VIX signals Friday fear: heading into the weekend with the highest VIX value since April 2025. Market needs a catalyst. Who’s holding? 1
SPY closed spooky at $666.06, just in time for Friday the 13th. 2
The SPY hasn’t had a 4-red-day losing streak this year. VIX enters tomorrow with its 2nd highest closing since April 2025. Tomorrow’s Friday the 13th. 3
10 Year Treasury breaking out. War, inflation rise, and credit crisis puzzles are aligning. 4
Got “Michael Burried” on $ADBE’s -5% initial reaction. 5
$ADBE CEO stepping down post-earnings, -30% YTD, mirrors $PYPL’s path to a 26% pop after buyout rumors. Stranger things have happened. 6
The $RIVN vs $TSLA narrative is flawed. Rivian is down 8% on R2 reveal. The “$45K version” ships late 2027; what’s available now is $58K. Classic sell the news. Tesla cars are becoming abandonware. 7
$NVDA is surprisingly resilient, shrugging off market pressure. It just won’t go down. 8
$MELI is now trading at its cheapest valuation ever. 9
$NVDA CEO Jensen Huang’s “five-layer cake” presents investment opportunities across the entire AI stack: Energy ($CEG, $VST), Chips ($TSM, $MU), Infrastructure ($NBIS, $VRT), and Models ($GOOGL, $META). 10
To truly track AI demand, look beyond Nvidia to Taiwan’s contract manufacturers like Foxconn. 11
$GOOGL’s Gemini continues to gain market share, rising to 24% from 21% three months ago and 6% a year ago, solidifying its place in the AI economy. 12
Samsung and NVIDIA are co-developing ferroelectric NAND, driven by AI simulation that’s 10,000Ă— faster than TCAD and offers a 96% power reduction. 13
The US oil market shows historic transformation. It’s been a net exporter every quarter since 2020, with exports up to ~360 million barrels per quarter, the 2nd-highest on record. US oil exports surged +800% since 2008 due to shale. 14
Odds of zero Fed rate cuts in 2026 jumped 17 points in two weeks. Oil prices are approaching $100. 15