Which Hall of Fame player was the home plate umpire in a regular season game his team was playing?
Hint: #1 He is also in the Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Fame and the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.
Hint: #2 As a player, he once hit exactly nineteen triples in each of five consecutive seasons but never led the league in any of the five. The leader was different in each of those seasons.
Hint: #3 Just the year before that streak began, he led his league in triples. It’s the only black ink in his twenty-season major league career.
Wednesday’s question answered:
Q. Who hit more doubles on one season that any other National Leaguer?
Hint: #1 He was the first player to hit home runs in the All-Star game and World Series in the same season.
– Ans. Medwick had 64 2B in 1936 in 677 plate appearances.
– #1 In the 1st of his 10 All-Star appearances, 1934, Medwick homered in the 3rd inning off Lefty Gomez. On 03-Oct, he homered in the 5th inning of the 1st game off Detroit’s General Crowder.
– #2 When advised to lay off bad pitches, Berra replied, “Joe Medwick’s still my hero.” Yogi grew up in St. Louis in the heyday of the Cardinal’s Gas House Gang.
The breakout fired. You took the entry. Then it reversed and stopped you out — again.
It’s not your analysis. It’s not your timing. It’s a squeeze trap. The market creates the appearance of a move, triggers entries, then snaps back violently. Most traders don’t fail because they’re wrong. They fail because they’re baited.
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The S&P 500 is only down 13 points on the session. In the context of what we’ve seen lately, that’s massively unchanged.
Do not let your guard down.
The options market is pricing in a $224 expected move on the week. The actual move so far is 30 points. The week opened at 6,740 and we’re sitting at 6,770 right now.
That kind of compression tells you the market is coiled. It’s waiting for a catalyst, and the catalysts are stacked up on Friday’s calendar: durable goods, GDP, PCE, consumer sentiment, and JOLTS all land on March 13th.
Even the Friday expiration alone still carries nearly a $100 expected move with only two sessions left. That is significant.
Here’s what I’m watching in tonight’s video:
The VIX is sitting in an intense zone at 24 to 25, volatility futures remain in backwardation, and the VVIX is printing 123. Nobody is giving up their hedges.
Downside convexity is the defining feature of this tape. A rally gets us back to 7,100. A breakdown takes the S&P to the low 6,000s. That’s roughly 300 points of upside versus 700 points of downside risk.
The S&P is only 3.5% removed from its all time high. The peak to trough selloff so far has been about 5%. This market hasn’t even begun to sell off in any meaningful way.
Financials are oversold after breaching the expected move to the downside for multiple consecutive weeks. I see a short term bounce trade targeting a move back to the 51 to 52 level.
I have a spread on Microsoft positioned for a retest through the $400 level, and a bounce and fade trade on FXI where sell side activity has been dominant.
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This morning, the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers came in as expected.
Headline inflation increased 0.3% for the month and 2.4% on the year – both numbers matched consensus forecasts.
Meanwhile, core CPI (which strips out volatile food and energy prices) edged 0.2% higher on the month and 2.5% over the last year. These numbers were also in line with estimates.
One noteworthy part of the report came from the shelter component, the CPI’s largest weighting…
For years, stubbornly high shelter prices put upward pressure on the overall inflation reading. But this morning, this component came in at 0.2% on a month-over-month basis. And within it, rent costs rose just 0.1% – the smallest monthly increase since January of 2021.
But the main headline from this morning’s report? These numbers don’t matter.
Under normal circumstances, today’s CPI figures would be exactly what investors want to see – more confirmation that inflation is gradually easing and the Federal Reserve can inch closer to cutting interest rates.
But the data reflect the economy that existed before the oil shock triggered by the Iran war.
So, while the numbers were largely good, they’re already outdated.
The biggest variable in the inflation outlook today isn’t rent, eggs, or deodorant…
It’s oil.
As you know, the Iran conflict triggered a sudden spike in crude prices, briefly sending oil soaring to roughly $115 per barrel on Sunday evening at the height of the panic.
Since then, prices have pulled back sharply, falling into the upper-$80s as I write on Wednesday at lunch.
