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This Fed Setup Could Get Violent

Ross Givens — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Today could be a big one.

The Fed announces its rate decision at 2 p.m. Eastern…

And Wall Street has already made up its mind about what happens next.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

Almost every major bank on this list expects a rate hike today.

And most don’t think the Fed stops there.

Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and RBC are looking for as much as 75 basis points of tightening in 2026.

A whole pile of others expect another 50 basis points.

So the message from Wall Street is pretty clear:

Higher for longer.

And the Fed still has room to squeeze.

This is the Chicago Fed’s National Financial Conditions Index.

The lower it goes, the looser financial conditions are.

Right now it’s sitting around -0.56.

In other words, despite all the talk about tight money, financial conditions are still pretty loose.

That gives the Fed less reason to back off quickly.

And you can already see some strain underneath the market.

This is the Value Line Geometric Index, which gives us a much better look at how the median stock is doing.

It just pushed all the way back to the same area that stopped it in 2021…

And got rejected again.

Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is miles above where it traded back then.

Think about that.

The headline index has marched higher for years…

While the median stock has spent nearly five years trying to get through the same ceiling.

And traders are positioning accordingly.

Speculators are modestly net short U.S. equities overall.

But look at the spread underneath.

Nasdaq-100 positioning is still net long.

Russell 2000 positioning is nearly 20% net short.

That’s a monster gap.

The market isn’t simply bearish.

Traders have decided which stocks they think are going to get hit hardest.

And that’s where things can get fun – and lucrative.

Insight of the Day

The harder the market leans one way, the more explosive the exception can be.

Small caps are getting shorted hard.

The median stock just failed at major resistance.

And Wall Street expects the Fed to keep tightening.

There’s your bearish case.

Now imagine a stock sitting right in the middle of all that suddenly blows through resistance anyway.

That grabs my attention.

Because now the stock is doing something it shouldn’t be doing.

Buyers are overpowering a lousy backdrop.

Momentum starts building.

And if the stock is heavily shorted, a breakout can force bearish traders to start buying shares back…

Adding even more fuel to the move.

That’s how breakouts can go from normal to violent.

That’s why later today at 3 p.m. Eastern…

Just one hour after the Fed announcement…

I’m sitting down for a LIVE post-Fed strategy session where I’ll break down the market’s reaction…

Then I’ll show you the chart pattern I use to hunt for stocks that can break away from the broader market – even when the backdrop looks ugly.

It’s the same pattern that showed up before Rhythm Pharmaceuticals surged 163% in seven weeks… Nine Energy Service climbed 270% in 10 weeks… and Iris Energy exploded 148% in just two days.

I’ll also show you the new stocks going onto my watchlist…

And walk you through exactly where I’d buy, what profit I’d target, and where I’d get out if the trade turns against me.

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Is the “Big Money” Cutting Risk?

Ross Givens — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Hedge funds have spent the past few months taking a LOT of risk off the table.

But when I dug into where they’re actually moving the money…

One part of the market stuck out immediately.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This chart shows the three-month change in hedge fund gross leverage.

In plain English, it measures how aggressively funds are cutting the total amount of market exposure they’re carrying.

And this quarter, the drop has been huge.

Gross leverage is down roughly 7–8 percentage points from its recent peak.

That puts this de-leveraging episode in the same neighborhood as some of the biggest risk reductions we’ve seen since 2018.

So hedge funds have clearly gotten more defensive.

But here’s where it gets unusual:

This chart comes from Goldman’s prime brokerage data and tracks hedge fund buying in Technology and Communication Services.

Over the past two weeks, long buying in those sectors has surged to a little over 3% of gross market value.

That’s one of the strongest bursts of buying on this chart going back to 2022.

So at the same time hedge funds are cutting exposure across their books…

They’re aggressively adding money in one specific area.

That tells me something – which I explain in the insight below.

Insight of the Day

The “big money” is telling us what they still want badly enough to keep buying.

When funds are buying everything, it’s hard to tell how much conviction sits behind any one position.

Everybody’s taking risks.

Money is flowing everywhere.

But when those same funds start slashing exposure?

Now their choices get more revealing.

They’re actively deciding what they can live without…

And what they still want badly enough to keep buying.

That’s why the Tech and Communication Services flow above jumped out at me.

If hedge funds are cutting risk across the board but still piling into that part of the market…

I want to know which individual stocks are absorbing that money.

Because a giant fund can’t build a serious position in one shot.

They have to work the order.

And when enough money starts flowing into the same stock over days or weeks…

It leaves tracks.

Tracks we can follow – so we can use their money for our gain.

And in just a few hours later today at 11 a.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you exactly how I do it.

I’ll break down the strategy I use to spot institutional footprints…

How I identify stocks where big money appears to be building a position…

And how smaller traders can potentially ride alongside that buying before the move is finished.

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Bad News for the Market?

Ross Givens — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Welcome back to a new week.

And it’s a loaded one – with the Fed making its rate decision on Wednesday…

Amid a market that seems to be rapidly weakening.

Let’s take a look.

Chart of the Day

The futures market is currently pricing an 86.7% chance that the Fed raises rates on Wednesday.

And underneath the indexes, breadth has been deteriorating too.

This chart shows the percentage of large-, mid- and small-cap stocks trading above their 20-, 50- and 200-day moving averages.

These numbers have taken a huge hit.

Only about a quarter of stocks in each group are still above their 20-day moving average.

Fewer than 40% of stocks are trading above the 50-day.

The long-term 200-day average is still holding up…

But for the short and medium-term averages, the weakness is broad.

Add in September’s lousy seasonal reputation and you’ve got a pretty easy bearish case.

Retail has certainly been feeling it…

With the bears outnumbering the bulls for 24 out of the 37 weeks this year – including most recently.

But there’s a counterintuitive truth about “bad news” that most traders don’t expect…

Something that causes them to miss out on opportunities.

Insight of the Day

Bad news only hurts when it surprises you.

Stocks don’t react to whether something is objectively “good” or “bad.”

They react to whether it comes in better or worse than what traders already expected.

If the market is pricing an 86.7% chance of a Fed hike, then a hike on Wednesday isn’t some bolt from the blue.

Traders have already had plenty of time to position for it.

Same thing with September weakness.

Everyone already knows that September has a rough historical record.

And the deterioration in breadth is already sitting there on the chart.

So from here, the bearish case has to keep getting worse to keep surprising people.

If the Fed does exactly what traders expect…

If breadth simply stops deteriorating…

Or if the economic data comes in a little better than feared…

That can be enough to quickly bring buyers back.

And there is a silver lining to weak breadth that most don’t realize…

It makes it easier to spot areas of strength.

When three-quarters of the market is below its 20-day average, the stocks that still refuse to break down start standing out.

They’re not getting carried by some broad market surge.

Somebody is continuing to buy them anyway.

And when that “somebody” is a large institution working a serious position into the stock…

That’s a huge opportunity to use their money for our gain.

I’ll share more about that tomorrow morning, so keep an eye out for that.

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Stocks at Insane Valuations?

Ross Givens — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Despite the ongoing pullback…

The S&P 500 is still less than 3% away from all-time highs.

So you’d expect to see plenty of stocks trading at completely insane valuations.

Except we’re not.

In fact, one number underneath the index looks almost backwards.

Chart of the Day

This chart counts how many S&P 500 stocks are trading above 40 times forward earnings.

That is expensive by just about any standard.

Right now, only 27 stocks clear that bar.

Here’s the part that jumped out at me:

We saw similar numbers around the 2020 bear-market low…

And again near the 2022 low.

Today, the S&P is near an all-time high.

That’s a hell of a difference.

You’ve got the index sitting near records…

But the number of stocks trading at truly nosebleed multiples is sitting near levels we’ve seen after major selloffs.

So this market has gone a long way – without dragging hundreds of stocks into insane valuation territory.

And there’s a pretty good reason for that.

This is Citi’s U.S. Earnings Revisions Index.

When it’s above zero, analysts are raising earnings estimates more than they’re cutting them.

And it has now been positive for 21 straight weeks – the longest streak since 2021.

When this index is positive, analysts are raising earnings estimates more often than they’re cutting them.

So for roughly five months now, Wall Street has been steadily marking its numbers higher.

That means while prices may be elevated….

The earnings expectations underneath them have been climbing too.

But there’s something you should know about all these analyst revisions.

Insight of the Day

Wall Street analysts are often “behind the ball”

Analysts have been raising earnings estimates for 21 straight weeks. Great.

But they’re still reacting to new information as it comes in.

And that process doesn’t happen at the same speed for every company.

A business can start improving before the analyst models fully catch up.

Wall Street may still be working off assumptions that made sense three or six months ago while the people inside the company are already seeing something very different.

That’s where I start paying close attention to insider buying.

Because a CEO, CFO or director putting serious personal money into the stock isn’t revising a spreadsheet.

They’re making a trade.

And if they’re buying while the rest of Wall Street is still lukewarm on the company…

I want to know why.

And in just a few hours later today at 11 a.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you how I separate routine insider buying from the purchases that can signal real conviction.

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The Big Economic Surprise

Ross Givens — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

If you’ve spent much time reading the news lately…

You’d think the U.S. economy was barely holding together.

High rates. Sticky inflation. Tariffs. Iran. Debt.

There’s no shortage of reasons to expect something to go wrong.

But I was digging through the latest economic numbers this week…

And one reading jumped out at me.

Chart of the Day

This is Goldman Sachs’ Current Activity Indicator, or CAI.

Instead of relying on one big government report, Goldman combines 37 different measures of inflation-adjusted economic activity to get a more real-time read on what’s happening across the economy.

And the latest number is surprisingly strong.

The CAI climbed to +3.6% in August, up from 3.4%.

That’s its highest reading since April 2022.

But the trend on the right side of the chart is even more telling.

Economic momentum has been building for months.

The reading was much weaker around the spring of 2025…

Then started climbing…

And has now pushed back to levels we haven’t seen in more than four years.

You can also see that this isn’t being driven by one isolated pocket of strength.

Manufacturing is doing a lot of the work.

But consumers, housing, labor, and other parts of the economy are contributing too.

That’s a very different picture from the one you’d get if you simply just read the negative clickbait headlines.

And this isn’t the first data point telling us the economy has been stronger than people expected.

Take a look at what’s been happening inside corporate America:

Right now, 88.3% of S&P 500 companies have seen their forward revenue estimates rise over the past 12 months.

And 85.9% have seen forward earnings estimates move higher.

So this isn’t just one or two giant companies dragging the numbers up.

Analysts are raising forecasts across a huge chunk of the market.

Put that next to Goldman’s economic data and you get a pretty consistent message:

The underlying numbers have been running stronger than the mood around them.

And there’s a trading lesson buried in that gap.

Insight of the Day

The biggest opportunities appear when perception falls behind reality.

Wall Street can be incredibly slow to admit it got a company wrong.

A stock disappoints for a couple quarters, analysts slash their numbers, investors dump it…

And that reputation can stick long after the business starts getting better.

That means even the stock starts turning around…

By the time Wall Street finally starts upgrading the stock, the easy money may already be gone.

So I like to look for these turnaround clues before the analysts wake up.

Tomorrow morning I’ll share with you perhaps the most powerful clue I look for…

So keep an eye out for that.

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Is This Market Breaking Down?

Ross Givens — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The headline indexes are hiding a pretty important shift right now.

And it has nothing to do with whether the S&P finishes up or down half a percent today.

Let’s take a look below.

Chart of the Day

This chart tracks how aggressively funds and other large investors are positioned in Nasdaq futures.

After briefly dipping negative earlier this summer, exposure snapped back hard.

From August 4 through September 1, non-dealers added to their positions every single week…

For a total of $51.3 billion in notional exposure.

That’s a record.

So there’s clearly still a lot of money willing to take risk in this market.

But now look at what’s happening across the broader market:

Only 43% of S&P 500 stocks are currently trading above their 50-day moving average.

That’s the lowest reading since April 7.

So while investors have been pouring money back into Nasdaq exposure…

More than half the stocks in the S&P 500 are struggling to stay above a basic short-term trend line.

That tells me the money hasn’t disappeared.

But it is getting more concentrated.

And as I explain below, that can be good news.

Insight of the Day

Concentrated money leads to more explosive breakouts.

If investors were simply pulling money out of the market, this would be a different story.

But they’re not.

There’s still plenty of capital looking for somewhere to go.

It’s just landing in fewer places.

And when a smaller group of stocks starts attracting a bigger share of that money, the buying pressure can get intense…

Something which can turn “ordinary” breakouts into explosive ones.

That’s an opportunity we can take advantage of.

That’s why later today at 3 p.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you my best and favorite breakout pattern.

It was ranked the #1-performing chart pattern in both bull and bear markets by one of the best-known researchers in the field…

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Waiting for a Signal

Ross Givens — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Hope you had a great Labor Day weekend.

Now that we’re back, we’ve already got four September trading days in the books.

And so far, the month isn’t behaving quite the way its reputation would suggest.

Because September has a reputation.

Usually, that reputation is deserved.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

September has been brutal historically.

Going back to 1927, almost every major S&P 500 sector has lost ground when you stack up all the September returns.

Technology: -82.6%
Financials: -76.5%.
Industrials: -69%.
Real Estate: -85.1%.

To be clear, this is not the average September loss – it’s the compounded result of September performance across the full historical sample.

Telecom is the only sector on the table that’s managed a positive cumulative return.

So if you came into September expecting trouble, history gives you plenty of ammunition.

Except the market isn’t cooperating.

We’ve already had four September trading sessions…

The S&P 500 is still flirting with new highs…

And the VIX is sitting below 15.

