 What is going on everybody? It's Stas here. Welcome back to another video. So in today's video, we're going to be doing an overall market update, taking a look at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500, and the NASDAQ. We're also going to be doing a trading update talking about what I did today, kicking off the July month on July 1st in 2019 in terms of my trades, as well as going over some other stocks and ETFs that I'm personally watching and looking to trade here heading on to the rest of this week here starting off July. But before we do get into the topics of today's video, all I ask from you guys out there is if you enjoy the content, simply leave a like on this video. It really supports me and supports the channel in general. And if you actually enjoy the content and you want to be a part of our StriveSmart community, there are two links down below, completely free, one of them being the Discord group chat and the other one being the Facebook group. I guarantee you guys will find a ton of value in those communities. You'll be able to talk to a bunch of different people, over a thousand people in both of those communities combined. So without out of the way, without out of the way, let's just get right into it, guys. The S&P 500 today actually hit another all-time high here at 29.77 and 93 cents. We saw a gap up this morning on the S&P. If we look at this very quickly, we saw that on Friday, we actually closed on a nice bullish swing and that actually led into today's session with the gap up and that all-time high followed by a little pullback here in the S&P 500. The Dow Jones, a lot of the same, right? We ended up going up 117 points today, up 0.45%. At the close, we had that nice strong swing up here on Friday. We're literally right before the market closed and that led into today with this big gap up. It was actually not an all-time high for the Dow Jones. It was about 100 points shy from that all-time high, but it did get very, very close today. Going over here to the NASDAQ, you guys can see it as well. We hit a high at about 78.49 this morning, and then we started to sell off and hit a low at about 77.59. Overall today, guys, the NASDAQ did very well. It did the best out of the three major indexes considering that gap up that we saw this morning. I believe it was up at 1.2%, maybe 2.2% while the other ones, the S&P and the Dow, they were up about 1.2% to about 1.5%. That has a lot to do with the tech stocks today doing significantly well compared to some of the other industries and sectors out there in the stock market. That's what ended up happening on a very brief basis today in the markets. Going over here very quickly back to the S&P to start breaking down some technicals. Again, we hit that all-time high today at about 29.77. Me and a bunch of other of our group members today in the Discord group chat, we were seeing whether or not we were going to end up pulling back and holding that 29.60 level, that 29.50-ish level, which was actually a previous all-time high from the 21st of June. We were wondering if we were going to hold this old resistance as a new support since we did gap up above it. You guys can see we hit the all-time high. Again, like I said, we pulled back and we successfully bounced on that old resistance as a new support right now for the S&P 500. You guys can see it even better here. I'll go out to the 5-day 5-minute. You guys can see it even better, gap up, pull back. We hold that 50 S&P at a higher or low. In my opinion, this is a very good sign that we're heading up. We could potentially head up tomorrow in the markets as well if this actually gaps up and continues based on what the futures are going to be telling us. We'll understand whether or not that's going to happen. Let's say we see futures are up 0.4% tomorrow. We're up here retesting that all-time high. We may be hitting another all-time high tomorrow, but let's say we're gapping down a bit. I'd be looking for that 50 S&P support there to see if we're going to hold above it or if we're going to sell below it. Going back over here to the 20-day, you guys can see we hit the higher high, pulled back. Everything pretty much is looking intact right now for the S&P 500. In my opinion, guys, I definitely think we can hit a $3,000 S&P 500 at this point. If we go to that 20-day 1-hour chart very quickly, all we need is another pop of about 1 to about 1.2%. Literally, we've been having those moves. I can count on both of my hands, I feel like, over these past two, three, four, five weeks that the S&P's literally gone up 1, 1.2% in the matter of a day. All we need is another one of those strong days and the S&P can definitely be at $3,000, even if we see a little bit of a retracement of about 0.3%, 0.4%, very similar to some of the retracements we've been seeing. Notice how a lot of these pullbacks are about 0.4%, 0.5%. Even if we see that and we hold that 50 S&P at that point, we need to pop, let's say 1.5%, 1.6% and again, that can literally happen in one day or over the course of two, three days if we have a couple of mini-green days, if you guys know what I mean. So, 3,000 S&P, I think it's going to happen here, at least in the short term, especially if we get a rate cut here in the next 30 days. So, that's the S&P right now, guys. A lot of