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Weekly_One8412

I made a post on r/TA on why this could actually be a dump of Liberation Day magnitude over the next few months, idk if Monday specifically will dump, but I think this could be the big drop every has been calling. [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/technicalanalysis/s/Hf7oL8w9ST)

rabianc

RDDT stock has been hammered of late following earnings. I understand management's explanation on the earnings report for why revenue was down. The problem is real. My question is, do you think Reddit's login approach can make up for the loss of Google search traffic? Do you think this is a LT, or ST problem or more of a permanent impairment? I love this platform and remain long on the stock. Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.

rabianc

RDDT stock has been hammered of late following earnings. I understand management's explanation on the earnings report for why revenue was down. The problem is real. My question is, do you think Reddit's login approach can make up for the loss of Google search traffic? Do you think this is a LT, or ST problem or more of a permanent impairment? I love this platform and remain long on the stock. Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Idkmanitcouldwork

Yes, hedging a portfolio is essentially a structured way of "betting against yourself" (or taking an offsetting position) to protect against downside risk, though it serves a strategic risk-management purpose rather than an emotional or pessimistic one. \[[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEScQHEIkXXH4tCOyK_nvMkvzJ1h9TkUmWM4gqMBet0CtRbSFnK5B7KgTmk8w2BbLpjgqG9UU4QVa0QJ1N_8Bwvlihs4a3VjSS5vfhiaK6lbP1knWh8C9sn6i8uMAYL1V7e2oyjSOmbgb1W1gakZ2yk6416), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESgAEBxCJF12skYrGy-skFXYncxkmBgMbpFWUEV7V5moZF_V551IFHWDqOrw0NgsHKebdJ1gFq9KdT7iCv2LYAYYuT1H6o9fqt_mkXdUhf3902FDJhcQv7a8tyH3MpgdE6-2OQ6kyM9wHnNSGX-d_HGIDaTv4SkunfyEPvsPbeYOHa_Q)\] **How Hedging Works** **The Core Action:** You take an initial investment (like owning a stock) and add a secondary position (like buying a put option, a short position, or a futures contract) that gains value if your primary investment drops. \[[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESgQEBxCJF11BkvPjx1KSjtzoAZ6uUDmB7Lpg3sz7RS0yeG0mlsYqDFwWwC3HTGsMl662uxHQVgIf-57We1Amd-dr1v3-GGZdVT8owUvEyWF855sPFe-TYfgrcBdSJUWmjEQjPzpw9ymTnuooMZTazU4Yx68rlJGP2GyQ2DNtw4ST14mM), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEScQHEIkXXH4tCOyK_nvMkvzJ1h9TkUmWM4gqMBet0CtRbSFnK5B7KgTmk8w2BbLpjgqG9UU4QVa0QJ1N_8Bwvlihs4a3VjSS5vfhiaK6lbP1knWh8C9sn6i8uMAYL1V7e2oyjSOmbgb1W1gakZ2yk6416), [3](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESgAEBxCJF12skYrGy-skFXYncxkmBgMbpFWUEV7V5moZF_V551IFHWDqOrw0NgsHKebdJ1gFq9KdT7iCv2LYAYYuT1H6o9fqt_mkXdUhf3902FDJhcQv7a8tyH3MpgdE6-2OQ6kyM9wHnNSGX-d_HGIDaTv4SkunfyEPvsPbeYOHa_Q)\] **The "Betting Against Yourself" Part:** If the market or your specific stock crashes, your hedge makes money, directly offsetting your losses. In that specific moment, part of your portfolio is profiting from a decline. \[[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESgAEBxCJF12skYrGy-skFXYncxkmBgMbpFWUEV7V5moZF_V551IFHWDqOrw0NgsHKebdJ1gFq9KdT7iCv2LYAYYuT1H6o9fqt_mkXdUhf3902FDJhcQv7a8tyH3MpgdE6-2OQ6kyM9wHnNSGX-d_HGIDaTv4SkunfyEPvsPbeYOHa_Q)\] **The Cost of Protection:** Just like insurance, a hedge comes with a cost or a tradeoff. By capping your potential downside losses, you also typically cap or reduce your maximum upside gains. (Very clearly AI generated because you’re not worth the effort explaining it manually.)

Whole_Will

AI data center buildouts are 47% of GDP growth according to the ST. Louis Federal Reserve.Tuesday came and all the elected candidates want to slow down or stop data centers. There were also referendoms against data centers and they all passed. There goes the GDP and the jobs market next year. Well, be kinda hard to pay for expensive electricity without a job.

git_und_slotermeyer

Looks like a character from ST TNG

That_Confidence83

Why does he think anyone cares about renaming this ST (stupid bullshit)…? Who TF cares.

Such_Coin

🥭: VENEZUELA COULD BECOME THE 51ST STATE Can we a least all agree that maybe this is a bit too much?

Temporary-Equal-774

\>🥭: VENEZUELA COULD BECOME THE 51ST STATE The offer goes to venezuela after being rejected by canada🤣

GhettoMuppet

doc ur patient having ST elevation but youre on robinhood

Embarrassed_Scar_513

Fonzide patlayan herkese anaparaları odenmeden ki ödense bile BIST bitmiştir , gerçi ülke bitti BİST bitse ne olur , bunlar daha iyi günler , Türkiyede yasıyorsanız cıkmaya bakın

Solid-Season9984

🛢️ India's shipping minister says a projectile hit the UAE-owned crude tanker MT ST 3 in the Strait of Hormuz today. The crew is safe. Iran first claimed a tanker strike this morning. This adds to oil supply risk heading into the weekend. CENTCOM is pushing back, saying about 400 ships have gotten through Hormuz in the past 7 days. SPY: mildly bearish, since it keeps oil bid on top of the tech selloff. The S&P was down 1.1% at 2:01 PM ET. FinancialJuice post with the minister's comments

old-fave

Stop thinking ST calls are an investment.

tldamico

I'm seeing too many hyped up bols on ST. Getting a little concerned about this expected pump.

JustLurkCarryOn

Bruh that dude on the Rams ST just got his shit rocked lmfao

Snoo_59894

I get HBO, D+, and Hulu for $9.99 a month for their ad tiers. It's usually $20 for the bundle but every time (& I mean every time) I go to cancel they give me 3 more months at 50% off. I have used this scheme all year, missed it once and paid full price 1 month. The value and amount of shows and movies I get from all 3 of those for $130 a year is amazing. I'll never go back to Netflix. Besides, last time I had Netflix was December 2025 for the Stranger Things final and it had nothing good to watch. Even the ST final season was horrible. Netflix doesn't make movies or shows, they make content.

Strong-Comment-7279

You don't need to convince me - I trade SPXW and SPY exclusively. SPXW for profit, SPY for gambling - either liquidity or ST losses against 1256s. I'm just saying it wasn't in the category of advice O.P. was seeking.

