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In this article i’m going to have a look at what’s happening on some of the major indices, with a view to answering the question, ‘what are the best stocks to buy now?’. Let’s jump straight into it!

What’s happening on the NASDAQ today – best stocks to buy now

I mentioned a few days ago that the market was downtrending and the old diagonal support had become a resistance. This followed the same pattern, until today, when the market broke through the diagonal resistance line, on the 30 minute timeframe, as you can see, above. The market is now forming a new pattern – let’s mark it on the chart:

As you can see, the price has been bouncing off the diagonal trend line above since earlier today. It does appear to be uptrending again with a new low having formed at a higher price than the previous one.

I can’t consider the best stocks to buy now, without also considering the bird’s eye view of the NASDAQ. Let’s look at the daily timeframe:

As you can see on the daily timeframe, the histogram bars have turned red. However, the RSI has pulled back quite a bit from where it peaked, marked above with the turquoise horizontal line. It is not clear to me currently, whether it will keep pushing up again or pull back some more… Ultimately, I think the type of shape such as the one drawn below, would be reasonable, in circumstances where it’s going to keep on pushing up:

You can see it has made this pattern a number of times before, when moving away from the enormous diagonal support which it bounces on from the point of view of the daily/monthly timeframe.

How can we know whether it has finished pulling back? Well… the fact it’s making higher highs and higher lows on the 30 minute timeframe, is a good sign. If it pushes up past the old all time high, this would be another good sign…Let’s take a look at that timeframe again:

Once it starts bumping up above the other previous all time high as illustrated above, this would give me a bit more confidence but i’m always keeping an eye on the bird’s eye view as well, and the RSI indicator, on all timeframes.

As of right now, I think i’m going to wait a little longer…

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Please note any subscriptions taken via my affiliate link with Trading View may result in me earning a small commission.  However, I provide complete transparency on me using Trading View personally – I publish my success on the financial markets via my broker reports and any profits earned were done so by using my own Trading View subscription,  so I genuinely do recommend them and have been using the Trading View charts for many years.

In this article i’m going to consider the best stocks to buy now. I’m going to take you through what’s happening on the markets in general as an initial step, to check whether the markets are suitable for a buy entry, currently. Let’s get straight into it!

Best stocks to buy now – let’s see what’s happening on the NASDAQ index chart, first…

My first step in determining the best stocks to buy now, is to have a look at the high level, bird’s eye view, picture. I’ve grabbed a screen print of the NASDAQ’s daily timeframe chart, using my favourite software tool, Trading View:

OK, as you can see, per the daily timeframe, the MACD indicator’s histogram, looks like it’s shrinking in size, and it’s turned to a very pale green colour. This means the price is losing momentum in the upwards push. If we consider the RSI indicator, the level has pulled back quite a bit from where it was – it’s currently sitting at 69.51 but it had reached a level which has acted as an RSI resistance, previously, at around 77.5 – you can see this level marked in a turquoise colour on the RSI indicator. I added this mark last week when analysing the markets – and it was my suggestion that when it reaches this level, the history is that it has typically pulled back from there. This suggestion is now playing out on the chart – as you can see above. It is important to get a good bird’s eye view, in this way, when considering the best stocks to buy now.

The turquoise lines at the top of the chart marked very close together, were some resistance and support levels I had marked on the chart last week on the 30 minute timeframe. Let’s zoom in and see what’s happening more closely…

NASDAQ 30 minute timeframe

As you can see, from around the 15th of May, the market has been strongly pulling back per the 30 minute timeframe. The price broke a diagonal support level which had formed and this became the resistance, here:

Now the price is descending. It looks like the momentum is still strong because even on this 30 minute timeframe, the MACD is just about to cross over to the downside, over the signal line – the histogram is about to turn red. It remains to be seen how long the pull back will go on for. On the daily timeframe, the RSI is now at a level which has previously acted as a support but we will need to see whether it starts to recover or comes down a bit more.

The final timeframe I want to consider, is the monthly timeframe:

I mentioned last week that the price had recently bounced from a long term diagonal support. The MACD histogram here, is dark green and growing although the RSI is still quite high.

