Swing Trade Ideas – October 8, 2026
Date: Oct 8, 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 –negative set-up
- Commodities: Gold, Silver, Copper, Oil, natgas, Gasoline AGGS, Bitcoin
- Yields: 30Y Bond -0.79% Currencies: USA$+0.22% CAD -0.13% YEN -0.24% BTC/USD-1.4% Vix:17.7
- Events USA: UE claims 830ET; 30Y auction 13ET
- Stock News PEP+2% EPS COST+0.3% SSS ; Samsung TSM-1.5% earnings beat but trading lower; PLTR upgrade; Military action still continuing in middle east and tankers hit in SoH despite WH claims that USA in control
Comments Global indices lower as yields, oil and US$ higher. Ongoing military action in middle east and speculation of USA escalating ahead of mid terms is not conducive to lower energy prices. Semis/AI are leading to the downside despite Samsung/TSM providing strong earnings but stocks are lower. AVGO is looking for $50B to develop OpenAI chip to assist ORCL and talking to Apollo and Blackstone. The rising debt to keep the AI datacenter build is a concern to some with a memory longer than a goldfish:) MAGS are led by MSFT as semi to software rotation is active premarket with PLTR upgrade by GS launching it higher. AAPL also outperforming as it is now a risk-off play where managers run to hide with bonds and equities lower. Gold is higher despite US$ and yields higher which could be flow related or a safety trade. COST sales are being rewarded with stock higher and maybe the decline is reversing. PEP higher with results less bad and staples can get a sniff in a risk-off situation, SPX upper pivot 7770/75 can lead to 7800 and lower support 7750. 0DTE positioning is indicating support to at least 7700 and with option positioning leaning into calls and index IV low, the monkeys will likely continue to buy dips despite high yields, energy, war. Its just a matter of what they buy and look to see if the semi dip is viewed as the bargain of the century, like MU yesterday:)
Stock PLTR GOOGL AAPL TSM MU AAPL INTC Speculative LITE COHR CCL
Indices USO XLE UNG GLD MSOS DRAM EWY SMH ETHE KWEB SLV ARKG IBIT AIPO QTUM IWM UFO
S&P500 PLTR PEP LITE COHR GLW MRVL INTC BE CCL HPE MU HOOD NCLH SMCI AMD DAL AVGO
GOOGL
GOOGL is a leader premarket with today’s catalyst the launch of Gemini agent to compete with META and MSFT. Call wall 355 and 350 major option position with upside long calls at 370-380 which are upside targets. Technically in a Bollinger squeeze and at the AVWAP from the April gap (original SoH open) so potential breakout but caveat that could fail and market is not strong. Fly or verticals are strategies as IV is elevated.
Date: Oct 8, 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 –negative set-up
- Commodities: Gold, Silver, Copper, Oil, natgas, Gasoline AGGS, Bitcoin
- Yields: 30Y Bond -0.79% Currencies: USA$+0.22% CAD -0.13% YEN -0.24% BTC/USD-1.4% Vix:17.7
- Events USA: UE claims 830ET; 30Y auction 13ET
- Stock News PEP+2% EPS COST+0.3% SSS ; Samsung TSM-1.5% earnings beat but trading lower; PLTR upgrade; Military action still continuing in middle east and tankers hit in SoH despite WH claims that USA in control
Comments Global indices lower as yields, oil and US$ higher. Ongoing military action in middle east and speculation of USA escalating ahead of mid terms is not conducive to lower energy prices. Semis/AI are leading to the downside despite Samsung/TSM providing strong earnings but stocks are lower. AVGO is looking for $50B to develop OpenAI chip to assist ORCL and talking to Apollo and Blackstone. The rising debt to keep the AI datacenter build is a concern to some with a memory longer than a goldfish:) MAGS are led by MSFT as semi to software rotation is active premarket with PLTR upgrade by GS launching it higher. AAPL also outperforming as it is now a risk-off play where managers run to hide with bonds and equities lower. Gold is higher despite US$ and yields higher which could be flow related or a safety trade. COST sales are being rewarded with stock higher and maybe the decline is reversing. PEP higher with results less bad and staples can get a sniff in a risk-off situation, SPX upper pivot 7770/75 can lead to 7800 and lower support 7750. 0DTE positioning is indicating support to at least 7700 and with option positioning leaning into calls and index IV low, the monkeys will likely continue to buy dips despite high yields, energy, war. Its just a matter of what they buy and look to see if the semi dip is viewed as the bargain of the century, like MU yesterday:)
Stock PLTR GOOGL AAPL TSM MU AAPL INTC Speculative LITE COHR CCL
Indices USO XLE UNG GLD MSOS DRAM EWY SMH ETHE KWEB SLV ARKG IBIT AIPO QTUM IWM UFO
S&P500 PLTR PEP LITE COHR GLW MRVL INTC BE CCL HPE MU HOOD NCLH SMCI AMD DAL AVGO
GOOGL
GOOGL is a leader premarket with today’s catalyst the launch of Gemini agent to compete with META and MSFT. Call wall 355 and 350 major option position with upside long calls at 370-380 which are upside targets. Technically in a Bollinger squeeze and at the AVWAP from the April gap (original SoH open) so potential breakout but caveat that could fail and market is not strong. Fly or verticals are strategies as IV is elevated.