Futures open firm, oil spikes, and the chip sector stages a very public argument

Futures open firm, oil spikes, and the chip sector stages a very public argument

US equity-index futures are nudging higher — S&P 500 contracts +0.3%, Nasdaq 100 +0.3%, Dow +0.6%. The macro tape is doing its usual mixed-bag routine: US Dollar +0.2%, 30yr Bonds +0.1%, Crude +3.5%, Nat Gas +0.8%, Gold -1.2%, Silver +0.2%, Copper +2.8%, BTC -1.2%. In the premarket, Nvidia is up 2.3% after announcing it is entering the PC market with a new chip. Arm is cheering loudest, ADRs up 13%. Intel is down 6%, Qualcomm down 9.7%, and AMD down 4.3%. Microsoft is up 4.1% as software catches a sympathetic bid.

Gobble's Take: Nvidia walked into the CPU neighborhood and flipped the whole block. Arm threw a party; Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD are still staring at the wreckage.

Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

Snowflake is up 36% today and the chart is starting to look like a cry for help

Snowflake is up 36.48% on the day, 43.26% over five days, and 69.38% over the past month — price at $239.2, volume running at 3.21x average. The catalysts stacked up: sector momentum, a potential US-Iran peace deal, rising index futures, and the company's cloud-based data warehousing business. Volume, short interest, and catalyst timing are all flashing at once. The framing is textbook herd behavior — everyone reading the same birds, flying the same direction.

Gobble's Take: A chart this vertical has one real question, and it is not "how much higher?" It is "who is left to buy?"

Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

The rally is nearly at target, a sell signal is incoming, and the chart is not done yet

The market tagged first major support near SPX 7,340, triggered the Daily Buy Signal, and climbed to 7,599 on Friday — 51 points shy of the 7,650 target. The current Daily Buy Signal is expected to wrap up around Tuesday, at which point the next Daily Sell Signal is likely to fire. The bigger picture stays constructive: the Weekly Buy Trigger from March 31 remains active, the market is still in Wave 3, and a Wave 4 pullback is the base case once that sell signal hits. Fibonacci levels on watch: 7,650, 7,800, 8,100, 8,300, 9,100, and 9,500.

Gobble's Take: Fifty-one points from target, a sell signal warming up, and Wave 4 waiting in the wings — the market is not done, but it is definitely thinking about its next move.

Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

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