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The whole week hangs on one report after today's close, and its bad quarters have been a rounding error

2026-08-26

Overbought / Oversold

Overbought / oversold — 2026-08-24

DLB is the odd row here: after readings this extended it has historically done nothing at all, up about as often as down whether you look three days out or twenty. That makes more sense once you remember the reading is scored against the stock's own trailing year, and DLB has managed exactly one winning year out of the last ten, so "extended" for this one mostly means "the best it has looked in a while" rather than stretched.

Most overbought

TickerLevelRSI PercentileCloseLast 5 Days
SEIC Extreme overbought 100th $110.75 +5.0%
TGT Extreme overbought 100th $169.89 +12.5%
DLB Extreme overbought 100th $66.05 +7.7%

Most oversold

TickerLevelRSI PercentileCloseLast 5 Days
CRUS Extreme oversold 0th $111.64 -6.9%
RBC Extreme oversold 0th $495.90 -11.1%
AROC Extreme oversold 0th $30.70 -11.3%

What's happened after this before

TickerNext 3 DaysNext 7 DaysNext 30 DaysPrior Times
RBC 61% · +0.6% 61% · +0.9% 66% · +3.9% 394
it did tend to bounce — higher 63% of the time on average across the three windows
AROC 57% · +0.8% 57% · +1.0% 57% · +2.8% 197
it did tend to bounce — higher 57% of the time on average across the three windows
SEIC 54% · -0.1% 56% · +0.1% 58% · +0.8% 479
it kept going — higher 56% of the time, so "overbought" has not meant due to fall for this name
CRUS 55% · +0.6% 53% · +0.7% 52% · +1.8% 488
it did tend to bounce — higher 53% of the time on average across the three windows
TGT 47% · -0.1% 55% · +0.2% 57% · +1.3% 493
it kept going — higher 53% of the time, so "overbought" has not meant due to fall for this name
DLB 49% · -0.1% 47% · -0.1% 46% · -0.6% 360
a coin flip — this level has told you nothing about this name

Each cell: how often the stock was higher, and its average move, every prior time it hit this level. Under the hood the windows are 3, 5 and 20 trading sessions. The line under each name is what that record says.

Worth sitting with: SEIC, TGT are on this list for being at an extreme, and their own history says the extreme has not been the thing to trade against.

The Levels Map gives you the whole board: every name at an extreme, with where it stalls.

Key Levels

Key levels — 2026-08-24

FRHC is the one to pull up. It broke up through $150 on the 18th and was breaking back down through $170 inside a week, so the entire run got handed back in four sessions, which makes this a break out of a spent rally rather than a slow bleed. Its own history with busted round numbers leans the other way: seventy prior instances, a median of about +2.1% over the next week, against the roughly +0.4% an average name in the database puts up after the same event.

BWXT broke below a swing low at $156.84 (closed -4.7% through it).

Across 102,168 prior times a stock did this, it was higher five sessions later 54% of the time — the move through the level has not been the direction to follow.

Also at a level

WWD broke below a swing low at $343.64 (closed -3.1% through it).

FRHC broke below a round number at $170.00 (closed -7.4% through it).

AVAV broke below a round number at $160.00 (closed -7.4% through it).

AOS got rejected at a swing high at $64.38.

BCPC got rejected at its 52-week high at $183.90.

LRCX bounced off a round number at $300.00.

The Levels Map carries every name being tested right now, not just this one.

Earnings Watchlist

Earnings watchlist — 2026-08-26

NVDA reports after the close today, and the strange part of its record is what happens on the bad quarters: the median move on a miss is 0.0%. Flat. Run your eye down that column at DELL and MDT to see what an actual punishment looks like.

The biggest names reporting in the next 7 days — and what each has typically done on report day:

Wed Aug 26 NVDA$5454B after close median swing ±3.0% over 107 reports; typically +0.9% on a beat, 0.0% on a miss
Tue Sep 1 DELL$317B after close median swing ±6.4% over 30 reports; typically +3.5% on a beat, -7.8% on a miss
Tue Sep 1 PANW$313B after close median swing ±6.2% over 56 reports; typically +3.6% on a beat, -5.6% on a miss
Thu Aug 27 RY$301B before open median swing ±1.6% over 107 reports; typically +0.5% on a beat, -1.7% on a miss
Wed Aug 26 CRWD$221B after close median swing ±6.0% over 29 reports
Thu Aug 27 TD$205B before open median swing ±1.3% over 107 reports; typically +0.3% on a beat, -1.0% on a miss
Thu Aug 27 MRVL$199B after close median swing ±5.5% over 104 reports; typically +3.8% on a beat, -1.6% on a miss
Wed Aug 26 CRM$162B after close median swing ±4.9% over 88 reports; typically +1.0% on a beat, -3.7% on a miss
Tue Sep 1 MDT$116B before open median swing ±2.3% over 107 reports; typically +0.4% on a beat, -6.4% on a miss
Thu Aug 27 CM$113B before open median swing ±2.1% over 107 reports; typically +1.0% on a beat, -2.6% on a miss
Accelerating & Decelerating

Accelerating & decelerating — 2026-08-24

Accelerating means the daily range has blown out, and it is blind to direction: STLD and NUE are both moving fast downhill, roughly a tenth of their price gone in five sessions, while materials as a group is still running ahead of SPY over the last month. Steel is the piece of a winning sector that's coming apart, and the range noticed before the sector return did.

Speeding up

TickerShort vs Long ATRCloseLast 5 Days
NTES 1.57× $122.96 -1.2%
MGA 1.55× $67.80 -4.9%
STLD 1.52× $229.27 -11.2%
NUE 1.51× $244.64 -10.3%
FCFS 1.50× $236.43 +9.3%

When stocks are speeding up, check the options pricing. Cheap options on stocks that are accelerating create a directional edge.

Slowing down

TickerShort vs Long ATRCloseLast 5 Days
MKTX 0.14× $162.46 +0.4%
TECH 0.25× $72.39 +0.1%
ERIC 0.45× $10.16 -0.1%
APP 0.47× $298.59 -4.3%
CHRW 0.54× $142.86 -1.3%

When stocks are slowing down, check the options pricing. Expensive options on slowing stocks create an income edge.

Short vs long ATR = 3-day against 27-day average true range; above 1× the daily ranges are widening, below 1× they're compressing.

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