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

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Episode summary

With major indexes offline, the hosts read market breadth and sentiment to call a choppy reversal day. They break down which names to hold, cut, avoid, and watch into the close, then set up tomorrow’s key level on 20-day breadth.

Chapter by chapter

Reading the Market's Pulse

With no index levels to watch, breadth and sentiment reveal a choppy reversal regime as short-term breadth spikes while intermediate breadth fades.

Holds, Cuts, and Confirmed Entries

UTHR and KOPN hold as fundamental-backed leaders while Health Care and Consumer Discretionary longs get trimmed into strength.

Watches Not Chases

AIB confirms cleanly on volume while CIFR, YINN, and INBX stay watch-only until they prove the turn.

Energy's Lone Strength

Energy remains the only sector in the green, with copper strength expressed cleanly through IE.

The 50% Tell

The 20-day breadth line at 50 percent becomes the key signal for whether tomorrow's rally has follow-through.

Key points

  • Short-term breadth (20-day) surged to 50% while intermediate breadth (40-day) slipped, signaling a fragile bounce, not a real recovery
  • Hold fundamentally-backed leaders like UTHR and KOPN, but trim extended longs in weak sectors like Health Care and Consumer Discretionary
  • Only enter on confirmed volume — AIB's 2.3 relative volume made it the cleanest continuation trade on the board
  • Beaten-down names like CIFR, YINN, and INBX are watches, not chases, until they reclaim key levels
  • Energy and copper are the lone bright spots; watch the 20-day breadth line holding 50% into the close as tomorrow's key tell

Ticker charts

UTHR

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Use left and right arrows to move through history, plus and minus to zoom, ] and [ to open the next and previous event, Escape to close its card, Enter to open UTHR in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Sep 8, 2026.

KOPN

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Use left and right arrows to move through history, plus and minus to zoom, ] and [ to open the next and previous event, Escape to close its card, Enter to open KOPN in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Sep 8, 2026.

F

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Use left and right arrows to move through history, plus and minus to zoom, ] and [ to open the next and previous event, Escape to close its card, Enter to open F in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Sep 8, 2026.

AIB

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Use left and right arrows to move through history, plus and minus to zoom, ] and [ to open the next and previous event, Escape to close its card, Enter to open AIB in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Sep 8, 2026.

CIFR

Open in app
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Use left and right arrows to move through history, plus and minus to zoom, ] and [ to open the next and previous event, Escape to close its card, Enter to open CIFR in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Sep 8, 2026.

YINN

Open in app
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Use left and right arrows to move through history, plus and minus to zoom, ] and [ to open the next and previous event, Escape to close its card, Enter to open YINN in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Sep 8, 2026.

INBX

Open in app
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Use left and right arrows to move through history, plus and minus to zoom, ] and [ to open the next and previous event, Escape to close its card, Enter to open INBX in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Sep 8, 2026.

IE

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Use left and right arrows to move through history, plus and minus to zoom, ] and [ to open the next and previous event, Escape to close its card, Enter to open IE in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Sep 8, 2026.

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