CevJuan238


JudgmentCharming355

JANE ST is knocking

SanDisk_Made_Me_Rich

On November 4th the Treasury will announce its quarterly funding schedule along with adjustments to the short-term bill supplies, and its plan for liquidity support of the long-end of the curve. If the Treasury will no longer issue LT or 30 yr treasuries, and only issue ST bonds to re-finance the debt and fund the deficits, then LT rates will immediately plummet because institutional investors (like pension funds and insurance companies) are legally or structurally mandated to hold long-term, risk-free assets to match their long-term liabilities and they will be faced with zero new supply; therefore, these institutions will aggressively bid up the prices of existing long-term bonds, forcing long-term interest rates down sharply. Therefore, the most important event for Treasuries will come on November 4th, a day after the elections. However, if yields plummet on the 4th and the CPI continues to rise, yields will go up again with a vengeance in 2027. So what do you do before the 4th? Lock in the rate and bet on the Treasury dept. sticking with its plan, or will the CPI cause ST rates to be double or triple hiked 25bps and make Bessent-The-House fold again. I really don't know which way it will go, but beware of the risks here.

SCHD_goblin

Any thoughts on Eutelsat being the secret satellite partner? ST user "JuliusW" has been talking about this recently.

SCHD_goblin

ST user "JuliusW" recently presented an interesting arguemnt stating that Eutelsat might be GCTS's secret satellite partner. What are your thoughts on this possibility? Wouldn't this be bad for the share price because everyone is expecting "Big Name" Amazon to be the partner, and because Amazon provides for opportunities for revenue?

Careful_Economist352

yes I will be posting DDs when i got time and I usually post, call outs on ST if you want to check it out. I would be holding GCTS for long term, maybe next 3year, 5 years, idk but until i see 6G i'm not selling. I don't wanna miss out on IONQ as well so will put more cash into my ac. good luck! 

Retired-Programmer

*>  I actively use the gain/loss tracker for tax purposes on Robinhood, so that one might be a personal issue for you.*  When I posted about the gain/loss I felt it wasn't correct because I know I could select which lot positions to sell and remember seeing the cost basis on it (although it had to be done from the Phone App and not the website which I also hate) but there was something with the gain/losses I could not get and had to use a spreadsheet to track. Now thinking I think RH would not give me separate **Realized** (closed/sold) Short Term Gains/Losses and Long Term Gains/Losses but maybe just a total of the combined Short and Long Term Realized Gains/Losses (not even sure RH will show combined Realized Gains/Losses). I think it had the current (still open) Short Term and Long Term Losses/Gains for each position but the problem I believe was the Realized (closed positions) separate Short and Long Term gains is not shown and I had to track that myself. I am retired and not taking SS yet and have no other income so I can have up to $48K of Long Term gains and pay no taxes on it as long as I keep my regular/ordinary income (ie: Short Term Gains and Interest Income) under the standard deduction. So it's pretty critical to get those accurate so I will know at the end of the year what to sell to take maximum advantage tax wise. At Schwab they show your Realized LT Gains and ST Gains separately (although I have to adjust it for certain cases like when I screw up and close a short call position on Dec 31 and therefore that trade doesn't count taxwise till the next year, dang it). I believe that is what RH was not giving me for the tax harvesting purposes and I had to track it myself with the spreadsheet. I would spend days double/triple checking everything near the end of the year by checking my saved screen shots I had kept of the positions and their Cost Basis before I sold it. If I didn't keep track of the Cost Basis before I made a trade/close the data (Cost Basis) was gone which is why I kept screen shots and a spreadsheet (and then options can complicate it even further when option assignments occur). Definitely if I wasn't trading options the platform I trade on would make much less difference. Options can really complicate things and the trading platform can really make a difference and help make things easier/better.

saltandpepper96

Thank you for the thorough response! Is there any action that the president could make that would make the US default on these ST Treasuries? I understand there are historical regulations and checks and balances, however these boundaries have objectively been tested the past \~2 years. Thanks again!

AustinZephyr

That is a point not asked - what would you do with the money if you exited? It is not relevant to the specific question, but it isn't just about this one stock, it is about your investments as a whole. Also might make some difference if you are ST or LT cap gain and/or what your individual tax bracket is (state and/or federal).

Defiant-Fee-7550

ur ST username starts with a P ?

EmbarrassedPart1256

RIP Johnny Shots; I, for one, will miss you. Having gone through several (endless) identity crises/karma cleanses on here/ST, I know the feeling of having endless haters or wasting your time, being in too deep, etc. I wish you nothing but the best in all that you do & maybe we'll meet again sometime in the future. We are bust a small portion of the larger world out there & we need to stick together, build each other up. Friendly competition is alright but anyone who leans in on hate will be swiftly blocked. I don't need your stock call that badly. That being said, I hope everyone has a great day!

JudgmentCharming355

[Removed by JANE ST]

EmbarrassedPart1256

Yeah, at this point the shares are completely free, which is a nice feeling; we won't think about earlier this year, but I was able to use a large part of the loses to offset gains in my taxable account. I'm pretty comfortable holding here & even buying lower to put the pressure on the forces that be. I consider scalping to be a lot more fast-paced than what I'm doing here, picking off lots as low as they want to sell them like institutions do. I'm pretty proud f how I've been managing this, taking a long-term view but also acknowledging market forces & moving with them\*. I truly believe this is $CAT during the dot-com bubble. Maybe they'll sell it low enough where I can get back to the 250K shares I originally held (or more); if there's a freak sell-off below $.10 I'd be going wild. A quick look at $BURU shows almost no revenue, & I believe they had way more shares OS, looks like they did a RS; something like 360M shares? An RS doesn't affect the MC, just could erode investor confidence, but again, the underlying businesses are worlds different. $CAPS would never have that much dilution, ever, unless they scale up to being a company like $QXO & add value to shareholders in the process; the businesses are profitable, just cleaning up all the financing from this recent pivot. I maintain that if they diluted, cleaned up the balance sheet, the stock would still be undervalued & a screaming buy just like $OPEN. The only difference is that $CAPS doesn't have an influencer screaming about it like $OPEN did; I tried, but I was way too early & my reach just isn't far enough 🤣 The truly wild part to me is that there really can't be that many shareholders here, & this thing is stupidly oversold. All it'd take is someone coming along & buying up half a million shares in a day or 2 (like I did with $CTM; I've gotta hold myself back) to break this. \*wild how that idiot on ST has been buying shares all the way down up to \~500K & complaining all the way; to sit there & complain publicly shoots himself in the foot too, & hopefully he gets drowned out soon. He needs to stay in his lane if he doesn't know penny stocks because this is one of the cleanest setups I've ever seen. The only drawback is that the industry doesn't excite people right now. I don't care though. The $CTM board was negative & doom & gloom until I bought in, broke things, & the stock went \~15x in 1.5 months...