That’s hardly the kind of fear you’d expect from the market’s most notorious month.

And there’s another wrinkle.

This chart looks at what happened after short-term realized volatility jumped to more than 1.5 times its one-year level.

In several years, those spikes were followed by lousy returns.

But 2026 has been completely different.

This year, those volatility shocks have been followed by some of the strongest three-month returns in the sample.

The average forward return is nearly 5%, while the median forward return is around 2%.

In other words, when this market has finally gotten shaken hard enough to produce a real volatility spike…

Buying the fear has paid.

But we haven’t gotten that kind of shakeout yet.

So we’ve got September seasonality screaming caution…

An S&P 500 still hanging around its highs…

And a volatility trigger that has worked well this year sitting there unfired.

That leaves the broad market giving me a whole lot of noise and not much of an edge.

But as I explain below…

You don’t need to wait for the broader market to give you one.

Insight of the Day

The best signal doesn’t always come from the market.

The VIX gets plenty of attention because everybody can see it.

Same with an S&P breakout or a big breadth washout.

But some of the biggest stock moves start with something much smaller.

One stock suddenly begins showing activity that looks completely different from its normal baseline.

Price may not have done much yet. There may not even be a clear explanation for it.

But something has changed.

That’s the kind of thing we want to catch early.

Because in my experience – it can lead to explosive out-of-the-norm stock moves that almost nobody expects.

So, even though the market’s volatility signal above still hasn’t fired…

I don’t care.

Because I’m scanning for something different…

Something happening below the surface of the ordinary market…

But that’s unique to an individual stock.

I’m talking about a little-known underground signal that could have pinpointed stock moves like 287%… 542%… and even 806% – all in a matter of weeks or even days.

And in just a few hours at 11 a.m. Eastern today…

I’m going LIVE to show you what this underground signal is…

Why it’s so powerful (and controversial)…

And exactly how to spot it – and use it – in your own trading.

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Will the Nasdaq Turn “Ugly” This Month?

Ross Givens — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

There’s a lot of money piling onto one side of the Nasdaq right now.

Maybe those traders have nailed it.

But if they haven’t…

Getting out could get ugly fast.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

Leveraged funds have been pressing their bets against the Nasdaq-100.

Since mid-June, their short exposure has climbed roughly 35%…

And it’s now sitting close to record territory.

So there’s a pretty large group of professional traders positioned for more weakness in Tech.

Maybe they’re right.

The Nasdaq has been choppy, the broader market is still working through this pullback, and there are plenty of macro reasons to stay cautious.

But now look at this:

August produced something we don’t see very often.

On the S&P 500, volatility on up days was about 2.2 times greater than on down days.

That ranks around the 97th percentile going back to 1986.

For the Nasdaq, the ratio was about 1.9 times, around the 94th percentile.

In plain English, the green days in August were unusually violent compared with the red ones.

So now the Nasdaq is entering September with leveraged funds holding one of their biggest bearish bets in years…

After a month where upside moves were already unusually aggressive.

If those shorts are right, no problem.

But if the market turns against them…

There’s a lot of money that may suddenly need to get out of the same trade.

Insight of the Day

Crowded trades don’t predict the turn – but they can make it violent.

A lot of traders look at positioning data and immediately try to turn it into a directional signal.

“Everyone’s short, so stocks must rally.”

That’s not how I use it.

A crowded short can stay crowded for a long time if price keeps moving lower.

And if the Nasdaq breaks more support, those traders could be sitting exactly where they want to be.

What changes things is when price starts moving against a crowded position.

Now every new piece of good news hits a market where a lot of traders are already leaning the wrong way.

A normal bounce can turn into a sharp rally.

A breakout can take off faster than most expect.

The reverse is true too.

If support gives way and those bearish traders press harder, downside momentum can accelerate.

So I’m not looking at these short positions and trying to call the exact bottom.

I’m looking at them as stored pressure.

Whichever side takes control next has a lot of positioning sitting behind it.

That’s why I’m watching the tape and the data so closely.

The broad market is still messy.

But underneath it, there are sectors starting to separate…

Stocks building clean setups…

And enough money leaning in different directions that I think we could see some very sharp moves before September is over.

We just want to make sure we’re on the right side of them.

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The Market is in for a Strange September

Ross Givens — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

I’ve been digging through a lot of market data this week.

And the more I look, the less interested I am in making some big one-way call.

There are enough crosscurrents here that you have to be selective.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This chart compares discretionary investors with systematic strategies.

The discretionary crowd is sitting around the 45th percentile and slightly underweight stocks.

Plenty of room to add risk.

Systematic strategies are in a completely different place.

They’re up around the 82nd percentile and still overweight equities.

So the people making judgment calls have gotten cautious.

The rules-based algorithmic money hasn’t.

And September usually makes the human side even less aggressive:

According to Citadel, September has historically been the weakest month of the year for retail buying on its platform.

From 2017 through 2025, retail put less money to work in September than any other month.

Even the usual “buy the dip” crowd tends to back off.

On S&P 500 down days, September retail buying has historically run at roughly half the normal pace.

So two groups of buyers are either cautious already…

Or historically tend to become more cautious right about now.

That’s not exactly a great setup for broad, mindless buying.

But then you get this:

Most people look at the S&P 500 around 20 times forward earnings and stop there.

“Too expensive,” they say. Maybe.

But look at the bottom panel.

The implied five-year earnings growth rate has climbed to roughly 25%.

That’s the highest reading on this chart going back to 1995.

And once you account for that growth, the S&P 500’s PEG ratio drops below 1.

That doesn’t mean stocks are cheap.

Those earnings still have to materialize.

But put all three charts together and you get a pretty unusual market.

Discretionary investors are holding back.

Retail buying tends to dry up right about now.

Yet systematic strategies are still heavily exposed…

And underneath the market, earnings expectations remain about as strong as we’ve seen in decades.

So there are legitimate reasons to be cautious here.

But there’s also a lot more support underneath this market than the usual September doom-and-gloom would have you believe.

That leaves us with a market where choosing the easy conclusions can be an expensive mistake.

And it changes the way I’m trading it right now.

Insight of the Day

This is not a market where you can go on “autopilot”.

A market like this doesn’t have to resolve with the S&P suddenly ripping 10% higher or falling apart.

There’s another, much more likely possibility.

It can just shuffle the money around.

Systematic funds keep buying what their models tell them to buy.

Discretionary managers cut exposure in areas they don’t trust.

Retail slows down.

Meanwhile, strong earnings keep money flowing into companies that are still delivering.

The index might barely move through all of that.

But underneath it, one sector can rip while another gets hammered.

One stock can push to new highs while another sitting right beside it breaks support.

That’s the kind of tape where staring at the index all day can actually leave you behind.

That’s why I want to know where the buying is winning.

Which sectors are gaining ground against the market.

Which stocks keep pushing higher even when their peers stall.

And where money starts rotating when the old leaders cool off.

Because if September stays messy – and it looks like it will…

We don’t need the entire market to cooperate.

We just need to be looking in the right places.

P.S. In fact, I think now might be a good time to start buying. I explain why – including two stocks I’m buying right now – in my latest YouTube video here.

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Something Is Building Under This Selloff

Ross Givens — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The market weakness we’ve been watching is starting to spread.

But another piece of data has been moving sharply in the opposite direction.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This chart shows the percentage of stocks sitting at one-month lows across three different parts of the market.

Right now:

25.8% of S&P 500 stocks are at one-month lows.
27.0% of S&P 400 stocks are there.
24.1% of S&P 600 stocks are there too.

All three have jumped sharply.

So unlike earlier in this pullback, the weakness is no longer confined to a handful of stocks or sectors.

It’s spreading.

That tells me this pullback has more teeth than you’d guess from the S&P 500 alone.

But now look at what has happened at the same time:

Short interest has surged.

For the median S&P 500 stock, short interest is now around 3.2% of market cap.

That’s around the highest level we’ve seen in a decade.

So the weakness is spreading at the same time traders are getting more aggressive betting on even more weakness.

That sounds bearish.

And right now, it is.

But there’s a catch.

Insight of the Day

Bearish positioning can quickly flip into buying pressure.

Every short sale creates a future buy order

When you buy a stock, you can sit on it for years.

A short position works differently.

At some point, the trader has to buy those shares back to close the trade.

As long as the stock keeps falling, the shorts are happy.

They’re making money.

There’s no reason to rush for the exit.

The fun starts when price turns against them.

Say a heavily shorted stock pushes up through a level that’s been capping it for weeks.

Now the traders waiting for the breakout start buying…

While the shorts suddenly have a decision to make.

Hold on and hope the stock rolls back over…

Or start buying shares to get out.

If the stock keeps running, that second group can get bigger in a hurry.

That’s how bearish positioning can turn into buying pressure.

And with short interest already this elevated across the market…

I’m paying very close attention to stocks that start breaking through key levels…

It’s not because I think every heavily shorted stock is about to squeeze. Most won’t.

I’m looking for the ones where price starts telling us the bears may be losing control…

Because that’s when a stock can get explosive fast.

And the #1 thing I scan for is my trademark “FIRE Pattern”.

This is a pattern that spotted Rhythm Pharmaceuticals before it surged 163% in seven weeks…

Nine Energy Service before it shot up 270% in 10 weeks…

And Iris Energy before it ripped 148% in just 2 days.

That’s why later today at 3 p.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you exactly how this pattern works – and how you can apply it to your own trading.

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Someone Is Reading This Market Wrong

Ross Givens — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

There’s a pretty big disagreement showing up in the market right now.

And this one isn’t between two strategists arguing on CNBC.

It’s showing up in what two very different groups of investors are actually doing.

Chart of the Day

This is the NAAIM Exposure Index.

It tracks how much exposure active investment managers have to U.S. stocks.

A reading of 100 means they’re essentially fully invested.

Anything above 100 means some managers are using leverage to get even more exposure.

The latest reading?

102.7.

That’s the highest level since July 2024.

So active managers aren’t exactly hiding in cash right now.

They’ve leaned hard into stocks.

Now compare that with individual investors:

The latest AAII survey shows 44.4% of individual investors are bearish.

Only 32.9% are bullish.

And this is now the sixth straight week with more bears than bulls.

That stretch included the S&P 500 pushing to fresh all-time highs.

So while professional managers have pushed their stock exposure above 100%…

Individual investors have spent weeks getting more skeptical.

That’s a pretty wide gap.

And there’s one reason I put more weight on one of these signals than the other.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

I’d rather see the position than hear the opinion.

There’s nothing wrong with sentiment surveys.

I look at them too.

But telling someone you’re bearish doesn’t cost anything.

You can check a box saying stocks are headed lower and change your mind tomorrow.

Putting a portfolio behind that view is different.

An active manager running more than 100% equity exposure has made a real decision with real money.

That’s more than just talking – that’s conviction.

But I don’t want to just know how invested these large investors are.

I want to see where they’re actually putting capital…

Because that’s what will allow us to use their money for our profits.

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There’s too much money involved.

They have to spread the buying out – which leaves tracks behind.

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This Sleepy Part of the Market Is Waking Up

Ross Givens — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

For most of the past decade, one part of the market had a pretty miserable time keeping up.

Lately, that’s started to change.

And if the shift keeps going, it could open up a much bigger hunting ground for traders.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This chart compares small-cap value stocks with large-cap growth stocks.

The easiest way to read it is simple:

When the line falls, large-cap growth is winning.

When it rises, small-cap value is winning.

And for years, the direction was obvious.

The line kept grinding lower as giant growth stocks ran away from the smaller, cheaper names.

But look at the right side of the chart.

The ratio has turned sharply higher.

Small-cap value is finally starting to outperform.

That is an opportunity.

Because after years where investors could mostly stick with the same giant growth names…

Money is starting to reward a very different part of the market.

Smaller companies. Cheaper stocks.

Names that often get far less attention from Wall Street.

And that changes the way I go hunting for opportunities.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

A tailwind is good – a catalyst is better

If small-cap value keeps outperforming, that helps.

But it still doesn’t tell me which small-cap stock to buy.

That’s where the lack of Wall Street coverage can actually work in our favor.

A company like Microsoft has dozens of analysts following every quarter, every product launch, every change in guidance.

Move down into smaller stocks and that coverage thins out fast.

Some companies only have a few analysts watching them.

Others barely get covered at all.

That means changes inside the business can take longer to work their way into Wall Street’s expectations.

And if I’m looking through that part of the market, I want some way to know where to start digging.

One thing I’ve relied on for years is insider buying.

The people running the company don’t need an analyst report to tell them whether business is improving.

They already see it.

So when a CEO, CFO or Director starts buying shares with personal money in a lightly followed company…

I pay attention.

Now you’ve got the broader market helping small-cap value…

And a reason to take a closer look at one stock in particular.

But not all insider buying is created equal.

In fact, most of it isn’t worth following at all.

That’s why later today at 11 a.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you how I find the high-conviction insider purchases I actually care about…

The warning signs that tell me when to stay away…

And the 3 counterintuitive insider-buying signals I’ve relied on for nearly a decade.

This strategy recently pointed us to two stocks that have nearly doubled in less than three months…

Alongside multiple other triple-digit – and even quadruple-digit – gains.

With smaller, cheaper stocks finally starting to get some attention again…

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This Market Relationship Just Broke Down

Ross Givens — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

There’s a strange split opening up underneath the market right now.

It involves two groups of stocks that normally have a pretty predictable relationship…

But lately, that relationship has completely come apart.

Let’s take a look.

Chart of the Day

This chart tracks the correlation between high-beta stocks and low-volatility stocks.

