To The Moon

The Inflation-Job pendulum is swinging towards the latter again. This week will see different variants of US jobs reports being released. Before that, it's a good idea to look at the US economic reports released so far. They reflect the current state of US economy, that will have a ripple effect on the US stock market. New Home Sales. On Mon, 25 Aug 2025, US Commerce Dept showed that new home sales for July 2025 has fallen by -0.6% MoM vs the June 2025 sales figures upgrade. The seasonally adjusted annual rate was 652,000 units vs market estimate of 635,000 vs June 2025’s upwards revised of 656,000 units. The government’s report showed the median sales price of a new home decreased nearly -6.0% in July from a year earlier to US$403,800, the lowest for July since 2021. In fact, prices have

At first when I read the post, I was surprised too and not happy about it. (see below) This is because I am rooting for Google Cloud, for selfish reasons of course ! On closer reading and research into Acceleration Economy - Cloud War Minutes, I realized that they have their proprietary ranking system. Ranking Benchmark: Market share and Growth. Product portfolio and Innovation. Customer focus and Satisfaction. Global reach and Scale. Their Top 10 Cloud providers: Microsoft. Google Cloud. Oracle. Amazon. SAP. ServiceNow. Workday. Salesforce. IBM. Snowflake. Needless to say, I became suspicious by the time I research until here but I decided to press on, with an “open mind”. Hopefully I could learn something new along the way. Oracle ranking justification. Their argument centred squarely on

$PLTR 20240719 19.0 PUT$ Sold a put to make a strangle strategy for my sell call of pltr at July 19 so now just wait patiently for the stock to go up more and take premium or wait for the 100 shares to be called away Strangle strategy is owning 100 shares And sell a call and sell a put of price difference and hope the stock falls in that range

04 April 2024. On Thursday, US stocks slumped as: Oil hit its highest price in 6 months. Key Federal Reserve official floated a “mood dampening” warning that spooked the market, thoroughly. When market called it a day: DJIA: fell -1.35% (-530.16 to 38,596.98). S&P 500: fell -1.2% (-64.28 to 5,147.21), marking S&P index worst single-day drop since 13 Feb. Nasdaq: slipped -1.4% (-228.38 to 16,049.08). Fed Reserves - Bad cop. The US market was actually trending higher on Thursday. (see above) All 3 major composite indexes took a turn for the worse after midday. After Minnesota Fed President Neel Kashkari mooted that the Fed may not cut interest rates at all in 2024, if inflation progress stalls. (see below) The “callous” comment was even more damaging than Fed President Bostic’s comme

04 April 2024. On Thursday, US stocks slumped as: Oil hit its highest price in 6 months. Key Federal Reserve official floated a “mood dampening” warning that spooked the market, thoroughly. When market called it a day: DJIA: fell -1.35% (-530.16 to 38,596.98). S&P 500: fell -1.2% (-64.28 to 5,147.21), marking S&P index worst single-day drop since 13 Feb. Nasdaq: slipped -1.4% (-228.38 to 16,049.08). Fed Reserves - Bad cop. The US market was actually trending higher on Thursday. (see above) All 3 major composite indexes took a turn for the worse after midday. After Minnesota Fed President Neel Kashkari mooted that the Fed may not cut interest rates at all in 2024, if inflation progress stalls. (see below) The “callous” comment was even more damaging than Fed President Bostic’s comme