EmbarrassedPart1256

The first pop recently I sold the whole lot, 100K shares, & stayed up all night watching it not drop overnight but then it did the next day. I started buying at $.2150, a little too early, but I bought heavily all the way down, had 210K shares. Then when that went green at the end of the day I trimmed, wanting to hold some but continuing to trim (& I’m glad I did); this is now all in a retirement account so I’m trying to preserve these portfolio-changing gains as there’s no tax-loss harvesting if things go south. Now I’m up to 7K again, going to keep buying slowly if it gets pinned; the pin to $.1625 at the end of AH was attractive to me. I’d *love* to have 100K shares again, don’t know if I can justify 200K plus although I’d love that even more; there is risk here. The cost to borrow being so high now has my interest & maybe I should load in a bit more aggressively, especially if it stays pinned so low. The market cap is just insanely low for the underlying business & I don’t want to sleep on it if I’ve been into it for so long; I follow instone & CSI on Instagram, I see what they do, the projects they do, etc. so it’s kinda hard to avoid them. I don’t think the dilution has been excessive, & clearly it’s getting absorbed based on how thinly this trades. Insiders hold a huge chunk & I think preserving their controlling interest is somewhat strategic, preventing a buyout, not just lining their pockets. You can just swing it over time to keep up with the dilution if you want to go long. There are a few people on ST holding serious positions as well (& shooting themselves in the foot being outwardly negative, but I digress); I should’ve applied what I know/knew about swinging penny stocks instead of stubbornly held like the idiot on there who holds 500K; I’d be way farther ahead. He mocked me for cutting it at $.55 (even though it popped over $1 right after), even though I’ve saved so much time, capital & mental energy waiting til now to start re-buying, & swinging based on signs. If this gets through key thresholds & they can convert their debt into strength, this will go parabolic. The underlying businesses are rock-solid (pun intended).

Mmkeek

Nanexa AB (publ) (NANEXA.ST).

JudgmentCharming355

JANE ST is trying to clean META from retailers

Strong-Comment-7279

Oh, but you may - 60/40 vs 100% ST loss. Don't chase it though - this is a quarterly resolution. Completely legal, unless you're coordinating it. Hello, OPEX.

AMadWalrus

Ehh no, the difference between ST and LT cap gains is massive

killmongersusamuru

I would say stay away, only some time before these guys either flee like the katılım evim (ponzi,like financing) guys, or get locked up. The SPK (SDC of Turkey) is trying to find a solution to this. Either they finish this scheme and let it take down lots and lots of small investors or bail them out. Normally Turkish stock markets have BİST 30 (top 30 in,İstanbul stock exchnage) but even analyst call it bist 29 now. Regarding Tera as a scam. I woukd say stay away.

Da1lyGa1ns

Beautiful, are you Doxtator from ST? I believe he showed a screen shot of that same share count and average

EmbarrassedPart1256

There’re 1,300 watchers of $CAPS on ST. 21M shares divided by 1,300 is just over 16K shares per watcher. I hold 75K (for now), enough for \~4 of those watchers’ positions. You all want to chase low-floaters & this one is lying in plain sight. I’m loaded/ing up because I don’t want to time the market or miss out on the deepest value this one wants to reach. 1K here, 1K there. NFA.

LincHamilton

I have done three posts on $OESX here since june and the stock is up 150% since then. Moreover, as I stated in my first post, it still has a long way to go. I assume people will take notice once it goes 5x, but you at least got the chance! TLDR; extremely solid company and mgmt, no dilution shit like 99% of the stuff discussed here. They have several areas of business, they serve Home Depot and entered the AI hyper scale data center sector in june. Thats the TAM of all TAMs and they developed a product that their competitors can’t match. Not investment advice and best of luck! 3rd: https://www.reddit.com/r/smallstreetbets/s/d74qVdy3VG 2nd: https://www.reddit.com/r/smallstreetbets/s/y0Mg7Zsow9 1st: https://www.reddit.com/r/smallstreetbets/s/p65c77ST53

Ok-Garlic-3202

You should consider swapping over the ZB futures contracts since you get preferable tax treatment (60 LT / 40 ST), which are usually highly correlated (95%+). The only caveat from uncle Claude is below: Beyond simple time-zone gaps, if the upcoming **CPI** or **FOMC** meetings trigger an aggressively large, multi-day trend reversal in interest rates, it can spark a **Cheapest-to-Deliver (CTD) contract shift** for the /ZB futures. If the underlying basket bond that institutions choose to deliver changes, the structural duration of the /ZB contract will shift dynamically, while TLT's indexing remains rigid. This can cause the correlation to drift slightly lower over a multi-week period until the futures contract rolls over.

throwaway3259348

I would suggest a couple adjustments on the SPY CSP’s: 1) Use SPX or ES futures as underlying. This gets you 1256 tax treatment (60% LT / 40% ST). Immediately boosts after tax return and reduces fee drag due to larger size. 2) Consider writing spreads instead of CSP’s. This makes it a defined risk trade. Selling options can be boring until one day your portfolio goes up in flames. It will feel like you’re throwing money away on the hedge most of the time and then some day it will save you. It also can give you more options when managing risk / rolling. Also, it’s more margin efficient.

EmbarrassedPart1256

Funny, our weekly sandwich is Jamaican jerk chicken 🤣 small world They're also huge in Latin America, basically a food group in the Peruvian Amazon; I'm not there now but I've spent considerable time there. I think I've counted eating them \~20 different ways if you include green & yellow. That's wild you've been on this sub so long! I used to go by wavychaser way back, don't remember the other names I've had. This sub would get so hostile toward people that I wanted to cleanse my karma after some time; I've got a decent thing going with this one so I'm keeping it (for now). I'm banned from ST across 4-5 emails which has been kinda nice (I had a crisis on my 30th Birthday, like "wtf am I doing?") but at the same time I've ben wanting to get back in just to set the record straight about $CAPS. Idiots on there are absolutely shooting themselves in the foot spreading misinformation/FUD, but then again, ST doesn't matter much in the scheme of things. An army of bots or a discord can show up & absolutely run a ticker, drowning out any previous sentiment. Ideally the gains would somewhat stick if this thing got noticed enough. The wild part is that so many brokerages won't even let you trade it; Fidelity royally screwed me having to call in to place buy orders with idiots who didn't even know how to place orders in the after-market session. I could see it being included in an ETF down the line & only then being accessible to the general public. [Goldman Sachs did recently report a \~16K position in $CAPS](https://fintel.io/so/us/caps), after all. This is *exactly* what I did with $CTM when it wasn't on anyone's radar, bought more than any institution held (723K shares over 2 days), absolutely broke things. Even after *heavy* dilution that stock is still 3x my original buy after skyrocketing. I think Capstone is a stronger business than Castellum & has the potential to move somewhat like $OPEN, FWIW. I was *seriously* debating going in to the tune of 250K shares if I could even get them, using my main portfolio as well How did we go from plantains to $CAPS?? Shit's exciting... I've said too much; this comment will be promptly deleted in a day 🤙

EmbarrassedPart1256

It’s cool that you’re taking the stock seriously; I said in my recent post that I believe sentiment eroding on ST is actually a good thing. Longs selling off & enough new holders entering could give this momentum to blow through the conversion thresholds. Eliminating the debt would be huge & would start the trend reversal IMO. I can’t say when it’ll be but again, I don’t wanna be fighting for shares if/when this gets noticed by the mainstream; there can only be \~300 shareholders with my position size, a mere $10K position. The reality is it’s far less with the insiders/institutions holding. I think $3-5 would be within reason when all is said & done, to start. From then, they could likely be continuing their M&A & this thing could compound for decades into the future. It’s purely optimistic, but it’s not impossible, crazy enough it just might work. I’m looking for the $CAT in the dot-com bubble & I think I may be staring it in the face. It’s really hard to not grab \~200k shares in my main account to get back to the position I once had before I cut it. Stocks have been popping off like crazy after RS recently too. The big thing is the debt, but they’re not over-leveraged, just leveraged, & cleaning up the balance sheet.

tldamico

Not happy about not seeing the chat at the top of the page. On a computer and don't feel like constantly refreshing the page. I'll see what ST is doing.

