Caterpillar. And thats no bulldozer. And Professor Mike khouw is this is an interesting situation. Is running through duelling option exercises on how to play nike going into next weeks earnings. If you already own the stock or not, you can just do it. Its time to risk less and make more options action starts right now. Welcome. I love doing this show, but ive got to take an issue with that deepvoiced guy. He says barrel of cheeseballs like its a bad thing. Really come on. Well, it has been a maybe not bad but tougher year for the consumer space the xlp Consumer Staples is up but just over 1 so its underperforming the Broader Market carter worth, a man who maybe has seen a barrel of cheese balls in his day, says there could be an even Bigger Consumer crackdown ahead. Carter, what are the charts telling you . A bunch of things going on. One thing to consider is that the dollar, which has been very, very weak, has started to stabilize. Second only to technology, the staples sector is dep
Forward is likely at an end. A few charts the first of several. The first, here is the xlp youll see they have a small head and shoulders top formed in this particular chart. If you look at the next chart, ive kept the head and shoulders top and also included the trend line in effect since the march low. We have two circumstances. We have a reversal formation, a head and shoulders top and we have a break of the trend thats been in effect since the march low. Third chart, another way to consider the facts, this is now a line across the top connecting the january and february peak prepandemic what we know is the xlp did break out, but now its fallen back below the level from which it broke out take a look at one more chart. This is the head and shoulders top in relation to the line drawn along the pandemic peak before the selloff anyway you slice it and dice it, we have distribution and it looks like theres more to go. Two more things. Take a look at this table. One thing we know about t
Recount in that fight for a p g board seat and cisco shares up 6 premarket on an earningsdriven recovery walmart, though, is up sharply in the premarket the dow component reporting better than expected earnings, revenue, and comps, which were the best in eight years. Online sales up 50 . Walmart issued some upbeat guidance for the full year jim, you just said to joe, that Doug Mcmillen may have reinvented this company for real hes done a great job in bringing in mark rory of jersey fame hes done a lot of tech stuff for jet. Com. Smart. I think this was the quarter where you realize, were playing for keeps. We can actually make a lot of money, cutting prices, bringing people in, well, whos that . Thats amazon. So we found our toetotoe now the stock was down yesterday, down about a buck and a half, off of target. That turned out to be a mistake. This company is taking share by the way, online 50 is rather remarkable this is a reinvention. And i think that people have to recognize, when w
Heading our way in an hour and crude inventories not long after that new record at the open but the selloff for tech stocks continues to weigh on the nasdaq and s p. Jack ma, the push to brick and mortar and why jeff bezos struggled in the Chinese Market. A turning point for snap, a key 2018 outlook upgrade shares are up in the premarket. Futures are pointing to a higher open after the record setting day for the dow and s p offset by the sell offin Technology Microsoft and amazon had the biggest impact on the nasdaq and optimism surrounding tax reform. We did manage to get the vote in the house to go to conference with a little bit of drama last night. Jim, you said the reversal yesterday, doesnt bode well well, look, i was doing my show and you posted a little squib about reversal and i did not realize how serious reversal was obviously its more serious for the but i find reversals catch people out of position when youre out of position, you scramble and start reaching for things you
But the chart master says this could be your best chance to bite stock hell explain what has him so excited. First, we start with the markets at alltime highs, the s p having its best start to the year in more than a decade, the dow hitting a fresh record high and barreling towards 26,000 as the tax euphoria takes america by storm whats driving the markets glad you asked its what we call the untouchables amazon and boeing only had one down day in 2018 and this following huge runs for both these names last year, starting the year at all time highs. How much further do these stocks have to run and what if anything can bring them down . Guy . Steve has been all over amazon, ill let him talk about amazon boeing has been a monster. Weve been talking about it for the last few years what do they have going for them commercial aviation, theyre crushing it. A backlog of 6,000 planes, people are ordering planes from boeing what else . The defense component of their stock as well. You lump them i