HaiKhuu Daily Report - 04/13/2026
Good morning and happy Monday! Wow, the weekend has absolutely flown by, and I hope you all are ready for the fight of our lives. Markets are down slightly at the time of writing this report, and DJT war news is hitting headlines. The strait is still blocked, impacting international trade, and traders are becoming more fearful in the short term.
These market conditions will remain volatile, so please tread lightly, practice risk management, and make the most of the opportunities presented to us. I am very excited to see where the markets decide to take us, but things can get sketchy extremely quickly.
Just remember that these market conditions, despite what anyone says, are still exceptionally strong, and “should” cushion some of the possible downside pressure we are experiencing at the moment. So enjoy what the markets are going to provide us today, be excited to see what the markets will provide us this week, and look to maximize every opportunity that is presented to you in the short term.
This will be a lot of fun, so good luck trading this week, and have an amazing time. Much love everyone!
The updated $SPY daily levels are as follows:
Conversion Line Support: $655.65
Baseline Support: $657.40
Psychological Resistance: $680
Daily Cloud Resistance: $682.71
Thoughts & Comments from Last Week
Last week was an absolutely beautiful week for the markets with strong bullish momentum, opportunity, and hopefully a significant amount of realized gains. Anyone simply holding strong equities had an amazing time, and anyone who was able to catch the momentum absolutely printed. Congrats to everyone who survived the volatility of the previous couple of months, and absolutely printed last week!
So, we started the week with $SPY trading at $655.76. Market conditions were alright as traders went into the week with mild weakness. $SPY remained green through Monday, dropped slightly to start the day on Tuesday, and moved up leading into the end of the day. Conditions ending on Tuesday were not the craziest, but after hours on Tuesday, the markets took off.
We got massive war news, resulting in the large directional move that no one “expected,” and as a result, traders were able to realize a significant amount of gains overnight with ease.
$SPY went from trading right below $660 to breaking out and testing $680.
Wednesday was an absolutely beautiful day for the markets as overall we essentially retained that position and remained relatively strong through the day, which was followed up by more strength on Thursday, before we watched as $SPY had mild bearish momentum on Friday, rejecting the daily cloud resistance and the $680 resistance point.
It is unfortunate that the markets were not able to break above $680 last week, but we ended the week officially with $SPY trading at $679.46, up $23.70, or 3.61% overall.
So, I don’t think anyone can complain about the insane strength and opportunity that was provided to us in these market conditions, and I am extremely happy knowing that people genuinely changed their lives last week. Congrats again to everyone who survived the volatility of the previous month or so, as I said before, I genuinely believe that over the previous two months, 20%~ of “retail traders” have either lost their portfolios, or have lost enough to get them to either take a step back, or quit the markets. So, as bad as this sounds, welcome to the world of the strongest survive, and here you all are, the strongest of the group. So congrats one last time for surviving the volatility, and let’s see where the markets want to take us today!
S&P 500 Heat Map - 04/10/2026
Thoughts & Comments for Today - 04/13/2026
Today is going to be a confusing time for the general markets to start the week off. With the headlines we got over the weekend, and the sentiment going into today, as bad as this sounds, the markets can genuinely go anywhere in an extremely short period of time, and that should really scare people going into today.
As much as I want to be optimistic leading into today, please continue to tread extremely lightly. We are in the “back half” of this war, in my opinion, but being in the back half does not mean the war is anywhere close to over. Just remember that, despite these conditions being great in perspective to where they were this time a week ago, all we need is a single news headline to cause us to trend back down.
Please, go into today and this entire week with the mindset that you have to tread extremely lightly. There will be opportunities to actively scalp and trade in the short term, but I believe that the majority of traders who are overexposed, overleveraged, or emotional in these conditions are going to statistically lose the most in the shortest period of time.
Again, I am not attempting to be pessimistic or get you guys to be bearish, but this is just a general statement of these market conditions, knowing what can come in the near future. If market conditions do not strengthen and we do not get positive war news in the short term, just know it will be a slow and unfortunate grind down in the markets.
This is obviously not ideal, but with the current market conditions, it is almost hard not to be skeptical.
So go into this week knowing that these conditions are going to be extremely inconsistent and the large majority of traders are going to have a tough time.
But this is where we get to come along and tell you the best routes and methods to generate as many gains as possible in the shortest time possible.
Obviously, nothing I am about to say should be considered as financial advice, nor should it be a signal to buy or sell anything. I cannot guarentee your success, but I can try to guide it as best as possible.
With that said, please look to take advantage of this short-term momentum. Yes, there are going to be some insane opportunities to hold long exposure in the case that the market conditions weaken, but this is going to be one of those times that I am going to advise everyone to, instead of looking to trade $SPY and 0-DTE $SPY contracts, to look more towards attempting to trade long shares of single-name organizations. You will have significantly more short-term consistencies in the markets, which will provide you with opportunities to break out.
Scalping the short-term momentum limits your long risk in the markets, and as confident as you want to be in these conditions, it is almost hard to be confident at this point, as equities are up beautifully, and war news continues to hit headlines, so please just tread lightly and practice safe risk management leading into today.
Just follow the momentum, don’t overleverage your portfolio, and do everything in your power to remain consistent while others can’t.
If I see any opportunities, or if I decide to get into any other plays, I’ll announce what I see in the HaiKhuu Discord.
My Personal Watchlist:
Note, just because something is on my watchlist does not mean it is a signal to buy or sell any equities
Watchlist:
Tech: $NVDA, $AMD, $TSLA, $MSFT, $ORCL, $INTC, $PLTR
Speculative: $PTLO, $RIVN, $GAP, $NKE
Long Dividend: $JEPI
Long Investment: $PTLO
Crypto: $MSTR, SOL, BTC
Economic News for 04/13/2026 (ET):
Existing Home Sales - 10:00 AM
Notable Earnings for 04/13/2026:
Pre-Market Earnings:
Goldman Sachs Group (GS)
Fastenal (FAST)
After Market Earnings:
FB Financial (FBK)
Wrap up
This is going to be a spicy way to start the week. I want to be optimistic and hopeful, but knowing what can come in an extremely short period of time as a result of almost any news update, it is hard not to be skeptical. So remain skeptical, tread lightly, protect your bottom line, but be excited to see where we can go here in the short term.
Good luck trading, and let’s see where $SPY takes us!