When considering best stocks to buy now, I consider these charts very carefully to determine which direction the markets might be headed in, in the short term. Nobody can know the answer for sure, but what would I be wanting to see, before jumping into any trades? I want to see the 30 minute timeframe recovering – making higher highs and higher lows. It is not in this position, currently. Note that any future patterns will form on the lower timeframes first – the smaller timeframes are like a glimpse into the potential future…

Given what’s happening on the NASDAQ and that this in turn actually heavily influences the performance of its constituents and those of the S&P 500, I will be patiently waiting for now. I know this is not what some traders want to hear, especially when they are new to trading. However, one of the biggest lessons you must learn in trading, is when to exercise some restraint. Obviously, what I say here, is relevant to my own personal style of trading – I do not short the markets. I only buy into them.

I hope you found this article helpful on the best stocks to buy now!

Disclaimer!

Nothing on this blog should be taken as financial advice or encouragement for you to enter a trade.  You are expected to speak to a financial adviser or carry out your own due diligence before entering any positions.  Everything on this blog is made for educational purposes and to equip you with the knowledge you need to be able to make your own financial decisions.

For more great tips and advice on trading the stock market, please visit:

https://www.sophiatrades.co.uk

To watch me trade live please visit my patreon page here:

https://www.patreon.com/sophiatrades

Finally, if you would like to receive a discount on the Trading View charting software I use, please click on the relevant link here:

https://www.tradingview.com/?aff_id=117138

Please note any subscriptions taken via my affiliate link with Trading View may result in me earning a small commission.  However, I provide complete transparency on me using Trading View personally – I publish my success on the financial markets via my broker reports and any profits earned were done so by using my own Trading View subscription,  so I genuinely do recommend them and have been using the Trading View charts for many years.

In this article i’m going to consider stocks today by examining what’s been happening on the NASDAQ. As always any chart analysis which is performed is to help you understand how to make your own decisions about where you think the markets might go next. Let’s get straight into it!

Stocks today – NASDAQ

One of the first things I look at when considering stocks today, is I check what’s happening on the birds eye view of the NASDAQ daily timeframe:

As you can see, the NASDAQ index, pushed away from a major diagonal support line in around April. The price has been pushing up strongly since then, but we did experience a little pull back in the last week or so. It’s good when looking at stocks today, to consider the ‘even bigger’ picture, by considering the monthly timeframe, so you can get the diagonal trendline into perspective:

I’ve left a link to a discount to the Trading View chart software I use, above – this is a great tool to help you on your trading journey. I use this software every single day, to analyse stocks today.

It’s good as a technical analysis trader, to switch between different time frames to either zoom in, or out. I have published a separate blog article on this, to help you to understand it in detail. Please see the link below:

Multiple Timeframe Analysis – mind blowing knowledge that will change everything! – Sophia Trades – Learn how to Trade the Stock Market

OK, so back to our analysis! As you can see from the above monthly timeframe chart, the price of the NASDAQ has been bouncing, steadily against the diagonal trend line which I marked on the chart, for a long time – this dates back to 2022! Even before that, another trend line can be seen just from looking at the chart, dating back to 2016! This was when it then ended with a large pull back due to the FED’s decisions to increase the interest rates in the US.

OK, so with all that in mind, you can see that the price has quite recently pushed away from this trend line once again. The RSI is showing as quite high on the monthly timeframe. It looks like the usual pattern of it pushing away from this trend line is that it goes for quite a while, but there are minor ‘price corrections’ along the way where it pulls back to breath. The price did pull back slightly last week on the 30 minute timeframe. Notwithstanding this, the RSI is still quite high on the monthly timeframe. Does it need a bit more of a pull back? The answer to this question, remains to be seen. Let’s take a look at the 30 minute timeframe, to zoom in:

As you can see, we saw a huge gouge down from the point of view of the 30 minute timeframe. However, the price has since pushed up again, strongly. At the current moment, the price has almost recovered to where it was originally, but the RSI on the monthly timeframe is still very high. Let’s consider what typically happens in this scenario on the monthly timeframe:

This is what I love about Trading View. I’ve drawn a line, on the RSI indicator where the price touches and rebounds most of the time. You can see for yourself what typically happens. Now look at where it sits currently? There are some instances where it pushed beyond this line but those do not happen regularly.

So what will happen next? I can’t tell you the answer to this, but perhaps my analysis can help you to decide for yourself?

The idea of this analysis is to set you up to be able to identify patterns yourself in the previous price movements and these patterns can help you to identify best places to trade.

I hope you found this article helpful!

Disclaimer!