High-beta stocks are the aggressive names. They tend to swing harder when the market moves.

Low-volatility stocks are the steadier, more defensive group.

Most of the time, the two still move in roughly the same direction.

Not anymore.

Their 45-day correlation has fallen to -0.52.

That’s the lowest reading on record.

In other words, the aggressive and defensive ends of the market are now moving against each other more violently than we’ve ever seen.

You can see a few other periods where this relationship briefly went negative.

But nothing quite like this.

Now, a reading like that can make you wonder whether something is starting to crack underneath the market.

So I checked another set of numbers.

This shows the percentage of S&P 500 companies seeing positive revisions to forward revenues and earnings over the past three months.

Right now:

About 86% of companies are seeing their forward revenue estimates rise.

And nearly 87% are seeing their forward earnings estimates rise.

Those are very strong readings by historical standards.

So while some of the market’s old relationships are behaving strangely…

The business outlook underneath most stocks is still moving in the right direction.

That’s a combination I’d keep an eye on.

Because periods like this can force traders to rethink assumptions that worked perfectly well for years.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Regime changes usually look messy before they look obvious.

When the market starts changing character, you usually don’t recognize it right away.

At first, things just stop behaving the way you’re used to.

A group that worked for years starts lagging.

Something that had been dead money starts waking up.

Relationships you could normally count on start getting weird.

That’s roughly where I think we are now.

I’m not calling this a brand-new market regime based on one extreme reading.

But I also wouldn’t keep trading the last few years on autopilot and assume the same stocks will keep leading forever.

Especially when earnings and revenue estimates are still improving across such a large part of the market.

If this shift sticks, there could be a whole new group of stocks worth looking at.

For instance, this $9 stock sitting right at the center of the AI buildout.

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Wall Street Keeps Missing This

Ross Givens — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The market has been pretty choppy lately.

But while stocks bounce around from one headline to the next…

There’s one pattern in the data that keeps showing up.

And it says Wall Street has been setting the bar too low.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This is Citi’s U.S. Economic Surprise Index.

It compares incoming economic data with what economists expected beforehand.

Above zero means the numbers are coming in better than forecast.

Below zero means they’re disappointing.

The index has cooled from its recent peak…

But it’s still sitting comfortably in positive territory at around 22.7.

So even after all the recession worries, debt headlines and general hand-wringing…

The U.S. economy is still doing a little better than economists expected.

And when you move from the economy to corporate earnings, the miss gets much bigger.

Normally, Wall Street starts the year optimistic.

Then reality sets in.

Analysts gradually trim their earnings estimates as the months go by.

You can see that in the light-blue line, which shows the average pattern over the past three years.

This year has gone the opposite way.

S&P 500 earnings estimates for 2026 have climbed roughly 15% since the start of the year.

Instead of cutting numbers…

Analysts have spent the year raising them.

So we’ve got the same basic story showing up in two different places:

The economy has been stronger than expected.

And corporate profits have been stronger than expected too.

That leads to one of the most important things to understand about big stock moves.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

The biggest moves happen when reality breaks away from expectations

Stocks don’t move on whether the news is “good” or “bad.”

They move on whether the news is better or worse than people were ready for.

That’s why a mediocre company can explode higher after earnings…

While a great company gets hammered after posting another record quarter.

The difference is the bar Wall Street had already set.

And the bigger the gap between that bar and what actually happens, the more violent the adjustment can be.

That’s what I’m hunting for.

Not another company everybody already agrees is doing well.

I want the stock where Wall Street is still leaning one way…

While the business itself may be starting to go another.

Because when the market finally catches up, it can reprice the stock in a hurry.

The hard part is finding that gap before the surprise hits the tape.

And one of the best places I’ve found to look is inside the company itself.

Corporate insiders don’t have to guess whether orders are improving or customers are coming back.

They’re sitting inside the business watching it happen.

So when one of them starts buying stock with their own money while Wall Street still looks lukewarm…

That gets my attention fast.

But here’s the catch:

Most insider buying is useless – and following them is actually a dangerous trap.

The real edge comes from knowing which purchases carry genuine conviction.

That’s why later this afternoon at 3 p.m. Eastern…

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Strange Market Disconnect

Ross Givens — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

There’s a strange disconnect running through this market right now.

You can see it in the S&P 500.

And once you look at how professional investors are positioned in AI…

It gets even stranger.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This compares the regular S&P 500 with the equal-weight version of the index.

The regular S&P gives the biggest companies far more influence.

The equal-weight index treats every stock roughly the same.

Normally, the two move pretty closely together.

Right now, they aren’t.

Their rolling 90-day correlation has dropped to around 0.68…

Close to an all-time low.

So the giant stocks driving the headline S&P are behaving very differently from the average company inside the index.

And that brings us to AI.

Because you’d probably assume the professional funds were loaded up on the stocks behind the market’s biggest theme.

As of Q2, that wasn’t necessarily the case.

Large-cap mutual funds were still underweight a long list of major AI names.

Microsoft. Google. Meta. Broadcom. Micron. Sandisk.

And Nvidia was dramatically underweight.

That’s a pretty unusual picture.

Some of the stocks having the biggest influence on the market were pulling away from the average company…

While many professional funds still weren’t heavily positioned in them.

Of course, those Q2 holdings are backward-looking.

But that’s part of the point.

By the time the positioning becomes obvious in a report like this…

A lot can already have happened in the stock.

And that leads to something I’ve learned to pay very close attention to.

Insight of the Day

The story is often late.

One thing I’ve learned over the years is that the explanation for a big stock move often shows up after the move has already started.

A stock jumps 15% or 20% and suddenly everyone has a reason for it.

New contract. Better demand. Takeover chatter. Whatever.

By then, of course, it all looks obvious.

I’m more interested in what was happening a few days earlier.

Sometimes a stock that had been doing nothing suddenly starts acting differently, even though there’s no headline to explain it yet.

That doesn’t mean I automatically buy it.

But it does make me start digging.

Because if you wait until everyone agrees on the reason, you can end up chasing the move instead of getting in front of it.

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What I’m Watching During This Pullback

Ross Givens — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Stocks have had a rough stretch.

After the run we had before that, some selling was probably overdue.

But now that the pullback has lasted a few days, I’m watching something more important than whether the S&P finishes red again today.

I want to know how far the weakness is spreading.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This tracks the percentage of stocks making fresh 52-week lows across several parts of the market.

The NYSE saw a noticeable jump earlier this week.

But elsewhere, the numbers are still pretty tame.

As of the latest reading:

Just 0.4% of S&P 500 stocks were at 52-week lows.
The S&P 1500 was under 1%.
The Russell 2000 was around 1.3%.

So yes, stocks have been selling off.

But we haven’t seen large numbers of companies suddenly fall apart underneath the indexes.

This next chart backs that up.

The bars here compare stocks making new highs with those making new lows.

Green means new highs are winning.

Red means new lows are taking over.

And even after the recent weakness, the latest reading is still firmly green.

So we’ve had a rough stretch in the indexes…

But underneath them, plenty of stocks are still pushing higher.

Now here’s one more piece of the picture:

Individual investors aren’t exactly feeling great about it.

In the latest AAII survey, 39.9% were bearish versus 35.5% bullish.

And bears have outnumbered bulls for several weeks now.

So despite the market holding up reasonably well beneath the surface…

The average investor is still pretty skeptical.

I actually prefer that to everyone piling onto the bullish side at once.

More importantly, it tells me this pullback has shaken sentiment a lot more than it has shaken breadth.

And that’s the part I’d keep watching from here.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Corrections need participation too.

A real correction usually doesn’t stay isolated.

The selling spreads.

A few weak stocks become dozens.

Dozens become hundreds.

More support levels break.

More stocks start making fresh lows.

Eventually, you stop looking at a handful of problem areas and start seeing weakness almost everywhere.

That’s why I don’t put too much weight on the number of consecutive red days by itself.

I want to see whether the rest of the market is joining in.

So far, it really hasn’t.

New lows remain fairly contained.

And we’re still seeing a healthy number of stocks making new highs.

That doesn’t mean I’m calling the bottom here.

If the selling keeps going and those numbers start deteriorating, I’ll adjust.

But until then, I’m not going to treat every pullback like the start of a major correction.

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Something Extreme Is Happening in Tech

Ross Givens — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Technology has been one of the strongest parts of this market for years.

But underneath the sector, something pretty extreme is happening right now.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This chart shows the spread between the best- and worst-performing stock in each S&P 500 sector this year.

In other words, it tells us how far apart the winners and losers are inside each group.

And dispersion is pretty wide across the market.

Outside Utilities, every sector has at least a 75-percentage-point gap between its best and worst performer.

But Technology is in a league of its own.

The spread between the best and worst tech stock is roughly 635 percentage points.

That absolutely dwarfs every other sector on the chart.

So while “tech” gets talked about like one big trade…

The stocks inside it are having completely different years.

Some have been enormous winners.

Others have been disasters.

And right in the middle of that huge divide, we’re seeing something else I haven’t seen in a long time.

Corporate insider buying across Technology has jumped to around its highest level in 15 years.

That caught my attention.

Because clearly, insiders aren’t treating every tech company the same way either.

They’re putting their own money behind specific businesses.

And with the gap between tech’s winners and losers this wide, that’s worth paying attention to.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

You can be right on a theme and still lose money

You could have been dead right about AI.

Right about data-center spending.

Right about semiconductors.

Right about the huge amounts of money pouring into technology.

And still bought a lousy stock.

That’s what a 635-percentage-point spread inside one sector tells you.

Once a theme gets big enough, hundreds of companies find some way to attach themselves to it.

But they won’t all benefit equally.

One company lands the contracts – another loses market share.

One sees margins explode – another burns through cash trying to keep up.

Eventually, those differences show up in the stock price.

So identifying the right theme only gets me so far.

I still need to figure out which companies inside that theme have the best setups.

And right now, with tech insider buying near a 15-year high, the people running some of these companies are giving us a lot of clues.

They see the orders.

They see customer demand.

They see what’s changing inside the business before it shows up in the quarterly numbers.

And when they start buying their own shares with personal money, I want those stocks on my radar.

But not all insider buying is created equal.

That’s why in just a few hours at 11 a.m. Eastern…

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Wall Street Keeps Getting Surprised

Ross Givens — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Stocks have had a rough few days.

But as today’s charts show…

The companies themselves are doing much better than expected.

Chart of the Day

This chart shows how far actual results are coming in above analyst estimates.

The median S&P 500 company beat earnings estimates by 6% this quarter.

That’s the largest median earnings surprise since Q1 2022.

Sales are beating too.

The median sales surprise is 1.6% – also around a four-year high.

In other words, companies aren’t scraping past estimates by a penny or two.

The typical company is coming in well ahead of what Wall Street expected.

And there’s another part of earnings season I’ve been watching closely.

This tracks the net share of companies raising guidance versus lowering it.

And that number has climbed to its highest level in more than four years.

That’s a pretty strong combination.

Companies are beating the numbers analysts already had on the books…

And more of them are also telling Wall Street to expect better numbers going forward.

I pay special attention to that second part.

I explain the reason below.

Insight of the Day

Raising guidance is management raising the bar on itself

Beating an earnings estimate is obviously good.

But raising guidance is a different kind of decision.

Once management raises its outlook, analysts adjust their models.

Expectations go up.

And next quarter, the company gets judged against a higher number.

So executives aren’t exactly making life easier for themselves when they raise guidance.

They’re putting a better forecast on the record…

Then giving Wall Street a new target to hold them to.

That’s why the latest guidance data got my attention.

We’re not just seeing companies report a good quarter.

A growing number of management teams are confident enough to tell investors they expect the strength to continue.

But there’s an even stronger signal I like to watch:

When the people running the company start putting their own money behind that confidence.

Management can say it expects business to improve.

But when they reach into their own pockets to put money behind those words…

That’s one of the strongest buying signals I know.

But not all insider buying is created equal.

That’s why later today at 3 p.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to demo my proven strategy for tracking down the high-conviction insider purchases…

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Three Red Days in a Row (More to Come?)

Ross Givens — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Stocks finally hit some selling over the past few days.

After a strong couple of weeks, we’ve now had three red days in a row.

Nothing shocking about that.

The question is whether this is just some profit-taking after a good run…

Or the start of something bigger.

These two charts give us a pretty good read.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This is Bank of America’s latest survey of global fund managers.

And heading into this week, investors were leaning pretty heavily toward stocks.

A net 56% of fund managers were overweight equities – the highest reading since November 2021.

Cash had fallen to just 3.5%.

So after the run we’d just had, a few red days aren’t exactly coming out of nowhere.

There were already a lot of investors on the same side of the trade.

But now look at what’s happening with earnings:

This tracks forward earnings estimates across the large-cap S&P 500, the mid-cap S&P 400 and the small-cap S&P 600.

All three are still sitting at record highs.

So we’ve got prices pulling back after a crowded run…

While earnings expectations are still pushing higher.

What do we make of that?

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Don’t confuse a crowded trade with a broken one.

A good trade can get overcrowded.

In fact, that’s pretty normal after a strong run.

More people get bullish.

Cash gets put to work.

Eventually enough investors are already in that it doesn’t take much selling to knock prices back.

That’s why I don’t automatically assume a few red days mean the whole picture has changed.

I want to see what happens next.

If this weakness starts showing up in the earnings outlook too, I’ll pay attention.

Analysts cutting numbers.

Profit expectations rolling over.

Companies giving us reasons to expect less from the next few quarters.

That would tell me something beyond the fact that stocks had gotten crowded.

We’re not seeing that yet.

