HaiKhuu Daily Report - 08/27/2025
Good morning, and happy Wednesday! Wow, the days have felt like they’ve gone by slowly as markets lacked momentum, but this week has been flying by!
I hope you are all excited and prepared for today, as $NVDA earnings are scheduled to be released after hours, regardless of whether you plan to trade it or not. This is going to be the single largest event that everyone will be watching and anticipating today. I will say this right now, as the sentiment is highly valid, but I do believe there is a high likelihood that $SPY will continue and make a new all-time high today. If that happens or not is a different scenario, but at least going into today, conditions are strong, and you should attempt to remain as optimistic as possible.
If you are attempting to trade $NVDA, regardless of position or direction, good luck. Make sure to practice safe risk management and do what you can to limit your holding risk. Options are going to be extremely expensive and will not allow you the opportunity to sell your position until it opens, where you have to hope that there is a large enough move to outweigh the IV crush that will occur. Equities are going to be the “safest” way to participate, but I will talk more about how to trade $NVDA later on in this report.
For now, just go into today with an open mind, tread lightly, and make the most out of these volatile and confusing times!
Good luck trading this today, and let’s see where $SPY takes us!
The updated $SPY daily levels are as follows:
Conversion Line Support: $639.73
Baseline Support: $632.89
Psychological Support: $640
Psychological Resistance: $650
Daily Cloud Support: $618.25
Thoughts & Comments from Yesterday 08/26/2026
Man, yesterday was quite an interesting day for the markets. We watched as market conditions remained extremely choppy, flat, and neutral until the markets genuinely started to display strength by close, making the conditions of yesterday slightly better!
So, we started yesterday with $SPY trading neutrally, opening at $642.13. Conditions were tough around open, and we continued to chop in an extremely tight range during that time, quickly going on to make the low of the day, trading at $641.57, before quickly popping back up and remaining in that neutral status.
Thankfully, markets popped up from the bottom during the lunchtime lull, only to quickly get sold off once more, leading into the back half of the afternoon, where $SPY was neutral, nothing was lost or gained from the previous trading day, and conditions continued to look sad and neutral…
Until the markets started to break out heavily in the final two hours of the day!
During that time, $SPY went from being neutral to going on and continually making new highs of the day, pushing all the way into close, where $SPY made the official high of the day at $645.51, and officially ended the day trading at $645.16, up $2.69 for the day, or up roughly 0.4%.
I am not saying that the market conditions of yesterday were great in any form; the lack of momentum made it difficult for anyone attempting to trade to realize significant gains during that time. Traders all could have taken advantage of the opportunities and had a fantastic time, but navigating yesterday was extremely difficult due to the inconsistencies.
So, if you were a profitable trader yesterday, congratulations! Let’s go and try to build on that success in the markets today!
S&P 500 Heat Map - 08/26/2025
Thoughts & Comments for Today - 08/27/2025
Today is going to be an interesting time, mostly with what else is going on throughout the rest of the week.
Today, we have $NVDA earnings after hours, which will impact how people trade today. Tomorrow, we will be experiencing the aftermath of $NVDA earnings, and on Friday, we will be in a 3-day weekend mode, resulting in lower volume and a choppier momentum-based day. So, go into today with the understanding and expectations that the next three trading days will be less consistent.
Please practice safe risk management during this time, and hope that $NVDA takes us to the moon. I am going into today with the assumption that we will see low volume and volatility early in the day, which will be followed by an increase in volume and volatility as people wake up, leading into $NVDA earnings. If you couldn't tell by now, $NVDA is likely to be a leading indicator for today, as all eyes are on $NVDA.
So, let’s talk more about $NVDA. With these earnings being released after hours today, I am warning you to expect a significant directional move.
Do I know which direction we are headed or where we might go?
Zero clue. Your predictions will be as valid as mine, but please note that $NVDA will drive extreme volatility in the markets. We will watch as $SPY breaks above $650 with ease, or rejects that level and comes down heavily. This can be the beginning of the end, or the beginning of the future (irrationality). If the markets break out, watch for the break above $650. If that happens, I expect irrational purchasing and FOMO, resulting in a beautiful bullish movement. However, in the case that $NVDA comes down and the markets reject this level, please prepare for a world of hurt. I am not saying $SPY is going to dive to $500, but a minor correction is in order, and a 2-5% drop in $SPY would not be the end of the world.
