Daily Pulse · · 06:30 NY · 7 min read · signal · SOXX
In this edition
Money Temperature composite 47 on Friday's reading, up from 46 a week ago — mixed and transitional, with the Nasdaq 100 gauge down to 43 from 57 and gold up to 47 from 31, and by its own construction not a signal.
Index moves
| Index | 1D | 1W |
|---|---|---|
| Rubin 100 | +0.83% | -13.23% |
| HALO 100 | +0.31% | +0.59% |
| Euro-AI 50 | -0.17% | -4.15% |
| AW40 | -1.24% | +0.28% |
Pattern alerts
- DOCN short-put-150-now-77.52-in-the-money NEUTRAL
- SKHY new-short-put-125-strike-1.8pct-under-close NEUTRAL
- LITE 42.4pct-under-fill-after-35.9pct-week NEUTRAL
Three of the five books traded in the week chips fell hardest. AI Build-Out sold three chip-supply lines and Natera, and bought JFrog, Shopify, Accenture and Airbnb. The two option books sold premium: the derivatives book sold six new puts and closed three losing lines, and Hypergrowth rolled several of its calls and wrote new ones. Global Tech 50 and Global ETFs did not trade.
The chip fund SOXX fell 13.1 percent on the week, 12.1 percent of it on Thursday. Rubin Build-Out 100 lost 13.2 percent and the Agentic Ecosystem index 10.5 percent. JFrog, bought at Thursday's close of 74.62 ahead of its results that evening, ended Friday at 100.98. Stock fills below are real fills. Option prices are the log's recorded quotes, usually the previous session's close, not live ticks.
What AI Build-Out sold and bought
On Friday, at Friday's closes, AI Build-Out sold its whole Kulicke & Soffa line, 100.22 shares at 64.01, for a realised loss of 5,774 dollars. It also sold 30.03 MKS shares at 192.27, a loss of 6,418, and 125.09 Qnity Electronics shares at 117.00, a loss of 3,154. On Thursday it sold 50 Natera shares at 364.00 for a realised gain of 7,887 dollars. Natera fell 14.6 percent on Friday to 310.67.
The buys came in two steps. On Thursday the book bought 200 JFrog shares at 74.62, 14,925 dollars with the fee, and 100 Shopify shares at 143.75. JFrog reported after that close and ended Friday at 100.98, 35.3 percent above the fill, or about 5,270 dollars. Shopify closed at 148.91, 3.6 percent above. On Friday the book added 50 Accenture shares at 260.50 and 100 Airbnb shares at 189.99, on a day Airbnb rose 11.7 percent.
Net, the four sales brought in about 45,000 dollars and realised a loss of about 7,460. The four buys cost about 61,300, so roughly 16,300 dollars left cash. The 31 lines held all week were marked about 44,800 dollars lower, 28 of them down. Datadog fell 23.9 percent to 179.04 and cost about 4,200 dollars. Advantest, ASE Technology, SanDisk, Rubrik and DigitalOcean each cost between 2,500 and 3,400. Tempus AI and BlackBerry were the only lines up more than a few hundred dollars.
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