2021-08-18 • Updated
Wall Street analysts are the most bullish on stocks in almost two decades. About 56% of them recommend buying S&P500 stocks. It is the largest indicator value since 2002. Such bullish sentiment was caused by the highly successful earnings season.
Analysts are gaining optimism as the stock market gains continuously and companies outperform even the highest expectations. The Q2 earnings season was one of the strongest in history. At the moment, it looks like neither Delta variant COVID cases growth, nor China’s regulator crackdown are able to change traders’ sentiment as S&P500 doubled since March 2020 dump.
Analysts are bullish not only towards the US stock market, in Europe and Asia the number of bullish predictions reached 10-year heights.
Analysts predict S&P500 12% growth and 21% HK50 growth within 12 months.
However, traders shouldn’t lose control over their trading strategies as the market moves in whatever direction hurts the most participants. This bullish sentiment combined with a risk of inflation growth can play a bad joke on everyone.
4H Chart
At the moment, S&P500 is heading towards the 100-period moving average. If the price breaks this support through, the next target will be 4390, which will be a good buy option as in this case the price will locate near the bottom line of the channel S&P500 have been moving into since March 2020.
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Bearish scenario: Sales below 80.00 with TP1: 79.60... Anticipated bullish scenario: Intraday purchases above 80.70 with TP: 81.50...
Bearish Scenario: Sales below 78.99 with TP1: 77.93, TP2: 77.45, and upon its breakout TP3: 76.56 and TP4: 75.70 Bullish Scenario: Purchases above 78.00 (wait for a pullback to this area) with TP1: 1679.00 (uncovered POC*), TP2: 79.33, and TP3: 79.66 intraday
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Hello again my friends, it’s time for another episode of “What to Trade,” this time, for the month of April. As usual, I present to you some of my most anticipated trade ideas for the month of April, according to my technical analysis style. I therefore encourage you to do your due diligence, as always, and manage your risks appropriately.
Bearish scenario: Sell below 1.0820 / 1.0841... Bullish scenario: Buy above 1.0827...
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