Just prepare accordingly and ensure that you understand all the risks involved in attempting to trade today.
Before I say anything else, I want to say that none of this should constitute financial advice nor a signal to buy or sell any positions. We are not registered professional financial advisors, and we do not claim to be your financial advisor.
But, the safest was to play $NVDA, as un-sexy as this sounds, is to play the reaction. Do not leave anything to uncertainty or faith prior to earnings, hoping for good numbers, but also expecting them to outperform previous expectations while projecting an increase in forward guidance, only to fall short, drop slightly, or have the opposite effect. Many traders are going to get burned attempting to trade $NVDA like this, and many option buyers will get murdered in the streets.
So, watch for what $NVDA does, and look to play the reaction. That is again the SAFEST way to capitalize on $NVDA. In the case earnings are good, yet the organization has dropped? Look for an opportunity to enter or sell some CSPs. Shortt, if the organization is looking trashy and is going to die? If $NVDA is rallying and displaying strength, then simply follow the momentum. It sounds stupid easy, and it is. You will not get the insane exponential gains that you will see others post while talking about how amazing their option play was, but you are taking on a fraction of the risk.
If you are attempting to trade $NVDA earnings, my advice to you will be to consider playing the equity. Options will be overly expensive and not provide you with an opportunity to close out pre-market or after-hours. Again, this approach is expensive from a dollar-cost perspective, as purchasing 100 shares of $NVDA would cost approximately $18,000. Still, at the same time, we can get that same type of exposure for a fraction of the DOLLAR cost, with an at-the-money option contract that might “cost” $1,000, but is significantly safer and realistic to hold equity.
With shares, you can exit pre-market & after hours, and you do not have to take on IV crush risk. Someone with that $1,000 option play may be very correct for a short period of time, watch as the markets correct, only to watch as $NVDA opens neutral at open, to watch as that $1,000 contract drops 89% in value instantly. If you were in shares, you could have sold after hours when it popped, and if you simply held, you would have lost nothing to “IV crush” as your equities have literally remained the same value and are not directly impacted in the same way.
So, if you are attempting to trade $NVDA for earnings, regardless of direction or sentiment, please make sure to practice safe risk management and to do everything in YOUR power to take advantage of the opportunities that will become available. The safest way to play $NVDA is to let others play the uncertainty, and then you play the aftermath, or if you are attempting to take on some risk, consider grabbing shares instead of option contracts.
Just my two cents, but hey, to each their own. Good luck to anyone who decides to trade $NVDA, and hopefully you all print regardless of direction!
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: $INTC, $TSLA, $NVDA
Speculative: $RIVN, $PTLO, $ARTL, $AIFF
Long Dividend: $JEPI
Long Investment: $INTC
Short: $BRK/B
Crypto: Sol
LONG OPPORTUNITIES:
Long-Term Dividend - $GAIN / $JEPI
Long-Term Investment - $INTC
Economic News for 08/27/2025 (ET):
None Scheduled
Notable Earnings for 08/27/2025:
Pre-Market Earnings:
Kohl's Corporation (KSS)
Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF)
J.M. Smucker (SJM)
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
Donaldson Company (DCI)
MasterCraft Boat Holdings (MCFT)
After Market Earnings:
NVIDIA (NVDA)
Snowflake (SNOW)
CrowdStrike (CRWD)
HP (HPQ)
Nutanix (NTNX)
Urban Outfitters (URBN)
Agilent Technologies (A)
CooperCompanies (COO)
Greif (GEF)
Trip.com Group Limited (TCOM)
Wrap up
Hopefully, market conditions remain extremely ideal today, leading into the $NVDA earnings event. If you are actively trading that event, good luck! But regardless of everything, continue to ride and maintain your long equity exposure, and continue to do what you can to capitalize on the strength, momentum, and opportunities that are available in these conditions. Have fun, realize some gains, and enjoy these $NVDA earnings AH with us!!!
Good luck trading, and let’s see this NEW all-time high!!!