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bought AAOI 3 month ago at 14.80, went down as usual but finally no loss and sold at 15.30 on wednesday to gtfo. Of course now at 16.45
💰💰💰Good morning! #premarket #watchlist 09/16 $AAOI -Launches Quantum Bandwidth , $CLEU -no news+breaking chart, $TYME -Announce Stockholder Approval of Merger, $HKD -no news+big volatility
💰💰💰Good morning! #premarket #watchlist 09/16 $AAOI -Launches Quantum Bandwidth , $CLEU -no news+breaking chart, $TYME -Announce Stockholder Approval of Merger, $HKD -no news+big volatility
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics looking interesting
Next potential short squeeze stocks after GME and AMC:
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AAOI is such a buy lock in
AAOI been saving my entire port this month, holy shit they cookin
AAOI was sub $2 in 2023. It’s over $80 today. Anything is possible
AAOI to the moon!!
I am telling you AAOI is the next LTE
AAOI is the next LTE. Dumping $1000 in when my bonus hits
AAOI. wtf shoulda bought more
Bought 2 shares of AAOI yesterday, really wishing I bought more instead of MU and CRDO
Bell rang before I could buy puts on INOD and ZS, and calls on AAOI, but I did buy AAOI shares after the bell... My time management sucked today...
Looks good to me, I'm holding all these as well at smaller weights except EWY and AAOI? What's your thesis on AAOI?
I’m 46% MU, 23.5% SNDK, 14% NVDA, 8% EWY, 8.5% AAOI. Today is looking like it’s my day, FUCKKKK YEAA
AAOI was ripping this morning and now it's barely green.
Anyone know why AAOI mooning since mid-morning?
remember AAOI fiber? pooperidge farm remembers.
What's going on with LITE, AAOI, COHR
it'll come back around. i sold AAOI at $95, and it somehow didn't use up all my luck.
AAOI is choppy but has been getting some flow here and there. All the large order flow that I’ve seen has been bullish. Someone got in on 12/31 for $366k worth of 02/20 $40 calls.
Uhh, from my own personal research so far, to cover all grounds I’ve liked: 1. $AXTI - Basically 40% of InP supply chain 2. $DOWA + Sumitomo for Western hedge on InP / InP substrate 3. $AAOI, $LITE for hyperscaler buildout, AAOI for AMZN/MSFT, and LITE for everything but more levered to Google TPU 4. $MRVL and $AVGO - MRVL design partner for MSFT 2026-2027, and AVGO kinda everything.
POET, AVGO, AAOI, LITE, COHR, and any US photonics company are one level higher where they all depend on InP substrates or Indium Phosphide to make their optical components. Basically AXTI is the lowest level of the entire supply chain.
Entered C on Friday. $123 2 Jan. Looking at 45 AAOI for 9 Jan
I am playing AAOI instead. It will have carryover but don't have to sell the news.
for the record, my past 3 YOLOs, AAOI, IREN @ 40 and ALAB @ 145 all panned out within a couple weeks, yet my stupid ass sold them within 2-3 percent gains
AAOI going to hit $30 this week isn't it? Stocks pumps every day...
Hey man, yeah those calls are gone but guess what? Did it again today, played it safer and exited with a small gain after I was 50% down . The bottom line here is that it's a process and when things go bad you're gonna tell yourself you'll never do it again, and wonder how you could have been so reckless, but one is likely to repeat the same mistakes several times before the lesson is internalized. Two posts yesterday caught my attention and seemed written for people like us in light of the recent events. The first one was titled "that's why you always hedge", good stuff and very timely. The other one was a sequel from the guy who yoloed on AAOI, some obscure company with Chinese ties (which adds to the uncertainty). He was playing it all cool in his first post, like he knew something. Turns out he didn't and just put all his money on a random industrial company. Then 2 days later was down 20% and got out. Lesson here being that just because someone is yoloing a ton of money doesn't mean they know what they are doing and it's probably not a good idea to copy them without further dd.
