Major Moves 

If you are feeling a little whiplash today, you're not alone. Just as quickly as the Trump administration imposed trade restrictions against Huawei last week, it has removed them – at least temporarily – this week.

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AutoZone, Inc. (AZO), DISH Network Corporation (DISH) and Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX) were the top performers in the S&P 500 – with gains of 5.57%, 5.29% and 4.63%, respectively – but they weren't the only stocks enjoying buying pressure today. The S&P 5꧑00 saw 448 of its component stocks close higher toda✱y.

Of course, there were a few bearish exceptions – like Kohl's Corporation (KSS), which lost 12.34% after missing earnings expectations by $0.06 per share and downgrading its earnings guidance for the year – but even a bullish surge of moment🧸um can't be expected to rescue a stock that is expꦍeriencing fundamental growth issues.

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You can see by the sea of green (the brighter the green, the larger the price gain) on the S&P 500 heatmap below just how excited traders were to see the Trump💮 administration flinch today on Huawei. They are starting to wonder if the administration might flinch on its tariffs with China as🌠 well. It's too early to tell, but Wall Street certainly seems hopeful.

S&P 500

The S&P 500 rebounded a bit today, but we're not out of the woods yet. Yesterday, I talked about the potential 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:head and shoulders bearish reversal pattern – with the left shoulder forming in late March, the head forming in late April and the right shoulder forming in mid-May – that the S&P 500 might form if it drops below support at 2,816.94.

While today's bounce higher certainly moved the index a little farther away from that crucial support level, it didn't take the S&P 500 out of the range of the potential right shoulder of the pattern. The index is still consolidating in a tight range, and we have seen time and time again how fickle Wall Street can be with surprisingly bad news.

To really get out of the danger zone for this particular price pattern, the S&P 500 will likely need to climb back above 2,900. I'm confident the index can make that bullish jump, but I know I'll be sleeping a lot better once it happens and the renewed bullishness is confirmed.

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Risk Indicators – VIX

Portfolio managers are starting to tip their bullish hands this🔜 week.

Earlier in May, portfolio managers started buying 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:put options on the S&P 500 to protect the bullish equity positions in their portfolios. Put options are often viewed as insurance policies because, when the value of the ꦰunderlying index or stock that the option is based on goes down, the value of the put option goes up.

For instance, if you buy a put option on the S&a💯mp;P 500, and the S&P 500 goes down, you will actually make money on your option position because the value of the put on the S&P 500 will go up. Portfolio managers typically buy put options on the S&P 500 because it is easier to buy insurance on the entire S&P 500 than it is to try and buy insurance on each individual equity holding in the portfolio.

When portfolio managers start buying more and more put options on the S&P 500, it pushes 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:implied volatility levels on the S&P 500 options higher, and that is exactly what the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) measures.

Whe♒n the VIX is moving higher, it tells you that traders – portfolio managers especially – are buying an increasing number of options, typi☂cally put options, on the S&P 500. In other words, it tells you that traders are nervous about a pullback on the S&P 500 and want to protect their portfolios.

When the VIX is moving lower, it tells you that traders are pulling back on their S&P 500 option purchases. In other words, it tells you that traders are not as nervous about a pullback on the S&P 500, and they don't feel the need to spend the money to buy insurance on their portfolios.

Today, the VIX closed at its lowest level since May 3. This is a bullish sign and tells me that the supp⛎ort level at 2,816.94 on the S&P 500 has a better chance of holding than it did yesterday.

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Bottom Line - A New Hope

Bullish hope has been rekindled on Wall Street, and support on the S&P 500 is h🍷olding … at least for now. The week is young, but it looks promising.

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