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Leeking Alpha2026-10-29 · Alphabet sinks the index, not the market
The indexes fell on Alphabet's revenue miss and AI-spending jitters, yet about four in five S&P 500 stocks rose as money rotated out of tech. The Signal…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-28 · Fed Holds, Chips Carry a Narrow Tape
The Fed held and the indexes edged up, but fewer than half of stocks rose; chips and AI infrastructure did the lifting while rate-sensitive sectors fell. The…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-27 · Setups meet earnings week
Tech carried a narrow up day, and both of tonight's constructive setups report within two sessions, so the earnings print decides, not the chart. The…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-26 · Anthropic filing revives the AI trade
An IPO filing and a giant chip-financing deal pulled AI stocks back up; every fresh positive setup in the scan sits in AI infrastructure, ahead of a week…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-23 · Oil spikes, leadership quietly rotates
Oil at a five-month high pushed yields up and dragged banks and blue chips lower, while the scan's only fresh constructive setup sits in energy and the…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-22 · AI Doubts Sink Tech, Dow Holds
Doubts about AI spending hit chips and the Nasdaq hard while the Dow finished flat, and the scan turned away from technology toward steadier names. The Signal…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-21 · Tech Bounces, Two Top-Tier Names
Technology led a rebound in the names that sold off last week. Broadcom and Vertiv reached the top tier, but both remain in downtrends and Vertiv reports…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-20 · Dow Leads, Two Top Names Wait
Blue chips led while tech stalled; two names reached the top tier, but one is in a downtrend and the other reports in six sessions, so both call for patience…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-19 · Narrow Tech Bounce, No Top Names
Tech bounced after the worst week since June, but the rise was narrow and no name reached the top tier; the sharpest read is a bearish one on Thermo Fisher two…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-16 · Tech Sell-Off, Two Top Names
A tech-led sell-off ended the broad market's worst week since June, while two names outside technology, a bank and an oilfield services company, reached…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-15 · Rotation Day, Two Top Names
Blue chips and small caps led while tech recovered to flat, and two names reached the top tier for the first time in days, both with earnings close enough to…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-14 · Hot CPI Hits Tech
A hotter-than-expected inflation report sent tech sharply lower while blue chips held; no stock reached the top tier, and the clearest reads are distribution…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-13 · Quiet tape before CPI
A flat, waiting session ahead of September inflation; the only top-tier setup was a beaten-down food stock, while health care joined tech in flashing early…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-12 · Tech Steps Back Before CPI
A flat market hid a clear rotation: money left tech for industrials and real estate, two days before September inflation. The Signal The broad market closed…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-09 · Relief Bounce, Rotation Holds
A broad relief bounce led by blue chips, but money is still rotating out of tech and into industrials, real estate and staples. The Signal All three major…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-08 · Chips Slip, Money Moves to Real Assets
A chip-led pullback hit the Nasdaq while the Dow held up, and the money leaving momentum tech is showing up in real estate and steady cash-flow names. The…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-07 · Bonds Drive a Quiet Rotation
Stocks dipped as the ten-year yield hit its highest since 2002, and money rotated from mega-cap tech toward real estate, staples and other rate-sensitive names…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-06 · Record Close, Narrow Rally Underneath
The S&P 500 set a record as oil and long-term yields eased, but most stocks are still below trend and money is rotating out of health care and tech highs into…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-05 · A Record Built on Six Names
The Nasdaq closed at a record on soft services data, but the ten-year hit a new 52-week high and most stocks are still in downtrends, so this is narrowing…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-02 · Weak Jobs, Stubborn Yields
A 29,000 payrolls miss knocked out most of an October hike and stocks rallied, but long yields rose anyway, the fourth straight day dovish news failed to help…
Leeking Alpha2026-10-01 · Yields Retreat, Two-Speed Market
Stocks closed higher as the ten-year yield backed off a 24-year high, but the gains still rest on a narrow group of technology leaders. The Signal The ten-year…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-30 · Good News, Higher Long Yields
Cooler inflation and a softer Fed could not stop the 30-year yield from making a new high, so rate hopes no longer lift stocks, and selling is now…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-29 · A Flat Close Hiding Bad Data
Consumer confidence hit a 12-year low and the 30-year yield a 24-year high, yet the index barely moved, because a handful of giants are carrying it while most…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-28 · Oil and yields rattle the open
An oil jump on top of a 19-year high in the 10-year yield pulled stocks lower, but the tape looks like rotation out of index leaders and toward beaten-up…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-25 · Stocks Rally Through a Nineteen-Year Yield High
Stocks closed the week higher even as the ten-year yield hit its highest in roughly nineteen years, but three in four stocks remain in down-trends, and the one…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-24 · Flat Index, Sinking Stocks, Soaring Yields
The index stood still for a third day while the ten-year yield hit its highest since 2007 on strong economic data, and underneath, most stocks kept sliding as…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-23 · Five-Year Yield Breaks Five Percent
The five-year Treasury yield cleared five percent for the first time since 2007 and stocks finally stepped lower, a discount-rate shock rather than a growth…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-22 · Tech Holds the Record, Money Rotates
The Nasdaq 100 notched another high as oil slid on Iran diplomacy, but the typical stock kept falling, and the clearest signals were warnings on stretched…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-21 · A Narrow Chip Rally Before the Summit
A chip-led melt-up sent the Nasdaq Composite to a record, but the typical stock barely moved, and the sharpest read of the day was the refiners breaking as…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-18 · Calm Tape, Narrow Market
The index looks calm after the Fed hike, but most stocks are still in downtrends and fresh buying is showing up in utilities and industrials while warning…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-17 · Oil Eases, Utilities Rotate In