Forward earnings are still at record highs across large, mid and small caps.

So for now, I’m treating the last three days for what they are:

A pullback after a strong run.

If the evidence changes, so will my view.

P.S. If the overall market keeps pulling back, stock selection becomes even more important.

So here are all the details on a stock that Peter Thiel just bet $76 million on.

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The Big Money Just Sent a Strange Signal

Ross Givens — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The latest institutional data is out.

And at first glance, it looks like the biggest investors in the market are getting a little more cautious.

But when you look at what they actually did with their portfolios…

You get a very different picture.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This tracks whether institutional investors are leaning toward riskier or safer assets.

Risk appetite came down from the unusually strong reading we saw in June.

But it stayed positive.

At first glance, you might read that as institutions taking their foot off the gas.

Then you look at what they actually did with their portfolios.

In July, institutional equity allocations increased another 142 basis points to roughly 58%.

That’s well above the long-term average.

So while institutions were a little less aggressive than they were in June…

They still added to stocks.

And retail traders were buying too.

Through the end of July, Schwab’s Trading Activity Index had risen for three straight months to its highest level since January 2022.

Schwab clients were also net buyers by roughly 2-to-1.

So there was plenty of demand for stocks from both retail and institutional investors in July.

That’s another healthy sign for this market.

But there’s something very different about the way those two groups have to put their money to work.

And for individual traders, that difference can create an unusual advantage.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

In certain important ways, the “big money” is constrained – and we can use that to our advantage

Institutions have more money, research and resources than we do.

But all that size comes with restrictions.

If you want to buy $10,000 worth of a stock, you can usually do it immediately.

If a fund wants to put $100 million into the same stock, it has a very different problem.

Buy too much at once and the price runs away from them.

So they have to work the position over time.

They buy some shares… wait for more sellers… then come back for more.

But if it wants a meaningful position, eventually it has to put the money into the market.

That part it can’t hide.

And when you know what to look for, those trades can leave footprints behind…

Footprints we can follow so we can use their money for our gain.

The best part is that you don’t share their size problem.

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You can move in a fraction of the time.

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Market Getting “Dangerously Complacent”?

Ross Givens — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Welcome back to a new week.

With softer inflation data… new highs… lower volatility… and broad participation…

Many are asking the question – is the market getting complacent?

Let’s take a look.

Chart of the Day

This is the Volatility Index (VIX).

And as you can see, in recent days, it has collapsed to below 15 – its second-lowest reading in a year.

At the same time, the S&P 500 is less than 0.1% off a new high, which it hit last Thursday.

This low volatility + new high combination can naturally seem like a recipe for complacency.

And while I’m not dismissing the need to be vigilant…

Historical data shows that this is generally speaking a good thing.

The gray areas mark every period when two things happened at the same time:

The VIX was below 15…

And the S&P 500 was within 2% of an all-time high.

You might expect that kind of calm to come right before trouble.

Historically, it usually didn’t.

Twelve months later, the S&P 500 was higher 84.4% of the time.

The average gain was 10.8%.

And the median gain was even better at 12.1%.

So low volatility near the highs hasn’t generally been a reason to run for cover.

Quite the opposite.

It has usually shown up during healthy bull markets that had more room to run.

But if this bull market does keep going…

There’s another shift underway that could tell us where some of the better opportunities show up next.

Take a look:

The green line tracks the relative performance of the Russell 2000 versus the Russell 1000.

When it rises, small caps are beating large caps.

And after years of getting crushed…

Small caps have finally started turning higher.

The black line gives us another reason to watch this closely.

It shows the spread between the 10-year Treasury yield and the 3-month yield, shifted 15 months forward.

Historically, that relationship has done a surprisingly good job of leading the relative performance of small caps.

And right now, it points higher.

If that relationship holds, the small-cap comeback may have a lot further to run.

Which is exactly why I wouldn’t be so quick to fade this market.

There’s a trap in trying to be too clever here.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Stop trying to be contrarian all the time

Being contrarian can feel sophisticated.

You’re not chasing the crowd. You’re thinking independently. And every so often, you’ll catch a turn before everyone else.

But none of that makes contrarianism a trading strategy.

Most of the time, markets trend.

And when a trend is healthy, constantly looking for reasons to bet against it can keep you on the sidelines for a long time.

That’s especially true in a bull market.

Low volatility doesn’t automatically mean complacency.

New highs don’t automatically mean stocks are overextended.

And a trade becoming popular doesn’t mean it’s about to reverse.

You still need evidence that the move is actually weakening.

Right now, I’m seeing the opposite.

The market remains near its highs, volatility is low, and small caps are finally starting to participate after years of lagging.

So instead of trying to call the top, I want to see whether the biggest players in the market are still adding fuel.

I’ll reveal exactly how I do that tomorrow morning – so keep an eye out for that.

In the meantime, here is the one market warning sign you actually want to be paying attention to.

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Corporate America Is Opening the Checkbook

Ross Givens — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Corporate America is sitting on a massive amount of potential buying power right now.

And more of it is about to be unleashed into the market.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

Through August 10, U.S. companies have announced roughly $1.12 trillion in stock buybacks.

And a surprisingly large chunk of the biggest authorizations are coming from outside technology.

Now, an authorization doesn’t mean all that money gets spent immediately.

Companies still decide when – and whether – to actually buy.

But this next chart shows why I’m watching it now.

During earnings season, many companies temporarily restrict their own share repurchases.

As those blackout periods end, they’re free to step back into the market.

And over the next several days, that buying window opens for a much larger share of the S&P 500.

So corporate demand that has been sitting on the sidelines can start coming back.

That’s supportive for stocks.

But there’s another lesson here that traders sometimes miss.

Insight of the Day

Not all buying is created equal.

If a company buys back $5 billion of its own stock, I pay attention.

But I also want to know who is actually doing the buying.

A corporate buyback uses company cash.

An index fund may buy because new money came into the fund.

A CEO buying shares personally is making a very different decision.

He already has his salary, career, and reputation tied to that company.

If he still reaches into his own pocket and buys more stock, I want to know about it.

The same logic applies elsewhere.

Some people simply have better access, better timing, or a better view of what’s developing than the average investor.

So when they start moving real money, I want that information on my screen.

Not so I can blindly copy them.

But because who is behind the trade can tell you a lot about how seriously to take it.

That’s something my team and I have spent the past several months working on.

We built a new platform called InsiderIQ.

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This Isn’t 1999

Ross Givens — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Every time stocks push to new highs, the bubble comparisons start flying.

AI stocks have ripped.

The S&P 500 is near records.

So naturally, 1999 gets dragged back into the conversation.

But when I look at what’s actually happening underneath this rally…

I see some major differences.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

The dark-blue dots show the two years leading into the dot-com peak.

From 1998 to March 2000, the S&P 500 climbed sharply.

But investors were also paying more and more for every dollar of earnings.

The forward P/E ratio jumped from about 19.3x to 24.8x.

That’s classic bubble behavior.

Prices go up…

Then investors keep stretching valuations even further to chase them.

Now look at the light-blue dots.

Over the past two years, the S&P has climbed substantially…

But its forward P/E has actually fallen from roughly 21.4x to 20.0x.

That doesn’t make stocks cheap.

But it looks very different from the valuation blowout we saw heading into 2000.

And the rally itself looks different too.

This is the equal-weight S&P 500.

Instead of letting the biggest companies dominate the index, every stock gets roughly the same weight.

And it has decisively broken out to new highs.

So this isn’t only a few AI giants dragging the market higher.

The average S&P stock is moving too.

And if this were simply one giant U.S. AI mania…

You’d have a hard time explaining this next chart.

More than 80% of country ETFs around the world are trading above their 50-day moving averages.

That includes markets without massive technology sectors.

The strength is showing up all over the place.

And there’s also a very friendly financial backdrop behind it.

U.S. financial conditions are now around their most accommodative level since 1997.

Credit is flowing.

Liquidity is plentiful.

Put it all together and I have a hard time looking at this market and simply yelling “1999!”

Don’t get me wrong – stocks aren’t cheap. There will be pullbacks.

And plenty can still go wrong.

But right now, this rally has broader participation, a supportive financial backdrop, and nothing close to the valuation expansion we saw at the height of the dot-com mania.

That’s good news.

But it can also make individual stocks harder to judge.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

When everything looks good, I want more clues.

A strong market gives me more stocks to work with.

That’s a good problem to have.

But it can also leave me staring at 20 or 30 charts that all look pretty good.

The price action can help me narrow that list.

Then I like to dig deeper.

And one thing I’ve always wanted to know is what the people closest to the action are doing with their own money.

If I like a stock technically…

And then I see the CEO buying shares…

That gets my attention.

Same thing if a politician suddenly takes a position in the company.

Or another elite trader starts showing up in the stock.

None of that replaces proper analysis.

And I’m certainly not going to blindly copy somebody else’s trade.

But it gives me another piece of information I can use when I’m deciding which stocks deserve a closer look.

The problem is that tracking all of these people has traditionally been a pain.

Corporate filings are in one place.

Political disclosures are somewhere else.

Then you have all the other traders you may want to follow.

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It’s called InsiderIQ.

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This Rally is Getting Wider

Ross Givens — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:33:34 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The market is breaking out.

And as today’s chart shows – it’s not just a narrow slice of it.

Chart of the Day

This chart tracks the percentage of stocks trading above their 200-day moving average – a sign of long-term direction.

Right now:

About 72% of S&P 500 stocks are above it.

Nearly 73% of S&P 400 mid caps are above it.

And roughly 75% of S&P 600 small caps are above it.

All three are sitting around their highest levels of the year.

That’s exactly what I want to see in a healthy rally.

We’re not relying on just a few mega-cap stocks – or even sectors – anymore.

Strength is spreading across the market.

And this next chart gives us a good clue as to why.

S&P Global surveys nearly 300 institutional investors managing more than $3.5 trillion.

In August, their risk appetite jumped sharply.

So did their outlook for U.S. stocks over the next 30 days.

In fact, the headline Investment Manager Index is now at its most bullish level since January.

Big money is getting more comfortable taking risk.

And we can see that buying spreading into large caps, mid caps and small caps at the same time.

For traders, that means the number of potential breakout candidates is growing fast.

But there’s one distinction you need to make.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

A breakout is not the same thing as a breakout setup.

In a market like this, breakouts start showing up everywhere.

That’s when traders get themselves into trouble.

They see a stock rip through an old high…

Jump in after it…

Then wonder why it stalls or snaps right back.

The mistake is focusing only on the breakout itself.

I care much more about what the stock was doing before it broke out.

Was it tightening up?

Were sellers getting weaker?

Was the stock holding near its highs instead of giving back the move?

Was there a clear level where buyers could finally take control?

Those are the kinds of things that tell you whether a breakout has been building for a while…

Or whether you’re just chasing a stock that already ran.

And with breadth this strong, we’re going to see plenty of stocks hit new highs.

I don’t want all of them.

I want the ones forming the right setup first.

And there’s one pattern in particular I pay very close attention to…

Because it’s the best way I know to target these explosive breakouts before they happen.

It’s been used by some of the best traders in the world, including multiple U.S. Investing Champions…

And it’s been ranked the #1 chart pattern for finding explosive breakout moves.

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How I spot it before the breakout happens…

And the mistakes that can turn a great-looking setup into a lousy trade.

This same strategy has signaled moves of:

163% in seven weeks…

177% in 11 days…

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I’ll also reveal the name and ticker of a stock forming this pattern right now.

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Retail Is Buying the Wrong Market

Ross Givens — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Yesterday, I showed you why the S&P 500 could be in the middle of another “slingshot” higher.

Today, I want to show you what that slingshot could be hiding.

Because even if the S&P keeps climbing…

The index may tell you surprisingly little about where the biggest moves are actually happening.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This chart measures something called dispersion.

That’s simply how differently individual stocks are moving compared with the market itself.

And right now…

Dispersion is pushing toward levels we haven’t seen since the dot-com era.

Think about what that means.

One stock could rip 15%.

Another could fall 12%.

And after you average everything together…

The S&P barely moves.

The index gives you one nice, clean number.

But underneath that number…

Individual stocks can be going absolutely nuts.

And if yesterday’s “slingshot” has more room to run…

Some stocks could travel farther and faster than the index ever shows.

Now here’s the strange part.

Just as individual-stock moves are becoming more extreme…

Retail traders are moving in the opposite direction.

Take a look:

The top chart shows retail traders have recently become net sellers of individual U.S. stocks.

But look at the bottom.

They’re still pouring money into ETFs.

So retail hasn’t left the market.

They’ve changed how they’re buying it.

Instead of hunting individual companies…

They’re increasingly buying the whole basket.

Normally, that wouldn’t bother me.

But with dispersion near dot-com-era extremes…

Their timing looks awful.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Retail traders are choosing the average – right when the average is hiding some of the biggest moves in the market.

I’m a big fan of index funds for long-term investing.

But if you’re trying to find stocks capable of making huge moves…

The whole point is to not own the average.

An ETF bundles everything together.

The monster winner… the laggard… the “go nowhere” stock – all mixed into one return.

And right now, individual stocks are breaking away from one another at a rate we haven’t seen in decades.

Yet retail traders are selling those stocks…

And piling into products designed to smooth those differences away.

Retail is backing away from individual stocks.

Right when that’s where some of the biggest moves are showing up.

That’s where I spend a lot of my time.

I’ve seen plenty of stocks start acting strange before the rest of the market had any idea why.

Maybe the stock itself hadn’t moved much yet.

Maybe there wasn’t any news worth talking about.

But something had changed beneath the surface.

