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The Midday 10

The Midday 10 Tue, Jul 28, 2026 ~60 seconds 12:30 ET

The flush lasted forty-five minutes. What got bought back — and what didn't — is the cleanest map of who owns this tape since April.

as of 12:00 ET, July 28

  1. The flush was bought before 10:15
  2. Nvidia is green on semi-crash day
  3. Micron broke the floor and took it back
  4. Western Digital walks away from the stress test
  5. Corning: the repricing, not the print
  6. The shelf test that never started
  7. Apple extends the crown
  8. The Dow is the other pole
  9. The correlation answered itself
  10. Thirty-six hours of audit ahead

The ten lines

  1. 1

    LEVEL The flush was bought before 10:15

    SOXX

    The semi fund gapped from Monday's 516.23 straight down to 480.50 — off almost seven percent inside the first forty-five minutes — and has been bought back to 494 since. Still down four-and-a-quarter on the day, but the entire flush happened before 10:15 and the tape has done nothing but reclaim since. The 530–532 band stays far overhead; today's fight was only about whether the open was a bottom, and the buyers showed up first.

  2. 2

    UP Nvidia is green on semi-crash day

    NVDA

    198.53, up one percent, against a complex down four — on the worst semiconductor morning since April. Whatever the market thinks of the layer that supplies Nvidia, it is not applying the discount to Nvidia itself: the platform is being separated from its own supply chain in real time.

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  4. 3

    LEVEL Micron broke the floor and took it back

    MU

    789.09 at the low — twelve percent below Monday, straight through the memory floor — then bought back to 821 on the heaviest volume of the morning. A floor that breaks and reclaims on volume is a different signal from one that never got tested. The memory read survives, narrowly, and tonight's Seoul open gets the deciding vote.

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In line 11: the morning checklist scored three-for-three by noon — why that still buys nothing, the two-step reclaim sequence that would actually change the regime call, and how tonight's Seoul open became the cheapest confirmation print on the board.

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Ten lines on the US midday tape, not advice — an investment diary. Published every trading day at 12:30 ET. See The Morning 10 and the Daily Pulse.