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US500

US Q4 earnings - get ready for some fireworks

Chris Weston
Chris Weston
Head of Research
Jan 20, 2022
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US earnings are underway and while the market obsesses over what life looks like in a world where the Federal Reserve and other central banks hike rates, and to what extent, we’re potentially about to see earnings season promote far great movement at a single stock level.

Traders can take advantage of Pepperstone’s extensive range of US share CFDs on the MT4 platform, with the marquee names tradeable on MT5, cTrader and soon on TradingView. Pepperstone offers access to trade a range of stocks in the post-market session and given so many of the marquee names report in during this period, traders can react in real-time to breaking news – long or short and never miss the opportunity.

Importantly, while our commission rate is a low 2c per share, there's no minimum commission charge. This means higher frequency traders will not be clipped $8+ for doing small size notional like some brokers charge. For scalpers and day traders this can be advantageous in helping lower costs, which can prove to be the biggest drag on performance.

Netflix - daily chart

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(Source: TradingVIew - Past performance is not indicative of future performance.)

By way of movement, we’ve already seen the stage being set with Netflix clearly disappointing the market with woeful subscriber numbers both for realised numbers in Q4 realised as well as guidance for Q1 – as we see on the chart, the stock has been hammered and is trending strongly lower – in an environment of impending rate hikes and reduced liquidity companies with high valuations who are missing the mark will be savaged, and having a strong understanding of short selling could be highly advantageous - see our guide for more information here.

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(Source: Pepperstone - Past performance is not indicative of future performance.)

What’s important for traders is the expected movement on the day of earnings – we can look at the options market here to see the implied move and I've put this into a table showing the marquee names that clients trade above all others. We can also see the typical movement (over the past 8 quarterly earnings). Short-term traders – whether they are scalpers, day or swing traders - like movement, range expansion and often one-way directional movement and this matrix helps understand where the market is looking for that movement.

We can also see their respective pedigree at earnings – this is important for shareholders because they like to have confidence in a management team who typically under promise and over-deliver. Obviously, there's much more to earnings than just the reported quarter and their outlook is often far more important, especially when valuation is elevated.

But for traders, when the numbers do drop, we need to be able to capture that movement as efficiently as possible – being able to dissect the earnings numbers and outlooks relative to expectations is often difficult to do. However, life doesn’t have to be such a challenge and the market will tell us quickly enough how they feel about what they’ve heard, and price action is what we react to, where our edge is being able to react and trade the flow, in real-time, whatever the strategy.

This is not a market that will tolerate a poor corporate outlook or missed guidance – the US earnings season should see some big moves in stocks and therefore opportunity that needs to be on traders’ radars.

For information on trading US share CFDs with Pepperstone visit here for details.


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