PreMarket Prep

The sun comes out over Wall Street following a bit of a scary rainstorm Tuesday night. Tech stocks initially reacted sharply lower as a democrat sweep in the U.S. mid-term elections looked very likely. But the dip buyers stepped in, staples, utilities leading the charge higher, tech eventually coming around too. Stocks with friendly ties to the U.S. Administration fell Tuesday night and largely st...

The heart of earnings season continuing into this week will be trumped by an even bigger topic Tuesday and Wednesday: the mid-term elections in the U.S. The PMP and Stock Trader Network guys will consider implications from a stock traders perspective, including potential impacts on the AI trade given likely limitations to regulation if democrats stage a victory. In overnight news, Apple (AAPL) rep...

The guys gear up for yet another busy week on Wall Street. The earnings parade kicks off in force and with a bang, Apple (AAPL), Palantir (PLTR) and Tempus AI (TEM) on Monday. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Block (XYZ) and Astera Labs (ALAB) on Tuesday. The mid-term elections in the U.S. will certainly be the talk of the week on Tuesday and into Wednesday. But amid all that busy-ness around the mar...

A spooky show for a spooky tape! The AI hardware trade is a walking zombie, while staples look shinier than they've ever been. The guys will talk Apple (AAPL) and its position within tech and the broader economy... We'll wrap up this week on Wall Street by reviewing the big earnings reports from overnight: Intel (INTC), Amazon (AMZN), SanDisk (SNDK) and Reddit (RDDT), among others. We'll also get...

Stock Market Today: Moments before Wednesday's close, a WSJ report suggested U.S. Vice President Vance, on a hunt for peace in the Middle East, reached out to a so-called "hard-liner" Iranian authority to restart talks. S&P 500 futures rallied nearly 40 points following the report - only to have given all the gains back over just the next ten minutes. Harpoon #1. Google (GOOG) results were fir...

Stock Market Today: The guys will review overnight earnings from SK Hynix (SKHY), Seagate (STX), NXP Semi (NXPI), Teradyne (TER) and Logitech (LOGI) - the stocks of all save the first one sold despite quarterly beats and better-than-expected guidance. Wednesday will be maybe thee very heart of this earnings season, Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG), Fortinet (FTNT), ServiceNow (NOW), KLA Tencor (KLA...

Stock Market Today: A calm(er) start to the Tuesday on Wall Street. Celestica's (CLS) strong results and guidance Monday afternoon sparked a minor rally in the AI hardware names like SanDisk (SNDK) and Bloom Energy (BE). Other earnings highlights included: Amkor Technology (AMKR), Nucor (NUE) and Whirlpool (WHR). Before the opening bell, traders will receive earnings from SoFi (SOFI), Coca-Cola (K...

Stock Market Today: We enter the heart of earnings season. Some of the most important reports this quarter... Check out Fee's calendar on stocktradernetwork.com to get a good preview of notable earnings this week. Our special guest is Tim Quest of Market Structure EDGE and ModernIR. Joel, Dennis and Brent welcome you as they host PreMarket Prep's 3,652nd episode! Live every trading day since 2013....

Stock Market Today: What an end to the week on Wall Street! One of the all-time bull traps into Thursday's session, followed by a major wrecking of the tech trade. Rug-Pull Central. Full risk-off, flight-to-safety mode during Thursday's afternoon session: TLT and staples up sharply. Semis and software hammered. We'll review Western Digital (WDC) and Bloom Energy's (BE) quarterly results and give a...

Stock Market Today: The Admiral knew all along. It was a trap. Initial earnings pops in Tesla (TSLA), certainly IBM (IBM), even Meta (META) were faded - and then some. Triple D weighed in from the STN Think Tank as the Tesla conference call was getting ready to wrap up. Shares had fallen about 4% from their after-hours highs; Meta shares were down 5% from theirs. "Meta and Tesla were bull traps fo...

Stock Market Today: An absolute heater of an after-hours session Tuesday, sparked by extremely strong guidance from Super Micro Computer (SMCI) and blow-out Q3 earnings and guidance from SpaceX (SPCX) and Elon Musk. SMCI raised it's next-quarter sales guidance by almost 30%, from around $15 billion to now near $19 billion. Traders scrambled, panicked into AI hardware names like Dell (DELL), SanDis...

Stock Market Today: A little sketchy into the open on Monday, the AI hardware/semiconductor trade seemed to put in some not-bearish work Monday afternoon. NVIDIA (NVDA) and CoreWeave (CRWV) shares moved a couple percent higher; SanDisk (SNDK) and Micron (MU) traded up 6% and 3%, respectively; Oracle (ORCL) shares were up 2% and Nebius (NBIS) shares were up about 3%. But all the price action seems...

