Dow Jones Futures: Market Rally Retreats Amid 'Epic' Apple Sell-Off; Will Tesla Self-Driving Release 'Blow Your Mind'?

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Dow Jones futures volition unfastened Sunday evening, on with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The banal marketplace rally retreated past week, with losses picking up steam Friday, led by Apple, Google and Tesla stock. Major indexes retreated to oregon beneath cardinal levels portion immoderate promising caller bargain signals fizzled.

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Apple banal sold disconnected Friday aft a federal justice ruled that Apple (AAPL) indispensable let outer payments for app developers specified arsenic Epic Games, creator of fashionable online crippled Fortnite. The Apple-Epic ruling besides deed Google genitor Alphabet (GOOGL), with Google Play gross besides successful doubt. Roblox (RBLX), Unity Software (U) and Electronic Arts (EA) are among the imaginable winners.

Apple and Google banal fell backmost to cardinal enactment levels, portion EA banal neared a bargain point. Roblox banal triggered an assertive bargain awesome and is adjacent to different absorption area.

Meanwhile, Tesla (TSLA) was acceptable to merchandise FSD Beta V10 Friday astatine midnight. CEO Elon Musk said this week that it volition "blow your mind," a signifier helium often uses to picture upcoming self-driving features. Tesla banal fell backmost Friday amid the marketplace retreat, but is inactive supra a bargain point.

Finally, support an oculus connected chip-equipment makers Entegris (ENTG), Applied Materials (AMAT) and KLA (KLAC). After period of sideways action, Entegris and AMAT banal flashed aboriginal entries connected Friday earlier fading. KLA banal flirted with a breakout.

Still, the caller marketplace enactment suggests investors should beryllium a spot much defensive, limiting caller buys and possibly curtailing overexposure.

Apple stock, Tesla, Unity Software and Google are connected IBD Leaderboard. Google banal and Entegris are connected IBD Long-Term Leaders. ENTG banal was Friday's IBD Stock Of The Day.

The video embedded successful this nonfiction discussed the play banal marketplace enactment and analyzed Apple, Floor & Decor (FND) and ENTG stock.

Dow Jones Futures Today

Dow Jones futures volition unfastened astatine 6 p.m. ET connected Sunday. So volition S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures.

Remember that overnight enactment successful Dow futures and elsewhere doesn't needfully construe into existent trading successful the adjacent regular stock market session.


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Stock Market Rally

Stock marketplace rally losses started tiny and they grew, with the large indexes closing adjacent play lows.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.15% successful past week's stock marketplace trading. The S&P 500 scale gave up 1.7%. The Nasdaq composite sank 1.6%. The small-cap Russell 2000 retreated 2.8%.

Among the best ETFs, the Innovator IBD 50 ETF (FFTY) declined 1.8% past week, aft jumping much than 5% successful each of the anterior 2 weeks. The Innovator IBD Breakout Opportunities ETF (BOUT) slid 1.2%. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) fell 2.5%. The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) dipped 0.4%, aft reaching a grounds precocious intraday Friday. AMAT banal and KLA are notable SMH components.

SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (XME) dipped 0.6% past week and Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (PAVE) fell 2.5%. U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS) slumped 2.6%, arsenic Friday's 3.3% tumble wiped retired immoderate tentatively bullish moves connected Thursday. SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) gave up 2.2%, with existent builders suffering hefty losses. The Energy Select SPDR ETF (XLE) retreated 1.75% and the Financial Select SPDR ETF (XLF) 1.2%.

Reflecting more-speculative communicative stocks, ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) fell 3.7%, erstwhile again undercutting its 200-day and 50-day lines. And ARK Genomics ETF (ARKG) skidded 4.1%, backmost beneath its 50-day line. Tesla banal is the apical holding crossed ARK Invest's ETFs.


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Apple's Epic Ruling

Apple won respective counts successful its tribunal combat vs. Epic Games, but mislaid a large one. U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued a imperishable injunction vs. Apple barring app developers from including outer links oregon different means of directing customers to extracurricular purchasing mechanisms. Apple, successful the aftermath of a caller colony successful Japan, precocious said that it would let immoderate developers to sidestep the 30% App Store interest starting successful aboriginal 2022. But mobile games were not included.

Apple generates large gross from its App Store, fundamentally axenic profit.

Apple banal fell 3.3% connected Friday to 148.97 successful dense volume, backmost into caller consolidation and conscionable supra its 50-day and 10-week lines. A rebound from these levels could connection a buying opportunity. But the disfigured play reversal and high-volume Friday sell-off rise immoderate concerns.

Apple is expected to unveil its latest iPhone and Apple Watch connected Tuesday.

Google banal fell 1.9% to 2,817.52 connected Friday. Shares closed close astatine their 21-day line, an country of enactment for Google for respective months. The 2% play diminution meant that it did not signifier a three-weeks-tight.

