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The Desk · GammaQC Research · updated through the trading day
Close, Aug 12 2026: July CPI printed 0.1% monthly and 3.4% annual, in line. SMCI closed +19.02%, MU +4.92%, NVDA +3.03% as the crude trade went quiet entirely.
Read the brief ▸Close, Aug 11 2026: 36 of 50 names advanced, 39 on a BUY bias, yet the S&P 500 closed down 0.3% at 7,728.20. The drag was AMZN -2.09%, CSCO -1.75%, AVGO -1.50%.
Read the brief ▸Close, Aug 10 2026: energy led with SLB +5.28% and XOM +4.41% while airlines were sold, UAL -4.48%. Our board closed 78% advancing, 44 of 50 on a BUY bias.
Read the brief ▸Close, Aug 4 2026: S&P +1.79% to 7,737 and the Dow above 54,000 — both records — as Hormuz headlines drained the barrel. Our board closed 84% advancing.
Read the brief ▸At the close, Jul 29 2026: the Dow fell 2.19% to 51,594.14 on a hawkish hold with three hike dissents, while Brent jumped 7.9% to $90.74 on Middle East escalation. Our board split 54% advancing along one seam.
Read the brief ▸Week of Jul 27-31 2026: MSFT, META, AAPL, MA and KO each beat 8 of 8 quarters. Their average 5-day post-earnings drift spans +4.54% to -5.13%. The Weekly Ledger audits the gap.
Read the brief ▸At the close, Jul 23 2026: Alphabet fell 7% and Tesla ~15% on the AI-capex bill; breadth thinned a third day to 38% as leadership rotated into defense — LMT +10.54% led the board — energy and pharma.
Read the brief ▸At the close, Jul 22 2026: the visibility-over-multiple rotation held a third day (OKTA −3.54, DDOG −3.54) but breadth thinned from 76% to 46% as the tape de-risked into tonight's mega-cap prints.
Read the brief ▸Friday's high-beta leadership carries in on a coin-flip board - 34 of 50 ranked names BUY-biased, 52% advancing - while the bellwether's news flow inverts to 8 positive against 4 negative. Seven names report today.
Read the brief ▸Financials were sold a second straight day (GS -2.76) and breadth thinned to 26 of 50 advancing, but the bid did not flee to safety - it jumped into high-beta EVs and momentum: LCID +13.9, PSTG +9.1.
Read the brief ▸Breadth printed 41 of 50 BUY and 33 advancing for a second straight day, but leadership changed hands again — GS −4.9 reversed Wednesday's bank leg and AMD −5.3 leaked through a TSM beat, while pharma and payments took the bid.
Read the brief ▸Breadth held at 41 of 50 BUY and 33 advancing, but leadership fractured into single-name catalysts (LCID +28.8, PYPL +17.2) while semis cooled — AMD −3.5 the board's worst, into TSM before tomorrow's open.
Read the brief ▸Breadth thins to 37 of 50 BUY as META prints the board's first SELL. Capital rotated into energy and financial rails straight into today's bank-earnings gate.
Read the brief ▸The morning's buy-visibility thesis reversed: semis led the board down (MU −4.3, AMD −4.2) while energy, software and payments led. Breadth held risk-on but thinned to 37 of 50 BUY, into tomorrow's bank gate.
Read the brief ▸Breadth held at 40 of 50 BUY and 60% advancing, but leadership rotated — the morning's semi leaders (MU −5.2, AMD −3.9, TSM −2.0) rolled over while software, energy and payments took the bid.
Read the brief ▸40 of 50 ranked names hold a BUY bias but only 58% advance, down from Friday's 62%. The bid is narrowing into the leaders ahead of tomorrow's bank gate.
Read the brief ▸Risk-on, but selective: 41 of 50 ranked names carry a BUY bias, with leadership concentrated in AI-infrastructure — a green screen hiding a single decision.
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