Sold the Nov 440 POWL covered call for $7.50, take the premium or if it explodes out of earnings again then I'll take the profit on the stock and let it cool off

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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ASST might be worth looking at next week. Getting hyped up as the next BYND. (Strive Inc is a bitcoin treasury.)

Just be careful and take profits quickly. I'm in for some shares and targeting 2 and 2.70.

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Indeed it was one to watch (and make money from)!

$AMZN - AMAZON TARGETS AS MANY AS 30,000 JOB CUTS - SOURCES

AMAZON JOB CUTS TO BEGIN TUESDAY -SOURCES

— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) October 27, 2025

This feels like a possible softening for a possible ER miss. Feel like out of all the tech reporting coming, AMZN is the most exposed to the tariff climate.

PuryearAg98 said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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ASST might be worth looking at next week. Getting hyped up as the next BYND. (Strive Inc is a bitcoin treasury.)

Just be careful and take profits quickly. I'm in for some shares and targeting 2 and 2.70.

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Indeed it was one to watch (and make money from)!

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Yep. Been taking profits and have regretted it every time.

Still got some runners. This thing seems like it's gonna run at least through Wednesday, especially with interest cuts which will send BTC flying.

Volume is insane right now.

I made a huge mistake selling $CLS awhile back. I made a very good profit, but nothing compared to what I could've made because they must've smashed earnings. They just launched into orbit AH.

ProgN said:

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I made a huge mistake selling $CLS awhile back. I made a very good profit, but nothing compared to what I could've made because they must've smashed earnings. They just launched into orbit AH.

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Me too. But I am sitting cash heavy now and ready find the next one.

I don't think anyone could've seen it 6x from the April low. Absolutely insane

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ProgN said:

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I made a huge mistake selling $CLS awhile back. I made a very good profit, but nothing compared to what I could've made because they must've smashed earnings. They just launched into orbit AH.

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Me too. But I am sitting cash heavy now and ready find the next one.

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No worries, I'm still hoarding cash and will have to have patience. I'll rebuy CLS and a lot of names when they correct.

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Cadence (CADE)
First Horizon (FHN)
Hancock-Whitney (HWC)
Stellar (STEL)

Each of these are potential targets for different reasons - I'm heavily invested in the first two and have been nibbling at STEL. Which means HWC is likely going to get the biggest pop!

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BOKF was supposedly in the mix for First Bank (Colorado) that was acquired by PNC. I know they're actively looking to grow, but they're fairly picky. I think HWC may be a target for them because of their fondness for energy lending.

Want to add zions to this mix. Their credit issues that came out last week combined with their challenges (which they surmounted) around liquidity during the last bank crisis puts them as a target. They have a great footprint and would add a lot of value to someone like Truist or US Bank.

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Another merger just announced tonight: First Sun Holdings (Sunflower) acquired First Foundation.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251027560415/en/FirstSun-Capital-Bancorp-and-First-Foundation-Inc.-Combining-in-All-Stock-Merger

Is this good or bad for consumers?

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Is this good or bad for consumers?

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Bad. Banks are merging because they need scale to generate consistent profits.

As banks consolidate and get bigger, we will see them become more conservative. It will drive more business loans and real estates to be private credit options which are better structures for the customers, but more expensive. Private credit is also unregulated and offers potential for fraud as we have seen lately in the zions and western alliance news.

In previous cycles (pre financial crisis of 07-08), we would see 1-2 new community banks start for every merger. This would continue to support the small business/community. It's so difficult to start a bank now and ridiculously expensive that we will continue to see the number of banks shrink rapidly.

Well now I'm glad I took profits. Bought the premarket dip. Pretty strong support level right here in the 1.35-1.40 range.

Pretty good entry imo with all the volume that's coming in. I think it's very likely to re-test yesterday's high at 1.80.

Gaeilge said:

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$AMZN - AMAZON TARGETS AS MANY AS 30,000 JOB CUTS - SOURCES

AMAZON JOB CUTS TO BEGIN TUESDAY -SOURCES

— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) October 27, 2025

This feels like a possible softening for a possible ER miss. Feel like out of all the tech reporting coming, AMZN is the most exposed to the tariff climate.