That drop is resulting in many investors breathing a sigh of relief – the assumption being that the worst of the inflation scare is already behind us.
But while that drop from $115 to $87 grabs the headlines and is somewhat comforting, is it the right focal point for investors?
Wouldn’t the more relevant comparison be current prices to where oil traded before the conflict erupted?
Over the week before U.S. strikes on Iran – February 21–27 – the average price of West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTIC) was just over $65 a barrel.
That means today’s WTIC price is 34% higher than it was two weeks ago.
The key question today is whether oil settles back toward its earlier range or becomes entrenched at higher levels.
This morning, the International Energy Agency (IEA) agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil – its largest release ever – to smooth the disruption caused by the war in the Middle East.
From IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol:
The oil market challenges we are facing are unprecedented in scale, therefore I am very glad that IEA Member countries have responded with an emergency collective action of unprecedented size.
Will it be enough to bring WTIC prices back into the $60s?
The answer will matter far more for the inflation outlook than anything in this morning’s CPI report.
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Oil isn’t the only commodity reacting to the war
Another key industrial metal quietly surged last week as supply fears rippled through global markets – aluminum.
As our global macro investing expert Eric Fry, editor of Fry’s Investment Report, recently noted, the conflict in the Persian Gulf has sent aluminum prices surging nearly 10%, pushing the metal to a three-year high.
Source: TradingEconomics
The Middle East supplies roughly 9% of the world’s aluminum, meaning any disruption to shipments can quickly ripple through global supply chains.
But volatility can create an opportunity for investors. Plus, even if tensions cool, aluminum still enjoys a powerful structural tailwind.
Here’s Eric explaining:
If the war continues to create a global aluminum shortage, mining companies could stand to benefit…
And beyond the escalating conflict, aluminum demand has increased thanks to AI’s need for infrastructure and hardware…
Every high-voltage line that feeds an AI data hub consumes 1 to 2 tons of aluminum per megawatt of delivered power. Each new stretch of long-distance transmission deepens the world’s appetite for this versatile metal.
From 104 million tons of demand in 2024 to an estimated 120 million by 2030, global aluminum consumption is set to grow relentlessly.
This lines up perfectly with a theme we’ve been highlighting in recent Digests – investing in the “physical backbone” of AI.
Even if the AI trade runs into headwinds, AI itself isn’t going away. Some software platforms and high-multiple application stocks may struggle, but the infrastructure powering AI will remain essential.
This means datacenters, advanced semiconductors, power generation, and rare earths and critical minerals/metals – like aluminum – remain mission-critical.
So, how do you invest?
Eric just highlighted Alcoa (AA), the largest U.S.-based aluminum producer. His Investment Report subscribers are up 71% in this position, but as AI demand increases, that return is likely to keep climbing.
Back to Eric:
After suffering a tariff-induced selloff earlier in the year, Alcoa’s shares have been trending higher.
I expect that uptrend to gain momentum – driven not only by firmer aluminum prices, but also by the company’s exceptional fundamentals…
In the end, the market may reward not those who build the virtual world, but those who power it. The AI Revolutionwill always need its dreamers, but it will depend on the miners that turn metal into its bones.
Now, while Eric just outlined the fundamental case for owning AA, traders should watch AA’s developing technical setup…
Is AA about to resume its breakout?
In the AA chart below, I overlay a stage-analysis framework.
Stage analysis is a classic trading approach popularized by legendary technician Stan Weinstein and frequently used by our hypergrowth expert Luke Lango.
Notice how AA spent much of the past year in a classic Stage-2 advance. But here in 2026, it’s transitioned into Stage 3 – a pause where buyers and sellers battle to determine the next major move.
To make sure we’re all on the same page, stage analysis simply breaks every stock’s life cycle into four phases:
Stage 1: A bottoming period where prices move sideways
Stage 2: A sustained advance driven by heavy buying pressure
Stage 3: A topping pattern where momentum fades
Stage 4: A decline as sellers take control
The biggest gains occur during Stage 2, when a stock breaks out of a base and begins trending higher for months – sometimes years.
