Tradeable Lows, Nvidia’s Data Center Finance Deal, Surprise Comebacks for Schwab and Expedia
August 11, 2026
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5 min readJosh Brown and Michael Batnick opened the episode with a technical deep dive into "tradable lows"—specific price levels where a stock’s selling exhaustion creates a tactical buying opportunity, distinct from calling a final bottom. They then analyzed Nvidia’s landmark data center financing deal, which they argued effectively neutralized the bear case about circular AI revenue. The conversation also covered a surprising comeback in consumer discretionary stocks, a series of stocks that have recovered from AI-disruption fears to hit new highs, and a cautionary tale about the 2021 SPAC crop embodied by United Wholesale Mortgage.
What Makes a Low "Tradeable"
Batnick defined a tradable low as a "wash out of sellers," ideally formed over weeks with a retest that holds, rather than a one-day panic. Brown added a technician’s framework: a clear higher low, a volume spike suggesting buyers absorbed all sellers, a momentum divergence (e.g., RSI making a higher low while price makes a lower low), and a retest that does not break. Crucially, a tradable low is not necessarily the low—it could be a bounce within a larger downtrend. The key is defining risk: if the level breaks, you exit.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:47) **What Is a Tradeable Low?** - Josh and Michael define the concept and distinguish it from a final market bottom.
- 2 (05:31) **Tradeable Low Candidates: Meta, Uber, and Others** - Josh walks through specific stocks he believes have formed tradeable lows, with Michael offering counterpoints.
- 3 (15:35) **Consumer Discretionary Small Caps Hit All-Time Highs** - Josh highlights a small-cap consumer discretionary ETF that's breaking out, arguing it's a genuine read on the consumer.
- 4 (21:07) **Nvidia's Data Center Finance Deal: The Justice League of Wall Street** - Josh and Michael react to the breaking news of Nvidia partnering with Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Apollo, KKR, and others to raise $500B+ for AI infrastructure.
- 5 (31:39) **Surprise Comebacks: Schwab, Expedia, and CrowdStrike** - Josh shows stocks that got "kneecapped" by AI disruption fears but have bounced back to or near all-time highs.
- 6 (40:33) **The United Wholesale Mortgage Saga** - Josh tells the story of UWM, the biggest SPAC IPO ever ($16B), which has been a "horrible ride" for everyone except insiders.
- 7 (49:50) **Make the Case: Hilton** - Michael pitches Hilton as a buy-the-dip opportunity, arguing it's the next travel stock to bounce.
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Show Notes
Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another episode of What Are Your Thoughts as they discuss six major stocks that may be setting up for a bounce: Meta, Uber, Netflix, Disney, Nike, and Home Depot.
Plus, Nvidia’s latest data center financing deal and the rise of compute as an investable asset class, why stocks like Schwab, Expedia, and Booking are hitting all-time highs despite fears that AI would disrupt their businesses, and the $1.5 billion rescue deal for United Wholesale Mortgage after a massive loss on interest-rate hedges.Josh makes the case for Expedia, Michael brings the Mystery Chart, and much more!
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