No hot-take feeds. No 24/7 ticker. A short editorial brief on the moves and events that matter this week — and the playbooks that match.
Headline CPI came in cooler than the whisper. Two-year yields cracked, equity futures squeezed, and the dollar offered. Watch for a gap-and-go in rate-sensitive names like XLU, IWM, and the long-duration tech basket.
Implied move sits near 7%. If you're trading options into the print, size around the IV crush, not the direction. Post-earnings drift is where the cleaner edges live.
XLE printed a high-volume reclaim of its 50-day with broad participation across XOM, CVX, and SLB. Pair this with a relative-strength scanner and you've got a clean intraday rotation setup.
MTF alerts are now first-class — fire on a 5-minute close after a daily confirmation without external services. Our Opening Range Pulse v1.2 ships with native MTF support out of the box.
Fade the first move, trade the third. We break down the historical edge on the four 5-minute bars after the 2pm statement and the 2:30pm presser — and how to size each.
IWM closed back above its 200-day for the first time since February. Russell-only breadth thrust models flipped green. Watch for follow-through in beta names like AFRM, UPST, and SOFI.