SPX and Dow did what we thought yesterday – gapped higher, traded lower. SPX slightly, Dow definitely.
Nazquack and Uncle Russ decided to hold hands overnight and skip through the meadows of new all-time highs. NQ premarket already past its NATH. RTY past hers.
New SPX bear swing printed at Tuesday’s close but %R extreme says continuation. RUT bear setup ignored – MACD-v in bullish extreme is a continuation signal under the updated rules.
Oil is right on the cusp of a range reversal or a breakout. Exhaustion bar at the range low could be nullified – $80 if the channel breaks, $104 to $115 if the range holds.
BTC compressed between the VWAPs. 75K is the line. Below it, $72K looms. The H&S read from yesterday now muddied – this is why you don’t get married to pattern names.
SPX 7,519.12 and Nasdaq 26,656.18 closed at fresh records Tuesday on the day Centcom fired on Iran. The tape, having considered both, picked records.
Micron crossed $1 trillion on a 19% Tuesday move. Memory now eats AI valuations. UBS sees over 100% additional upside, which is a number that lives in the future.
Brent rallied 4% Tuesday to $99 on the same Hormuz strikes the equity tape ignored. WTI $93. The two markets are looking at different newspapers.
Bitcoin stalls at $76,800 down 1% as equities print records. Spot BTC ETFs marked six straight outflow days totalling $1.55B. The institutions arrived and quietly left.
Warsh sworn in Friday at the White House by Justice Thomas. First FOMC June 16-17. 30-year yield at 5.02% is not asking permission for cuts.
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...All four stock indexes now in sync on the charts. Premarket gap higher across the board, futures pushing for new all-time highs.
SPX and RUT both printed bear swing setups at Friday’s close. The gap higher in premarket could void both swings or set up a profitable retest.
7,500 is the GEX anchor. Massive call gamma node. Dealers may defend the level as price pushes back from any gap higher.
Brent down 9% on the month. Hormuz still closed. Third consecutive session of oil pricing the peace deal that has not been signed.
BTC finding support at the longer-term anchored VWAP. Possible inverted head and shoulders developing.
Futures up 0.6% on a peace deal that has not been signed. Brent down 4%. VIX firmer. Uranium terms and Hormuz tolls remain unresolved details.
Warsh begins his first full session as Fed Chair, inheriting 3.5% PCE and a 19-year high in 30Y yields. Markets price hold through 2026 anyway.
Bitcoin reads identical news to equities and falls 0.88% to $76,635. Six-day ETF outflow streak hits $1.55B. ETH ETFs bleeding ten straight days.
Defence stocks discover that peace is also a risk after four months of being the only trade that worked. Position unwinds become symmetric reversal risk.
AutoZone reports premarket. May confidence at 10:00 ET. Zscaler after the close. The data calendar will quietly disagree with the reopening optimism today, again.
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