Oil just ripped 11% overnight and closed at $111. That single data point makes me unable to get bullish on this market by any stretch. We are heading into a three-day weekend with gasoline prices about to explode. Five and six dollar a gallon gas triggers what traders call demand destruction, and it
Blake Young just exposed a major crack in the consumer discretionary rally. Tesla now accounts for 20% of the entire sector, and today's 2.6% bounce is dragging XLY higher while the actual consumer stocks are falling apart. Remove Tesla from XLY and the sector looks like Nike. Nike just dropped 14%
Gianni Di Poce just flagged a divergence that changes the playbook for Q2. Stocks dropped to new lows this week. The VIX never confirmed the move. VIX cash and VIX futures both refused to make new highs while the market was making new lows. That disconnect is one of the most reliable signals that do
Brandon Chapman just identified a volatility signal that preceded last April's market capitulation. The same signal is flashing right now at the same time of year. Dispersion, measured by DSPX, tracks the gap between the VIX and the individual volatility of S P 500 components. It dropped to 30 in la
The S P 500 just dropped 1.6% on the session and is now approaching a 9% decline from the all-time highs. We are on the doorstep of a full correction. But here is the problem. I don't feel the fear yet. After 30 years of trading, I know what real capitulation looks like. Volume pumps 10,000
Blake Young just pulled three bullish setups out of a market that looks like a crime scene. Every major tech name got destroyed today. NVIDIA, AMD, Meta, Google, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft. All red. But three sectors are quietly holding the line. Energy, utilities, and healthcare are green while tech
Everyone is staring at the geopolitical headlines. They're missing what's actually breaking. Microsoft is down 21% year to date. From its recent high, it's off more than 30%. That puts it in a full-blown bear market. The S P 500 is barely down 6% from the highs. Traders are panicking like the world
Gianni Di Poce just connected two dots that most traders are missing. Crude oil and the VIX are tracking each other almost tick for tick on the 15 minute chart. That correlation explains why rallies keep failing. Gianni laid out the data clearly… Rising energy prices create the worst forward return
Brandon Chapman just pulled up today's block trade data, and institutions are placing massive bets on the Persian Gulf outcome. Both outcomes. The BlockHunter console screened 1,780 option trades today and narrowed them down to 39 block trades of 1,000 contracts or more. The pattern tells you exactl
