The Market Stats
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The Market Stats
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Morning market thoughts… • $VIX just hit its highest level since last March — when the market was already ~13% off its highs • $SPY is currently only ~3.6% off its highs • Oil just posted its largest weekly surge in over 40 years • Jobs report massively missed expectations • High yield credit ( $HYG) just had its worst week and highest volume since last April • Equal-weight S&P ( $RSP) just had its worst week since last April And after all that… $SPY finished the week down less than 2%. So what’s holding the index up right now? Something that should sound familiar if you’ve been following my posts… Software ( $IGV). The sector fell over 30% from its October highs on AI disruption fears. But in the past few weeks something has clearly shifted. $IGV has printed three of the largest weekly volume bars in its history — all clustered right at major structural support — and just posted its best week since April 2025. That kind of volume clustering after a sharp drawdown often signals large repositioning or supply absorption. In other words: the worst of the software panic may already be behind it. Unfortunately at the same time something else happened this week. Semiconductors ( $SMH) finally rolled over. • Worst week since last April • Highest volume since last April Which fits the mean reversion trade I've been talking about for weeks: Hardware → Software rotation. Now to be clear: Rotations like this rarely happen smoothly. They often create bumpiness and air pockets as capital moves between sectors, and there are many chip names that look long overdue for a healthy pullback. But if the software accumulation continues, buying there could offset some of the pressure from selling in hardware and other areas of the market. So for now the market appears caught between two opposing forces. On one side are the headlines: • Credit weakening • Volatility spiking • Oil repricing geopolitical risk • Stagflation concerns creeping back And on the other: heavy repositioning into beaten-down software. That tension may explain why the index itself still hasn’t broken. Lots of headlines. Still holding… for now.