Nothing on this blog should be taken as financial advice or encouragement for you to enter a trade.  You are expected to speak to a financial adviser or carry out your own due diligence before entering any positions.  Everything on this blog is made for educational purposes and to equip you with the knowledge you need to be able to make your own financial decisions.

For more great tips and advice on trading the stock market, please visit:

https://www.sophiatrades.co.uk

To watch me trade live please visit my patreon page here:

https://www.patreon.com/sophiatrades

Finally, if you would like to receive a discount on the Trading View charting software I use, please click on the relevant link here:

https://www.tradingview.com/?aff_id=117138

Please note any subscriptions taken via my affiliate link with Trading View may result in me earning a small commission.  However, I provide complete transparency on me using Trading View personally – I publish my success on the financial markets via my broker reports and any profits earned were done so by using my own Trading View subscription,  so I genuinely do recommend them and have been using the Trading View charts for many years.

In this article i’m going to take a look at what’s happening with the stocks today, and in particular, on the NASDAQ – since my article a few days ago when I was feeling nervous that the price may pull back. Let’s get straight into seeing what’s happening…

Stocks Today – The NASDAQ daily timeframe

You can see above that the MACD histogram has once again turned dark green following a little pull back we saw last week. The MACD and Signal lines are opening up again, rather than moving towards a cross to the downside. Let’s take a look at what happened on the pull back, per the 30 minute timeframe:

You can see the pull back, here, on the 30 minute timeframe. The price broke the diagonal support. I was waiting to see whether this would form a new structure and start acting as a resistance, going downwards to the bottom right corner of the screen. However, the price reached a low there, and then recovered by reaching a new high once again. So as of right now, after the temporary pull back, the price has recovered to an up trending pattern once again.

I have taken a small position for now, and I may get into more positions, should the market continue to progress. I’m going to be keeping an eye, closely, on the RSI indicator, per the daily timeframe:

At the moment, the RSI is extremely high at 82.91. I’m also conscious of the pattern forming on the weekly timeframe:

The price has pushed away, strongly, from a long term diagonal trend line as you can see above. The last time it did this, it pushed up strongly – almost vertical, and then made more of a sideways bumping motion while continuing to reach higher prices. It is helpful, when considering stocks today, to understand previous patterns. This may not indicate it will repeat the same pattern, however. You should always use your own discernment or allow a professional to take care of your investments, for you.

I hope you found this article on stocks today helpful!

Disclaimer!

Nothing on this blog should be taken as financial advice or encouragement for you to enter a trade.  You are expected to speak to a financial adviser or carry out your own due diligence before entering any positions.  Everything on this blog is made for educational purposes and to equip you with the knowledge you need to be able to make your own financial decisions.

For more great tips and advice on trading the stock market, please visit:

https://www.sophiatrades.co.uk

To watch me trade live please visit my patreon page here:

https://www.patreon.com/sophiatrades

Finally, if you would like to receive a discount on the Trading View charting software I use, please click on the relevant link here:

https://www.tradingview.com/?aff_id=117138

Please note any subscriptions taken via my affiliate link with Trading View may result in me earning a small commission.  However, I provide complete transparency on me using Trading View personally – I publish my success on the financial markets via my broker reports and any profits earned were done so by using my own Trading View subscription,  so I genuinely do recommend them and have been using the Trading View charts for many years.

In this article i’m going to consider what’s happening with the stocks today. I will take a look at the NASDAQ, the S&P 500 and the chart for Gold, which can give us an overall good indication of the health of the stock markets. Let’s get started!

Stocks today – the NASDAQ

As you can see from the below daily timeframe chart, the NASDAQ recovered to previous highs. This is a good indication that people are starting to have more faith in stocks today. This did coincide with some reassuring announcements from President Trump, about the Iran war:

By the way, I use Trading View chart software which I love. It’s extremely intuitive and helpful – I will never be without it as a trader. You can get a discount by clicking on the button below:

The price is in another uptrend, as can be seen on this 30 minute timeframe:

However, it’s worth noting that the MACD’s histogram has turned from dark to light green, and it may be that the upwards push has lost some of its momentum – for now. Let’s take a look at the monthly timeframe:

Pay attention to the MACD and signal lines here. They did make a little cross to the downside, showing one tiny, red histogram bar recently, but now it’s showing another dark green, albeit, small, bar. Notice also the ‘bounce’ that appears to have happened on the diagonal trend line of the monthly timeframe above.