I do feel a little better but of course AAOI bounces 4% today after I sold
eh probably, im sure AAOI will rally now
It could always be worse but this is bad AAOI a little shitter
AAOI getting absolutely fisted Jesus Christ
https://preview.redd.it/on73ufd9nfjf1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9472f50a3da8d5c255b0082c88431e4ceab20936 Related name AAOI had insider buying recently. I like the subsector and was buying the POET dip at 5 this past week with you, OP.
Idk what AAOI is but a shit load of volume just flowed into the ATM calls
My fucking man! Yes! AAOI is in a similar spot.
AAOI calls. If you know, you know
AAOI, highly shorted solid company
Highly shorted play that I like AAOI. Still growing in a very interesting space
Was looking at open options on this one and there is a decent open interest on the 4/17 options, so I ran the ratio question through ChatGPT and here is the answer it spit out: As of March 16, 2025, the put/call ratio for Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AAOI) options expiring on April 17, 2025, is as follows: • Open Interest: • Puts: 46 contracts • Calls: 907 contracts • Put/Call Ratio: 0.051 (46 puts / 907 calls) OP might be onto something. I’m interested to see how this plays out.
AAOI was my first huge win. Bought it at 3 something and it just started running. Amazon partnership was big news. Nice one
AAOI took the fuck off after hours though. Seems to be the only winner today, maybe besides QBTS.
AAOI is up 10 dollars after the close
Here are the put positions I encourage people to take up over the 30-45 days. All of them have triggered reversal conditions (i.e. price exhaustion) in the last 10-20 days. After intraday reversal indicators are triggered and a stock loses upwards momentum, it will fall down to the 100 or 200-day EMA in most cases^(1). Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, but it will crash out. |Ticker|Reversal Date|Expiration|Strike|Contract Cost| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |AAL|12/10|1/24|17|0.99| |AAOI|12/04|1/17|30/35|1.80/3.65| |ACHR|11/29|1/24|8.50|1.60| |AVGO|12/13|1/24|195|2.03| |BJ|12/11|1/17|95|1.70| With the exception of the stocks that switched on Friday, take care with your entry points on all the others. Observe resistance levels, moving averages, anchored VWAP, gamma exposure, and all that jazz. Yes, it sucks to bet against CLS; I've made so much money off this bad boy off LEAPS and the underlying. But the chart says what it says. Also, I didn't include the mega caps (6 out of 7 flipped last week) due to the risk/reward built into the premiums. ^(1) In a few cases like SBUX earlier this fall, downwards momentum will exhaust at the 50-day. However, this tends to only happens to stocks that chop sideways for extended periods. ^(2) After hours screwed up the bid/ask spread requests beyond recognition.
please dont go outside the US. everyone around the world is inveting in the us now realizing it is the only show left. sounds you like have mature tech companies covered. check out growth tech companies. marvel, credo, or AAOI all nice.
Buying AAOI dip
Not seeing AAOI anywhere here....
Chart looks good and it got a ratings upgrade recently. It’s also in a growing space. AAOI exploded on earnings and these guys do similar stuff.
How much of an advantage is "their liquid cooled systems take less time to build and are more modular than any of the other competitors systems" when it comes to revenue and marketshare compared to say, Dell? Also, for Blackwell superpods liquid cooling is a requirement, not a differentiator between server/rack solutions, so I'm just not sure how much of a leg up SMCI has. Per NVIDIA's [Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing): **"Cisco, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and Supermicro are expected to deliver a wide range of servers based on Blackwell products, as are Aivres, ASRock Rack, ASUS, Eviden, Foxconn, GIGABYTE, Inventec, Pegatron, QCT, Wistron, Wiwynn and ZT Systems."** That's A LOT of competitors offering similiar products. What makes SMCI so very special? As a LT investor, I have missed a lot of gains on staying out of the hype train including SMCI, but also a lot of downsides as well. This feels very similar to when I asked "What makes fastly so special?" Turns out, nothing. There are so many other names that have good momentum that fits the second half of the phrase: "“in the short run, the market is a popularity contest but in the long run, it is a weighing contest.” In the long run, I don't think SMCI can grow that much--just like FSLY, AAOI, and so many others. With that said, the market has done crazy things, so we all have to make our own decisions.