Bjork11

Correct. The ticker is just NANEXA on swedish brookers. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NANEXA.ST/

EmbarrassedPart1256

I appreciate the shoutout! I'm unapologetically so at this point; I'm convicted & I've got the time to see what happens. As I said in my post, sentiment degrading on ST is actually bullish IMO, as it could mean that so of the float is unlocked or stays locked for when sentiment flips. It's truly wild to me how every Chinese scam company under the sun can get pumped & $CAPS just goes unnoticed. I'll keep buying til I can't anymore. Good to see you! I hope you had a good day 🤙

b1mm3rl1f3

BANK OF AMERICA VICE PRESIDENT K\*LLED IN TIMES SQUARE ST\*BBING - BBG Wtffff what are the odds?

Independent-Use-228

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, AND MILITARY SERVICE ST. MICHAEL PEDRO BUCKY, THE GALACTIC AUDITOR, URIEL. https://preview.redd.it/pvj4jr9v1vmh1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f614412713cd02a0cc9da796cd5623eb8f4e5e77 Happy Birthday wherever you are on our around earth defending freedom.

Life-Trade-6514

I already know my slot so I am just hammering out from the 8th pick in a Standard PPR 10 man Snake Draft. Trying to get my depth chart in balance. RB1 RB1 RB2 RB3 RB3 (Generally cuffs last rounders) WR1 WR1 WR1 WR2 WR2 TE1 TE2 QB1 QB2 K D/ST. Just playing around seeing what would happen if RB's go off the board early or WR's. I

ButterscotchSilly785

SLS to pissoff ST CEO

CollegeSorry5923

Don't have any. Doing it for my friends at THE ILLUMINATAT HOUSE AND FRIENDSHIP CORNER, THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ST CHAPEL HILL. THE BEST AND HARDEST UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD. I DIDN'T GRADUATE.... YET... GOING BACK AFTER MY HEDGE FUND IS UP AND RUNNING.

EmbarrassedPart1256

Going into September, you may want to check out $CAPS. $CTM was flat-lined just like this, @ \~$.18-.20 for months, with nothing but good news. I saw value (& an explosive share structure) where others saw nothing. $CTM’s sentiment on ST was also pretty down in the dumps at that time. [I think $CAPS’ business is a lot stronger than $CTM’s too](https://www.reddit.com/r/pennystocks/s/tONtXPgM62). I’ve been DCAing for a bit now, since the earnings selloff, trying to only average down & not get too carried away with shares so cheap. It’s interesting when the ask disappears sometimes & goes from, say, $.1885 to $.20. *That thin trading & hollow order book is the same thing I saw in $CTM.* Breaking key levels on bullish sentiment & allowing them to convert the rest of their debt would lead to a legendary PR, as would getting over $1 in terms of NASDAQ compliance. It’s very similar to $OPEN’s setup IMO. (I think they’re trying to trigger NASDAQ MVLS noncompliance too, which I saw would *not* mean immediate delisting for now, so it’d be another cure period at play)

2ForEmbellishing

SLS. CEO of ST having a meltdown 😂

ButtStuffingt0n

I've taken a ton of profits but staying about 20% allocated to AI. 30% to metals/miners/energy and the commodity super cycle theme (it also benefits if AI keeps rolling). 30% to EM, Latam + Japan + eastern europe, e.g. the dollar decline theme. 20% to cash and ST bonds because I think we see shit hit the fan in Q4 and I want to be discount shopping.

EmbarrassedPart1256

[$CAPS FAQ is out](https://capstoneholdingcorp.com/capstone-holding-corp-investor-faq/). It’s getting mentioned on ST. It’s stupid oversold, & I’m calling out an $OPEN-type move in the near future…

autumnbreeznleaves

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The New York Yankees have won 27 World Series in their history, more than 2x the 2nd most team, ST Louis Cardinals at 11 World Series titles. However the Yankees haven't won the World Series since 2009. If you bet on NY Yankees using your logic, you would have underperformed the market the last 17 years using past performance.

dhoni23

Just starting for me. Built a substantial 401k first. Bought my house next. Then with the incremental liquidity, I started trading. First 2 years I just focused on crypto. Scalping on a net basis was a small red for me. Didn't work. Started focusing on range bound trading in longer time horizons. 70% deployed into full cycle range with entries and exits in tranches based on LT psychological thresholds. 30% capital deployed on ST (days to weeks) range bound trading. Mad solid returns over a 2 year period based on this less frequent trading approach. 2.5X returns overall. 3rd year now and will start focusing more on other strategies pertaining to stocks to diversify and try different methodologies to see what works for me. Have been reading the 6th book in the Market Wizards series to get some modern perspective. You know, food for thought. I work full time so every year with the salary, year end bonus, and tax-deduction on my mortgage interest payments, I am able to add more to the trading portfolio. And of course, I still send a big chunk pre-tax straightaway to the indexed funds. Let's see.

zxc123zxc123

I'll answer both you and OP. For OP: The data is not fully clear or complete as it doesn't include both open and close prices. Merely percentage change to "base". But what you can draw from it is that escalator down mechanism vs slow climb upwards (more downward dots past -4 and the blue dot past -10). Can't say for sure without much more info but it's mostly that and psychological number points of breaking past round number hurdles for both humans and algos. TL;DR Either way you won't be able to milk any alpha from it. For you: 1. Stay long. Ignore 🌈🐻/Kramer. 2. Avoid BTC/GLD pump if scared. Hold a bit of ST cash like Buffet/Dalio/Trump. 3. Everything in the markets are overvalued but I'm allocating to AXP or LVMUY outside of my monthly DCA into VOO/IWM. I think they might still have legs going into the end of the year. Proof? None really. [I did say to buy BLK like month ago and it has been up +17% since.](https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1ueagt6/disregard_private_credit_liquidity_tests_acquire/) Don't listen to folks online.

