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Trend-following darling stock Adobe stock, thanks to Tuesday's rally, held key trend support. Barring any sharp bearish reversal, look for a further bid into year-end.
We feel that worsening export performance, slowing consumer spending in China, a cyclical slowdown in auto-sales in the U.S. and rising costs will continue working against General Motors Company (GM) this year.
Today, I am recommending a bearish trade on the Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NYSE:AAOI), a company that designs, manufactures and sells various fiber-optic networking products. While the major indices made recovered some of last week’s losses on Friday, there is still a chance that stocks could take another leg to the downside before they are able to stabilize.
The point spread in UAA stock and NKE stock on today’s price charts suggests betting on the underdog and giving the reigning champion a break using a pair of well-placed options spreads.
Today I am recommending a bullish trade on the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE:GLD), an ETF that tracks the price of gold.The market is definitely in a corrective mode right now and, while this week’s pullback is not as severe as the one we saw at the start of the year, there is a chance that stocks could take another leg to the downside before they are able to stabilize. I mentioned previously that the Fed’s interest rate increases are eventually going to cause deleveraging in the marketplace, and the action this week seems to bear that out.
Alibaba stock had a key reversal day yesterday. Shares opened at new lows only to immediately rally and close higher on the day. This type of price action indicates that the sellers may finally be exhausted, especially after such an unrelenting drop.
Shake off one man’s bearish label and go with history and the big picture in AMD stock instead. Here's what you should expect from Advanced Micro Devices.
