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NDX Daily, chopping around the channel support
ES1! resistance 6863-6865, 6873-6875
ES support: 6820-6825, 6792-6795
Market finished flat yesterday, but breadth continued to improve as the US government shutdown officially ended and furloughed employees began returning to work. The funding bill was signed, though back pay and program reinstatements may take days to weeks.
BABA is overhauling its main AI app to resemble ChatGPT and adding shopping features as it works toward a full AI agent. The stock price spiked during Asia hours. Data center developers are flooding utilities with inflated power requests, approaching multiple utilities with the same project to secure the lowest priced power. This is creating phantom projects and complicating long term capacity planning. Future earnings misses at utilities could be an early indicator that the bubble is about to pop.
Boston Fed President said there should be a high bar for further easing and policy should likely stay on hold for some time, aligning with Powell. NY Fed's Perli noted it may not be long before the Fed grows its balance sheet again as reserves are no longer abundant. Futures markets still price about a 70% chance of a December rate cut, roughly unchanged from levels after the last FOMC meeting.
AI related equities remain under pressure. We continue to see divergence between NQ1! and SPX, with Financials and Health Care outperforming when AI is not the market's main focus. The market appears reluctant to lean into AI ahead of NVDA earnings on November 19th, with options implying about a 6% move. Given unusually harsh reactions to Q4 misses, NVDA could easily fall by more than 10% on a disappointment and NQ could drop around 3%, pulling indices back toward bear territory, while upside on a beat may be more limited. Gold stalled around 4.2k, found support near 4,180 after the funding bill was signed, then broke through resistance and is now about 4% from its all time high. We remain bullish on GC1! as the market will increasingly hear from Trump about his 2k tariff relief, and unless the job market improves meaningfully, GC is well supported by fundamentals with a maximum downside around 3.8 to 3.9k.
BTC1!
BTC has solid support near $99k. If it holds that level, gold should rally smoothly.
Chart: Binance BTCUSDT perpetual · Asset Tag: CME Bitcoin futures (BTC1!).
BTC1!
To maintain the pattern, either gold spikes while BTC drops, or BTC rises and gold rises even more. Either way, gold is going up. #GC #Gold #BTC View note
Chart: Binance BTC/USD and COMEX gold futures · BTC Asset Tag: CME Bitcoin futures (BTC1!).
Chart: Binance BTCUSDT perpetual · Asset Tag: CME Bitcoin futures (BTC1!).
ES1! resistance levels: 6902-6905, 6918-6921
ES Support levels 6881-6883, 6855-6860
SPX 1h
NQ1! 4h
Futures are higher premarket. Yesterday's NQ1! weakness tied to CRWV, reports of SoftBank selling NVDA, Meta losing its chief AI scientist, and AMD failing to clear a high bar was offset by broader gains in other sectors, with SPX outperforming NQ by 0.5%. The House is expected to vote later today on a funding bill that Trump supports, which would be another step toward reopening. Trump is also hosting Wall Street executives for dinner tonight.
Markets trimmed the probability of rate cuts after Powell's October press conference. Given yesterday's weak jobs report, bonds may quickly move back to pricing in those cuts. Following the shutdown, October and November reports could be released within a tight seven day window in early December, just ahead of the December FOMC.
ES followed our levels yesterday morning, trading between 6830 and 6850 before breaking out in the afternoon. SPX is set to open above the mid channel. NQ is showing a similar structure, and could chop around the mid channel ahead of NVDA earnings. 4.1k proved to be a pivot for GC, acting as support twice after GC broke through it.
ES1! resistance levels:6848-6850,6856-6857,
ES support levels:6830-6834. 6810-6812, 6795-6798
ES1! 1h, tangling around the mid-channel
SPX 1h, showing the same setup
ES1! resistance 6828-6831, 6841-6843
ES support 6802-6805, 6785-6790
AMD, AVGO, GOOGL, META, and NVDA up about 2% to 3.5% pre-market after underperforming last week. Risk appetite improved over the weekend, with gold higher. The main development this weekend was the US Senate advancing plans to end the government shutdown. A vote for final passage is not yet scheduled, and timing remains unclear since the Senate needs consent from all members to end the shutdown quickly. The deal does not extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, a key Democratic demand that could complicate passage. Prediction markets now show about an 87% chance the shutdown ends between Nov 12 and Nov 15, up roughly 60% from Friday, while the probability of an outcome after Nov 16 fell from 60% to 7%.
