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First off I hope everyone had a nice weekend so far and is having a good Sunday afternoon.
This is an audio based newsletter, therefore please listen to my comments and observations during my audio discussion, therefore I'll keep my written commentary fairly brief. Please listen to the newsletter audio for my complete thoughts.
Otherwise here's a index summary table
- SPY System Breakout Trade Discussion
- General Market Analysis: SPX and Other Major Indices, KISS system charts. Short term what stands out to me is some MACD divergence showing up on the intra day time frames and we are quite stretched/overbought short term.
- Indicators and Bonds (TLT/JNK)
- Major Sectors
- US Dollar, Commodities, Precious Metals and GDX and a few individual names
- Trade Ideas: following up on triggered names and carrying ones over from last week that didn't trade as well as added new ones
- Dividend Stocks I follow that have been doing well
Major Indexes | Index Symbol | ETF Symbol | % G / L Day | % G / L Week | Close |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dow Jones | INDU - W | DIA - W | 0.89% | 1.95% | 33,800.60 |
S&P 500 | SPX - W | SPY - W | 0.77% | 2.71% | 4,128.80 |
Wilshire 5000 | WLSH - W | 0.62% | 2.38% | 43,288.24 | |
Nasdaq | COMPQ - W | 0.51% | 3.12% | 13,900.19 | |
NDX 100 | NDX - W | QQQ - W | 0.63% | 3.87% | 13,845.06 |
Russel 2000 (Small Caps) | IWM - W | 0.01% | -0.51% | 222.59 |
Market Sectors | Index Symbol | ETF Symbol | % G / L Day | % G / L Week | Close |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Transports | TRAN - W | IYT - W | 0.88% | 1.15% | 14,918.33 |
Banks | BKX - W | 1.08% | 1.51% | 123.24 | |
Financials | XLF - W | 0.86% | 1.97% | 35.15 | |
Brokers | XBD - W | 1.05% | 1.78% | 457.93 | |
XLE (Energy Select) | XLE - W | -0.66% | -4.21% | 48.19 | |
Oil Service Holders | OIH - W | -2.02% | -6.24% | 184.51 | |
Technology | XLK - W | 0.96% | 4.64% | 141.77 | |
Semiconductor | SOX - W | SMH - W | -0.20% | 1.68% | 3,294.53 |
Communication Services | XLC - W | -0.03% | 3.14% | 76.92 | |
Retail | XRT - W | 1.56% | 3.02% | 92.21 | |
Consumer Staples | XLP - W | -0.17% | 1.38% | 68.92 | |
Consumer Discretionary | XLY - W | 0.95% | 3.87% | 175.98 | |
Industrials | XLI - W | 0.97% | 1.75% | 100.51 | |
Real Estate | IYR - W | -0.01% | 0.41% | 93.96 | |
Homebuilders | HGX - W | XHB - W | 2.22% | 2.32% | 485.89 |
Materials | XLB - W | 0.87% | 0.70% | 80.05 | |
Metals And Mining | XME - W | -1.10% | -2.13% | 39.50 | |
Biotechnology | BTK - W | XBI - W | -0.49% | -2.60% | 5,427.10 |
Healthcare | XLV - W | 1.10% | 1.34% | 117.95 | |
Drugs | DRG - W | 0.65% | 0.25% | 694.08 | |
Utilities | UTIL - W | XLU - W | 0.06% | 1.38% | 891.67 |
Currencies | Index Symbol | ETF Symbol | % G / L Day | % G / L Week | Close |
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US Dollar | UUP - W | 0.08% | -0.80% | 24.81 | |
Euro | XEU - W | FXE - W | -0.14% | 1.04% | 119.00 |
Yen | XJY - W | FXY - W | -0.39% | 0.87% | 91.19 |
Australian | XAD - W | FXA - W | -0.39% | 0.09% | 76.23 |
British Pound | XBP - W | FXB - W | -0.19% | -0.91% | 137.08 |
Chinese Yuan | CYB - W | -0.96% | -0.37% | 26.95 | |
Canadian Dollar | CDW - W | FXC - W | 0.29% | 0.14% | 79.82 |
Swiss Franc | XSF - W | FXF - W | 0.00% | 1.91% | 108.19 |
Cryptocurrencies | Index Symbol | ETF Symbol | % G / L Day | % G / L Week | Close |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bitcoin | BTCUSD - W | -0.21% | 2.47% | 59,660.11 | |
Bitcoin Cash | BCHUSD - W | 1.17% | 21.35% | 680.44 | |
Etherium | ETHUSD - W | 0.25% | 3.01% | 2,139.13 | |
