Brief — Aug 11, 2026

Market pulse · 7D

Leaders and laggards

close Aug 11, 2026

584 advancing 443 declining 70.9% above the 200-day Color is 7-day price direction, not a buy or sell call.

Leaders

top 7D gainers

ABCL+60.3%IOVA+48.9%TEAM+39.7%GTE+39.5%ALMR+34.9%NUGT+32.3%

Laggards

top 7D losers

LASR-36.2%VPG-33.5%BYND-33.3%SEDG-31.7%TTD-29.9%QTRX-29.4%

1. The Read

The index took a nap and the rotation kept working. The S&P slipped 0.32% and the Nasdaq 0.34% on below-average volume — a quiet, red-tinted session at the top — while underneath, money kept moving into last quarter's wreckage: uranium (Cameco +1.46% to a fourth alarm bell, the sector fund URA +1.78% on top of a +6.31% week), defense (Kratos +22.86% on the week), and beaten enterprise software (Accenture +5.51% this week, still 38% off its high). The lanes that led last week cooled — gold barely moved (−0.39%) after its +7.16% week, and China tech was the day's worst board, down 3.3%. Oil kept climbing: +1.34% on the day, +10.22% on the week, with coverage still pointing at dwindling Iranian stockpiles and Hormuz risk as the driver. Two headlines for tomorrow: July CPI lands Wednesday morning — the wire calls it a big one for the Fed — and a breaking Kobeissi Letter item says the administration is weighing a capital-gains tax cut ahead of midterms, unconfirmed beyond that single source.

On the desk's board the split is getting stark: the names worth entering are not the names moving. The clean setups today are Eli Lilly (2.8% off its high, RSI 57 after a +8.9% week), CrowdStrike (2.2% off its high in an orderly uptrend), Nvidia ($217.50, RSI 57.8, just past its long-standing trigger), and Palo Alto (essentially at its high with RSI still under 70). Everything hotter than that is past its entry: AbCellera added another 4.5% at 2.4 times normal volume — RSI 78.7, up 60.26% on the week — and notably it bought straight through its own August 5 earnings miss, which is the tape telling you conviction in the story is overriding the quarter. Microsoft sits at RSI 77.9, 14% past its old trigger. The stretch screen tonight found 26 extended names and zero of them losing volume — momentum is stretched everywhere but nothing is quietly distributing yet, which is not what tops usually look like.

The prints: CoreWeave didn't wait for CPI

CoreWeave's Q2, per the amitisinvesting same-day recap: revenue $2.575B, up 112% year over year; adjusted EBITDA $1.51B at a 59% margin; a $104B revenue backlog; 1.5 GW of power active against 3.7 GW contracted; and more than $25B of new customer commitments already added in early Q3. Those are single-recap numbers tonight — no second wire source with the per-line actuals had landed by close — but the shape is unambiguous: the AI-cloud build-out is not decelerating. Super Micro also printed its fiscal Q4; actuals hadn't reached the wires by tonight's pull, and the substantive story that did land is a $7.0B equity and equity-linked financing to fund AI orders — dilution as a demand signal. Lumentum reported after the close with shares up 6.2% into the print; Denison's day was regulatory, not earnings — a cleared Indigenous-review overhang at Wheeler River plus new uranium sale commitments. Monster's 2-for-1 split also took effect cleanly — the stock trades in the $45 range now, down 0.42% on the day, no drama.

Watch Wednesday: July CPI before the open sets the rate tape, then Cisco, Coherent, Nebius, and Cirrus (CBRS — an open desk call sitting at four alarm bells) all report. And keep an eye on oil at $130 — the fund tracking it closed at $127.61, and a sustained move through $130 would re-arm a scenario the desk retired in July.

2. What Changed Since the Last Brief

Screen CROSSINGS between the previous brief's close ( Aug 10, 2026 ) and this one — a name appears only on the session it crossed, not for as long as it stays there. Every name carries its before → after.

New oversold (6) — BYND RSI 36.2 → 26.9, WING RSI 30.6 → 27.3, LION RSI 32.5 → 28.1, CVS RSI 31.7 → 28.2, APP RSI 31.3 → 28.6, BKD RSI 38.2 → 29.

New overbought (23) — ALMR RSI 60.4 → 79.5, BAM RSI 68.8 → 75, CIB RSI 65.7 → 74.9, CXW RSI 69.2 → 73.3, BX RSI 68.4 → 72.6, PSX RSI 66.8 → 72.3, ACHR RSI 67.3 → 72, AMP RSI 69.4 → 71.3, PSP RSI 67.4 → 71.3, ABT RSI 69.6 → 71.2, AI RSI 68.1 → 71, KTOS RSI 69.6 → 71, ARMK RSI 45.5 → 70.8, ACN RSI 69.7 → 70.7, JEPI RSI 69 → 70.7, MDT RSI 68.1 → 70.5, +7 more.

Golden crossings (1) — GTLB -0.53% → 0.25%.

Death crossings (2) — DAN 0% → -0.48%, FLY 0.11% → -1.35%.

New monsters (13) — KOPN 27.8% → 57.5%, OUST 45.4% → 55.3%, ASX 46.3% → 49.7%, ONTO 29.1% → 41.1%, ARMK 25.2% → 35.6%, RDW 29.7% → 33.2%, CLBK 29.6% → 32.6%, GTLB 27.8% → 32.2%, LITE 30.9% → 31.4%, CMBT 29.6% → 30.9%, DXCM 28.3% → 30.9%, MDB 24.3% → 30.8%, EWT 28.2% → 30%.

Newly near a 52-week high (14) — MDB -6.31% → -1.25% from high, ECO -5.82% → -1.38% from high, ARMK -5.06% → -1.71% from high, CACI -5.16% → -2.33% from high, CXW -5.34% → -2.7% from high, EXPE -5.22% → -3.09% from high, IESC -7.48% → -3.92% from high, AMLX -7.85% → -3.94% from high, CMBT -5.29% → -4.12% from high, MBIN -5.03% → -4.26% from high, BLK -5.76% → -4.31% from high, TT -5.71% → -4.33% from high, FFIV -5.75% → -4.83% from high, NOVT -7.1% → -4.92% from high.

Newly in an entry zone (3) — BESIY $261.11 · $260-$280, GOOGL $343.8 · $340 watch → buy the SMA20 reclaim (~$363), NKE $41.32 · <$42.

3. Focus List

SparkTake

MSFT $503.81 78 +15.7% +2.2% +28.9% up $503.81, RSI 77.9 and 14% past the old trigger; a quality trend you hold, not add to, up 28.85% in a month.

TSLA $332.81 43 -1.2% +1.7% -15.7% strong-down $332.81, +0.58% today inside a tape still tagged collapse, down 15.69% on the month; no setup.

NVDA $217.50 58 +4.7% +2.6% +6.9% strong-up $217.50, flat today but RSI 57.8 in a strong uptrend just past its trigger — the cleanest big-cap entry on the board.

AAPL $304.91 42 -5.4% -1.4% -3.8% weak-down $304.91, drifting (−1.09%), 11.5% off its high; soft and setup-free.

GOOGL $343.80 46 -1.3% -9.0% -2.5% weak-down $343.80, the week's focus casualty: −3.84% today, −8.96% on the week. The story, per same-day coverage: a raised 2026 capex guide ($195–205B) that pushed free cash flow negative for the first time, a $25B bond raise closed Monday to fund the data-center build, and fresh antitrust appeals against the search-remedy settlement — the market repricing what the AI build-out costs.

AMZN $272.27 61 +7.0% -1.9% +10.1% strong-up $272.27, −2.09% today but still strong-up, 5.2% off its high; nothing fired.

NET $306.97 67 +9.6% +1.9% +13.9% strong-up $306.97, strong uptrend intact, RSI 66.6, 5.5% off its high; a watch, not a chase.

ARM $268.93 47 +1.3% -4.2% -10.1% weak-down $268.93, weak and 40.59% off its high; the AI story without the AI tape.

NTR $67.28 51 -0.6% +0.5% -0.5% up $67.28, +1.46% today, basing quietly 21.18% off its high.

MU $868.52 47 -1.2% -2.7% -7.3% weak-down $868.52, +0.87% today after a soft week (−2.71%); holding under its 20-day while memory digests — the lane's leadership moved to the trading tape itself (see scorecard).

SNDK $1271.05 44 -5.6% -11.0% -24.1% weak-down $1,271.05, +2.68% bounce after a brutal −10.97% week, still 46.01% off its high; the memory pullback's sharpest edge.

OUST $45.13 55 +15.3% -5.7% +12.7% strong-up $45.13, +7.12% today, strong-up, 29.25% off its high; the speculative end of robotics acting well on a day the humanoid board led.

IONQ $43.44 55 +16.9% +4.1% +11.7% down $43.44, +2.14%; the quantum bucket bounced but stays coverage-only — 48.68% off its high in a broken trend.

