5-Star Biotech Stock Watch: Celldex Therapeutics

Tuesday saw the market drop to the tune of almost 120 Dow points and nearly 13 S&P points.

But market sell-offs aren’t always a bad thing. After all, a pullback can provide a more ideal entry on a desired stock.

Thanks to the market rally over the last few weeks, a lot of stocks had broken up through key resistances. So Tuesday’s market sell-off could pull those stocks down to potential supports.

One stock that is inching closer to a potential support is the biotech firm, Celldex Therapeutics CLDX.

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Celldex focuses on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of novel therapeutics for human health care primarily in the United States.

Its lead drug candidates include Rindopepimut (CDX-110), a targeted immunotherapeutic, and Glembatumumab Vedotin (CDX-011).

Here is a nine-month chart of Celldex with added notations:

Celldex had been bouncing along a trendline of support from November until mid-March.

After breaking that trendline, the stock lost about 60 percent of its value before finally finding a bottom near $10.

While forming a base, Celldex formed a solid level of resistance at $16, which the stock eventually broke above in early June. After stalling at $18, the stock is pulling back towards that prior level of $16.

The stock closed Tuesday at $16.92.

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Celldex isn't set to release earnings again until July 31, 2014.

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