And by the time the reason became obvious…

The move was already underway.

That’s the type of underground activity I hunt with my Black Edge strategy.

And in just a few hours at 11 a.m. Eastern today…

I’m going LIVE to show you exactly how it works.

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How they can tip you off to a stock before the reason becomes obvious…

And why this strategy can be especially powerful for traders working with smaller accounts.

Yesterday, I showed you why the S&P 500 could be loading up for another slingshot higher.

Today, I want to show you how to hunt for the stocks that could fly much farther than the index itself.

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S&P 500 “Slingshot” In Progress?

Ross Givens — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Last month, the S&P 500 triggered one of the most bullish historical setups I’ve seen in a while.

It’s only happened 17 times since 1950…

And 16 of those times, stocks kept climbing the following quarter.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

Here’s the setup that caught my eye.

The S&P 500 fell 4.6% in Q1…

Then came roaring back 14.9% in Q2.

Since 1950, we’ve only seen that combination 17 times:

A down quarter…

Followed immediately by a gain of 10% or more.

And after 16 of those 17 setups, stocks kept climbing the following quarter.

That’s a 94% hit rate.

The average gain?

Another 6.7%.

You can see why some traders call it a “slingshot.”

The market gets yanked backwards…

Then snaps hard in the other direction.

Of course, nothing says history has to repeat this time.

But there’s another part of this rally that makes the setup even more interesting.

Look at small caps:

For most of the past few years, the Russell 2000 has been the market’s punching bag.

Since 2023, small caps have repeatedly lagged the S&P 500 by one or even two standard deviations.

Now the rubber band has snapped the other way.

The Russell is outperforming the S&P by roughly 14.5% over the past year.

That’s about a two-standard-deviation move in favor of small caps.

So if this really is another S&P slingshot…

The best opportunities may not be in the giant stocks everyone already owns.

They may be much further down the market.

And that creates a completely different problem.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Small-caps create huge blind spots

Small caps can make monster moves.

That’s why so many traders – myself included – love them.

It takes a lot less buying to move a $500 million company than a $500 billion giant.

But the smaller you go…

The harder the research gets.

Apple has an army of analysts picking through every number.

A tiny company might have three – sometimes none.

There are fewer reports… less media coverage.

And far fewer people digging around for what might happen next.

That can create huge blind spots.

A small stock could have something important brewing beneath the surface…

While almost nobody on Wall Street is paying attention.

So if small caps really are starting to lead again, you need another way to find the most lucrative opportunities.

I’m going to share more about my powerful – yet controversial – “underground” strategy for targeting the most lucrative opportunities.

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The Market’s New Hidden Trap

Ross Givens — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

A lot of stocks are looking strong again.

But that strength may be hiding a problem most traders won’t see coming.

Chart of the Day

This chart tracks where investors have been putting their money over the past four weeks.

Riskier assets have pulled in close to $300 billion.

That includes stocks, high-yield bonds and other investments traders buy when they expect more upside.

Meanwhile, demand for safer funds has been far weaker.

So investors are no longer hiding.

They are putting money back to work.

And the shift becomes even clearer when we look inside the stock market.

Since the July 29 low:

Technology has jumped 10.7%.

Consumer Discretionary is up 10.1%.

Communication Services has gained 7%.

Those are offensive sectors.

They tend to do best when investors feel confident and want more growth.

Meanwhile, Utilities, Consumer Staples and Healthcare have all fallen.

Those are the sectors traders usually hide in when they are nervous.

So this is not a cautious move.

Investors have gone straight from defense to offense.

That can create some huge winners.

But here’s the catch:

When money floods into an entire sector, it lifts a lot of stocks together.

The strong ones.

The weak ones.

And plenty that have no business breaking out at all.

For a while, they can all look the same.

They aren’t.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

A rising tide can make a bad stock look good

When investors pile into a hot sector, they do not study every company first.

They buy funds.

They chase the leaders.

They spread money across the whole group.

And suddenly, stocks with very different businesses start moving together.

One company may have rising sales and better margins.

Another may be losing customers and burning cash.

Yet both stocks can climb while the sector is hot.

That is why I don’t trust a breakout simply because the market has gone risk-on.

I want to know what is happening inside the business.

Is demand actually improving?

Are orders picking up?

Is management seeing something the market has not priced in yet?

That is where corporate insiders can help narrow the field.

A CEO buying shares is not making a broad bet on Technology.

A CFO is not buying because $300 billion moved into risky assets.

They are putting their own money into one company – their company.

They see the orders.

They see the customers.

They see what is happening inside the business right now.

So when a stock is breaking out with its sector…

And the people closest to that company are also buying…

That is a very different setup from a weak stock simply getting dragged higher by the tide.

And in just a few hours at 11 a.m. Eastern today…

I’m going LIVE to show you exactly how I track these legal insider trades…

Including:

Where to find them before most investors notice…

The “must-know” traps traders fall into when trying to follow insiders…

And my three most powerful – yet counterintuitive – insider-buying signals.

The strategy has never had a losing year…

And could have allowed you to sit on open gains like 680%… 285%… and even 1,210% right now.

Money is rushing back into the market.

Now we need to separate the stocks with real fuel…

From the ones simply floating with the tide.

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The Market Just Changed the Rules

Ross Givens — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

There’s an interesting shift that’s happened under the surface of the market this year.

Take a look.

Chart of the Day

This chart compares the Russell 1000 Growth Index with the Russell 1000 Value Index.

Growth stocks are the companies investors pay up for because they expect fast expansion.

Value stocks tend to be cheaper, more mature and far less exciting.

And through the first seven months of 2026…

Growth gained just 0.3%.

Value gained 20.7%.

That is a gap of more than 20 percentage points.

If it holds, this would be the biggest Value victory on record.

The flashy stocks are not leading.

The cheaper, ignored names are.

But this next chart tells an even bigger story.

It shows how many S&P 500 stocks are outperforming the index itself.

Right now, that number sits at 57%.

That is the highest reading in roughly ten years.

And it is a massive jump from 2025, when only 30% of stocks beat SPY.

So this is no longer a market where five or six giants do all the heavy lifting.

The bench players are stepping up.

More stocks are working.

More sectors are participating.

And the best opportunities are spreading far beyond the names everyone already knows.

That is good news.

But it actually creates a new problem.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

More winners means you need a better filter.

A market where 57% of stocks beat the index sounds easy.

It isn’t.

It means there are more places to make money.

But there are also fewer obvious leaders.

You cannot simply buy the same handful of growth names that worked in the past…

And assume they will carry you again.

You need a reason to choose one stock over another.

A new contract.

Improving demand.

A turnaround Wall Street has not noticed yet.

Or something changing inside the business before it shows up in the price.

But finding these factors are difficult – very difficult.

Fortunately, I’ve developed a powerful strategy for doing just that…

A strategy I’ll tell you more about tomorrow morning – so make sure you keep an eye out for that.

But in the meantime…

Here’s how to take advantage of the biggest wealth transfer of the decade.

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Bad Timing for Retail Traders

Ross Givens — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

After 42 trading days stuck below their old highs…

The major indexes finally broke through.

Plenty of investors were expecting the exact opposite.

They saw the AI bubble warnings…

The fighting in Iran…

And six straight weeks of sideways action.

Yesterday, the breakout arrived.

But the strangest part is what retail traders did right before it.

Take a look.

Chart of the Day

The top panel tracks how much money retail investors are putting into – or pulling out of – technology stocks.

And the latest bar falls straight off the chart.

Right before the major indexes finally pushed above their previous highs…

Retail investors dumped technology stocks at the fastest pace in the data going back to 2019.

They spent weeks waiting for the market to break down.

Then they dumped tech at a record pace…

Just before the indexes broke higher instead.

Now look at the bottom panel.

While retail investors were rushing out, tech’s forward P/E had fallen to roughly 20 times earnings.

That puts it near the cheapest end of its range over both the past year and the past five years.

So retail dumped tech after valuations had already been crushed…

And right before the indexes broke to new highs.

Bad timing?

Definitely – but that’s par for the course for retail traders as a whole.

That’s why it’s worth considering the other side of the equation…

Which group of traders has good timing?

But before we go into that…

There’s something about “good timing” in trading you must understand first.

Insight of the Day

The market charges you for confirmation

Here’s the problem with waiting until a trade feels safe:

By then, the stock has usually moved.

The breakout hits.

The headlines turn positive.

Everyone suddenly agrees the danger has passed.

And now you’re paying a higher price for the same shares.

Good timing rarely feels that clean.

The stock may still look ugly.

Sellers may still look like they’re in control.

And plenty of people will think you’re early.

The goal is not to guess the exact bottom.

It is to spot when the facts are getting better before the crowd notices.

And one group gets a much closer look at those facts than anyone else:

Corporate insiders.

High-level executives like CEOs, CFOs, and Directors legally snapping up their own company stock on the open market…

Despite having access to information that even the best Wall Street analysts don’t.

They see the orders.

They see the customers.

They see what is happening inside the business right now.

That’s why these insiders have some of the best timing I have ever seen…

And why, when they start buying before the chart looks good…

I pay attention.

Because they may be seeing the turn before everyone else – and positioning themselves accordingly.

And later this afternoon at 3 p.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you exactly how to track these insider footprints…

Including revealing:

Where to find these insider trades before the public catches on…

The “must know” traps traders fall into when trying to follow the insiders…

And my 3 most powerful – yet counterintuitive – insider buying signals I’ve been relying on for years

This strategy has never had a losing year…

And it could have allowed you to be sitting on open gains like 695%… 286%… and even 1,259% right now.

So don’t miss out…

Not when earnings season (the best time to use this strategy) is still running hot.

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Forced Sellers Out – Opportunity In

Ross Givens — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Yesterday, I showed you what happens when a big investor gets trapped.

Leopold Aschenbrenner had the correct AI thesis.

But he was also leveraged to the hilt.

So when the trade turned against him, he was forced out.

Retail traders have been caught in the same kind of squeeze, dumping tech at the fastest pace on record.

But that raises a new question:

How many forced sellers are still left?

Because once the trapped money has finished selling…

The setup changes fast.

Chart of the Day

This chart tracks the market’s momentum stocks – the names that had been leading the charge higher.

Over the four-day stretch from Friday July 24 to last Wednesday July 29, that basket collapsed 17.4%.

That is the worst four-day decline on record.

Worse than the dot-com crash. Worse than 2022.

And this was not just an AI or semiconductor problem.

The basket is sector-neutral.

So the unwind ripped through ALL momentum stocks across the market.

That is what happens when too many funds crowd into the same trade…

Then all try to get smaller at once.

But now look at this:

Hedge-fund leverage surged during the April and May semiconductor rally.

Then it collapsed.

JPMorgan says equity long/short funds have now unwound most of the leverage they built during that run.

And the same thing has happened inside leveraged ETFs.

Roughly 85% of the April–May buildup has reportedly been cleared out.

So yes, the washout was brutal.

But much of the borrowed money that made it so violent may already be gone.

Yesterday, the opportunity was knowing who had to sell.

Now it may be knowing where the selling has finally run its course.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

When weak hands are gone, strong hands move in

When a leveraged fund gets hit, it does not sell because the price is fair.

It sells because the broker wants its money back.

The fund cuts risk. The ETF rebalances.

The weak hands get flushed out.

Price becomes almost irrelevant.

But that pressure cannot last forever.

Once the leverage is gone, those sellers are gone too.

And the stock no longer needs a tidal wave of buying to move higher.

It just needs more demand than supply.

That is when I start watching for signs that big buyers are stepping in.

Which stocks stop falling first?

Which ones hold while the rest of the group gets hammered?

Where does volume suddenly come rushing back?

Those are the big money footprints I want to see.

Yesterday’s lesson was simple:

Find out who has to sell.

Today’s is just as important:

Watch what happens when they are finished.

Because when the big money steps in again – that’s where the opportunity is.

The forced sellers are out – but the opportunity is in.

That’s why in just a few hours at 11 a.m. Eastern today…

I’m going LIVE to show you exactly how I track those big-money footprints into the explosive setups…

Using a strategy that has helped us find moves of:

155% in 150 days…

212% in 165 days…

424% in less than six months…

And even 524% in 13 months.

The forced sellers have already done a lot of damage.

Now I want to know where the buyers are taking control.

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Wall Street Eats Its Own

Ross Givens — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

People talk about “smart money” like it’s one big team.

It isn’t.

The biggest players on Wall Street compete just as viciously with each other as they do with retail traders.

And one of the wildest examples just played out in real time.

But first, take a look at the chart below.

Chart of the Day

This chart shows how much money individual investors are pulling out of technology stocks.

And the latest move is off the charts.

Retail traders sold a net $316 million worth of tech stocks in a single day.

Over three days, the total reached $643 million.

That is the heaviest retail tech selling on record.

But before I explain why that matters…

Let me tell you about Leopold Aschenbrenner.

Leopold is a 24-year-old former OpenAI researcher who built one of the hottest hedge funds on Wall Street.

His fund, Situational Awareness, made huge leveraged bets on AI bottleneck stocks.

And for a while, those bets worked beautifully.

The fund gained 439% through the first half of 2026.

Then the trade turned. These same stocks got hammered.

The fund lost roughly 67% in July.

And because Leopold had used borrowed money to make his positions larger…

He could not simply wait for the stocks to recover.

He needed cash – fast.

That is when Ken Griffin stepped in.

Griffin’s Citadel bought most of the fund’s public-stock portfolio at a huge discount after Situational Awareness came under pressure to sell assets or raise fresh capital.

Citadel specifically picked up the portion financed with leverage from the fund’s brokers.

