Tuesday Market Open

Markets took Monday off, so we let the noise settle and waited for price to start telling the truth. That was the right call.

Today delivered a clean reminder that this environment rewards patience, punishes complacency, and continues to separate signal from headline theater. There is a lot going on under the hood right now—and it showed up fast.

VHLA Select
VHLA PICKS STAY SIZZLING

This is what it looks like when preparation meets tape. We put SYPR on your radar last Thursday, and today the market did the rest—+23% on the day, even more from entry. That’s not a meme candle; that’s aggressive institutional-style buying in a name most people still aren’t watching.

SYPR sits at the intersection of defense, aerospace, and industrial infrastructure—exactly where money migrates when macro confidence gets shaky and governments start opening checkbooks. After a move like this, the job isn’t to chase—it’s to observe how it behaves. Strong names don’t give it all back. They consolidate, frustrate, then move again. This one has not finished telling its story.

Macro Analysis
INDICES TANK AS VOLATILITY RETURNS

Markets slipped as geopolitics and bonds decided to tag-team risk assets. Trump is going full hard-on-for-Greenland, and honestly, I can’t blame him—the US does look way cooler with the map he’s proposing. Unfortunately, Europe is not vibing. They’re sending troops to Greenland to “show solidarity,” which is diplomatic speak for please stop cooking.

Trump, of course, always has a counter move. We’re hearing reports that Trump disguised himself as a Muslim migrant so Europe would let him invade Greenland. Meanwhile, Japan’s bond market is melting in the background, and when the most boring bond market on earth starts acting spicy, stocks tend to lose their appetite real quick.

Streaming Wars
NETFLIX CRUSHED ON EARNINGS

Netflix reported earnings today and the street was watching closely. Verdict? Meh. Numbers didn’t save the stock, and sentiment clearly wasn’t impressed. Growth concerns are back on the menu, and competition isn’t exactly getting easier.

They better hope that Warner Bros. deal goes through, because without a strong narrative shift, this thing risks turning into dead money while everyone else fights over attention and eyeballs.

VHLA Analysis
VHLA SPECIAL REPORT: STATE OF THE AI RACE

A lot has changed in the AI race the past few weeks, so let’s keep an honest tally of where things actually stand. Google is sitting at the top right now, and it’s not particularly close. Gemini isn’t just competitive—it’s beating the OpenAI models in real-world use, and more importantly, it’s fully integrated into the entire Google ecosystem. Search, Docs, Gmail, YouTube—this thing is everywhere. That’s game over type distribution. Yeah, Google being our overlords in a few years is no longer a joke, it’s a roadmap.

Second place belongs to Anthropic, and the buzz is deserved. Claude Code and Cowork have basically locked up the coding crowd. Developers don’t care about hype—they care about tools that actually ship—and Anthropic is quietly owning that lane. They’re not loud, they’re not flashy, but they’re executing.

Third is xAI, and do not count them out. Ever. Musk will absolutely do Musk things to claw back into the lead—whether that’s compute, capital, distribution through X, or just sheer force of will. And then there’s OpenAI, now somehow sitting in fourth after once having a massive head start. Half the team got poached by Zuck and friends, Musk is suing them, Sam Altman’s reputation has taken real damage, and the list of headwinds just keeps growing. Hard to see how they catch back up from here.