For most of the last seven years, Boeing (BA) has been the stock most traders stopped looking at.
Two 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 grounded the entire fleet, and COVID hit the airline industry harder than any other sector.
The Spirit acquisition turned into a manufacturing nightmare, and quality control problems made headlines for years. Through it all, the stock was a graveyard.
The names that come back from a graveyard like that are the ones with real fundamental change behind them.
Boeing now has it.
Boeing reported Q1 2026 earnings on April 22 and posted revenue of $22.22 billion, up 14% year over year, beating the estimate of $21.78 billion.
The adjusted loss came in at 20 cents per share, compared with an expected loss of 84 cents. The stock gapped up on the print and finished April up roughly 20%.
And while the fundamental turnaround appears real. The real story I’m interested in is the chart.
The 8-day, 20-day, and 200-day moving averages are now stacked in bullish order on the daily timeframe, with price sitting above all three. The same structure is forming on the weekly timeframe, which is the higher-conviction setup I want to see before I get interested in any name.
A fresh squeeze is forming daily. Which is another way of saying volatility is compressing before a larger move. And with the trend and pattern bullish, the squeeze has strong odds of resolving to the upside.
Boeing also just broke above the declining trend line from the 2025 highs. That trend line has capped every rally for almost a year. The break is recent, the volume is real, and the structure is intact.
Then there is the catalyst.
President Trump is meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14 and 15, and CEO Kelly Ortberg confirmed yesterday that he will be on the trip. Ortberg has been publicly stating since the Q1 earnings call that any China deal is “100% dependent” on what happens at this summit, and that he expects “a big number” from China if the negotiations go well.
Bloomberg has reported that the potential deal could cover up to 500 aircraft, which would be the largest single order in Boeing’s history.
China froze all Boeing deliveries in April 2025. Chinese airlines have spent the last twelve months ordering Airbus aircraft instead, with one $21.4 billion order from China Southern alone.
A confirmed Chinese return to Boeing would not just be a financial catalyst. It would be a geopolitical signal that the trade relationship between the two countries is thawing.
Three things matter. The chart has reset, the fundamentals have turned, and a known catalyst is on the calendar exactly six trading days from now.
I look for setups where the trend, the pattern, and the squeeze line up at the same time, and I want a real catalyst to take advantage of when it shows.
Boeing has all of that right now, making this a high-quality setup.
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