Global Stocks Are Still in Full Swing

Even as U.S. benchmarks linger near their highs, the tape has felt less like a straight shot up and more like a tug-of-war, with capital steadily rotating and leadership thinning out beneath the surface. In environments like this, the most instructive tells often come from where momentum persists rather than where headlines shine. The interesting stories tend to be in the pockets that continue to trend quietly while everything else chops.

That backdrop is what made VEA (Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF) stand out today. Price has been stair-stepping higher and remains comfortably above all of the key moving averages we track, but the cleaner signal arrived back in mid-December when MACD flipped to a buy and has stayed there. In practical terms, that’s a momentum regime change that has been repeatedly confirmed by subsequent price action — not a one-day pop, but a sustained push that the indicators are still validating.

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From a positioning standpoint, the way to engage a setup like this is to participate in the upside while keeping risk defined, which is why a straightforward call structure makes sense here. If the trend extends, calls offer levered exposure without needing to size up in shares, while your risk remains capped to the premium paid. In the current chain, there’s a call that would roughly translate a 10% move higher in VEA into about 138.9% profit potential by expiration — a reminder of how options can amplify returns if the underlying does what the chart is suggesting.

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