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STOCKS – ISRG, DBD, NFLX, CMCSA, UBER
MACRO – SPY
- RTM Tactical Update: The Equity Market Continues Down The 2018 Rabbit Hole
- RTM Video- Job Report Was Pretty Strong
- RTM Exclusive – The Netflix Gamma Squeeze
- RTM- GDP Downward Revisions Begin
- RTM Exclusive – Mastercard’s Bottom May Be Near As Options Trade Look For Rebound
- RTM – Nasdaq EPS Est. Dip
- RTM Exclusive- Merck’s Shares May Be Ready To Surge Between Now And Year-End
- RTM- A Total Lack Of Concern
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The market finished the week up by about 60 bps, after a flat session on Friday. The BLS Jobs report seemed to be met with a lot of confusion, with a big miss on the headline non-farm payroll report but with a big drop in the unemployment rate. Overall, the number was very strong and did nothing to derail the Fed from a potential taper at the November meeting. The most important number seems to be the U6 measure of underemployment which fell to 8.8% from 9.2% in July, while wages rose 0.6% month-over-month. These numbers are too strong for the Fed to ignore and will prompt them to act. This will lead them to make a powerful policy statement at the September meeting for the start of tapering at the November FOMC meeting.
Bond yields rose sharply on Friday, and the dollar slumped because of the inflation fear due to the big rise in wage growth. But that wage growth number has been all over the place since the pandemic began, and it seems impossible to draw any conclusion from it. Especially on a year-over-year basis, but wage growth had been trending higher before the pandemic.
In the past, the 8.8% underemployment rate would not have stood in the way of the Fed rate hikes, let alone ending QE. The chart below shows that the Fed was raising rates in both 2004 and 2015. The QE program of the post-financial crisis had long ended, and of course, there was no QE in the early 2000s. From a perspective of a hurdle to end tapering, that hurdle has been met. I reviewed this a few back in a weekly premium commentary, which you can now download for free in a PDF format. I charge for these write-up because they take me an incredibly long time to research and then write up. I do give these write-ups to members of Reading The Markets as part of their membership. Please read the August 14 one for free, I hope you like it. (Free Premium commentary – Tapering Is Coming, And It May Lead To Equity Market Turbulence 8.14.21).
S&P 500 (SPY)
The S&P 500 completed a rising triangle pattern on the 30-minute chart on Thursday and retested it on Friday. Typically a rising wedge pattern is bearish and a reversal pattern. There is support down to around 4,470.
Netflix (NFLX)
It looks like Netflix is in the middle of a gamma squeeze. All of the characteristics of one are there, with the rising stock price, call volume, and implied volatility, along with falling skew. Can it persist and rise further, yes, that is entirely possible, but these things do to end rather badly, so one should be careful at the very least. (Premium content – RTM Exclusive – The Netflix Gamma Squeeze)
Comcast (CMCSA)
Comcast has been really strong in recent days, and it has to this point broken free of its consolidation pattern. When measuring from the Janaury lows to March peak, it would indicate the shares could still rise further perhaps to $68.50. That is still quite a distance.
Diebold (DBD)
I’m keeping eye on Diebold, I know a really boring company one would think. But I recently used one of their self-check out machines in a Zara when I took my kids back to school shopping and it really blew me away. You just dropped your clothes in a basket and all the items instantly rang up, using RFID. Much better than those scanning machines. The stock is trying to break out here, moving above a downtrend, and the RSI is trying to reverse. The next big test comes around $12.
Uber (UBER)
Uber is really trying hard to turn the corner here, and you can see how the trend in the RSI is starting to rise. There has been a ramp up in options activity, but I really need look much closer on Tuesday, once all the open interest changes come in.
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)
Intuitive Surgical is starting to show some reversal trends, with a bearish RSI. Additionally, the March to April run-up in price appears to have no played out from the June break out. It makes this a pretty good spot for the stock to stop rising and potentially reverse.
-Mike
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