Options trader for last 20 years Now prefer to trade stocks more & options less. I post some of my trades . Not investment advice .Do your own research
JUST IN:
The S&P 500 just announced 2 new names that will be added to the index
Marvell $MRVL
Flex $FLEX
The 2 names will be added to the index before the markets open on June 22nd
Pool Corp $POOL and Campbell's Company $CPB are both being removed from the index
You could buy 100 shares of $PLTR right now for $15,282.
Or you could buy the $150 call expiring January 2028 for roughly $50.00.
That's $5,000 for leveraged exposure to 100 shares of Palantir - 19 months out - for about 67% less capital.
Breakeven: $200.00
Why the setup is interesting:
- Q1 revenue $1.63B, up 85% YoY - strongest quarter as a public company
- U.S. Commercial revenue up 133% YoY, fastest growing segment
- Full-year 2026 guidance raised to $7.65B (71% growth), crushing the $7.27B consensus
- $10B U.S. Army enterprise agreement over a decade
- NATO acquired Palantir's Maven Smart System for allied operations
- Remaining deal value of $11.8B, up 98% YoY
- 88% gross margins, 60% operating margins, Rule of 40 score of 145%
If $PLTR hits $225 by expiration, the LEAP returns roughly 50% vs 47% on shares.
If $PLTR hits $250, the LEAP returns roughly 100% vs 64% on shares.
If $PLTR hits $300, the LEAP returns roughly 200% vs 96% on shares.
The max you can lose on a LEAP is the entire premium you paid. At ~$50/contract, that's a meaningful amount of capital at risk. If $PLTR drops or stays flat, this contract loses value every day.
The valuation is steep - roughly 80x forward earnings. This is a high-conviction play, not a casual position.
Not financial advice. I share these for education.
New investors have a genuinely brutal problem right now:
The best stocks look like they already ran too far.
Just looking at the charts makes you feel like you are buying a generational top and will be a bagholder for the next decade.
I am not saying this is rational.
I am saying this is what many new investors write me in DMs.
So I will write a Substack article on how I would start investing if I were currently 100% cash and a totally new investor.
As a new investor, I think you honestly need at least one year to develop a feeling for how markets work.
You need to learn what makes stocks go up, what makes them go down, how earnings play into this, and what catalysts actually matter.
Then slowly increase your risk exposure after you have proved to yourself that you actually have a winning system.
Aping in in your first year of investing and expecting a great return is NOT the way to go and NOT what I can promise or offer here!
I think you need to give yourself time to learn and understand the mistakes and biases you have and make.
First of all, I want to apologize for sharing my buy orders for $BB between $4.5 and $5.5. Instead of rising, the stock dropped into the $3 range.
That said, as I’ve always told my community, I’m not a trader. For a company I believe in, I chose to hold rather than cut losses. Today, my patience has finally paid off.
Congratulations to all $BB shareholders! A special shoutout to my community members who supported me through the tough times and stayed in the stock with me.
A huge congratulations to one of my loyal subscribers, Stephen, who went big on leaps and turned it into an impressive US$528,000 profit. Thank you for trusting me and supporting me since February 2024.
🔥 Repeat after me:
💰 I can make a full-time income from trading.
🧠 Where I am now does not define where I'm going.
🚫 I don't need anyone else's validation.
📈 Every day, I am becoming a more disciplined trader.
🎯 I trust my process and execute with confidence.
⚡ Losses are lessons, not life sentences.
🏆 I am building the skills that create lasting success.
🔒 I stay patient when others are emotional.
💎 I think differently. I act differently. I get different results.
👑 My future is bigger than my current circumstances.
Read it daily until your actions match your belief. 🔥📈💰👑
@growthrapidly@smartertrader Just made 2 million in $MU options alone today . But that’s high risk if you don’t know options U can lose all too if u buy wrong and too close
I read SPACEX entire IPO filing for June 12th.
DO NOT MISS THIS. This will make you a millionaire by 2030.
Here's 20 things about SPACEX $SPCX so you don't SELL EARLY:
Structure & Governance
1. SPCX will trade on Nasdaq under ticker "SPCX", dual-listed on the new Nasdaq Texas exchange.
2. Class B shares carry 10x voting power, locking Elon Musk into near-total corporate control permanently.
3. SpaceX is officially incorporated in Texas, headquartered at "1 Rocket Road, Starbase, Texas."
4. The company completed a 5-for-1 stock split on May 4, 2026 just weeks before filing.
5. Musk holds roles as CEO, CTO, and Chairman simultaneously the ultimate founder-controlled empire.
Business & Revenue
6. SpaceX generated $18.67 billion in revenue for full-year 2025, across three segments.
7. The Connectivity (Starlink) segment alone pulled $11.4B in 2025 revenue growing nearly 50% year-over-year.
8. Starlink now serves 10.3 million subscribers across 164 countries as of March 31, 2026.
9. The AI segment generated $3.2B in 2025 revenue but burned $6.35B in operating losses still early stage.
10. Q1 2026 consolidated revenue hit $4.69 billion, but operating loss was a steep $1.94 billion.
AI & xAI Mega-Merger
11. SpaceX acquired xAI (Grok + X/Twitter) in February 2026 folding social media and frontier AI into one IPO entity.
12. The combined Grok + X platform has 1.3 billion supported accounts, with ~550 million monthly active users.
13. SpaceX claims it was the first company to deploy a coherent gigawatt-scale AI training cluster, beating every hyperscaler.
14. The flagship AI data center, "COLOSSUS," is located in Memphis, Tennessee part of a gigawatt-scale cluster.
15. SpaceX is developing "Terafab" a chip manufacturing initiative targeting one terawatt of compute hardware annually.
Space & Future Ambitions
16. SpaceX launched over 80% of all mass to orbit globally each year since 2023 with a 99%+ mission success rate.
17. Starship is expected to begin payload delivery to orbit in the second half of 2026 a major commercial milestone.
18. The company plans to deploy orbital AI compute satellites as early as 2028, essentially building data centers in space.
19. SpaceX intends to build a lunar mass driver on the Moon's surface an electromagnetic launch system requiring no rockets.
20. The S-1 explicitly references the "Kardashev Type II" civilization as a long-term goal harnessing the full energy of the Sun.