From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We have some big, heavyweight earnings tonight, with $AMZN and $AAPL reporting.

The market is still pulling in, but August is typically a weak month.

We...

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$SPY dropped down to its 21-day moving average, and $QQQ broke below its own 21-day.

We'll...

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After normal trading hours yesterday, Fitch downgraded the US.

As of now, it's been a muted response. We'll see if it turns into something bigger.

I did tell traders last week having a...

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The market is taking a breather.

We still have a lot of earnings to contend with this week.

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We're turning the corner into the last stretch of summer.

The market has been very resilient through all negative news.

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Today we close out July, and what a month it's been.

The indices trickled higher continuously throughout.

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Futures are up this morning, go figure!

It's like Groundhog Day.

We have another busy earnings week ahead.

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It was a nice Friday overall.

It's like yesterday never happened.

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We have some important economic data coming out this morning.

The market did an about-face turn yesterday and drifted lower.

We'll see if they want to keep everyone happy on a Friday and...

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That was a big bounce this morning for the indices...

And then we faded, and gaps are getting filled to the downside.

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The market is happy today, gapping up after the Fed.

Gap-ups are hard, as you don't know if they'll continue or pull in.

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The Fed raised a quarter point, but we kinda knew that was coming.

The market, as of now, is all over the place.

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Today's the day: Will the Fed raise rates for one last time this year?

We'll see at 2:00 p.m. ET.

$GOOGL had a nice move after hours.

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We had decent movement in the indices today.

We'll see how $GOOGL does after the close.

The indices...

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$GOOGL kicks off Big Tech earnings tonight.

We'll see if this name is a precursor for other tech names.

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The market is kind of drifting and seems to be in an indecision mode.

This week could be tough trading with earnings and the...

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It's a busy earnings week, and we have an FOMC decision coming on Wednesday.

Futures are up some this morning.

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It was a very mixed tape overall today.

The $STLD short I previewed in the Morning Briefing worked out...

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We're seeing a slight bounce this morning after yesterday's sell-off.

It's monthly options expiration today, so things could get volatile.

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It was tough sledding for tech names, yesterday and today.

Time will tell if this pull-in will be bigger than previous ones...

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We kicked off earnings season with $NFLX and $TSLA, and they're trading lower this morning.

We'll see if people buy the dip or sell the news. 

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I've talked about how it's harder to find longs these days.

We had about two rug-pulls today for $SPY and...

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All the indices have been on fire.

Earnings are coming up.

We'll see if the bar is low for them and they jump that hurdle or not.

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Up and away we go, with new highs all around.

As the saying goes, we're overbought, but we can stay this way for some time...