RGTI $18.09 57 +16.4% +3.7% +17.8% strong-down $18.09, +2.49%, still 68.89% off its high; same bucket, same answer.

QBTS $20.23 52 +9.3% -7.3% +8.4% strong-down $20.23, flat, 56.73% off its high; no.

QUBT Reported 08-10 $8.95 53 +8.7% -3.0% +11.9% strong-down $8.95, flat, 65.36% off its high; no.

INFQ $11.82 55 +16.1% +3.1% +16.7% neutral $11.82, +1.11%, reports Wednesday — the bucket's one near-term catalyst.

XNDU Reported 08-07 $10.34 44 -3.0% -10.9% -1.5% neutral $10.34, −1.99% and 75.64% off its high; recently listed, no trend to read.

HQ $12.49 39 -16.6% -18.1% -41.6% neutral $12.49, −18.1% on the week, 72.24% off its high; the bucket's worst chart.

ARQQ $24.39 63 +28.9% +11.0% +35.4% up $24.39, +7.87% today and +35.35% on the month while still 60.66% off its high — a violent bounce inside a crater, not a base.

LAES $2.55 47 +2.3% +0.4% -5.9% strong-down $2.55, flat, 70.72% off its high; penny-stock volatility, coverage only.

PL $23.70 48 +7.3% +3.8% -8.7% down $23.70, +2.6% today but 54.21% off its high with the thesis flagged broken; nothing to act on.

ARGX $864.74 48 -0.5% +2.4% -1.3% weak-down $864.74, flat, 9.32% off its high; steady quality, no trigger.

ILMN $192.84 52 -0.5% -5.0% +1.5% strong-up $192.84, +0.55%, a real uptrend 6.84% off its high after a −5.01% week; watch for the next leg.

4. Sector Scorecard

Uranium / nuclear — the day's clearest accumulation: Cameco +1.46% (fourth alarm bell tonight), URA +6.31% on the week, and the small modular names (SMR, IMSR) bouncing off deep lows. The whole cluster tops tonight's washout screen — beaten lanes turning with volume. Defense & space — Kratos +22.86% on the week and Northrop, Huntington Ingalls both turning up from pullbacks; second straight session this lane leads the washout list. Enterprise software — quietly turning: Accenture +5.51% this week, Salesforce +3.39%, both climbing out of 25–38%-off-high craters; the washout screen's most surprising cohort. Gold & miners — cooling after the vertical week: GLD −0.39% on the day, and the miners' fund is at RSI 69.7 — the desk's standing read (don't chase, wait for the first pullback that holds the 200-day) is unchanged. Big tech — mixed-to-heavy: Alphabet −3.84%, Amazon −2.09%, Apple soft, FAANG board −2.0% median; the index's nap is mostly this lane resting. Oil & energy — crude's fund +10.22% on the week and a dollar-and-change from a level ($130) that would re-arm the retired supply-shock scenario.

ETF tape · 42 funds

The desk's curated ETF read — one fund per lane it tracks, not every fund on the watchlists — grouped by what the fund is exposed to, and where each closed on the issue date. The big number and the tile's shade are that session's move (1D); 7D and 30D are the trailing windows behind it, and RSI is the 14-day reading (above 70 is stretched, below 30 washed out). Shades near flat stay gray — a ±0.25% day is not a color.

FundsAssessment

Government Compute 67–80 inflow +25.3% — —

Copper 59–77 inflow +16.8% COPX —

Cloud SAAS 47–81 inflow +11.9% WCLD CLOU SKYY —

Lazarus 29–73 inflow +10.9% — —

Cloud ETFS 68–77 inflow +9.9% WCLD IGV CLOU —

Alt Managers 57–77 inflow +9.6% — —

Travel Leisure 39–82 inflow +9.3% JETS —

Web Cloud 45–81 inflow +7.2% SKYY —

Tech Insider Buys 42–81 inflow +6.0% — —

China Tech 40–62 inflow +4.5% KWEB FXI worst board of the day at −3.3% median, 8 of 8 names red.

Trace Glp1 Manufacturing 52–77 inflow +3.6% — —

Cybersec 49–75 inflow +3.0% — —

Drone Defense 35–76 inflow +2.7% — —

Adtech 29–80 inflow +2.2% — —

Retail 37–75 neutral +1.9% — —

War Sensitivity 42–78 neutral +1.6% COPX JETS USO —

Bargain Bin 29–78 neutral +1.3% — —

Financials 45–71 neutral +1.1% — —

Trace Lng Liquefaction Shipping And Regasification 37–69 neutral +1.1% — —

Geopolitical 39–76 neutral +1.0% USO GLD SLV —

Trace Iran War Second And Third Order Effects 42–67 neutral +1.0% — —

Volume Setups 46–75 neutral +1.0% USO —

Defense Contractors 44–76 neutral +1.0% — —

Optical Supply Chain 30–66 neutral +1.0% LAZR —

Macro Commodities 36–70 neutral +0.3% USO GLD SLV —

Chemicals 40–64 neutral +0.3% — —

Consumer 37–71 neutral -0.2% — —

Canadian OG 52–70 neutral -0.3% — —

Ark 59–69 neutral -0.7% ARKK ARKW ARKG —

Healthcare Scan 28–78 neutral -0.8% — —

Nuclear Fuel Cycle 44–62 neutral -0.9% URA —

AI 36–81 neutral -1.1% SMH BOTZ ROBO —

Mag7 42–78 neutral -1.2% MAGS —

Airlines 45–56 neutral -1.2% JETS —

ETF Ideas 31–77 neutral -1.4% QQQM QQQ VOO —

Consumer Staples 46–69 neutral -1.7% — —

Healthcare 28–78 neutral -1.7% — —

Tech 42–78 neutral -1.9% XLK —

Watching 40–70 outflow -2.0% — —

Defensive 39–71 outflow -2.1% — —

Robotics 29–85 outflow -2.6% BOTZ ROBO —

Livestock Disease 27–69 outflow -2.6% — —

AI Infrastructure 33–73 outflow -3.1% SMH —

Quantum Computing 39–63 outflow -3.2% CQTM QTUM WQTM —

Biotech Capital Cycle 21–80 outflow -3.5% XBI —

Watchlist n/a outflow -3.8% — —

Crypto 37–62 outflow -4.2% IBIT GBTC —

Cultural Thesis 43–61 outflow -4.3% — —

IBB 33–79 outflow -4.3% — —

Space 43–66 outflow -4.8% ARKX —

Escalation 39–77 outflow -4.9% — —

AI Infra 41–81 outflow -5.2% SMH —

Spacex S1 Supply Chain 40–73 outflow -5.3% ARKX —

Peptide Economy 37–72 outflow -5.5% — —

Faang 42–61 outflow -5.6% — —

Biotech Scan 36–79 outflow -5.7% XBI IBB LABU —

Food Security 34–55 outflow -6.5% — —

Energy 41–64 outflow -6.9% — —

Supply Chain Traces 33–68 outflow -7.0% — —

EV Clean Energy 36–58 outflow -7.0% LIT TAN ICLN —

Biotech 48–75 outflow -7.2% XBI IBB listed three ways among the rotation board's emerging lanes tonight, with AbCellera the poster child (+60.26% on the week) and the alt-managers board (+3.9% median) the day's best.

WFE Test Metrology 43–58 outflow -7.2% — —

Semis 42–58 outflow -8.8% SMH SOXX —

Nearline Storage 39–63 outflow -9.2% DISK —

CPU Shortage Supply Chain 41–56 outflow -10.1% SMH —

AI Power 35–73 outflow -11.0% WGMI —

Humanoid Robotics 33–59 outflow -11.1% BOTZ —

Grid Buildout 32–65 outflow -11.3% — —

Memory 39–49 outflow -21.8% DRAM DISK the out-rotation lane this week (SanDisk −10.97%, Micron −2.71%), but the Kobeissi Letter's turnover stat reframes it: Nvidia (3.0%), Micron (2.8%) and SanDisk (1.5%) are now three of the four most actively traded US stocks by notional. The trade got crowded; the week's digestion is what crowding looks like.

The desk's assessments cover 3 of 69 lanes. 6 authored assessments matched no lane (uranium / nuclear, defense & space, enterprise software, gold & miners, big tech, oil & energy) — kept in the chapter text above.

5. The Wild & Whacky

ALMR — 7.06x normal volume tonight, RSI 80, up 33% in a month — a biotech runner from the desk's own coverage list that nobody wrote a call on. Tonight's autopsy names it the week's most instructive miss. CAKE — The Cheesecake Factory at RSI 88, up 18.3% versus its 20-day, one of 26 stretched-with-volume names. When casual dining is a momentum trade, the melt-up is broad. CRSP, but not that CRSP — Morningstar announced it's buying CRSP — the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Security Prices, the index shop — for $375M. The gene-editing company with the same ticker did nothing; half the day's "CRSP" headlines were about the wrong entity. Ticker collisions remain undefeated. ARQQ — up 35.35% in a month, still 60.66% below its high. A reminder that inside a deep enough crater, a moonshot is just an echo.