Ultimately, it remains to be seen whether the price will continue increasing. It is hoped my technical analysis will empower you to make this decision for yourself. I’m currently sitting in two positions, as you can see. If the markets keep ascending further, I may add to these.

I’m going to prepare a blog article on how I average up, to make more money in trading, soon – so watch this space for that.

We can’t consider stocks today without taking a look at the S&P 500. Let’s take a look – this can often follow the same sort of pattern as the NASDAQ, since some of its big players are also sitting on the NASDAQ:

S&P 500

As you can see, we have seen a similar pattern forming on the S&P 500. I’m currently sitting in a couple of smaller positions on this market.

I zoomed in a bit so you can see the small red histogram bar on the monthly timeframe and the fact that, in a similar way to the NASDAQ, this has gone back to showing a small green bar.

Let’s take a look at Gold, for good measure. As I mentioned, when stocks are rising, Gold often drops in value because people switch their investments into stocks which can provide a higher return:

It’s not very clear from the monthly timeframe what is happening here, so I also got a screen shot of the daily timeframe:

It does look like Gold is now making lower highs and lower lows. The latest ‘high’ appears to still be forming. I will be watching to see if the MACD and signal lines cross over to the downside again, and the price respects the initial diagonal resistance line i’ve drawn on the chart. We will see… Ultimately Gold is not pushing up so it does appear there may be some more confidence in the stocks again. Given the sky high RSI indicator on this market per the monthly timeframe, I will not be adding any funds to it of my own, until I see that it’s offering more of a bargain. I am hoping it will come right down!!

I hope you found this article on stocks today, helpful.

Disclaimer!

Nothing on this blog should be taken as financial advice or encouragement for you to enter a trade.  You are expected to speak to a financial adviser or carry out your own due diligence before entering any positions.  Everything on this blog is made for educational purposes and to equip you with the knowledge you need to be able to make your own financial decisions.

For more great tips and advice on trading the stock market, please visit:

https://www.sophiatrades.co.uk

To watch me trade live please visit my patreon page here:

https://www.patreon.com/sophiatrades

Finally, if you would like to receive a discount on the Trading View charting software I use, please click on the relevant link here:

https://www.tradingview.com/?aff_id=117138

Please note any subscriptions taken via my affiliate link with Trading View may result in me earning a small commission.  However, I provide complete transparency on me using Trading View personally – I publish my success on the financial markets via my broker reports and any profits earned were done so by using my own Trading View subscription,  so I genuinely do recommend them and have been using the Trading View charts for many years.

In this article i’m going to take a look at stocks today: what’s been happening in the markets since market open. I’m going to consider the overall position of the NASDAQ, the S&P 500 and Gold as these can give a good overall indicator of market direction. Let’s jump straight into it!

Stocks today the NASDAQ

I mentioned yesterday that the NASDAQ had been recovering from it’s recent downwards move, and it had broken through the downward diagonal trend line. Today the market opened with a gap down, but is recovering again with a positive candle:

However, note that the MACD indicator histogram bars have slightly shrunk since yesterday and they are getting slightly smaller. We still have market open in the US to come, and that may have a big impact. The RSI is scooping over slightly too. It looks from the above chart, like the momentum for the upwards push has slowed down. It remains to be seen whether this will be reinforced at market open in the US.

Let’s take a quick look at the S&P 500 to see if we see a similar story:

Stocks today – S&P 500

As you can see, the S&P 500 is showing a similar story and this is not surprising because it is heavily driven and influenced by the NASDAQ with its top constituents being companies which are also sitting on the NASDAQ.

What’s happening on Gold?

In considering stocks today it is also useful to pay attention to what is happening to the price of Gold. When stocks are increasing due to consumer confidence or confidence in the financial markets in general, the price of Gold tends to pull back. Let’s take a look at the Gold chart:

As you can see above, we now have another candle which at the moment, is respecting the downward diagonal resistance line shown on the chart. It seems Gold and the stock markets are indeed showing the relationship we normally see from them… Gold is coming down overall currently and has been since around the beginning of March. It’s worth noting that Gold is also, at another resistance level – the horizonal one. Pushes away from such areas can be stronger where there are two different resistance lines intersecting one another, as shown below. It remains to be seen whether this trend will continue and the resistance levels will be respected.

I hope you found this article helpful. Please check back again for further updates and technical analysis on the current states of the market.

Disclaimer!