This is exactly what Alcoa did last year. After volatile basing in 2023 and 2024, AA finally broke out in 2025, with its gains accelerating last fall.
That advance carried the stock all the way into the mid-$60s earlier this year, where it has since been consolidating in Stage 3.
Now, as I noted earlier, in this stage, buyers and sellers battle for where the stock goes next. So, traders need to watch price action and volume closely to make sure they avoid buying in as AA slips into Stage 4.
However, given Eric’s macro analysis, we believe the fundamental winds are far more likely to push AA back into Stage 2.
This leaves the technicals as the potential starting gun for the next leg higher.
Specifically, if Alcoa breaks convincingly above its recent trading range (around $66) on heavy volume – roughly two to three times normal levels – that would signal Stage-2 momentum is likely returning. And that’s a breakout to consider buying.
Stage analysis is about letting price reveal what’s happening in real time
If AA pushes higher, the chart will confirm it…
If it breaks lower, price will tell that story just as clearly…
This focus on price action sits at the core of Luke’s stage-analysis trading approach.
The challenge is that spotting these Stage-2 breakouts consistently isn’t easy. Thousands of stocks are trading at any given moment, and only a small fraction are setting up for the kind of moves traders want to capture.
That’s why Luke and his team built a system designed specifically to scan the market for the best opportunities.
Here he is explaining how it works:
Identifying true Stage 2 breakouts across thousands of stocks before they move requires serious analytical horsepower.
That’s why my team and I have built a system that quantifies the stage analysis framework into a proprietary scoring model – grading thousands of stocks in the market from 0 to 5 based on the strength of their momentum setup.
In back-testing, it flagged eight of 2025’s top-performing stocks before their big runs, including:
Hycroft Mining Holding Corp.(HYMC) before a 1,100% move.
Terns Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TERN) before an 865% surge.
MP Materials Corp. (MP) months before the Pentagon deal and a partnership with Apple Inc. (AAPL) sent it to the moon.
Right now, several AI-infrastructure stocks – including companies tied to metals, power, and semiconductors – are flashing breakout signals.
If you’d like to see more about how the system works – as well as a free stock that’s currently soaring in Stage 2 – you can watch Luke’s free presentation right here.
Back to Luke:
The system doesn’t chase headlines. It looks for one thing. Stocks on the verge of entering Stage 2.
In a market driven by algorithms and geopolitical shocks, reading price structure instead of predicting headlines isn’t optional – it’s essential.
We’ll keep tracking all these stories – and the related price action – here in the Digest.
Have a good evening,
Jeff Remsburg
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Insiders are buying KKR after the stock has lost over a third of its value as investors assess the risks of the firm’s investment portfolio from multiple angles.
After surging 250% on its IPO day, Figma is trading below its opening price and has seen over $30 million in insider buying.
Reddit is down almost 50% from its highs, and one insider is buying as the company’s financials improve.
Amid precipitous falls in their share prices, several key stocks are flashing bullish signals through a key indicator: insider buying. This includes a leading financial servicescompany, a creative design disruptor, and a social media platform whose shares have soared by more than 300% in two years.
Everyone is watching Iran—the drones, the missiles, the Strait of Hormuz—and oil prices are spiking with gas up 43 cents in a single week. But according to investment analysts Porter Stansberry and Luke Lango, Iran isn’t the real story. The real story is what Trump just did to China. China buys 90% of Iran’s oil exports, and 50% of all China’s oil imports flow through the Strait of Hormuz, which is now a ghost town with commercial ships stopped. That means China’s energy lifeline just got severed, and China needs that energy to power its AI war machine. Without oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, that edge starts to crumble, which is exactly why Trump signed Executive Order 14365 declaring AI and advanced computing strategic national assets—the U.S. isn’t just bombing Iran, it’s cutting off China’s fuel supply for the AI arms race.See the New 1776 briefing with 10 stocks to sell immediately
KKR Sees Big Insider Buying as Markets Rock Shares
Specifically, investors worry that AI could hurt the businesses KKR invested in or loaned to, potentially significantly damaging their returns. This is particularly true of software investments, given the advent of “vibe-coding” and AI lab product releases.
