On this page
Breakout After Hours, week of November 10, 2026: the investigation into Nvidia’s CEO, a Nasdaq 100 whipsaw, Bitcoin’s 11-week low, October CPI and partial take profits on Breakout.
Let’s start with the weekend of November 7th and 8th, because it was a strange one.
On Sunday, November 8, Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang, the face of the entire AI trade. Huang has admitted to an affair with a business executive who, according to the New York Times, US intelligence concluded was gathering information for Beijing. China calls that unsubstantiated, and the board says it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised.
So naturally, on Monday, November 9, the Nasdaq 100 closed up more than 3%. Nvidia itself fell more than 4%, and the rest of tech looked at the headline and bought the dip anyway.
Rewind to Thursday, November 5, when the Nasdaq dumped more than 1,000 points in the first two hours and the Nasdaq 100 lost about $2.3 trillion of value in a single session. Then on Monday morning the Nasdaq ripped nearly 700 points in two hours. Pick a day and you can tell either story.
When news that bad cannot push the market lower, that is worth noticing. It is not an all-clear, though. The week of November 2 was still the S&P 500’s worst since April 2025, and there is plenty of overhead supply left to chew through, from holders who bought higher and want out.
Bitcoin is on thin ice
Bitcoin had it rougher. A flush late on Sunday, November 8 sent it to an 11-week low near $73,500, and the weekly candle closed near $74,800, below the September floor near $75,400. US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.28 billion in net outflows over the week of November 2, their worst week since late June, and traders are pricing in tougher crypto regulation now that Democrats are taking Congress after the November 3 midterms.
Tuesday morning, November 10: CPI
The October CPI report did not help. Consumer prices rose 0.4% in October against 0.3% expected, and core came in at 0.3% against 0.2%. A few hours earlier, Fed Governor Chris Waller had said that if core printed around 0.3% or higher, a half-point rate hike should be on the table in December. It did. A December hike now looks close to locked, and the open question is whether it is a quarter point or a half.
Crypto took it on the chin. Bitcoin slipped under $74,000 on the print, retested the weekend low near $73,500 and later in the day dipped to about $72,800, through its 200-day average near $73,150. Ethereum was near $2,090 around the print, down roughly 16% in a month. $75,000 was the line, and as of November 10 Bitcoin is on the wrong side of it.
Built for weeks like this: partial take profits
When the Nasdaq swings 1,000 points one way and 700 the other inside a week, taking profit all at once means you are either early or late. So we fixed that.
Partial take profits are now live on the Breakout terminal. Tick “Reduce only” and the order can only close or trim an open position. Take profit on half at your first target and let the rest run, or stack a few reduce-only limits and scale out as price gets there. Fees on the Nasdaq 100 (XYZ100) and the S&P 500 are also 50% lower, down from 0.04% to 0.02% per order on Classic, Pro and Turbo accounts, which makes the most volatile index tape in months cheaper to trade.
