Markets Rebound After Down Week, Major Tech Earnings and FOMC This Week

April 27, 2020
By Vlad Karpel

Today, several sectors were able to break through recent overhead resistance, such as small-cap stocks and homebuilders. As mega-cap technology stocks are set to announce earnings, this week will be crucial in deciding if markets will pull back to $260-270 level or if markets will retest 200 days MA at $300 level for the SPY. Last week, stocks fell behind continued COVID concern and impact as well as record-low oil drops. This week, major U.S. indices opened in the green looking ahead towards several key earnings and the latest FOMC announcement due Wednesday. Apple, Amazon, and Netflix are just a few of the major corporate earnings due out this week. Keeping current market conditions in mind, we still believe the market is still susceptible to 5-10% selloff but we do not see the market retesting recent lows. Investors should continue considering hedging portfolios into the rallies. It is our opinion, in the short term, the market is overbought in the short term while long-term investors can consider buying equities with dollar-cost averaging in mind. Market Commentary readers are always encouraged to maintain clearly defined stop-levels for all positions. For reference, the SPY Seasonal Chart is shown below:

Elsewhere, oil saw a substantial drop while gold also lowered today. Both the dollar and treasuries saw modest movement lower today. Globally, Asian and European markets unanimously rose.

Key U.S. Economic Reports Out This Week:

  • Consumer Confidence Index (April) – Tuesday
  • Homeownership Rate (Q1) – Tuesday
  • Gross Domestic Product (Q1) – Wednesday
  • FOMC Announcement – Wednesday
  • Weekly Jobless Claims (4/25) – Thursday
  • Core Inflation (March) – Thursday
  • Consumer Spending (March) – Thursday
  • Personal Income (March) – Thursday
  • Markit Manufacturing PMI (April) – Friday

Key Corporate Earnings Out This Week:

  • GOOGL – Alphabet – Tuesday, April 28th
  • MMM – 3M – Tuesday, April 28th
  • CAT – Caterpillar – Tuesday, April 28th
  • PEP – PepsiCo – Tuesday, April 28th
  • SBUX – Starbucks – Tuesday, April 28th
  • BA – Boeing – Wednesday, April 29th
  • FB – Facebook – Wednesday, April 29th
  • MA – MasterCard – Wednesday, April 29th
  • MSFT – Microsoft – Wednesday, April 29th
  • QCOM – Qualcomm – Wednesday, April 29th
  • TSLA – Tesla – Wednesday, April 29th
  • AMZN – Amazon – Thursday, April 30th
  • AAPL – Apple – Thursday, April 30th
  • CMCSA – Comcast – Thursday, April 30th
  • TWTR – Twitter – Thursday, April 30th
  • V – Visa – Thursday, April 30th
  • CVX – Chevron – Friday, May 1st

Using the “^GSPC” symbol to analyze the S&P 500 our 10-day prediction window shows a near-term mixed outlook. Prediction data is uploaded after the market closes at 6 p.m. CST. Today’s data is based on market signals from the previous trading session.


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Highlight of a Recent Winning Trade

On April 3rd, our ActiveTrader service produced a bullish recommendation for Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD)ActiveTrader is included in several Tradespoon membership plans and is designed for day trading, with signals meant to last for 1-2 days.

Trade Breakdown

GILD entered its forecasted Strategy B Entry 1 price range $76.98(± 0.77) in the second hour of trading that day and passed through its Target price of $77.75 in the fourth hour of trading that day. The Stop Loss price was set at $76.21.


Tuesday Morning Featured Symbol

Our featured symbol for Tuesday is Nvidia Corp. (NVDA). NVDA is showing a steady vector in our Stock Forecast Toolbox’s 10-day forecast. This stock is assigned a Model Grade of (B) indicating it ranks in the top 25th percentile for accuracy for current-day predicted support and resistance, relative to our entire data universe.

The stock is trading at $289.59, with a vector of  -0.04% at the time of publication.

Prediction data is uploaded after the market close at 6 p.m., CST. Today’s data is based on market signals from the previous trading session.

Note: The Vector column calculates the change of the Forecasted Average Price for the next trading session relative to the average of actual prices for the last trading session. The column shows the expected average price movement “Up or Down”, in percent. Trend traders should trade along the predicted direction of the Vector. The higher the value of the Vector the higher its momentum.

*Please note: At the time of publication Vlad Karpel does not have a position in the featured symbol, NVDA. Our featured symbol is part of your free subscription service. It is not included in any paid Tradespoon subscription service. Vlad Karpel only trades his own personal money in paid subscription services.  If you are a paid subscriber, please review your Premium Member Picks, ActiveTrader or MonthlyTrader recommendations. If you are interested in receiving Vlad’s personal picks, please click here. 


Oil

West Texas Intermediate for Crude Oil delivery (CL.1) is priced at $12.92 per barrel, down 23.73% from the open, at the time of publication.

Looking at USO, a crude oil tracker, our 10-day prediction model shows mixed signals. The fund is trading at $2.81 at the time of publication. Prediction data is uploaded after the market close at 6 p.m., CST. Today’s data is based on market signals from the previous trading session.


Gold

The price for the Gold Continuous Contract (GC00) is down 0.65% at $1,724.30 at the time of publication.

Using SPDR GOLD TRUST (GLD) as a tracker in our Stock Forecast Tool, the 10-day prediction window shows mixed signals. The gold proxy is trading at $159.7, at the time of publication. Vector signals show -0.08% for today. Prediction data is uploaded after the market close at 6 p.m., CST. Today’s data is based on market signals from the previous trading session.

Treasuries

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note is up to 0.615% at the time of publication.

The yield on the 30-year Treasury note is up to 1.215% at the time of publication.

Using the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) as a proxy for bond prices in our Stock Forecast Tool, we see negative signals in our 10-day prediction window. Prediction data is uploaded after the market close at 6 p.m., CST. Today’s data is based on market signals from the previous trading session.


Volatility

The CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX) is $43.83 at the time of publication, and our 10-day prediction window shows mixed signals. Prediction data is uploaded after the market close at 6 p.m., CST. Today’s data is based on market signals from the previous trading session. 


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