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Issue #28 · Thursday, July 30, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 19.4 ▼ from 20.7 yesterday | | Tech stocks diverged sharply as markets fell; Microsoft gained on cloud strength while Meta slumped on missed guidance and cash flow concerns. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,316.15 -1.52%
-2.44% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 24,442.94 -1.74%
-4.86% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,594.14 -2.19%
-1.20% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,906.31 -1.61%
-1.81% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | GOOGL Alphabet | +0.90% | | AAPL Apple | -0.56% | | MSFT Microsoft | -0.71% |
| Laggards | NVDA Nvidia | -3.55% | | SPCX SpaceX | -3.32% | | TSLA Tesla | -2.97% |
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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 (7,468.10) and 200-day (7,015.51) averages — a trend in transition. 30-day range 7,316.15–7,575.39; currently in the lower third of that range. RSI(14) 30 — 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 RSI? The Relative Strength Index, a 0–100 momentum gauge. Below 30 is traditionally called "oversold" and above 70 "overbought" — descriptions of recent momentum, not signals about what comes next. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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