EmbarrassedPart1256

Remember **$OPEN**? **$CAPS is about to make major moves**. [Shorts are exiting](https://fintel.io/ss/us/caps), housing/construction is experiencing serious growth, & any number of catalysts could absolutely send this oversold stock. Why did [they just restate a year's worth of financial statements](https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=887151&owner=exclude)? Could it be that a major transaction is on the horizon? Drop the price, load up on shares of your own company, sell to the highest bidder. Who will it be? QXO, Home Depot/Lowes, Berkshire (just bought a major home builder)??? bUt ThE dILuTiOn!!! There're \~20M shares OS, for a company pulling in $72M in revenue, breaking even or almost profitable. **That's not excessive dilution, in my honest opinion**. $OPEN also diluted/converted debt on the way up, adding a lot more shares than $CAPS... The largest shareholder on ST is talking about bringing legal action against $CAPS leadership. He obviously has no experience with penny stocks, & I never should've followed his lead or let him get in my head. He mocked me for selling out @ $.50 to wait for a better entry; dude is really clueless. They re-domiciled to NV *which protects them against shareholder action...* It is what it is, neither here nor there; the underlying business is incredibly sound, just the stock has suffered.

JudgmentCharming355

Huge ruge and pull thanks to JANE ST

ILikeRyzen

Because they are non-equity options they are Section 1256 contracts so they get special tax treatment. I don't know the exact reasoning but gains and losses are split 60/40 LT and ST regardless of how long you held them.

EmbarrassedPart1256

Yeah for real, I've definitely come to realize that they're meant to be traded, hence why I've been swinging $CAPS recently (that guy on ST convinced me not to swing a while back when I could've been way ahead on my position, etc.). It's wild to see some of the companies that I started trading or seeing 3 years ago still be penny stocks... 🥲

EmbarrassedPart1256

[They recently got an extension from NASDAQ](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000887151/000143774926023107/caps20260708_8k.htm) until 1/4/27 to be in compliance with the minimum bid price requirement. The real risk is the new minimum value of listed securities (MVLS) rule from NASDAQ. If the MVLS is < $5M for 30 consecutive trading days, the securities are subject to immediate delisting with no cure period. A spike & close above $.37-.38 would reset the count, assuming they sold the full 3M shares on the ER volume spike the other day. Following up though, I'm seeing that [it may still be under review](https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/sec-stays-controversial-nasdaq-5-million-listing-rule-pending-review/). I'm convinced that this could be one hell of a turnaround story if there's a boom in housing/construction. They put out [nonstop positive PRs](https://capstoneholdingcorp.com/news/) & the only negative is that they're leveraged (like all the big tech companies are). If they can clean up the balance sheet over time again I think this could be a solid growth play.[ Institutions (including Goldman Sachs) loaded in this past quarter](https://fintel.io/so/us/caps), even if only by a little (but it also effectively doubled institutional holdings); the float isn't that high with insiders/3i/that guy on ST owning so any shares... 'Side note: $BXBL is an interesting story along these lines too; modular homes & stone veneer go hand-in-hand.

EmbarrassedPart1256

The biggest holder of $CAPS on ST is just now realizing he fucked up buying so much of the stock 🤣 he mocked me for selling earlier this year at $.50 with what dignity I had left (although it popped shortly after). He intimidated me into not swinging (idk why; you live & you learn) & I spent so much time & energy arguing with the guy… That being said, after the selloff, I bought a few shares Friday AH; loading this one when no one is looking has worked well for me several times. I feel like stocks like this don’t pop off until they’re on their absolute deathbed. It’s quite possible that they announce an acquisition soon.

SlartibartfastMcGee

It’s been all over the biotech sub and ST. It’s up for FDA approval tomorrow and that will be a bigger factor than a squeeze setup.

ham_sandwedge

Ya, different companies. And ST bonds

Western_Science_7139

What do you think of this: Hansa Bipharma. (HSNA-ST) I don't think it has an american listing yet tho. The big deciding factor is well first the approval but secondly the label/indication. But there's not much financing risk as they sold the rights for the European market for a stamp fee. The product is for desentization of kidney transplants. Which essentially would allow anyone to give a kidney to anyone, as the immune systems IG antibodies are cleaved for a window of 7 days, making a transplant possible that wasn't before - and essentially making everyone a match to everyone. It has potential for substantial offlabel use - in people who want to save their loved ones by donating one of their kidneys, no matter the cost. Additionally, there are a lot of people with inherent immunizations towards other individuals. This is measured by levels of CPRA, such as "CPRA >99,9%" or "CPRA >98%". Meaning you will match less than 99,9% of people or less than 98% of people. So with the subset of already very limited kidneys - it's essentially impossible to find a donor for you, unless you get a desensitization before the transplant. SoC is not very good at this compared to Imlfidase. The market opportunity if the indication is 99,9% is 200-400 mUSD annual sales, but if they get for a broader population (98%) it could be upwards of 2 billion dollars + what ever off-label of people who just want to save their parents/kids and give them one of their two kidneys. The current market value is 400 mUSD, which I think is a steal.

cambeiu

Posted the below on this sub exactly one year ago; >This is going to be fun to watch. >This takes me back to the likes of Argentina, Brazil and India in the 1970s and 1980s. All these countries had incredibly high import tariffs to protect domestic manufacturers. >In 1988 Brazil, virtually nothing that you as a consumer could buy was imported. All cars, clothes, appliances, food, toys, medicine, virtually everything was domestically made. Everything was also incredibly expensive, technologically outdated and of very low quality. >I remember as a kid when my aunt went to the US and brough back a pair of Converse All Stars for me. It completely blew any domestically made shoe out of the water and it was actually cheaper than the domestic shoe equivalent. My parents bought me my first home computer back in 1987. It was a domestically made Apple II clone. That is a late 1970s design 8-bit computer. It costed more than what Americans were paying for a 16-bit Commodore Amiga or Atari ST home computer at the time. >This approach not only hurt consumers, but also hampered investments. Wanted to start a small landscaping business? All tools and equipment, no matter how simple, had to be domestically build. But they were so incredibly expensive that it was very difficult to fund a new small business. Same if you wanted to open a car shop, ice cream parlor, hair saloon and so forth. It made the whole society poorer. >In the 1990s all these countries eventually lifted many of the tariffs and all became significantly better off for it. >The US is about to get a very expensive lesson on the costs of protectionism.