the other indexes, the Dow, the NASDAQ, they're looking very similar in terms of a technical basis. But the one little difference here is the Dow actually didn't pop to a higher high today. The high that it had back on the 21st of June is actually still higher, as you guys can see it here. We hit a high at about 26,907. So, I'd say right now, pretty strong resistance on the Dow Jones at about 29,850 to about 20 or rather 26,850 to about 26,900. That's a pretty strong level. And ideally, guys, you know, I would like to see a break out of that level for the continuation of the uptrend for that higher high. And at that point, we'll be hitting all-time highs there. And a good thing that I'm seeing here, guys, is that we're actually holding the 50 S&P support that's been a support over the past couple of weeks for the Dow. And that's a pretty good sign that it does want to continue its uptrend pattern here. So, the 10-day 30 minute, you guys can see it again, higher low was confirmed today as we did hit about 26,600. It was a higher low from 26,500. So, that's a good sign on the Dow Jones industrial average. And you guys can see the reversal even better here on the 5-day 5 minutes. So, that is kind of a breakdown on the Dow. We saw, again, that gap up, the cool off period, and the confirmation that we're still moving up on the smaller timeframe charts, which, again, leads me to believe we may be continuing up here, guys, over these next couple of days here, at least on a technical basis, right? So, the NASDAQ here, very similar. We've been seeing a cool off period. We held that 50 S&P nicely. We gapped up today from over the past week, right? We gapped up today. And you guys can see it even better here on the 10-day 30 minute. This is the gap up that you guys are seeing from 77-20. We literally hit highs of about 78-49. That was a higher low or rather a higher high. So, the continuation of the uptrend was there. Going back to the 184-hour chart, we're actually very close, or we were rather very close this morning to hitting an all-time high, but we got rejected by that all-time high roughly at about 78-75. So, that right now is a level, in my opinion, that needs to be broken above, obviously, for an all-time high to be hit for the uptrend to be continued and for the confirmation that we're going to be continuing to push on this uptrend. But in my opinion, this 50 S&P, we could be pulling back to it, maybe retesting it at about 77-100. And from there, if the market gets the good news from the rate cut, if tech stocks continue to do well, at that point, NASDAQ could launch up from there potentially hit an all-time high and maybe get into the $8,000 level, guys. So, that's looking pretty good, in my opinion, and that's pretty much the market update for today's video. So, if you guys have any opinions, you want to let me know your opinion, let me know down below in the comments section. What do you think right now about the stock market? In my opinion, I think the sentiment, again, is pretty positive right now. Rate cuts may be coming in soon. Again, that's a very short-term fix, short-term optimism, but I'm talking, you know, in the short term here, we may be going up longer term. If we're stretching this out, you know, a year, two years, it's a completely different story in terms of my opinion. But short-term, I think we're going to continue to move up here based off of what I am seeing. So, let's quickly do a trading update today, guys. And honestly, a lot of the stocks I talked about in yesterday's video, I kind of missed out on them, because a lot of them already gapped up early this morning. And Baba was one of those, actually, that did very well. It went according to plan, but I completely missed it. You know, due to the gap up that we saw, right? If you really didn't get in this past Friday, you really couldn't have made a good amount of money here. You maybe could have made about a percent, 1.2 percent if you were to get in pre-market hours and sell at the top. But that's very, very small percentage of people there, because that was such a quick move. You know, I don't know if anybody was able to catch that, but if you were able to get in on Friday, this one would have made out perfectly. You would have made, you know, 4 or 5 percent from entry point at about 168. And that's besides the point, right? This is one that I'm still going to be watching. But the one that I did end up trading today was you guys, guys. You guys today, if we go to the one day, one minute, and this is actually one that I called out on my Instagram. So if you guys don't follow my Instagram shameless plug first link down below in the description box, I'm starting to be extremely active on my story there. I'm going to be posting call outs on my Instagram. So go follow me down there. And this is actually one that I was able to call out. I don't know exactly what time I called it out, but I didn't call it out. And pretty much saying that this could be a reversal play, right? Because we saw how natural gas, let me just pull up my inverse ETF watch list very quickly. We saw how natural gas, if we pull up natural gas, where's it at? Here it is. We saw natural gas today. Again, we sold off. We've been selling off on natural gas on a more broader perspective here. We sold off to 215. We