NOTE: Today’s watch list can be found here. As the U.S. vs. China trade was escalates, stock futures for Thursday are higher as of 7:15 AM. European markets opened higher. Asian markets ended their session mixed.Alibaba’s Jack Ma says the escalating trade conflict between the United States and China has undermined his earlier promise to create 1 million new US jobs. “This promise was on the basis of friendly China-US cooperation and reasonable bilateral trade relations, but the current situation has already destroyed that basis,” Ma told China’s official news agency, Xinhua. “This promise can’t be completed.”Now You Can Start Receiving James’ –Technical SetUps WatchList Each Market Morning Early each market morning James diligently screens through hundreds of high EPS and RS ranked stocks that have solid fundamentals. He is looking for those select few which are setting up in sound technical bases and which looked poised to breakout that day. Each stock is listed with specific trading criteria such as a TRIGGER PRICE, TRIGGER VOLUME and MAX BUY PRICE. Just $9 a month through James’ BuyingBreakOuts.com website. LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS SPECIAL OFFER HEREI ran my routine stock screens this morning, and added another new stock to our watch list. I did remove USNA as shares traded -3.8% lower yesterday and dropped down out of the base. We have 12 stocks which we will be watching for the next buyable breakout – see here. One stock in particular is oil/gas explorer WRD which is actually on our TrendLine SetUps WatchList. Shares did trade above the TRIGGER PRICE yesterday and got above the 50 and 200-day moving averages. From here, any further gains with the required +50% increase in volume would confirm a BUY signal. Chart courtesy of stockcharts.com – Click chart to enlarge. Current Portfolio Members can access all watch lists with updated trading criteria including – TRIGGER PRICE, TRIGGER VOLUME, and MAX BUY PRICE for every stock here. Missed any of these morning reports? You can find all previous reports here. As always, if anyone has any questions – please feel free to email me at james@jamestaulman.com as I would be glad to assist you.