Sep 11, 2026 · 1h 16m
Market bounce tests breadth as Apple breaks out
Stocks React Positively To Negative News; Apple, Bloom, Heartflow In Focus
The episode examines whether a news-defying rebound can become durable leadership or remains a narrow, choppy trade requiring limited exposure.
- 1Weak breadth and unreliable moving averages leave the major indexes at a critical market juncture.
- 2Apple offers technology exposure through a breakout, while Bloom Energy presents a far more volatile AI-linked setup.
- 3HeartFlow and energy stocks show why sales growth, relative strength, and conviction matter beyond headline-driven moves.
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The hosts contrast Apple’s breakout with Bloom Energy’s volatile AI-linked setup, showing how different forms of technology exposure carry different risks.
The brief
Alissa Coram and Mike Webster open with a market bounce that defied negative news, then question whether deteriorating breadth and uncertain Fed expectations can support it.
Mike’s checklist centers on whether indexes can reclaim and hold key moving averages, while repeated head fakes make relative strength more useful than rigid indicators.
Apple’s breakout offers a comparatively defensive route into technology, contrasting with Bloom Energy’s wide, volatile AI-related setup and its uneven group participation.
HeartFlow emerges as an earnings-breakout candidate, broadening the discussion from traditional profits to sales growth and recurring revenue when evaluating IPOs.
Energy is attracting money, but news-driven commodity trades can punish weak holders; the episode’s conclusion favors conviction, selectivity, and controlled exposure.
What was said on this episode
29 statements · 10 positive · 13 negative · 1 mixed · 5 neutral
The current market environment is choppy until sustained technical improvement appears.
“you got to realize it's a choppy environment until it's not”
Listen at 6:11
The Fed chair will likely avoid rate cuts for the rest of the year.
“My guess would be he's going to be very, he's going to leave himself wide open and not doing any cuts the rest of the year.”
Listen at 9:30
The market will assume one additional Federal Reserve rate move this year.
“But I think the market is going to assume that he's going to do one more in there.”
Listen at 9:37
Several days below the 21-day moving average signal a changed, downward trend.
“when your high gets stuck underneath the 21-day for several days, that's a really, really bad sign. It's telling you that that trend has changed and it's going down.”
Listen at 11:35
Market advances can persist despite weakness in the average stock.
“you can have sustained moves in the market with the average stock not doing well”
Listen at 12:35
Historical yield-curve inversions generally did not change subsequent market behavior.
“it was a non-event. It just didn't change it if you looked at every single time it happened.”
Listen at 16:02
The Federal Reserve will likely hike rates at its next meeting.
“I think it would be very illogical for him not to hike.”
Listen at 18:00
The stock market remains in a historically large bull market.
“we're in a major bull market, one of the biggest of, you know, of all of history.”
Listen at 19:02
Cybersecurity stocks offered substantial growth exposure at the breakout point.
“that is a place where we could have gotten tons of, they're all growth names or from a sales standpoint, their growth.”
Listen at 20:19
Weakness across software, chips, and biotech is unfavorable for the market.
“So that's not a good look.”
Listen at 23:07
Apple’s new leadership creates potential for substantial upside.
“But now you've got an opportunity for someone new to come in and take some risks. So there's some potential there for a lot of nice upside.”
Listen at 25:30
Apple has recently performed roughly in line with the S&P 500.
“But what's interesting is, yeah, and I like how you marked it with the RS line just basically being flat.”
Listen at 25:39
Apple will not make another massive upward move if it remains conservative.
“if they keep on playing it safe like that, they're never going to have another massive move up”
Listen at 27:43
Extreme valuations make Bloom Energy’s fair value difficult to determine.
“Because when you start getting in these things with extreme valuations, nobody knows what it should really be valued at.”
Listen at 30:10
Bloom Energy is a notable standout among AI-related stocks.
“So this is one of those notable standout stories in the AI space.”
Listen at 33:03
AI end-use companies will attract more attention than AI infrastructure leaders within two or three years.
“that's going to be probably what everyone's talking about two or three years from now when it's not about the NVIDIAs of the world.”
Listen at 37:11
HeartFlow currently has no earnings.
“So this is another stock he would have shot me for. Mike, why are you talking about a stock that doesn't have earnings?”
Listen at 40:45
Sales growth and recurring revenue have become key investment criteria alongside earnings.
“sales growth and recurring revenue is like the golden thing, the way earnings used to be the golden thing.”
Listen at 41:21
The S&P 500 is likely to trade sideways next week.
“This is sideways for next week.”
Listen at 42:59
The Nasdaq is likely to move sideways or slightly lower.
“So through this lens, you're looking at sideways to maybe slightly down.”
Listen at 43:24
RSP’s breakdown is problematic for the broader market.
“It just really is what it is.”
Listen at 47:17
A decline below the 200-day moving average signals a materially worse market condition.
“once you go under the 200 day you're in a whole different world”
Listen at 51:11
The market has recently been highly choppy.
“We've been in a very choppy market.”
Listen at 54:14
Traders should reduce reliance on indicators the market repeatedly ignores.
“when the market isn't caring about it, you've just kind of got to care less about it.”
Listen at 55:50
Current market strength is concentrated in mega-cap technology stocks.
“the strength tends to be right now it's with the mags in general”
Listen at 59:54
Investor money is currently concentrating in mega-cap stocks.
“It does seem like it's in the mega caps is where the money is kind of hiding.”
Listen at 1:00:30
Short-term news makes oil-related stock movements difficult to predict.
“there's no way of predicting that short-term news.”
Listen at 1:03:16
Traders should avoid oversized positions in energy stocks.
“I just wouldn't make it an oversized bet.”
Listen at 1:03:36
Commodity-related stocks can sometimes experience sustained advances.
“there are times where that you can have really sustained moves.”
Listen at 1:04:58
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