Leopold’s thesis about AI was likely right.

But that didn’t matter. He had to sell.

And when one side has no choice…

The other side usually gets the better price.

So what does any of that have to do with retail investors dumping tech at a record pace?

Everything.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

If the “smart money” manipulates its own – think about what it does to the retail crowd

Look at what happened to Leopold Aschenbrenner.

He was not some clueless amateur.

He understood AI better than almost anyone on Wall Street.

His fund had already made a fortune.

But he used too much leverage.

And once the trade moved against him, that leverage took away his choices.

His brokers requested additional margin – cash he did not have.

So Citadel waited until Leopold was under maximum pressure…

Then stepped in and bought at a huge discount from a desperate seller.

That is how Wall Street works.

When one player becomes trapped, another presses the advantage.

Now think about the retail crowd.

Retail traders tend to buy the same hot stocks…

Place stops around the same obvious levels…

And panic together when prices start falling.

Big funds know that.

They know where the weak hands are.

They know when fear is building.

And they know that pushing a crowded stock through support can trigger a new wave of selling.

Stops get hit.

Margin calls arrive.

Nervous traders rush for the exit.

Then stronger hands can come in and buy at much better prices.

That is why today’s chart matters.

Retail traders just dumped tech at the fastest pace on record.

And when that much selling hits the market at once…

Someone else is usually waiting on the other side.

I want to know who.

I want to see where the selling suddenly gets absorbed…

Where volume explodes…

And where a stock refuses to fall any further.

Those are the footprints of the “smart money”.

And tomorrow, I’ll be showing you exactly how I track these footprints into explosive setups…

So keep an eye out in your inbox for the details tomorrow morning.

In the meantime, I’m taking advantage of Leopold’s downfall myself.

Here are the 10 crashed AI stocks I just sunk $100,000 into.

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Insane Volatility Under the Surface

Ross Givens — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The broader market may look relatively calm at the surface – even with the recent pullback.

But under the surface, it’s a completely different story.

Chart of the Day

This chart compares the volatility of momentum stocks with the S&P 500.

“Momentum stocks” are simply the names that had been leading the market higher.

And right now, they are swinging roughly 9.4 times harder than the broader index.

That is close to the most extreme reading in the chart’s history.

So the S&P 500 may only move a little…

While some of the market’s biggest winners rip higher one day and fall off a cliff the next.

Here is one reason why:

This chart tracks hedge-fund trading in memory stocks.

After being one of the hottest trades in the market…

Hedge funds are now rushing for the exits.

The latest two-day stretch brought the heaviest selling since the trade first became popular.

That kind of move is not always a careful verdict on each individual company.

Sometimes funds are cutting risk.

Sometimes their positions have grown too large.

And sometimes they simply want out before everyone else reaches the door.

When that happens, the selling can hit everything inside the trade.

Strong companies.

Weak companies.

It does not matter.

They all get dumped together.

And that can create a very interesting setup.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Sometimes the fund has a problem. Not the company.

When a crowded trade starts unwinding, fund managers do not always have time to study every stock again.

They sell what they own.

They cut exposure.

They raise cash.

And the stocks with the largest positions can get hit hardest.

That means a falling price does not always tell you the business is falling apart.

Sometimes the stock has simply been caught in someone else’s rush for the exits.

The hard part is telling the difference.

Because one beaten-down company may deserve every bit of the decline.

Another may still have growing sales, improving profits and a major catalyst ahead.

From the outside, both can look broken.

But the people running those companies have a much clearer view.

They know whether customers are still buying.

They know whether orders are slowing.

And they know whether the business is stronger or weaker than the market currently believes.

So when an insider starts buying after a violent selloff…

I pay attention.

They may be taking the other side of forced selling with their own money.

And that can help point us towards the stocks that were dumped for the wrong reason.

That’s why in just a few hours at 11 a.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you exactly how to follow these insiders…

Using a strategy that has never had a losing year – even in brutal bear markets…

And could have you sitting on open gains like 699%… 275%… and even 1,255% right now.

Plus, with earnings season still in full swing…

There has never been a better time to make use of this strategy.

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The Market’s Strange Split

Ross Givens — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The Fed left rates unchanged yesterday.

Stocks fell anyway.

That is pretty much par for the course on Fed day.

Traders spend weeks waiting for the announcement…

Then start picking apart every word the Fed Chair says afterward.

One phrase sounds too hawkish. Another sounds too cautious.

And the market gets knocked around while everyone tries to figure out what comes next.

But I’m less interested in what the index did for one afternoon.

I want to know what is happening underneath it.

Because right now…

The mood and the market are telling two very different stories.

Chart of the Day

It shows how individual investors expect the stock market to perform over the next six months.

And fear is clearly taking over.

Just 31% of investors are bullish.

Meanwhile, 42.1% expect stocks to fall.

That is a sharp reversal from only two weeks ago, when bullish investors outnumbered bearish investors by a wide margin.

So the Fed held rates steady…

The market pulled back…

And retail investors quickly moved toward the exits.

But now look at this:

This chart compares how many stocks are making new highs against how many are making new lows.

Green bars mean more stocks are pushing higher.

Red bars mean more are breaking down.

And despite yesterday’s market drop…

The latest reading is still positive.

More stocks are moving towards new highs than new lows.

In fact, despite all the market turmoil since June – we have overwhelmingly seen more new highs than lows every day.

That creates a strange split.

Retail investors are preparing for a broad market decline…

While a growing number of individual stocks are still breaking out.

Those stocks are not waiting for investors to feel better.

Something else is pulling them higher.

And that is where I want to look.

Insight of the Day

The strongest stocks have their own reason to move.

The Fed affects every stock.

Interest rates affect every stock.

And when fear rises, investors tend to sell first and ask questions later.

Yet some companies still push towards new highs. Why?

Because a powerful company-specific catalyst can overpower the broader market.

A major contract can bring in a wave of new revenue.

A new product can completely change the growth outlook.

An unexpected turnaround can force Wall Street to rewrite its forecasts.

That creates a stock with its own fuel.

And right now, those are the stocks I would rather own.

I don’t want to depend on the Fed saying the right thing…

Or the entire market suddenly turning bullish again.

I want a company where something is already changing beneath the surface.

For instance – this under-the-radar company right here.

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A Massive “Buying Window” Just Opened

Ross Givens — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Amazon all report this week.

So naturally, that’s where most traders will be looking.

But there’s another part of earnings season that could matter just as much…

And it has nothing to do with whether those companies beat estimates.

Over the next several days, one of the market’s biggest buyers is about to come back.

Take a look:

Chart of the Day

This chart tracks how many S&P 500 companies are leaving their buyback blackout periods.

A blackout period is simply a stretch when companies generally pause share repurchases around earnings.

Once that window reopens, they can start buying again.

Right now, roughly 31% of S&P 500 companies are back in their open windows.

By the end of next week, that number should jump to around 53%.

So more than half the index may soon be free to start repurchasing shares.

That is a lot of buying power.

Companies have become one of the biggest buyers of stocks in the entire market.

And when they step back in after earnings…

That demand can help support prices, absorb selling and push individual stocks higher.

But now look at this:

While companies prepare to buy more shares…

Individual insiders are doing the opposite.

The ratio of insider sales to insider purchases has climbed to roughly 44-to-1.

In plain English, insiders are selling about $44 worth of stock for every $1 they buy.

So corporate buying is coming back…

But personal insider buying has become extremely rare.

Yet, as I explain below…

We can actually use this to our advantage.

Insight of the Day

The less noise, the easier it is to find the signal.

At first glance, a 44-to-1 sales-to-buys ratio looks ugly.

But for me, it does something useful.

It clears the field.

Most insiders are not buying.

So the few purchases that do appear can become much more valuable signals.

Not all of them of course.

Most will still be meaningless.

But others can point to something big building beneath the surface.

The trick is knowing which is which.

And today at 3 p.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you exactly how I separate the noise from the insider buys worth paying attention to.

It’s the same method we’ve used to find gains of:

115% in less than 60 days…

168% in five months…

234% in eight weeks…

And even 1,787% in just two years.

The biggest opportunities this earnings season may not come from Microsoft, Meta, Apple or Amazon.

They may come from smaller stocks almost nobody is watching yet.

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The Crowd is Buying the Wrong Stocks

Ross Givens — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Yesterday, I showed you how the big money is rotating between sectors.

Today, the split goes even deeper.

Because stocks sitting inside the same sector are no longer moving together either.

Chart of the Day

Take a look at this first chart.

It compares how closely three major corners of tech have been trading:

Semiconductors…

Software…

And the giant hyperscalers spending billions on AI.

Normally, these groups move in roughly the same direction.

But lately, that relationship has broken down.

Their correlations have plunged toward the lowest levels since 2017.

In plain English, the “tech trade” is splintering.

One group can rip higher…

While another gets hammered.

And that makes this next chart even more interesting.

It shows the monthly performance of the stocks most popular with retail traders.

And this month, that basket is heading for its worst performance since 2022.

So while retail traders remain clustered around the same familiar names and stories…

The market is drawing much sharper lines between the winners and losers.

And moves this large usually require serious buying power.

Individual traders can chase a stock.

But the giant funds are the ones capable of pushing millions of shares through the market and driving a sustained move.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

The big funds don’t just find the winners. Their buying helps create the move.

What you’re seeing in those charts is a market getting more selective.

Stocks tied to the same theme are no longer moving together.

Some are holding up. Others are getting crushed.

And moves that large usually require serious buying power.

An individual trader can buy a few hundred shares.

Maybe a few thousand.

But when a hedge fund, pension fund or mutual fund decides to build a position…

It may need to buy millions.

And it cannot buy them all at once.

If it did, the stock would rip higher before the fund finished buying.

So the fund builds its position over time.

It buys on pullbacks.

It absorbs shares from sellers.

Then it keeps buying as more supply hits the market.

That steady demand can support one stock for weeks – even while similar companies fall apart.

This is why the broad theme can look weak while one stock refuses to break.

It is also why one company can suddenly pull away from the rest of its sector.

The big money is concentrating its capital there.

And that buying leaves footprints.

Volume starts building.

Pullbacks get bought quickly.

The stock holds up while its peers roll over.

Then, once enough shares have changed hands, the move can accelerate fast.

That is what I’m looking for.

Not just a popular story or a hot sector.

I want the specific stocks where institutions may already be building positions large enough to move the price.

And later this morning at 11 a.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to demonstrate the strategy I use to track these “smart money” footprints right into these specific stocks.

It is the same strategy that has helped us find moves of:

155% in 150 days…

212% in 165 days…

424% in less than six months…

Even 524% in 13 months.

I’ll show you what those footprints look like…

Why they appear…

And how I use them to find stocks that may be preparing to break away from the pack.

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Big Money Is Changing Horses

Ross Givens — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The old market leaders have been getting hit.

Technology has weakened.

Consumer stocks have struggled.

And some traders are taking that as proof the entire bull market is falling apart.

I don’t see it that way.

Today’s charts lay out the situation.

Chart of the Day

This first chart shows the S&P 500’s net profit margin.

For Q2, that number has jumped to 15.7%.

That would be the highest level in FactSet’s data going back to 2009.

Now, Alphabet had a big impact on that number.

But even if you remove Alphabet completely…

The margin still comes in around 14.4%.

That would still be the second-highest reading on record.

So this is not one giant company making the whole market look better than it really is.

Seven of the 11 major sectors are expanding their margins compared with last year.

Eight are running above their five-year averages.

And analysts expect margins to stay close to 15% through Q3 and Q4.

Corporate America is making real money – lots of it.

So the fuel behind this market has not disappeared.

But now take a look at the next chart.

This chart shows the short- and medium-term health of the major stock sectors.

And the split is pretty clear.

Energy looks strong.

Financials look strong.

Healthcare and Utilities are also holding up well.

But Technology, Consumer Discretionary and Communications are sitting in much weaker territory.

That does not look like broad market deterioration to me.

It looks like a healthy rotation.

The old leaders are losing ground…

While completely different sectors start taking control.

In other words, big money does not appear to be abandoning the market.

It is changing horses.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

The smart money can dump the old leaders without dumping the market

This is where a lot of traders get fooled.

They see technology stocks getting sold…

And assume the big funds have turned bearish on everything.

That is not how institutional money works.

A fund can sell billions of dollars’ worth of old winners…

Then push that same money straight into Energy, Financials, Healthcare or another group starting to lead.

Its overall stock exposure may barely change.

But the portfolio underneath can look completely different.

That is why an index can hold up…

Even while the stocks that carried it higher start falling apart.

The money did not vanish – it moved.

And that movement is exactly what I watch.

Because when a large fund starts building a serious position, it cannot hide forever.

The buying starts leaving footprints.

A stock holds up while its peers weaken.

Volume starts building.

Sellers keep showing up – but price refuses to break.

Then the stock starts separating from the pack.

That is where the opportunity begins.

And tomorrow, Tuesday July 28 at 11 a.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to demonstrate the strategy I use to track those “smart money” footprints.

It is the same strategy that has helped us find moves of:

155% in 150 days…

212% in 165 days…

424% in less than six months…

Even 524% in 13 months.

I’ll show you how I look for the stocks the big funds may be quietly moving into…

Before the rest of the market catches on.

The session is free, but we expect a packed room.

So click here to reserve your seat early…

And I’ll see you tomorrow at 11 a.m. ET.

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This is Not a Simple Bull Market

Ross Givens — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Yesterday, I showed you why the bullish and bearish signals can both be right.

Today, let’s look at what the market itself is telling us.

Because the long-term trend still looks healthy…

But the action underneath has become unusually messy.

