A Week Up Everywhere Except Where It Mattered: Nvidia Fell 12.75% While the Models Turned at 2 p.m. — Ananke Market Intelligence, Friday, November 13 (Close)

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Data cutoff: 4:02 PM ET (Ananke realtime snapshot)

Market session: Closing

Coverage: S&P 500, Nasdaq, Dow; SPY, TQQQ, QQQ, IWM; Nvidia, semiconductors, Treasuries, gold, oil

### 1. Market Today

Friday opened like a sigh of relief and closed like a week that had already decided what it was. Before the bell, Nvidia was up about 2% in premarket, futures were higher across the board, and October producer prices had come in a touch cooler than expected on the month. For about an hour, that was enough: Nvidia touched $170.00, and the market looked ready to put Thursday behind it.

Then the relief ran out. Nvidia rolled over to an intraday low of $158.39, the rotation that had lifted its rivals on Thursday turned on them — AMD fell 8.75%, Broadcom 4.76%, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped about 6% — and by midday the Nasdaq was down 1.35% and the S&P 500 down 0.84%. The afternoon belonged to the climb back: Nvidia closed at $162.85, down 2.01% on the day but well off its low; the S&P halved its loss to finish at 7,561.67, down 0.40%; the Nasdaq closed at 25,136.27, down 0.91%; and the Dow, carried by the parts of the market that never joined the selloff, ended at 52,347.55, up 0.10%.

The split inside the day was the story. Technology was the weakest S&P sector, down 2.7%, and the semiconductor ETF SMH fell 4.1% while the triple-leveraged SOXL lost 10.96%. On the other side, Meta rose 2.90%, Apple 0.39%, Microsoft 0.17% as its global outage unwound, and Cisco was the Dow’s worst decliner, down 6.4%, after a margin squeeze overshadowed record quarterly revenue. The 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.15%, the VIX at 19.16, gold essentially flat at $3,881.30, and WTI crude up 0.11% at $88.84.

Step back a week and the picture inverts: the S&P 500 gained 2.51% on the week, the Nasdaq 2.27%, the Dow 2.07% — the rebound from the November 5 crash carried the first four days. Nvidia, the week’s central character, lost 12.75% over the same five sessions and is on track for its longest streak of weekly losses since October 2012, according to Reuters.

Central theme: the market spent Friday repricing one company’s governance shock across an entire hardware chain, while the rest of the market held its ground — and the afternoon’s recovery arrived in the same hour the models printed their turn.

### 2. Ananke Model State

The long-term frame first: Ananke’s bigtrend regime remains Neutral. Nothing since last week — not Wednesday’s rebound, not Thursday’s round trip, not today’s PPI print or Nvidia reversal — has confirmed a new directional regime. Everything below sits inside that neutral frame.

SPY Trend: the short is closed. The feed’s latest print is a Short Close at 2:00 PM ET at $753.40; SPY carries no open position into the weekend. (Feed price $753.41.)

TQQQ Trend: LONG, opened 2:00 PM ET at $57.49; current price $57.68; unrealized return +0.33%.

Market Style (QQQ vs IWM): value small-caps leading (VALUE_STRONG), in place since October 8, 12:30 PM ET. Ratio 2.4472; unrealized return +10.46% as printed in the feed. The day’s tape confirmed the call for a second straight session: QQQ fell 1.20% while IWM fell 0.30%.

Benchmark excess (model net return minus buy-and-hold, in percentage points; benchmark periods differ by model, so the figures are not directly comparable across models): SPY +83.43 (September 8, 2025–November 13, 2026); TQQQ +299.72 (August 21–November 13, 2026); Style (QQQ/IWM) +393.66 (September 3, 2021–November 13, 2026). Note: the feed revised SPY’s benchmark window in today’s close snapshot — it previously started August 21, 2026 — so the SPY excess figure is not comparable with the midday edition’s +23.68 percentage points. See the methodology note.

### 3. News × Quantitative Signals

**First, Nvidia’s first full day under an interim chief executive — and the shock kept widening.**

News: Friday was Nvidia’s first full session with Colette Kress, the chief financial officer of more than a decade, as interim CEO after Jensen Huang’s resignation on Thursday ended his 33-year tenure. The board’s independent investigation, led by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, continues; the board has said it has no reason to believe national-security or company secrets were compromised. Three fresh angles arrived during the day: Truist Securities downgraded the stock; CNN reported that three House committees have summoned Huang for a closed-door interview on December 1, and Senate Banking Committee chair Tim Scott has asked him to testify on December 3; and a report said 22 Dell servers carrying restricted Nvidia H800 chips were sold to a Singapore-based cloud firm and installed at a Shanghai data centre tied to a company founded by Alice Huang. Earnings land Tuesday, November 17, with Kress hosting the call.

