8/11/26 Recap

The SPY is in this holding pattern until we see CPI tomorrow morning. This is still a bull flag but bad news would invalidate it. Our first support would be the 8 ema just below and then the 21 ema below 760. Along with that this morning we got news from Pakistan that a peace deal was close with the US and Iran which instantly flushed oil from a nice green day to red, but it has since recovered to turn positive. This is an exhausting game with all these back and forth headlines but if CPI is cool tomorrow the stage is set for another leg up. We also got news this morning that Anthropic would like to ipo in the next 90 days so you’d imagine that would send the ai trade on another small frenzy. Everything is there for continuation if inflation is cool and the war is winding down.

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Here are today’s large cap scans from the database, all the other scans can be found in the link below. One thing that stands out to me today is all these energy names popping up here in a momentum scan: APD,MPC,ET,OVV, and VLO. 5 of the 14 that scored 7 or greater are energy related. That isn’t ideal because energy up means equities down usually but we’ll have to see what this rumored peace deal this morning amounts to.

Database Updates

So we’re working on a big one right now and I want your feedback and input on what to add/change. Below is the discover tab I’m hoping to have up and running in the next week or two. This one's a search engine so to speak. Pick any combination, say, put sales on mega caps in low-VIX weeks, hit Search, and you get that exact profile's win rate and trade count, plus a ranked list of the best and worst-performing profiles the data can find, discovered automatically across every combination of setup, size, sector, and conditions. I know it is alot but I do have over 4 years of data I’ve logged to work with here so there is alot to take in.

For instance this would be put sales over a certain timeframe. This is just off the trades I’ve logged but you will be able to search just the AI generated trades and that will help me tweak the AI generated trades to make them better over time. With this you’ll be able to see what trades you may want to focus on more and this in particular is why I’ve always said the put sales are the most important data point of all I log, the win rate below showing 80% expire worthless is why you can sell puts just a tad below the ones you’re seeing and do even better. I still have alot more coming but I always love getting your feedback on what tweaks to make before I release something. So leave a comment below if there’s something you want to see.

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