Dow Jones Futures: How To Handle The Market Rally; Elon Musk Wins 'Approval' To Sell Tesla Stock

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Dow Jones futures tilted little Sunday night, portion S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures fell slightly, with Tesla banal successful focus. The banal marketplace rally continued to property connected to caller highs past week, with each the cardinal indexes hitting grounds highs.

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The Nasdaq is getting extended, arsenic Tesla (TSLA) and particularly Nvidia (NVDA) surged higher past week, with different EV and spot names besides soaring. It's a clip to wage adjacent attraction and see immoderate portfolio management.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk projected Saturday that helium could merchantability a portion of his mammoth TSLA banal holdings, with stock prices astatine grounds highs. A bulk of respondents to a Twitter canvass supported the deal. Meanwhile, Nvidia is expected to denote a large metaverse propulsion successful a keynote code Tuesday.

Meanwhile, instrumentality a person look astatine EXPE stock, Airbnb (ABNB), Booking Holdings (BKNG), Apple (AAPL), Moderna (MRNA) and Peloton Worldwide (PTON).

Expedia (EXPE), Airbnb and BKNG banal each broke retired Friday, buoyed by beardown results past week and respective affirmative tailwinds. Covid cases are down sharply, vaccinations are up, question restrictions are easing portion a caller Pfizer (PFE) Covid pill offers much-greater attraction for patients who bash get the coronavirus.

Travel could beryllium the caller blistery sector, and acold much than online question sites. Hyatt (H) past week joined respective edifice operators breaking out. Even airlines, beset by soaring substance costs and wide labour shortages, are starting to bounce back.

Meanwhile, that Pfizer Covid cause quality slammed MRNA banal and different Covid vaccine makers. But Moderna banal had flashed respective signals successful anterior months. So did PTON stock, which crashed to a 16-month debased Friday connected horrible Q3 results.

Finally, Apple banal present has a cup-with-handle bargain point. But the AAPL illustration shows an important flaw.

Tesla, Nvidia and ABNB banal are connected IBD Leaderboard. Nvidia banal and Tesla are connected the IBD 50.

The video embedded successful this nonfiction analyzed the marketplace enactment and reviewed Airbnb, EXPE banal and Moderna.


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Late Friday, the House passed the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which includes $550 cardinal successful caller funding. The ballot was 228-206, with 13 Republicans providing important enactment arsenic six left-wing Democrats opposed the measure. The legislation, which already passed the Senate months ago, volition spell to President Biden for his signature.

House Democrats are inactive struggling to hold connected a tax-and-spending reconciliation bill. The Senate volition astir surely marque changes to the House legislation.

Dow Jones Futures Today

Dow Jones futures mislaid astir 0.1% vs. just value. S&P 500 futures dipped 0.2% and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.4%.

The 10-year Treasury output climbed 2 ground points to 1.47%.

Crude lipid futures roseate 1% overnight.

Remember that overnight enactment successful Dow futures and elsewhere doesn't needfully construe into existent trading successful the adjacent regular stock market session.


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Stock Market Rally

The banal marketplace rally had yet different beardown performance, with the large indexes rising for the 5th consecutive week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.4% successful past week's stock marketplace trading. The S&P 500 scale roseate 2%. The Nasdaq composite popped conscionable implicit 3%.

The small-cap Russell 2000 surged 6%.

The 10-year Treasury output fell 10 ground points past week to 1.45%, contempt a Fed taper determination and a beardown jobs report.

The 2 standout stocks of the existent marketplace rally, Nvidia and Tesla stock, past week ran up 16% and astir 10%, respectively. Those travel crisp gains successful the anterior fewer weeks. At a combined marketplace headdress of astir $2 trillion, that has had a immense interaction connected the Nasdaq. Both drifted little Friday, which is astir apt healthy.

CEO Elon Musk To Sell Tesla Stock?

On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk projected "selling 10% of my Tesla stock," due to the fact that of claims that unrealized superior gains are a mode to debar taxes. It's a beardown awesome that the world's wealthiest antheral volition merchantability immoderate of his mammoth holdings — helium owns 170.5 cardinal shares of TSLA stock, positive good implicit 200 cardinal including assorted options.

Musk asked for feedback, saying helium would abide by the Twitter canvass results. Some 58% of respondents favored Musk selling Tesla banal successful the 24-hour survey.

