Traders inched up stops on $UPS and $WMT as both names hit new highs, a strategy for protecting profits. 1
Maintaining varied stop-loss strategies across multiple positions is key to managing risk. 2
Criteria for tracking earnings-reporting stocks include a price over $5 per share and average daily volume exceeding 1M. 3
$AMD sold off despite a double beat, signaling a “market selling on good news” environment, prompting caution. 4
Buying confirmed reversals with low risk is a favored strategy. 5
Holding significant cash allows opportunistic plays regardless of market conditions. 6
Stocks like $TGT and $UPS recovered sharply from lows around $80s to threaten $120s, illustrating that deeply oversold assets, including potentially $PYPL, often have significant upside. 7
A speculative long on $ETH hinges on a 3-year blue support line holding. 8
Software has lagged semis by 20% over the last 20 days, the largest gap since the February 2000 dot-com bubble peak. This extreme suggests a significant mean reversion is imminent for software, semis, or both, per BTIG. 9
Tech cycle disruptions create major ripple effects, particularly impacting private credit due to increased software exposure (from ~10% in 2016 to ~20% of BDC investments now, per Barclays). 10
UBS analysts estimate private credit default rates could surge up to 13% if software disruption becomes aggressive. 11
$ADBE is trading near its 2020 Covid Crash lows, effectively wiping out 6 years of gains for the once “Wall Street darling.” 12
$AMD’s data center business has scaled into a ~$20B annual run-rate engine. 13
JPMorgan upgraded $SoFi from Neutral to Overweight, setting a $31 target price (a 40% upside from $22). The firm disclosed a substantial increase of ~65,000,000 shares, citing the post-earnings dip as an entry point. 14
$TSLA is retesting its November 2021 peak levels (around $420.69 after-hours); a decisive break above $500 is crucial for continued momentum. 15
Market rumors of China’s CXMT slashing DDR4 prices, potentially causing a market crash, were directly debunked by a Morgan Stanley report confirming the initial report was incorrect. 16
$AMD CEO Lisa Su forecasts the data center business will achieve 60%+ annual growth over the next 3-5 years, fueled by record server CPU demand now comprising over half of total server revenue. The MI500 AI accelerator remains slated for a 2027 launch. 17
Pawn shop operators like $FCFS and $EZPW show strong performance, correlated inversely with ADP Payroll growth and directly with Pawn Loans Outstanding (PLO). Both are expected to re-rate higher due to gold inventory lag. 18