set sl at breakeven
ES1!
set sl at breakeven
ES1!
open 1/2 ES1! short at 6770
ES1! started to pull back exactly from our 6730 resistance
ES1! Daily, retraced against broken lines, and this happens to be the SPX 50D MA
ES1! resistance levels: 6725-6730
ES support levels:6693-6695, 6655-6660. 6628-6630, 6598-6602
Stocks staged a healthy rebound on Monday as December rate cut odds shot up to 80% and the AI narrative stabilized. Fed expectations repriced after Waller and Daly delivered dovish remarks. BxC is trying to bounce, and the CN-X/Trump call (including discussion of an April G2 meeting in CN) is helping sentiment. With QT set to conclude, the Fed will begin reinvesting MBS paydowns into T bills, coupled with reserve management purchases to maintain a stable level of ample reserves. We talked about how the Fed would eventually set its monetary policy to an accommodating level to help with the U.S. debt problem. This is expected.
The GEMINI 3 release, and the fact that a large portion of the model was trained on GOOGL's own AI chips (TPUs), which the company is now in talks to sell or rent to others, triggered clear dispersion between OpenAI linked names and GOOG ecosystem beneficiaries across both the US and Asia. The tape was very interesting yesterday as we saw both ES1! and NQ1! rally hard, break through several key resistance levels and finally get stopped at the SPX 50D MA. Both ES and NQ are now in bull territory, and NVDA broke through the 181 key resistance intraday yesterday and closed above it. It is also important to note that ORCL and META managed a solid rebound yesterday after leading to the downside since the start of November. SPX 50D MA (ES = 6730) is the last line of defense for the bears. If the bulls can close above it, we should get another up leg into year end.
There is one caveat, however, which is that NVDA was sold sharply premarket and is once again trading below the key support level due to competition from Google on its chips (NVDA down ~4, Google up ~4). The market cap difference is now only 4% away from Google overtaking NVDA's throne. If that happens, and Google manages to hold its position for a while, NVDA's price drop will no longer threaten our bull thesis. Even if NVDA trades below our key support zone, Google could lead the market higher into year end. But that remains to be seen, as the market has focused almost exclusively on NVDA for the past three years. SPX 50D MA could act as ST resistance given that the market rebounded from its 100D MA. I expect more choppy tape in the short term.
BTC1!
Chart: Binance BTCUSDT perpetual · Asset Tag: CME Bitcoin futures (BTC1!).
ES1! resistance levels:6687-6690, 6720-6725
ES support levels: 6633-6638, 6600-6605
Japan reaffirmed plans to deploy missiles on an island near Taiwan as tensions with China continue to smolder. Trump said this week he expects much lower interest rates once he can install a new Federal Reserve chair next May, although growing opposition to a December rate cut inside the Fed suggests he may not get his way. At the same time, the bond market is straining to absorb a flood of new issuance from tech companies funding AI investments. Since the start of September, Amazon, Google, Meta and Oracle have issued nearly 90 billion dollars of investment grade bonds, more than they sold over the previous 40 months. The US and Ukraine also report progress in talks on a peace plan with Russia, while Trump's proposed November 27 deadline looks likely to drift into the following week. The latest version of the plan reportedly incorporates most of Kyiv's priorities, including raising the military personnel cap to 800k from the originally proposed 600k. Odds of a ceasefire by the end of 2026 have only moved slightly higher to 52%.
US and EU futures opened strong and the main Asian indices traded in the green overnight, helped by rising odds of a December rate cut and headlines that Trump's administration is actively considering allowing NVDA to export H200 chips to CN. Premarket, 7 of the Mag7 are up, with Apple, NVDA,MSFT lagging and Google leading +3.4%. Within tech, Google has shown very strong momentum over the past week on the back of the Gemini 3 release, which many view as the most important AI event at least since DeepSeek. There is a real possibility that Google takes over NVDA's leadership and drives the next phase of the bubble, but that also remains to be seen. Seasonally, November and December returns tend to be among the strongest.
We were stopped out on Sunday's open before ES1! retraced to almost flat line premarket. These stop hunts now feel personal. As I said last week, whether this correction develops into a full bear market remains to be seen. ES and NQ1! are both still sitting above their trendline support, while NVDA was sold sharply premarket and remains below the key resistance around 181. We need all three back above support to extend the bubble, or all three below support to accelerate the downside. While this divergence persists, we are likely to see more choppy tape until a clear break forms.
