Money Vikings Investing - Week of 6/25/2023
In This Issue: Summer Opportunity, Market Report, Finviz/Sector Analysis, Sentiment Analysis, 🔴🟢, VIX Multi Year Lows, 2 Hot🔥Trades in UNG and SPY, What’s a Broken Wing Butterfly?
Money Vikings Investing - Week of 6/25/2023
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Weekly Market Report
⬆️ S&P 500: -0.91%
✈️ DOW -0.97%
🧢 IWM Small caps -2.46%
🏎️ QQQ -1.19%
💼 Rates/Bonds: +0.20% for TLT, Yield Curve Continued to Invert about -8 bps.
🚩Fed Watch: about 71% probability of a rate hike on July 26th
🎢 Volatility: VIX trading for 13.44, near multi-year lows.
🌕 BTC up +16% for the week on ETF filings, Supreme Court rulings in favor of COIN
🛢️ Commodities: DBA (Agriculture Fund) was down -1.69%, USO (Oil) was down -2.35%. UNG (Natural Gas) was up +10.22%
🍔All Sectors were down with Healthcare leading and Real Estate at the bottom, down almost -4.5%
💪 AAII Sentiment 42.9% Bullish, 29.4% Neutral, 27.8% Bearish, a 5% increase in bearishness since last week
Indexes and Macro Indicators
Last week was a shortened trading week, and next week we’ll have the end of the quarter. The market still remains in a bullish trend overall, but last week the S&P 500 retreated almost 1%. A pullback to 430 would be “healthy”, and a bounce off it would give more credit to the notion that this is a small pullback in a market rally, and not the market completely reversing. IWM (small caps) were one of the worst performers down almost 2.5%. Watch the 178 ad 170 levels carefully to see if they hold support. Despite the pullback, the VIX is down to 2020 lows. USO (oil) and EEM (emerging markets, lots of China) are also both down over 2% this week. UNG on the other hand was up over 10%. See our hot trade in UNG below! Bitcoin was also the up 🌟 gaining over 16% for the week!
Why do we care? Is there a rotation going on from Tech to more Defensive sectors?
The 10/2 Yield Spread Continues to Decline
Why do we care? The 10/2 inversion is a a lack of confidence in the future. Short term we believe we’ll earn more from treasuries than over the long haul. Many take this to be a sign of a recession, but we’ve been this way for a long time. Shouldn’t we be bottoming out soon, and starting to normalize?
The Fear and Greed Index, Market Temperature
Image #1 : The Fear and Greed Indicator showed that we retreated from Extreme Greed (79), to Greed (74).
Image #2: The VIX hit 3 year lows this week.
Image #3: The AAII Investor Sentiment Indicator reflected slightly more bearishness.
2 Hot Trades - UNG Long Call Spread / SPY BWB - Free for non-Premium Members This Week!
Long Call Spread in UNG to July 21
On 5/22 in Discord, I called out a long 7/9 bull call spread in UNG for a 0.55 Debit (Natural Gas ETF). Today, that same entry will cost you .68, but you could also move the strikes up to 8/10 if you believe this rally will continue.
To Open
Buy 1 UNG 7/21 7 Call
Sell 1 UNG 7/21 9 Call
SPY BWB (Broken Wing Butterfly) to July 21
In SPY, there is no risk to the downside, and if we get a rally, could potentially make some money. By the time this filled, I received .09 in credit. Today this trade is giving a .17 credit. For more info on Broken Wing Butterfly’s, check out our explainer video below.
To Open
Bought 1 SPY 07/21/23 Call 436.00 for 6.76
Bought 1 SPY 07/21/23 Call 446.00 for 2.13
Sold 2 SPY 07/21/23 Call 440.00 @ 4.49
Earnings Next Week
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Perhaps. It seems to be pretty volatile but also looks like it’s establishing a base.
Your UNG trade is awesome. Do you think there's also a buy-and-hold opportunity there?