TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

ChartWatch ASX Scans: Defence big guns ARMR, DTEC, DRO, and ELS fire up, IEL and NUF dead cat bounces continue

Your daily dose of the most interesting uptrends and downtrends on the ASX with technical analysis from an expert.

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Thu 5 June 2025, 09:15 AEST
โˆ™5 min read
ChartWatch ASX Scans: Defence big guns ARMR, DTEC, DRO, and ELS fire up, IEL and NUF dead cat bounces continue

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KEY POINTS

  • Interesting uptrends in today's Scans: Almonty (AII), Aurelia Metals (AMI), Commonwealth Bank (CBA), Droneshield (DRO), Elsight (ELS), Karoon Energy (KAR), Locksley Resources (LKY), Lovisa (LOV), Macquarie (MQG), Wesfarmers (WES), Xero (XRO), Zip Co (ZIP).
  • Interesting downtrends in today's Scans: Botanix Pharmaceuticals (BOT), Coast Entertainment (CEH), IDP Education (IEL), Nufarm (NUF), Nuix (NXL), Redox (RDX), Skycity Entertainment Group (SKC).

With the Aussie benchmark notching a third record high in the last four trading sessions on a total return basis, there was always going to be a good chance that today's Edition was going to be chockers-stuffed with Uptrends Scan List constituents, and by extension, Feature Uptrends.

What's great about today's +70 Uptrends Scan List and +30 Feature Uptrends is the diverse range of sectors they come from. A broad market rally tends to be a sustainable one.

But in even the best bull market, there are always a handful of stocks whose business models and management are just so terrible, or (let's provide an out here) the global economy and consumer trends have conspired so cruelly against them โ€“ that their charts present fantastic short selling opportunities. You'll find a sorry group of potential candidates to this end in today's Downtrends Scan Lists and Feature Downtrends.


Welcome to my ChartWatch Daily ASX Scans series. Here I present scan lists based on my trend following technical analysis methodology. My goal is to alert you to the best uptrends and downtrends on the ASX.

Feel free to get your favourite AI to convert the tables below into lists you can upload to your favourite trading platform like TradingView. Then you'll be able to skip from chart to chart and quickly and easily see the best uptrends and downtrends on the ASX.

Some investors prefer to buy those stocks in strong uptrends, and avoid, sell, or short sell those stocks in strong downtrends โ€“ but how you use the lists is really up to you!

Note, many stocks in both lists have appeared there many times before. As long as they keep meeting my criteria โ€“ they'll keep appearing. But note, there won't be any notifications when they don't, so you'll have to do your own research on when a particular trend changes!


