This is a daily watchlist for short-term trading: I might trade all/none of the stocks listed, and even stocks not listed!
I am targeting potentially good candidates for short-term trading; I have no opinion on them as investments.
The potential of the stock moving today is what makes it interesting, everything else is secondary.
Today is mostly related to Trump's speech yesterday. Secretary Lutnick announced yesterday "Tariffs compromise announcement will likely come tomorrow", so will be on the lookout for that.
News: [Trump Hails Tariffs as US Economy Barrels Into Trade Wars](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/trump-to-tout-tariffs-unveil-energy-mineral-projects-in-speech)
**Ticker:** [**NVDA (NVIDIA)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=NVDA&p=d)**,** [**AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=AMD&p=d)**,** [**SMH (Semiconductor ETF)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=SMH&p=d)**,** [**SOXL (3x Semiconductor ETF)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=SOXL&p=d)
**Catalyst:** Trump has called for an end to the CHIPS Act Subsidy Program (instead preferring tariffs).
**Technicals:** Short biased. Obviously this takes away a lot of investment in semis companies. Extremely negative catalyst but unlikely it will get repealed due to how much bipartisan support it had.
**Catalyst/Sector Context:** The CHIPS and Science Act gave $280B in new funding to boost domestic research/manufacturing of semis in the US, and also aimed to strengthen supply chain resilience against China and widely considered to be a success because it spurred the development/dominance in the semis sector in America.
**Risks:** If this gets repealed, we're likely going to see a pretty large pullback in the semis. Obviously this is dependent on what the tariffs Trump touts will do as well.
**Ticker:** [**GM (General Motors)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GM&p=d)**,** [**F (Ford Motor Company)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=F&p=d)**,** [**TSLA (Tesla)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=TSLA&p=d)
**Catalyst:** The Trump administration is considering granting relief from the recently imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports for products that comply with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
**Technicals:** We've seen all three stocks (GM especially) make gains due to this announcement, will watch at open for volume.
**Catalyst/Sector Context:** The automotive industry in US/Canada/Mexico involves the most economic/manufacturing cooperation in the USMCA, they're the most obvious beneficiaries of this potential catalyst.
**Risks:** If they don't actually give relief, then will likely pullback- cars are one of the most affected products of tariffs and pretty much every car company has spoken about tariffs on their earnings calls.
**Ticker:** [**IBIT (IBIT)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=IBIT&p=d)**,** [**COIN (Coinbase)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=COIN&p=d)**,** [**HOOD (Robinhood Markets)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=HOOD&p=d)
**Catalyst:** Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has indicated that Trump plans to grant the main biggest CC a "unique status" within the Bitcoin reserve strategy, which will be unveiled at the White House Crypto Summit on Friday.
**Technicals:** We've seen the underlying spike close to 8-9% since yesterday, watching $90K level. Interested to see how we go prior to the actual summit.
**Catalyst/Sector Context:** Obviously an extremely bullish catalyst, we've bounced strongly off the $80K level recently. I usually trade through the ETFs as needed, and HOOD/Coinbase serve as proxies in case the ETFs aren't liquid or have already moved.
**Risks:** Worth waiting for the catalyst and watching the CC Summit on Friday. I personally see this more of a "buy on hype" kind of catalyst, unless there's an announcement of something extremely bullish I'm not sure how much more this will move the needle.
**Ticker:** [**HII (Huntington Ingalls Industries)**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=HII&p=d)
**Catalyst:** Trump has announced initiatives aimed at strengthening the U.S. shipbuilding industry to counter China's dominance, spoke about the creation of a White House Office of Shipbuilding and the introduction of special tax incentives.
**Technicals:** None that I'm particularly interested in, this is a longer-term play.
**Catalyst/Sector Context:** China produces over half of the world's merchant vessels, this is more of a play to reduce reliance on foreign-shipping.
**Risks:** There's a chance that this will never happen, Trump tried to create a "Cybersecurity Department" in his first term but that was never formally created and we kept those duties spread out between the FBI/DHS/NSA.
**Earnings:** [**MRVL**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=MRVL&p=d), [**VEEV**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=VEEV&p=d), [**ZS**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=ZS&p=d), [**MDB**](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=MDB&p=d)