Monero | XMRUSD - W | 11.32% | 23.29% | 325.24 | |
Litecoin | LTCUSD - W | -2.41% | 23.48% | 249.78 | |
Ripple | XRPUSD - W | 1.38% | 119.16% | 1.39 |
Commodities | Index Symbol | ETF Symbol | % G / L Day | % G / L Week | Close |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Commodities | DBC - W | -0.36% | -0.65% | 16.78 | |
Crude Oil | WTIC - W | USO - W | -0.47% | -3.47% | 59.32 |
Gasoline | GASO - W | 0.14% | -2.98% | 1.96 | |
Natural Gas | NATGAS - W | UNG - W | 0.16% | -4.28% | 2.53 |
Copper | COPPER - W | JJCB - W | -1.33% | 1.24% | 4.04 |
Agriculture | DBA - W | -0.12% | 2.13% | 17.27 | |
Corn | CORN - W | CORN - W | -0.43% | 3.13% | 577.25 |
Wheat | WHEAT - W | WEAT - W | 1.59% | 4.54% | 638.75 |
Coffee | JO - W | -0.70% | 4.25% | 36.77 | |
Sugar | CANE - W | 1.79% | 5.29% | 7.36 |
Precious Metals | Index Symbol | ETF Symbol | % G / L Day | % G / L Week | Close |
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Gold Metal | GLD - W | -0.75% | 0.80% | 163.27 | |
Silver | SLV - W | -0.89% | 1.12% | 23.41 | |
Platinum | PPLT - W | -2.12% | -0.60% | 112.87 | |
Palladium | PALL - W | 0.56% | -1.02% | 247.42 | |
GDX Gold Miners ETF | GDX - W | 0.00% | 3.36% | 34.73 |
Bonds | Index Symbol | ETF Symbol | % G / L Day | % G / L Week | Close |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
High Yield Corporate Bond | HYG - W | -0.07% | 0.15% | 87.20 | |
TLT 20 Year Bond ETF | TLT - W | -0.36% | 0.00% | 137.51 | |
10 Year Treasury Yield | TNX - W | 2.08% | -0.77% | 16.66 | |
30 Year Treasury Yield | TYX - W | 0.73% | -0.04% | 23.39 |
Release | ET | For | Trading Impact | Forecast | Consensus | Prior |
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Apr 12 | ||||||
Treasury Budget | 14:00 | Mar | Low | NA | -$658.0B | -$118.9B |
Apr 13 | ||||||
NFIB Small Business Optimism | 06:00 | Mar | Low | NA | NA | 95.8 |
CPI | 08:30 | Mar | High | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.4% |
Core CPI | 08:30 | Mar | High | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% |
Apr 14 | ||||||
MBA Mortgage Applications Index | 07:00 | 04/10 | Low | NA | NA | -5.1% |
Import Prices | 08:30 | Mar | Low | NA | NA | 1.3% |
Import Prices ex-oil | 08:30 | Mar | Low | NA | NA | 0.4% |
Export Prices | 08:30 | Mar | Low | NA | NA | 1.6% |
Export Prices ex-ag. | 08:30 | Mar | Low | NA | NA | 1.5% |
EIA Crude Oil Inventories | 10:30 | 04/10 | High | NA | NA | -3.52M |
Fed's Beige Book | 14:00 | Apr | Low | NA | NA | NA |
Apr 15 | ||||||
Retail Sales | 08:30 | Mar | High | 6.0% | 5.3% | -3.0% |
Retail Sales ex-auto | 08:30 | Mar | High | 5.3% | 4.9% | -2.7% |
Initial Claims | 08:30 | 04/10 | High | 705K | 695K | 744K |
Continuing Claims | 08:30 | 04/03 | High | NA | NA | 3.734M |
Empire State Manufacturing | 08:30 | Apr | Low | 25.0 | 23.0 | 17.4 |
Philadelphia Fed Index | 08:30 | Apr | Low | 41.5 | 35.0 | 51.8 |
Industrial Production | 09:15 | Mar | Medium | 3.2% | 2.9% | -2.2% |
Capacity Utilization | 09:15 | Mar | Medium | 75.7% | 75.9% | 73.8% |
Business Inventories | 10:00 | Feb | Low | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.3% |
NAHB Housing Market Index | 10:00 | Apr | Medium | 84.0 | 84.0 | 82.0 |
EIA Natural Gas Inventories | 10:30 | 04/10 | Low | NA | NA | +20 bcf |
Net Long-Term TIC Flows | 16:00 | Feb | Low | NA | NA | $90.8B |
Apr 16 | ||||||
Housing Starts | 08:30 | Mar | High | 1650K | 1621K | 1421K |
Building Permits | 08:30 | Mar | High | 1800K | 1750K | 1682K |
Univ. of Michigan Consumer Sentiment - Prelim | 10:00 | Apr | High | 89.0 | 88.0 | 84.9 |
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