NoOneMan79

Im going to paste AI Slop from my agent. It **DOES NOT make decisions/determinations**. All numbers come programmatically and the trade heuristics are deterministic. It simply narrates/explains the 800+ heuristic trading signals in combination with the prompt, stock news, and text books by subject matter experts. In the future, I will try to make the agent a bit more involved in choosing reranking the signals contextually. ====== ## Bottom Line Up Front **This is a live social-media pump attempt riding on genuinely elevated short interest — not a confirmed short-squeeze setup, and not obviously becoming one.** There's real fuel: **29.7% of float shorted**, ~10 days-to-cover at current volume, **~$328M net cash, $0 debt**, and a pending Nasdaq compliance decision. But the three ingredients that turn a candidate into a squeeze — **volume ignition, a tape-moving catalyst, and crowd coordination** — are all absent. Friday's restatement + earnings release (the "biggest news in months") bought the stock just **+5.9% on one-third of its average volume**. And the options market has already priced the squeeze in: **IV ~123% vs realized 64%**. You'd be paying 2–7× "fair" volatility for a lottery that is fighting a down-trend. ## Market Context - Price: **$1.61** (+5.9% Friday) · 52W range: $1.30 – $7.43 (**−78%**) - IV: **122.7%** (Aug 21 ATM), 104.8% (Aug 28) — **inverted term structure** - Realized vol (20-day Parkinson): **64.4%** → IV/RV ratio ≈ **1.9×** - Daily 1σ expected move: **$0.124 (±7.7%)** - Below SMA50 ($2.00) and SMA200 ($2.92) — primary trend is down - Avg volume 10.6M (50-day) · Friday volume 3.6M (**RelVol 0.34**) - Open interest: $2.00 Aug 21 calls **3,820** · $3.00 Sep 18 calls **9,013** · $3.00 Jan 2027 calls **13,661** **Volume is the story:** it has collapsed from 30M+/day in May to 3–6M/day. The reversal is unconfirmed. ## The Financial Reality Check | Metric | Value | Read | |---|---|---| | Market cap | ~$360M | vs $4.93M TTM sales → **P/S ≈ 73** | | FQ2 revenue / net | $1.5M / −$276K | Tiny; negative margins (-417% TTM) | | Net income TTM | −$20.6M | Op margin −524% | | Cash + ST investments (restated 8/7) | ~$328M | Cash/sh $1.47 vs price $1.61 | | Debt / total liabilities | $0 / $7.4M | Balance sheet genuinely clean | | Book value | $1.59/sh | Trading essentially at book | | Employees | 55 | IPO Nov 2023 | **What the Reddit DD got right:** the cash pile is real (~89% of market cap — the market values the whole operating business at ~$40–46M). A "runs out of money" short thesis is weak. **What it glosses over:** - **SEPA (Standby Equity Purchase Agreement)** — named in the restatement itself. A death-spiral facility: the company can print shares at a discount into any rally. May's $38.7M offering at $2.60–3.20 shows management will absolutely sell into strength. **This caps squeezes.** - **Class action** over allegedly misleading Microsoft-partnership statements. Restatement of FY2024/FY2025 + multiple quarters. **Nasdaq delisting notice pending** on the 7/20 compliance plan. - **Insiders have been distributing the entire ride:** COO sold ~$1.3M at $2.48–5.11 (2025); former officers sold at $2.68–3.00 in Feb 2026. Zero insider buys. - History (from an ex-holder in the threads): the "NVIDIA collaboration" — hype tweets before Jensen's keynote, then no mention, no partner-board listing. A repeated pattern of statement-driven pumps, now the subject of litigation. ## The "DD" — What's Actually In Those Four Threads Same author, same essay pasted **verbatim into 4 subreddits in 5 days**, self-described: *"I write this all to increase exposure of course."* No position disclosure. An "update" version went up 2 hours before I priced this. | Claim in the DD | What the data says | |---|---| | SI 37.64% / 63.81% of active float | Official: **29.72%**. "Active float" math is self-inconsistent (84.6M in part 1, 125M in part 2) | | 11.8 days to cover | 5.08 on trailing volume; **~10.3 on current 20-day volume** (partial credit — volume did dry up) | | "$2.00 call → $0.15–0.25 if RR hits $1.85" (4–7x) | Black-Scholes at 110% IV: **$0.10**. At realized 64%: **$0.04** — overstated 2–5× | | 2,394 contracts at $2.00 | Actually **3,820** (they undercounted) | | Cash: "$35M" → "$250M + $110M" → "$328M" | $328M is real — but the story changed 3 times in a week | | "Gamma ramp forming" | Call OI is real but small: full delta-hedge of the $2.00 stack = ~80K shares vs **54M short** vs 10M daily volume. Gamma is a spark, not the engine | | "OBV/ADL mathematically proving accumulation" | Unverifiable; author admits AI-generated analysis | | "450 deployments, 100% renewal, global retail giant MSA" | Unverifiable PR claims, none in filings | **Community reception is the tell:** total engagement across all four threads is ~60 upvotes. The DeepFuckingValue one scored **1 point (55%)**. Top comments are skeptical ex-holders ("hobby projects cobbled together with Temu parts", "repeatedly misleading statements", "same BS every few days"), Glassdoor complaints, and one r/Shortsqueeze user calling it out directly — *"write an article to convince people to throw money at my bagholder stock, then I'll buy calls, then spend 2 weeks spamming forums."* One commenter admitted buying $50 "because this came on my feed." That's the cohort these pumps farm — and there aren't enough of them yet. ## Squeeze Scorecard (against the standard screening framework) - ✅ Short interest / float: 29.7% (≥20% = candidate, >30% = extreme) - ✅ Days to cover: ~5–10 (elevated-to-high) - ⚠️ Cost to borrow: unknown — not verifiable - ✅ Float concentration: 31% institutional + 18.7% insider → shorts may be ~43% of actively traded float - ✅ Dense call OI near/OTM ($2 and $3 strikes) - ❌ **Catalyst moving the tape: restatement + earnings → +6% on ⅓ volume** - ❌ **Volume ignition: RelVol 0.34, 3 months of declining volume** - ❌ **Coordination: ~60 upvotes, skeptical comments, 4 crossposts** - ❌ **Dilution machinery: SEPA + demonstrated ATM selling** Most heavily shorted stocks **do not** squeeze: without a catalyst, high SI gets absorbed gradually; and IV on high-SI names already prices in squeeze probability, eating the edge. RR matches the profile of a candidate that never ignites — and it's down 78% for real reasons (litigation, delisting risk, restatement, fake-partner history). The systematic read (819 trading-rule heuristics evaluated on live data): **trend DOWN, strategy affinity: long puts > long calls**, top fired rules: exit longs in a bear trend, prefer the short side in a downtrend, use a probability calculator, keep positions small. The play being pitched (naked near-the-money calls) is **counter-trend**. ## The Long Call Menu — Premiums and Break-Evens Prices are last-trade 8/7. ⚠️ **Bid/ask is essentially absent on this board** — expect brutal spreads; the DD's own $0.03/$0.04 quote is the only live two-sided market I saw. | Expiry | Strike | Prem | Break-even | Move needed | Δ | Note | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 8/21 | $1.50 | $0.20 | **$1.70** | +5.6% | 0.67 | closest to money; 5 sessions; theta + IV crush risk | | 8/21 | $2.00 | $0.04 | **$2.04** | +26.7% | 0.21 | the DD's example — fair value at $1.85 is ~$0.10, not $0.15–0.25 | | 8/28 | $2.00 | $0.06 | **$2.06** | +28% | 0.26 | | | 9/18 | $2.00 | $0.15 | **$2.15** | +33.5% | 0.39 | best outright-call risk/reward | | 9/18 | $3.00 | $0.04 | **$3.04** | +88.8% | 0.13 | pure lottery | | 11/20 | $2.00 | $0.28 | **$2.28** | +41.6% | 0.49 | | | Jan'27 | $2.00 | $0.36 | **$2.36** | +46.6% | 0.54 | longest cushion | | Jan'27 | $3.00 | $0.22 | **$3.22** | +100% | 0.36 | fair at 123% IV, **7× its 64%-vol fair value** | **The math behind the warning:** at $1.85 — the DD's own "if" — the 8/21 $2.00 call is worth **$0.10** even with IV held at 110% (a 2.5×, not 4–7×). If IV mean-reverts to the 64% realized level on the bounce — the normal sequence on these names — it's worth **$0.04, exactly what you paid, after the stock rallied 15%**. The squeeze scenario is already in the option prices. ### If you still want to be long the squeeze Defined-risk structures only (this is also the standard guidance for squeeze participation): - **Sep 18 $2.00/$3.00 bull call spread** — debit ~$0.11 · break-even **$2.11** (+31%) · max profit $0.89/contract · max loss $0.11 → **~8:1 reward:risk** - **Jan 2027 $2.00/$3.00 bull call spread** — debit ~$0.14 · break-even **$2.14** (+33%) · max profit $0.86/contract · max loss $0.14 → **~6:1** - 8/14 $1.50/$2.00 (6 DTE) — debit ~$0.16 · BE $1.66 · max profit $0.34 — tempting, but that's a 6-day gamma/theta lottery Position size: **1–2% of the account, one spread, predefined exit.** Squeezes end abruptly and reverse sharply — most commonly within days of the peak. Don't hold a winner through the top. ## Verdict - **Pump-and-dump in the making? Yes — and a weak one.** Same author, four subreddits in a week, undisclosed position, self-admitted exposure motive, AI-generated "741/GME" numerology bait, inflated and self-contradicting stats, and a comment section full of people this company's press-release game already burned. - **Real short-squeeze setup? Not yet.** Genuine SI fuel and a genuinely cashed-up balance sheet — but no volume, no catalyst confirmation, no crowd, insider selling, and a SEPA sitting ready to sell into any rally. Friday was the tell: the single best news in three months produced a 6% bounce on sleeping volume. - **The flip that changes the call:** a Nasdaq compliance **approval** announcement *with* volume >30M and a weekly close above **$1.70**. Then $2.00–2.05 (SMA50 / max-pain / volume-node confluence — the only part of the DD I'd credit) becomes live gamma territory. Until that prints, the odds are on the side of the stock doing what it's been doing. *Data: last-trade option quotes 8/7 (illiquid board — confirm executable prices before committing), Finviz snapshot cached ~10h, 20-day Parkinson realized vol from daily candles. Not financial advice — and the "DD" author's own closing line applies: don't get attached to a stock.*

