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“Semiconductor strength powers indexes to lifetime highs.” I just banged out that headline out of the blue, but you could copy and paste it onto almost any day in 2026 and be done with the task. The market has gone from giddy to full-blown berserk, as the likes of AMD vault higher every day (and night).
If the long-term picture provides for precious metals to beat the stuffing out of equities, the patterns have been playing out beautifully. However, for an impatient person like me, I have to admit that there’s plenty of room left for stocks to rally (or metals to weaken) until we fully retrace the massive topping patterns that have already been put in place.
It’s nice not to care. That’s the first thing I’ll say.
I’ll explain in a moment but take a look at AMD after hours. It came out with earnings and immediately plunged. For some reason, based on the same data, it decided to do a hard U-Turn and went roaring higher. Even as I typed these words, it zipped higher still. You can imagine the emotions pulsing through AMD traders right now, particularly when the stock went from collapsing to exploding to lifetime highs in a matter of minutes.
