🚨 $AAPL iPhone 17 Boom & $NFLX 10-for-1 Split 💥 Live Trade Setups Oct 31

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Key Concepts:

• Market Rally: The overall market, particularly tech stocks, experienced a rally following a pullback.
• Company Earnings: Focus on strong earnings reports from Amazon and Apple, and mixed results from others like Coinbase and Reddit.
• Stock Splits: Netflix announced a 10-for-1 stock split.
• AI and Infrastructure Demand: Continued strong demand for AI and infrastructure, benefiting companies like Amazon (AWS) and Nvidia.
• Economic Indicators: Canadian GDP showed a negative month-over-month reading.
• Market Breadth Concerns: While large-cap tech is performing well, there are concerns about the performance of other sectors like agriculture, homebuilders, and financials.
• Trading Strategies: Discussions on dip buying, fading rallies, and the importance of patience and risk management.
• Costumes and Halloween: The hosts participated in a stock market-themed costume segment.
• Upgrades and Downgrades: Analyst actions on various stocks, including Apple, Amazon, Crocs, Twilio, Roblox, MicroStrategy, Columbia Sportswear, and National Cineia.
• Options Activity: Mention of significant options contracts for MSTR, Coinbase, and Apple.
• Crypto Market: Coinbase earnings and Bitcoin's performance were briefly touched upon.
• Sector Performance: Analysis of various sectors, highlighting tech services, retail, healthtech, producer manufacturing, consumer durables, transportation, and energy minerals.

Market Overview and Key Stock Movements

The morning saw a strong rally in tech stocks and the overall market, building on the previous day's pullback. This positive sentiment was largely driven by impressive post-market earnings reports from Amazon and Apple.

• Amazon: Surged significantly, approaching $254, after a "blowout report." The company's AWS (Amazon Web Services) segment was a major highlight, showing its fastest growth since 2022 with a 20.2% year-over-year increase in revenue, reaching $33 billion. This is crucial as AWS is Amazon's highest-margin product, boasting 60-70% gross margins compared to single to low double-digit margins for its e-commerce business. Advertising revenue also showed strong growth at 21% year-over-year. Despite 14,000 layoffs, the company's focus on maintaining margins and the robust AWS growth were seen as positive. Analysts issued positive notes, with Jefferies upgrading Apple and other analysts providing positive commentary on Amazon.
• Apple: Also performed impressively, approaching all-time highs. Demand for the iPhone 17 and the company's capacity to meet that demand were better than expected. For the current quarter (Q3), Apple reported revenue of $102.47 billion, beating estimates. Gross margins expanded 70 basis points sequentially and 100 basis points year-over-year to 47%, even with a $1.1 billion tariff cost. The September quarter was a record for revenue, earnings, and operating cash flow, with expectations for Q4 to repeat these records. Services revenue also hit a record at $28.75 billion, contributing over $100 billion annually with mid-80s gross margins. iPhone revenue missed estimates due to supply constraints, but Tim Cook anticipates the December quarter to be the company's best iPhone revenue quarter ever. Apple's stock was up 63% from its April lows.
• Netflix: Announced a 10-for-1 stock split, aiming to make the stock more accessible to employees and retail investors. The split is effective November 17th, with shareholders of record on November 10th receiving nine additional shares. The stock, which is up 42% year-to-date, last split in 2015 and 2004. There's also speculation about a potential merger or acquisition with Warner Brothers Discovery, with Netflix actively exploring a bid for their studio and streaming assets.
• Coinbase: Reported earnings, showing a $1.50 EPS (beating estimates of $1.10) and $1.87 billion in revenue (beating estimates of $1.88 billion). Transaction revenue was $1 billion, up 37% sequentially. The company aims to be an "everything exchange," supporting over 40,000 products, not just crypto-centric ones. They also announced a $300 million acquisition of Bitcoin in Q4 and plan to continue buying Bitcoin.
• Reddit: Showed a strong reversal after its earnings report, with a bullish engulfing candle forming on the daily chart. The company beat EPS estimates ($0.80 vs. $0.51 expected) and revenue estimates ($585 million vs. $546 million expected), a 68% year-over-year increase. Growth was driven by advertising, data licensing (for LLMs like Google and OpenAI), and international expansion. Reddit also has a 17-18% short float rate, which could fuel further upside if shorts are squeezed.
• Nvidia: Continued its upward trend, approaching all-time highs, up 2%. Jensen Huang made comments overnight, and the company's customers have been reporting strong results, suggesting positive Nvidia earnings ahead.
• Palantir: Was up 12.5% due to its licensing of information to LLMs.
• Other Notable Movers: Roku and Lumen were down.

Economic and Market Analysis

• Canadian GDP: Reported a negative 0.3% month-over-month, which was better than the expected negative 0.5% but still indicates economic weakness. Concerns were raised about whether the Canadian economy has bottomed, with potential for further downside and continued rate cuts by the Bank of Canada.
• Market Breadth Concerns: Michael Noss presented "spooky charts" highlighting potential weaknesses beneath the surface of the market rally.
  • Agriculture Stocks (MOO): Showing underperformance and a potential breakdown.
  • Homebuilders (ITB): Struggling to hold support levels, suggesting a potential head and shoulders pattern and breakdown.
  • Financial Sector (XLF): The large banks are not reaching new highs, and the sector is on the verge of a potential breakdown at the 52 area. Noss argued that while large-cap tech is performing well, the lack of participation from these other sectors could be a concern for the broader economy. The equal-weighted S&P 500 (RSP) is only up about 5% year-to-date, indicating that the market's gains are concentrated in a few mega-cap names.

