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Real LEAPS, my own account.
$LLY +1,402% and $RKLB +1,004%, both closed. $TEAM and $UNH still open, snapshot as of Oct 29.
I back leaders of long trends and sit through the noise.
Follow for post-trade breakdowns, what I’d do differently, wins and mistakes. NFA
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$BTC is under $77K and $ETH under $2,200 after the Binance hack.
Binance says about $3B is already frozen, and deposits and withdrawals are paused.
This is an exchange problem, not a Bitcoin problem. What I'm watching: when withdrawals reopen, do coins rush out or stay put?
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$QQQ fell 1.4% today, but equal-weight $RSP rose 1.2% and $IWM gained 1%.
Money is leaving crowded tech bets, not the market. $GOOGL closed down 12.6%, and after hours $AMZN is down ~6% and $INTC ~20%.
That's three tech giants hit in one day. Tomorrow $RSP holding green means rotation, not panic.
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Investors grew extremely bullish on tech heading into Big Tech earnings:
Long speculative positioning in Nasdaq futures surged to +$55 billion as of October 20th, its highest on record.
This captures hedge funds, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), and other institutional investors such as leveraged funds.
Since August, net long positioning in Nasdaq futures soared +$60 billion.
In October alone, this figure rose +$19 billion.
By comparison, in May 2025 and August 2026, investors held net short positions of -$5 billion.
Investor appetite for tech is through the roof.
$COIN options priced an 8% move. After hours it barely moved. Here's why the quiet print matters.
Revenue $1.22B was in line but down 35% YoY, so trading is still soft. Adj. EBITDA $333M beat the ~$283M estimate. Ignore the $2.51 GAAP EPS: most of it is crypto price gains on the books, adjusted net income was only ~$78M.
The real story is the non-trading side. Subscription & services came in at ~$570M, inside the $500-580M guide, and Q4 is guided higher at $550-630M. That revenue doesn't need $BTC to rip.
My take: Coinbase is slowly becoming less of a trading-volume bet. Not a buy-the-dip setup, but the floor looks firmer than the -35% headline says. NFA.
$HOOD and $SOFI are both "fintech," but run on different fuel.
HOOD needs trading and crypto. Bitcoin is stuck near $81K.
SOFI is a lender. The 10-year yield fell from 5.3% to 5.0% this month.
Same label, opposite drivers. Watch yields and Bitcoin.
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$IWM Small caps are rallying while the Nasdaq drops 1.3%. Is this the time to buy small caps?
Small caps (IWM) are up about 1% and the equal-weight S&P ($RSP ) about 0.8%, while the S&P is -0.4% and the Nasdaq -1.3%. 8 of 11 sectors are green, led by healthcare, financials and real estate. This isn't risk-off. A handful of giants are dragging the cap-weighted indexes down. $QQQ
Why: $GOOGL is down ~12% after earnings, with free cash flow deeply negative and capex staying high. Software names like $NOW and $FTNT got hit too. Investors are asking when the AI spending pays off, and money is moving from the big spenders to the rest of the market. It's not a rate-cut trade either: the Fed held yesterday and inflation is still sticky.
My take: one day isn't an entry signal. If IWM keeps beating QQQ and RSP keeps beating SPY after $AMZN reports tonight, the rotation is real and small caps get interesting. Intraday numbers, may change by close. NFA.
$FTNT Fortinet beat on sales and profit. Its margins even hit a record.
Yet the stock is down about 25% before the bell.
Why? Service sales came in a bit light, and it lowered the full-year service outlook. Product growth also slowed a lot.
After a 120% run this year, any slowdown gets punished.
My take: the business is fine. The price just ran too far, too fast.
$NOW is about -15.6% after hours, and Q3 beat its own guide: cRPO +21% CC vs 20% guided.
The hit is the slope. Q4 cRPO guided to 18.5%. At a premium SaaS multiple, that outweighs a 2-cent EPS miss.
Next signal: organic cRPO on the call.
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BREAKING: ServiceNow stock, $NOW, collapses nearly -20% after posting weaker than expected Q3 earnings.
