We had three day weekend heading into close on Friday, normally good for a pump. A shortened holiday week can be good for a move higher too, but I think we have data this week that can move markets. Job data on Friday I believe? Maybe some Fed stuff mid week.
At the same time, use the extra time this weekend to start hunting for individual stocks for trades. Now that we are in the midst of most everyone accepting we are heading to recession, and the data starting to show we are in the middle of at least a big slowdown, I've been actively looking for stocks that might show signs of reversal. Since individual stocks will normally turn before the major indexes.
But don't play hero ball here either. Just begin with starter positions and see if they are working before adding more. Take a look at the weekly AMD and Nvidia charts why you don't necessarily want to go in hard on the initial buy, unless you are going for a quick bounce trade. These stocks bounced for a couple weeks and now made new weekly closing lows. Time to reset and look again to see at what level they can hold a sustainable rally.
Nvidia weekly chart is now coming into a zone where it consolidated, alongside the all time 61.8% retracement level and a 200 week moving average below. There are multiple reason why it could start holding around 115 to 130, if/when it gets this low.
AMD is close to falling out of it's weekly consolidation zone at the moment, so these consolidation areas aren't guarantees to hold. To be fair to AMD though, it hasn't fallen out yet. But it's close. AMD almost literally to the penny on the spot it has held over and over in the past two years.
AMD does have a 200 week moving average coming into play here, with another 61.8% all time retracement level and another consoildation zone just underneath. So another possible bounce spot. I think I've said this already, but I'll be getting more interested in AMD if it can get into the high 50s. Though again it will only be with a starter position. Since a lot of this likely depends on how deep a recession the big hedge funds think we will go into. Smaller, shorter recession, likely closer to lows. Deeper recession, then we probably have one more big flush lower to go. Oh and if the federal reserve actually breaks something too in their overly late quest to tame inflation.