Analyst Actions and Options Activity

• Upgrades:
  • Apple: Morgan Stanley ($35 price target)
  • Amazon: Vitaly Advisory Group ($300 price target)
  • Crocs: ($100 price target)
  • Twilio: Bank of America ($110 price target)
• Downgrades:
  • Roblox: Benchmark (Buy to Hold)
  • MicroStrategy: BTIG Research ($630 price target lowered)
  • Columbia Sportswear: Stifel Research ($60 price target lowered)
  • National Cineia: Bington Research ($6.5 price target lowered)
• Options Activity:
  • MSTR: 45,700 contracts on today's expiration, with 34 still open.
  • Coinbase: Relatively light volume but an uptick in open interest (23,000 contracts open).
  • Apple: Significant volume at the 280 strike price expiring today.

Trading Insights and Strategies

• Amazon: Seen as a strong buy, with potential to reach $270. However, caution was advised due to Alphabet's performance after its earnings report. A dip buy around the 49-50 range was suggested, with a gap fill level at 242.
• Apple: While the report was strong, the stock's run-up ahead of earnings led to a more muted reaction. A dip buy around 273-274 was mentioned, but some traders preferred to focus on other names with more potential for movement. The stock later showed weakness, breaking below 270 and 271.
• Netflix: The stock split was seen as a positive for trading accessibility, but it doesn't fundamentally change the company's outlook. Consolidation under the 200-period moving average was noted, with potential for a dip buy if it breaks lower.
• Palantir: Was a significant winner, with multiple successful trades throughout the day, especially on the break of 200 and later 201.50. The stock was described as an "absolute monster."
• Roblox: After a downgrade, the stock showed a large rejection candle on the daily chart, suggesting potential for fading rallies. Resistance levels at 130 and 125-126 were identified.
• Google (Alphabet): Despite a good earnings report, the stock pulled back significantly after the open, serving as a cautionary tale for other tech names. A short setup was considered.
• HKD: Showed a significant move on earnings, driven by a 1,085% year-over-year revenue increase (though from a small base). It was identified as a potential squeeze play.
• Intel: Was mentioned as a potential short setup due to trending down and breaking below VWAP.
• Lumen: Was down significantly, with a potential support level around $8.
• Meta: Showed weakness despite a good earnings report, with a potential bottom forming around 650-655.
• Nvidia: Was a focus for trading, with a long position taken on a break of 207.50, but later showed weakness and broke down. A reload at 205 was considered.
• SoFi: A long trade was initiated at 29, with targets at 35s and 13s.
• Tesla: Showed a strong turn off 450, similar to the previous week, but with less violence in the pullback.
• TQQQ: A long trade was initiated at 118, with multiple outs taken as the market rallied.
• General Trading Advice: Patience was emphasized, especially at the open on Fridays. Trend breaks were highlighted as more reliable setups than support levels on a volatile day. The importance of risk management and taking profits was stressed.

Costume Segment

The hosts participated in a stock market-themed costume segment for Halloween. Guesses included "Money Tree," "Dollar Tree," and "Hedge Fund." The winner was revealed to be "Hedge Fund," with the host representing it with money falling out of a tree. Other costumes mentioned included "Saja Boy" (K-pop theme), "Eli Manning," and "Dollar Tree."

Sector Watch

• Tech Services: Mixed, with Service Now and IBM down, but Oracle, Netflix, and Palantir offsetting weakness.
• Electronic Technology: Mixed, with Nvidia and AMD to the upside.
• Retail: Buoyed by Amazon's strong earnings.
• Healthtech: Mixed, with ABV weighing the sector down.
• Producer Manufacturing & Consumer Durables: Green, led by Tesla.
• Transportation: Green.
• Energy Minerals: Mixed, with CVX green and XOM red.

Other Mentions

• World Series: The Toronto Blue Jays were expected to win the World Series that night.
• K-pop Demon Hunters: A popular Netflix show mentioned in relation to costumes.
• Origenics (OGN): A company developing a concussion treatment.
• Trade the Pool: A platform for limited-risk trading.
• Marll (MRVL): Surged 10% on speculation that Amazon's custom AI chips (Tanium) are designed and manufactured by Marll.
• Robin Hood: Received a price target increase to $155 from Key Bank.
• CRSP (CRISPR Therapeutics): Pushing higher on news of the FDA clearing the way for faster personalized gene editing treatments.
• Alibaba (BABA): Liked more than other Chinese tech stocks, with support down to $57 and potential upside.
• AMC: Approaching its 52-week low.
• Open Door (OPEN): Rallying without the immediate prospect of a December rate cut.
• Bitcoin: Not doing much, trading sideways.
• Intel: Mentioned as a potential short setup.
• Hims (HIMS): Showing strength, up 10%, with a potential trend break above the 200-period moving average.

Conclusion/Synthesis

The trading day was characterized by a strong rally in mega-cap tech stocks, particularly Amazon and Apple, driven by impressive earnings. However, underlying market breadth concerns persisted, with weakness in other sectors. Traders navigated a volatile day, focusing on trend breaks and dip-buying opportunities, with Palantir emerging as a significant winner. The market's direction was heavily influenced by earnings reports and ongoing AI demand, while economic data and potential rate cuts remained in focus. The day concluded with a broad market rally, but individual stock performance varied significantly.