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Power Hour #128: The Valve Blew: Trading Today’s Violent Breadth Reversal – Thursday 10/15/2026

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Episode summary

A sentiment gauge spikes from 74 to 347 in a single session, signaling a violent oversold snapback rather than a trend day. The hosts break down which leaders to hold, which fading names to cut despite the green tape, and the key breadth trigger — Technology’s RSPT — that could flip the market from selective...

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Sentiment Valve Blows Open

Bull sentiment rockets from 74 to 347 as the analyst calls it a violent oversold snapback, not a trend day.

Breadth Leads From the Middle

The 40-day breadth measure jumps 9.4 points while the 20-day barely moves, signaling medium-term leadership in the recovery.

Holds, Cuts, and Watch-Only Names

EXPE and MAR are volume-confirmed holds; FN and CAT get cut despite the rally, while EBAY, LAD, and EL stay watch-only.

Capitulation Flushes, Not Buys

FMC's 33.8% collapse and NOA's extreme relative volume are flagged as reversal watches, not entries.

Trade the Breadth, Not the Chart

With no clean index technicals on SPY or QQQ, the playbook shifts entirely to breadth-based decision making.

Health Care and Staples Lead

Health Care and Consumer Staples emerge as confirmed sector leaders while Technology lags the recovery.

RSPT: The Swing Factor to Watch

Technology's RSPT stabilizing would be the signal that shifts strategy from selective to full offense.

Tomorrow's Trigger Levels

Clean alert levels set for EXPE, MAR, and GMEU heading into the next session.

Key points

  • A 9.4-point breadth surge with medium-term leading short-term signals a broadening recovery, not just a bounce.
  • Hold volume-confirmed leaders like EXPE and MAR; cut fading names like FN and CAT even on a strongly green day.
  • Big red prints (FMC, NOA) are capitulation or reversal watches, not buy signals, until they confirm.
  • With no clean index technicals, the trading plan today is built entirely on breadth data, not chart levels.
  • Technology's RSPT stabilizing is the key swing factor that would push the strategy from selective offense to full offense.

Ticker charts

EXPE

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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 EXPE in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

MAR

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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 MAR in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

GMEU

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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 GMEU in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

ACN

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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 ACN in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

FN

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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 FN in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

CAT

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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 CAT in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

EBAY

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 EBAY in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

LAD

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 LAD in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

EL

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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 EL in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

FMC

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 FMC in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

NOA

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 NOA in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

SPY

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 SPY in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

QQQ

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 QQQ in WaveFinder.

Daily bars through Oct 15, 2026.

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