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Options Trading Mid-Week Update: Santa Pump


Let’s review the market conditions ahead of this shortened holiday week. The market is closed on Friday for the holidays, so tomorrow will be a lotto Thursday. This week we’ve been following the daily Ichimoku Cloud and Point of Control, and we’ve seen action in both directions. Let’s talk about a few things that could unfold for tomorrow and dive into our focused list with GOOGL, NVDA, and TSLA.

2022 Starts With Pop


 

After a choppy week to end 2021, the S&P 500 (ES) is starting the new year attempting to fire its two-day squeeze. As of now, momentum is rising but we are continuing to see compression. 

The market had a pop to start the week, but we won’t see much change in price action until we break our major inflection points. 

The ES has to break $4,800 for the market to break higher and will need to drop below $4,743 to head significantly lower. Until we break either of these points, the chop fest will likely continue.

Here is our focused list:

TSLA —  After crushing their delivery numbers on Sunday, this catalyst led TSLA to break $1,200 on Monday. We’re looking for a continuation to $1,250.

NVDA — Last week we saw a pullback to the daily Ichimoku Cloud, but NVDA held its 50-day simple moving average (SMA). It broke the 50-day SMA on Monday with the spike of volume. Look for NVDA to break above the Ichimoku Cloud top at $300 for a move to $310 and $315.

GOOGL — GOOGL is trading in daily, weekly, and two-day squeezes. On Monday, GOOGL traded below the top of the daily Ichimoku at $2,900. If GOOGL can reverse and pop through its wedge, we could see a rally to highs. Once it trades above $2,900, it will start the journey to $2,950.

Stay Focused!