HaiKhuu Daily Report - 07/25/2025
Good morning, and happy Friday! Wow, this week has been WILD with a continuation of NEW all-time highs three of the four trading days we’ve seen so far this week! The question is, will today be the fourth new all-time high?
Markets are up slightly during the pre-market session, and with the current conditions, it is almost impossible not to remain optimistic. But I do believe these conditions are genuinely going to be difficult to capitalize on.
Take advantage of these conditions, and throw your eyes on $INTC right now. With the drop that happened on earnings, this is going to be one of the best setups for the day, in my opinion, for both short-term and long-term opportunities. I’ll explain more later on in the full report my plans & how I’m allocating, but for now, just know going into today, that I expect that the overall markets will be difficult to navigate. Please practice safe risk management going into the weekend, and let’s have an amazing time
Good luck trading today, and let’s go into the weekend STRONG!
The updated $SPY daily levels are as follows:
Conversion Line Support: $627.10
Baseline Support: $614.02
Psychological Support: $600
Daily Cloud Support: $590.98
Thoughts & Comments from Yesterday 07/24/2025
Yesterday was a choppy, tight, and honestly kinda disgusting day for traders, but $SPY did go on and make a new all-time high, so what else can we ask for…. other than some consistency. Well, again, the fact that $SPY made an all-time high is a genuine win, and I feel that traders should be more comfortable and confident in these conditions as a result. Again, intraday conditions were tough, but new all-time highs are new all-time highs!
So, we started the day with $SPY looking great, opening at $634.65, displaying confidence and making a new all-time high right at open, and continually popping and chopping thoruhought the morning to test $635, before chopping around and breaking out finally during the lunchtime session where $SPY made the official all-time high once again trading right below $SPY $636, and continually chopped within a $1 range of $SPY $635 throughout the rest of the day, going on to make the official low of the day at $634.01, and the official all-time high, and high of the day trading at $636.15.
Conditions on an intraday basis really were inconsistent and did not provide us with any opportunities that could have generated any sort of significant gains. As much as I would love to say some great things about the conditions and the strength in the markets, despite us making new all-time highs, conditions on an intraday basis were terrible.
We officially ended the day with $SPY trading at $634.42, up $0.21 for the day, or down $0.23 from open. So, again, I am not saying that these market conditions were good, because they really were not, but hopefully your holdings were not too impacted yesterday. Again, nothing crazy should have happened, but again, that all comes down to how you personally allocated, what you were holding, and the direction you faced. But it was an overall just choppy and gross day. Hopefully, today is a significantly better day to end the week, but I guess we will see what happens by close!
S&P 500 Heat Map - 07/24/2025
Thoughts & Comments for Today - 07/25/2025
I expect today to be a choppy and difficult day for traders navigating the markets. I might be biased right now, but I don't think today is going to be a great day. There may be opportunities, and we may watch as $SPY hits an all-time high, but I expect to see difficulties from the large majority of traders as a result of this overconfidence that I feel many traders are experiencing, without any major justification.
Once we have a catalyst to move up with justification, then we can be comfortable and confident, but with the confusion and chop in the air, it is a Market Maker's dream, and a scalper’s worst nightmare. I do genuinely believe many traders will generate losses scalping and trading today, chopping for a portion, if not the majority of the day, so the same way I have been giving my thoughts on risky plays, today is not one of those days where it seems like we should attempt to put risk on.
I’ll still say that I believe that these market conditions are extremely strong, but with the new all-time highs and the over-confidence without major justification yet, is trying to nail a hammer, without having a hammer.
I enjoy these strong conditions, I am a believer in these strong conditions, but I am not a believer in this short-term overconfidence going on in these conditions without the correct sentiment reads. Everyone remembers how great the markets were in 2021, when we were hitting highs then, it is a lot different than us hitting highs now. People are allocating now like it was back then, and that comfort is what is ultimately going to kill people.
The chop and neutrality in the markets will kill traders. Looking at yesterday, with $SPY trailing in such a tight range, it was almost impossible to realize any significant gains, but losses could have been consistently generated in the process. So, do not get too comfortable in these conditions, and be careful about extremely tight momentum-based ranges.
But, despite the warnings we’ve been saying, if you see an opportunity that is presented to you, do what you can to make the most of it. Buy some organizations that you personally believe are heavily undervalued, that have potential and are going to present opportunities to realize gains. That is all you need.
One play that I do want to take a little bit of time to talk about is $INTC. With it’s current pricing, it has dropped heavily on earnings, and this is where the fun gets to set in. How do we navigate from here, and how do we make the most of it?
First off, just know that I still love $INTC and everything that I am hearing the CEO state gives me comfort and confidence in the organization and what their plans are for the inevitable future, but that all comes with uncertainty today. This bearish movement is not ideal, but at the same time, with the strength and confidence I have in this organization, it is almost hard for me not to want to attempt to capitalize on this movement.
So, here are my thoughts.
Before I say anything, legal disclaimer: This is not financial advice nor a signal to buy or sell any $INTC. This is just MY thoughts on ***MY*** position, and what I personally plan on doing with it.
So currently, I have shares in multiple accounts, and leaps on the organization, I am green on some of those positions still, but now have essentially broken even on some of my larger positions.
I do NOT anticipate selling ANY of my $INTC right now, and I honestly intend on making two types of positions today:
Heavy entry $INTC 0-DTE CSPs, and light entry $INTC leaps.
With $INTC dropping so heavily on earnings, this is a great opportunity to collect premium on a great organization with hopefully not much volatility. I will be looking to aggressively sell premium early in the morning between the $18-20 strikes to collect as much premium as possible. Strikes will be dependent on how much premium is available in the process.
With the premium that is collected, I want to purchase some leaps on $INTC. Ideally as deep ITM as possible with the farthest expiration date possible. Shares would be a “better” position, but for the sake of capital liquidity and solvency, having leaps just makes more sense.
If you do NOT have any position in $INTC, again this is not financial advice, but look into getting a light starter position on it, or utilizing $INTC as a relatively “lower risk” opportunity to learn how to sell a cash secured put and collect premium passively!
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:
$SPY, $JEPI, $INTC, SOL, $NVDA, $TSLA, $PTLO, $LAZR*
LONG OPPORTUNITIES:
Long-Term Dividend - $GAIN / $JEPI
Long-Term Investment - $INTC
Economic News for 07/25/2025 (ET):
Durable-Goods Orders - 8:30 AM
Notable Earnings for 07/25/2025:
Pre-Market Earnings:
Centene Corp (CNC)
AutoNation (AN)
HCA Healthcare (HCA)
GrafTech International (EAG)
AON Plc (AON)
Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH)
Charter Communications (CHTR)
Wrap up
So hopefully these market conditions are significantly better for us and provide us opportunities to aggressively realize some gains, but I do expect to see some neutrality and difficulties coming as a result of everything going on. Keep your eyes on $INTC as I do believe it will be a great opportunity to scalp, trade and watch, and again, just do what you can to make the most out of today, while minimizing your risk. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and are ready for an amazing day!
Good luck trading, and let’s end this week with some more all-time highs!