The Week Ahead : August 18th - 22nd 2025

Highlights: New Leaders, Macro Week, Powell & Emerging Themes

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The Week Ahead

Earnings Season is essential over, a quiet week for earnings this week gives a well needed breather. WE still have NVDA and a few more big tech names in the following week but the rush is finished for another few weeks. It’s been a mixed bag, but not unexpected. Everything has ran hard so mediocre results were punished and we saw some strong winners emerge. Notably RDDT, NBIS & ALAB.

Earnings highlights are posted below. I’ve included a couple of random ones with nice looking charts like AS, we’ll see if anything comes of them. WMT, HD, TGT will be closely watched by macro people for consumer sentiment. Several China names are also reporting. The charts have looked good on these and I’ve ventured into some in the past week or so. China usually disappoints though so caution is advised.

Big week on the macro front. FOMC on Wednesday @ 14:00. US Weekly Job Claims Thursday @ 8:30am, US PMIs Thursday @ 9:45am and finally Powell’s speech at the Jackson Hole conference on Friday morning @ 10am will be the big ‘‘highlight’’ of the week. There is a lot of debate right now from Bulls and Bears. We can see the IWM looking poised, presumably in advance of September rate cut but also the S&P500 is trading very narrow. For now I’m seeing Trades work and follow through but next week would make sense as a short term sell the news event after FOMC.

Recent Themes to monitor - Gold, Marijuana, China along with select AI Names (Datacenters). Drones and Nuclear have setups forming.

Earnings Highlights

Monday :

(Before Market Open) - RSKD

(After Market Close) - PANW, API, AXON, NVTS

Tuesday:

(Before Market Open) - AS, HD, XPEV, MDT,

(After Market Close) - TOL

Wednesday:

(Before Market Open) - TGT, ZIM, LOW, FUTU, EL, BIDU, KC

(After Market Close) -

Thursday:

(Before Market Open) - WMT, BILI

(After Market Close) - ZM, WDAY, INTU

Friday:

(Before Market Open) - BJ

Next weeks full earnings watchlist on TradingView can be accessed here.

Macro Events (Eastern Time)

Delayed Reaction Watchlists:

Delayed Reaction Watchlist (click here Tradingview)

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_{PS: There are many ways to trade stocks in play. It does not have to be the one that keeps going straight up and sometimes it doesn’t even have to be day one of the catalyst. Everyone must find a setup, timeframe and method that works for them. This list is supposed to educate on the criteria I use and the methods in which I find Stocks in Play. Yours may differ and that is completely okay.}