Trading the Charts for Monday, November 20th
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Big watchlist today because I see a ton of great setups from high-quality growth stocks however it’s a shortened holiday week which means less volume (and potentially more volatility) but more importantly is NVDA earnings after the close tomorrow. Not only do I have a NVDA position that I have to decide whether to take into earnings (perhaps I take half my current position) but I also need to think through which stocks will be negatively or positively impacted by NVDA earnings (which is a lot of tech/semi stocks)
I still think we have a good setup for a year end rally (10Y at ~4.5%, VIX at 14-15, Oil in the $70s, FOMC on pause, CPI/PPI below estimates and soft/no landing looking very possible for 2024 instead of bad recession) however NVDA earnings will need to be strong including forward guidance. SMCI is one stock that will definitely move off NVDA earnings.
The next FOMC meeting is December 13th, we all expect them to keep rates where they are but they might sound more dovish than normal and take a small victory lap which would case yields to drop and to rally. I still think Powell and his posse will try to sound hawkish until the day they start cutting which the market believes will be 2024 Q2 (possibly as early as March with 29.4% probability) however if we can all see that inflation is coming down yet the FOMC continues to sound too hawkish for too long, well then they jeopardize their credibility versus staying data dependent instead of trying to “talk down the markets” so risk assets don’t rally too hard. I’m guessing the FOMC likes the 10Y in the 4-5% range because that helps tighten the economy and slow down growth however at some point in 2024 the delta between CPI/PPI and short term Fed Funds rate will be so great that they might be forced to cut even though we might not be in a recession at the time. I think the markets are trying to sniff this out.
My long-exposure was over 100% going into the close on Friday so I added the inverse ETFs (SQQQ and TZA) right before the close to get me slightly hedged over the weekend and take my net long-exposure to ~80%. These ETFs are 3x leveraged so they are only meant for short-term trading and hedging. I’ll sell them sometime this morning, perhaps at the open or perhaps later in the day depending on the price action.
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Equity futures… looking pretty flat…
Indexes from Friday… good day for small/mid caps and growth stocks…
Sectors from Friday… oil finally outperforming, FWIW, the XLE is trying to push through the 200d sma/ema which might spark a bigger move to the upside…
Rates… glad to see the 10Y is still under 4.5% this morning…
New highs vs new lows…
Market performance…
$TNX — I think 4.36% is the real test
$VIX
$CL1! — oil might try to push through the 200d sma this week
$SPX
SPY
RSP
QQQ — still flirting with the summer highs
QQQE
IWM — rejected at the 200d sma last week, let’s see if we try to push through this week
IWO
ARKK
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