6. What I'd Tell a Friend

Nothing about today asked you to do anything. The index barely moved, and the things that moved hard (AbCellera, the uranium names, Kratos) are already past the prices where entering made sense — buying them here is paying for last week. The four entries that do make sense on tonight's numbers are the boring ones: Lilly, CrowdStrike, Nvidia, Palo Alto — clean uptrends within a few percent of their highs, none of them overheated. If you're waiting on a level, the two that matter this week: oil through $130 (sustained, not a poke) re-opens the supply-shock question, and tomorrow morning's CPI print decides whether the rate tape stays friendly. Watch Wednesday's CPI first — everything else is downstream of it.

7. The Front Page

Monster Watch · 211 of 1086 tracked names

MAAS+143% vs 200d TXG+137% vs 200d TWST+122% vs 200d ABCL+115% vs 200d CDNA+114% vs 200d AEHR+110% vs 200d BFLY+104% vs 200d ORKA+103% vs 200d DELL+97% vs 200d ATEX+97% vs 200d

Sector Rotation Radar · 69 themes

Flow means 30-day relative strength versus SPY, not dollars moving: Inflow beat SPY by more than 2 points, Outflow trailed by more than 2, and Neutral stayed inside that band.

Government Compute Inflow +29.0% 30D Federal IT and mission-software contractors spanning data platforms, consulting, cybersecurity, and defense intelligence. Copper Inflow +20.5% 30D Copper miners and broad copper funds tracking electrification, grid, construction, and data-center demand. Cloud SAAS Inflow +15.6% 30D Cloud/SaaS survivors - AI monetization plays. Profitable leaders + high-growth candidates. Lazarus Inflow +14.6% 30D Fallen-quality WATCH list (NOT buys): former leaders down 40-80% held in quarantine until they prove a trend reversal — the 'Lazarus signal' (pop -> flag -> breakout / life pouring in). Entry only on confirmation, never… Cloud ETFS Inflow +13.7% 30D Cloud ETFs - contrarian SaaS thesis. AI accelerates SaaS, survivors will consolidate. Alt Managers Inflow +13.4% 30D Publicly-traded alternative asset managers — fee-related-earnings cohort plus the Brookfield parent. Brookfield axis: BAM (Brookfield Asset Management — fee-light spinout, ~$540B FBE AUM, FRE-growth thesis), BN… Travel Leisure Inflow +13.1% 30D Travel & leisure — war-ends playbook beneficiary. Oil drop → travel cost reduction, pent-up demand, cruise recovery. Web Cloud Inflow +11.0% 30D Web/Cloud Infrastructure - Edge computing, CDN, databases, data platforms, observability Tech Insider Buys Inflow +9.8% 30D Tech-centric insider buying monitor. Combines our tech universe tickers with Finviz insider buying discovery. Goal: find tech names where insiders are putting their own money in — the strongest conviction signal. Run… China Tech Inflow +8.2% 30D Chinese internet and platform leaders with broad mainland, Hong Kong, and technology ETF exposure. Trace Glp1 Manufacturing Inflow +7.3% 30D GLP-1 / peptide manufacturing supply chain — from research-trace blind test (2026-04-12) + research-picks refresh (2026-05-05). HPLC purification (WAT 3/3 unanimous), chromatography resins (DHR/Cytiva 3/3), injectable… Cybersec Inflow +6.8% 30D Cybersecurity & Networking - firewall/SASE (FTNT, PANW — PANW absorbed CYBR via 2025 acquisition), endpoint (CRWD, S), zero-trust (ZS, OKTA), edge/CDN (NET), embedded/automotive QNX + cybersec (BB BlackBerry — surfaced… Drone Defense Inflow +6.5% 30D Drone & counter-drone defense — offense (AVAV AeroVironment, AVEX AEVEX Corp — newly-public April 2026 full-stack drone + AI ISR, KTOS Kratos, RCAT Red Cat — small-cap manufacturer), counter-drone (EOPSF Electro Optic… Adtech Inflow +6.0% 30D Ad-tech lane: independent SSP/DSP (MGNI PUBM TTD), performance/open-web (APP CRTO TBLA), verification (DV), data (ZETA), CTV (ROKU MNTN). Added 2026-08-06 on user request; IAS excluded (Novacap take-private, delisted… Retail Neutral +5.6% 30D Retail/Consumer - ETFs (XRT retail). Home Improvement (HD, LOW), E-commerce (SHOP), Athletic/Apparel (AS, LULU, NKE, DECK, CROX, ANF), Food/Beverage (SBUX, MCD, CMG, DPZ, YUM), General Retail (COST, WMT, TGT, TJX) War Sensitivity Neutral +5.3% 30D War-sensitivity watchlist — stocks ranked by their reaction to ceasefire fake-outs (TACO trades). Tier 1 fast movers: COPX/JETS/UAE (5-9% pops). Tier 2 hidden oil-sensitive: W/RH/ATZ/AS (heavy-goods shipping costs).… Bargain Bin Neutral +5.0% 30D Bargain Bin - Great companies at bad prices. 70 quality mega/large-caps filtered for oversold conditions (RSI < 30, below SMA). The scan finds which ones are currently on sale. Sectors: big tech, SaaS, healthcare,… Financials Neutral +4.9% 30D Financials - Banks/Investment firms (JPM, BAC, GS, MS, BLK), brokers (SCHW, HOOD), insurance (AMP, PGR, MET, BDN), fintech (FIS, FISV), card-network (COF — absorbed Discover/DFS via 2025 acquisition), exchanges (CME),… Trace Lng Liquefaction Shipping And Regasification Neutral +4.9% 30D LNG supply-chain bottlenecks across liquefaction, shipping, and regasification. Research trace from 2026-04-12 with 2 unanimous and 2 strong-convergence findings. Geopolitical Neutral +4.7% 30D Geopolitical risk watchlist - defense contractors (LMT/RTX/NOC/GD/LHX/BA), oil producers (XOM/CVX/OXY/COP/SLB/HAL/DVN/EOG — XOM absorbed PXD/Pioneer via 2024 acquisition), energy ETFs (USO/UNG/XLE/OIH/XOP), safe havens… Trace Iran War Second And Third Order Effects Neutral +4.7% 30D Second- and third-order Iran-war exposures across shipping, insurance, pharmaceutical inputs, rare earths, and fertilizer. Research trace from 2026-04-12 with 1 unanimous and 3 strong-convergence findings. Volume Setups Neutral +4.7% 30D Stocks in established uptrends that remain near a volume shelf and are showing constructive participation. Refreshed on demand and merged across runs. Defense Contractors Neutral +4.7% 30D Defense contractors - ETFs (ITA aerospace/defense, PPA aerospace/defense, DFEN 3x defense). Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, L3Harris, Boeing. Optical Supply Chain Neutral +4.7% 30D Optical/photonics supply chain — AI optical supercycle plays. Laser sources (LITE, COHR), optical networking (CIEN), silicon photonics (ALAB, SMTC), foundry (TSEM), next-gen modulators (LWLG, SIVEF/Sivers Semiconductors… Macro Commodities Neutral +4.0% 30D Macro & commodities - oil (USO/BNO), natgas (UNG), gold (GLD/GDX/GDXJ/GDRZF), silver (SLV/SIL), copper (COPX), agriculture (DBA/WEAT/CORN/SOYB/AGRO), specialty chemicals (CE), uranium (URA), dollar (UUP), euro (FXE),… Chemicals Neutral +4.0% 30D Chemicals & specialty materials — industrial cycle, energy input costs, diversified chemical producers. Consumer Neutral +3.6% 30D Consumer brands - ETFs (XLY consumer discretionary). Athleisure (AS, LULU, NKE, DECK, CROX), food/beverage (SBUX, CMG, DPZ), health/wellness (HIMS), payments (PYPL, XYZ — Block Inc, ticker renamed from SQ in 2025),… Canadian OG Neutral +3.4% 30D Canadian oil & gas — ATH (Athabasca), TVE (Tamarack Valley), WCP (Whitecap), BTE (Baytex), GTE (Gran Tierra). Theo Loveday picks. EWC (Canada ETF) and XLE (Energy sector) as benchmarks. NNRG (Ninepoint Energy Fund, Eric… Ark Neutral +3.0% 30D ARK Invest ETFs - tracking Cathie Wood's funds Healthcare Neutral +2.9% 30D Healthcare sector scan - Medical devices (SYK, ISRG, MDT, DXCM, ABT), pharma (PFE, MRK, LLY, GILD, AMGN, BIIB, VRTX, MRNA), healthcare services (JNJ, UNH, CVS, GRDN specialty pharmacy), lab/diagnostics (TMO), life… Nuclear Fuel Cycle Neutral +2.8% 30D Nuclear fuel cycle — AI-DRIVEN nuclear-demand thesis (sibling to ai-power-bottleneck, NOT a rotation away from AI; the mechanism is COMPLEMENTARY — hyperscaler data-center power demand pulls through the entire nuclear… AI Neutral +2.6% 30D AI scan - full universe. ETFs (SMH