On Tuesday, markets continued its rebound after Monday’s brutal gap down.  The SPY gapped up 0.39%, DIA opened 0.12% higher, and QQQ gapped up 0.45%. From there, all three major index ETFs rallied most of the day to reach the highs just before 3 p.m.  At that point, all three sold off sharply the last 75 minutes of the day.  This action gave us gap-up, white-bodied Spinning Top candles in all three major index ETFs. However, all three had large upper wicks.  DIA also retested and failed its 50sma from below. This all happened on slightly above-average volume in all three major index ETFs.

For the day, all 10 sectors were in the green with Communications Services (+1.41%) leading the way higher.  Meanwhile, Consumer Defensive (+0.74%) lagged behind the other sectors.  At the same time, SPY gained 1.02%, DIA gained 0.88%, and QQQ gained 1.07%. VXX dropped sharply (but not nearly as sharply as it spiked Monday) to close at 72.38.  Meanwhile, T2122 jumped up out of the bottom of its oversold territory into the lower end of the mid-range at 30.68.  On the bond front, 10-year bond yields spiked up to 3.902% and Oil (WTI) gained 0.26% to close at $73.13 per barrel.  So, Tuesday saw a modest recovery from Monday’s brutal losses.  However, late profit-taking wiped out much of the bounce.  So, again, volatility was the watchword of the day.

The major economic news scheduled for Tuesday included the June Exports, which came in up at $265.90 billion (compared to a May $262.00 billion value).  On the other side, June Imports were also up, but not quite as much at $339.00 billion (versus a May reading of $337.00 billion).  Together, these resulted in a lower Trade Deficit as the June Trade Balance was at $73.10 billion (higher than the $72.50 billion forecast and down from May’s $75.00 billion reading).  Finally, after the close, the API Weekly Crude Oil Stocks showed a very minor build of 0.180 million barrels (compared to an expected 0.850-million-barrel build and far larger than the prior week’s -4.495-million-barrel drawdown).

At noon, the US EIA released its EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook update.  In it, the EIA increased its 2024 forecasts for US oil demand by 100k barrels per day to 20.5 million bpd. However, it left its world oil demand growth forecast unchanged at 102.9 million bpd.  Meanwhile, the EIA predicts US oil production will reach a new record of 13.23 million bpd this year, up 300k bpd.  At the same time, EIA cut its forecast annual avg. oil price for WTI by 2.2% to $80.21 per barrel.  Despite this, the agency expects Brent prices to remain between $85 and $90 by year end.  On the Natural Gas side, the EIA cut its US production forecast to 103.3 billion cubic feet per day (down from the prior forecast of 103.5 bcfpd.

After the close, AMGN, AIZ, AXON, CLW, CPNG, DVA, DVN, EXEL, FBAK, FTNT, GMED, GO, HY, ILMN, CART, IFF, MASI, MRC, PR, SKY, STE, SNEX, LRN, SU, RUN, TOST, and VFC all reported beats on both the revenue and earnings lines.  At the same time, AGL, AFG, ASH, PARR, and TRIP missed on revenue while beating on the earnings line.  On the other side, IAC, LUMN, RIVN, SVC, and SMCI beat on revenue while missing on earnings.  However, ABNB, ARKO, CRC, ENLC, PLUS, MOS, TSE, and WYNN missed on both the top and bottom lines.

In stock news, on Tuesday, UAL began negotiations with the Teamster union for a contract related to 10k aviation maintenance and related workers.  At the same time, MSFT fired back at DAL (similar to how CRWD had done on Monday) saying the airline refused help and unlike its competitors had failed to upgrade and maintain its global IT infrastructure.  MSFT said these failures have made the airline’s recovery to normal operations much longer and harder to accomplish than what their peers experienced. Later, SCHW said that high trading volumes and a technical issue with a “key vendor” was the cause of the brokerage’s Monday outage and long customer service wait times.  At the same time, NASA announced Tuesday that problems with BA’s Starliner spacecraft has caused it to push back the next scheduled launch of astronauts for at least one month.  (The most recent Starliner launch remains stuck at the International Space Station since the beginning of June.)  Later, after the close, SMCI announced a 10-for-1 stock split on September 30 (trading split on October 1).  At the same time, Reuters reported that VFC, LEVI, BRKB (via its Fruit of the Loom brand), TPR and TGT are the apparel makers with the biggest exposure to the political turmoil in Bangladesh.

