Evening review
Risk-on
S&P 500 firm after PCE, Walmart lags: one intraday short
At 16:37 UTC the S&P 500 cash is 7,709, up 0.5% and 0.55 ATR above its 20-day average (7,670); VIX 15.9. Core PCE came out this morning; the next event is ISM manufacturing tomorrow at 14:00 UTC, so any idea held overnight would be exposed and only intraday ideas were considered. We screened 15 instruments. Six were late (Nasdaq 100 2.10 ATR from its average, Dow 1.75, JPM 2.28, V 1.62, HD 2.92) and two sat in noise (CAT 0.48, XOM 0.25). The S&P 500, NVDA and MSFT passed the band but their nearest clean invalidation gave a stop either under 0.35 ATR or above the 0.49 ATR that an intraday target of 0.73 ATR allows. AAPL faces a double top at 339.3-339.5 (R:R 1.05). TSLA also passed; we chose Walmart instead: lower highs all session while the index rose. Idea CS-2026-0011: short at 105.56, stop 106.33, target 104.40, forced close 19:55 UTC. Main risk: the 105.33 double low.
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