semis, BOTZ robotics/AI, ROBO robotics, AIQ global AI). Big Tech (NVDA, AMZN, MSFT, GOOGL, META, TSLA — TSLA for FSD/Optimus/Dojo AI exposure), Chips (AMD, AVGO, MRVL, ARM, SMCI, QCOM,… Mag7 Neutral +2.5% 30D Magnificent 7 - The seven largest US tech companies Airlines Neutral +2.5% 30D Airlines — war-ends playbook beneficiary. Oil drop → margin expansion, leisure travel recovery. JETS ETF for broad exposure. (Removed 2026-05-04: HA absorbed by ALK via 2024 acquisition; SAVE bankrupt + delisted… ETF Ideas Neutral +2.3% 30D ETF Ideas - Index (QQQM, QQQ, VOO, VTI), 3x Leveraged (TQQQ, SOXL, SPXL, TECL, LABU), Inverse (SQQQ, SOXS), Income/Covered Call (JEPQ, JEPI, SCHD, VYM, QYLD, XYLD, DOGG), Sector (VGT, SMH), Cloud/SaaS (WCLD, CLOU, SKYY,… Consumer Staples Neutral +2.1% 30D Consumer staples - Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Colgate, Clorox, Mondelez, General Mills. Recession-proof dividend plays. BALL = Ball Corp aluminum packaging (KO/PEP customer supply-chain… Healthcare Neutral +2.1% 30D Healthcare/Pharma/Medical Devices - Medical devices (SYK, ISRG, MDT, DXCM, ABT), pharma (PFE, MRK, LLY, GILD, AMGN, BIIB, VRTX, MRNA), healthcare services (JNJ, UNH, CVS), lab/diagnostics (TMO), life sciences software… Tech Neutral +1.8% 30D Big Tech Watching Outflow +1.7% 30D Watching/Learning - curious but not trading. KOPN added 2026-05-10 from @JasonL_Capital 2026-05-06 'under $10' tweet (reference_jasonl_capital_kopn_check.md). Kopin Corporation, $3.97 microcap. Claimed: MicroLED… Defensive Outflow +1.6% 30D Defensive/Value - ETFs (XLP consumer staples, XLU utilities). Telecom (T, VZ), consumer staples (WMT, MCD, COST, SBUX, TGT), food/protein (HRL, TSN, PPC), industrial (ECL), home improvement (HD, LOW). Rotation… Robotics Outflow +1.2% 30D Robotics & physical-AI across the stack — seeded 2026-06-27 from @mkfilko + @MMatters22596 robotics baskets (live rotation theme). Layers: brain/compute (NVDA Isaac/GR00T, BB/QNX OS), vision (CGNX, AMBA), lidar/sensors… Livestock Disease Outflow +1.2% 30D Livestock-disease / beef supply-shock — single consolidated watchlist + alert hub for the New World Screwworm → cattle-supply thesis (first US case 2026-06-03; US herd 75-yr low; record beef). ROLES: (A) Animal-health… AI Infrastructure Outflow +0.7% 30D Complete AI Infrastructure - power, cooling, electrical, construction, data/optical connectivity (NOK Nokia), manufacturing, power connectors, REITs, materials, backup, water, AI compute providers (NBIS Nebius, OSS One… Quantum Computing Outflow +0.6% 30D Quantum-compute pure-plays. Gate/trapped-ion (IONQ), superconducting (RGTI/Rigetti), annealing (QBTS/D-Wave), photonic (QUBT/Quantum Computing Inc, XNDU/Xanadu — de-SPAC 2026-03), cold-atom/Rydberg (INFQ/Infleqtion —… Biotech Capital Cycle Outflow +0.3% 30D AI-bio platforms + lab-tools/consumables + CROs — biotech capital-cycle / IPO-window-levered picks-and-shovels (perspective: biotech-capital-cycle) Watchlist Outflow -0.0% 30D Crypto Outflow -0.4% 30D Crypto: BTC, ETH, SOL, major alts (via yfinance -USD tickers), spot ETFs (IBIT, GBTC, ETHE, BITO), crypto equities (MSTR, COIN, miners), crypto ETF (BITQ) Cultural Thesis Outflow -0.6% 30D Cultural thesis watchlist — stocks driven by consumer behavior shifts, social arbitrage signals, and cultural cascades. HIMS = telehealth / GLP-1 cultural arbitrage (replaced BRBR as the protein-economy vehicle… IBB Outflow -0.6% 30D Biotechnology cohort spanning large-cap therapeutics, rare disease, gene editing, diagnostics, life-science tools, and CROs. Space Outflow -1.1% 30D Space plays — expanded 2026-05-27 for SpaceX IPO catalyst (debut 2026-06-12 NASDAQ:SPCX, $1.75T-$2T target, $40-80B raise, largest IPO ever). Originally only RKLB / ARKX / GSAT (3 names). Launch / rockets: RKLB… Escalation Outflow -1.2% 30D Escalation scenario watchlist — Gulf infrastructure strike / Iran retaliation plays. US LNG exporters (LNG/CQP/VG), industrial gas/helium (LIN/APD), NGL midstream (TRGP/EPD/ET/OKE), nat gas (UNG/FCG/BOIL), LNG shipping… AI Infra Outflow -1.4% 30D AI Infrastructure - hyperscalers (AMZN), GPUs (NVDA), lithography (ASML), power generation (TAC — TransAlta, Canadian IPP: hydro/wind/solar/battery/gas, NOT nuclear; label corrected 2026-06-19 from 'nuclear'), foundry… Spacex S1 Supply Chain Outflow -1.6% 30D SpaceX S-1 picks-and-shovels + space peers screen (2026-06-04): AI-compute/power/optical supply chain, space industrial base, disrupted incumbents, holders. Tied to spacex-s1 investigations. Peptide Economy Outflow -1.7% 30D Peptide / GLP-1 economy — principals + next-gen pipeline + consumer/distribution layer. Surfaced 2026-05-05 as a coverage gap: no focused lens existed despite GLP-1s being the largest pharma run of the past 18 months.… Faang Outflow -1.8% 30D FAANG - Facebook (Meta), Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google Biotech Outflow -1.9% 30D Biotech scan - broader universe for opportunity discovery. ETFs (XBI, IBB, IBBQ, LABU 3x bull), Large cap pharma (ABBV, GILD, AMGN, LLY, VRTX, REGN), GLP-1 (NVO, LLY), mRNA (BNTX, MRNA), gene editing (CRSP, BEAM, EDIT,… Food Security Outflow -2.7% 30D Food security — geopolitical energy shock cascade play. Fertilizer (NTR Nutrien, MOS Mosaic, CF Industries), farm equipment (DE Deere), grain trading (ADM Archer-Daniels-Midland, BG Bunge Global — added 2026-05-10, $24B… Energy Outflow -3.2% 30D Energy - data center power (BE, EOSE, TAC, CEG, GEV, TLN), nuclear (CEG), solar (FSLR, ENPH), utilities (NEE). Overlaps with ai-infra for power plays. Supply Chain Traces Outflow -3.2% 30D Supply chain trace discoveries — tickers found by our autonomous research agents across all traces. Tungsten (KMT Kennametal, CRS Carpenter; Almonty Layer-1 pure-play pending correct-ticker re-add — was wrongly tracked… EV Clean Energy Outflow -3.3% 30D EV makers + clean energy + related ETFs. Solar tracking (NXT Nextracker), industrial energy storage/batteries (ENS EnerSys). Lithium pure-plays added 2026-05-10 from… Biotech Outflow -3.4% 30D Biotech - pharma innovation (LLY), lab tools (TMO), mRNA (MRNA), gene editing (CRSP, NTLA, VRTX), immunotherapy (IBRX) WFE Test Metrology Outflow -3.5% 30D Semiconductor wafer-fab equipment, process control, metrology, test, packaging, and materials suppliers. Semis Outflow -5.0% 30D Semiconductors - GPUs (NVDA, AMD), foundry (TSM), networking chips (AVGO, MRVL), architecture (ARM), mobile (QCOM), equipment (ASML, AMAT), packaging (AMKR), analog/power (ON), programmable-logic (LSCC - added… Nearline Storage Outflow -5.5% 30D High-capacity storage makers and upstream media and component suppliers serving hyperscale and AI data centers. CPU Shortage Supply Chain Outflow -6.4% 30D AI compute shortage supply chain across CPUs, high-speed connectivity, assembly and test, and semiconductor baskets. AI Power Outflow -7.3% 30D AI Power Bottleneck — Leopold Aschenbrenner's watts-per-rack thesis. Fuel cells (BE), distributed power (PSIX, BW), nat gas (EQT, LBRT, PUMP), BTC miners pivoting to AI compute (CORZ, IREN, APLD, CIFR, HUT, BTDR, CLSK,… Humanoid Robotics Outflow -7.4% 30D Humanoid robotics components — sensors and motion control for the 2027-2028 humanoid wave. Component layer: VPG (Vishay Precision Group — strain gauges and force/torque sensors), MOG-A (Moog — precision motion… Grid Buildout Outflow -7.5% 30D Transformer, switchgear, electrical-equipment, and engineering contractors exposed to transmission and data-center grid buildout. Memory Outflow -18.1% 30D Memory & Storage - HBM/DRAM (MU), HDDs/SSDs (STX, WDC), thematic ETF (DRAM Roundhill Memory ETF — added 2026-05-06 after launching ~April 2026; note refresh 2026-05-10: now +101.9% off $26.14 low to $52.80 ATH, +13.4%…

