: MA stabilizing or rising — accumulation context supported
Why This Setup?
Record Volume · schematic
Highest daily volume since 2026-09-18 — 13,872,676 shares (2.4x average), 2 bars ago, and price action is constructive (down day fully absorbed since). Big volume with holding prices means institutions are involved. Research/educational only, not a buy/sell recommendation. | Strong trend (7/8) | Top RS (91) | High-confidence pattern (72%) | Stage 2 | Recent gap-up (5d ago) | Readiness 64/100 (early) | CANSLIM 77.6 (B) | ⚠ 3rd-stage base; Not actionable yet
55
setup score
RS Score
91
Trend template
7/8
CANSLIM
77.6* (B)
predictor: ✓
predicted direction: up
probability: 0.72
retrace pct: 53.0
formation low: 248.13
formation high: 298.95
volume ratio: 1.547
depth pct: 17.0
validation reason: valid generic setup
multi tf evaluated: ✓
multi tf reason: weekly trend template 7/8 confirmed
Why This Setup?
Partial Move · schematic
Partial decline stalled at 53.0% of range (248.13–298.95) without touching the bottom; predicts upward break ~72% of the time. Predictor — breakout not confirmed. | Strong trend (7/8) | Top RS (91) | High-confidence pattern (72%) | Stage 2 | Recent gap-up (5d ago) | Readiness 64/100 (early) | CANSLIM 77.6 (B) | ⚠ 3rd-stage base; Not actionable yet
The Universal Edge Check · context only
What the setup still has going for it, recorded for later. The verdict above stands — these principles do not overrule it.
5/7
universals met
- Clear of earnings — not met in 0 days — event risk
- Volume confirms — partly met 1.2× average — light
- A relative-strength leader — met RS rank 80
- Asymmetric reward — met Met — levels are a Pro detail
- In a confirmed uptrend — met Stage 2 · Trend template 7/8
- Not chasing (in range) — met Met — levels are a Pro detail
- Risk is defined — met Met — levels are a Pro detail
Minervini Trend Template
7/8Grades 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
$298.12 vs SMA150 $274.58 / SMA200 $257.31
SMA 150 above SMA 200
SMA150 $274.58 vs SMA200 $257.31
SMA 200 trending up
Slope +10.58 over 20 days
SMA 50 above SMA 150 & 200
SMA50 $272.77
Price above SMA 50
$298.12 vs SMA50 $272.77
30%+ above 52-week low
+95.2% from $152.73
Within 25% of 52-week high
-10.8% from $334.03
RS score above 70
RS 91
Fundamentals
52W Range
80%
Mkt Cap SEC
272.4B
EPS QoQ
+32%
Rev YoY
+13%
ROE
32%
Gross Margin
57%
D/E
0.86
EPS TTM
$5.45
P/E TTM
54.7x
Float
914M
Insider
No Buy
Company
Company profile
Texas Instruments Incorporated
CANSLIM — current EPS, annual EPS, new highs, supply, leader RS, inst. sponsorship, market
B
79.8* CANSLIM
* disqualified on M
C · Curr. EPS
100
A · Annual EPS
86
N · New Highs
40
S · Supply/Demand
100
L · Leader RS
91
I · Inst. Spons.
96
M · Market
30
Weekly Context
Multi-timeframe signals from weekly barsW. Trend
7/8
W. RS
82
W. Support
$248.13
W. Resist
$334.03
Weekly Structure
Trend
Neutral
Tight Weeks
0
Confirmation
Neutral
Scan History
20× streakOct 27
Darvas Box
✓ Gate
77
Oct 27
Darvas Box
✓ Gate
76
Oct 26
Record Volume
✓ Gate
55
0.0%
Oct 23
Pocket Pivot
✓ Gate
85
+4.7%
Oct 23
Record Volume
✓ Gate
55
+4.7%
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