Amid this, KKR insiders are aggressively buying the company’s stock. In 2026, insiders have purchased approximately $40 million worth of shares. Over the same period, MarketBeat has not tracked any insider selling.
This bullishness may come because KKR says its $740 billion in assets under management has only around 7% exposure to software. This is well below its industry, as well as equity and credit indexes, according to the company. Part of its underexposure here was due to the company’s cautiousness in 2021, when many in KKR’s industry overinvested in software businesses.
Still, there are other significant risks outside of software exposure, particularly the “Bermuda Triangle” private credit strategy used by firms like KKR that are worrisome.
The stock catapulted 250% on its first day of trading in mid-2025, but has since crashed. Overall, the stock has lost all of its first-day gains and more. It trades near $29 per share, solidly below its $33 IPO price. Notably, fears around AI software disruption have also hit Figma hard.
However, insider Reed Andrew Phillips is stepping in amid the carnage, purchasing over $36 million worth of Figma stock in February. Phillips bought these shares at an average price near $25, around 15% above the stock’s current level. Given the moderate move in Figma shares since then, these buys are likely still a bullish signal for investors.
On the other hand, it may concern investors that Figma’s insider selling in 2026 is near $50 million, exceeding Phillip’s purchases. However, essentially all of these sales came under predetermined 10b5-1 plans or contained other mitigating circumstances. This limits the bearish signal that they provide, helping preserve the bullish sentiment surrounding Phillip’s purchases.
Still, as a recently public company, many insiders are looking to gain liquidity by selling their Figma shares, likely creating an overhang on the stock.
U.S. Investors Racing to Tap Massive U.S. Government Silver Hoard
Between 1932 and 1964, the government acquired thousands of tons of silver. 90% pure. Certified by the U.S. Treasury.
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RDDT: Revenue, Margins, Buybacks, and Insider Buying Are Up
Discussion platform Reddit (NYSE: RDDT)has seen its share price go on an absolutely wild ride since going public in early 2024.
The stock shot up 48% in its first day of trading from its IPO price of $34. Shares reached as high as $270 in the second half of 2025. However, the stock has plummeted almost 50% from that level, now trading near $140. Still, shares remain up over 300% from their initial price.
AI disruption fears have likely also affected Reddit shares, with many of the stock’s biggest down days recently coinciding with significant drops in software names. Despite this, the company has generated rapid revenue growth of between 68% and 78% over the last three quarters on the back of its advertising revenue momentum. Reddit also posted its highest-ever adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) margin last quarter at 45%.
While the company indicated confidence going forward by announcing a new $1 billion buyback authorization, one insider is also providing a bullish signal.
In February, director Sarah Farrell purchased approximately $7.6 million worth of Reddit stock. Notably, Farrell bought these shares at an average price near $148, moderately above the stock’s current level. Reddit has also experienced significant insider selling in 2026. However, similar to Figma, essentially all of these came under 10b5-1 plans.
Evaluating Insider Activity Alongside Broader Fundamental Analysis
Overall, insider purchases at KKR, FIG, and RDDT are all positive signs for these stocks that have taken serious tumbles. However, investors should remember that insider purchases are just one important indicator to consider when evaluating individual stocks.
U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper gives assessment of Operation Epic Fury, detailing how U.S. forces are delivering “devastating combat power against the Iranian regime,” while Iran’s combat power “is declining.”
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About a year ago, a veteran Wall Street analyst made a bold call.
Not just that the market would struggle in 2026… but when the turning point could happen.
Marc Chaikin pointed to mid-March 2026 as the window where stocks could peak before a meaningful correction.
Now we’re just days away from that date.
At the same time, we’re seeing unusual volatility… rising oil prices… weakening job numbers… and cracks forming beneath the surface of the market.
Even some of the biggest tech names investors rely on are already sliding.
Is this prediction starting to play out in real time?
In this interview, he explains why the second year of the presidential cycle often triggers market turbulence—and the 3 steps investors can take right now to protect their portfolios.
It’s a calm, data-driven perspective on what could be coming next.
You may want to see it.
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