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They announced 14K this morning, I am assuming that is part of this number.

And UPS cutting 34K this morning, damn.

Just the beginning of AI layoffs. It's going to get a lot worse.

POWL is zooming!

MSFT

SMR exploding up on high volume the last 5 minutes

And I love that too.

This is why my hypothesis on nvida is it is a 100 hour work week employee creator. What's the value of that? Skys the limit really.

Any reason for vst to be taking a beating besides the CEO selling a couple mil of his stock? Or just a shakeout before earnings next week?

Charismatic Megafauna said:

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Any reason for vst to be taking a beating besides the CEO selling a couple mil of his stock? Or just a shakeout before earnings next week?

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Where are you seeing that reported? I'm not seeing that he sold a significant amount of held stock anywhere. Just a bunch of option executes in Sept / Oct but nothing that makes me think they are about to start doing poorly. Notice he is the only one and no one else and it's all option executes. Probably doing it for tax purposes or just ordinary execution of options.

All the news feeds are saying the CEO reported a 7.5M sale yesterday. Nothingburger imo but this is a pretty solid dip (which I am buying hard, btw)

It is a nothing burger because that's only about 10% of what he owns directly and 3% of what he owns directly + indirectly. I also bought hard and have doubled my position now.

I wanna play...

bought more too

Watching TSSI. All it needs to do is go sideways the rest of this week and finish around $18 and it has a good chance to launch to $24 in the short term. If it's still sitting where it is on Friday I am adding.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Well now I'm glad I took profits. Bought the premarket dip. Pretty strong support level right here in the 1.35-1.40 range.

Pretty good entry imo with all the volume that's coming in. I think it's very likely to re-test yesterday's high at 1.80.

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Anyone get in? Looking like another good rally from that support level. Back up to 1.55.

I'm in for a little.

Not a bad move today

Wayfair

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Well now I'm glad I took profits. Bought the premarket dip. Pretty strong support level right here in the 1.35-1.40 range.

Pretty good entry imo with all the volume that's coming in. I think it's very likely to re-test yesterday's high at 1.80.

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Anyone get in? Looking like another good rally from that support level. Back up to 1.55.

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I just bought some puts. You can thank me later.

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jja79 said:

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Is this good or bad for consumers?

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Bad. Banks are merging because they need scale to generate consistent profits.

As banks consolidate and get bigger, we will see them become more conservative. It will drive more business loans and real estates to be private credit options which are better structures for the customers, but more expensive. Private credit is also unregulated and offers potential for fraud as we have seen lately in the zions and western alliance news.

In previous cycles (pre financial crisis of 07-08), we would see 1-2 new community banks start for every merger. This would continue to support the small business/community. It's so difficult to start a bank now and ridiculously expensive that we will continue to see the number of banks shrink rapidly.

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Almost agree entirely, almost.

Any bank issues coming out of the 12th district, particularly a 12th district run by Mary Daly, would be pretty dang obvious to most sensible people. The 12th district figures out how to make common sense problems into systemic bank failures regularly.

Fubo and DNN finally breaking through for me! UNH too! Currently up 2.59% for the day, hope it holds!

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Charismatic Megafauna said:

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Any reason for vst to be taking a beating besides the CEO selling a couple mil of his stock? Or just a shakeout before earnings next week?

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Where are you seeing that reported? I'm not seeing that he sold a significant amount of held stock anywhere. Just a bunch of option executes in Sept / Oct but nothing that makes me think they are about to start doing poorly. Notice he is the only one and no one else and it's all option executes. Probably doing it for tax purposes or just ordinary execution of options.

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Per SEC filings, the sales are pursuant to a 10b5-1 plan of some sort. The plan was dated 06/12/2025 and was likely designed with quantity/price thresholds. The Director's not really in control of the sale outside of the terms of the plan.

It is odd, imo, that Fidelity keeps filing Form 144s for each daily execution; that's not how I prefer to handle those types of plans for my customers.


edit to add: the use of a 10b5-1 plan typically permits insiders the ability to liquidate stock during internal blackout periods, like during the weeks surrounding earnings releases, when the company doesn't want there to be any perception of impropriety

ASST didn't work out for me today. Out for a small loss on the day, overall profit.

On to the next one.