The MadBrooks Brief

Tech is green, VIX is quiet, and Tesla is running like it remembered it used to matter.

Oct 3, 2026 · 9:04 PM CT · 2:01 · The MadBrooks Brief | Night | Sun, Oct 4

Tech is green, VIX is quiet, and Tesla is running like it remembered it used to matter. Tesla up 4.65% to 370.59. Everything else in this block is chasing that number. Broadcom up 3.35% to 355.14 — chip demand isn't cooling. Oracle up 3.06% to 142.30, momentum holding from last week. AMD up 2.95%…

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Tech is green, VIX is quiet, and Tesla is running like it remembered it used to matter.

Tesla up 4.65% to 370.59. Everything else in this block is chasing that number. Broadcom up 3.35% to 355.14 — chip demand isn't cooling. Oracle up 3.06% to 142.30, momentum holding from last week. AMD up 2.95% to 633.91, riding the same semiconductor wave. UNH up 1.83% to 371.90 — healthcare quietly doing its job. Google up 1.56% to 343.50. Nvidia up 1.34% to 233.95 — still green, just not the loudest voice in the room today. Amazon up 1.33% to 251.52, steady.

Now the names that don't fit the narrative. Netflix down 1.16% in a session where almost nothing is red — that's a flag worth watching. CRM down 0.84% — second sharpest red in a broadly green tape. Two growth names moving against the grain while semis run. Make of that what you will.

Apple up 1.02%. Microsoft up 0.92%. Both moving, neither leading.

Futures confirm the tone. SPY up 0.74%. QQQ up 1.02% — tech pulling the weight. ETFs line up clean: IWM up 0.90%, DIA up 0.49%. VIX at 15.31 — nobody's scared. Gold down 0.95% — risk-on rotation, full stop.

Asian markets data unavailable tonight. Nothing on the economic calendar. No Fed speakers, no data drops.

Earnings on the tape: AIO, ATGL, BRTX with an EPS estimate of negative 2.55, CYTOF, EQFN, FGNV. Small names, watch for surprises on volume.

No crypto. Never crypto.

Numbers don't lie. People do. Trade accordingly.

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