Heineken-Ashi said:

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Going to reiterate what I posted last week.

I am out of all BTC miners. The charts look awful. If I miss it, I miss it. But this cycle is not like previous ones. You don't have to buy MARA as a proxy for BTC anymore. There are endless options now. These companies have not changed their ways. They devalue their shareholders, issue debt, and take on leverage AT THE HIGHS, only to get decimated at the lows. And each BTC high is a lower high for the miners. This will not end well. I don't want to be a part of it.

If you are in, I hope it works out for you.

The only one I'm holding is CORZ, and that's only because I was in before they came out of bankruptcy, I'm net free with booked profits, and have no reason to sell the rest. Additionally, they are still paying off debt and have made huge progress on that front. But they still have negative equity and significant debt. Because of that, they don't keep most of the BTC they mine, and they haven't leveraged themselves to add BTC to their balance sheet. In my opinion, while they will undoubtedly drop during the next BTC major selloff, I think they will sustain better than all the others who are highly leveraged and will be holding a massively declining asset on their balance sheets. This will set up CORZ to be the top performer for the next cycle, while all the rest are sweeping up ashes.

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I bleed maroon said:

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I have a schizophrenic portfolio of PLTR holdings. I bought shares on the day they went public via direct listing (Sept. 30, 2020, not 2015 like someone said earlier). $9.50/share, so I'm happy with my potential 10-bagger tomorrow (assuming the price holds).

I have written covered calls on half my shares several times, sometimes expiring for a gain, sometimes (recently, for sure) rolling them out to higher strikes or expirations. This time, I have $80 calls for April, and I'm going to go ahead and let half my shares get called away.

At certain times, when I felt the stock had been unduly punished or rewarded, I have bought additional calls or puts. Currently have $40 puts exp 1/27, and $50 puts Mar 25. I expect (hope?) both to expire worthless, but they're in place for insurance. I have $30 Mar '25 calls (another 10-bagger bought last June, just before the latest run-up), and some $80 1/27 LEAPS calls. I bought the LEAPS ($40 puts and the $80 calls) as a strangle in November '24, feeling that it would boom or bust from where it was.

I'm happy with the overall outcome, of course, but I just don't see how they are worth a PE of 400 backward or 200 forward (not to mention trading at 90x revenue!) - so I'm OK with taking some profits by letting half the shares get called away.

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BrokeAssAggie said:

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Market pulls back on a tweet that a phone call won't take place

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Twisted Helix said:

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ToS seems to be the trading platform of choice for this crew. What hardware are you using? I'm on a 10yo mac and I need to update and upgrade. PC or MAC, dual or triple screens and stands?

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Twisted Helix said:

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ToS seems to be the trading platform of choice for this crew. What hardware are you using? I'm on a 10yo mac and I need to update and upgrade. PC or MAC, dual or triple screens and stands?

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El Chupacabra said:

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Anyone playing AMD or GOOG earnings today?

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I bleed maroon said:

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Yep - that's why I layered in another round of puts on my ever-growing PLTR collection. May $80 puts, for the record.

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BrokeAssAggie said:

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Market pulls back on a tweet that a phone call won't take place

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President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will not be speaking on the phone today, a U.S. official said, despite an earlier claim by trade adviser Peter Navarro that they would hold a conversation.
The two leaders have spoken before but a call now would… https://t.co/A74DnQm0IC

— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) February 4, 2025

El Chupacabra said:

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Anyone playing AMD or GOOG earnings today?

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ProgN said:

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DISCLAIMER: The following is just my personal opinion and I don't have any inside info regarding POWL's ER. This is just my own opinion after more analysis. Do your own DD and take the weekend to form your own gameplan and decisions.

POWL reports earnings on Thursday AH and the consensus EPS is $2.61/shr. My personal opinion is that they should smash that number. I think they should report in the $3.70+/shr. The reason for that figure is because they reported $3.79 and $3.77 per share the last 2 quarters. If you read into their last 2 conference calls, then you'd have picked up on the fact that their backlog remained steady at $1.3B. I don't know if their new manufacturing facility has come online this qtr, but iirc, it should've or is at least very close. Even without it, I don't see a reason why they won't print north of $3.70/shr since they've done it the last 2 qtrs with their past/current capacity. If their new facility went online during this qtr and were able to address that backlog, thus billable, then they could even print $4/shr EPS. I'm not betting on that scenario though. That said, if they do print $3.70+ EPS on Thursday vs. $2.61 expected, then they will fly and really explode if the idiot shorts get scared. Imho, the shorts are more fearful of Thursday than the longs should be.

I waited until this weekend to post this instead of during the trading week because it's best to do your own DD and decide what risk you're comfortable with free of emotion.

I wish everyone success but either way, I'm confident that we'll all drink at Valhalla.

Prog

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Our first fiscal quarter was very much a continuation of the trends and strong results that we saw in our fourth quarter. Despite what is typically a seasonally slower period, we recorded $198 million of new orders

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