The Fed's post-hike selloff reversed the next day as oil fell on signs of a faster Saudi pipeline restart and possible U.S.-Iran de-escalation, and the…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-16 · Rate hikes, oil distribution, industrial rotation
The Fed hiked and signaled more to come, sending rates and the dollar higher while stocks slid; the scan shows energy quietly distributing into strength even…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-15 · A Rates-and-Oil Story, Not an AI One
Stocks fell a second day on a surging ten-year yield and crude above one hundred five dollars ahead of tomorrow's Fed decision, with the scan flagging a…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-14 · Oil, Rates and a Split Tape
An AI-safety political spat, a fresh Middle East escalation and a five percent ten-year yield hit stocks together, but underneath the selloff the cleanest read…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-11 · Refiners Sold Into Their Own Strength
A fourth straight down day was driven by an oil-led inflation shock that flipped Fed odds from a cut toward a hike five days before the meeting, and the…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-10 · Oil Tops $100, Hike Odds Rise
A fourth straight down day was driven by oil breaking above $100 and a hot producer-price report that flipped rate expectations from a cut to a possible hike…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-09 · Oil Tops $100, Rate Fears Return
Oil broke above $100 on renewed Iran tensions, reviving the inflation and rate fears markets had just started to shake off, and every clean signal in…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-08 · Oil Spike Splits Dow From Nasdaq
An oil-driven spike sent the Dow sharply lower while the Nasdaq barely moved, and the market's only one-sided signal today pointed to distribution inside…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-07 · Hike Odds Jump, Utilities In, Software Out
A stronger-than-expected jobs report pushed rate-hike odds sharply higher, and money kept rotating out of energy and software into utilities and industrials…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-04 · Jobs Shock Revives the Hike Trade
A much-stronger-than-expected August jobs report pushed rate-hike odds sharply higher and hit small caps hardest, while the tape underneath showed an unusually…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-03 · Rotation Rewards Utilities, Punishes Software
A dovish Fed remark cut rate-hike odds and triggered a clean rotation into utilities and industrials out of software, even as an overnight Iran strike spiked…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-02 · A Narrow Bounce, Not a Turn
A three-day losing streak ended on falling Treasury yields and easing oil fears, but the rally was carried almost entirely by Nvidia while money quietly…
Leeking Alpha2026-09-01 · Bonds Shake the Tape, Not Growth
A weekend Hormuz tanker strike sent every index lower, but the real story is a global bond selloff pushing Japan's 10-year above 3% and the US 30-year…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-31 · Oil Shock Meets a Hawkish Fed
A weekend strike in the Strait of Hormuz sent oil sharply higher and handed an already-hawkish Fed a fresh inflation argument, and for the first time in this…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-30 · A Hawkish Speech Ends a Winning Week
A Fed official's hawkish Jackson Hole speech pushed next month's hike odds to a coin flip and hit growth stocks hardest, but broad money flow and…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-27 · Software Squeeze Ahead of the Fed
Nvidia's blowout guide sparked a narrow software melt-up while quiet accumulation built in utilities and semiconductors underneath, and the real test…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-24 · Semis Sink, US-Canada Trade War Escalates
Chip stocks led today's selloff as the US-Canada trade war went live, even as broad market breadth stayed intact and today's confirmed reversal…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-23 · 19-Year Bond High, Health Care Overheats
The thirty-year Treasury yield hit a nineteen-year high and stocks bounced only on strong Friday data, while our signals flagged eighteen health care names…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-20 · Walmart Rattles Retail, Medtronic Flags All Bearish
Walmart's slowest comparable-sales growth since 2020 and a reversing bond-market rally sent stocks lower across the board, but the broad trend remains…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-19 · A Rates-and-Oil Tape in an AI Costume
Three down days ended on a Treasury-driven yield relief rally, but the confluence signals are almost entirely bearish and concentrated in health care, software…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-18 · Bond Yields Squeeze the Crowded Trades
The 30-year Treasury yield hit a 19-year high and knocked equities lower, but breadth stays intact — this reads as rotation out of crowded rate-sensitive…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-17 · Rotation Widens, Financials Join the Fade
Every confirmed reversal signal today pointed bearish, the most one-sided reading in weeks, spreading from health care and tech into financials, while the only…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-16 · Rotation Holds, Retail Earnings Loom
Every confirmed reversal signal this week pointed bearish and clustered in this year's crowded winners, while defensive staples quietly saw inflows, as…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-13 · New Highs, Quiet Rotation
The index closed at fresh records again on cooling inflation data, but every confirmed reversal signal this week points bearish, and money is quietly rotating…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-12 · Records Up Top, Distribution Underneath
The index closed at fresh records again, but the confluence board flagged one of its most lopsided bearish readings of the year, with quiet accumulation…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-11 · Three Earnings Winners Turn Overbought
Three stocks that just delivered genuine earnings beats and raised guidance are now flashing overbought signals after their rallies, while the only bullish…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-10 · All Bearish Confluence, Market Waits on CPI
Zero bullish setups and fourteen bearish ones stacked up today, with financials, insurers, industrials, materials, and health care leading the stretch, as the…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-08 · Records on Soft Jobs, Distribution in Financials
A weak jobs report pushed stocks to fresh records on rate-cut hopes, but every leading signal turned bearish together, with financials at the center of a quiet…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-06 · Records Up, Financials Distributing
The index barely moved but every leading signal turned bearish together, with distribution concentrated in financials, health care, and technology. The Signal…
Leeking Alpha2026-08-05 · Beat the Print, Sold the Pop
Three names that just beat earnings this week, Assurant, Mastercard and Booking, are exactly where our confluence signals are flashing bearish, a reminder that…