Stock Market This Week: Neoclouds, Breadth, & Rotation

It’s the weekend so relax, put your feet up, and watch a recap of our PreMarket Prep guests who joined us on the show this week with opinions, trade ideas and market commentary.

We have another full slate of guests joining us next week from Monday, so don’t forget to tune into PreMarket Prep live every morning from 8 am ET on YouTube and X.

Delta Gamma Hedging Is Propping Up the Market

Kicking off the week Market Structure EDGE founder, Tim Quast joined the PreMarket Prep team to explain why volatility is surging under the surface, what short volume reveals about real demand, and how he was positioning ahead of big tech earnings.

He also explains how delta-gamma hedging by firms like Jane Street, Citadel, Susquehanna and Hudson River Trading creates whipsaw days.

Neoclouds & Hyperscalers

On Tuesday our first guest was Christian Fromhertz, founder of Tribeca Trade Group who joined the show for his weekly segment, “What’s Christian Looking At?”

Christian explains why new sector labels like “neoclouds” and “hyperscalers” can be a late-cycle warning sign, why speculative tech has been hit hardest while profitable companies hold up, and what he’s listening for on big tech earnings calls (hint: one word). He then shares his technical setups in cybersecurity, energy, and aerospace & defense.

Stock Market Rotation Explained

Later on Tuesday’s show we were joined by the one and only Mish Schneider, Chief Strategist at MarketGauge to break down the charts that matter right now: semiconductors (SMH), transports (IYT), retail (XRT, ANF, SIG, ELF), gold, oil, bonds (TLT), uranium, and more.

Mish explains why she’s cautious on semis and gold, constructive on select retail names, watching bonds for a stagflation or risk-off signal, and informs us why she thinks we could see a market top within the next year.

Iran/US Tensions, Oil Prices, and Sticky 3%+ Inflation

We had another 2 guests on Wednesday for the Fed rate decision. First up with his weekly segment was PreMarket Prep, Chief Economist, Blu Putnam who breaks down what’s next for stocks, the Fed, bonds, AI, and the Anthropic IPO.

Blu also talks about why “it’s a stock picker’s market” with a divided Congress and no tax cuts on the horizon.

Why Ryan Detrick, CMT Says This Bull Market Isn’t Over

Also joining us on Wednesday morning for an extended segment was Carson Group Chief Market Strategist, Ryan Detrick, CMT. He breaks down the stock market outlook for Q4, the midterms, and beyond with another amazing Carson presentation.

The ‘Stat Man’ covers why he thinks the four-year bull market has more room to run, why tech must lead, what the recent hedge fund washout and retail outflows could signal, the credit spreads he’s watching, his one-more-hike Fed view, and why Carson’s leading economic indicator never called a recession.

Sideways Digestion, Breadth Thrust & AI Stocks to Watch

Tommy Lackey, Relativity Capital Advisors, contributor to Stock Trader Network joined us on the show on Thursday. Tommy explains why he believes the recent pullback was “sideways digestion that got indigestion,” why breadth data isn’t flashing bear market signals, and how rotation, not a crash, has defined this market.

He also takes on the AI debt debate (including Microsoft’s $25B bond offering), compares today’s AI spending to Bezos and AWS a decade ago, and explains why human brains struggle with quarter-over-quarter compounding.

Expected Earnings Moves

Friday brought another double dose of guests with OptionsAI’s CC Lagator joining us early to break down how options market-maker hedging turns a 10% earnings move into a 25% crash, and what it means for trading earnings after hours.

He also runs through an Apple earnings preview, with a ~3.8% expected move CC explains why he would take the over.

Binance Hacked for $6.3 Billion

Later in the show, the day after Binance was hit by a $6.3 billion hack, Louis Sykes, Senior Crypto Analyst at All Star Charts explains what exactly happened, who pays, and whether your Bitcoin is safe.

He also talks about Hyperliquid and NYSE bringing perpetual futures onshore, the DTCC’s tokenization service going live, and what perps mean for CME, Cboe and ICE.