Market Conditions — 2026-08-27

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Article published Aug 27, 2026. Prices below use latest available snapshots.

SPY $763.25 +1.2% 30d QQQ $709.80 +0.7% 30d IWM $270.44 -4.8% 30d

A frozen snapshot: each card records its own moment and is meant to read stale later. The strip of cards, in order, is the climate history.

Gauge Read Note
Indexes (7d) SPY +1.1% · QQQ +1.4% · IWM +0.7% · RSP +0.5% 30d: SPY +4.1% · QQQ +6.8% · IWM +2.2% · RSP +1.7%
Volatility VIX 14.51 (CALM) · 1d -4.6% Fire-sale window closed — the trigger is a ≥30% one-day spike
Rotation In: Copper, Crypto, Hard Assets, Thebuildout Nand Flash Memory, Cloud SAAS (+61 more) · Out: Airlines, Humanoid Robotics, Travel Leisure, Thebuildout Renewable Energy Hyperscaler Ppas, Thebuildout Grid Infrastructure Transmission (+27 more) 66 in / 32 out / 0 emerging of 124 tracked themes · ranked on trailing 30d strength vs SPY
Credit (7d) HYG +0.4% · LQD +0.6% · IEF +0.2% Orderly credit means the selling is positioning, not a credit event
Hard assets (7d) GLD +1.8% · USO -3.4% · COPX +7.3% Gold · oil · copper miners

Sources

  • market-pulse + rotation-map.json · data/state/vix-gate.json (all numbers code-computed and frozen at emit)