Market response: Nvidia opened at $169.91, touched $170.00, fell to $158.39, and closed at $162.85, down 2.01% — down 12.75% on the week. The damage spread outward: AMD gave back Thursday’s rotation gains and more, down 8.75%; Broadcom fell 4.76%; the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell about 6%.

Ananke perspective: at 2:00 PM ET, as the tape was climbing off its midday lows, TQQQ Trend opened a long at $57.49, and SPY Trend closed its short at $753.40. The regime stayed Neutral throughout.

Interpretation: the models did not chase the morning selloff and did not try to catch the low — the prints came after the market had already begun to stabilize, and they coincided with the recovery rather than causing it. What the prints do say is that the afternoon’s turn was strong enough, on the models’ own rules, to end SPY’s short and put TQQQ long on the same hour. The open question is unchanged and still turns on Tuesday: whether Nvidia’s decline stays an event discount or becomes a valuation discount depends on Kress’s guidance, not on today’s tape.

**Second, Thursday’s rotation ate itself — and the rest of the market declined to join in.**

News: Thursday’s trade had been a rush out of Nvidia and into its rivals; AMD and Broadcom rose about 6% that day on the rotation thesis.

Market response: Friday reversed it completely. AMD fell 8.75% and Broadcom 4.76%, both worse than Nvidia itself, while the leveraged semiconductor ETF SOXL lost 10.96%. Meanwhile Meta rose 2.90%, Apple 0.39%, Microsoft 0.17%, and the Dow finished higher. Even on the week, the rotation’s fingerprints are mixed: SOXL gained 26.93% over five sessions despite Friday’s plunge, and TQQQ gained 10.39%.

Ananke perspective: the style gauge stayed VALUE_STRONG, and the day’s tape agreed with it — growth large-caps fell further than value small-caps (QQQ −1.20% versus IWM −0.30%), and the QQQ/IWM ratio ticked up from 2.4436 at midday to 2.4472 at the close as QQQ recovered slightly faster in the afternoon.

Interpretation: Friday was not a market-wide de-risking; it was a concentrated unwind inside the AI hardware chain, buffered by large-cap resilience everywhere else. The rotation thesis — that money leaving Nvidia would simply find a new home among its rivals — lasted exactly one session. What held instead was the older, slower pattern the gauge has described since October 8: value small-caps leading, growth large-caps lagging, with the gap widening on down days.

**Third, inflation gave the bond market a mixed message, and the bond market barely blinked.**

News: October producer prices rose 0.3% on the month, below the 0.4% economists expected, but 6.5% on the year — the highest annual reading since November 2022. A December rate hike is fully priced in rate-futures markets, with roughly 12% odds of a half-point move rather than a quarter point, according to CME FedWatch; the federal funds target stands at 3.75%–4.00% after September’s increase. Five Fed officials spoke during the day, including Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman and Vice Chair Philip Jefferson, who spoke at 7:00 PM ET, after the close. Earlier in the week, Governor Waller had said a half-point December move should be on the table if core inflation stays elevated, and New York Fed President Williams said more hikes are likely.

Market response: the 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.15%, up from 5.10% on Thursday; the equity tape barely moved on the data. Oil was flat — WTI up 0.11% at $88.84 — and gold was flat at $3,881.30.

Ananke perspective: the only model states that touch rates are the regime, which is Neutral, and the style gauge, which is unchanged. No leg moved on the PPI print.

Interpretation: the monthly cool-down did not change the rate picture, and the annual hot reading did not change the equity picture. The day’s binding constraint was the semiconductor selloff, not rates and not oil — oil barely moved all day, and attributing the index decline to it would not survive the tape. What matters next is not today’s print but the December 8–9 meeting: whether the move is 25 or 50 basis points, and what November’s consumer-price report, due December 10, says the day after.

### 4. State Changes and Divergences

Against the midday snapshot, the afternoon produced the first genuine model movement of the day. SPY Trend’s latest print moved from the November 12 Long Close to a Short Close at 2:00 PM ET at $753.40 — the short closed, and SPY carries no open position. TQQQ Trend went from flat (its November 12 Long Close at $59.66) to LONG at 2:00 PM ET at $57.49, now $57.68, up 0.33% on the position. Both prints landed in the same hour, as the market climbed off its midday lows.

What did not change matters as much. The bigtrend regime is still Neutral, unchanged through the whole week. The style gauge is still VALUE_STRONG, unchanged since October 8; its ratio edged up from 2.4436 at midday to 2.4472 at the close, and its printed return eased from +10.59% to +10.46%. The gauge’s call and the tape agreed for a second straight session — QQQ fell further than IWM — after weeks in which the tape mostly ran against it.

One divergence is worth naming plainly. TQQQ’s long opened into a tape that was still down on the day — the instrument itself closed down 3.67%. A long signal is not a claim that the decline is over; it is the model’s reading that the turn, on its own rules, has printed. The long-term regime stays Neutral while a leveraged long opens. That is a difference of scope and timeframe, not a contradiction: the regime describes the market’s long-term tone, the leg describes its own cycle.