Nothing on this blog should be taken as financial advice or encouragement for you to enter a trade.  You are expected to speak to a financial adviser or carry out your own due diligence before entering any positions.  Everything on this blog is made for educational purposes and to equip you with the knowledge you need to be able to make your own financial decisions.

For more great tips and advice on trading the stock market, please visit:

https://www.sophiatrades.co.uk

To watch me trade live please visit my patreon page here:

https://www.patreon.com/sophiatrades

Finally, if you would like to receive a discount on the Trading View charting software I use, please click on the relevant link here:

https://www.tradingview.com/?aff_id=117138

Please note any subscriptions taken via my affiliate link with Trading View may result in me earning a small commission.  However, I provide complete transparency on me using Trading View personally – I publish my success on the financial markets via my broker reports and any profits earned were done so by using my own Trading View subscription,  so I genuinely do recommend them and have been using the Trading View charts for many years.

In this article I’m going to talk about stocks today – what’s been happening on the NASDAQ, the S&P 500, and Gold, for good measure! I’m going to examine the recent price movements with a view to helping you decide where they might be headed in the short to medium term. Let’s get started!

Stocks today – the NASDAQ

A great tool in understanding stocks today is looking at the NASDAQ index chart. This has seen some recovery in price more recently. Let’s take a look at the daily time frame chart, using Trading View, my favourite chart software platform:

Ok so as you can see the price has pushed up significantly from the most recent low it made in around the end of March 2026. It’s broken through the recent diagonal downward trend with a significant push upwards. It’s worth noting that the MACD and Signal lines have crossed on the MACD indicator and the histogram bars are becoming taller and still remain dark green, meaning as of Friday, the market was still pushing up strongly. The RSI indicator is pushing towards the top of its channel. When the RSI indicator generally gets to a level of 70 or above, traders tend to be more aware that the price could be due a pull back. The current level on the RSI indicator is 63.74.

It’s also worth noting that the price has ‘bounced’ at around one of the significant Fibonacci levels. You can learn about using the Fibonacci tool, here, in an article I published recently:

How to buy stocks, using Fibonacci Retracement as a Day Trader – Everything you Need to Know – Sophia Trades – Learn how to Trade the Stock Market

It remains to be seen whether the price will continue pushing up or not. I hope this analysis has provided you with some educational resource for you to start making your own decisions about what you think will happen in the short to medium term.

Let’s take a look at the S&P 500 next to see if it’s following suit…

S&P 500

When considering stocks today, the S&P is also fundamental. This index gives you an overall indication as to the health of the markets. As you can see, the same sort of pattern is forming on the S&P 500. This is no surprise given that it is heavily influenced by the NASDAQ. They look very similar indeed.

Let’s take a look at what’s happening to Gold – this can be a critical market for examining overall market sentiment etc in the stocks – the Gold market tends to soar when people lose confidence in the stock market…

What’s happening to Gold?

As you can see, the Gold market reached all time highs at around the start of 2026 and since then, it’s been pulling back strongly. At the moment it is at the point of potential resistance, as can be seen with the diagonal downward trend line. If recovered confidence in the stock market continues to push the stock prices up, it is possible this will negatively impact the price of Gold.

This is all, of course, being influenced by Trump, the war with Iran and all of the turbulence in the real world too… so it is possible we could see more fluctuations.

The idea of this blog is to share my own thoughts and analysis on what’s happened to date, with a view to helping you decide for yourselves what might happen next.

I hope you found this article helpful.

Disclaimer!

Nothing on this blog should be taken as financial advice or encouragement for you to enter a trade.  You are expected to speak to a financial adviser or carry out your own due diligence before entering any positions.  Everything on this blog is made for educational purposes and to equip you with the knowledge you need to be able to make your own financial decisions.

For more great tips and advice on trading the stock market, please visit:

https://www.sophiatrades.co.uk

To watch me trade live please visit my patreon page here:

https://www.patreon.com/sophiatrades

Finally, if you would like to receive a discount on the Trading View charting software I use, please click on the relevant link here:

https://www.tradingview.com/?aff_id=117138

Please note any subscriptions taken via my affiliate link with Trading View may result in me earning a small commission.  However, I provide complete transparency on me using Trading View personally – I publish my success on the financial markets via my broker reports and any profits earned were done so by using my own Trading View subscription,  so I genuinely do recommend them and have been using the Trading View charts for many years.