Stop Caring About NVIDIA
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I don’t care about NVIDIA. And if you’re trying to get better at trading, you probably shouldn’t either.
Not because NVIDIA is a bad company. Not because it can’t move. But because the way people use it as a proxy for “the market” is a trap. You scroll Twitter, you see one ugly NVDA candle, and suddenly the market is “bearish.” Meanwhile, under the hood, a ton of stocks are doing just fine.
Here’s the chart problem in one sentence: NVIDIA and a few mega-cap tech names have been chopping sideways for months, and people are acting like that means nothing is working.
Zoom out. If you’ve been benchmarking your mood and your process to QQQ or SPY, you’ve been staring at a tech-weighted scoreboard. When those big names stall, the headline index stalls. That doesn’t mean the rest of the market stopped.
Now look at the places no one tweets about:
QQQJ, the “next 100” Nasdaq names, has looked cleaner than QQQ. Pennant, tightening action, and it even pushed higher while the headline Nasdaq names got all the attention.
IWM has been acting better than the doom-and-gloom narrative suggests.
RSP, the equal-weight S&P, has been the real tell. The average large-cap stock has been making new highs while the megas chop.
That’s the lesson: change your benchmark. Stop asking “what is NVIDIA doing” and start asking “what is working.”
If you’re discretionary, the simplest fix is a scan: what’s hitting new highs, what has relative strength, what is actually moving. Fish in those waters instead of fighting over the same seven tickers everyone is yelling about.
At StatsEdgeTrading, this is exactly why we build systems that are asset-agnostic. We don’t care what the company does. We care if the setup is there and the numbers say it has edge.
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