Last weekend's bearish tone faded after Friday afternoon's rebound and a strong Asia session. Reopening prospects can remain a short term catalyst until resolved. NVDA briefly broke below the 182 support area but closed back above it. Market reaction after reopening will be important for the second half of November and December. Another catalyst to watch is NVDA earnings on Nov 19. If there is no significant downside reaction after NVDA earnings and the government reopens as expected, our expectation of a strong fourth quarter could play out.
NQ1! 1h
NQ1! 1h close-up
ES1! has rebounded from our 6,680 support level.
SPX 1h showing a breakaway gap, upside is very limited today and NQ1! is on track for its worst week since April low
BTC1! GC1!
BTC/GC ratio #BTC #BTCUSDT #Gold
Chart: Binance BTC/USD and COMEX gold futures · BTC Asset Tag: CME Bitcoin futures (BTC1!).
ES1! 1h, showing a trendline support around 6680
Futures are lower with most of Mag7 lower premarket. Shutdown negotiations remain stalled, and airline flight cuts are expected to begin Friday. The longest US government shutdown in history is not the primary driver of recent market softness, but markets are not holding up as well as in 2018 and 2019, and missed paychecks and data delays may worsen the situation.
Jensen said he is not actively discussing Blackwell shipments to China. OpenAI suggested government aid, and Trump denied any federal bailout for AI. The New York Fed President said the Fed could soon return to expanding its securities holdings, a week after signaling that balance sheet runoff would wind down on December 1. This is the Fed QE we discussed yesterday.
ES1! resistance levels: 6745-6750, 6770-6775, 6795-6800
ES support levels: 6713-6715, 6679-6683
MAGS Mag7, broke below the trendline support
ES1! resistance levels:6822-6825, 6830-6833
ES support levels:6790-6792, 6750-6755
The US Supreme Court appeared skeptical of Trump's use of sweeping tariff powers, with some justices suggesting he overstepped his authority. Even if the duties are struck down, he has other legal options, leaving companies and countries in limbo. Odds that IEEPA tariffs are ruled unlawful have risen toward the 70-80% range. In equities, tariff losers such as Healthcare, Consumer Discretionary, and Industrials could see material impacts, along with cyclicals and breadth improvement. US companies announced 153k job cuts in October, the most for any October in more than two decades, as AI reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates. Democrats remain divided on how to end the record shutdown.
Continuing on yesterday's AI bubble theory, I don't think we're at the peak yet, as major players still have room to make moves. On the macro side, the Fed announced it would pause QT last week, and the market expects more rate cuts into 2026. This aligns with our thesis from the beginning of the year that we'd see a combination of monetary and fiscal stimulus from the new administration to ease the debt problem (fiscal stimulus to ensure economic growth while monetary stimulus monetizes government debt). The Fed's QE, combined with record-high fiscal stimulus, will push multiples higher. Currently, we're at about 30x P/E for Mag7, compared to the peak of around 50x during the dot-com bubble. We will see a combination of 1) more warning signs from major players' deteriorating balance sheets or cash flow, 2) record-high round-tripping deals, 3) increased multiples, and 4) increased inflation. As the Fed accelerates this bubble, it can also pop it if we see a meaningful increase in inflation.
We were stopped out yesterday due to a broad-based rebound, supported by a return to Tech, Supreme Court skepticism on IEEPA tariffs, solid global economic data, and perhaps most importantly, Trump's pump tweet calling for a higher stock market. Breadth was strong, with RTY1! leading the rebound. ES1! 6860-6870 is critical for bulls to take back control today, but we could see a reversal at the ironclad resistance around 6850-6860. The selling had been orderly in the past few days, and yesterday's rally was met with an ugly sell-off into the close, which could add fuel to the downside in the ST. I'll be looking for a reentry around 6850-6860 if tested in the morning session.