Chart of the Day: Marvell Is Taking a Breather
The high-energy semiconductors may be undergoing a correction.
The high-energy semiconductors may be undergoing a correction.
SanDisk, Micron, Western Digital and others got a Wednesday beating, so let’s take a look at the charts and see how to handle ’em now.
I have taken in some of my SNDK and MU shorts:
* SNDK ($SNDK) $1889 (-$141)
* MU ($MU) $1008.50 (-$24)
Positions: Short SNDK VS MU VS
The Seoul market and select chipmakers around Asia saw wild volatility, but the chaos is highly sector-specific.
Let’s look at the beating taken by memory stocks yesterday, the shot at a September rate cut, jobs day , and how July 4 week used to work for traders.
Was Wednesday’s poor market performance a warning of things to come?
Another leg lower for momentum, high beta tech (part of my short basket).
I am sticking with the remainder of the basket even though some of the drops have been dramatic:
Today’s Selected Price Changes in Short Basket
* SNDK ($SNDK) -$255
* CAT ($CAT) -$58
* CRWV ($CRWV) -$15
* INTC ($INTC) -$11
* MU ($MU) -$98
Position: Short Basket
Here’s why good economic data is weighing down stocks, Russell’s rebalancing will make winners and losers and the chart looks … perilous.
The problem with shorting (or buying indices) late in the day or in the evening — as I often do — is that the fate of the general market’s opening is determined by the overall movement memory stocks.
And to predict/guess the opening price of $MU, $SNDK, $AMAT, $AMD, $INTC is a “fool’s errand.”
The market has no memory from day to day.
Position: None