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We apologize for the late post-game. Anthropic filed to go public this morning, about half an hour before the opening bell. The market did not finish reacting at 9:30. It kept working out what the news was worth for the next two hours, and that process is the most useful thing to understand about today. Only Praedor traded live today. Micro is the MNQ contract at $2 a point. Standard is the NQ contract at $20 a point. Praedor — one trade. Minus 102 points. • −102 points | −$204.00 micro | −$2,040.00 standard The market: Anthropic, one of the largest AI developers, filed with regulators to list its shares on the Nasdaq. An initial public offering, or IPO, is the first time a private company sells its shares to the public. The filing is the formal paperwork. The sale itself comes later, and its timing is not yet set. The filing showed heavy losses alongside very fast revenue growth, which is typical of a company spending heavily to build. On Friday we described three ways to pay for something very expensive: cash you already have, money you borrow, or new owners you bring in. Today two of the biggest names in AI chose the third. Anthropic moved toward selling shares to the public for the first time, and Meta said it plans to raise up to $95 billion by selling new shares to fund its AI infrastructure. Friday's worry was that the AI build-out was running short of money. Today's news was about large new sources of it, and the market liked that. Chip stocks led, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index up more than 3 percent at its best. Oil helped too. Brent crude eased to about $115 and West Texas crude to about $101 on hopes of calmer relations with Iran, after Qatari mediators traveled to Tehran over the weekend. By the close the Nasdaq was up 0.8 percent, the S&P 500 0.7 percent and the Dow 0.3 percent. Now the useful part. The filing became public before 9:00. By the opening bell, everyone who trades this market knew about it. Yet the Nasdaq opened only about 0.2 percent higher, climbed to about 1.2 percent by late morning, and closed up 0.8 percent.

WHERE WE START Friday left the Nasdaq 100 futures contract, NQ, at 29,117.75. That was a quiet close at the end of a second straight losing week. Friday's range ran from 28,987 on the low to 29,326 on the high, a span of 339 points. This morning NQ sits near 29,140, a little above Friday's close and up about a tenth of a percent. Overnight the contract pushed up toward the 29,300 area, stalled there, and slid back. It has not gone near Friday's low. That puts us close to the middle of Friday's range. The two edges are the levels we care about today: 29,326 above and 28,987 below. Between them there is no clear structure, only Friday's own back and forth. The cash Nasdaq 100 index closed Friday at 28,957. The gap between the index and the futures contract is normal carry, not a signal. WHAT IS ACTUALLY MOVING THE TAPE Oil. Attacks on Saudi Arabia pushed crude to multi month highs late last week, and this morning it is coming back down. Brent is near $115 and West Texas crude near $101, both lower on the session. The reason is diplomatic: Qatari mediators traveled to Tehran on Sunday to work on cooling tensions with Iran, with US coordination. Cheaper oil is why stock futures are firm and why the mood is calmer than Friday. But the story is unfinished. The same weekend brought reporting that US forces could be ready for major strikes on Iran on short notice. So the driver this morning is a headline, not a number, and headlines can reverse inside a minute. HOW WIDE THE DAY SHOULD BE The VIX is 19.45, barely changed from Friday. The VIX is the market's estimate of how much the S&P 500 will move over the next year, stated as a percent. To turn that into one day, we divide by the square root of 252, which is the number of trading days in a year. 19.45 divided by 15.87 gives 1.23 percent. Applied to NQ near 29,140, that is about 357 points. One standard deviation, about 357 points: $7,140 on one NQ contract, $714 on one MNQ contract. Half a standard deviation, about 178 points: $3,570 on NQ, $357 on MNQ.

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