Swing Trade Idea – October 7, 2024
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 – slight negative global set-up
· Commodities: Gold, Silver, Oil, natgas, AGGS, Industrial Metals, Bitcoin
· Yields: 30Y Bond -.15% Currencies: USA$ -.09% YEN +.5% BTC/USD -.75% Vix: 20.7
· News: USA: Bowman, Kashkari, Musalem FED speakers 13ET Eur: German factory orders -5.8% m/m vs -1.9%
· Stocks: AAPL -.9%,
AMZN -1.4%, NFLX -.4% Downgrade NVDA-.18% AI conference this week TSLA +.4% Robotaxi
event this week
Overview: SPY 571.1 support 570 569 and resistance 572 575 576 SPY
expected move +/- 3.9 QQQ 485.4 with resistance 488 490 491 support 482.9
480 expected move +/- 4.5. USA indices trading lower since European open with a
bounce starting in NY premarket with IWM leading and QQQ lagging. Macro setup
is negative with 10Y 4.0% which is usually negative negative for housing and
bond proxies. Yen is +.5% which can be a headwind to the carry trade. SPX has
been consolidating around the 5750 level with a breakout level > 5720 and
breakdown < 5700. Until SPX breaks out of range, will likely continue to see
rotation. There are several Fed speakers today in the afternoon with Bowman
(hawk) the most important. Strong jobs numbers (questioned by many) now put
major emphasis on the CPI print as it can pour ice water on the narrative of
aggressive Fed rate cuts. AAPL, AMZN are moving lower premarket after
downgrades; AMD higher with AI event Oct10; TSLA higher with Robotaxi event
Oct10; NVDA is hosting an AI conference this week with all the usual suspects
presenting and hyping their stocks. Friday there were pops in most of the names
loosely connected with AI (check out AIQ holdings) watch for continuation. PFE
is higher on Elliot activist involved. Oil continues to move higher as missile
are flying as does Chinese stocks with Caveat that Shanghai has been closed for
golden week and trading will resume Monday night so take care.
Expected moves SPY(576.9-569) QQQ (491.8-482.9) IWM(221.4-217) SPX (5790-5712)
Stocks to watch BABA, LVS, TSLA, TLT, AMZN, AAPL Speculative TIGR, HIMS,
LI
Pre-800ET
Indices FXI, KWEB, USO, ETHE, IBIT, XLE, US$, SLV, UNG,
XLK, QQQ, XLY, TLT, SPY, EFA, RSP, XLC, SMH, GDX
S&P500 LVS, PFE, AMZN
NASI AMZN
Other TIGR, VSTO, EH, ACMR, HIMS, LI, XK, WB, JKS, CPNG, XPEV, LVS, BABA,
BIDU, PFE, TAL, FUTU, MSTR, MBLY, EQNR, OKLO, RIVN
Trade Idea: AAPL
AAPL was downgraded, currently 224.9 with premarket low 223. Straddle approach with potential long > 225 with target 230, 235 and fade < 223 with target 220. Likely short cover into open so need to give time to stabilize.