8. Key Signals

Recorded signals · 59

ACIW: uptrend → pullbackAIQ: pullback → uptrendARIS: collapse → pullbackARKX: pullback → uptrendASAN: downtrend → pullbackBST: uptrend → basingCCJ: collapse → pullbackCENX: collapse → pullbackCTOS: uptrend → pullbackELAN: uptrend → pullbackENPH: downtrend → pullbackESE: uptrend → pullbackFIGS: collapse → parabolicFNGU: pullback → uptrendHALO: breakout → parabolicHNGE: pullback → uptrendHUM: pullback → uptrendIAG: downtrend → pullbackKALU: pullback → uptrendKYMR: pullback → uptrendMSFT: uptrend → breakoutNOW: downtrend → pullbackNVTS: collapse → pullbackPJAN: basing → breakout

Insider filings · 104

NET2026-08-11 ARM2026-08-11 IBM2026-08-11 ISRG2026-08-11 U2026-08-11 AMZN2026-08-10 ILMN2026-08-10 DDOG2026-08-10 HUBS2026-08-10 IBM2026-08-10 ISRG2026-08-10 PLTR2026-08-10 TMO2026-08-10 TMO2026-08-10

9. Paper Trade Report Card

yolo $111,343 +11.3% 8 open · updated 2026-08-11

claude trader $110,029 +10.0% 23 open · updated 2026-08-10

dip buyer $100,000 0.0% 0 open · updated n/a

momentum trader $100,000 0.0% 0 open · updated n/a

bench signals $55,640 n/a 53 open · updated 2026-08-10

10. Active Perspectives

AI Power Bottleneck — Watts Per Rack + Generation-Side active high latest 2026-08-08

AI Power Delivery — The 30% Parasitic Loss active high latest 2026-08-08

Gulf Infrastructure Strike Scenario monitoring low latest 2026-08-08

Risk-On Tech Rotation — Concentrated Mega-Cap + AI Supercycle monitoring low latest 2026-08-08

The Gold Anomaly — Broken Safe Haven monitoring low latest 2026-08-08

AI Optical Supercycle — Wave-Curve Rotation monitoring high latest 2026-08-08

US Energy Dominance — Blockade as Leverage (absorbed iran-war-oil) monitoring critical latest 2026-08-08

Memory Supercycle — DRAM/NAND/HBM Structural Tightness active high latest 2026-08-08

SpaceX IPO Liquidity Event — $40-80B Drained from Markets, June 12 2026 monitoring high latest 2026-08-08

Nearline HDD Storage — Density-Led Oligopoly (allocated through 2027) monitoring medium latest 2026-08-08

Livestock Disease — New World Screwworm → Cattle-Supply Shock & Protein Rotation monitoring medium latest 2026-08-08

Biotech Capital Cycle — AI-Bio Platforms & Lab-Tools/CRO Picks-and-Shovels (IPO-Window Levered) monitoring medium latest 2026-08-08

Nuclear Fuel Cycle — AI-Driven Nuclear Demand (enrichment chokepoint + utility cash-flow) active medium latest 2026-08-08

CPU Shortage Supply Chain — Datacenter CPU Allocation + ABF Substrate Bottleneck monitoring high latest 2026-08-08

China Structural Discount — Multiple-Capped, Not Earnings-Capped (VIE / CCP / Macro Triptych) monitoring medium latest 2026-08-08

AI Capex Digestion — the Crowded-Trade Unwind active high latest 2026-08-08

Physical AI / Robotics — Arms-Dealers Over Moonshots (the Embodied-AI Rotation) active medium latest 2026-08-08

Quantum Computing — The Sovereign-Catalyst Trade (Basket-First, Lottery Underneath) monitoring medium latest 2026-08-08

AI Mega-IPO Liquidity Regime — Index Plumbing, Lockups, and the Issuance Bell monitoring medium latest 2026-08-08

Trump Policy Ticker Catalysts — Source-Tier Event Study monitoring low latest 2026-08-08

The Midterm Window — Q4 Turn Watch active medium latest 2026-08-08

Today's Actions · 41 APP $318.68 · AVAX-USD $6.30 · EWZ $33.98

exit · 3

APP $318.68 breaking down — -24.1% this week, 57.3% off its 52-week high and still falling

AVAX-USD $6.30 breaking down — -5.7% this week, 82.5% off its 52-week high and still falling

EWZ $33.98 breaking down — -5.8% this week, 19.1% off its 52-week high and still falling

entry · 38

LLY breaking out 2.8% off its 52-week high after a +8.9% week — a +23% three-month run, not a one-week pop

ABNB breaking out 1.1% off its 52-week high after a +23.4% week — a +37% three-month run, not a one-week pop

CRWD breaking out 2.2% off its 52-week high after a +5.1% week — a +63% three-month run, not a one-week pop

META coming into play — 24.8% off its 52-week high with the tape turning up (+1.9% this week) trend-hold

GLD coming into play — 21.3% off its 52-week high with the tape turning up (+7.2% this week)

ISRG coming into play — 33.6% off its 52-week high with the tape turning up (+8.9% this week)

CCJ watch-grade call — 4 of 5 bells lit (research, tape, advisory, regime) · tape broken trend-hold

ABCL $8.45 watch-grade call — 4 of 5 bells lit (research, trigger, tape, regime); trigger at $8.45 trend-hold

MSFT $442 watch-grade call — 4 of 5 bells lit (research, trigger, tape, regime); trigger at $442 trend-hold

NTLA $18.50 watch-grade call — 3 of 5 bells lit (research, advisory, regime); trigger at $18.50 · tape broken trend-hold

PL watch-grade call — 3 of 5 bells lit (research, advisory, regime) · tape broken trend-hold

CBRS $221.30 watch-grade call — 3 of 5 bells lit (research, trigger, regime); trigger at $221.30 trend-hold

CEG $269 watch-grade call — 3 of 5 bells lit (research, trigger, regime); trigger at $269 trend-hold

LEU $177 watch-grade call — 3 of 5 bells lit (research, trigger, regime); trigger at $177 trend-hold

NVDA $209.81 watch-grade call — 3 of 5 bells lit (research, trigger, regime); trigger at $209.81 trend-hold

PANW watch-grade call — 3 of 5 bells lit (research, tape, regime) trend-hold

STX $808.65 watch-grade call — 3 of 5 bells lit (research, trigger, regime); trigger at $808.65

AAPL no setup today — drifting down, -1.4% this week, 11.5% off its 52-week high

AMZN no setup today — still in trend, -1.9% this week, 5.2% off its 52-week high

ARGX no setup today — drifting down, +2.4% this week, 9.3% off its 52-week high

ARM no setup today — drifting down, -4.2% this week, 40.6% off its 52-week high trend-hold

ARQQ no setup today — moving sideways, +11.0% this week, 60.7% off its 52-week high

GOOGL no setup today — drifting down, -9.0% this week, 15.9% off its 52-week high

HQ no setup today — moving sideways, -18.1% this week, 72.2% off its 52-week high

ILMN no setup today — still in trend, -5.0% this week, 6.8% off its 52-week high

INFQ no setup today — moving sideways, +3.1% this week, 44.5% off its 52-week high

IONQ no setup today — moving sideways, +4.1% this week, 48.7% off its 52-week high

LAES no setup today — under pressure, +0.4% this week, 70.7% off its 52-week high

MU no setup today — drifting down, -2.7% this week, 30.8% off its 52-week high

NET no setup today — still in trend, +1.9% this week, 5.5% off its 52-week high

NTR no setup today — moving sideways, +0.5% this week, 21.2% off its 52-week high

OUST no setup today — still in trend, -5.7% this week, 29.3% off its 52-week high

QBTS no setup today — under pressure, -7.3% this week, 56.7% off its 52-week high

QUBT no setup today — under pressure, -3.0% this week, 65.4% off its 52-week high

RGTI no setup today — under pressure, +3.7% this week, 68.9% off its 52-week high

SNDK no setup today — drifting down, -11.0% this week, 46.0% off its 52-week high

TSLA no setup today — under pressure, +1.7% this week, 33.3% off its 52-week high

XNDU no setup today — moving sideways, -10.9% this week, 75.6% off its 52-week high

The desk's frozen record The machine-built sections as this issue recorded them — the tape, calls, and wires that were true on this date (desk plumbing and file-path lines removed for reading).

