Swing Trade Ideas – June 18, 2026
Laurie’s Abbreviation Index:
** ‘div’ – dividend
** ‘m/m’ – month over month
** ‘y/y’ – year over year
** ‘Inven’ – inventories
** ‘mfg’ – manufacturing ** +/- – plus or minus, positive or negative
** Underlined text – higher volume premarket
** ‘d’ – day
** ‘Y’ – year
**govt – government
Color Key: Positive – Neutral – Negative
Global Markets: USA, Europe, Japan, China, Hong Kong – neutral set-up
· Commodities: Gold, Silver, Copper, Palladium, Oil, natgas, AGGS, Bitcoin
· Yields: 30Y Bond +0.39% Currencies: USA$+0.67% CAD -0.44% YEN -0.26% BTC/USD-0.51% Vix:18.7
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Events USA Philly Fed 830ET; FOMC leaves rates unchanged
but bias shifts to rate increase with inflation concerns
Stock News SWBI+15.7% ACN-16% earnings
Equity:USA indices moved lower Wed with FOMC leaning to rates steady to
higher to address inflation. US$ higher and long yields lower and equity lower
was the initial reaction. Premarket the equity market is bouncing with the
semis and AI names leading and providing the lift. INTC is spiking on a Trump
tweet and help lifting anything semi related, not that much encouragement
needed:) NVDA is leading the MAGS which are underperforming QQQ and NVDA is
underperforming QQQ. Software continues to lag SMH/QQQ and is negative with an
up market. Names being added to the QQQ continue to be chased higher (MRVL CRWV
ALAB RKLB TER. SPCX will be added to Russell1000 next week and QQQ the week
pulling back with option traders selling expensive calls. ACN lower on weak
guidance and SWBI higher and KR lower so maybe AI bad for the consulting
business and consumers are switching from butter to guns.. Opex today is
large with more calls expiring than puts and creates potential for
weakness next week. Usually vol is sold before a long weekend which is bullish
however there is the combo of a “hawkish” FOMC and the MOU signing Fri which
may temper the risk takers. SPX options expiring at the open are currently
supportive and will be gone after the open. 7500 is potential resistance and
risk < 7450 with a potential of 7350 should sellers emerge.
Stock INTC NVDA MRVL MU MSFT SPCX ACN Speculative
UUUU
WOLF HMY
Indices SMH AIPO QTUM XLK QQQ ARKG IWM TLT ARKK USO UNG IGV
SLV IBIT XLE KWEB NUKZ
S&P500 INTC WDC LRCX MU SNDK AMD MRNA QCOM GLW SMCI CCL ACN IBM CTSH PFE NOW
S&P400 AAL HIMS
Other UUUU UMC MRVL WDC ASE LRCX WOLF NBIS ACN NVCR IBM CTSH EQNR INFY
BHP KR BP RIO HMY
SPCX
SPCX has been pulling back from the euphoria from the IPO. SPCX AVWAP from the initial trading is 183 which is a potential support level that coincides with a volume level. Below 180 support at 175. Russell1000 addition June26 and Nasi100 Jul6 will lead to passive buying. Short term potential weakness but mechanical buying will follow. A way to trade SPCX long is to sell an OTM put to collect high premium but with risk of assignment but at a much lower cost basis than the current price.