A merchantability of 17 cardinal shares would beryllium worthy astir $21 cardinal astatine Friday's close, though helium could merchantability much if helium takes options into account.

Musk selling a large TSLA banal involvement could beryllium a headwind for shares, particularly astatine existent lofty levels. But the determination wouldn't travel arsenic a immense surprise. Also, Musk gave nary denotation of the timing of immoderate specified sale.

Tesla banal edged little connected Friday, but inactive roseate 9.7% for the week aft surging 22% successful the anterior week. TSLA banal has rallied for 11 consecutive weeks, astir doubling implicit that span.

Tesla aboriginal Sunday rolled retired FSD Beta update 10.4, the latest mentation of its driver-assist software, to FSD owners with Beta access.

Wedbush expert Dan Ives raised his Tesla banal bull lawsuit terms people to 1,800 from 1,500.

Finally, investors connected Monday whitethorn get Tesla Shanghai transportation and export figures for October arsenic portion of China Passenger Car Association information connected EV and wide car sales. But with Tesla deliveries successful China (and Europe) truthful skewed to the past period of the quarter, it's amended to justice Tesla request connected a quarterly basis.

Nvidia Stock

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang volition springiness a keynote code astatine the Nvidia GTC league connected Tuesday morning, soon aft the marketplace open. He's expected to denote a caller Omniverse inaugural that volition assistance marque the metaverse a reality.

ETFs

Among the best ETFs, the Innovator IBD 50 ETF (FFTY) climbed 2.5%, portion the Innovator IBD Breakout Opportunities ETF (BOUT) rallied 3.9%. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) was flat. The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) surged 8.4%. Nvidia banal was a large SMH operator past week.

SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (XME) roseate 4% and Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (PAVE) gained 3.4%. The long-suffering U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS) surged 10.85%. SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) precocious 3.2%. The Energy Select SPDR ETF (XLE) climbed 1.4% and the Financial Select SPDR ETF (XLF) retreated 0.6%.

Reflecting more-speculative communicative stocks, ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) edged up 0.8% and ARK Genomics ETF (ARKG) popped 3.8%. Tesla banal remains the apical holding for ARK Invest's ETFs.


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Airbnb Stock

Airbnb banal surged 13% Friday to 201.62 connected beardown net and question tailwinds. It was the heaviest measurement for an up time since the Airbus IPO debut connected Dec. 10, 2020.

Shares had moved conscionable past a 177.06 flat-base bargain constituent connected Thursday up of results. Investors could person utilized options to play earnings, arsenic IBD Live discussed connected Thursday, oregon bought the gap-up Friday morning.

Expedia Stock

Expedia banal leapt astir 16% to 182.17 connected Friday aft swinging to a nett and astir doubling revenue. EXPE banal cleared a 175.47 buy point successful the strongest measurement successful a twelvemonth for an up day.

Booking Stock

Booking banal jumped 8.2% to 2,618.97 past week, clearing a 2,540.10 bargain constituent from a flat base, which was close adjacent to a longer consolidation. BKNG banal came up to the bargain constituent connected Thursday pursuing its net report, but erased its intraday gains. Shares surged Friday successful the aftermath of the Expedia and Airbnb net and the Pfizer Covid pill news.

Moderna Stock

Moderna banal plunged Thursday and Friday, archetypal connected an net miss and past connected the Pfizer Covid pill. But MRNA banal had flashed myriad merchantability signals successful caller months. That includes taking partial profits successful aboriginal August, conscionable earlier the all-time high. On the downside, investors got an aboriginal merchantability awesome arsenic MRNA banal plunged done its 10-day enactment connected Aug. 11. Various 21-day enactment breaks could person offered further signals. But breaking beneath the 50-day enactment connected Sept. 28, followed by different spread down connected Oct. 1, provided beardown signals that the Moderna banal tally was over, astatine slightest for a while.

In astir cases, a winning banal volition highest earlier the fundamentals.

Peloton Stock

Much similar Moderna, Peloton banal crashed past week aft offering galore merchantability signals on the way. PTON banal plummeted 35% to a 16-month debased connected Friday pursuing a large loss, anemic gross and slashed guidance. Bottom line, with the Covid pandemic waning, radical are exercising much extracurricular the home.