Stock Market Today: The in-earnest start of the earnings season will be the talk of Wall Street this week. SpaceX (SPCX) and Netflix (NFLX) on Tuesday, Meta (META) and Tesla (TSLA) on Wednesday, along with IBM (IBM). Nokia (NOK), Western Digital (WDC) and Bloom Energy (BE) on Thursday. The guys will get into the set up for the week: what other catalysts to be on the look out for and what the rotat...

Stock Market Today: Did the SMH finally start bottoming? Will the rebound in TLT continue to hold? Did Elon Musk use his new time-traveling Roadster to travel back to 1844 so he could give Samuel Morse the schematics for the telegram? Where _was_ Joel? A lotta questions to end this week on Wall Street. We'll get 'em all answered too! Might even come up with a trading idea or two or ten. Be informe...

Stock Market Today: A "massacre" in the AI hardware trade overnight as details of Anthropic's Investor Day trickling out after hours caused a monster sell-the-news moment. "Market playing full-on defense again," Dennis said in the Stock Trader Network Think Tank Wednesday night. "AI stocks down 3-5% across the board [but] SPY barely down because stocks like Apple (AAPL)." Rotation, rotation, rotat...

Stock Market Today: Wall Street is all jazzed up, waiting for what Triple D recently called "the most important Consumer Price Index report of the year." The guys will preview the 8:30 a.m. EDT CPI print, break the news in real time, give analysis of the market reaction and then welcome on STN's Chief Economist, Blu Putnam, to give a top-notch breakdown of the data itself. Whew! This will be an ex...

Stock Market Today: The AI hardware trade felt tired Monday while the anticipatory run-up trade in financials seemed to be working well. Big banks and staples continued higher after hours Tuesday evening. JP Morgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Citi (C) and Wells Fargo (WFC) will kick off the Q3 earnings season Tuesday. Traders look forward to TechCrunch's Disrupt 2026 event Tuesday, where NVIDIA's (...

Stock Market Today: The guys will get caught up on the weekend news: what's important and what can be ignored. Any trading ideas from over the weekend? Or do we already starting looking ahead for potential catalysts this week? The earnings season kicks off with Goldman Sachs (GS), JP Morgan (JPM), Citi (C), UnitedHealth (UNH) and J&J (JNJ) Tuesday. The rest of the big banks will be done by Wed...

Stock Market Today: Mr. Market showed resiliency on Thursday afternoon following a report OpenAI's annualized run rate for revenue could be closer to $50 billion, well under an expectation near $70 billion. Elon Musk and Starlink shook up the U.S. wireless carrier group after hours following news SpaceX (SPCX) bought 800MHz spectrum, something which will allow the company to compete against AT&amp...

Stock Market Today: A 10-year note auction which showed a yield over 5.3% gave some near-term relief to investors concerned with the course of rates and the TLT's charge lower. What do the auction results mean for traders and investors and how to get ahead of this potential catalyst? The guys will break the info down, give some great education and maybe even a trading idea or two. UPDATE: The TLT...

Stock Market Today: What concern with rates and the TLT? What concern about oil and inflation? What concern about the Fed's interest rate path moving forward? Stocks seem to be shrugging all of these off as the innovation and disruption AI has already caused and will continue to cause seems to be dead set on taking equities higher. The guys will preview Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows and Surface event...

Stock Market Today: This week's market rolls on as traders keep the boogeyman under the bed in the back of their minds: a TLT which moved lower despite odds of a Fed rate hike in October moving substantially lower. The TLT is rebounding Tuesday morning... will it hold? Financials have been an issue recently - especially the regional banks. Goldman Sachs (GS) and Citi (C) seeing some signs of life...

Stock Market Today: The PreMarket Prep guys get fired up for another wonderful week on Wall Street - "just another week for you and me in paradise," that's what that guy who was in Genesis sang, right? We'll check in to see how Triple D's weekend trades went. He was desperately trying to buy GameStop (GME) all after-hours Friday but the stock was bid up too much just after the close. Of course: ar...

Stock Market Today: several notable catalysts to be informed on and analyze... - the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly jobs report will be due out at 8:30 a.m. EDT. Economists expect a non-farm reading for September around 89,000 jobs added and an unemployment rate around 4.1%. - Tesla' (TSLA) Q3 sales data should be released around 9 a.m. Dennis will be setting up for the weekend trade, giving t...

The PMP crew will review Micron's (MU) important quarterly earnings report, even-more-important guidance and Mr. Market's reaction to the updates. "This report will move the entire market," according to Dennis on Wednesday's PreMarket Prep episode. The guys will also preview NIKE's (NKE) earnings, expected out after the close Thursday. Although a lackluster stock for quite some time, do traders an...