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$Invesco QQQ Trust(QQQ)$  20% gain from taking puts on QQQ from trigger activated to short as posted before premarket. Once again, go with the flow, don’t fight the trend or the Fed as FOMC is just next week! ⚠️ Trading tips: Looking at puts below 375 towards 372.5, 371 and calls only above 379 on OPEX Friday. Join me to bank both ways with options 😉 Big picture gameplan for consideration Early warning signs emerged from the tech world after Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX)’s and Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA)’s second-quarter results disappointed investors. The Nasdaq 100 Index, representing the 100 largest tech stocks and faithfully mirrored by the Invesco QQQ Trust (NYSE:QQQ), experienced a sharp daily decline of 2.5%. The s

3 STOCKS IS A MUST BUY There are so many good and growing companies that has tripled over the years. I would strongly recommend these 3 stocks in your portfolio. 1) Apple  Apple has been increasing its sales in its products and its continued launching of new products have captured a good market share.  Apple has since reached its 52week high at $198 and counting. Reaching 250 is just a matter of time. 2)  Berkshire We all know the Investor Guru Warren Buffet who made billions for its stakeholders without paying any dividend.  Berkshire share price has skyrocketted and always in demand as we trust the Investor Guru to make more millions for its share value 3) Microsoft Microsoft has been around since Windows was created. We all need Microsoft Office to function and it is

The Dow rose 100 points Wednesday, its eighth straight day of gains, its longest winning streak in nearly four years. Apple closed above $195 a share on rumors of a ChatGPt-like service (Apple GPT), pushing the stock to a new all-time high.Goldman Sachs rose 1 percent as the bank was optimistic about a recovery in its banking business despite weaker-than-expected earnings. Western Alliance's earnings report showed signs of deposit stability, boosting confidence in regional bank stocks.Netflix reported mixed results in the second quarter, but subscriber numbers beat market expectations. Tesla posted record revenue in the second quarter, but its gross margin missed expectations.The Federal Reserve meets on July 25 and July 26, and a Reuters poll of 106 economists showed most believe the July

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July 19th, $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ released its Q2 earnings, and the stock fell by approximately 4%. Honestly, it is not significant volitility for Tesla.As there are monthly delivery reports, the performance of new energy vehicle companies usually doesn't come with major surprises. The Q2 performance has been extensively reported in the news. Tesla itself has summarized the key points for us.Positives- Increase in delivery volume- Decrease in gross profit margin- Growth in revenue and gross profit from non-automotive business- Reduction in average vehicle cost due to decreased raw material costsNegatives- Price reduction- Costs and other related expenses of 4680 battery production ramp-up- Increased expenses for other major projects like the electri

SummaryIn the past two days, there was an unexpected accumulation of long positions, resulting in a stampede and mass sell-off.The market's expectations for advertising revenue were too high, and it couldn't make up for the losses caused by cracking down on shared accounts.Profit unexpectedly increased, but the valuation still remains far higher than the industry average.There is still a favorable factor in quite near future that can bring in a massive amount of inflows.On July 19th, after-market trading, $Netflix(NFLX)$ as the first major tech company to announce its Q2 financial results during the "Earnings Month," got off to a bad start, tumbled more than 8% during the after-hours volatility, erasing the gains made by optimistic investors in th

$Microsoft(MSFT)$ Microsoft is scheduled to report earnings on 25-Jul-2023. The last time Microsoft reported earnings on 25-Apr-202, the stock decreased by 7.2%.As you can see from the table below, MSFT shares have moved higher in the immediate aftermath of earnings 6 out of 12 previous reports. Based on the previous 12 earnings releases, MSFT is more likely to trade higher 1 day after earnings for an average gain of 0.6%. The absolute average return in the one week before earnings was ±3.1%. With an absolute average return of ±3.9% on earnings day.How Non-Directional Option Strategies Have Performed Around Earnings:MSFT last reported earnings on Apr 25, 2023 AMC.The options prices predicted a±4.2%post earnings move, compared to a+7.2%actual move.

$Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ announced this week that it will partner with major cloud computing providers including Microsoft to bring its large AI language model Llama 2 into commercial applications. This is indeed a major strategic move, signaling that Meta is actively transforming its business for the future. 1.Llama 2 Competes with ChatGPT According to Meta's official data, Llama 2 has 40% more training data compared to the previous version, and includes 70 billion, 130 billion and 700 billion parameter versions. Llama 2 pre-trained models were trained on 200 trillion tokens, with context length twice as long as Llama 1. Its fine-tuned models have already been trained on over 1 million human annotations. Similar to ChatGPT, Llama 2 also went

U.S. stocks rose modestly in premarket trading on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrial Average rising for seven straight sessions, its longest winning streak since March 2021.Second-quarter earnings are off to a good start on Wall Street. Of the S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings, 82 per cent have beaten expectations, according to FactSet. In the US bank stock results, Nvidia, Microsoft AI plus, the three major US stock indexes continued to rise strongly.Microsoft has announced the pricing of its Office 365 Copilot generative AI system, a collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI that will cost businesses $30 a month for a subscription, about 36% more than the $22 a month price for the regular version. After the announcement of the news, the stock price reached a record

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$  The options market, ah, can give us some pretty interesting clues about what people think about certain stocks. Like, you know, it's like a window into the minds of traders lah. So, let's take a look at what the options volume is telling us, okay? Firstly, the options volume shows us how interested people are in a particular stock. If there's a high volume, that means a lot of people are actively trading those options, you know? More people buy and sell options for a specific price and date, so it shows got higher market interest and liquidity. And, hey, higher liquidity is always better lah! It means it's easier to buy and sell options at the prices you want. No need to worry so much about slip

Yessss it will be super bullish 

$Microsoft(MSFT)$ has hit another all-time high. During the Inspire 2023 conference on July 18th, they unveiled their AI tool for Office, called 365 Copilot, priced at $30 per user per month. Additionally, Microsoft announced a partnership with $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ to release the commercial version of the open-source AI model, Llama, changing Meta's previous approach of providing it solely to designated scholars for research purposes. While Microsoft's stock price rose over 6% during trading, Meta saw a more modest increase of 1%.Q1: Is the pricing of Office 365 Copilot high? Microsoft is not offering this tool to all Office users; the $30 Copilot add-on is only applicable to E3, E5, Business Stan

Last week, $Trade Desk Inc.(TTD)$ was urgently added to $NASDAQ 100(NDX)$ , replacing the approved acquisition of $Activision Blizzard(ATVI)$ . Although $Microsoft(MSFT)$ and ATVU did not finalize the acquisition immediately (originally planned for July 18), the major obstacle to this acquisition was the U.S. regulatory approval. Once approved, the acquisition is expected to proceed without hindrance. As a result, ATVI's stock price has come very close to the acquisition price, justifying its removal from the index. The announcement was made after the market closed on July 12, with the execution on July 17. Looking at the

U.S. News & World Report More Citigroup's 1Q Profit Surpasses Projections Aside from its high dividend, Citigroup also looks like a value stock at current levels, trading for less than eight times forward earnings and just 0.48 times book value.(GETTY IMAGES) The year 2022 was a lousy one for the stock market. Even after factoring in dividends, the S&P 500 fell 19.4% in those 12 months, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite took a 33.1% haircut. The catalysts behind Wall Street's sell-off are all too familiar: Inflation, soaring interest rates, persistent recession fears and the Russia-Ukraine war snowballed into an avalanche of worries that investors couldn't ignore, and many previously high-flying stocks took a beating as the "risk off" mindset came to dominate markets. This, tha

The Question is the Answer. You have to look at the question in its entirety, without grasping for an answer. What does it mean in this context? I think it might mean finding the right question first, and this one we don't dare to ask. 

The market sentiment has been very good recently, after all, even Microsoft has made a large call option order. As I wrote in my article last week.However, the commenter reminded that the trader had closed his position on Friday (July 14) and did not roll his position, so he did not eat the most fat meat today, which is regrettable.It also shows that the driving factor of this guy's trading is very simple, that is, the index weight adjustment, so he ran away before the adjustment.In fact, the technological revolution is such a thing, as time continues to advance good news will continue to appear, holding the stock is more important than anything.Last month, analysts at Bank of America were bearish on AI. Analysts say th