The bounce lasted an hour. QQQ closed below 690 and is sitting on its 200-day, Microsoft broke its 50-day, and the equal-weight S&P is near a new high. Three charts I'm keeping on my screen.

QQQ closed right on 690 and the market is deeply oversold. Five of this weekend’s big-picture charts, free, and what I’m watching if the bounce comes.

80% of S&P stocks rose and the index still fell. That's rotation, and it's healthy as long as QQQ holds 700. Three charts I'm keeping on my screen: QQQ, the equal-weight S&P, and the VIX.

A cash-secured put is a limit order with a check attached, right up until the stock falls hard. Here is where that framing breaks.

Risk is stop distance times size. Pick the stop from the trade, pick the size from the stop, and never move it on impulse.

The strike is the door. The breakeven is the finish line. Being right on direction is not enough if you are not right by enough, in time.

The AI buildout keeps running into walls: money, equipment, and now the business that pays for it. Three charts I'm keeping on my screen: Google Search growth, the 10-year yield, and chips at their 50-day.

Google Search grew 12% when the Street wanted 15%, and the stock dropped as much as 10% after hours. Agents don’t look at ads. The lead chart plus seven of today’s charts, free.

Chips are up 6% in two days, but Meta just sold $25 billion of stock and a transformer can take two years to get. The lead chart plus seven of today’s charts, free.

Assignment isn't where the wheel goes wrong. The covered call you sell next is. A simple $50 put example, the right call, and the trap.

The S&P barely moved, but Meta lost 9% on the week, the momentum trade is down 41% from its peak, and hedge funds just had their broadest losing day since Covid.

Stocks bounced, but junk bonds never followed. Three charts I'm keeping on my screen into Fed week: HYG and its 200-day, the VIX buy signal, and health care at a new high.

Count bets, not tickers. A book that looks diversified can be one trade when the market gets scared.

A roll is a close plus a new open. Judge the new trade on its own, not as a way to avoid a loss.

Stop chasing the perfect trade. Take the good one that fits your rules, at a size you can survive.

Tech took the lead back Wednesday and Meta delivered after the bell. Now three levels decide whether this bounce has legs: QQQ's 50-day, the chip demand zone, and Meta's 20-day.

Tech came back, SpaceX jumped 7.8%, and Meta delivered after the bell. The free Chart Room for Wednesday, October 21, 2026: the board, QQQ at the 50-day, semis, space stocks and Meta.

Demand for bandwidth in 2000 was real. The shareholders still got zero. Here's the mismatch that sank them, and why it matters for CoreWeave.

Quiet stuff isn't staying quiet in this market. Here's how I'm selling premium now.

Everyone reads record GPU rents as endless demand. The bond market is reading them as a building problem.