5 Trade Ideas for Monday: CIENA, F5, Generac, Goldman Sachs and Marathon Petroleum

  • Posted by on October 4th, 2026 at 9:03 am

5 Trade ideas excerpted from the detailed analysis and plan for premium subscribers:

CIENA, Ticker: $CIEN

CIENA, $CIEN, comes into the week breaking over resistance. It has an RSI moving into the bullish zone in a MACD about to cross the positive. Look for continuation to participate…

F5, Ticker: $FFIV

F5, $FFIV, comes into the week at resistance. It has an RSI in the bullish zone in the macd positive. Look for a pushover resistance to participate…

Generac, Ticker: $GNRC

Generac, $GNRC, comes into the week rounding up from a pullback. It has an RSI into the bullish zone with a macd positive. Look for continuation to participate…

Goldman Sachs, Ticker: $GS

Goldman Sachs, $GS, comes into the week moving in a reversal higher. It has an RSI deep in the bearish zone with a MACD negative. Look for continuation hire to participate…

Marathon Petroleum, Ticker: $MPC

Marathon Petroleum, $MPC, comes into the week rounding up out of a pullback. It has an RSI in the bullish zone and a MACD positive and rising. Look for continuation to participate…

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After reviewing over 1,000 charts, I have found some good setups for the week. These were selected and should be viewed in the context of the broad Market Macro picture reviewed Friday, which with the September payroll report in the books and a strong upward shift in the Treasury yield curve saw equity markets again weather tough seasonal sentiment and now they head into an historically strong period in the election cycle.

Elsewhere, look for Gold to continue a short term move lower with Crude Oil pausing in the short term move higher. The US Dollar Index looks to continue through the top of the zone on the verge of an uptrend while US Treasuries continue to move lower at 24 year high yields and all-time lows in price for the Treasury Bond ETF. The Shanghai Composite looks set to continue in consolidation when it reopens Thursday while Emerging Markets continue to show risk to the uptrend.

The Volatility Index looks to continue low in the normal zone, near the lows of the year keeping a tailwind behind equities. The charts of the SPY and the QQQ are breaking their flags over support on the shorter timeframe, on the edge of resuming the uptrend, while the IWM is bouncing in the short term downtrend. The SPY and QQQ continue to look strong on the longer timeframe with the SPY consolidating at the highs and QQQ making new highs while the IWM shows some signs of managing the risk to the 19 month uptrend. Use this information as you prepare for the coming week and trad’em well.