AthiestAlien


JudgmentCharming355

Jane ST is dumping

JudgmentCharming355

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EmbarrassedPart1256

Loading into $ITP today because fuck it. Some guy on ST apparently owns a boatload & I'll just let it cook; $CAPS is also getting really hard to buy...

JudgmentCharming355

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JudgmentCharming355

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ApprehensiveFan1516


EmbarrassedPart1256

First off, I’ve never been one to chase short squeezes, & I think a lot of the times shorts will cover pretty quickly & the rest of the momentum is just retail buying it up or maybe overbuying it, squeezing market makers. Even when it was over $1, the order book was so thin that any sort of buying pressure would make it jump $.10 or more. Insiders own a huge chunk, 3i owns a huge chunk, a guy on ST owns \~500K, I used to own 250K (literally sold right before the pop on April 15 that I told my partner would happen), there can’t be that many shareholders here mathematically. Thus, the short data doesn’t matter, it just makes things more fun. I don’t actually think it’s that heavily shorted, but rather it’s un-short-able at the current price/cost to borrow, with earnings coming up. I’m sure they’re going to sell shares on the pop as they always do, but they’ve been doing that to convert debt & now likely finance another acquisition. The business is fine, there’s no “going concern” in the filings, & soon enough the thesis will be unavoidable. If this ER truly shows positive earnings, even if “adjusted,” this may be the one that sticks. It’s what I’ve been thinking all along, I just had to exit & rework my portfolio for a bit. Now I’ve gotten my head straight about this, & I successfully played the last ER for some gains. I don’t want to be on the sidelines for this one. I follow their subsidiaries & a few other affiliated masons on Instagram, they’re doing great work & have a solid presence, I’ve liked what I’ve seen since the beginning.

TreGet234

21ST accumulating STRC ETP in europe 👀

KeyMysterious1845

I am only truly aware of the war inside my head. (ST reference 🤘)

TheSquirrel8251

Tried ST twice. Hated it even more the second time.

Fauster

For me, I hate seeing huge theta bleed/day. You probably do too. When you see it, ask if your durations are too short. If you have diverse and layered ST (45 DTE is ST for me) spreads, you will have theta bleed jump at out at you from somewhere all the time. Fuck that. Another consideration: When markets are are on fire and your core is skyrocketing, greed starts kicking in (for me and probably for you). You think: the only drags on my portfolio are my VOO/dividend stock/SPY barbell and my bear put spreads. You thought you wanted convexity, but that convexity is hammering you. The greed dimension, the theta-bleed convention, the cost-per-day convention all tell me to get the F away from ST options. And again, the biggest reason I hate them is because I hate fighting the MM. They have so much money, they can pin the price where they want. I can't. The Gambler's ruin paradox/Kelly criterion is at the center of the way I think about risk. Affordable risk management is at the center of how I personally think about my portfolio. I've sold awesome stocks near their bottom when I tapped out due to emotion, not reason. I don't want that. When you buy ST convexity, your are more vulnerable to freaking out over the volatility of parts of your portfolio. You are more vulnerable to the quant algos, you are more vulnerable to the MM. You are more likely to enter a crowded space at the wrong IV. In a huge rally, your super LT spreads won't implode to zero in a few days. But, absolutely, it is great to test a diversity of strategies. Don't take it from me, learn from experience. Open ST and 1-year spreads at the same time. Come back 45 days later and get a real feel for what happened and why. The reason you have bear spreads at all is to manage risk. If you want to pay a lot because you only need insurance for 45-days and are willing to pay more for it, then you have much more confidence that you can predict exactly where markets will be in the near future than I do. The max drawdown of SPY each year is around 13-14%. The beta of a very scary but very tempting stock like SNDK will waver between 3 and 4. That means an AVERAGE 50%+ drawdown per year. Note that I am preoccupied with the question of whether HBM or nand is more sustainably convex.

