The week is Nvidia, not a 1033% empty tape. As of Friday morning, SPY is 769.82 versus last Friday, up 0.54%. QQQ is 716.53, up 0.43%. DIA is 534.94, up 0.51%. IWM is 295.95, down 1.34%. Thursday was the print: NVDA after the Wednesday after-close beat. Friday morning the indexes are soft (SPY down 0.17%, QQQ down 0.64%, IWM down 1.29%) after Warsh and yields. Elastic printed a guide raise and Gap ripped. Those are Friday morning prints around 11:20 a.m. CT, not official Friday closes.
DAIC is Monday's empty tape. RDIB is Wednesday's empty tape. XPON, CRE, and SWVL printed. 👇
📈 THIS WEEK'S TOP 5
1 · DAIC +1033% $4.83. Monday empty tape. No company PR this week. Warning. That is not the week.
2 · XPON +139% $8.20. Monday GlobeNewswire: Louisiana oil and gas, rebrand, new CEO, $9 million placement. Thursday GlobeNewswire: CFO Winspear. Printed.
3 · CRE +96% $5.10. Wednesday GlobeNewswire: record H1 2026 customers served (550) as the Hong Kong IPO printing heats up. Printed.
4 · SWVL +94% $2.83. Wednesday GlobeNewswire: $1.5 million private placement, upsized to $14.5 million. Printed. Friday still running as of the morning tape.
5 · RDIB +73% $15.60. Wednesday thin Class B. No Wednesday company PR. Empty tape. Not leftover of a Monday surge.
🎯 THE WEEK'S SIGNAL Do not confuse the week percent with the week. DAIC has no company PR. RDIB is a thin Class B with no Wednesday print. XPON, CRE, and SWVL have dated PRs and they are still small. The operating week is Nvidia on Thursday, then Elastic and Gap on Friday morning. ESTC is up about 15% on the week and is not on this five. IWM lagged the whole stretch.
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That is the week. Friday morning Elastic and Gap are follow-through, not a rewrite. DAIC is not.
📌 THE TAPE LESSON
A week percent without a dated print is empty tape. DAIC opened the week that way. RDIB did it Wednesday as a thin Class B. If you only scan the board, you buy 1033%. If you scan the closes, you get Nvidia on Thursday and Elastic on Friday morning. Scan the closes.