In stock legal and governmental news, on Tuesday, SPWR filed for to request Chapter 11 bankruptcy and agreed to sell some of its assets for $45 million.  At the same time, the NHTSA released documents at the start of two 10-hour days of hearings into the BA 737 MAX 9 jet mid-air panel blowout incident from January.  Later the UK antitrust regulator announced it has begun its review of the IBM acquisition of HCP.  At the same time, Chinese regulators announced that TSLA will be performing a “remote recall” (over-the-air update) on 1.7 million cars in that country to fix a defect that files to indicate when the hood is latched.  At the same time, the SEC and CFTC announced that PIPR will pay a total of $16 million in civil penalties to resolve investigations into its trading record-keeping practices. (These very innocuous words cover the fact that the cases stem from unauthorized business communications with other traders via off-books communications platforms.  In other words, collusion between major market participants.)

Elsewhere, legal analysts said that Monday’s blockbuster antitrust ruling against GOOGL may actually aid AAPL in its own antitrust case brought by the same Dept of Justice and states).  The only part of the case where the court ruled in favor of GOOGL was in upholding the ultra-conservative SCOTUS ruling that companies (even monopolies) almost never have a duty to deal with competitors.  This is a key point in AAPL’s defense of its own antitrust case. Later, many major advertisers such as CVS, UL, and others as well as a major ad industry group were sued by the former Twitter as Elon Musk alleges, they are unlawfully conspiring to boycott advertising on his social media platform.

Overnight, Asian markets were nearly green across the board with only Shenzhen (-0.17%) preventing a clean sweep.  Taiwan (+3.87%) continued its big rebound from Monday while South Korea (+1.83%), Hong Kong (+1.38%), and India (+1.27%) led the main pack of gainers.  In Europe, we do see green across the board on multi-percent moves from all 15 bourses at midday.  The CAC (+1.69%), DAX (+1.28%), and FTSE (+1.10%) lead the region higher in early afternoon trade.  In the US, as of 7:30 a.m., Futures are pointing to a gap higher to start the day.  The DIA implies a +0.86% open, the SPY is implying a +1.25% open, and the QQQ implies a +1.51% open at this hour.  At the same time, 10-Year bond yields are higher to 3.933% and Oil (WTI) has popped 1.76% to $74.49 per barrel in early trading.

The major economic news scheduled for Wednesday is limited to EIA Crude Oil Inventories (10:30 a.m.) and June Consumer Credit (3 p.m.).  The major earnings reports scheduled for before the open include ADV, BCO, BAM, CRL, CCO, SID, CNDT, CRH, CVS, DBD, DDL, EMR, ENOV, GEO, GLP, GPN, GFF, HLT, HMC, IEP, KMT, LPX, LYFT, NEUE, NYT, NI, NOMD, NVO, DNOW, ODP, OGE, OSCR, PLTK, RCM, RL, REYN, ROK, RXO, SHOP, SONY, SUN, TGNA, PRKS, VSTS, VSH, DIS, and ZBH.  Then, after the close, AE, ALTG, DOX, APP, ATO, BHF, CACI, CENT, CENTA, CF, CHRD, CPA, CPAY, CPAY, CAPL, CW, EFXT, ET, ENS, NVST, EQIX, FWRD, HG, HI, HUBS, ICUI, JXN, LNW, MTW, MFC, MRO, MATV, MMS, MCK, MKSI, MODV, MNST, NTR, OXY, PRI, HOOD, RGLD, SBGI, SM, STN, TALO, MODG, UGI, VSAT, WBD, WTS, WES, ZG, and Z report. 

In economic news later this week, on Thursday we get Weekly Initial Jobless Claims, Weekly Continuing Jobless Claims, and the Fed Balance Sheet.  Finally, on Friday, there are no major economic news scheduled.

