Intel Corp. (INTC)

Caterpillar is a prime example.

Whereas Intel is charging far less per CPU core for its latest high-end desktop CPUs relative to a year ago, AMD is going in a different direction with its newest offerings.

If an investor were dead set committed to purchasing these shares, my inclination would be to wait for the noted type of selloff.

The mobile chip and patent-licensing giant delivered better-than-feared results and guidance, and talked up 5G's expected impact on its chip business next year.

Investors must understand that the narrative around trade with China has evolved as the two sides work on a 'Phase One' mini-trade deal, but this is about much more than that.

Stemline Therapeutics and Entercom Communications seem to have stabilized after notable declines late in the summer.

Though major chip suppliers shared both good and bad news in October, on the whole the positives outweighed the negatives.

This firm is operating at a level many thought that it would never see again.

The stocks of many companies anticipated a more stringent series of tariffs and we didn't get them.

Continued speculative interest in individual stocks and small-caps kept a bid under the market most of the week.

Intel suggests the recent slowdown it's seen in demand from cloud clients is ending, and Amazon's latest capital spending numbers support this claim.

What's been most impressive lately has been the overall improvement in the charts.

Do I want to buy equity here? I have enough exposure to the semis as whole right now.

Let's look closely at the charts and indicators.

Dow chemicals are finding a bottom, higher-yielding stocks are trading well, macro is improving and the consumer is getting stronger.

Tesla and Lam Research are soaring post-earnings, while Twitter is plunging. Here's a look at what's driving the moves.

Large-cap equity indices over a month have churned on lackluster interest outside of the high-frequency crowd, and the trucking and rail sectors are outperforming the indices this month.

The GPU giant has steadily grown its addressable market, in part by creating end-to-end solutions that pair its chips with complementary software.

Ignore the macro arguments that are having no impact and focus on price action in individual stocks.

There is a good foundation for more positive action in the week ahead.

The constant viewing of charts encourages objectivity and selectivity.

Let's hope the blacklisting of eight companies supplying surveillance equipment to the Chinese state is not just another chip on the U.S.-China trade negotiating table.

If your goal is to ratchet up trade tension? There couldn't been a better moment, hence one of the worst moments for the stock market since the trade battle began.

The chip giant just unveiled new CPUs for workstations and high-end desktops that are priced much more competitively than their predecessors. And it has reportedly begun giving cloud giants bigger discounts on server CPUs.

Despite the selloff in this name, if you believe in a rally, you can bet that MU will be a leader.

STMicroelectronics and Sony each appear to be supplying four chips for Apple's latest flagship iPhones. Many other historical iPhone suppliers also make appearances in the latest teardowns.

So many companies -- like Netflix, Facebook and Johnson & Johnson -- are not trading on earnings per share, but on factors that are nearly impossible to quantify.