QUALCOMM Inc. (QCOM)

Qualcomm's shares moved lower after it forecast strong growth for a chip business that will benefit from 5G adoption, but offered a more measured growth outlook for its patent-licensing business.

Third quarter earnings season is down to the really nitty gritty. That said, there are still quite a few well known (to the public) retailers set to bring up the rear.

Five G is about massive digitization for pretty much everything and it's simply not believed.

Caterpillar is a prime example.

You can't have the best of all possible worlds, or at least you can't have it for long.

But despite earnings beat, guidance was a bit soft for the tech company.

XLNX's earnings miss is not because of poor product sales, sagging 5G demand, missing the market or even losing out to competition -- it's because of the politics around Huawei.

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.

The tech giant's shares already were bullish in advance of its results and should move higher after them.

After a few good weeks, stock picking has become much more difficult again as many stocks need to rest and develop better charts.

OPEC forecasts declining demand for OPEC oil, not a decline in global demand. That distinction is key.

QCOM reports fiscal fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday.

Disney, Qualcomm and Square are among 75 key reports we are watching.

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

The indices are within striking distance of the July highs after moving into position for a possible strong finish to the year.

The chip manufacturing giant issued strong Q4 sales guidance, offered upbeat remarks about 2020 5G phone demand and hiked its capital spending budget.

RMPIA is up 20.9% in the first nine months of 2019.

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.

Let's check on the charts and indicators to get some trading parameters.

The bond market is running the show? The answer would be... as much if not more than anything else... again.

Gains in Amgen, CVS, and others helped offset declines in other stocks, as the RMPIA rose over the last two months to 0.6%, handily beating all the major domestic stock market averages.

Marvell is having trouble moving forecasts as trade uncertainties temper optimism.

In areas ranging from operating systems to mobile processors to CPU core designs, the Chinese tech giant is looking for replacements to U.S.-developed tech.

Investors should wait for the tech company's price to fall lower on the broad market decline.

Here are the other companies that will get a boost from pushing the tax on imports to mid-December.