Pradeep

Software engineer & Swing/Positional trader
$5K → $10K trading challenge, fully documented in public
Trading journal only. NFA

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

Starting a $5,000 challenge account today — shares only, no options.

Goal is simple: 5k → 10k🚀

This is my public trading journal. Every entry, exit and the reason behind it will be posted here.

Anyone can follow along the journey.

#5kTo10kChallenge #StockMarket

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$VST
After a major run, price is back at the lower boundary of its long-term rising channel.

Strong power-demand growth from data centers adds fundamental support. A hold here could start the next leg higher toward $190–$200.

$VST CMP: $141

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$MLM
After pulling back from $700, MLM is back at the lower trendline of its multi-year rising channel.

Record Q2 revenue and raised 2026 guidance keep the fundamental story strong. If support holds, $700 is back in play.

$MLM CMP: $547

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$CRH

Weekly chart has pulled back to the lower end of its long-term rising channel.

This week’s bounce suggests buyers are defending a key area. If support holds, CRH could begin a reversal toward the top of the channel. PT is 130-145

$CRH

[Venu @Venu_7_]

One of the biggest mistakes new investors and traders make:

Buying a stock that gaps down after earnings.

It looks like a discount. It's usually a trap. To avoid falling into that trap, follow one simple rule:

The 3-Day Rule.

When a stock gaps down on earnings, wait at least 3 trading days before even thinking about buying.

Why?

Institutions holding millions of shares can't exit in one day. The gap down isn't the end of their selling - it's the beginning.

- Day 1: Bounce = dip buyers + short covering, not real demand.
- Days 2-3: You'll see whether the selling pressure actually dries up.
- After Day 3: The stock will tell you if it's stabilizing or still bleeding.

You're trading with evidence, not hope.

And remember:
Our focus should always be on earnings gap ups, not gap downs.

A gap up on heavy volume usually signals institutional buying like $PLTR - and their buying often takes days or even weeks to complete. That's the fuel behind many of the market's biggest winners.

Gap down = big money leaving.
Gap up = big money arriving.

Own what they're accumulating. Don't try to catch what they're distributing.

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

@Venu_7_ Great post, Venu. I’ve also been building positions in $ADBE and $NOW over the past two months. Software is starting to look stronger, and if this momentum continues, I think the sector could reach new all-time highs soon.

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$FSLR
CMP $268, up 11% today.
Strong move in the solar name with solid fundamentals behind it.

$FSLR

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$FSLR Weekly chart, CMP $239 (+14% today)

Strong bounce off the rising channel's lower trendline.

$FSLR

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$APP Weekly chart

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$ADBE is coming out of a downtrend and beginning to show improving price structure.

Fundamentally, Adobe remains a high-quality software business with recurring subscription revenue, strong cash generation, and an AI monetization opportunity across its creative-product ecosystem

[Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay]

JULY U.S. JOBS REPORT

• Nonfarm Payrolls -23K vs Est. +80K
• Unemployment Rate 4.1% vs Est. 4.2%

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$NOW up ~3% premarket, building a higher low. Buyers stepping in sooner on pullbacks can signal improving trend health.

Fundamentally, Q2 subscription revenue grew 23% YoY in constant currency, and FY26 guidance was raised.

$NOW

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

@softwareduniyas Interested @softwareduniyas

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

@Muninn @TheShortBear I’m interested

[Venu @Venu_7_]

Want to Know If the Bottom Is In? Read this.

Since $QQQ just printed a gap-up candle, the next thing I'll be watching is the Follow-Through Day (FTD).

One of William O'Neil's most important rules for confirming a market bottom.

How it works:
- Market is in a correction. The first day an index closes higher = Day 1 of a rally attempt.
- Days 2-3 don't need to be up. The rally stays alive as long as Day 1's low holds.
- Then on Day 4-7, watch for one major index (S&P 500 or Nasdaq) to gain 1.25%+ on volume higher than the day before.

That's the follow-through day. Downtrend over. Confirmed uptrend.

The rules that matter:
- Not every FTD works - many fail
- But no bull market has EVER started without one.
- Undercut Day 1's low -> the count resets
- FTDs after Day 10 carry lower success rates

What to actually do on an FTD:
Don't go all in. Buy starter positions in leading stocks breaking out of sound bases. If the rally is real, they work - and you add. If it fails, you're barely exposed.

O'Neil's whole point: you don't predict bottoms. You confirm them.

Corrections are for building the watchlist. The FTD tells you when to use it.

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$FSLR Weekly chart, CMP $239 (+14% today)

Strong bounce off the rising channel's lower trendline.

$FSLR

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$NBIS

[Nebius Token Factory @nebiustf]

Kimi K3 is now available on Token Factory.

We’re excited to announce that Nebius Token Factory is an official Day 0 partner for @Kimi_Moonshot's Kimi K3.

Kimi K3 is the first open-weight model to reach frontier-level performance, a major step forward for open models.

It is built for long-horizon coding, knowledge work and reasoning, with native vision and up to 1M tokens of context. Artificial Analysis scores it at 57 on its Intelligence Index, just two points behind GPT-5.6 Sol (max). That puts Kimi K3 at the top of the open-weight field and firmly among today’s frontier models.

Developers can access K3 through Token Factory’s OpenAI-compatible API and console today.

Give K3 the hard problem.

Build with Kimi K3: https://t.co/olJZmAvmDh

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

@sriniksv @miryalasrikanth @sriniksv

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

$BKSY Weekly chart | CMP- 21.76

$BKSY is forming a potential weekly Ascending Triangle.

[Luc @investingluc]

Predictions for rest of 2026:

- markets is >10% higher by eoy
- metals (gold/silver) are +30% higher
- cybersecurity leads tech
- drones emerge of #1 “hot” theme
- $rddt over $200
- $crcl doubles (to over $120)
- peptide craze send $hims over $50
- $sofi touches $25 again
- $spcx doesn’t crack again $150 in ‘26
- crypto catches fire in Q4, $BTC >$85K

yay or nay?

[Pradeep @Pradeep_Alphaa]

@investor_sme That’s great entry.IPO allotment, sector growth, and the conviction to hold.Are these SME IPOs or mainboard IPOs as well? Could you DM me if possible? I’m studying SME and small-cap stocks and have a few doubts,I’d value your perspective.I’m unable to message you from my side