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00:00:00Hey, good morning everyone, and welcome to Thursday Morning.
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00:00:03It's Stephen Whiteside here from TheUpTrend.com In the pre market this
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00:00:07morning, stock index futures are trading above fair value.
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00:00:11That is, of course, before those economic numbers come out at 8:30.
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00:00:14We're expecting CPI and jobless claims to
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00:00:17come out and either of those numbers could certainly affect the direction of the
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00:00:22stock market coming into Thursday's trading.
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00:00:25Fear is still falling and that of course, is supportive for higher stock prices.
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00:00:30So let's get into the charts now.
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00:00:34The VIX continued to move lower on Wednesday, down 5.52% on the day.
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00:00:39The VIX of the VIX is still on a sell signal.
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00:00:42That's supportive for higher stock prices.
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00:00:44The US dollar index still on a sell
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00:00:46signal, closing down just a penny yesterday.
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00:00:49Then we've got the 30 year bond back on a buy signal.
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00:00:53The yield on the 30 year bond back on a sell signal.
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00:00:56The price of gold continue higher on Wednesday.
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00:00:59Back on a buy signal.
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00:01:01We are waiting for the price of silver and
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00:01:03it needs to close above $22.29 on Thursday to give us a buy signal.
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00:01:09Looking at the price of crude oil, we came down, filled the gap yesterday.
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00:01:13Now we're moving up in the pre market, up a dollar and change.
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00:01:17The price of natural gas had a wild day on
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00:01:19Wednesday, but then settled down going into the close, looking at the Dow.
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00:01:25The Dow had an inside day on Wednesday, as did the S&P 500.
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00:01:29S&P 500 trading in the open gap and still has not filled that gap just yet.
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00:01:36The Nasdaq 100 made a new closing high for this move.
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00:01:40The semiconductor is still on a buy signal.
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00:01:43No change there.
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00:01:44The Isares for the TSX 60 were up yesterday.
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00:01:47And not only was it the commodity stocks, but financials helped out as well.
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00:01:52Then looking at financials, looking at the S&P 500 financials, we're on a buy signal.
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00:01:57We're on a buy signal for US banks, for US
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00:02:00regional banks, for broker dealers, and for the insurance sector.
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00:02:05So all the US financials are back on buy signals.
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00:02:08Looking at Canadian financials, we do have
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00:02:10the financial index back on a buy signal, but we're still waiting for banks.
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00:02:14We're still looking at the Bank of Nova Scotia as the weakest.
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00:02:18And we've got the TD bank back on a buy signal.
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00:02:22Then looking at energy stocks, energy
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00:02:24stocks in Canada were down slightly yesterday.
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00:02:26We're back on a buy signal here.
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00:02:28Unlike in the US,
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00:02:30which was down over 1% and still on a sell signal.
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00:02:34No change there for US financials.
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00:02:37Copper miners pulled back slightly yesterday.
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00:02:39Gold miners on both sides of the border continued to move higher on Wednesday.
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00:02:44And then looking at those major tech
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00:02:46stocks, we had Alphabet continue to break out above the September high.
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00:02:52We've got Amazon moving up to the bottom of the open gap.
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00:02:56Then looking at Apple, Apple's also got a
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00:02:59gap to deal with and finding resistance at the 180 level.
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00:03:03Then we're looking at Meta making a new high for this move.
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00:03:07We saw Microsoft continue to move higher on Wednesday and then we've got Nvidia
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00:03:13making a new high for this move and then we've got Shopify pulling back now.
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00:03:18Shopify has got an open gap so far that's held us in check.
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00:03:22We're still on a buy signal here.
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00:03:24Looking at Shopify in New York.
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00:03:26We're looking for a close below 52 .41 on Thursday to give us a sell signal.
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00:03:32And then last up, Tesla.
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00:03:33Tesla had an inside day on Wednesday, so no change for Tesla.
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00:03:38Still on a buy signal.
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00:03:39That would change on Thursday with a close
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00:03:41below 250.37 okay folks, that is all for this morning's presentation.
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00:03:48I'm publishing this just before the economic numbers come out at 830.
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00:03:53And of course that could certainly change
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00:03:55the direction of the market before those economics numbers come out.
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00:03:59The market is fairly positive this morning.
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00:04:02Have a great day.
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00:04:03Next time you'll hear my voice is on Friday morning.