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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:

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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.

In this article I want to talk to you about what’s happening to the price of Gold, currently. Whilst this is not a stock, I have prepared by usual style ‘stocks today’ blog article on it, because it is worth paying attention to, as Gold gives an indication of the overall position and health of the markets. As you will know from my recent blog posts, many of the markets are pulling back right now or simply moving sideways, following having reached record highs!. Gold is no exception to this. Let’s take a look at the chart movements to see what’s going on and whether we can identify any recent patterns…

Stocks today – the Gold Daily Time Frame chart

As you can see the Gold market reached all time highs at around 29th January 2026. The price has descended quite steeply since then – by 26%, as you can see on the chart. This is quite a drop and highly significant for our consideration of stocks today! It could represent a big bargain for someone if the prices went back up to previous levels.

Let’s take a look at the monthly timeframe, too, to get a better birds eye view:

Gold monthly timeframe chart:

As you can see on the monthly timeframe chart, the price had literally gone to the moon recently. The dip down which we can see in detail on the daily timeframe, seems small compared to the amount it has risen in the recent past. The price is nearing a bit of a support level per the daily timeframe, marked below:

There are a number of scenarios which could play out and it is very difficult to determine which one is likely to happen. If Gold continues to drop, it could find some support, even temporarily, at some of these horizontal support levels. However, it has dropped already by 26% which is not insignificant. If it dropped even further this would amount to an enormous discount on the recent highs, prices.

Ultimately, it will be difficult to try and predict which way this market will go, but I will be keeping a close eye on the chart. Before getting into any gold positions, I would want to see the market making higher highs and higher lows once again. This may be a while off yet. We will see!

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

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.

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 what’s happening with stocks today. I’m going to look at recent activity, the highs and lows and the current state of price movements. Let’s get straight into it!

Stocks today – Google Class C

To form a view about stocks today in respect of Google Class C (Alphabet) let’s take a look at the monthly and daily timeframes on the Trading View chart software, to get a birds eye view of what has been happening with this stock:

As you can see on the monthly timeframe, this stock reached all time highs recently. A lot of this push upwards is to do with the AI market and expectation that this will generate a lot of revenue for the Tech sector and companies. It reached highs of $350.04 on 2nd February 2026 and has been pulling back since then. The MACD indicator is still green but slowly losing its strength. The RSI, however, has pulled down quite significantly from having been in a very overbought position. It had extended up into the 83.21 position at the highest price reached. Now the RSI is showing 69.03. It’s worth nothing that the previous time this happened back between 2021 and 2022, as you can see on the chart, the prices did descent quite significantly from the highs reached. This dip coincided, however, with increased interest rates as dictated by the FEDS. On this occasion, the FEDS have reduced rates. It remains to be seen, whether the market has finished pulling back or whether it will descent further.

Let’s look at the daily timeframe next:

You can see a more zoomed in view of the long term picture, from the daily timeframe, above. The price is currently at a major level of support. It touched it last Friday and remains there currently. I cannot see any sign of recovery from this, yet. The price is still making lower highs and the lows are dotted along the support level. This could be seen as a descending triangle pattern but it is not clear whether the price will break down through the support level. It has touched it at least four or five times – note that the support level became one after a slight resistance previously, in around November time.

Tesla

Let’s take a look at stocks today (Tesla) to see what’s happening. I’ve copied the monthly timeframe chart, below:

The pattern on Tesla is not very clear to me. It too reached all time highs recently. It’s touched a resistance area a couple of times, at around 495.33. It has pulled back quite significantly on the RSI indicator but note that the MACD and signal lines have not yet crossed over to the downside. A recovery or further downwards push is entirely possible. Let’s zoom in on the daily timeframe and see what else is happening:

You can see much more clearly, what is happening on the daily timeframe, above. You can see the resistance at the all time highs more clearly and also the slight support level marked at around 328.51 on the chart. It looks to me like the price is still very much in a downward pattern – note that it is currently making lower highs and lower lows – as marked by the diagonal resistance line, here:

The above analysis should give you an idea of what could happen next with this stock, although it is for you to decide upon this and make a critical judgement. There are lots of resources on this blog to help you understand charts, including information on candlestick patterns, here:

Japanese Candlesticks – Trader Pro Consultancy – Learn how to Trade the Stock Market

and also, understanding Support and Resistance levels, here:

Support and Resistance – Trader Pro Consultancy – Learn how to Trade the Stock Market

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://sophiatrades.co.uk

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

https://www.patreon.com/Traderpro8320

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.