Chart of the Day

It shows the Value Line Arithmetic Index – a broad gauge of what the average stock is doing.

Unlike the S&P 500, it is not dominated by a handful of giant companies.

Each stock has roughly the same influence.

And despite all the recent noise…

The average stock is still making higher highs and higher lows.

That is not what a major market top usually looks like.

But now look at this next chart.

It counts the number of days when the S&P 500 moved in one direction…

While market breadth moved in the other.

Breadth simply tells us how many stocks are participating in the move.

And that has already happened 52 times this year.

We are on pace for one of the most extreme readings ever.

So the average stock is still trending higher…

But from one day to the next, the index and the stocks underneath it keep pulling in opposite directions.

That tells you how violently money is rotating beneath the surface.

And there is one more piece to this.

Short interest in both the S&P 500 and Russell 3000 is sitting near record highs.

A lot of traders are betting against individual stocks.

If they are right, the weaker names could get hammered.

But if the market keeps holding up…

Those short sellers may be forced to buy the stocks back.

That is how you get sudden, violent squeezes.

So here is where we stand:

The average stock is still climbing.

Price and breadth keep splitting apart.

And bearish bets are near records.

That is not a simple bull market.

It is not a simple bear market either.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

A healthy bull market can still be brutal to trade

This is the distinction most traders miss.

A healthy market is not always an easy market.

The average stock can keep grinding higher…

While yesterday’s leaders fall apart.

The S&P 500 can barely move…

While billions rush from one sector into another.

And a heavily shorted stock can explode higher even when the broad market looks quiet.

So simply deciding you are “bullish” is not enough.

You need to know which sectors are gaining strength…

Which trades have become dangerously crowded…

Where the biggest risks are building…

And which stocks are most exposed to the next major move.

That’s why my team and I go LIVE every week to break down the market in real time…

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Dangerous “Mixed Signals”

Ross Givens — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

We’re in the middle of a record-breaking earnings season.

And yet…

Uncertainty is creeping back into the market as the Iran war heats up again.

So today, I want to show you three charts that seem to tell three very different stories.

Chart of the Day

This first chart shows analysts’ earnings-growth estimates for the S&P 500.

And right now, they expect Q2 earnings to grow nearly 23% compared to last year.

That number was just 21.6% a week earlier.

So earnings expectations are not falling as companies report.

They’re still moving higher.

And this is not just the same handful of AI giants carrying the entire market.

Companies outside mega-cap growth and tech are expected to grow earnings by around 14%.

That’s real strength.

But now look at this next chart.

It shows how aggressively investors are positioned in stocks.

Overall equity positioning sits around the 53rd percentile.

In plain English, investors are only modestly overweight stocks.

They’re nowhere close to being all-in.

Large-cap positioning is higher at the 72nd percentile…

But large-cap tech is sitting all the way up at the 95th percentile.

That means although there may still be plenty of money available to move into stocks…

There is not much room left for funds to keep piling into the same giant tech names.

So if fresh money enters the market…

Where does it go?

That’s one question.

But this final chart raises another.

This chart shows SPX skew.

That’s a measure of how much investors are paying for protection against a sharp market selloff.

And last week, skew surged from around the 14th percentile…

All the way to the 82nd percentile.

More investors than ever are hedging themselves against a big drop.

So here’s where we stand:

Earnings are booming.

Overall positioning still leaves room for more buying.

But large-cap tech is packed…

And demand for market protection is rising fast.

So which signal should we trust?

The earnings?

The available buying power?

Or the sudden rush to hedge?

The answer is not as simple as choosing one chart and ignoring the rest.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

The bull case and the risk case can both be right

This is where traders often box themselves in.

They decide the market has to be either bullish…

Or bearish.

But several things can be true at once.

Earnings can keep powering higher…

While crowded tech trades get sold.

Fresh money can enter the market…

While investors protect themselves against another shock.

The broad bull market can stay alive…

While leadership changes completely beneath the surface.

That may be exactly what we’re setting up for now.

The strong earnings give this market real fuel.

But the crowding in large-cap tech means the next move may not look anything like the last one.

And the spike in hedging tells me investors know the road ahead could get rough.

That does not mean the bull market is over.

It means you cannot look at one index…

One sector…

Or one piece of positioning data…

And assume you understand the whole market.

You need to know how the earnings, positioning, hedging and sector-level price action all fit together…

So you can uncover where the biggest opportunities are.

That’s the reason why my team and I go LIVE every week to break down the market in real time.

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Breakouts Amid the Chop

Ross Givens — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The S&P 500 hasn’t made a new high in over one-and-a-half months.

But for many stocks within the index…

It’s a completely different story.

Let’s take a look.

Chart of the Day

This chart shows the percentage of S&P 500 stocks that have made a new 52-week high since March 30 (the bottom of the correction we saw earlier this year).

As you can see…

Since then 46.1% of S&P 500 stocks have made a new 1-year high…

And if you look closer at the chart at the blue arrow at the bottom…

The start of the blue arrow is when the S&P 500 last made a new high.

Since then, the index itself has been chopping sideways for nearly two months.

But the percentage of stocks hitting new 52-week highs have only continued to increase.

What does this mean?

I explain in the Insight of the Day below.

Insight of the Day

More stocks than ever are breaking out amid the chop

Most financial news media is clickbait, and they mostly only push one of two extremes.

Either it’s doom-and-gloom “the sky is falling” narratives…

Or the polar opposite – the pollyanna “nothing can ever go wrong” stories.

Both are false.

When I look at the data objectively, it tells me that there are real points of concern with this market.

But on balance…

The evidence suggests we should still remain bullish.

Today’s chart is another data point supporting that view.

More stocks than ever are breaking out.

What I showed you today are just the large-cap stocks in the S&P 500.

There are thousands of smaller stocks that could be preparing to follow suit.

And later this afternoon at 3 p.m. Eastern…

I’m hosting a special LIVE training session to show you an old-school strategy for targeting these explosive breakouts.

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The Next Rotation is Already Underway

Ross Givens — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Yesterday, I showed you how quickly the “smart money” has been changing its positioning.

Today, I want to show you what that buying is doing beneath the surface.

Because the next rotation may already be underway.

Chart of the Day

Take a look at this chart.

It shows the percentage of stocks trading above their 200-day moving average – a simple gauge of their long-term trend.

Right now, roughly 69% of large-cap stocks are above their 200-day moving average.

For mid caps, it’s around 72%.

And for small caps, roughly 73%.

Those are the strongest readings since late 2024.

So this rally now stretches well beyond the same handful of mega-cap names.

Buyers are showing up across the market.

That’s healthy.

But it also gives big funds more places to hide their buying.

They can sell one group and pile into another…

While the major indexes barely move.

And that may be exactly what’s happening now.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

The broader the rally, the easier the smart money can hide.

When only a few stocks are working, institutional buying is easy to spot.

The same names keep ripping higher.

Everyone sees it.

But when strength spreads across large caps, mid caps, and small caps…

The big funds have hundreds of places to move their money.

A major rotation can begin while the S&P 500 barely budges.

One group starts holding up better.

Another quietly loses momentum.

And by the time the new leadership becomes obvious, the smart money may already be fully positioned.

That’s why this wider rally creates so much opportunity right now.

But the window will not stay hidden forever.

That’s why in just a few hours at 11 a.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you how to exploit this window…

Using a strategy designed to track the footprints big funds leave behind as they move into their next trades.

This strategy has helped us find moves of 155% in 150 days…

212% in 165 days…

424% in less than six months…

Even 524% in 13 months.

And that could be just the start right now.

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The Smart Money is Moving FAST

Ross Givens — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

The market’s leadership is changing fast.

One week, the same stocks look unstoppable.

The next, money is already moving somewhere else.

And as today’s charts show…

Even the “smart money” is moving fast to keep up.

Chart of the Day

It shows the NAAIM Exposure Index — a measure of how aggressively active fund managers are invested in U.S. stocks.

The black line shows their weekly exposure.

And look at the section I highlighted on the right.

Their positioning has swung from around 75…

Up toward 100…

Back down…

Then straight back up again.

In simple terms, the “smart money” has been rapidly shifting between bullish and cautious.

They pile in…

Pull back…

Then pile straight back in as conditions change.

Now look at the second chart.

It shows how momentum stocks performed last quarter versus this month.

Momentum stocks are simply the stocks that have already been outperforming.

And during Q2, they crushed the broader market.

S&P 500 momentum stocks outperformed by 29%.

Emerging-market momentum stocks beat their index by 26%.

But this month, those same trades have reversed across nearly every corner of the market.

Yesterday’s winners are getting sold.

So the smart money is changing both:

How aggressively it is piling into — or pulling back from — the market…

And which stocks it wants to own.

That creates opportunity.

But it also creates a problem for anyone relying on stale information.

Because in a market moving this fast…

Following where the smart money was could leave you one full rotation behind.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Following the smart money means following the move – not the position.

A lot of traders look at what institutions already own.

That can be useful.

But those holdings only tell you where the money has already gone.

And right now, that information can get old fast.

Yesterday’s favorite can become today’s source of funds.

A stock that looked heavily accumulated last month may already be getting sold to finance the next trade.

So I’m less interested in where the smart money is sitting.

I want to know where it is moving next.

Because large funds cannot shift billions of dollars without leaving clues behind.

That’s why tomorrow morning…

I’ll be showing you how to find and exploit these “smart money clues” to target triple-digit gains right now.

The details will be in your inbox early tomorrow morning, so make sure you keep an eye out for that.

In the meantime though…

Check out my breakdown of the first physical AI stock (that Nvidia already owns).

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Confusing Money Flows

Ross Givens — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:30:53 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

How have the “money flows” been changing over the past 12 months?

Why does that matter right now?

Let’s take a look.

Chart of the Day

Take a look at this chart.

It shows how money has flowed through the major stock sectors over the past 12 months.

Technology and Industrials have pulled in the most money.

Meanwhile, money has generally flowed out of areas like Consumer Discretionary and Consumer Staples.

But beyond that…

The chart is a mess.

Lines rise. They fall. They cross. Then they reverse again.

And that’s exactly why I showed it to you.

Because broad sector flows can point you toward a rotation…

But they cannot tell you which individual stock to trade.

And they definitely cannot tell you when to get in.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Money doesn’t flow into “hot” sectors evenly

A sector can have billions pouring into it…

And still contain plenty of lousy stocks that go nowhere.

Because money never flows into a sector evenly.

It piles into a handful of names first.

Those stocks start holding up better.

They press against resistance.

Then a clean breakout pulls in the next wave of buyers.

That’s why the sector chart above looks so messy – and why it doesn’t tell us much.

It shows you the broad movement of money.

But for us as individual traders, we need to see a clean signal on an individual stock chart.

That is where the trade becomes visible.

That is where we get the opportunity to target the explosive breakouts in these hot sectors.

That’s why in just a few hours at 11 a.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to demo my #1 pattern for targeting the most explosive breakout stocks in these sectors.

This pattern has helped identify moves of 270% in 70 days… 177% in 11 days… even 148% in just two days.

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Still Clinging on to This Crowded Trade?

Ross Givens — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:45:31 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Semiconductor stocks have pulled back 15% from their recent peak.

As a whole, they’re still up nearly 70% for the year.

So it’s no surprise that, even as it looks like momentum continues to deteriorate…

People are still clinging on to them.

Chart of the Day

This chart shows the results of Bank of America’s survey of fund managers – aka the “smart money”.

And as you can see…

Despite the selloff in semiconductor stocks…

82% of fund managers still rank them as the most crowded trade in July.

In fact, the numbers are even higher compared to May and June – before the selloff began.

Now let’s keep in mind that this is just an opinion of what they think the most crowded trade is.

In other words, where they think other fund managers are putting their money.

And if everybody thinks the trade is crowded (which is not a good thing)…

It stands to reason that a lot of them are already shifting their money out.

The question is – where to?

Well, take a look at another fund manager survey below.

It shows which sectors the “smart money” is bullish or bearish on for the next 30 days.

While everybody and the entire news media is seemingly focused on tech and memory stocks…

Healthcare has emerged as the top sector the “smart money” is most bullish on.

Here’s what that tells us.

Insight of the Day

Surveys can tell you where to look. But price tells you when to act.

Fund managers may be souring on semiconductors.

And they may be turning bullish on healthcare.

That gives us a clue.

But it does not give us a trade.

Fund managers can talk up a sector for weeks before their money actually moves in.

So I’m not buying healthcare just because it topped a survey.

I want price to prove it.

The survey points me toward the opportunity.

The chart tells me when it’s ready.

That’s why tomorrow morning…

I’ll be sharing exactly what you want to be looking for on a chart to target these explosive opportunities…

So keep an eye out for that.

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Huge Source of Market Confusion

Ross Givens — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:45:36 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

There’s a lot of confusion in the market right now.

And one of the reasons for that is we’re seeing bigger winners – and bigger losers.

Chart of the Day

Take a look at this chart.

The orange line shows dispersion – basically, how far apart individual stock returns are moving.

The white line shows correlation – how closely stocks are moving together.

Right now, dispersion is surging…

While correlation remains stuck near historic lows.

In plain English, stocks are no longer moving as one big pack.

Some are ripping higher.

Others are getting crushed.

And when all those moves get blended together inside the S&P 500, the index can look relatively calm…

Even while there’s chaos underneath.

That’s why this market feels so confusing.

The broad indexes are hiding just how violent the stock-by-stock moves have become.

And there may be more coming.

Check out this second chart.

Source: @BravoCycles

It tracks a recurring six-month cycle in the VIX.