RBLX banal roseate 1.8% to 87.87 connected Friday aft hitting 90.43 intraday. Roblox flashed an assertive trend-line entry, a time aft bouncing from its 50-day line, but ended the week close astatine the inclination line. Roblox has a 91.05 short-term entry, with the authoritative buy point astatine 103.97.

EA banal popped 2% connected Friday to 145.13. It's closing successful connected a 149.03 bargain point, with 147.86 serving arsenic a grip oregon aboriginal entry.

Unity Software continued its caller rally, hitting a seven-month precocious earlier paring gains.


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Tesla FSD Beta To 'Blow Your Mind'?

Elon Musk took to Twitter connected Thursday, erstwhile again touting the upcoming mentation 10 of the Full Self-Driving software, saying it'll "blow your mind." FSD Beta V10 is owed to beryllium released Friday astatine midnight. Musk said precocious that V10.1 should rotation retired successful astir 2 weeks, with that apt being capable clip to fto each FSD owners opt into the Beta software.

Of course, Musk has a past of gushing astir upcoming driver-assist features, followed by more-critical comments aft their release. In precocious April, Musk said that FSD Beta V9.0 would "blow your mind." But past month, helium described V9.2 arsenic "not great."

Tesla apt volition person nary caller products and nary important caller markets successful 2022. It volition person 2 caller plants, adjacent Austin and Berlin. That volition boost capableness substantially, but is determination capable demand? EV contention continues to intensify, portion wide car output is apt to rebound.

So large improvements successful Full Self-Driving — oregon perceived improvements — volition beryllium important to carrying the Tesla communicative forward. That's particularly existent with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigating Autopilot crashes into parked archetypal responder vehicles.

Tesla banal fell 2.5% to 736.27 connected Friday, but did eke retired a 3rd consecutive play gain. Shares are inactive successful scope from a 730 assertive bargain point. The relative spot line for TSLA banal is the strongest since precocious April. The RS line, the bluish enactment successful the charts provided, tracks a stock's show vs. the S&P 500 index.

Market Rally Analysis

The banal marketplace rally took a measurement backmost past week. The Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Russell 2000 person fallen for 5 consecutive sessions, portion the Nasdaq losing streak has reached 3 days. The marketplace closed astatine league lows connected Thursday and Friday, which is anemic action. The Dow Jones is losing show of its 50-day enactment and undercut its Aug. 19 low. The Russell 2000 finished the week conscionable beneath its 50-day line, not a large motion for marketplace breadth.

The S&P 500 has dropped beneath its 21-day average. It's not acold from its 50-day enactment but inactive adjacent to all-time highs. The Nasdaq composite retreated to its 21-day line, but could beryllium astatine grounds levels again with 1 beardown day. Apple, Google banal and different tech giants pausing gives maturation stocks much country to run.

Growth stocks retreated but mostly held onto the bulk of large gains from the Aug. 19 low, contempt idiosyncratic disappointments specified arsenic DocuSign (DOCU). Chip-equipment giants different than ASML (ASML) are hinting astatine affirmative moves aft months of sideways action, though they ceded the bulk of their Friday intraday gains.

Meanwhile, respective housing-related retailers and gathering products makers look strong, specified arsenic Floor & Decor and TopBuild (BLD). Several apparel makers showed affirmative action, including Lululemon Athletica (LULU) and Crocs (CROX).

A marketplace retreat lets immoderate winners intermission portion others acceptable up successful bases. But the pullback doesn't person to stay gentle and brief. It's mostly amended to hold for a bounce, ideally from a moving mean similar the precocious August rebound.


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What To Do Now

Let's large clear: this is inactive a confirmed banal marketplace rally. It is not a marketplace correction oregon adjacent an uptrend nether pressure.

However, implicit this past week, IBD has recommended — including connected IBD Live and this overnight file — being a spot much antiaircraft successful the abbreviated run, adjacent erstwhile the Nasdaq was close astatine grounds highs. After a almighty tally for maturation stocks, immoderate benignant of intermission seemed likely.

Taking partial profits connected the mode up tin marque it easier to grip a winning banal connected the mode down. Investors tin clasp a banal done a downturn, eyeing longer-term gains. Or, they tin merchantability retired aft a banal triggers assorted rules, but inactive locomotion distant with decent oregon coagulated wide returns.

Meanwhile, proceed to chopped losses short. Doing truthful isn't conscionable dependable portfolio management. It frees up superior for caller buying opportunities down the road.

The existent pullback could make caller basal bases and pullbacks. But you privation to ready. Build your watchlists to spot intriguing setups up of time. That gives you the borderline to leap connected buying opportunities.

Read The Big Picture every time to enactment successful sync with the marketplace absorption and starring stocks and sectors.

Please travel Ed Carson connected Twitter astatine @IBD_ECarson for banal marketplace updates and more.

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