# Millionaur Daily Analysis — 5 October 2026: Bad News, and the Bond Market Did Not Rally

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*Updated:* 2026-10-05T04:15:54+00:00

**Friday’s US jobs report was weak, and the bond market did not rally.** About 29,000 new jobs against roughly 90,000 expected, unemployment up to 4.2%, wage growth slowing. Markets cut the odds of an October rate hike from about 70% a week ago to under 20%.

Stocks liked it. The S&P 500 closed within 1% of its record and the Nasdaq gained 1.2%.

The part most headlines skipped: the US 10-year yield dipped on the report and then closed higher, near 5.28%, its fifth weekly rise in a row. Gold fell about 1% on the same day.

## Why that detail matters

When weak data stops helping bonds, the worry is no longer the next central bank meeting. It is who buys long-dated debt at these levels. That pressure lands on gold, utilities and every “safe” asset that behaves like a bond.

One session is not a regime, and I am not calling one. But it is why this portfolio holds no long-dated bonds, and keeps about 15% in cash and short-term inflation-protected bonds instead. Gold is still the hedge that is not working here. I am holding it, not adding.

## What changed in the portfolio

- The planned add was made: one more clip of Broadcom (AVGO) on Friday morning, after its drop on the customer-financing news. At about 20 times forward earnings it is now at its intended size, about 1% of the portfolio.
- Protection was widened a lot. Stops now sit under 37 positions across 27 holdings, up from 23 across 20. New ones cover Coherent (COHR), Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI), Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM), the two semiconductor ETFs and part of Micron (MU). Many existing stops were raised after the week’s gains.
- No stop fired on the jobs report. Nothing was sold.
- Memory and Korea remain about 10% of the portfolio and closed for new adds. Optics is close to 6%.

This is the method in practice: no profit targets, no guessing tops. A winner keeps running with a floor under it.

## Two data points worth knowing

1. **Lasers.** At an industry forum last week, the head of a leading laser maker said the company expects to supply only about 30% of what customers ask for in 2027, as optics move inside the chip package, with balance not before 2029 or 2030. Earlier this year the gap was described as about 30%. The bottleneck is widening, not closing.
2. **Hard drives.** Seagate fell about 14% in one day on a report that a competitor plans to nearly double capacity by early 2028. I own neither. I am watching it closely because it shows how a shortage stock reacts to the announcement of new supply, years before anything ships. It is the exact risk I track in memory, and the reason I stopped adding there even with strong results.

## What I am watching this week

- Wednesday: minutes of the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, where rates were raised.
- Thursday: Samsung’s preliminary quarterly results. Record revenue and profit are expected. I will read the spending plans more carefully than the profit line.
- Vistra (VST), up on reports of federal financing for nuclear plant upgrades. A good holding at a fair price, already at full size, so no add.
- The start of US earnings season on 13 October.

## Risks, stated openly

Many of these stops sit under the same kind of stock. A sharp fall at the US open could trigger several at once, and fills in the first minutes can be worse than the level. I accept that cost, and I have written down in advance when I would buy back (a rates scare) and when I would not (a supply surprise in memory).

The market advance is narrow: the index is near a record while most stocks are well below their highs. More of the AI build-out is being financed with debt while borrowing costs are at multi-decade highs. If credit tightens, this portfolio will feel it.

## The lesson

You do not need to predict Thursday. You need a portfolio that can be wrong about Thursday and still keep most of what it earned. Structure first, forecasts second.

*Portfolio snapshot: 5 October 2026, 04:08 UTC. US lines carry Friday’s close; Tokyo lines are intraday.*

Sources: [BLS Employment Situation, September 2026](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_10022026.htm), [AP on Friday’s index closes](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/world-indices/articles/major-us-stock-indexes-fared-201721712.html), [CNBC on Treasury yields after the jobs report](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/02/treasury-yields-bonds-nonfarm-payrolls.html), [GuruFocus on the hard-drive capacity report](https://www.gurufocus.com/news/9108787/toshibas-hdd-capacity-expansion-clarified-seagate-stx-market-reaction-seen-as-overblown).

This is not financial advice. Investing and copy trading involve real risk of loss, and past performance does not guarantee future results.

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