The model lineup itself also changed today, and the change is structural rather than a signal: the SOXL, GDX and USO trend models were retired from the feed, and fast-cycle models were merged into the feed as background data not covered in this report. The published lineup is now SPY and TQQQ, plus the regime and the style gauge.

### 5. Risk Monitor

- **Nvidia’s earnings, Tuesday, November 17.** Kress hosts the call as interim CEO and CFO. Related states: TQQQ long from 2:00 PM ET today; SPY flat; regime Neutral. Watch whether guidance keeps the decline an event discount or turns it into a valuation discount — and whether the investigation’s scope widens before the call.

- **Congressional scrutiny.** Three House committees have summoned Huang for a closed-door interview on December 1; the Senate Banking Committee chair has asked him to testify on December 3. Related states: none directly — this is a governance overhang on the AI hardware chain. Watch for any expansion of the inquiry or new export-control findings, such as the reported H800 server sales.

- **The December Fed meeting, December 8–9.** A hike is fully priced; the live question is 25 versus 50 basis points, with roughly 12% odds on the larger move. Related states: regime Neutral; no leg trades rates. Watch the November consumer-price report due December 10 and any further Fed speakers before the meeting.

- **Semiconductor contagion.** Friday’s selling was concentrated in the AI hardware chain; the question is whether it spreads to broader growth. Related states: TQQQ long from today, SPY flat. Watch the next signal print on either leg — with the book nearly empty until this afternoon, the next print is itself the event.

- **A long opened into a down tape.** TQQQ’s long is hours old and up 0.33%. Watch the next prints rather than any price level: the position’s fate is decided by the model’s next signal, not by a line on a chart.

### 6. What to Watch Next

- Monday’s open: whether the afternoon’s stabilization holds, and whether SPY’s flat leg prints anything new.

- Tuesday, November 17: Nvidia’s fiscal third-quarter results and Kress’s first earnings call as interim CEO.

- December 1: Huang’s closed-door House interview; December 3: the Senate Banking testimony request.

- December 8–9: the FOMC meeting; December 10: November CPI.

- The QQQ-versus-IWM daily spread and the style ratio (2.4472): whether today’s agreement between the gauge and the tape extends into a third session.

- The 10-year yield around 5.15% and whether rate pricing moves toward the half-point December scenario.

### 7. Bottom Line

Friday ended a week that rose everywhere except where it mattered most: the S&P 500 gained 2.51% on the week while Nvidia lost 12.75%, and the market spent the session repricing a governance shock across the AI hardware chain while large-cap resilience kept the indices’ losses small. The models, flat for most of the day, printed their turn at 2:00 PM ET — SPY’s short closed at $753.40, TQQQ went long at $57.49 — inside a regime that remains Neutral. The next verdicts are Tuesday’s Nvidia guidance and the December Fed meeting, and the models will answer them with prints, not predictions.

### 8. Data and Methodology Note

Data cutoff: 4:02 PM ET (Ananke realtime snapshot, realtime=true); market prices are Yahoo Finance final closes for Friday, November 13, 2026, with day changes measured against Thursday, November 12 closes. Intraday references (Nvidia’s $170.00 high and $158.39 low) are from Finnhub’s session record. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index move and Nvidia’s weekly-loss streak are from Reuters; the H800 server report is from Benzinga; the Truist downgrade and Cisco’s decline are from TradingView/Benzinga; Fed pricing is from CME FedWatch via Reuters; October PPI is the Bureau of Labor Statistics release of November 13, 8:30 AM ET.

Model states, entries and prices are feed values as printed. The model lineup changed today — the SOXL, GDX and USO trend models were retired from the feed, and fast-cycle models were merged into the feed as background data not covered in this report. The published lineup is SPY Trend and TQQQ Trend, plus the bigtrend regime and the QQQ/IWM style gauge. The feed also revised SPY Trend’s series in this snapshot: prices are now at ETF level (the midday edition’s SPY prices were index-level values), and the benchmark window moved to September 8, 2025–November 13, 2026, so the SPY excess figure is not comparable with the midday edition’s.

Benchmark excess is defined as model net return minus buy-and-hold return, expressed in percentage points; each model’s benchmark period is as printed in the feed (SPY September 8, 2025–November 13, 2026; TQQQ August 21–November 13, 2026; Style September 3, 2021–November 13, 2026), and the figures are not directly comparable across models. The market-style gauge (QQQ/IWM ratio) is a style classification, not a tradable position; its ratio is printed without a dollar sign and its unrealized return is quoted exactly as printed in the feed. No entry-reset treatment applied in this edition: TQQQ’s long is a fresh print and SPY’s print is a close. This report is quantitative research and educational information, not individualized investment advice; historical model performance does not guarantee future results.

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