Power Hour #101: Dark Indexes, Erratic Pulse: Trading the Closing Bell Blind – Tuesday 9/8/2026

Welcome to Wave Rider Power Hour, your final hour tactical edge. Let's dive in. Indexes are dark today, no SPY, no QQQ, no IWM levels. So how do you trade blind? You read the pulse instead of the face. Right, and right now that pulse is... Erratic, really erratic. Okay, so give me the regime. Trending, choppy, or reversal. Honestly, choppy reversal, no question. What's the one number that proves it? Breath is split, percent above the 20-day surge to 50% from 23 yesterday. Whoa, that's a huge jump. Yeah, look, 27 points in a day, but here's the thing. Percent above the 40-day slip to 41.47 from 50.03. So short term up and immediate down. Exactly, and sentiment sitting very bearish at 4%. Right, so it's a fever, not a recovery. That's it, that's exactly it. The temperature spikes while the vitals keep sliding. Yeah, totally. Mm-hmm. So the tapes confused, what do we do with the last hour? I mean control the controllables. This is an ABC day. Always be in control. Okay, rapid fire. What are we holding? UTHR at 487.61, that $478 million buyback is a real catalyst holding it up. Right, and? K-O-P-N at 4.28. Thermal side order gave it a fundamental reason to stay bid. Oh, wow. Both leaders on the tape. Both leaders, yeah. Those you hold. What do we cut? Trim your extended lungs into strength. Health care is bleeding. That sector read is minus 1.6%. Right. And consumer discretionary minus 1.49. The momentum's just draining out of both. Mm-hmm. So sell into the balance not after it fades. You know what? Into strength. Always into strength when sentiments this bearish. Anything to avoid outright? Ford at 14.62. Bearish. That Canadian tariff hit goes straight at their margins. Okay, okay. Anything to enter. So basically, on confirmation only. And honestly, there's one clean name. Which one? A-I-B, 139 up 8.6% and relative volume 2.3%. So the crowd's actually showing up. See, that's the thing. Volumes confirming the move, not just noise. That's the cleanest continuation trade on the board. Right, right. What about C-I-F-R? I keep hearing that ticker. Watch only. It needs to reclaim 19.15 before you touch it. So we're just waiting for it to... Reclaim 19.15 before you touch it. And if it doesn't? Then you sit on your hands. No chasing. Sure. What about the big red names? Y-I-N-N-I-N-B-X? Watches. Not Chases. Y-I-N-N down 6.5 on relative volume 4.1. I-N-B-X down 3.4 on 5.4. Oh man. So capitulation maybe? Honestly maybe. But you wait for the turn. You don't catch it falling. Got it. Control the controllables. What carries into tomorrow? One sector is still raising its hand. Energy. Exactly. The lone bull. The lone bull, yeah. Energy read plus 1.37% and copper is strong too. How are you playing copper? I-M-E at 9.99, up 3.6. That's the cleanest expression of the strength. Right. And the level for tomorrow. C-I-F-R is 19.15. That breakout retest is the line I want. So does today change the plan? Yeah. I mean, not really. It confirms it. Stay defensive until that 40-day breath turns back up. And the till. What am I watching into the bell? Okay. So the 50% line on the 20-day breath holds 50 into the clothes you get follow through tomorrow. Yeah. And if it fades below. Then the 40-day weakness wins. Every rally is a fade, not a trend. Right. So tactical only. Tactical only until proven otherwise. Perfect. So here it is. Control the controllables tonight. Trim what's extended. Only enter on confirmed volume like IB and watch that 20-day line at 50 going into the bell. That's the tell. That's the tell. We'll see you back here tomorrow for the open. That's all for today's episode of Wave Rider Power Hour. Your final hour tactical edge. See you next time.