2026-09-29 · midday

Net cash / NLV still red at -0.111, $16,579 past the -0.10 line; no fills today. Red means Rule 3: tier 1 sales. Gross leverage 1.747x red; long-leg band still over. GOOGL $341.62, nearest written level tranche 3 at $360, +5.38%. MU $1,064.92 prints tomorrow after the close. Today's forecasting pipeline run refused at pre-flight again.

What to do

Still over, unchanged

Why each one reads the way it does

Everything else clear

All 27 triggers swept, with today's number
price triggernowfires atdistance
GOOGL - tranche 3 confirmation (nearest written level)$341.62≥ $3605.4% up
GOOGL - tranche 2 weakness$341.62≤ $3177.2% down
MU - collar roll level$1,064.92≥ $1,25017.4% up
GOOGL - thesis break, close regardless of price$341.62≤ $28018.0% down
GOOGL - washout, stop selling spreads and buy stock$341.62≤ $26023.9% down
GOOGL - Rule 8, deploy the $100k crash reserve$341.62≤ $26023.9% down
GOOGL - no chase past $380-390 short$341.62≥ $43025.9% up
GOOGL - Rule 6, close every short put$341.62≥ $43427.0% up
GOOGL - long spreads near max, would-I-buy-it-fresh test$341.62≥ $50046.4% up
GOOGL - shares capped by the 600Cs$341.62≥ $60075.6% up
level triggernowfires atdistance
Net cash / NLV, now red-0.111back above -0.10 (amber)$16,579 of sales at midday NLV.
Every long call spread against the 90%-of-width sell rule42.80% is the highest90% of widthDec-28 300/400 42.80%, Sep-27 300/440 39.54%, Sep-27 300/445 38.86%, Dec-28 350/500 30.23%, Dec-28 350/600 24.37%.
Dec-28 put IV, the alternate tranche-2 trigger35.66%43% (Rule 8 at 50%)7.34 points. Midpoint IV valid at midday (implied_vol 35.92%).
GOOGL Dec-28 340P extrinsic, the assignment watch$55.09$5Put is $1.62 out of the money; the whole mark is extrinsic.
Program cap$175,059$200,000$24,941 of room.
Excess liquidity against the Part 4 amber75.74% of NLV40% amber, 25% red$1,121,503 against a $650,000 floor.
NLV on the week against the 72-hour freeze row-4.03%a FALL of 8% in one weekStruck against 2026-09-22's open, $1,542,979.22.
calendardateaway
MU fiscal Q4 print, after the close2026-09-301d
Earliest clean sale date for the 6/05 GOOG loss lots if only bought calls count as replacement property2026-10-012d
Earliest clean sale date if a WRITTEN call is also replacement property2026-10-1516d
GOOG print, first scheduled thesis adjudicator2026-10-2829d
Deploy the $100k reserve at market if no crash has come2026-10-2930d
GOOG capex guide, second scheduled adjudicator2027-02-03127d
GOOG lots vest long-term, add collar put leg 9 (+66 sh)2027-03-13165d
GOOG lots vest long-term, add collar put legs 10-11 (+200 sh)2027-04-02185d
GOOG lots vest long-term, legs 12-14 (+350 sh)2027-06-05249d
GOOG lots vest long-term, leg 15 (+50 sh)2027-06-25269d
Spot prices
lastday
META$735.33+2.8%
MU$1,064.92+1.0%
CRWD$261.80+1.0%
RDDT$144.24+0.8%
AMZN$247.03+0.4%
VOO$702.41-0.2%
GOOG$338.36-0.2%
INTC$115.69-0.3%
GOOGL$341.62-0.3%
DIS$105.17-0.4%
HD$288.69-0.4%
NVDA$227.73-0.5%
PANW$387.76-1.1%
TSLA$352.96-1.3%
EQT$48.79-2.2%

What other people said

Every call filed today
whoactiontargetwhen
D.A. Davidson / Gil Luria
Reiterated.
MUBuy, reiterated$2,0002026-09-28
Morgan Stanley / Joseph Moore
Maintained.
MUMaintains$1,2002026-09-28
Bernstein / Mark Li
Maintained; same $1,300 as 09-01, 09-04, 09-08.
MUMaintains$1,3002026-09-29
Seeking Alpha / Ricardo Fernandez
"25% upside to $430 by YE27 and 50% to $515 by 2028"; TPU 44% cost advantage over Nvidia.
GOOGLBuy$430 by YE272026-09-29
Seeking Alpha / Hunting Alphas
$514B cloud backlog, commercial TPU revenue from 2027; DMA remedies a risk; above long-term forward P/E.
GOOGLBuynone2026-09-28
Seeking Alpha / Tech Stock Pros
Chinese non-HBM DRAM supply threatens pricing; DRAM price acceleration slowing; memory price collapse coming, timing hard.
MUStrong Sell into the printnone2026-09-29
consensussourcetargetanalysts
GOOGLstockanalysis.com$429.4661 analystsUnchanged.
GOOGLmarketbeat.com$425.6054 analystsUnchanged.
GOOGLfinviz.com$426.50Recom 1.25Down from $426.66.
MUstockanalysis.com$1,515.0049 analystsUnchanged.
MUmarketbeat.com$1,348.0345 analystsUnchanged.
MUfinviz.com$1,580.88Recom 1.26Unchanged.

Cost of compute

Every rate, per chip and per source

Dollars per GPU-hour. Vast is a marketplace floor and runs well below contract rates, which is what the cloud and hyperscaler columns are there to show. Bold rows are current generation.

vastcloudhyperakashn
H100 SXM$2.33$5.00$7.89$2.7216
H100 NVL$3.01---11
H200$4.45$4.50$10.85$4.457 thin
B200$9.38$7.88$14.24-4 thin
A100 SXM4$0.91$2.00$3.67$1.7141
A100 PCIE$0.74---18
L40S$0.80---29
RTX 4090$0.47---64
RTX 5090$0.59---64

H100 by source. SFCompute clearing price -. Composite is $2.82 as of 2026-04 (Still the 2026-04 H100 print at $2.82, the last free figure on gpu-index.semianalysis.com; later months paywalled (re-checked 2026-09-03). Next monthly append due on the first October open run.).

sourcenow24h avgday
vast med$2.33$2.94-27.2%
sfcompute---
getdeploying$5.00-+0.0%
akash$2.72$2.72+0.0%

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