Swing Trade Idea – February 25, 2025
Laurie’s Abbreviation Index:
** ‘div’ – dividend
** ‘m/m’ – month over month
** ‘y/y’ – year over year
** ‘Inven’ – inventories
** ‘mfg’ – manufacturing
** +/- – plus or minus, positive or negative
** Underlined text – higher volume premarket
** ‘d’ – day
** ‘Y’ – year
**govt – government
Color Key: Positive – Neutral – Negative
Global Markets: USA, Europe, Japan, China, Hong Kong Asia – Neutral
global
set-up
· Commodities: Gold, Silver, Oil, natgas, AGGS, Industrial Metals, Bitcoin
· Yields: 30Y Bond -.19% Currencies: USA$ +.02% CAD +.09% YEN-.44% BTC/USD +0.06% Vix: 17.8
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News: USA: Consumer Confidence 10ET
Stocks: O-2.6%, HIMS-22%, TCOM-8%, ZM-4%, DOCN+18%, EPS
Overview: SPY 597 Expected move 4.6 Resistance 598.8 600 592.6
Support 595; QQQ 519.7 Expected move 5.2 Resistance 523 525
526 Support 515 514. USA indices sold down overnight and are
bouncing in the NY premarket. SPY bounced off 595 which is the put wall and a
key level to watch for further downside. QQQ put wall is 520 and price is
currently dancing at that level with risk below. MAG7 are mixed with
GOOGL leading to downside. NVDA is holding 130 after pulling back Monday on
more stories that USA is planning on tightening China export restrictions.
China stocks are bouncing today after large drawdown Monday. Bitcoin has broken
the key 90k level and weighing heavily on bitcoin related names such as MSTR
and MARA. Today’s headline mover is HIMS which is down 22% on potential
that can can sell it’s weight loss drug which competes with NVO which is
higher. DOCN is a big post earnings upside mover. WH comments that
Canada/Mexico tariffs will proceed was a negative headline which may have led
to selling Monday and underscores risks intraday. Known news event is consumer
confidence 10ET. Market is in negative gamma which means market makers
will sell into dips and buy rips so higher volatility conditions. So far the
market has been rotating into staples, healthcare and out of tech and into MAG7
names like AAPL and out of TSLA. If breadth becoming correlated to the downside
is a signal that a larger downside move is coming. Premarket not seeing that
but watch SPY 595.
Expected Move SPX (6029-5937), SPY (602-592.6), QQQ (525-514), IWM
(218.7-213.7)
Stocks to watch NVDA, PYPL, TLT, IBIT, SLV, ARKK, GDX, MSTR,
Speculative DOCN, LI, HIMS, BTDR
Pre-800ET
Indices FXI, KWEB, EFA, TLT, UNG, FEZ, XLF, XLV, ETHE, IBIT,
ARKG, SLV, ARKK, GDX, USO, GLD
S&P500 PYPL, SMCI,
PLTR, CCL, O,
Other DOCN, LI, YY, XPEV, BABA, GDS, NVO, BILI, BEKE,
WB, STLA, JD, XYZ, PDD, HCP, HIMS, BTDR, TEM, TCOM, HUT, MSTR,
MARA, ZM
Trade Idea: TLT
TLT is broke out above the 90 level to the highest levels of 2025. This is either the usual risk-off move or a bet that inflation and the economy is slowing. Potential to run higher as the 10y falls but TLT is at the top of the weekly expected move. Bonds are highly shorted and there is potential for a squeeze higher but a pullback > 90 is potentially a safer way to join in. 10Y is 4.3% and previous pullback was to 4.2% so some more room to go.
