Mike Wallbank

[Alex Desjardins @PrimeTrading_]

Alex’s PF performance. - April 2026 📑🛡️
MTD ( +21.23% )
YTD ( +2.91% )
YTD benchmark QQQ (+8.83%)

Hey guys!

Overall, I am very happy with how I traded in April, a nice comeback after 3 rough months to start 2026. If I need a takeaway, and I already knew it, but it simply reinforces it, is to trust my system & process, even if the market is shit and nothing works, when I can catch that market turn decently with size, and be patient to let that exposure do the work for me, that drawdown is behind me in 2-3 weeks and I can already look to push my EC into new ATH. That's how I trade, and whatever I can hear or the criticism I can receive, I've proven time and time again over the last few years that getting size early by following my process and rules of engagement is what gives me super-performance. No more doubting it.

I got caught in a few big gap-downs & breakdowns, but the win rate was high at 66%, with a very good 6.4 RRR. I was able to push 75.5R in profits, which proves I let my winners run well, with a 15% avg gain.

Time to focus on capturing the best part of that trend for when it lasts. Let's kill May, let's goo! 💪

Cheers,
Alex ✌️

• Every entry, exit, and trims are taken in real time in the PrimeTrading Discord community, with educational explanations for all trades.
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[Jeff Sun, CFTe @jfsrev]

10 Groups Exhibiting 1-Month RS Bullish Divergence

$EWZ — Brazil Equities
$KRE — Regional Banks
$ILF — Latin America 40
$IGF — Global Infrastructure
$GNR — Natural Resources
$KBE — Large-Cap Banks
$GUNR — Upstream Natural Resources
$ARGT — Argentina Equities
$MOO — Global Agriculture
$LIT — Lithium & Battery

@finviz_com

[Francesco @FranVezz]

✍️Newsletter out!

Leaders score A+ on major market test

👉https://t.co/L0GSOwqvzi

On the docket:

- Optics stocks explode higher - $CIEN $LITE cook!
- 10 ideas for tomorrow
- Incredible resilience in leaders continues!
- Big upside reversals in memory monsters $SNDK
- Semis hold on, MAs lurk right above $SMH
- $PL rips on earnings, can it ignite space?
- MAG7 continue to lag majorly, $TSLA slips under the 200
- Crypto rolls. Re-test, or breakdown? $BTC $ETH
- Indexes do MAJOR battle at the 200-day
- Can $NBIS carry the data centers?

[Scot1and 🍀💵 @Scot1andT]

$NASI would like to see it hook first. But we're gtting close. McClellan is -140 -

I deal setup for me, weak close gap down on Monday and then reversal.

[Francesco @FranVezz]

This image from Marios' article below is very powerful.

Building failure into your system is a superpower.

Swinging big with big size is nice - but does that work for your system?

Your personality?

Read it! @stamatoudism @TraderLion

[Nick Drendel @NickDrendel]

$PLTR What a gift. Downtrend in a late stage base gapping into an overhead resistance gap with a stock in a weak group.

[The Inner Circle Trading Group DP David Prince @epictrades1]

$DHI D.R. Horton sees Q2 revenue $7.3B-$7.8B, consensus $7.77BSees Q2 homes closed 19,700-22,000. Sees Q2 gross margin 19-19.5%. Sees Q2 gross profit margin 10.6%-11.1%. Says expects incentives to remain elevated in FY26. Says expects starts in Q2 to be higher than in Q1. Comments and guidance taken from Q1 earnings conference call.

[THE SHORT BEAR @TheShortBear]

Breadth is strong below the surface, but AI changed the playing field once more today.

The new Claude work tool is once again, similar to the Gemini 3 breakthrough, resetting the landscape of AI and market as a whole.

Back then, the result was mainly that GPU providers might be facing TPU leaders ( $GOOGL mainly) as well as lower costs putting in danger prior Capex in terms of ROI.

Today we saw Software get killed, Claude changed the view over what is possible both in terms of efficiency per user/worker as well as reframed cost and need for a majority of software providers.

Overall the shift from per-AI to AI-workers or AI assisted work truly began today.

QE and AI will like exacerbate the current K-shape economy, where workers will get laid off and owners will profit from the capable and cheap labor (AI).

On its own it is not a problem, given we have faced major technological changes and booms before and prospered greatly from it.