Regime State

State counts: collapse: 120, pullback: 365, uptrend: 249, downtrend: 111.
Latest transition batch: 2026-08-11 vs 2026-08-10; 38 confirmed state-to-state flips, 3 entries, 0 exits.
Confirmed flips: $ACIW uptrend -> pullback; $AIQ pullback -> uptrend; $ARIS collapse -> pullback; $ARKX pullback -> uptrend; $ASAN downtrend -> pullback; $BST uptrend -> basing.
Notable entries: $KN -> uptrend.

Cross-sector Rotation

Money rotating INTO Government Compute (RS +28.1, 17% strong-up), Copper (RS +16.2, 100% strong-up), Alt Managers (RS +14.3, 0% strong-up) — OUT OF Memory (RS -12.1), AI Power (RS -10.1), CPU Shortage Supply Chain (RS -7.6). Benchmark SPY +2.9% 30d. ⚡ EMERGING (turning up before the trailing board): Biotech (accel +5.6, 78% up), IBB (accel +5.2, 73% up), Biotech Capital Cycle (accel +4.4, 68% up), Biotech (accel +4.3, 82% up), Canadian OG (accel +3.0, 86% up). Fading leaders: China Tech (accel -3.5).
⚡ Front-run (emerging, turning up before the trailing board): Biotech (accel +5.6, 78% up); IBB (accel +5.2, 73% up); Biotech Capital Cycle (accel +4.4, 68% up); Biotech (accel +4.3, 82% up); Canadian OG (accel +3.0, 86% up).
Leadership shifts since last run: Alt Managers (new-leader); Cloud SAAS (lost-leadership).

Volatility Gate

VIX 15.28 (CALM) · 1d -1.2%. 😴 VIX CALM — 15.28 (<16). Complacent; no fear discount available.
No fire-sale trigger (rule: >=30% one-day spike is the trigger; the level alone is context).
Credit tape (7d): HYG -0.1% · LQD -0.7% · IEF -0.4% — the flush-vs-break discriminator: orderly credit means the selling is positioning, not a credit event.

The Prints

$CRWV — CoreWeave reported Q2 2026 after Tuesday's close: revenue $2.575B, up 112% year over year; adjusted EBITDA $1.51B, up 101%, for a 59% adjusted EBITDA margin; revenue backlog of $104B; 1.5 GW of active power against 3.7 GW contracted; and…
$RKLB — COVERAGE GAP — Rocket Lab was scheduled to report after Monday's close; tonight's pulls carry only previews ("What Wall Street Expects Ahead of August 10 Earnings", noting a ~41% rebound off the late-July low into the print) and no…
$SMCI — Super Micro's fiscal Q4/full-year 2026 print is confirmed to have happened — the company's own newsroom carries "Supermicro Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results" in tonight's pull, and same-day market-close…
$RIOT — COVERAGE GAP — this name's print was scheduled for a date that has now passed. Tonight's bounded news pull ran for this symbol and returned no print coverage (no actuals, no reaction pieces). "Nothing found" here is a coverage gap, not…
$ASTS — AST SpaceMobile's Q2 fell short of analyst expectations and the stock dropped on the print. The company paired the miss with a higher-growth outlook and reported progress on its satellite network expansion (Block 2 BlueBird), but coverage…
$HIMS — Hims & Hers reported Q2 after Monday's close (Aug 10): a loss of $0.40 per share — wider than consensus — against revenue up 3.8% year over year, with revenue and guidance described as stronger than expected. Coverage also flags renewed…
$ACHR — COVERAGE GAP — this name's print date has passed and tonight's bounded news pass (~25 marquee/tracked symbols) did not include it. No coverage was acquired; nothing is asserted about the result. Refill on the next daily or when the name…
$VST — Reported EPS $0.76 versus analyst consensus of $1.63 (-53.4%).
$OKLO — COVERAGE GAP — this name's print was scheduled for a date that has now passed. Tonight's bounded news pull ran for this symbol and returned no print coverage (no actuals, no reaction pieces). "Nothing found" here is a coverage gap, not…
$PLUG — COVERAGE GAP — this name's print was scheduled for a date that has now passed. Tonight's bounded news pull ran for this symbol and returned no print coverage (no actuals, no reaction pieces). "Nothing found" here is a coverage gap, not…
$ARMK — COVERAGE GAP — this name's print date has passed and tonight's bounded news pass did not include it. No coverage was acquired; nothing is asserted about the result. Refill on the next daily or when the name earns a targeted pull.
$VG — COVERAGE GAP — this name's print date has passed and tonight's bounded news pass did not include it. No coverage was acquired; nothing is asserted about the result. Refill on the next daily or when the name earns a targeted pull.
…and 33 more filled prints in the calendar.

Upcoming Prints (next 72h)

2026-08-11 — $LITE, $CRCL, $JD, $ALM, $POET, $FLY, $KOPN, $DNN +13 more
2026-08-12 — $NBIS, $CSCO, $COHR, $CBRS, $EAT, $LQDA, $TE, $INFQ +20 more
2026-08-13 — $AMAT, $ONDS, $JD, $BN, $AG, $LUNR, $NTES, $MSGS +13 more
2026-08-14 — $TE, $WYFI, $RR, $ASPI, $DGXX

Tripwires

Tripwires: no new trips since the 2026-08-11 duty pass.

