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Swing Trade Ideas – October 19, 2026

Date: Oct 19, 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,  Oil, natgas, Gasoline  AGGS,  Bitcoin
• Yields: 30Y Bond -+0.18%  Currencies:  USA$-0.04% CAD +0.52% YEN -0.10%  BTC/USD+1.02%  Vix:18.45
• Events USA:Housing 10ET CDN: CPI 830ET
  Stock News CLF+11%    TRV-1%  
• Comments USA indices bouncing premarket led by the AI/Semi group which was down last week. Bounce strongest in the neoclouds with CRWV NBIS IREN WULF bouncing from oversold, potentially dead cat since nothing has changed but shorts can be squeezed. MAGS led by AMZN (target raise) and NVDA. META, SPCX, TSLA earnings this week so may have buying ahead of reports.  INTC, MRVL, AMD higher with INTC upgraded. Post Opex there may be a mechanical bounce as expiration of calls led to weakness but puts expiring may allow a bounce. Question is whether the bounces today have legs or an opportunity to exit.  Staples (e.g. WMT) had massive moves last week as the market rotated and potential for unwind if the AI/semi group bounces. SPX 0DTE bull/bear level 7700 positioning indicates a potential for 7650 to the downside and upside to 7750. With a lack of major econ data and geopolitical unchanged, market will be moved by 0DTE and potential Trump tweets with META earnings Wed the major data release for the AI trade. AI trade is very sensitive to yields and hence oil ergo, need to monitor.
  
  Stock   INTC NVDA AMZN   USO XLV KRE    Speculative   BE CRWV NBIS
  Indices EWY DRAM SMH AIPO XLK ARKQ XME QQQ IBIT ARKK XBI SLV  USO XLE GDX XLV XLF IPO XLP KRE

S&P500 BE MRVL SNDK INTC SMCI GLW AMAT AMD AVGO WDC HPE AMZN NVDA HOOD   MRNA
Other CLF APLD NBIS CRWV WULF IREN SKHY IONQ MU AMD RKLB NVDA
 

AMZN

AMZN is a short term idea with earnings next week. potential squeeze above 255 to 260/265 due to long call positions. AMZN has been weak since Aug highs and caveat that this may be a dead cat bounce hence caution advised.