Isn't this fun?
IBM had a big miss, Netflix had a big beat, the indexes and futures are all over the place and Boris Johnson has Schrodinger's Brexit but he dares not look in the box because – as long as he doesn't, he has a deal that is dead and alive at the same time – which is quite the sweet spot for a politician – very much like Trump's secret China deal we are still waiting for the details of.
Nonetheless the US Futures are back to yesterday's highs but that was based on the "Deal" that was touted at the EU open (3am, EST) but has already fallen apart as details are painting a less enthuiastic picture than we had overnight. That doesn't stop our beloved S&P from testing 3,000 though – so it makes a great short below that line (/ES Futures) with tight stops above.
We get the Philly Fed Report at 8:30, which is likely to be trending down from last monh's 12 and Industrial Production is likely to slip into contraction while Capacity Utilization was already a miserable 77.9% so 22.1% of our capacity is already idle – not a good thing at all… There's also some housing data but that's it until tomorrow's Leading Economic Indicators (probably flat) along with China's GDP and we have 6 Fed Speeches tomorrow, so we'll probably finish the week at the 3,000 line – somehow – so quick profit-taking on the /ES shorts.
On Tuesday at 11am, we put out a Top Trade Alert to our Members for the Marijuana ETF (MJ) at $18.40, which we added to our Short-Term Portfolio with the following spread:
- Sell 10 MJ 2022 $20 puts for $5.40 ($5,400)
- Buy 30 MJ 2022 $15 calls for $7 ($21,000)
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