Desk Calls

Ticker	Stance	Entry	Review-by	30d vs SPY
$DUST	pass	n/a — the inverse side of the same instrument problem	2026-09-11	pending
$GDX	watch	don't chase RSI 70.3 after a +21.31% week — a first pullback that holds the 200-day…	2026-09-11	pending
$GLD	watch	a close above the 200-day ($411.70) that holds with RSI above 55; $445 reopens the…	2026-09-04	pending
$MU	watch	reclaims and holds the 20-day ($888.26) with RSI back above 50	2026-09-11	pending
$NUGT	pass	n/a — leveraged miner exposure compounds the whipsaw that already makes miners the…	2026-09-11	pending
$SIL	watch	above its 200-day by 2.4% but RSI 67.1 after +20.0% — same pullback discipline as…	2026-09-11	pending
$SIMO	watch	price back above the 20-day ($264.25) with the 30-day loss narrowing	2026-09-11	pending
$SLV	watch	the laggard of the complex at 9.8% below its 200-day ($63.76) — a reclaim of that…	2026-09-11	pending
$SNDK	pass	no entry while price sits 13.0% below the 20-day ($1,393.06) and 28.2% below the…	2026-09-11	pending
$STX	watch	holds the 20-day ($834.21) and turns RSI back above 50	2026-09-11	pending
$UUP	watch	n/a — the dollar at RSI 39.5 is the tailwind, not the trade	2026-09-11	pending
$WDC	watch	not before the Aug 5 call's allocation and gross-margin language is public and read;…	2026-09-11	pending
$GLD	watch	a close above the 200-day ($411.72) that holds with RSI above 55; $445 reopens the…	2026-09-04	pending
$CVX	watch	strongest RSI in the upstream cohort (67.2) — hold above the 20-day (~$185.34) to…	2026-09-11	pending
$GLD	watch	this is a signal to watch, not a trade — a reclaim of the 20-day (~$373.15) would be…	2026-09-11	pending
$HAL	avoid	not a trend-hold candidate yet — wait for a base and a reclaim of the 50-day…	2026-09-11	pending
$PSX	watch	RSI is a hair under overbought (69.7) — wait for a pullback to the 20-day (~$200.76)…	2026-09-11	pending
$USO	watch	the -5.5% weekly pullback holds above the 20-day (~$121.96) — a normal pullback…	2026-09-11	pending
$VLO	watch	same setup as PSX — a pullback to the 20-day (~$295.63); note this row is one…	2026-09-11	pending
$CEG	watch	reclaim the 20-day (~$256) with hyperscaler spending language intact on the Jul…	2026-08-08 (overdue)	pending
$ELAN	watch (invalidation?)	a volume-confirmed (at least average volume) close through the 52-week high…	2026-08-14	pending
$GEV	watch	held the AI unwind at −5%; reclaim the 20-day (~$1,085) and print a higher low	2026-08-08 (overdue)	pending
$LEU	watch	first higher low after a clean Jul 29–30 capex read — the −18% month is a beta…	2026-08-08 (overdue)	pending
$CLMT	pass	RSI 83 on 2.7x volume, +165% in a year — parabolic-chaser material, not trend-hold;…	2026-09-04	pending
$DK	pass	reopen if it builds a multi-week base above the 20-day ($52.58) and resumes — a…	2026-09-04	pending
$MPC	watch	the lane's quality large-cap; interest begins on the first pullback that HOLDS the…	2026-08-21	pending
$MU	watch (invalidation?)	Friday printed a reversal bar (low $804, closed $848.95); a close above that bar's…	2026-08-14	pending
$NVDA	watch (in zone)	the general never broke (−3.7% in 30 days vs the ETF's −15.7%); a reclaim of its…	2026-08-14	pending
$PANW	watch	the lane's strongest structure (-2.7% from its 52-week high, +83% on the year);…	2026-09-04	pending
$PL	watch (invalidation?)	untouchable while the knife falls (RSI 30, −14% on the week); interest begins when…	2026-09-11	pending
$PSX	watch	the diversified laggard of the three (+70% on the year, midstream/chem mix dilutes…	2026-08-21	pending
$S	watch	the laggard catching up (+30% in 30 days, still only +9% on the year and -8.6% from…	2026-09-10	pending
$SMH	watch (invalidation?)	the complex switch: first close back above the 50-day ($597.33) after a higher low,…	2026-08-14	pending
$STX	watch (in zone)	the complex's only accumulation-shaped bar: +5.7% on 1.35× volume, closed near the…	2026-08-14	pending
$VLO	watch	best 12-month tape of the pure refiners (+117%); same frame — first 20-day hold…	2026-08-21	pending
$ARM	watch (in zone)	reclaim the pre-registered $270 line and hold it — the trigger the thesis flag broke…	2026-08-08 (overdue)	pending
$CCJ	watch	washed out at RSI 30 — wait for the $84 shelf to hold and a first higher low; the…	2026-09-15	pending
$CEG	watch (in zone)	the merchant bellwether needs a turn signature, not a dip-buy — a base under the…	2026-09-15	pending
$DUK	watch (invalidation?)	the one working expression — regulated rate-base growth from the same demand; a…	2026-09-15	pending
$LEU	watch (in zone)	only after a full-quarter base — the enrichment monopoly story is intact but the…	2026-10-01	pending
$MU	watch	gated on the prints, not the chart — a storage/memory print (STX Jul 28, WDC Jul 29,…	2026-08-08 (overdue)	pending
$NVDA	watch	the R1 playbook leg — hold the 20-day retest (~$202) through the July 28–29 storage…	2026-08-08 (overdue)	pending
$VST	watch (in zone)	reclaim the 200-day (~$166) and hold it — first sign the derate is done	2026-09-15	pending
$ABCL	watch (in zone)	the pop already happened (Feb low $2.78 to a $8.44 high) — this is the first flag;…	2026-08-31	+25.3%
$CBRS	watch (in zone)	a close above the post-flush bounce high ($221.30) confirms the higher low and…	2026-08-31	+13.0%
$META	watch (invalidation?)	second reclaim attempt off a higher low — buy interest is a close above ~$665,…	2026-08-31	-8.6%
$MSFT	watch (in zone)	no turn signature yet — interest begins at the 200-day reclaim (~$442) after a base;…	2026-10-01	+28.8%
$NTLA	watch (invalidation?)	golden cross, +31% month, and a fresh impulse into $18.48 on July 2 — buy interest…	2026-08-31	-25.0%
$ORCL	pass	reopen when the knife stops: the February low ($136) holds on this retest AND a +7%…	2026-10-01	+2.3%
$AXTI	pass	reopen only if it bases above its 200-day (~$42.55) for a full quarter AND revenue…	2026-10-01	+43.6%
$CIFR	pass	reopen only on revenue inflecting up AND visible de-leveraging of the $4.4B debt stack	2026-10-01	-25.1%
$CORZ	pass	reopen on a recapitalization that restores positive equity with the CoreWeave…	2026-10-01	-14.3%
$CRDO	buy (in zone)	elite fundamentals (33% operating margin on $1.34B FY26 revenue) with the…	2026-09-15	-7.1%
$CRWV	pass	reopen only on a financing regime change — interest expense stabilizing while…	2026-10-01	-3.0%
$EQT	watch	the fundamentals are the best in the sweep (net income nearly quadrupled in two…	2026-10-01	-2.4%
$HUT	pass	reopen on a financed capacity deal that closes the gap between $160M of cash and…	2026-10-01	-20.3%
$KGS	buy (invalidation?)	the sleeper — record Q1, raised full-year guidance to include the Distributed Power…	2026-08-15	-18.0%
$MXL	watch (in zone)	wire-flagged inflection but already a 4.5x over the year and −16% this week on no…	2026-08-15	-16.6%
$NBIS	buy (in zone)	pullback within an intact uptrend — buy the 50-day reclaim at ~$217, which says the…	2026-08-31	-16.9%
$OKTA	pass	the rotation's confirming leader — but RSI 78 and 3% off its high is chasing; reopen…	2026-09-15	-2.7%
$TER	buy (in zone)	the −21% week has no company event behind it — Q1 revenue rose 87% with a 21% EPS…	2026-08-15	+4.2%
$WDAY	watch	the earnings proof-point of the rotation (beat + raised subscription guide) but…	2026-09-15	+26.6%
$WULF	watch (invalidation?)	the $2.63B war chest has to start converting into hosting revenue on the P&L — watch…	2026-08-15	-28.9%
$SKHY	watch (in zone)	first clean post-debut base — not the open (debut ~2026-07-10)	2026-09-01	n/a
$ZM	watch (in zone)	2 consecutive quarters of accelerating revenue; base over $92	2026-09-01	+16.0%
$MU	buy	own the up-cycle with cycle sizing — record DRAM/HBM pricing power, HBM booked…	2026-09-01	-12.0%
$SNDK	watch	only on evidence the +69% NAND operating margin is a baseline, not the peak — two…	2026-09-01	-20.8%
$STX	buy	own the cleanest un-hyped inflection — nearline-HDD margins compounding 23%→32% over…	2026-09-01	-5.3%
$WDC	buy	same nearline thesis as STX — margins 10%→36% on the same AI storage driver, no hype…	2026-09-01	-7.7%

A desk call is an authored stance from a published report; entry and invalidation conditions are human-read, and the full ledger lives at /calls.

30d vs SPY is the raw name-vs-SPY move since the call — for trim/sell calls a NEGATIVE number means the call worked (the name fell after it).

From the Feeds

Curated picks from the last 7 days of the X / Reddit / Discord / web sweep — items the desk read and kept, not the raw capture firehose. Source: -pick- (type: curated-find).

𝕏 — The Kobeissi Letter — memory is now the tape: NVDA, MU and SNDK are three of the four most-traded US stocks $NVDA $MU $TSLA $SNDK · link
- One datapoint that shows how far the memory trade has come: Micron alone now turns over nearly as much notional as Nvidia, and SanDisk out-trades almost everything else on the tape. Crowding is the flip side — the lane's #1 risk has always been that everyone gets in.
𝕏 — SemiAnalysis — TileRT compiles the whole model into one persistent GPU kernel, claiming 1.9x decode interactivity on the same Blackwell chips $NVDA · link
- Software squeezing 2x more interactive inference out of the same NVIDIA silicon cuts at the core pitch of the dedicated inference-ASIC vendors (Groq, Cerebras, SambaNova) — and raises effective utilization per deployed GPU, which feeds the power-per-rack math the AI-power lane tracks.
𝕏 Serenity — (aleabitoreddit) — AAOI's earnings call says China is years behind on CPO lasers, and AAOI itself is capacity-out of first-gen CPO $AAOI $SIVEF $LITE $COHR $AVGO · link
- AAOI's own earnings-call language, not analyst spin: management says it is turning away CPO customers for lack of laser capacity and puts China's CPO laser gap at 2-3+ years. That's a primary-source data point on exactly the AXTI/optical-supply-chain chokepoint this desk is already tracking — points capacity scarcity…
𝕏 Gaurab Chakrabarti — sulfuric acid for copper leaching has roughly doubled since February · link
- A chemicals-company operator citing a real, checkable price series: US Gulf sulfuric acid (the reagent copper leach mines buy in bulk) roughly doubled from February to May and is still holding near double the pre-crisis level. A primary-source industrial-input data point for the copper cost structure, not a chart call.
𝕏 Serenity — (aleabitoreddit) — White House puts real dollars behind critical-minerals names: WWR, SRL, FEAM, HREE $WWR $SRL $FEAM · link
- Names dollar figures against four specific critical-minerals tickers in one White House funding round — graphite, scandium, boron and rare-earth magnets — rather than the usual vague onshoring rhetoric. HREE could not be ticker-validated this session (fetch failed) and is left untagged; worth a read for anyone trackin…
𝕏 Gaetano — (crux_capital_) — the market sold off the wrong optical name: his bull case for why AXTI's China selloff is negotiating leverage, not a real ban $AXTI $AAOI $COHR $LITE · link
- A specific, falsifiable bull case on why AXTI diverged from the rest of the optical complex on the same China headline: reads the drop as US negotiating leverage toward easing China's InP permit constraint rather than a real ban. Directly bears on the desk's own open question — AXTI's derate verification has sat unres…
𝕏 Winston — (ChurchillWw) — a Mountain Pass-to-Fort Worth rare-earth magnet is now in an automaker's qualification process $MP · link
- Traces a fully domestic mine-to-magnet chain — Mountain Pass ore into a Fort Worth press-and-sinter line — reaching an automaker qualification stage, which is MP Materials' own Mountain Pass mine and Fort Worth Independence facility by description. A concrete supply-chain milestone for the onshored rare-earth-magnet b…
𝕏 IPO Newsroom — NVIDIA is putting up to $3B into the Blackstone-backed firm that owns the land under Stargate $NVDA $BX · link
- A new equity stake, not a chip sale: Nvidia buying into the power-infrastructure landlord under the Stargate site (per The Information) is Nvidia moving up the AI-power stack into the land and grid layer itself. Directly on the AI-power-bottleneck thesis and not yet in today's brief.
𝕏 @KobeissiLetter — The Kobeissi Letter — record 4.0M S&P 500 call volume as put/call skew posts its biggest two-day drop since 2017 $SPY $VIXY · link
- The two numbers deserve different weight: the record call volume partly rides five years of options-market growth (~700K daily in 2020–21, a 2M ceiling until late 2023), but the skew collapse is pure positioning — traders paying up for upside while abandoning downside protection, and the sharpest such move since 2017,…
𝕏 @patrick_oshag — Gavin Baker on Invest Like the Best — no slowdown on the ground: old GPUs repricing up, the memory war, and who funds the buildout $NVDA $MU $SNDK $SPCX · link
- A 79-minute pressure-test of the AI trade from one of its most-cited public-markets bulls, recorded into the current selloff — the gap between falling stocks and accelerating fundamentals is the whole episode. It runs straight down our lanes: rising prices for old GPUs, the memory supply war, debt-vs-cashflow financin…

