Good Morning BullBuzzers!
"Every battle is won before it is ever fought."
⚡TODAY IN 10 SECONDS
Stocks slipped 0.2% off Tuesday's record Wednesday as the 10-year touched 5.35%, and Brent jumped about 5% to near $105 this morning on record tanker attacks and a Gulf hurricane.
Our idea is Diamondback ($FANG), and the event to watch is the 1 PM 30-year Treasury auction.
FOCUS OF THE DAY
Secret #7: Build A Process, Not Predictions
Today has three coin flips nobody can call: whether Iran strikes, where Hurricane Isaias lands, and whether the Fed hikes October 28 or December 9. Traders who guess lose money to the ones who prepare. The 10-year shows why.
It touched 5.35% Wednesday, then closed at 5.28%, and anyone who predicted a direction got shaken out. A process fixes that. Before the open, write an if-then rule for each risk: if Brent holds over $105, then I trim; if it falls under $100, then I add. Rules made calmly beat decisions made while a headline is flashing.
Find all 10 Secrets to Success at the bottom of today's issue.
📰 HEADLINES
Fed minutes point toward a hike. The September meeting minutes showed officials leaning toward raising rates, which is why markets now price October 28 as a live decision. Rate-sensitive stocks like small caps and real estate took the hit. (Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg)
10-year touches 5.35%, then settles at 5.28%. The S&P 500 fell 0.22% to 7,801.77 while the Russell 2000 lost 1.31%. Higher long-term borrowing costs weigh hardest on smaller, debt-heavy companies. (WSJ, MarketWatch, Reuters)
Brent jumps about 5% above $105. Record tanker attacks, Hurricane Isaias in the Gulf and reports of possible strikes on Iran drove the move. Energy producers are bid, while airlines and consumers pay for it. (Reuters, FXStreet, Newsquawk)
PepsiCo beats, then cuts its outlook. The snack and drink giant topped quarterly estimates but lowered its full-year forecast, a reminder that a beat means little when guidance shrinks. (Reuters, Yahoo Finance)
Applied Digital revenue jumps 322% to $341.9 million. The data center builder posted huge growth, yet the stock faded as buyers sold other AI infrastructure names. Great numbers are not enough when a crowded trade needs more. (Company release, Stocktwits)
🎯 IDEA OF THE DAY
Diamondback is a low-cost Permian Basin oil driller, so it makes more money when crude rises.
Chasing the big energy ETF after a 5% oil spike is the crowded trade. Diamondback is still near its lows after the Permian-based founding family sold about 9 million shares, roughly $2 billion, on September 16. That overhang pushed it into a base between about $182 and $191, which lets us buy near support instead of after a gap.
Oil can erase this spike overnight if a ceasefire headline lands, and the stock would follow.
🔔 HEADING INTO THE OPEN
Bird's-Eye: Rates are driving the tape, not earnings. The 10-year at 5.28% after touching 5.35% means every stock is being repriced against Treasuries, so hold your leaders and don't add size before the 1 PM auction.
Ground Level: Data center names are selling (IREN, CRWV, NBIS, CIFR down 3% to 7%) even after Applied Digital's beat, and health care reversed 1.9% while producers are bid. When good news can't lift a group, stop buying its dips until it proves buyers are back.
Under The Hood: Oil is the swing factor. A $5 Brent move reaches gas pumps within weeks and inflation after that, so own pullbacks in energy producers rather than chasing the spike.
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