AAOI does similar shit and they fucking PUMPED on earnings. I’m already in but am gonna buy more. Connectivity is important
No one is talking about AAOI or SHOP 
bought puts on AAOI, stock needs to return to $10 so I can replace my car with a better one
This is the end for AAOI
AAOI is on my watchlist for a long time, just why..
I had an axon call, FTNT call, TSLA call, bros call, AAOI call. I sold all of them for a loss.. and blew my account All those calls were bangers if I would’ve held 
Why is no one talking about AAOI?
Nice. AAOI with a similar move
I've gone back to thank people that made suggestions that I rannwith. AAOI for example, very nice return
Day after day this sub keeps missing the massive AAOI short squeeze
FYI the group is live over on a subreddit I created. We are beginning the journey of trying to develop protocols to help thin out the list and focus in on the r/OptionIcebergs (shout out to the person in this thread who gave me the idea for this name). Some good wins from the week: $LUNR +453% $AAOI + 614% $AFRM +793% $VALE +106% $GM +1,822% And lots of others that went to zero or were scratch trades. That's the whole point of the group - to work on ways to filter down what the scan produces to improve the reliability.
It tends to be small caps. But then last month it was opex for $AAOI. That option moved 900%. Like I said hedge funds and others can't play in the small cap sandbox. Even more so, if that sandbox is so tight, they certianly can't play in 1DTE.
And those data centers will have to upgrade to at least Optical switching via the 800 series at $AAOI.
Hope everyone took action here. AAOI just did what Ive made a small edge over my career: Initial thesis is sound. Datacenters need their 800 optical switcher for AI. Everyone figures this out, the stock ramps and then it RETRACES almost 100% of the inital ramp. Its just investors switching from ST to LT thinking ( those who were ST bail )
Ex-Institutional here. Its hard to grasp but at the top, price doesnt matter as much as liquidity. Ramps into volume are when funds can rebalance - getting in AND getting out. Also, if you are good at charting you can see the flow move through a 15min VWAP, 1hr, 4hr and then "usually" the blow off top is on the daily. Nothing wrong with a retrace. Just buy 3-5 days after the blow off top and you will do good. (As an example $AAOI is going through this now as many analysts think their 800 series can turn water in wine as an "AI play" Wait for the dust to settle then re-take a look)
AAOI is my gambling stock today
What do you guys think about AAOI?
I wanna know who bought my 200 AAOI 11.5 0DTE calls today. Might take him out to Wendy's later as a thank you.
Insiders are loading up on AAOI. They must know something!
That's not a bad idea internet friend, I was thinking the other directions with MU, TSM, SIMO(which all seem to be climbing) and other Chip/semiconductor makers. PXLW which does display circuits(we need to see the graphics), and the processing of getting it to consumers with things like AAOI(which is volatile as F, at least since I invested in it). AI isn't going away, it's not like the dealerships with an overload of EV's, people will consume it, and business will use it. But what the heck do I know, one EMP and I'm broke. I got META AI(META pic below), Gemini(GOOG, GOOGL) and ChatGPT(MSFT) to say they were all unethical, so I went all in, lol https://preview.redd.it/ga0qc829zxlc1.png?width=2535&format=png&auto=webp&s=95ef11422c1b58a0d2fa4e51fc6e0915598afbd2
Guidance for optical hardware was disappointing for 2024, i know from the AAOI earnings call. so careful
Least they didn't think they would wake to AAOI at 24 like some dumb fucks.... it's me I'm the dumb fuck
If you by cheap and even if it's not high high you can be up a lot. I have AAOI and up 245% since only paid $6.17 and I have 5 shares so I'm up $75.85 since as of last Friday it's $21.34. Quite easy to be up high if you were willing to buy a cheap stock and keep it 😂. I've had since 2021
SMCI longs. It’s an AAOI circa 2017 waiting to happen.
It sits there 😂. Not joking, odds they are OTC. It will say .00006 so that's literally less than a penny, one day it said up 5000% but wasn't even a penny yet. I did a few bad ones in 2021 a few recently got to $1 so sold them, can't sell less than $1. So 2 have been at $0 for a whole year.i was t Active for a long time until Dec and unfortunately some bad and some good. I have a few wish got to Nvidia price, but since I paid $4-6 I'm still up like AAOI IM UP 245% from buying cheap.