EmbarrassedPart1256

Thanks for following up, taking my post seriously, & responding in a kind way! I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees some interesting details here. How long have you been watching it? Do you have a target entry price or do you want to see a more concrete catalyst? Running the FCF detail through Google (as I was more focused on buying shares than listening to the ER conference call), $WU leadership detailed that the dividend is covered & that the second half of the year is typically seasonally stronger. It's like you said, there are definitely a lot of speculative situations that have to play put for a clearer picture, but I wanted to dip my toes in just in case this dip doesn't last & the yield goes down. I'm glad you see the Reddit angle too, although the "save Wendy's" movement & the "squeeze $XRX" movement were both a bit misguided IMO; the difference with $WU is that I believe the value pro\[position is a lot higher than with $WEN, $XRX, or even $GME; between buying shares & earning a dividend, potential capital appreciation, & running an options strategy as well, there's money to be made here off of the institutions that're clearly hedging their bets. Somehow my posts never seem to make a difference on here; I always get called out for "shilling." I'm now banned on various email addresses from posting on ST, even though my approach was never "pumping" a stock while P&Ds run rampant on there. Perhaps my ideas just don't have an army of people mirroring my posts with their own just to keep the idea in people's minds...

EmbarrassedPart1256

Damn, I *could've* at least looked at ST to see the news that the $NIXX merger was called off; no wonder it's tanking. Well, nothing to do here but hold 🥲

ptexpat

# Belden Reports Record Second Quarter 2026 Results Thu, July 30, 2026 at 4:30 AM PDT **ST. LOUIS, July 30, 2026**\--([BUSINESS WIRE](https://www.businesswire.com/))--Belden Inc. (NYSE: BDC) ("Belden" or the "Company"), a global full-stack networking solutions company, today reported fiscal second quarter results for the period ended June 28, 2026. **Second Quarter 2026 Highlights** * Record revenues of $750 million, up 12% y/y and up 8% y/y organically * GAAP EPS of $1.74, up 14% y/y * Adjusted EPS of $2.34, up 24% y/y * Record orders of $836 million, up 19% y/y with a book-to-bill of 1.11 * Completed the previously announced acquisition of RUCKUS Networks on July 1, 2026, after the end of the second quarter "Belden delivered a record second quarter, with record revenue of $750 million, up 12% year over year, record orders of $836 million, up 19% year over year with a book-to-bill of 1.11, and adjusted EPS of $2.34, up 24% year over year," said Ashish Chand, President and CEO of Belden Inc. "Demand across our end markets is robust and broad-based, and our results reflect the strength of that environment. We have been building our presence in AI data centers for several quarters, and that investment is beginning to show up in our order book. Physical AI, the deployment of intelligent, autonomous systems across factories and distribution centers, is an emerging opportunity we are well-positioned to capture. With RUCKUS now part of Belden, we deliver every layer of the network, from passive infrastructure to Wi-Fi 7 to intelligent cloud management, from a single source. We are excited about what this platform means for our customers and our growth."

buy_high_sell_never

Mainly based on ADBE, RDDT, EVO.ST Leverage and options make it possible

MaddogBC

Have you seen the ST sub's anytime on the past year? There is overwhelming hate for most of the new series. Orville is better Trek than anything made by them in the last 20 years. Black Mirror had my kids more interested in the universe than any of the new stuff. I agree though that many are still loyal to old Trek.

JudgmentCharming355

JANE ST is attacking RDDT with paid reports to sink the stock just prior earning reports, easy money

RolledForCredit

100%. Memory and HDDs aren’t going anywhere, especially not with hyperscale capex going to 1.2T and 1.4T in 2027/2028 (Morgan Stanley estimates).   This is certainly a massive shakeout and rotation, but stock prices don’t change the earnings or growth of the beneficiaries.  This period of FUD will pass and the beneficiaries will resume their uptrend. There is straight up no solving the memory or HDD bottlenecks; demand > supply basically through end of the decade.  It’s important to remember that hyperscalers don’t issue debt and equity to NOT spend it. They don’t sign long-term supply agreements because they’re worried about the market rolling over in the ST. They don’t sign 20-year leases for compute because they think it’s in surplus.  Stick to the facts and don’t let FUD and sentiment shake you out. It will be volatile, but facts and fundamentals eventually win. 

EmbarrassedPart1256

I admittedly got caught up in the $BMGL hype & didn't look at the chart, etc; u/REEMFMetalHead will I ever learn? I'm holding a $7.82 average but something about this one is intriguing. I saw it being compared to $VEEE on ST & there may be something to that. There's still no volume for the day, because there likely aren't that many shares floating around ATM); who knows what the short situation is like, but that cost to borrow is kinda high... This feels to me like accumulation before a bigger move, but what do I know? I'm not hard pressed this time as I don't have to sell this to avoid a margin debit (is this what having a cash account feels like?) so I'm going to let this one cook.

EmbarrassedPart1256

$CAPS looks pretty bottomed out IMO. It may not be today, who knows when it'll be, but I've got a feeling it'll catch people by surprise... There's on guy on ST that holds like 400K shares, insiders hold a ton, etc. With today's NASDAQ extension, they shouldn't need to do an RS for another 180 days. That's more than enough time IMO for this to get noticed, the way it's heading...

drdr3ad

Also the AI slop, and cancelling popular shows. The binge drop model is such a waste and I've no idea why they're so reluctant to change. ST was their landmark show and people stopped talking about it after a week

sharp315

highest growth assets should be in the Roth first (and HSA if you have one as that is the same tax structure). next tier is Trad IRA / 401k - while these accounts are eventually taxable the intent is that you will be retired when you start drawing and so your tax bracket will be much lower than it is right now and presumably lower than any LT or ST capital gain amounts in a taxable brokage. where you allocate bonds will depend on which type of bonds you hold and whether the dividends are qualified or not - either trad IRA or brokerage could make sense. Roth would not. I do not hold bonds but I do hold high yield equities (SCHD / VTV) and keep those in my taxable brokerage.

EmbarrassedPart1256

Could you summarize the hype around it? Sure I could go on ST, but it slows my computer down...

RtrnOdaMac

That's why I also track my port unofficially in ST. I can get the picture without getting the picture.

db_deuce

SACRAMENTO CALIF ARE REV 5% 10/01/2029 Callable **785840JF7.** 5% coupon, 100.65 = 4.78%. AA CALIFORNIA ST GO 5% 09/01/2028 Callable **13063CX21** 5% coupon, 100.48 = 4.80%. AA-

SpongEWorTHiebOb

They have to hold cash (t bills) because they are an insurance company. That cash can never be fully deployed. Has to stay in ST bonds to pay claims.

db_deuce

[SACRAMENTO CALIF ARE REV 5% 10/01/2029 Callable]() 785840JF7. 5% coupon, 100.65 = 4.78%. AA [CALIFORNIA ST GO 5% 09/01/2028 Callable]() 13063CX21 5% coupon, 100.48 = 4.80%. AA-

tacobellbandit

About 5 years. I have a work allowance for vehicles so I pretty much only buy Toyota because I put a lot of miles on my cars. So far the best cars I’ve had were the Toyota 3rd gen pickups, Honda Fit and CRV, Ford Explorer ST, and the Chevy Equinox. Worst one I’ve ever had was a Chrysler Pacifica