The issue is the speed of the change giving no chance for new job types to be created in time for layoffs to be absorbed.

[The Inner Circle Trading Group DP David Prince @epictrades1]

$ZETA LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, at CES 2026, Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), the AI Marketing Cloud, announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to power the conversational intelligence and agentic applications behind Athena by Zeta™, its superintelligent agent built for enterprise marketing. OpenAI models will support Athena’s next phase of development, enabling more intuitive and intelligent experiences for enterprise marketers. Zeta also expanded beta access to Athena, meeting strong demand from enterprises seeking answer-driven marketing at scale. First introduced at Zeta Live, Athena adapts to each user’s goals and working style, instantly transforming questions into actionable answers. Athena brings answer-driven intelligence directly into marketing workflows, so teams spend less time navigating data and more time acting on insights. Today's announcement marks the next phase of Athena’s evolution, with its first two agentic applications, Insights and Advisor, entering beta.

[Ted Zhang @TedHZhang]

5 Bullet Summary of Last trading week:

~ Santa Claus Rally Fizzles: The traditional year-end "Santa Claus" rally failed to materialize. After a strong Christmas week, the S&P 500 (-1.0%), Nasdaq (-1.5%), and Dow (-0.7%) all drifted lower, erasing most of the gains from the previous week as investors locked in profits following double-digit returns in 2025.

~ Tesla’s Underwhelming Q4 Deliveries: Tesla reported delivering 418,227 vehicles in Q4 2025, a roughly 15.7% year-over-year decline. While the numbers were slightly below analyst consensus, some experts viewed them as "better than feared" given the loss of U.S. tax credits and headwinds in Europe.

~ Warren Buffett Officially Steps Down: The "Buffett Era" at Berkshire Hathaway concluded as Greg Abel officially took over as CEO. Buffett’s departure comes after a historic 60-year tenure where Berkshire recorded average annual returns of 19.9%, nearly double the 10.4% return of the S&P 500 over the same period.

~ OPEC+ Maintains Production Freeze: On January 4, eight key OPEC+ members (including Saudi Arabia and Russia) agreed to extend their production pause through February and March 2026. This move aims to support market stability as oil prices faced their steepest annual drop since 2020.

~ Geopolitical and Trade Uncertainty: New reports of Chinese military operations near Taiwan and ongoing skepticism regarding a peace deal in Ukraine kept markets on edge. Additionally, furniture companies like RH and Wayfair saw a boost late in the week after President Trump delayed planned tariff increases on upholstered furniture. The US strikes Venezuela and captures Maduro.

[Christian Fromhertz 🇺🇸 @cfromhertz]

I did not include Transportation $IYT stocks but one can argue that they should be in AI-User Basket too and they are really benefiting from AI to cut costs

[Francesco @FranVezz]

Yeah nothing was going to survive today! I got into AVGO VRT with opening range and cut them super fast, thankfully.

My thesis was the potential for a market character changing catalyst. I have been a grumpy old negative person on this market for the last month and tried to lean in with some optimism today, and let’s just say I got my feedback pretty quickly ha ha.

[PBA @801010athlete]

I have no clue how low it goes from here but $TSLA will be the gauge here imo.

It’s showing huge RS this week and when it finally trends higher I’d imagine the market has bottomed and this leads new uptrend. If it free falls and breaks 50sma then we have problems.

[Monis @mmonis]

$PLTR - I loaded up
Entry: 186.78
Stop: 185

[Nick Schmidt @NickSchmidt]

This is glimpse of my thought process in real time throughout the week

[Nick Schmidt @NickSchmidt]

$PLTR can't get any tighter here. Volume today is light as well.

Tight action + volume dry-up? I've read about this

[Nick Drendel @NickDrendel]

🎂 32 Trading Lessons I've learned by my 32nd birthday!

1) Trading is a game of probability and risk management.

2) Don't argue with the market, you're wrong.

3) Align the majority of your exposure with the trend of the market.

[Trading Composure @TradingComposur]

If you haven't noticed, trading is mostly a waiting game.

You’ve got to learn to relax and allow things to unfold of their own accord.

[Futurum Equities @FuturumEquities]

The market’s finally seeing why $AMD was #7 on our Futurum AI Fifteen list 😏

[Anand @anandragn]

Also $PLTR is a penny stock in disguise of a 400B market cap big tech. Trades truly like a penny stock.