The timing is never exact, and no cycle works perfectly…

But it suggests broad market volatility may be near a low and preparing to turn higher again.

So we already have record dispersion between individual stocks…

At the same time the broader volatility cycle may be starting to wake up.

That’s a powerful combination.

And as I explain below, it could create some of the biggest opportunities of the year.

Insight of the Day

The next volatility wave may happen stock by stock.

Most traders hear “volatility” and assume the entire market has to fall.

Not in this kind of environment.

When correlation is this low, volatility can hit different stocks in completely different ways.

Just look at IBM yesterday.

The stock plunged 25% in a single session…

While the major indexes still moved higher.

That’s the kind of market we’re dealing with.

One stock can surge…

While another collapses.

One sector can break out…

While another quietly enters a bear market.

That also makes broad market calls much less useful.

You can be completely right about the S&P 500…

And still own the wrong stocks.

But this confusion also creates mispricing.

When investors disagree this much, some stocks get pushed far too low…

While others can explode higher as the market suddenly realizes it got the story wrong.

Those are the opportunities I’m looking for right now.

And later this afternoon at 3 p.m. Eastern…

I’m going LIVE to show you how to take advantage of the stock-by-stock volatility and confusion most traders are getting crushed by.

Using a unique “underground” technique that has led to moves like:

347% in eight days…

211% in three days…

Even 806% in just six days.

It’s the same type of technique billionaire hedge fund managers and Wall Street titans use to siphon millions out of the markets practically every single day.

But I’ve modified it so it’s well suited to traders working with smaller accounts.

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Violent Rotations

Ross Givens — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:30:34 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

I talk a lot about market rotations in this newsletter.

They are a natural part of the stock market, almost like the weather.

But this year, we’re seeing some of the most violent rotations on record.

Chart of the Day

I’ve said before that tech is no longer just one single market.

And the two polar opposites are semiconductors and software.

For most of this year, semiconductors have been flying – with even huge stocks posting triple-digit gains.

Meanwhile software stocks have been sinking, with even highly profitable businesses seeing painful selloffs.

Semiconductors are the “hot” trade – software is the “stale” one.

Now, things may be shifting again, but that’s not the point of today’s newsletter.

Because if you look at today’s chart…

It shows how often semiconductors and software stocks have moved sharply apart from one another.

Specifically, it counts the number of times one group has outperformed the other by at least 10% over just 10 trading days.

And this year, that has already happened more than 50 times – by far the most on record.

In other words, the rotations are happening much faster and more violently than ever.

I explain the implications below.

Insight of the Day

Following rotations is one of the most surefire ways to beat the market

Following rotations means always being invested in the market leaders…

Which by definition, will always be outperforming the market.

That’s what makes following the rotations so powerful.

But now, with the rotations being so violent, it’s creating two critical implications.

One, following rotations is becoming increasingly difficult.

And two, at the same time, it’s becoming increasingly lucrative.

Higher difficulty, but higher reward.

Even the “smart money” has to play ball.

I’ve been hearing more and more stories about longer hours at all the investment funds as the money managers do their best to keep up with the speed of these rotations.

Because remember, while the “smart money” dominates the market as a whole…

Individual “smart money” funds don’t have that much sway.

So, they too are forced to keep up and follow these rotations – which, ironically, makes them even more violent.

The good news is, because the smart money is “forced” to keep up and keep moving…

We have more and more opportunities to follow their moves, and use their money for our own advantage.

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Retail on the Run?

Ross Givens — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:45:36 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Welcome back to a new week.

Recently in this newsletter, I shared how retail investors have almost been “trained” to buy market dips.

But as today’s chart shows…

They may now be on the run.

Chart of the Day

This chart shows net retail buying on a rolling 1-month basis.

The dark purple line is total net retail flows, while the lighter one shows single stock flows only.

But that distinction doesn’t matter that much in this case.

Because as you can see from the chart…

Retail flows on both a total and single-stock basis have been sharply falling.

In short, retail may be on the run…

Just as the S&P 500’s Put-Call ratio has spiked to the highest level in 4 months.

If you remember, the Put-Call ratio tells us the ratio of put options (bearish views) to call options (bullish views) on the index.

A spike in this ratio means a spike in bearishness.

But as I’ve said before, peak bearishness is actually bullish…

Which is why, as the table above also shows…

A spike in the S&P 500’s Put-Call ratio has historically been pretty bullish…

With the index higher by close to 3% four weeks out over 90% of the time.

So when you take two of these data points together – retail on the run, plus the put-call ratio spiking…

You have a unique situation that’s ripe to be exploited.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

When retail flees, the smart money gets bolder.

If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, then you already know that peak bearishness tends to be bullish.

But do you think the “average” retail trader knows that?

I can guarantee you they don’t.

Most will see other retail traders fleeing for the exits – and they do the same.

But the “smart money”?

They know exactly what this peak bearishness means.

And they can see the data showing that retail is on the run.

This means that soon, I believe we will likely see the “smart money” ramp up their buying…

Which is something we can take advantage of.

I’ll share more about that tomorrow morning – so keep an eye out for that.

In the meantime, make sure you watch my breakdown of the most important investment report of 2026.

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Volatility Event Incoming

Ross Givens — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Yesterday I told you about the hidden tech bear market.

Today, let me show you why tech stocks are likely to run into a lot more volatility.

Chart of the Day

This chart shows the spread between the VXN and the VIX.

The VIX measures expected volatility in the S&P 500.

The VXN is basically the Nasdaq’s version of the VIX.

So this spread tells us how much more volatility traders expect from the Nasdaq compared with the broader market.

And right now, that spread is sitting around the 90th percentile going back to 2001.

In simple terms…

Traders are expecting Nasdaq stocks to move much more violently than the S&P 500.

You don’t usually see this kind of gap.

For years, investors treated QQQ and SPY like versions of the same trade.

Different indexes, sure…

But both were driven by many of the same mega-cap leaders.

Now that relationship is starting to crack.

The options market is saying tech volatility is breaking away from broad market volatility.

And this lines up with the second chart.

It shows volatility in high-momentum stocks compared with the S&P 500.

And high-momentum volatility is surging.

That tells us the same thing from another angle:

The stocks that led the rally are now becoming much more unstable.

This does not mean tech has to crash.

But it does mean the hidden weakness I showed you yesterday is starting to become something more visible:

A volatility event.

I explain below.

Insight of the Day

Volatility warnings are not sell signals – they are preparation signals.

This is where most traders get it wrong.

They see tech volatility rising…

And immediately assume the move is to dump tech.

Not necessarily.

When volatility expands, the market starts separating stocks fast.

Dispersion spikes.

Weak names break down harder.

Strong names break out stronger.

So the goal is not to make one blanket call on “tech” or “momentum”.

The goal is to prepare for the incoming volatility…

By finding the specific setups volatility is creating.

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The Hidden Tech Bear Market

Ross Givens — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Everyone’s worried about tech “overvaluation”.

But what if most tech stocks were already in a bear market?

Chart of the Day

Here’s an interesting chart that shows that about 60% of tech stocks in the S&P 500 are trading at least 20% below their 52-week high.

According to the “standard” definition of a bear market…

That means the majority of tech stocks are in a bear market…

Something I’m willing to bet most traders – who are still worried about “overvaluation” – have no clue about.

In past newsletters, I’ve already shown how tech multiples have actually contracted this year…

Even as earnings growth has boomed.

And considering that the Iran war is heating up again…

We’ll likely see even more tech stocks fall into “bear market” territory within the next few weeks.

And yet, as I’ve also said recently…

The data is telling me that this bull market is still going strong.

I explain the apparent contradiction below.

Insight of the Day

The market is splitting apart under the surface

Under the surface, stocks are moving in completely different directions.

Some are breaking out.

Others are already down 20%, 30%, or more.

That’s why you can have a bull market and a bear market happening at the same time.

Sounds strange.

But that’s exactly what dispersion looks like.

And when dispersion gets this wide, being broadly “bullish” or “bearish” is not enough.

You need to know which stocks are still working…

Which ones are breaking down…

And how to profit from both sides of the move.

And with volatility spiking, so will this dispersion…

Leading to even more confusion and uncertainty in the market.

But volatility is not something to fear…

It’s something to use.

I’ll share more about my unique strategy for doing that tomorrow morning…

So keep an eye out for that.

But in the meantime, speaking of hidden bear markets…

Have you heard of the $58 billion trade nobody is talking about?

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Semiconductor Collapse Imminent?

Ross Givens — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

What do semiconductor and silver stocks have in common with each other?

The answer may surprise you.

Chart of the Day

This is an interesting chart from Morgan Stanley that shows how semiconductor stocks appear to be tracking the path forged by silver stocks four months ago.

Based on this chart…

You can expect that semiconductor stocks to chop around and falter as they sell off significantly.

Now, naturally you might ask – what relationship do semiconductor stocks have with silver stocks anyway?

Sure, silver is being used in AI data centers, so they’re not totally unrelated…

But most of the catalysts that move them are completely different.

For example…

Silver stocks are driven by things like precious metals demand, industrial usage, mining supply, real rates, and the dollar.

Semiconductor stocks are driven by AI capex, chip demand, data center spending, earnings revisions, and product cycles.

So because of that, I have seen a lot of people dismiss this chart out of hand.

I understand why.

And yet, my view is that the odds are that semiconductor stocks will likely follow the rough path traced by silver stocks four months ago.

I explain why below.

Insight of the Day

Crowded trades rhyme because trader psychology never changes.

Silver stocks and semiconductor stocks obviously aren’t the same.

But crowded trades often behave the same way.

Once everyone piles into a hot theme, the underlying story starts to matter less in the short term.

What matters more is positioning.

Who already bought?

Who is late?

Who is trapped if the trade turns?

Who starts selling once momentum stalls?

That psychology repeats across different sectors.

Silver. Semiconductors. AI. Energy. Small caps.

Different catalysts…

Same human behavior.

And ultimately, human behavior is what drives market prices.

That’s why I’m not looking to blindly chase the old leader here.

If semis are about to chop, stall, or pull back…

The better opportunity is finding the next clean breakout setup before the crowd crowds into it.

That’s exactly what I’ll be breaking down in today’s LIVE briefing at 3 p.m. Eastern…

My #1 breakout chart pattern for spotting these setups before they become obvious.

You see, chart patterns work for the same reason this semiconductor/silver analog matters:

They reveal trader psychology.

Fear… greed… exhaustion… accumulation…

The moment sellers start losing control and buyers start pressing again.

And it’s not just my personal #1 pattern…

It’s a pattern that was ranked no. 1 in both bull and bear markets by the guy who literally wrote the book on chart patterns…

And it’s helped us get the shot at gains like 70% in 10 days…

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And even 148% in just 2 days:

Later today, I’ll be sharing all the details about this prophetic pattern…

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Should You ALWAYS Buy the Dip?

Ross Givens — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Hey, Ross here:

Yesterday, I showed you why the bull market is stronger beneath the surface than the S&P 500 and Nasdaq would suggest.

Today, let’s answer the obvious question:

Should you just keep buying the dip?

Chart of the Day

Take a look at this first chart.

It shows the S&P 500’s bottom-up target price versus the actual closing price.

The dark line shows where analysts believe the S&P 500 should be based on their company-level price targets.

And right now, that target sits around 8,918.

That’s roughly 19% above where the S&P 500 is trading today.

Now, I don’t blindly trust analyst targets.

I never have.

But this does tell us something important:

Wall Street still sees meaningful upside from here.

And that’s backed up by the next chart.

During Q2, analysts actually raised earnings estimates by 3.4%.

That’s unusual.

Normally, analysts start the quarter too optimistic…

Then gradually cut estimates as reality sets in.

But this quarter, they did the opposite.

They raised numbers.

In fact, this was the biggest upward revision since Q2 2021.

So we have two pieces of evidence pointing in the same direction:

Analysts see more upside…

And earnings expectations are being revised higher, not lower.

That’s bullish.

But here’s where things get interesting.

Take a look at this final chart.

It shows retail cash buying on S&P 500 up days versus down days.

And in 2026, retail traders are buying dips aggressively.

Very aggressively.

In fact, the buying on down days is far above anything we’ve seen in recent years.

So yes…

Even retail has learned to buy the dip.

And to be fair, it has worked.

But as I explain below…

That doesn’t mean blindly buying every dip is the smartest move from here.

Insight of the Day

While retail is blindly buying dips, you can do better

Buying the dip has worked.

No question about it.

Every time the market has pulled back, buyers have stepped in.

And now retail traders have learned the lesson too.

As the chart above shows, they’re buying down days aggressively – more aggressively than we’ve seen in years.

But when a trade becomes this obvious, you don’t want to be the last one doing it.

The easy version of “buy the dip” is no longer where the edge is.

The edge is looking beyond the broad index…

And knowing which dips in specific sectors are worth buying.

Because money is not flowing evenly across the market right now.

As I showed you yesterday, the “market of stocks” is strong…

But leadership is changing.

Money is rotating away from the most obvious momentum trades…

And into other areas that most traders are still not watching closely enough.

Why do you think the Dow just hit an all-time high – even as the Nasdaq is stalling?

The money flows are shifting.

And if you want to outperform in this kind of market, you don’t want to blindly buy the index.

You want to follow the big money flows into the stocks and sectors that could lead next.

That’s exactly what I’m going to show you later this morning at 11 a.m. Eastern.

I’m going LIVE to break down:

The areas of the market I believe could lead next…

How I’m tracking these money flows…

And how to position before the crowd catches on.

The strategy I’ll be breaking down has helped put us onto moves of 155% in 150 days…

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