After a long, almighty tally successful 2020, PTON banal broke retired again astatine the precise extremity of past year. Investors astir apt could person bought the Peloton banal from the 50-day/10-week enactment a fewer days earlier, but the breakout initially worked. But aft 1 week, shares began to whipsaw up and down. Investors, particularly newer ones, whitethorn person wanted to instrumentality immoderate profits.

Finally, connected Feb. 17, PTON banal fell done its 50-day line, past kept sliding for respective weeks. After uncovering 200-day enactment support, Peloton ran up to its 50-day enactment earlier reversing to autumn done the 200-line. PTON banal did rebound again from aboriginal May to aboriginal July, arsenic the delta Covid question started to summation steam. But since then, shares person been successful retreat.

Apple Stock

Apple banal present has a cup-with-handle base, with a 153.26 bargain point, according to MarketSmith analysis. The grip formed aft AAPL banal rebounded from its 50-day enactment pursuing mixed Apple earnings. But the relative spot line is astatine its worst levels since precocious June. More broadly, the RS line, the bluish enactment successful the charts provided, has been trending somewhat little since August 2020, reflecting Apple stock's laggard presumption vs. the S&P 500 index.

Of course, a almighty Apple banal determination would rapidly revive the RS line. ABNB banal had a lackluster RS enactment until Friday's surge.

Meanwhile, quality broke precocious Friday that Apple has hired Tesla's erstwhile Autopilot bundle manager for its secretive Apple Car effort. C.J. Moore came nether scrutiny earlier aft helium appeared to disagree with Elon Musk's optimistic statements astir Tesla self-driving capabilities successful Moore's conversations with California DMV officials.

It's inactive unclear erstwhile Apple volition travel retired with a car, expected to beryllium electrical and person self-driving capabilities.

The Apple Car hiring quality had virtually nary interaction connected Apple oregon Tesla banal precocious Friday.

Market Rally Analysis

The banal marketplace had yet different beardown week, with the large indexes and adjacent the Russell 2000 hitting grounds highs. The Nasdaq is connected a 10-day winning streak, managing to beforehand adjacent with MRNA banal plunging 17%. The composite is starting to look extended, acknowledgment to the likes of Nvidia, Tesla and immoderate near-vertical giants, though Tesla and Nvidia banal did adjacent fractionally little Friday.

The Nasdaq closed the week 6.1% supra its 50-day line. The Nasdaq 100 is 6.7% supra the 50-day line, aft topping 7% intraday Friday.

When the Nasdaq gets 6% and particularly 7% supra its 50-day line, it's astatine higher hazard of a pullback, with the likelihood rising that immoderate specified pullback volition beryllium larger. Of course, the marketplace rally tin support moving higher for immoderate clip erstwhile it's extended, and pullbacks often are modest. It's besides aboriginal successful the latest marketplace rally, truthful it's little concerning.

On a related note, the S&P 500 scale is 4.9% supra its 50-day line. The S&P 500 whitethorn commencement seeming stretched if it's 5%-6% supra its 50-day.

Finally, a marketplace rally pullback would apt beryllium healthy, letting leaders propulsion backmost to cardinal levels oregon signifier caller bases, offering caller opportunities to buy.

Meanwhile, the marketplace is showing wide strength. Yes, chips are starring the mode close now, on with different techs. But question plays are looking strong, portion EV makers, retailers, steel, and industrials are each showing astatine slightest pockets of strength.


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What To Do Now

With the banal marketplace rally starting to get extended, investors whitethorn not privation to physique up their vulnerability substantially. If you've gotten heavy into margin, you whitethorn privation to see backing off, taking immoderate partial profits.

Selling a winning banal into spot oregon connected weakness some person their merits, and there's nary crushed you can't employment some methods.

Investors whitethorn privation to see adding vulnerability to sectors specified arsenic travel, which could beryllium acceptable to lead. Run your screens this play and physique up your watchlists.

If the marketplace rally does intermission oregon propulsion back, immoderate starring stocks could signifier little consolidations oregon propulsion backmost to cardinal support. So marque definite you person superior acceptable to deploy, yet different crushed to instrumentality immoderate tiny winnings now.

Earnings play is disconnected its peak, but it's not quiet. Meanwhile, Nvidia whitethorn laic retired its reported metaverse ambitions connected Tuesday. Will the existent world unrecorded up to virtual world hype?

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