In terms of earnings reports later this week, on Thursday, we hear from WMS, COLD, AVAH, AVT, AZUL, FUN, CQP, LNG, COMM, DDOG, ELAN, LLY, EDR, EPAM, FWONK, ULCC, GTN, HBI, HGV, IHRT, KELYA, KOP, LAMR, LSXMK, LSXMA, MLM, MUR, NXST, NRG, PZZA, PH, PENN, ACDC, RPRX, QSR, SBH, SEE, SN, SPB, TKO, UAA, UA, USFD, VTNR, VTRS, VST, WMG, ATSG, AKAM, AMN, BTG, CIB, CPRI, CENX, BAP, DBX, DXC, SSP, EVH, EXPE, G, GILD, IAG, NWSA, NGL, PAAS, PARAA, PARA, PBA, PBI, RXT, REZI, SOLV, TTWO, TTD, and TTEC.  Finally, on Friday, AQN, AMCX, AXL, AMRX, CLMT, ROAD, ERJ, EVRG, and NFE report.

So far this morning, BCO, CTTAY, DBD, GPN, HMC, KMT, ADRNY, LPX, LYFT, NYT, OSCR, RCM, REYN, ROK, SHOP, SONY, SUN, VSH, DIS, and ZBH all reported beats on both the revenue and earnings lines.  Meanwhile, CRL, CVS, EMR, ENOV, HLT, NI, NOMD, PLTK, and RXO missed on revenue while beating on earnings.  On the other side, BAM, DDL, GEO, and OGE beat on revenue while missing on the earnings line. However, CCO, NVO, DNOW, ODP, and PRKS missed on both the top and bottom lines.

In miscellaneous news, on Tuesday, an independent council charged with governance of carbon credits reported that about one-third of all existing carbon credits fail to meet the new standard.  The new standard is that the ventures from which the credits are bought must not depend on carbon credit sales revenue to exist.  Elsewhere, 110k customers remain without power in Northern FL following the passing of storm Debby.  Meanwhile, the Fed released its Household Debt survey results for Q2.  The headline is that total US Household Debt edged higher (+0.6%) in the quarter, but the rate of loan delinquencies remained at 3.2%.  (For reference, that delinquency rate hit an all-time high of 4.7% at the end of 2019, before the pandemic.)  Elsewhere, overnight the global market recovery was given a boost by hints that the carry trade (borrowing money at negative interest in Japan to invest at a higher rate elsewhere) is not dead.  The Deputy Bank of Japan Governor gave dovish signals by pledging to refrain from hiking interest rates when stock markets are unstable.  (This caused the Yen to fall 2% against the Dollar.)

With that background, it looks as if the Bulls are in control early this morning. All three major index ETFs gapped higher to start the premarket and have printed large, white-body candles (almost no wick) since that gap up. However, be aware that DIA is now retesting its 50sma from below and the SPY and QQQ may also be retesting a potential resistance level above. One candle does not make a trend. So, the short-term trend remains clearly bearish as is the mid-term trend. However, while the bullish trend line is broken, the longer-term charts are not yet bearish. (For example, look at a Monthly chart. There is no way to call SPY, DIA, or QQQ bearish based on those monthly charts.) In terms of extension, the premarket moves have moved all three major index ETFs back closer to their T-lines above and relief a lot of their over-extension, but more relief may be in order. At the same time, the T2122 indicator is now out of its oversold range. So, the market has a little more slack to work with in either direction than it did after Monday’s huge gap down. With regard to those 10 big dog tickers, all 10 are in the green this morning with NVDA (+2.02%) leading the rebound again both in terms of gain and dollar-volume traded. The bottom line is that markets are bullish early today but this may just be a relief rally. Remain cautious and be careful of intraday volatility. The whipsaw is real.

As always, be deliberate and disciplined…but don’t be stubborn. If you have a loss, admit you were wrong and take that loss before it gets out of hand. And when the price does move in your direction, always move your stops in your favor and take a little profit off the table. You have to keep the “Legend of the Man in the Green Bathrobe” in mind. In a winning situation, it is NOT HOUSE MONEY you’re betting, it’s YOUR MONEY! There is no reason to keep raising your bet (risk) size just because you’ve had a win. Finally, remember that trading is not a hobby, it’s a job. The gains are real and so is the risk. So, treat it that way. Do the work and follow the process. Stick to your trading rules, trade with the trend, and take those profits when you have them. Do the work!

See you in the trading room.

Ed

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