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Issue #27 · Wednesday, July 29, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 18.3 ▼ from 18.7 yesterday | | Worth noting Nvidia (NVDA) moved -4.99% on the day. | | S&P 500 inched higher while Nasdaq fell as chip stocks tumbled on AI concerns, offsetting mixed earnings from blue-chip companies. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,413.18 +0.07%
-0.60% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 24,932.08 -0.82%
-2.30% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,210.08 +0.96%
+0.12% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,948.04 +0.27%
-0.48% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | GOOGL Alphabet | +2.13% | | MSFT Microsoft | +1.94% | | AAPL Apple | +1.17% |
| Laggards | NVDA Nvidia | -4.99% | | SPCX SpaceX | -1.36% | | TSLA Tesla | -1.22% |
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The day's best and worst of the tracked indices and mega-caps · day-over-day change. |
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● The Read S&P 500 — description, not prediction Between its 50-day (7,472.04) and 200-day (7,005.74) averages — a trend in transition. 30-day range 7,354.02–7,575.39; currently in the lower third of that range. RSI(14) 39 — momentum weak. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Partner The charts we read every morning TradingView is the charting platform a lot of "The Read" leans on — live charts, screeners and alerts for stocks, indexes and the VIX. New to it? This link puts toward a paid plan. Try TradingView → |
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Markets 101 What is a moving average? The average closing price over a set number of days — the 50-day and 200-day are the common ones. Traders use price versus these lines as a rough trend yardstick, nothing more. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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