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Volatility Fades, Momentum Returns: A Bounce-Back Week!

Holiday volume, a global outage, and a surprising rebound — this week was anything but quiet.

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Humbled Trader
November 30, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving, traders! 🦃
Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend and taking some well-deserved time away from the screens.
Since it’s a holiday-shortened week, there’s no market recap today.

But I still wrote a few potential day trade and swing trade ideas for next week! We’ll resume our full Weekly Market Recap & Outlook next week.
Wishing you rest, good food, and green trades ahead!

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This week ended with a dramatic shake-up: a cooling-system failure at a Chicago data center operated by CME Group caused one of the largest futures/outage events in years — freezing trading in stock index futures, bonds, commodities, FX and more for over 11 hours.

Despite the disruption, global markets reopened by mid-morning and U.S. equities ultimately closed higher in a thin, holiday-shortened session. Markets shrugged off the tech/AI jitters that had built earlier and leaned instead on expectations for a potential rate cut by Federal Reserve. Gains across retail and a tech rebound helped lift the major indexes as traders returned after Thanksgiving.

Sources: Reuters

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WMT $110.51

  • Stock is gapping up and holding new all-time highs after beating Q3 earnings.

  • Leaning cautiously bullish on this name, and looking to join the trend to the upside if it can hold the $109.1s breakout level from a few weeks ago on the daily.

  • If it can hold, said KL, I am interested in joining the dips for a steady trend to the upside.

  • This is purely a technical swing trade and day trade idea.

  • Position Disclosure: No position

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KSS $24.59

  • This retail name was quite beaten down for most of 2025. Its recent breakout to new 52-week highs was fueled by a surprise earnings beat.

  • I think short-term, we could see a technical retracement to $22.5s.

  • As long as it can hold above the $21.2 KL area on the daily, I think the stock could have more upside to test $28-$30s.

  • However, if the stock is not able to hold said KL and sells of the gap again in a similar fashion back in July, it is no longer a valid long candidate.

  • This is purely a technical swing trade idea.

  • Position Disclosure: No position

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HOOD $128.49

  • Nice daily downtrend break and reclaim over EMAs. This is a technical set-up I see starting to form on the daily on this stock.

  • The KL I am watching at the moment is the $125.1s area, which is also a multi-month support level.

  • If the stock can reclaim and hold over said KL, we could see a continuation on this trend reversal to the upside to $134, $140s.

  • This is a technical swing trade for me. However, if the stock fails this trend reversal test, I would not be interested in this long technical set up anymore.

  • Position Disclosure: No position.

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