Stocks To Watch – 1/27/2025
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Brief Overview
Welcome back to this week’s Stocks to Watch! The markets are heating up with the heart of earnings season kicking off with top names reporting this week. We’ll be keeping our ear to the street (Wall Street) to catch any A+ opportunities that present themselves and as always we’ll be ready to alert them to our members!
Let’s take a look at last week.
Coming off the long weekend, markets opened strong with the S&P 500 and Dow hitting their highest levels in over a year. Optimism was fueled by hints that the new administration might take a balanced approach to trade policy. Investors seem hopeful that cooler heads will prevail on the global trade front.
The rally hit a pause midweek as markets slipped across the board. The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all posted modest losses, with investors digesting mixed economic data. Corporate earnings reports are rolling in, and there’s still some nervous energy around what’s next from the administration.
Big tech came through in a big way on Thursday, reporting solid earnings that lifted investor spirits. Strong performance in the tech sector gave markets a boost, helping offset the midweek jitters. Investors are banking on tech to keep driving growth as other sectors face more uncertainty.
Markets dipped to end the week, with the S&P 500 and Dow down about 0.3%, and the Nasdaq off 0.5%. The cautious tone reflects lingering concerns about potential policy shifts and mixed economic signals. Investors seemed to be taking a “wait and see” approach heading into the weekend.
It was a week of ups and downs for the markets. Trade optimism gave us a strong start, but by week’s end, cautious vibes took over as investors sorted through economic data and braced for policy changes. Tech earnings were a bright spot, keeping things from sliding too far off course. Stay tuned—2025 is already shaping up to keep us guessing!
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Market Brief
S&P 500 ETF (Ticker: SPY) – Daily Chart
Opened last week at: $600.67
Hit a weekly high of: $610.78 on Friday 1/24
Hit the low of the week of: $598.12 (premarket) on Tuesday 1/21
Closed the week at: $607.97
Last Week…
We’re back to setting new all time highs on SPY as we enter into the last week of January. After an initial slip to kick off Monday, SPY was able to pick up momentum over the $600 mark and continue to rip into the end of the week hitting a new all time high of $610.78.
Bullish Perspective
After hitting $610.78, SPY pulled back slightly to close the week at $607. 97. Bulls will want to see SPY pick up where it left off for a retest of the new all time high. If we see a break over ATHs look for targets in the blue sky at $615 – 620.
Bearish Perspective
Bears will want to see SPY fall back to test support at $605.50 for a possible breakdown. If support breaks we could see a move back to test ultimate support at the $600 psych level.
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Weekly Stocks to Watch
As always, we’ll be heavily focused on our news feeds & scanners for prime opportunities throughout the week.
Intuitive Machines Inc. (Ticker: LUNR)
Has been working a bullish trend since October 2024. Last week, it made a new weekly high a tick under $24 at 24.95. We will keep this level as resistance, but will be looking for upside above $25 if it breaks over. Short term targets would be $27.5 – 28.8. A break over this would expect to see $30 where a real upside move can trigger to $40 – 50. Look for dips under $25 all the way down to $19 for potential buy opportunities. If momentum stalls out under $19, LUNR could return to the lower level of the weekly trend line around $17 – 16.
Broadcom Inc. (Ticker: AVGO)
Gigantic bull flag on weekly trend almost broke out last week. (along with other semiconductor names) We will have eyes on AVGO for a break over last week’s high ($249.59) but the real trigger into all time highs is $251.88. Maybe psych targets of $275 – 300. So would keep eyes on that level for an impulsive breakout in the semi sector. If there’s no breakout and market is selling, look for first support $237 range, and if selling heats up under that $232 – 225 – 220 targets. $220 is where it would test the bottom of weekly bull flag support and could be a nice buy with a strong risk : reward if $220 level holds.
Tempus AI Inc. (Ticker: TEM)
Was the talk of the Street this past week after it was revealed that TEM is a Pelosi pick. TEM ripped, gapped up to start the week from $35 – 43 and ran to a high of $56.54. To keep it simple, keep eyes on the $50 level, below that momentum could stall and it can dip back towards that gap up level $42.5 range. Look for support there $45 -42 if looking to join TEM on a dip. If it falls under that, it may close the gap under $40. But, if TEM stays piping hot, watch for breakout over $57.5 for impulsive moves. There’s a good amount of selling at that level in the past, so a move over that may trigger a flurry of stop orders and cause a squeeze to $60 – 65 – 70 test. All time highs sits at $79.49 so maybe it gets a move there.
