The broad market sleepwalked through Monday but small-caps and energy made noise. Here's what my scanner caught, what I traded, and why tomorrow's setup hinges on crude holding $87.
I'd give today a B-. The broad tape was noise — SPX $7,100 down a third of a percent on light conviction, consumer stocks taking the worst of it at -0.85%. Nothing broke, nothing ripped. The Fear & Greed Index sitting at 69 (Greed) while crypto Fear & Greed is at 29 is a weird divergence I'm watching closely. Equity traders are complacent. Crypto traders are scared. One of them is wrong.
The scanner flagged three names worth talking about. SST $3.05 was the cleanest — RVOL 15.2x on a 9.9M float with pure momentum driving it. I watched it but didn't trade it; I missed the entry at the open and wasn't chasing a 40% move mid-session. CMPS $9.46 had a catalyst and ran 42% on 9.4x relative volume — that one hurt to watch from the sidelines. Only 1 of 392 tickers technically qualified under my full criteria set, which tells you how narrow today's action was. FRMI gave the short side something to work with, down 21% on 2.7x RVOL, but I didn't short it.
The position I'm actually pleased about is crude oil exposure. $87.26 crude up 5.65% is not a one-day blip — that's a structural move. Materials up 0.86%, energy up 0.63%, pulling back to
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