@pdicarlotrader The stop level interests me as much as those $RKLB targets. You and @Jason_Miller__ have helped me put risk first when judging a setup.
I’m constructive, but selective. A strong business still needs a sensible entry.
Buy watch: $SPCX $MU $NVDA $INTC $GOOGL
Starlink, AI infrastructure and cloud demand support the growth case. Intel adds a turnaround angle. I’m watching support and orderly retests—not chasing every green candle.
Trim watch: $NOW $ADBE $MSFT $PLTR $ORCL
This is about managing exposure, not writing off good businesses. Weaker chart structure and earnings risk deserve attention.
Positive on the opportunities.
$LITE | The $1,000 test
This is the kind of recovery that gets my attention. AI-driven optical demand adds a solid backdrop, with Lumentum guiding fiscal Q1 revenue to $1.225–$1.275B.
Sep. 8 chart snapshot: $996.19 (+13.04%)
High / low: $998.50 / $884.70
Volume so far: 4.92M
Price has pushed back above $940–960 and its provisional 20-day SMA near $893. The next hurdle is clear: $1,000.
My view: a daily close above $1,000 puts $1,040–1,080 in focus. A pullback that holds $940–960 would strengthen the setup; below $880, I'd reassess.
The snapshot's volume already exceeds the prior 20-session full-day average of 4.63M. Encouraging participation, with the closing print still to come.
#LITE #AI #OpticalNetworking
@RealJGBanks Paying off debt is the kind of milestone that matters beyond the charts. Thanks to you and @Jason_Miller__ for keeping me focused on practical goals.
@SamanthaLaDuc Appreciate your skepticism toward AI trading claims. Your analysis, alongside @Jason_Miller__’s strategy, helps me protect gains and stay grounded—thank you!
$WDC Tuesday Watch
Western Digital heads into Tuesday with a solid rebound to build on.
Last close: $467.46 (+5.86%)
High: $468.20
Low: $442.15
Volume: 5.81M
The detail I like: Friday finished near the session high and reclaimed the 20-day SMA at $464.23. That's a useful first step in repairing this chart.
My view: hold $440 and close above $480 on stronger volume, and $500–520 becomes the next test. The 50-day SMA sits near $507, right inside that resistance zone.
Volume was 0.86× the prior 20-day average, so this is an encouraging rebound—not a confirmed volume breakout. $420–440 is the base-support zone; below $420, I'd reassess.
Constructive price action. Now the follow-through matters.
#WDC #StockMarket #TechnicalAnalysis
👀 $MRNA Watch — $150 is the level I’m watching Tuesday.
U.S. markets are closed today for Labor Day.
Last close: $145.55 (-2.23%)
High: $154.69
Low: $141.52
Volume: 14.97M
Sept. 4, 2026 | Regular-session close
Moderna has posted three straight declines. The positive Phase 3 melanoma results announced with Merck on Aug. 19 remain an important backdrop, but I want to see buyers regain control.
My view: If $MRNA holds the $140–$142 area and reclaims $150, I’m watching $154–$156 next. Losing $138 would weaken that setup and put $133–$134 on my radar.
Tuesday’s focus: support first, then confirmation.
#MRNA #Moderna #Biotech #Healthcare #StockMarket #Trading
👀 $MRNA Watch — $150 is the level I’m watching Tuesday.
U.S. markets are closed today for Labor Day.
Last close: $145.55 (-2.23%)
High: $154.69
Low: $141.52
Volume: 14.97M
Sept. 4, 2026 | Regular-session close
Moderna has posted three straight declines. The positive Phase 3 melanoma results announced with Merck on Aug. 19 remain an important backdrop, but I want to see buyers regain control.
My view: If $MRNA holds the $140–$142 area and reclaims $150, I’m watching $154–$156 next. Losing $138 would weaken that setup and put $133–$134 on my radar.
Tuesday’s focus: support first, then confirmation.
#MRNA #Moderna #Biotech #Healthcare #StockMarket #Trading
Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO has said: AGI has arrived. Congratulations OpenAI team.
AGI stands for artificial general intelligence. It means software that can handle most thinking work a person can. Nobody agrees on when that arrives. Huang just called it.
NVIDIA used to sell its chips eight to a board. Then it changed the design. Now 72 sit in one box, wired to act as one giant brain.
That switch cost billions. It pays off only if somebody builds something enormous.
OpenAI's new model is that something. Huang says about 100,000 of the boxes trained it.
Oracle Earnings Could Move the AI Trade—Here’s the Options Setup
With $ORCL trading in the mid-$140s, CNBC’s Michael Khouw proposes a double diagonal rather than a directional bet:
Sell the Sep. 25 $125 put and $167.50 call.