Johnson & Johnson (Ticker: JNJ)
Buyers maybe coming back into this name, and JNJ could provide an excellent long term investment idea, about a year hold idea. We have seen support in the $140s, so we can use any of these 140 levels to use as buy opportunities. Bulls will be looking for a move over $149/150 to hold. There is a lot of resistance at this zone so it can also fail there too and work back to lower $140s, and maybe a low under that. Which likely would shake out a lot of long positions, could be a great entry under $140 to $135. With time, longs can target $160 – 175 – 190 – 200 – 210 into the end of 2025 and early 2026.
Airbnb Inc (Ticker: ABNB)
Not the best week for ABNB. Full body red candle on the weekly chart, closing on support. Any lows below last weeks close of $127.09 would anticipate downside targets $125 – 121.6 – 118.5. If last weeks low holds, look for a bounce back into the range to $132.5 – 135. Bulls need to get ABNB back to $140+.
Honorable Mentions
Keeping an eye on Crypto Names (RIOT, MARA, COIN) this week for continued action as BTC remains hot. We’ll also be keeping eyes on top names reporting earnings this week (TSLA, AAPL, META, MSFT, SOFI, BA, INTC)
We have other names on watch and we’ll continue to monitor our breaking news feeds and Stock & Options Scanners to help make the smartest picks with the most potential throughout the week!
Last Week’s Continued Watch
Ideas from last week’s Watchlist that are still relevant this week
Take-Two Interactive (Ticker: TTWO) ” Could be a great stock to own and trade to the long side to target 200s – ATH ($214.91) if it breaks out. Will be eyeing a breakout over $192.15. Last week, TTWO bounced off the bottom of the bull flag weekly trend. Would want to see $180 support hold moving forward and would be ideal.”
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (Ticker: NCLH) “Use the $25 range as support and anticipate the bull flag to break out with time. Key breakout level for NCLH is $28.64 which should bring in volume to run this up to a $30 test. NCLH has not been above $30 for a long time (July 2021) and if the bull flag plays out, $30 really has a chance at breaking and potentially running this up towards $33.5 – 34. Room towards $20 if there’s a fail at $24.5.”
Alibaba Group (Ticker: BABA) “A move or gap over $88 could jump this up towards $92.5 and a breakout over that, volume, and news around tariffs could absolutely rip BABA into the $100s and another $120 test.”
Expedia Group Inc. (Ticker: EXPE) “Otherwise if we see lows under $175 hold / close under. EXPE could slip back to $160 and wipe out any short term long positions.”
VanEck Semiconductor ETF (Ticker: SMH) “A full body green candle last week most likely trapped bears, and if this weekly level over $257.5 holds and SMH breaks over $263.6 this could rocket ship up towards it’s past ATH over $283. Would consider $250 a really strong psychological level here as well, so use that as support.”
Shake Shack Inc. (Ticker: SHAK) “If SHAK bounces back look for $120 – 125 – 130 to be solid short term targets that will likely be met with resistance. But also, if the bounce does not stop and moves back into the uptrend, a move back through the $130s and a breakout into $140 on positive news of beef tallow catalyst or earnings beat could potentially send this into blue skies.”
Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Ticker: OXY) “If OXY fails to reclaim $52, We could see it start to slip back down to test support at $50 – 49.75. If support breaks look to targets of $47.25 – $45 in the coming weeks.”
Trump Media & Technology (Ticker: DJT) “If $40 fails to hold look for a move back through 37.50 – 35 – 32.50 – 30 , ultimately finding itself in the 20s.”
Apple Inc. (Ticker: AAPL) “Could be a short lived visit here in the $220s. Look for any dip buy opportunity around $225 for a move back into the 230s -235 – 240 – 250 push. If 230s cannot reclaim, than look for a continued trend down back through the 220s possible test of 200-220 range. Open mind for both directions depending on how the market adapts to the new president.”
Weekly Market Earnings Calendar
Most Anticipated Earnings Releases This Week
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Weekly Market Economic Calendar
Source: MarketWatch
Weekly Learning Focus
The Golden Cross is a BULLISH 🐃 candlestick pattern where a short-term MA crosses over a long-term MA ❌ The golden cross indicates a bull market on the horizon and it is backed up by high trading volume 📶
Here are 3️⃣ stages that make up a Golden Cross *important to understand❗️
1️⃣The first stage must have a downtrend that bottoms out as selling is depleted.
2️⃣The second stage the shorter MA will create a crossover up through the larger MA – triggering a breakout & a confirmation that the trend reversal is happening.
3️⃣The third stage is continuation and a follow through to higher prices💰
The opposite of a golden cross, is the death cross☠️⚰️ which is a bearish candlestick pattern. Be on the lookout for the Golden Cross❗️
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