Market Signal

Three of five tripwires survived triage on the 2026-08-31 duty pass. Micron and AbCellera each rose from three bells to four — lit on research, trigger, tape and market backdrop, missing only an advisory row — and neither reached five. Micron's raise is corroborated by its own tape: +2.8% on the day, +16.5% on the month, 61.9% above its 200-day, and a target that moved from broke-zone back to approaching at 4.1% below the $1,000-$1,025 entry band. It is a watch, not an entry; the plan wants a base back into the zone. Separately the sector relative-strength gauge flipped from cyclicals-leading-defensives to mixed, matching a session where energy led hard, travel and airlines were taxed by it, and the index finished flat. The two cleared midterm-window triggers were dismissed as un-crossings rather than signals.