know what, we just might get it that's why tonight we're going off the charts with the help of dan fitzpatrickthat terrific technician, founder of stock market mentor as well as being my colleague at real money.com and sees promising patterns in two of the biggest stocks around, two i know two you i own. after looking at the charts, he likes the odds of a breakout see for yourself let's start with the daily trader of microsoft. for the last few months it's been con some dated. trading sideways after a monster run. at the moment there aren't many signs of life. just kind of, fitzpatrick points out that microsoft's 52-day moving average has been drifting sideways the moving average convergence to vergennes or the mac-d is resting on the midline meaning there's no trend whatsoever however when you dig deeper into this chart you can feel a pulse. while microsoft traded sideways in august it did so on lower than average volume. this is exactly what fitzpatrick wants to see why? because when the stock is in consolidation, low volume means the big institutions aren't selling the stock in any sort of