VSTAR Daily US Stock Market Report (08/07/2026)

First, options market sentiment shows a strong bullish signal: On Tuesday, NVIDIA’s call option volume surged past 1.5 million contracts; the number of actively purchased call options exceeded that of put options by more than double. Over $100 million in capital was wagered on $200-strike call options. This stands in stark contrast to the panic-driven 4:1 put-call ratio observed in semiconductor ETF options—highlighting institutional confidence in NVIDIA’s industry moat and its status as the core safe-haven asset within the computing-power sector. Even after earlier negative news regarding delays in its next-generation server rack rollout, NVIDIA’s swift clarification reassured investors, prompting continued long-position accumulation. SemiAnalysis has likewise revised its stance, acknowledging NVIDIA as the ‘central bank’ of the AI ecosystem—with no substantive bearish rationale remaining. The CPU segment is unlocking a second growth engine, opening up a multi-billion-dollar incremental market: AI inference and agent-based workloads are dramatically increasing CPU demand. The global CPU market is projected to exceed $22 billion by 2030, growing at over 40% annually. NVIDIA has launched its standalone Vera CPU product line; Jensen Huang has set an annual revenue target of $20 billion for CPUs. Leveraging Arm architecture’s energy-efficiency advantages and NVIDIA’s full-stack GPU computing ecosystem, the company is steadily capturing data-center market share—shifting investor expectations beyond GPU-only growth and differentiating itself from Intel and AMD. Moreover, the entry of major players—including MediaTek, Google, and Amazon—further validates the sector’s high growth momentum. Major AI catalysts are imminent across the broader market: SpaceX’s xAI will jointly launch its proprietary large language model with Cursor this Wednesday, trained on the Colossus supercomputing infrastructure. Its performance is expected to rival GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8—reigniting enthusiasm across the entire AI computing and application value chain. Additionally, SpaceX’s recent inclusion in the Nasdaq-100 index brings sustained passive inflows, while speculation about a potential Tesla–SpaceX merger continues lifting valuation benchmarks for the broader tech sector. The core AI growth narrative remains intact despite short-term semiconductor-sector pullbacks. Furthermore, capital is clearly rotating from hardware to software—‘sell hardware, buy software.’ AI application software stocks such as NET and ServiceNow have rallied sharply, while only memory chips and legacy semiconductor hardware have seen profit-taking. Capital is not exiting the tech sector—it is merely rotating into new sub-themes. NVIDIA’s dual positioning—as both a computing-power hardware leader and an AI-adjacent CPU provider—makes it the top choice for concentrated institutional buying. NAS100 (Nasdaq-100 Index) Semiconductor weakness dragged down the Nasdaq-100, with 29,000 serving as the key short-term support level. The current NAS100 price stands at 29,154.1—below its short-term EMA of 29,425.8. The moving average has thus shifted from support to near-term resistance, and the daily chart shows a consolidating downward structure with modest bearish momentum release. The 29,000 level coincides with both horizontal range support and the medium-to-long-term upward trendline—making it the critical short-term battleground between bulls and bears. If this level holds, the index may remain range-bound with potential for a rebound toward the EMA. However, a high-volume, decisive break below 29,000 would invalidate trend-based support and open further downside space. VIX (Volatility Index)

Nasdaq’s likely price movement next week: The stock price has broken below the 5-month moving average, the 20-week moving average, and the 120-day moving average—and is now moving toward the 30-week moving average support level.

Nasdaq Index Weekly Price Movement Outlook: The index price has broken below the 5-month moving average, the 20-week moving average, and the 120-day moving average—and is now trending toward the 30-week moving average support level.