谷歌盘后跌 8%,EPS 2.12 远低于预期,但大头是持股浮亏 86.6 亿,经营利润率其实升到约 31.8%。
真正的问题其实有两个:搜索不及预期,自由现金流转负 91 亿。微软同期还有 186 亿。
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ALPHABET ($GOOGL) Q3 2026 EARNINGS
Revenue: $127.58B vs. $127.93B est. — MISS
EPS: $2.12 vs. $2.87 year ago
Operating Income: $40.58B vs. $43.16B est. — MISS
Google Services: $96.30B vs. $98.40B est. — MISS
Google Cloud: $30.71B vs. $29.10B est. — BEAT
Google Search: $63.35B vs. $64.85B est. — MISS
YouTube Ads: $11.21B vs. $11.43B est. — MISS
CAPEX: $51.36B vs. $55.78B est.
谷歌盘后跌 7.5%,问题不在 AI 需求:Cloud 收入 307 亿美元,同比 +103%,大超预期。
真正的雷是利润:EPS 2.12 美元,预期约 3.01;营业利润 406 亿,预期约 432 亿;搜索收入也不及预期。
增长没坏,利润率不行了。
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ALPHABET ($GOOGL) Q3 2026 EARNINGS
Revenue: $127.58B vs. $127.93B est. — MISS
EPS: $2.12 vs. $2.87 year ago
Operating Income: $40.58B vs. $43.16B est. — MISS
Google Services: $96.30B vs. $98.40B est. — MISS
Google Cloud: $30.71B vs. $29.10B est. — BEAT
Google Search: $63.35B vs. $64.85B est. — MISS
YouTube Ads: $11.21B vs. $11.43B est. — MISS
CAPEX: $51.36B vs. $55.78B est.
$MSFT FQ1 beat across the board.
Rev $92.3B, +19% (est $90.7B)
Adj EPS $4.89 vs $4.73 est
Azure +48%
MS Cloud $63.9B, +30%, accelerating
Capex $39.4B, ~2x YoY
~+5% after hours.
Demand isn't the question. The call is about whether Azure keeps outrunning the capex bill.
One hour before the Fed:
Semis (SMH) +1.5% and energy +0.8% lead. Real estate -1.2% is last, with the 10Y at 5.02%.
SPY +0.2%, equal-weight RSP -0.1%. A narrow chip bid, not broad buying.
Watch XLRE into Warsh's presser. A hawkish hold keeps rate-sensitive names heavy.
Two hikes and S&P 8,400 only fit together if earnings outrun the discount rate.
So tonight's $MSFT and $GOOGL capex guides matter more than today's statement. The pause is priced at 95%.
The tell is whether Warsh leaves December open. If so, long-duration tech feels it first.
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$VRT Q3 blew the doors off.
Rev $4.31B, +61% YoY (est ~$3.75B)
Adj EPS $2.21 vs $1.82 est
Organic orders +100%+
Op margin 25.2%, +290bp
FY guide up: ~$14.65B rev, ~$7.15 EPS
+16.7% premarket.
AI power and cooling demand is still accelerating. Picks and shovels keep winning.
Deep fundamentals. High conviction. Speculative bets.
A value-investor's process: back the leaders of inevitable trends, never trash with flashy charts.
Fixed series: AI stock deep dives · earnings one-pagers · LEAPS setups.
My own bets, wins and mistakes.
NFA/DYOR
彭博:SK海力士旗下 Solidigm 在和美方谈一座450亿美元的闪存厂,美国第一座新的大型闪存工厂,长期总投资或近1000亿美元。
但有前提:先批准它往中国工厂运芯片设备,理由是中国厂多赚的钱能反哺美国厂。
这本质是拿美国投资换出口管制松绑。 $SKHY $MU
我看商务部怎么回:放行,存储链的中国产能风险下降;不放,450亿更像谈判筹码。
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SK HYNIX OWNED SOLIDIGM IS IN TALKS TO BUILD THE FIRST NEW MAJOR FLASH MEMORY CHIP PLANT IN THE US
The plant would cost $45B, per Bloomberg. Flash memory stores data in everything from smartphones to data centers, and most of it is made in Asia.
But there's a condition. Solidigm wants US permission to send chipmaking equipment to its plant in China first, saying the extra money from that plant would help pay for the US one.
Solidigm has told US officials the total US investment could approach $100B over time.




