Uptrends Scan List

Company
Code
Last Price
1mo %
1yr %
Astral Resources
AAR
$0.190
+22.6%
+113.5%
Aussie Broadband
ABB
$4.26
+2.2%
+24.6%
Adriatic Metals
ADT
$5.23
+33.4%
+28.8%
Australian Finance Group
AFG
$2.28
+21.0%
+57.2%
Almonty Industries
AII
$3.50
+33.6%
+483.3%
AMA Group
AMA
$0.105
+40.0%
+166.8%
Aurelia Metals
AMI
$0.340
+17.2%
+83.8%
Aspen Group
APZ
$3.56
+16.7%
+97.8%
BetaShares Australian Quality ETF
AQLT
$33.13
+7.6%
+17.4%
BetaShares Global Defence ETF
ARMR
$23.28
+8.8%
0%
Austal
ASB
$5.94
+15.8%
+151.7%
BetaShares S&P/ASX Australian Technology ETF
ATEC
$31.38
+12.8%
+31.3%
Australian United Investment Company
AUI
$11.16
+7.8%
+9.4%
Antipa Minerals
AZY
$0.660
+28.2%
+407.7%
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
BEN
$12.76
+12.5%
+16.7%
Bravura Solutions
BVS
$2.52
+16.7%
+146.5%
Catapult Group International
CAT
$6.22
+51.7%
+228.2%
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
CBA
$181.10
+8.6%
+51.5%
Cuscal Group
CCL
$2.97
+10.4%
0%
Challenger Gold
CEL
$0.094
+17.5%
+28.8%
Charter Hall Group
CHC
$18.86
+4.5%
+55.6%
Charter Hall Long Wale Reit
CLW
$4.21
+6.6%
+21.3%
Computershare
CPU
$41.25
+5.9%
+55.4%
Charter Hall Retail Reit
CQR
$4.04
+4.9%
+23.5%
Droneshield
DRO
$1.575
+20.7%
+45.8%
Global X Defence Tech ETF
DTEC
$16.12
+9.8%
0%
Dateline Resources
DTR
$0.145
+291.9%
+935.7%
Develop Global
DVP
$4.07
+20.8%
+73.9%
Elsight
ELS
$1.100
+136.6%
+185.7%
EML Payments
EML
$1.155
+19.1%
+23.5%
Green Critical Minerals
GCM
$0.022
+69.2%
+144.4%
Graincorp
GNC
$7.85
+14.9%
-3.4%
Gentrack Group
GTK
$11.49
+2.7%
+29.8%
BetaShares Global Cybersecurity ETF
HACK
$15.40
+7.8%
+39.4%
Hub24
HUB
$85.20
+8.8%
+99.1%
Harvey Norman
HVN
$5.53
+4.5%
+24.0%
Insurance Australia Group
IAG
$8.88
+6.7%
+43.2%
iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
IKO
$101.08
+7.9%
+4.8%
iShares S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries ETF
ISO
$5.03
+6.1%
+8.6%
JB HI-FI
JBH
$112.24
+8.3%
+94.8%
Karoon Energy
KAR
$1.740
+22.5%
-3.6%
Kingsgate Consolidated
KCN
$2.19
+16.2%
+20.3%
Locksley Resources
LKY
$0.115
+422.7%
+210.8%
Lovisa
LOV
$32.00
+28.8%
-5.6%
Munro Global Growth Fund ETF
MAET
$7.00
+7.5%
+13.8%
MFF Capital Investments
MFF
$4.40
+8.4%
+24.6%
Macquarie Group
MQG
$217.24
+10.9%
+13.8%
Vaneck Australian Banks ETF
MVB
$41.40
+9.2%
+24.0%
Mystate
MYS
$4.33
+12.2%
+20.6%
National Australia Bank
NAB
$38.60
+9.3%
+13.8%
Ora Banda Mining
OBM
$1.265
+18.2%
+289.2%
Peak Rare Earths
PEK
$0.275
+161.3%
+36.4%
Pro Medicus
PME
$283.33
+17.6%
+135.9%
Pinnacle Investment Management Group
PNI
$20.68
+12.4%
+58.3%
Pantoro
PNR
$3.69
+18.3%
+135.9%
Pepper Money
PPM
$1.860
+14.8%
+29.2%
Perenti
PRN
$1.635
+18.5%
+62.7%
Peak Minerals
PUA
$0.023
+130.0%
+1331.3%
QBE Insurance Group
QBE
$23.95
+12.2%
+34.6%
St Barbara
SBM
$0.355
+12.7%
+51.1%
SGH
SGH
$53.11
+5.9%
+35.5%
Superloop
SLC
$2.81
+11.1%
+99.3%
Santana Minerals
SMI
$0.630
+12.5%
+72.6%
Suncorp Group
SUN
$21.30
+4.7%
+35.9%
SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Yield Fund ETF
SYI
$30.79
+5.2%
+10.6%
Temple & Webster Group
TPW
$23.50
+36.4%
+140.3%
BetaShares Global Uranium ETF
URNM
$8.18
+18.4%
-22.8%
Warriedar Resources
WA8
$0.120
+25.0%
+122.2%
Wesfarmers
WES
$84.60
+6.4%
+30.4%
Waratah Minerals
WTM
$0.360
+80.0%
+188.0%
Xero
XRO
$188.87
+13.6%
+39.9%
Zip Co.
ZIP
$2.21
+36.8%
+97.3%
Today's Uptrends Scan List

Feature Charts from today's Uptrends List ๐Ÿ”Ž๐Ÿ“ˆ

The stocks that I feel are showing the strongest excess demand from today's Uptrends List are: ustralian Finance Group (ASX: AFG), Almonty Industries (ASX: AII), AMA Group (ASX: AMA), Aurelia Metals (ASX: AMI), Aspen Group (ASX: APZ), Austal (ASX: ASB), Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (ASX: BEN), Catapult Group International (ASX: CAT), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA), Droneshield (ASX: DRO), Develop Global (ASX: DVP), Elsight (ASX: ELS), Green Critical Minerals (ASX: GCM), Graincorp (ASX: GNC), Hub24 (ASX: HUB), Harvey Norman (ASX: HVN), iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (ASX: IKO), Karoon Energy (ASX: KAR), Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY), Lovisa (ASX: LOV), Macquarie Group (ASX: MQG), Vaneck Australian Banks ETF (ASX: MVB), Mystate (ASX: MYS), Pinnacle Investment Management Group (ASX: PNI), Peak Minerals (ASX: PUA), QBE Insurance Group (ASX: QBE), Superloop (ASX: SLC), Santana Minerals (ASX: SMI), Suncorp Group (ASX: SUN), SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Yield Fund ETF (ASX: SYI), Temple & Webster Group (ASX: TPW), Wesfarmers (ASX: WES), Xero (ASX: XRO), Zip Co. (ASX: ZIP).

