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After Wednesday’s delivered hike (DFF 3.88, another 2026 SEP dot) and Friday’s BoJ, this week’s own book still overweights USD versus EUR cash, not duration, pennies, or the oil sleeve it faded as WTI slipped from $103 toward $96. US cash tightened into the FOMC (SPX 7552, −3.3% from the ATH) then repaired on a concentrated SOX bounce to 7650 with VIX 14.81 — treat both equity sleeves as neutral against median PE ~27 / cap-weighted ~59. Crypto stayed HOLD: spot BTC ETFs leaked mid-week then took in $433M Friday for a ~$6M week, while ETH funds were −$140M. Long bonds stay underweight: Anti-Fragile kept TLT at 0, the 10-year sits at ~5%, and HY OAS ~270bp is still too tight for a follow-up October hike (~56% odds).
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| US equities Neutral |
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5 |
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SPX faded from last Friday’s 7657 into Wednesday’s 7552 (−3.3% from the ATH) with VIX 17.71, then Friday’s SOX bounce to 7650.50 left VIX 14.81; every issue stayed 0/4 crash-trigger risk-on. Weekend pulse printed median PE ~26.5 / cap-weighted ~59 — still no cheap-multiple read after last week’s ~28 / ~59. Wednesday’s FOMC +25 bp and Warsh SEP printed, Friday’s BoJ hiked, and the book still dates Oct 15 CPI, Oct 28 FOMC, plus this week’s AZO/COST/Trump–Xi cluster. Anti-repetition rotated every session (LLY/LHX → IREN → LITE → HAE/JBHT → LRCX/COIN → ACN/TLN → empty Monday), so no name repeated, but most issues still published one or two 6.0–7.4 BUY tickets.
Vs last week: FOMC hike landed and Friday’s SOX bounce repaired SPX to 7650; PE still rich — stance stays neutral.
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| EU equities Neutral |
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No persistent EU-index trend: Friday’s FTSE −1.45% on the 5% 10-year sat beside single-name prints (EXENS +7.7%, DRX +4.0%, GLE −2.1%) rather than a sleeve bid. Sell-side PTs still implied real gaps — EXENS €68 vs €58.52, SOI €160 vs €139.50, GLE €82 vs €72.59, and BEZ’s €5.55 cash offer vs €4.53 — rather than published multiples. EXENS’s Sep 17 FY26 guide raise to €558–570m, BAB.L’s AGM/£200m buyback, GLE’s Monday 2029 RoTE 13–14% plan, and BEZ’s Sazerac offer dated the sleeve; SNB/Riksbank/Norges sit Thursday. EU tickers never repeated — KIE → BAB → EXENS/SOI → DRX/NXT → ORSTED → GLE/BEZ — so the week’s calls stayed diversified, not one-sided.
Vs last week: Guide-raise/M&A (EXENS, BEZ) replaced last week’s energy pair; PT-gap valuation and diversified calls are unchanged.
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| Penny / micro Underweight |
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penny_plays stayed empty except Thursday–Friday BFRI 5.0 watchlist-only — no name cleared the 6/10 buy bar. The only thesis cited Multi-Bagger 5/10 and ~8 months’ cash (BFRI) — not multiples — as the reason nothing reached buy-tier. BFRI’s Sep 28 Ameluz PDUFA sat on the Thursday–Friday calendars; later issues dated it but no new microcap binary replaced it. BFRI returned for two WATCH sessions (streak 2) then left the page — already-loud, but the week’s own calls did not recycle a pair.
Vs last week: BFRI returned as watchlist-only into the Sep 28 PDUFA; still no buy-tier print — crowding eased a rung.
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| Commodities Neutral |
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WTI’s Hormuz premium unwound from Tuesday’s 103.41 / USO BUY through Thursday $101.10 to Sunday ~$96 and Monday’s fourth down day near $98.5 — USO flipped BUY→HOLD→REDUCE. Gold/silver were the real-rate hedge (SLV BUY Saturday, HOLD after) while crude’s war premium faded — the book refused to buy the oil dip and treated copper tightness as HOLD, not a cheap-entry spray. Wednesday EIA after API’s +7.1 mb, Thursday wheat export sales (313.5 kt), Iran’s seven conditions / six-month Hormuz-high, and Monday China copper tightness kept the calendar dense even as the oil geo bid died. The book rotated off crowded crude — USO BUY then HOLD then REDUCE, with WEAT/CPER/SLV each one fresh add — so oil was no longer a one-sided overweight.
Vs last week: Oil sleeve flipped BUY-at-$103 to REDUCE-near-$96 — overweight dropped to neutral as the Hormuz premium unwound.
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| Crypto Neutral |
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BTC chopped $76.0k–$81.6k and finished Monday $81,622 above Tuesday’s $77,242; ETH ended $2,663 versus Tuesday $2,485 — a weekend repair, with every issue still calling it HOLD not a new cycle. Spot BTC ETFs leaked about $746M across Sep 15–16 then took in $433M Friday for a week of only +$6.2M, while ETH funds were −$140M on the week — HOLD, not a cheap-entry add. Wednesday’s hike plus the failed CLARITY vote hit mid-week flows; Thursday’s SEC Innovation Exemption was COIN’s listed print, and Friday’s ETF repair was the only flow catalyst. BTC and ETH appeared in every issue and both stayed already-held HOLD/no-add (streak 14→20) — consensus long both majors, just never a BUY.
Vs last week: Friday’s +$433M BTC ETF print repaired last week’s −$463M hole, but both majors stay HOLD — stance remains neutral.
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| FX Overweight |
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USD short-term seek versus EUR lasted the whole week (streak 20→26, score 6 into FOMC then 5) and Monday still leaned EUR→USD at conviction 5 after EURUSD printed 1.1471. The real-rate gap (10s ~5% vs ECB DFR 2.50%, DFF 3.88) was the USD bid, not a cheap-EUR call; USD long-term stayed twin-deficit neutral and JPY flipped avoid after the BoJ hike sold the yen toward 158. Wednesday’s FOMC +25 bp and Friday’s BoJ +25 bp to 1.25% (7–2) landed; Thursday’s SNB/Riksbank/Norges cluster is still dated. Every issue increased USD versus EUR (Wednesday only HOLD into the print) — a one-sided EUR-cash underweight of the home currency, now on a 26-session USD seek streak.
Vs last week: USD seek streak ran 18→26 and EURUSD printed 1.147 — still overweight USD vs EUR cash after the delivered hike.
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| Rates / credit Underweight |
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Duration never caught a bid: the 10-year sat 4.95–5.01%, DFF jumped +25 bp to 3.88, and Anti-Fragile kept TLT at 0 every session — bond-price momentum stayed soft. HY OAS sat ~2.65–2.70 (too tight after a delivered hike) while 10-year ~5% offered carry versus EUR cash but not a TLT overweight. September FOMC hike-sticks stayed rank-1 all seven days (streak 20→26), gated by Sep 16 FOMC, Sep 18 BoJ, and still-dated Oct 15 CPI plus Oct 28 FOMC (~56% hike odds). The hike-and-stick risk and TLT=0 / cash-heavy Anti-Fragile weights (gold 25 / DBC 20 / cash 35) repeated every issue — consensus underweight of long duration.
Vs last week: FOMC delivered +25 bp and DFF 3.88; TLT still 0 and 10s ~5% — duration underweight unchanged.
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This newsletter is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Do your own research before investing.
Morning Alpha • Generated Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:05:00 GMT
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