popped up. We started to break out here, which was a pretty bullish move, right? And then we saw the big dump actually earlier this morning. We saw the big dump from 230 down to about 221, which is actually a level of support from a previous resistance. And we actually held that level very nicely, you know, heading into about the noon time here, Eastern Standard Time. And that's when we started to see a bit of a bounce back play on natural gas. And notice how on the one day, one minute, we see the reversal play here. We see how the 50SMA, the 180SMA, they were acting as resistances. We got that bottom on the support at 220. We popped out bullish cross, you know, the candlesticks were breaking out of the 50SMA resistance. And this is when I started to see potential in you guys. And again, I'm not sure what time I called it out exactly on my Instagram, but for those of you guys that do follow me on Instagram, you probably saw that, right? So we called this one out. I ended up getting in on you guys, you know, as we started to see that confirmation of that reversal on natural gas, which again, was around 11am, 12pm Eastern Standard Time. We broke out. We got the pullback. And this is actually when I started to build a position at about 1485, about 1490. We started to gap up again into the 1510 level. We pulled back. Once we bounced on that 50SMA at a higher high, or rather a higher low, we started to trend back up. And this is actually where I started to cover some profits heading more towards the pre-market resistance at about 1510 and that previous resistance that we just hit. So from about 1485 ish to about 1488 is where I started building my position up to where I sold off. It was about a 1.4 to about a 1.5% profit on you guys. And this one really played out very nicely, guys, because again, the dump that we saw today on natural gas happened very quick. So I was looking at it to see if we were going to end up seeing a bit of a recovery there, seeing a bit of a bounce back play there, and that's exactly what we ended up getting. So that's what I did today in terms of my trading, guys. Let me know down below in the comment section what you ended up doing. And a couple, honestly, that I'm going to be watching for these next couple of days we saw in the beginning of this video, you know, Ali Baba, this is one, again, that I was not able to play. You know, if you weren't in it from Friday, you probably would have had a difficult time profiting on this. But this is one that I'm honestly going to be watching for potential pullback and a retest at about 173, which happens to be an old resistance, which is now a new support. And maybe even a pullback down to that 50 SMA, that could be an attractive spot for Ali Baba to enter. You know, 3M is one that I didn't really play today either, but it's still on the watch list. And I want to see if it's going to hold 174 as a new support, which was an old resistance here, maybe it pulls back down to the 50 SMA to retest that level. That could potentially be a nice entry point here on 3M. INTC was another one of those swing plays that I talked about here. And this actually is going to be an interesting entry point tomorrow. Potentially for me, we got that huge gap up today in the market. It seems like INTC followed that. We opened up at about 49.50. We dumped down. And notice how we're actually holding that 50 SMA support here. That's been a support over the past couple of weeks. This is a good dip by potential dip by on INTC heading into tomorrow. It can offer about a 2-3% profit. If we do end up getting back up to that $50 level of resistance. So those are three stocks that I'm watching. Crude Oil right now is in an interesting spot. We're actually getting hit by that $60 level of resistance. We got hit there. But we're also holding that 50 SMA. So keep an eye here on the 184 hour. This can be one that's trading between $57.75 and about $60. This could be a play to the upside tomorrow if we play UWT, which goes up whenever Crude Oil is going up. This could be a pretty solid one. Gold has actually been dumping pretty aggressively here over the past couple of days. We hit the high at $14.40. We're dropping down to about $13.90 here. It's a bit oversold. So let's see if this starts to possibly pop back up here. But it feels kind of weird because since the markets have been seeing a bit more optimism, gold has slowly been starting to dump. So that has to be some kind of correlation there. So I'm not sure how this is going to play out. If we get the rate cut, markets shoot up to a 3000 SMP, maybe a new all-time high on the Dow, maybe a new all-time high on the NASDAQ. This can trickle down gold a bit more. That can definitely happen. So I'm being a bit careful there, but I'm still watching it. And of course, you guys know the market ETFs, you know, TQQQ, SQQQ, TVIX, all of these volatility and market ETFs that trade on the SMP, the NASDAQ, I'm always watching those. So I hope you all enjoyed this video. I'm going to wrap it up here. If you did, feel free to go down below and hit that like button. It really does support me again, and I really appreciate every single one of you guys out there doing that. If you want to talk to me, drop a comment down below. Let's talk. 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