Buy the Jan. 2027 $115 put and $195 call.
Net debit: roughly $8.30.
The position sells near-term event premium while retaining longer-dated protection. Its estimated profit range at the September expiration is approximately $118–$180, allowing for a 17%–18% move in either direction.
This is a volatility and time-decay trade—not a simple bet on an earnings beat.
$ORCL #OptionsTrading #Earnings
Best MNQ/NQ prop firms right now? Looking for actual experiences
A lot of people ask me for the better if not the best Prop Firm to work with. My personal experience is with Top Step, I have nothing bad to say about them, other than the take longer to pay. Their platforms are good, whichever one you pick. So, lets help each other with some feedback.
There are so many options out there right now, and it's hard to separate the genuine platforms from the ones with hidden rules, terrible payouts, or sudden policy changes.
THE SPECTRUM WAR THAT WILL CONNECT YOUR PHONE TO SPACE
The satellite to phone race ultimately comes down to who controls spectrum that can actually reach the phones already in our pockets:
• $ASTS wins on phone compatibility today
• $SPCX is building toward greater spectrum ownership
• $AMZN (Globalstar) owns spectrum with future handset optionality
• $RKLB (Iridium) brings an established L band network, millions of subscribers and recurring revenue
Same opportunity but four very different ways to build an advantage.
Best MNQ/NQ prop firms right now? Looking for actual experiences
A lot of people ask me for the better if not the best Prop Firm to work with. My personal experience is with Top Step, I have nothing bad to say about them, other than the take longer to pay. Their platforms are good, whichever one you pick. So, lets help each other with some feedback.
There are so many options out there right now, and it's hard to separate the genuine platforms from the ones with hidden rules, terrible payouts, or sudden policy changes.
Keep financial realities in mind when looking for "the next big sector": Total addressable market, input costs, profit margins
After seeing a lot of investors on online get burned by space stocks and quantum stocks, and a lot of them asking for the next big sector that has 100x-1000x potential and being suggested that robotics or drones will be that, I think it's important to keep in mind that economic realities of running different types of businesses impose limits on the performance of the stocks of these companies. The market does not owe an industry's stock prices performance commensurate to the relevance and success of the companies in that industry.
What do all the "multibaggers" of the past two decades have in common? Extremely high TAM (Total Addressable Market), Extremely low input costs, and extremely high profit margins.
Digital tollbooths outperform real tollbooths by several orders of magnitude. Google and Meta are tollbooths for advertising, Amazon is a tollbooth for storefronts. Compare this to a real tollbooth for the sake of argument. It's exactly as effective as a bottleneck (it's a crime to pass without paying), but it's extremely narrowly distributed (1 section out of 1 highway out of tens of thousands), requires unionized labor to maintain and service, physically degrades constantly. Anything requiring physical location, physical distribution, high labor costs will inherently be far less profitable as a tollbooth. Mass distribution via the Internet is completely different, you have a much higher TAM, much easier time accessing that TAM, way lower overhead and input costs.
Space companies struggle with that asset-light business models do not: they have high opex (Operating expense), high capex (Capital expense), high insurance liability coverage (due to the nature of the business). They must source and import scarce materials and fuels from an international supply chain and pay all the "tollbooths" down the line of that supply chain. Some of these materials, as we just found out, have geopolitically sensitive costs. Think about the perspective of Wall Street: with so many moving parts and uncertain variables over time, how much capital are you allocating to space stocks? How do you justify making the kind of capital allocation that is the entire reason the stock would rise in the first place? This is despite the most optimistic possible estimates for the potential TAM of the space industry and despite the real massive growth in satellite deployment and government military interest in space. An industry can gain massively in relevance and revenue, but the stock prices may not necessarily perform to the extent you are hoping.
Anything facing the same types of problems, anything that "deals in the real world", as the late Jeffrey put it, will inherently face performance drag on those companies' stocks. You may think that Taiwan Semi is the premier "pick and shovel bottleneck" of the semiconductor world because nearly absolutely everything passes through them in manufacturing. They have immense pricing power, TAM, and will win no matter who wins downstream or upstream. But as a manufacturer, not a designer, of these chips, they have inherent supply chain risk that fabless chip designers only (such as Nvidia and Broadcom) do not. This risk discounts their stock price, it's a simple financial calculation that controls the stock price despite narratives that they "can't fail". Being unable to fail doesn't mean the company's stock price will outperform.
The "next big thing" is not necessarily the same as "the next big stock winner". Please keep this in mind.