Technical Trading Analysis With Robert Roy Ep. 31 — Candidate Scan — Post-High-Volatility Read on the Big Names
Coming two days after the market notched a fresh all-time high, Rob opens this episode noting the VIX sitting around 15.86 — moderate-to-low by his own read, which tells him the market isn’t bracing for anything dramatic even after a strong move up. That context matters for how he approaches the rest of the scan: with volatility this contained, he’s less interested in chasing breakout moves and more focused on which names are setting up clean retests of levels he already has mapped out. He references the 618 Fibonacci extension level and an ABC pattern early on, tools he leans on throughout the episode to decide which names have room left to run and which have already made their move.
As with the companion scan a couple sessions earlier, Rob works through his familiar roughly twenty-stock list one name at a time. Adobe gets flagged as a pass, ranked third on his bearish watch list if the broader tone shifts. AMD earns a check, with Rob highlighting a retest of the 512.5 level as the specific spot he’s watching. Amazon and APP also land in check territory, while Broadcom gets passed over — again with Rob’s FOMO-versus-JOMO framing, reminding viewers that not chasing a stock can be just as disciplined a decision as buying one.
Coinbase, Costco, CrowdStrike, and Carvana all get passed on this scan, and DoorDash does too, rounding out a fairly quiet stretch for names that don’t currently line up with a clean fib level. Goldman Sachs gets ranked third on Rob’s list, a pass for now but clearly still on his radar given how often it comes up as a strong performer elsewhere in this run of episodes. Home Depot earns a check, and Lilly gets passed over. Mastercard draws a bearish check with Rob calling out a retest of the 491 level, a number that shows up again in this episode as one of his more concrete, trackable price points.
Meta gets a check as well, while Netflix is passed on — Rob mentioning again that post-split, it’s simply not high on his interest list right now, which is a small but telling detail about how he weighs a stock’s recent structural changes against its charting behavior. Oracle and Reddit both get passed over. SPY earns a check, with Rob eyeing 764 as an upside target for the broader market, consistent with the read he’s building off the fresh all-time high two days prior. Tesla rounds things out with a check, tied to what he describes as a developing third-leg-up pattern.
What this episode captures well is how Rob’s process holds steady even after a genuinely newsworthy market event like an all-time high — he doesn’t throw out the framework and chase headlines, he runs the same disciplined scan and lets the VIX reading and individual fib levels tell him how much conviction to bring to each name. For traders trying to build their own repeatable process, that consistency across a big market moment is arguably more instructive than any single trade idea in the episode.
