TMAD Update: War Stocks and Gas Prices

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Hi everyone,

Big gap down in the market today on rising bond yields and higher oil prices linked to Middle East tensions. Elevated Treasury yields put pressure on growth stocks. The 10-year yield climbed to multi-month highs around 4.74%, while the 30-year hit its highest level since 2007 near 5.3%. Higher yields make future earnings less attractive and raise borrowing costs, hitting high-valuation tech and AI names the hardest.

We currently have no semiconductors in the long-term book. We may trade them if the technical setup is clear, but most of those names remain very choppy. We’ll wait for better trends to return. Until then, focus on stocks that already show a clean trend.

We post daily names that are in a clean uptrend with momentum. SCORE under TMAD is highlighting a bunch of names — you can check their technical charts and GEX and trade them as well.

We have not been trading the strategy since early summer because of the choppy conditions. It does not work well in this environment, but it still surfaces solid names every day.

In short, it was a classic risk-off day: higher yields plus energy and geopolitical uncertainty hit the AI/tech complex hardest and pulled the broader market lower. Defensive areas like healthcare and energy held up better.

It’s good to have a mixed portfolio going into fall.

Let’s see SPX levels and our trading book update + trade ideas into tomorrow.