10 Randomly Picked Feature Uptrend Charts:

Almonty Industries (ASX-AII) daily chart 4 June 2025 Aurelia Metals (ASX-AMI) daily chart 4 June 2025 Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX-CBA) daily chart 4 June 2025 Droneshield (ASX-DRO) daily chart 4 June 2025 Elsight (ASX-ELS) daily chart 4 June 2025 Harvey Norman (ASX-HVN) daily chart 4 June 2025 Lovisa (ASX-LOV) daily chart 4 June 2025 Peak Minerals (ASX-PUA) daily chart 4 June 2025 Pinnacle Investment Management Group (ASX-PNI) daily chart 4 June 2025 Santana Minerals (ASX-SMI) daily chart 4 June 2025

Downtrends Scan List

Company
Code
Last Price
1mo %
1yr %
Botanix Pharmaceuticals
BOT
$0.315
-28.4%
+14.5%
Coast Entertainment
CEH
$0.390
-4.9%
-22.0%
Dicker Data
DDR
$8.05
-4.5%
-13.0%
Domino's Pizza Enterprises
DMP
$21.86
-12.3%
-43.5%
G8 Education
GEM
$1.205
-4.7%
0%
Healthco Healthcare and Wellness Reit
HCW
$0.770
-9.9%
-31.6%
Healius
HLS
$0.870
-24.8%
-6.4%
Humm Group
HUM
$0.450
-10.0%
-2.2%
Horizon Oil
HZN
$0.170
-5.6%
0%
Integral Diagnostics
IDX
$2.39
+1.3%
-2.0%
IDP Education
IEL
$3.78
-59.9%
-76.3%
Ioneer
INR
$0.115
-11.5%
-46.5%
Monash IVF Group
MVF
$0.770
-6.7%
-45.8%
New Hope Corporation
NHC
$3.70
-0.5%
-25.6%
Nufarm
NUF
$2.14
-43.4%
-52.1%
Nuix
NXL
$2.40
+1.3%
-22.6%
Redox
RDX
$2.39
-13.1%
-22.7%
Rio Tinto
RIO
$109.68
-4.8%
-15.0%
Skycity Entertainment Group
SKC
$0.840
-15.6%
-46.7%
Strike Energy
STX
$0.160
-11.1%
-23.8%
Today's Downtrends Scan List

Feature Charts from today's Downtrends List ๐Ÿ”Ž๐Ÿ“‰

The stocks that I feel are showing the strongest excess supply from today's Downtrends List are: Botanix Pharmaceuticals (ASX: BOT), Coast Entertainment (ASX: CEH), IDP Education (ASX: IEL), Nufarm (ASX: NUF), Nuix (ASX: NXL), Redox (ASX: RDX), Skycity Entertainment Group (ASX: SKC).

Charts of each below:

Botanix Pharmaceuticals (ASX-BOT) daily chart 4 June 2025 Coast Entertainment (ASX-CEH) daily chart 4 June 2025 IDP Education (ASX-IEL) daily chart 4 June 2025 Nufarm (ASX-NUF) daily chart 4 June 2025 Nuix (ASX-NXL) daily chart 4 June 2025 Redox (ASX-RDX) daily chart 4 June 2025 Skycity Entertainment Group (ASX-SKC) daily chart 4 June 2025
Important considerations when using the ChartWatch Daily ASX Scans:
1. The future is unknown. Anything can happen to change the trends in the lists above. A stock in a perfect uptrend or downtrend may not remain that way by the close of trading today. 2. These lists are not exhaustive, they are curated by Carl. You will find that certain stocks might not appear in a particular list on consecutive days but might reappear when Carl feels it deserves to return to the list. 3. This is not a recommendation service, merely an aid to help you better understand the workings of Carlโ€™s technical analysis model in a practical way. Carl will not alert you to stocks that have dropped off a list because their trend has changed โ€“ it is up to you to apply the criteria to determine why a particular stock might not still be included. 4. This is general, educational information only โ€“ always do your own research.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lead Writer and Presenter

Carl brings more than 30 years of investing experience and a track record of helping thousands of investors navigate every kind of market. A highly regarded commentator on global macro trends and their impact on Australian and US equities, he is also one of Australia's most recognised educators in technical analysis โ€” having taught his distinctive price-action trend following methodology to two generations of investors.

05/06/2026