We managed to open a new short position near the HOD, and NVDA has just closed below trendline support. But don't get too optimistic yet: NQ1! closed above 24.2K, ES1! closed above 6600, and SPX rebounded at the 100D MA. All of this still works in the bulls' favor in the ST. On the past three Fridays (including today), ES has managed to pull some kind of intraday rally from the afternoon, saving the market from slipping into bear territory. Let's see how long this pattern can last.
I'm moving SL to 24500. Holding NVDA=181 as resistance is as important for the bears as it was acting as support for the bulls.
NQ1!
open 1/2 NQ1! short at 24573
ES1! resistance levels 6607-6610, 6626-6630, 6665-6670
ES support levels: 6550-6560, 6525-6530, 6500-6505
SPX lifetime resistance Daily, close-up
SPX lifetime resistance Monthly, remember I mentioned a few percentage points over the SPX lifetime resistance would only look like a tiny poke on the monthly chart. It would appear that we were just a little early back in June if this truly turns out to be the beginning of a bear market.
SPX Daily, showing the index left a fakeout yesterday.
ES1! Daily
Dating back to 1957, there have been 8 instances where the SPX gaps up more than 1% only to reverse and close in the red. The overall performance has been quite positive following such instances.
NQ1! Daily, tagged our trendline resistance and reversed sharply lower yesterday.
NVDA Daily, closed at the trendline yesterday and is set to open around it
I rarely use SL in my own trades, but due to demand from many members I do post SL levels here, and all our trades are recorded off those levels (and if you have been here long enough, you know our stops get hunted by algos more often than not). Yesterday was one of those unfortunate days where we were stopped out at the top before the bloodbath started.
Many are now trying to explain the move, blaming a Fed speaker, crx-pto weakness, job data, retail fatigue, CTA and systematic flows, year end psychology, AI bubble narratives and so on. This is human nature. When people do not understand a move, they invent reasons. They assume news drives price action. They see a big swing and immediately hunt for a headline to attach to it on the way up and on the way down.
You should not be surprised by yesterday. We laid out this week's playbook last week: dump early in the week, rally into NVDA earnings, spike on the release, then dump in RTH. The market followed it almost tick for tick. Nobody is surprised when a mem-e coim pumps and dumps; they do not ask why because they already assume it is a scam. Now ask yourself what is the real difference between NVDA earnings pump and dump and a mem-e coim pump and dump tape. Where do you think the crx--pto guys learned the playbook? When every headline turned euphoric after NVDA print, it was obvious that yesterday would be one of the most liquid days to dump. That is why I advised caution before the open while everyone else thought the bubble would extend. News does not drive price action; price action drives the news. After NVDA earnings, headlines said AI is not a bubble and NVDA beats and guides higher. By yesterday's close, the same outlets suddenly discovered concerns over circular AI CAPEX, debt financing and CDS widening. Those concerns always existed. The market simply was not red yet.
We have discussed round tripping deals for two months because they matter. I do not pretend to fully understand AI any more than I understood dotcom business models back in the early 2000s. What I do understand is when the music stops, and the patterns are identical across cycles. In the dotcom era, telecom and cable firms were CAPEX magnets, massively overbuilding supply, then signing reciprocal capacity sharing deals so both sides could send invoices and inflate revenue. AOL paid vendors inflated prices only to receive the same money back as ad revenue. Global Crossing, Qwest and Enron swapped fibre capacity at inflated prices so everyone could book top line growth with no real demand. During the GFC, Lehman used Repo 105 to temporarily clean its balance sheet, and banks propped up CDO demand by having products buy each other. Different sectors, different decades, identical human behavior. Circular trades that dress up financials without changing real economics. That is exactly what we are witnessing in today's AI space.
Futs are bid following a Fed speaker trying to pump the market with hope of a December rate cut. Pre mkt, NVDA is showing relative weakness among the Mag 7 crowd, being the only one still in the red.
Now sentiment is pessimistic across the market, the exact opposite of yesterday. Note that despite yesterday's decline, NVDA still sits above its support line (see chart below). Remember that bulls must reclaim 25.3k by Friday to ensure the continuity of the bubble and bears must close below NQ1! 24.2-24.4K to poke this bubble further? The market has not closed and momentum leans to the upside in the ST. Do not be too hasty to call the top today, just as you should not have been too hasty to call the bottom yesterday.
BTC1! rebounded exactly at 80K, now trading at 84K
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ES1! resistance levels: 5737-6740, 6710-6715, 6660-6670
ES support levels: 6780-6785, 6805-6807
open 1/2 NQ1! short at 25250 with sl at 25300