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Oil spiked overnight straight into Gareth's key $87 per barrel level — and he did exactly what the charts demanded: initiated a short right into the hype. Semis, which finally held their gains yesterday, are getting slammed again as crude presses higher, and the two are trading tick for tick against each other. On today's Trading Game Plan, Gareth #Soloway maps the S&P's bullish consolidation and the breakout level that opens the door to new highs, breaks down the oil/10-Year Yield correlation, and preps a massive after-hours earnings slate: Tesla, Alphabet, ServiceNow, IBM, and Texas Instruments.

📐 TODAY'S GAME PLAN

🔴 US OIL — Crude tags the $87–$88 resistance zone Gareth's charts predicted; short initiated with a pullback target near $80, possibly $78. Already fading below $87 during the broadcast.
🔵 SPY / ES FUTURES — Still inside a bullish consolidation above the 2021 trend line. A break above the key overhead level puts new highs and a higher S&P target in play; losing support would mark a dangerous failed breakout.
🔵 10-YR YIELD — Grinding higher in lockstep with oil since the July bottom. Oil is inflationary, and higher crude keeps rates higher for longer.
🔵 DXY / USD-JPY — Dollar in a slight bullish consolidation but stuck at resistance, a 50/50 no-trade. Dollar-yen at new highs — the carry-trade risk nobody is talking about.
🔵 SMCI — Rips on a huge reported backlog, but past accounting and chip-smuggling accusations keep Gareth on the sidelines. Trust the charts, verify the story.
🔵 GEV — GE Vernova misses on earnings as costs eat margins. Topping tail played out perfectly; dual-factor support at the gap fill plus trend line is on day-trade watch.
🔵 TSLA — Sitting right on a major support trend line into tonight's report. Break down and the retrace becomes shortable; hold and the long setup comes alive.
🔵 GOOGL / NOW / IBM / TXN — Alphabet with no clear edge, ServiceNow in a bullish consolidation into earnings, IBM's key pivot below $200 on watch, and Texas Instruments testing its trend line.
🟢 GOLD — Pushing right back into the wedge trend line breakout level. The pattern comes to a head August 14 — breakout or breakdown by that date.
🔵 SILVER — Creeping higher but with more work to do through two overhead resistance levels before the chart improves.
🔵 BITCOIN — Healthy pullback after tagging resistance. Clear the next big level and a higher target opens up.

🔑 KEY TAKEAWAY: Out of 100 charts, a disciplined trader passes on 97 of them. Oil hitting the exact level the charts predicted — while the crowd screamed higher — is why logic and charts beat hype and narratives every time.

⏱ TIMESTAMPS (estimated)
00:00 Oil Spikes Into $87 — Gareth Initiates a Short
02:30 S&P Futures Trading Tick for Tick Against Crude
05:00 S&P Daily: Bullish Consolidation and the Breakout Level
08:00 10-Year Yield and Oil: The Correlation Explained
10:30 Why the Financial Media Is a Racket
12:30 US Dollar Stuck at Resistance, Dollar-Yen Carry-Trade Risk
14:30 SMCI: Big Backlog, Bigger Trust Issues
16:30 GE Vernova: Topping Tail Plays Out, Support on Watch
18:30 Earnings Preview: TSLA, GOOGL, NOW, IBM, TXN
23:30 Gold at the Breakout Line, Silver's Levels
26:00 Oil Update: Short Already in the Money
27:00 Natural Gas and Bitcoin
28:30 Wrap-Up: Data Over Emotion

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Tech's AI debt boom, in one #chart

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#USMarketUpdate
Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq waver with Alphabet, Tesla earnings on deck

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Stocks slid as markets braced for a round of Big Tech earnings, the next AI trade test.

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CrowdStrike and Cerebras Partner to Power AI Detection and Response on the World's Fastest Inference
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#USMarketUpdate
Wall Street indexes dip with technology earnings, rising oil in focus | Reuters

SUMMARY
Indexes down: Dow 0.01%, S&P 500 0.14%, Nasdaq down 0.57%Chip index rises modestly while software index sinksAT&T jumps after strong wireless subscriber additions in Q2Alphabet, Tesla, Texas Instruments report results after the bell

July 22 (Reuters) - The Nasdaq led Wall Street lower on Wednesday with a mixed performance from technology stocks, as investors waited for key earnings reports to gauge the health of a market rally fed by enthusiasm for artificial intelligence.

The S&P 500 fell slightly and ‌the Dow ended virtually unchanged as traders also monitored the latest Middle East hostilities, which led oil futures to settle at a six-week high, fanning inflation worries.

After months of gains that lifted the major indexes from their March lows, momentum has been wobbling with uneven trading in heavyweight semiconductor stocks and weakness in software companies.

The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index (.SOX), opens new tab ended up 0.4%, recovering from early losses for its third straight session of gains after three days of losses that had confirmed it was in a bear market late last week.

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S&P 500, Nasdaq close lower as investors await technology earnings
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