{"id":31176,"date":"2026-03-20T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/uncategorized\/31176\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:00:12","slug":"the-trade-desk-struggles-to-break-a-persistent-trendline-amid-months-of-harsh-underperformance-within-technology-charts-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/live-updates\/31176\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trade Desk struggles to break a persistent trendline, amid months of harsh underperformance within technology charts overall"},"content":{"rendered":"The Trade Desk (TTD) is a programmatic advertising technology platform used to buy digital ad space across the open internet. Its share price peaked near $56 in October 2025 and then moved into a steady downtrend.\n\nA descending trendline from the October 2025 high has acted as resistance on repeated rallies. That trendline now meets the current price area around $23\u2013$24.\n\nSupport has formed at $21.10, where the price stabilised in early February. From there, it rose towards $32\u2013$33 before falling back again.\n\nA key point is whether the price can deliver a confirmed daily close above the descending trendline. If that happens, the next area to watch is $28\u2013$30.\n\nIf the price fails to close above the trendline, attention returns to the $21.10 support level. The support has already been tested once, and another test would raise the chance of a break.\n\nWhile the trendline remains intact, the downtrend continues.\n\nWe remember watching that downtrend from the October 2025 highs, which pinned the price down around $23. That key support at $21.10 was tested, and as we feared, it eventually gave way under pressure. The sellers clearly won that battle, breaking the stock down to a new low near $18 last month.\n\nThe breakdown was confirmed following the Q4 earnings release in February, which showed revenue growth slowing to just 18% year-over-year, missing the street\u2019s expectations. This is being tied to recent government reports showing a 0.5% contraction in retail sales, signaling a broader pullback in advertising budgets. The stock is now attempting to stabilize around the $20 mark, well below its old support.\n\nFor traders who believe this weakness will continue, buying puts with strike prices around $18 or $17 offers a clear way to play further downside toward the recent lows. Selling out-of-the-money call spreads, like the April $22\/$24 spread, is another option to collect premium while betting that the old $21.10 support level now acts as firm resistance. This strategy benefits from both a drop in price and the passage of time.\n\nIf we believe the selling is exhausted and a new range is forming between $18 and $21, selling cash-secured puts below the recent low, perhaps at the $17.50 strike, could be a way to generate income. This approach expresses a view that the stock will not make new lows in the coming weeks. A more aggressive bullish play would involve buying call debit spreads to define risk, targeting a potential rebound toward that broken $21.10 level.\n<p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Start trading now &#8211; Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/trade-now\/\">here<\/a> to create your real VT Markets account <\/strong> <\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TTD remains in downtrend; $23\u2013$24 trendline resistance key. Break targets $28\u2013$30; failure retests $21.10 support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"josephine","author_link":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/author\/josephine\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}