Filings

NEW: $NET 4 filed 2026-08-11 (period 2026-08-10)
NEW: $ARM 4 filed 2026-08-11 (period 2026-08-07)
NEW: $IBM 424B5 filed 2026-08-11
NEW: $ISRG 4 filed 2026-08-11 (period 2026-08-10)
NEW: $LITE 8-K filed 2026-08-11 (period 2026-08-11)
NEW: $U 4 filed 2026-08-11 (period 2026-08-07)
Last 14 days: $NET 4 (2026-08-11); $ARM 4 (2026-08-11); $IBM 424B5 (2026-08-11); $ISRG 4 (2026-08-11); $LITE 8-K (2026-08-11); $U 4 (2026-08-11); $GOOGL 8-K (2026-08-10); $AMZN 4 (2026-08-10); ….

Breadth And Movers

Price truth: *; primary summary date 2026-08-11. Row dates: 2026-08-11: 1812, 2026-08-10: 44, 2026-08-07: 7, 2026-07-17: 1, 2026-07-16: 1, 2026-06-29: 1.

Summary coverage: 1812/1866 rows at 2026-08-11; 1044 unique symbols after de-duplication.
Unique-symbol breadth: 584 up, 443 down, 17 flat; median 1D change +0.2%.
Market-pulse breadth: 21 up, 21 down, 0 flat; median 1D change +0.0% from market-pulse.

Top gainers by 1D change (filtered to price >= $1, dollar volume >= $50M, finite RSI):

Symbol	1D	7D	30D	RSI	Signal	Price	Source
$ALMR	+30.6%	+34.9%	+33.5%	79.5	Extreme overbought	$36.57	biotech-capital-cycle
$KOPN	+23.5%	+25.3%	+43.3%	65.6	Overbought	$5.20	optical-supply-chain
$P	+11.6%	+30.3%	+45.1%	80.6	Extreme overbought	$109.38	ai-infra
$AEHR	+10.3%	+6.6%	+72.3%	63.6	strong-up	$117.18	monster-discoveries
$ONTO	+9.8%	+11.2%	+5.1%	57.4	strong-up	$319.79	wfe-test-metrology

Top laggards by 1D change (same filter):

Symbol	1D	7D	30D	RSI	Signal	Price	Source
$FA	-10.3%	+2.6%	+2.9%	52.2	strong-up	$21.17	monster-discoveries
$DFTX	-9.4%	-3.3%	-6.3%	46.1	strong-up	$40.91	monster-discoveries
$BKD	-8.3%	-11.8%	-12.8%	29.0	Oversold	$12.55	monster-discoveries
$ESLT	-8.3%	-8.6%	+5.5%	44.1	weak-down	$776.08	monster-discoveries
$SPCH	-7.7%	+6.2%	-16.8%	44.8	neutral	$8.28	etf-ideas

Targets In Zone

Target	Anchor date	Tickers	Mechanical status	Level
GDX profit-target — $115.00	2026-08-08	$GDX	APPROACHING — $90.12 is 21.6% below the $115 target, trend up	$115.00
GDX stop-loss — $85.00	2026-08-08	$GDX	HOLDING — $90.12 is 6.0% above the $85 stop	$85.00
NVTS entry-zone — $8-$10	2026-07-31	$NVTS	APPROACHING — $13.60 is 36.0% above $8–$10; waiting for the pullback	$8-$10
NVTS profit-target — $16.00	2026-07-31	$NVTS	APPROACHING — $13.60 is 15.0% below the $16 target, trend weak-down	$16.00
NVTS stop-loss — $9.00	2026-07-31	$NVTS	HOLDING — $13.60 is 51.1% above the $9 stop	$9.00
VICR profit-target — $349.00	2026-07-31	$VICR	APPROACHING — $210.88 is 39.6% below the $349 target, trend weak-down	$349.00
VICR stop-loss — $178.00	2026-07-31	$VICR	HOLDING — $210.88 is 18.5% above the $178 stop	$178.00
META — Entry-Zone Target (originally flagged 2026-07-11, filed 2026-07-17)	2026-07-17	$META	APPROACHING — $599.12 sits 0.1% under $600–$630, trend weak-up; watching for…	$600-630 pullback entry

Convergence Leaders

Stocks in projection: 718; convergentCount 9; divergentCount 22.

Symbol	Score	Scans	Bull	Neutral	Latest signal date
$ASML	4	6	3	3	2026-08-08
$XBI	4	4	3	1	2026-08-08
$BESIY	4	3	2	1	2026-08-08
$BIIB	4	3	3	0	2026-08-08
$SLV	4	3	2	1	2026-08-08
$AEHR	4	2	2	0	2026-08-08
$AXTI	4	2	2	0	2026-08-08
$DD	4	2	2	0	2026-08-08

The Desk Archived issue, published Aug 11, 2026 . Only the modules that are actually true for this date are shown — what changed since the prior issue, the scans it rests on, and the catalysts in its week. The desk's live state (calls, paper book, alarm board, tape internals) belongs to today, not to this issue, so it is not replayed here: see Calls, Positions and Tape.

Conditions

The market climate this issue was written in — frozen from its own date by design. Every day's card, in order, is on Conditions.

Indexes · 7d: SPY-0.1%QQQ-0.8%IWM-0.2%RSP+0.2%
Volatility: VIX 15.28CALM · 1d -1.2%No fire-sale trigger — needs a ≥30% one-day spike
Rotation · 30d strength: 22 in / 24 outInGovernment Compute+28.1Copper+16.2Alt Managers+14.3Cloud SAAS+13.0Cloud ETFS+12.5OutMemory-12.1AI Power-10.1CPU Shortage Supply Chain-7.6Nearline Storage-7.5Semis-7.3Each side counts the desk's tracked theme watchlists (69 ranked) by 30-day median relative strength vs SPY — shown in RS points.
Credit · 7d: HYG-0.1%LQD-0.7%IEF-0.4%Orderly credit = the selling is positioning, not a credit event
Hard assets · 7d: GLD+7.2%USO+10.2%COPX+5.5%Gold · oil · copper miners

Frozen snapshot — numbers are as of 2026-08-11 by design; the dated strip of these cards is the climate history.

This Week's Catalysts

Recent prints come from this issue's frozen record; upcoming rows are calendar entries dated 2026-08-11 through 2026-08-17. Curated big events and tracked earnings are visible; the full print calendar stays behind the fold.

Recent prints · recorded with this issue · +65 more in the frozen record

QUBT Aug 10 COVERAGE GAP — this name's print was scheduled for a date that has now passed. Tonight's bounded news pull ran for this symbol and returned no print coverage (no actuals, no reaction pieces). "Nothing found" here is a coverage gap, not evidence the report was quiet — refill on the next daily.

No curated big-event catalysts on file for this week.

Tracked earnings · 1

Focus-list and tape-moving names. All 103 earnings and dividend prints remain available below.

Aug 12

INFQ

INFQ In line vs analyst consensus