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  • Swing Trade Ideas – August 17, 2026

    Aug 17, 2026 Uncategorized Comments Off on Swing Trade Ideas – August 17, 2026

    Date: August 17, 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 +0.09%  Currencies:  USA$-0.16% CAD +0.10% YEN +0.08%  BTC/USD+1.16%  Vix:15.35
    • Events USA: NY mfg data 830ET Canada: CPI
    • Stock News HTHT+6.3%    MNSO-6.7%   EPS  
      Comments Global indices slightly higher with a quiet weekend in the middle east. USA indices are led by Nasi with AI/semi/optical  with Korean speculators back in the saddle buying. Semis are led by MU with cousins SNDK and WDC leading S&P500. MAGS are led by AMZN NVDA GOOGL with BRK adding GOOGL in latest 13F. Lagging is MSFT as software is lower and semis are higher with the usual dispersion trade. AI trade is on premarket and optical names COHR AAOI  AXTI are higher and neocloud CRWV higher and AIPO which holds power names like BE is higher. US$ is lower which is supporting metals GLD, SLV and GDX. China names higher premarket with BABA higher on news it’s selling it’s video business to focus more on AI. SPX 0DTE  support 7775, 7755 and resistance 7805/7810 with an upside target 7850 if monkeys get frisky. Positioning in SPX is call heavy and generally bullish. OCUL is top spec name for a trade with investor day today but extended premarket

      Stock BABA AMZN GOOGL SNDK   TTD   Speculative  OCUL AXTI
      Indices  DRAM GDX SLV ETHE IBIT SMH AIPO XLK GLD QQQ KWEB  UNG XLP IGV XLV

    S&P500 SNDK WDC MU MRVL COHR UBER GLW AMAT INTC AMZN   TTD AMD
    Other OCUL BE AXTI ALM NVTS STM CBRS BABA  IREN PFF AAOI SOFI CRWV USAR XPENG   MNSO UMAC



    AMZN

    AMZN potential bounce name for a short term trade. Long call positions 265-280 can lead to a squeeze higher. One can consider as a long while 265 holds. ATR 9.7

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