In this December 18, 2025 video, the presenter reviews the day’s trade setups for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) and Micron Technology (MU). For SPY, he details a gap‑up, the interaction with the 50‑day simple moving average (SMA), 4‑ and 8‑period exponential moving averages (EMAs), and key price thresholds (bullish above 670, bearish below 673). He explains the trade entry, volume‑driven retest, and exit at a target of 680.64, yielding a $4.14 profit. For MU, he discusses the earnings‑driven gap‑up, bullish threshold above $250, bearish below $246, and the use of 4‑ and 8‑period EMAs, the 161‑day SMA, and volume spikes. He describes the impulse move, pull‑back, and exit at a profit of $9.74. Throughout, he emphasizes technical analysis, volume confirmation, and predefined price levels, then ends with a call to like, share, and subscribe.
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Good afternoon, traders. It's Thursday, December 18th at 3:31 PM. All right, let's review our trade setups for today. We have the SPY and we have MU. So SPY, look at this on the daily. We gapped up, tagged my 50 simple moving average, and you can't even really see it. We're pretty much at where we opened. So we went up, tagged the 4 and the 8 exponential moving average. Well, actually came down and hit this print in the 51st, and now we're just sitting here in the middle on this top half of this candle, right? But we're below millions, billions, and billions of dollars. So this could be the retest and then break below, coming down to 665. Otherwise, this is an inside weak candle until we actually start moving above these prints or below. But anyway, let's review. Uh, bullish above 670, 670, 650. Bearish below 673. The 673 never happened. Let me make this A little bit bigger here. Bearish flow, 673, never, never occurred. The 676.50, remember we mapped this out way back in here, right? So 676.50, that occurred originally pre-market, but we came up, we retested it, we had this low here, and then break above, retest, and then off. So this actually was not bad. Came up to hit our target here at 680.64. Um, so that's $4.14 right from, from our entry point. And so this consolidated here. This was a great entry. I actually took this trade. We had the increasing volume. Look at this. We had this consolidation period here. We tagged this here, and then we broke below with the increasing volume. So I caught this. I caught this range right here. But this came all the way back down to our— to this print here, 675.14, 5.4 million, 3-line strike reversal, 200 exponential moving average. And now we didn't make a higher high, right? So this, this here was another entry point to short at increasing volume occurring. And then we pulled back almost to the print. Higher low. Let's see what happens later in the day. But anyway, that was $4.14 on the upside, nothing on the downside. So I will stop blabbing and let's look at MU. All right, so on the daily, MU gapped up on earnings, and it was whatever the earnings were, the market liked it. So we opened, came up to this previous high here. Came down, and then here we are, we're a little bit lower. And so earnings were good. We were bullish above $250, bearish below $246. So the $246 never occurred because we mapped this out back here, but the $250— this occurred pre-market. So right here we had this increasing volume breaking above $250. So we had an impulse move Back up, impulse move back, there's support, and we came up to a high of almost $263. Uh, I had mapped out $259.74 right here, and then I just went to $265, $270, right? But this up— this upthrusted because there wasn't, you know, $275 would have been, you know, changing the, the, uh, $2.50 level, $5 level. Just up. But anyway, this one's zippered a little bit, and we were, uh, bearish below 246, which didn't happen. Similar sort of thing though. Here you have this— you usually have this massive volume at the open, and we have to wait at least 15 minutes because look what happened. Pulled back, upthrusted, breaking below here, and then we have the increasing volume. There's your hammer at the open, but then breaking below this When we didn't hold this, this tested the open. This candle opened, tested the open, started moving down. We've got the 4 and the 8 exponential moving average here, and this just continued. And I keep mentioning that if you guys are watching my videos. And this one came all the way down here. This is a 161 simple moving average, usually good with commodities, but I've left it on there because it's done quite well. And so this one came down to the 247 level. And then higher lows, higher high, higher low, higher high, but we didn't make it up here. So there were a couple good trading opportunities here for MU. So anyway, that was $9.74 profit on this one that we had mapped out. All right, there you have it. Those are your trade setups for today. So please like, share, subscribe. Let us know how you're doing. And we'll see you tomorrow with all new trade setups. Happy trading, everyone!