There are 3 that actually are still doing good since 2021. X, TAL, AAOI. I paid btwn $4-6 so since inside so low I'm up so much 😂. If only they could be like Nvidia. So tempting to sell, but I just don't for those, if I only i bought more of those back then. I made a few bad ones back then and I wasn't monitoring much until Dec so I still can't sell 2 since for a whole yr they are basically 0, no longer on the market, OTC trading. So if they never get to even $1 I'll always see them there
There are a few I have in mind, which will explode is hard to say. But i like ROKU, AMRX TWST, DUOL, ARDX, AAOI All of those look really good right now and not nearly as extended as SMCI. RXST is nice as well but already a bit extended, though still very far from SMCI levels so there might still be a few bucks to be made from it
AAOI short squeeze coming 22% shorted, AI fiber optic tech company with leading technology
Think of it as supply and demand, there's so many cheap stocks that not many hear of until they are so high 😂. I have a $6 stock AAOI from 2021 that they consider undervalued, they are fiber optics tech company. So hopefully the prediction is high like they claim. I'm still up 205% gain since I bought so cheap. It's been gradually going up this wk. So it's one of my cheap stocks I'll prob keep as long as it doesn't go down much.
Hopefully AAOI, got so cheap in 2021 so up 205%. Fiber optics company, recently the price is gradually going up some. Tal is another cheap one I got then, about 124% gain.
If you wanna look for a cheap stock I believe it is under valued. Not sure if you have this one, some ppl only look at big names, but AAOI since I got 5 shares at just $6 each so I'm at 205% gain. Some stocks amazingly from back then I'm still gaining. I'll be keeping it if it keeps me with a big gain.
If you ever look under info on stocks it said Nvidia says overvalued and some are undervalued that really should be higher so some don't get as much attention. I have a cheap stock - AAOI, if it ever got high it would be nice, I got a few different stocks back in 2021 that are still doing good since I paid so low, only $6 with 5 shares so after the holiday it finally bounced back up at 205%. That's my nice one I'll keep, maybe someday it will be higher. https://preview.redd.it/9b6sarqevagc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f509ba4bd9a0da17036f1f24b811930f46626345
Curious if any had looked at AAOI regarding a AI play? They make tech for fiber optics and are at cutting edge of tech. Would start a thread but need upvotes so I am able to create thread
Need upvotes so can post regarding AAOI possible short squeeze. Current short interest at 22%. Just got upgrade to 22 from 17 and has followed same pattern prior to earning last 2. They make leading edge fiber optic tech being used in AI.
I have one that clearly is undervalued, AAOI, a good one I actually chose in 2021. Should had more than 5 shares, only paid $6 back then 😂. I think it's at $18 now, so I'm about 195% gain. Some back then I randomly chose 😂. So I'm gradually going thru some old ones that haven't been good. 2 I have no way to sell, shows 0-1¢ 😂. Don't know how they are still on the market, it's like they should have been delisted by now. I was on the platform much until last month otherwise I would have sold those 2 losers long ago 😂
I'm already on fidelity platform so sometimes I look at markets where it shows top losers, gainers, most active. But some only do AI or technology. That AAOI was honestly lucky 😂. Under trade I just typed a letter and that happened to pop up, but that was then. A lot of times you mainly see big name stocks. But it seems when I look up a certain category just thru Google says semi conductors and AI or technology ones pan out. I really don't have a method, but it seems to work just by trying to Google stuff and what some investors have for their picks. It's good to have mutual funds and/or ETF, those are likely to bring in more. I have 6 different fidelity funds so since they reinvest over and over I have a lot in each. I have all this in my roll over IRA. I know there's all those seasoned traders out there, they prob pay more for each stock. But it seems when I Google things just a few times then more and more just comes in my Google feed. But since I searched cathie wood yesterday I put various stocks on my watchlist - she put what she invests in most. I've search buffet on occasion, Mr frugal 😂. But those mutual funds or ETFs are the best start, fidelity doesn't have a fee for their funds, some do, but there's over 100 for fidelity when I search one day 😂. I have 6, but 3 have had for 10 yrs almost and FBALX seems to outperform the others