Proflex Institutional Research Series
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Proflex Sep 21–25 — Fed Hikes, $7T Expiry Resets, Semis Recovery
Proflex Market Update — Week Sep 21-25, 2026 Fed Hikes, Dots Say More | $7 Trillion Expiry Resets the Tape | Semis Recovery | Oil and the Midterms "The Fed is hiking, the 10 year sits at 5% and oil is above $100, and the market has stopped panicking about any of it. With $7 trillion of options gone, the only question left is whether semiconductors lead again."— Proflex Panel The Fed raised rates on Wednesday for the first time since 2023, by 25 basis points to 3.75% to 4%, and the vote was 12...
Proflex Sep 14-18 - 10Y Hits 5%, Fed Hike Wednesday, Oil Above $100
Proflex Market Update — Week Sep 14-18, 2026 10 Year Hits 5% | Fed Hike Wednesday | Brent Back Above $100 | Positioning Turns Fragile "The 10 year touched 5%, oil is back above $100 and the Fed is about to hike, and the S&P 500 is still less than 2% from its record. A market that should have cracked is not cracking, because the money that would force it lower is already short."— Proflex Panel Every macro input moved against equities last week. Brent rose 8.7% to $104.61 after Saudi Arabia...
Proflex Sep 7-11 - Record $9.6T Expiry, CPI Friday, Oracle Thursday
Proflex Market Update — Week Sep 7-11, 2026 Record $9.6 Trillion Expiry | CPI Friday | Oracle Thursday | The Momentum Wreck Underneath "The S&P 500 has gone nowhere for five weeks while the momentum factor has had its worst quarter in twenty five years. Both of those are true at the same time, and the largest options expiry ever measured is what finally forces the tape to pick one of them."— Proflex Panel The S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,718.60, up nine hundredths of one percent on the week....
Proflex Aug 24–28 — NVIDIA Clears It, Warsh's Work To Do, Memory Squeeze
Proflex Market Update — Week Aug 24-28, 2026 NVIDIA Clears It | Warsh Says Work To Do | Memory Is The Real Constraint | Jobs Week "Both of the events everyone was waiting on are now behind us, and both resolved in the same direction: the AI numbers are real, and the Fed is not finished. What is left is a market with full positioning, no volatility and nothing on the calendar until Friday’s payrolls."— Proflex Panel Two scheduled catalysts, seventy two hours apart, and both cleared. NVIDIA...
Proflex Aug 17–21 — NVIDIA Wednesday, Warsh at Jackson Hole, Treasury Buybacks
Proflex Market Update — Week Aug 17-21, 2026 NVIDIA Wednesday | Warsh at Jackson Hole | Treasury Doubles Buybacks | Iran Economic D-Day "Last week the market stopped trading earnings and started trading the currency. Gold, silver, Bitcoin and oil all went up while the S&P went down, in the same week the Treasury said it would double its bond buybacks. NVIDIA on Wednesday is the test of whether earnings can take the wheel back."— Proflex Panel The S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,674, down 1.4% on...
Proflex Aug 10-14 — AI Numbers Keep Improving, SPY New Highs, Anthropic IPO Derisks Semis
Proflex Market Update — Week Aug 10-14, 2026 AI Numbers Keep Improving | SPY New Highs, Tech to Follow | Anthropic IPO Derisks Semis | Iran Stalemate Drags On "The market is too pessimistic about AI at the exact moment every revenue line, every booking metric, and every utilization rate is accelerating. New highs in the S&P are not the end of the rotation: they are the beginning of it flowing back into tech." — Proflex Panel The S&P 500 closed last week at a fresh all-time high of 7,799, its...
Proflex Aug 3-7 (Special Edition) - Hike Off the Table, Semis Snap Back, AI Trade
Proflex Market Update — Week Aug 3-7, 2026 Hike Odds Collapse | Semi Liquidation Over | One Big AI Trade | CPI Wednesday Friday's July employment report did more for equities in ninety minutes than six weeks of earnings did. Employers cut 23,000 jobs in July. Private payrolls added just 30,000 while government shed 53,000. May and June were revised down by a combined 103,000. Average hourly earnings cooled to 3.2% year over year, the slowest since May 2021. That is a soft report. Stocks...
Proflex July 27-31 - The Leverage Purge, Capex Accelerates, Jobs Week
Proflex Market Update — Week July 27-31, 2026 The Leverage Purge | Capex Accelerates | 30 Year at a 2007 High | Jobs Week Markets comes back this week after one of the most violent stretches it has produced in years. What makes it unusual is where it happened.Look at the S&P and you would conclude nothing occurred. The index sits at 7,571, up about 2% on the week, with the VIX back to 16. That is a calm tape. The action was entirely underneath it, in semiconductors and the AI complex, where...
Proflex Jul 20-24 — FOMC Meet, Biggest Earnings Week, AI Spending Doubts Return
Proflex Market Update — Week July 20–24, 2026 FOMC Uncertainty | 34% of the S&P Reports | AI Doubts Return | The Semis Selloff Decoded The upcoming week is headlined by the FOMC Meet & the heaviest earnings week of the season with 34% of the S&P 500 reporting by earnings weight, and the dual Thursday release of second quarter GDP alongside June personal income and spending. Semiconductors have fallen 20% from their June 22 peak into a technical bear market, erasing $3.3 trillion of value,...
Proflex Jul 13–17 — War Reignites, Critical Earnings Week, Institutional Flows
Proflex Market Update — Week July 13 to July 17 War Reignites | Oil Near Month-High | Critical Earnings Week | Systematic Flows Turn Sellers "The macro calendar goes quiet just as the two loudest risks (war and earnings) get louder. This is a week where market direction would be primarily decided by results and the geo-political tensions" — Proflex Panel The détente is over. After two weeks in which back-and-forth strikes stayed inside both sides' red lines, the Iran conflict has re-escalated...
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