From Ross Givens <[email protected]>
Subject An Extremely Frustrating Market
Date February 11, 2026 2:30 PM
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Hey, Ross here:



It must be pretty frustrating to be an “S&P 500 only” index investor right now.



Today’s charts show you why.




Chart of the Day




For the past 3 months, the S&P 500 has been struggling to definitively move
past its late-October highs.



And yet, for the past 2.5 months, we’ve had a barely unbroken streak of Net
New Highs.



This means that we have hundreds of stocks hitting new highs every day…



And yet the index has gone practically nowhere.



Like I said – it must be frustrating to be an “S&P 500 only” index investor
right now…


Especially because two-thirds of S&P 500 stocks are currently outperforming
the index.



This is just another symptom of the rotation that’s been happening.



Mega-cap tech is down – and it’s dragged the market-cap weighted index down
with it.



Meanwhile, the “average” stock is doing fine.



And I’m not talking about just the large-cap stocks either.



Source: @GrantHawkridge via X


As the chart above shows, the large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap indexes have
all seen their Advance-Decline lines hit new 52-week highs.



This means there are far more stocks consistently rising than falling across
every major segment of the market.



And yet…



The S&P 500 has barely made new highs…



While the Nasdaq is still below previous highs.



So below, let me explain a critical distinction most traders still fail to
explain.




Insight of the Day




Don’t confuse the “stock market” with the “market of stocks”.


People look to the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq and equate it with the stock market.



But these cap-weighted indexes should NOT be confused with the “market of
stocks”.



I know this just seems like clever wordplay. But it’s more than that.



Cap-weighted indexes are driven by a small group of mega-cap stocks.



When those names stall, the index can go nowhere – even while hundreds of
other stocks are moving higher.



That’s the difference between watching an index – the so-called “stock market”…



And understanding the true market underneath it – the “market of stocks”.



Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be an “index only” investor right now.



Instead, I would want to keep targeting the strongest areas of this “market of
stocks”.


And here’s the strategy I would use
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