Today, we’re looking at a big-money trade on my favorite indicator: the VIX. And I’m not sure any earnings report, no matter how positive, can maintain that rally. Now, I’ve got to say – AAPL has been running higher and higher this past month, up nearly 10% over the past 30 days. I’m still watching this stock as we head into its earnings report next week. Specifically, we talked about our AAPL July 30 $148 put – the one that I texted out on Wednesday – and the one that we banked a 132% profit on by Monday.īut I don’t think the money-making opportunity is over in AAPL. I spent a good deal of time during yesterday’s Profit Takeover live event talking about AAPL – you can catch a replay right here. And I’m still bullish on the energy sector, with Brent crude and WTI both trading higher this morning. XLE is up 5% since Monday’s open, the last time this ETF was on my Watchlist.

Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLE).

If you buy on the way up, then you can potentially make a quick couple of bucks as the stock makes that long momentum move. Instead of trying to pick a bottom, I like buying GM when it’s back above $55 per share and on its way to $60.įolks, trying to pick a bottom can lead you to be stuck in a position for a long, long time. If the market turns around and starts dropping – a move that’s certainly in the cards, especially with the VIX light on yellow – GM could absolutely tank. But we might have found a spot where it’s worth pecking, with shares near a six-month low right now.īut there’s a problem with going long. It’s down about 5% in the past month, and it’s got Thor’s hammer on the selling. GM is another stock waiting to make that electric vehicle (EV) breakout.

That’s an extra month of time for the stock to rise for only an extra $0.15. I’ve got to piggy back this trade – and I’d do it with the October $17 calls for $0.40. But this isn’t the only big money trade I’ve seen in VOD, and right now, we’re looking at about 200,000 open option contracts betting on this thing going higher.

I mean, this stock has been falling all year, down 14% over the past month alone. I’ll be frank – I have no idea what’s going on here. Yesterday, I spotted a massive 40,000 contract call buy on the September 17 $17 calls: There’s huge activity in this British telecom right now. If you didn’t receive my NVDA trade, then be sure to sign up for text alerts right here – and make sure you don’t miss the next one! Mark’s Watchlist In fact, yesterday afternoon, I texted a put recommendation on NVDA to all Profit Takeover members signed up for text alerts. So, I’d recommend a short-term bearish strategy like puts to cash in on NVDA’s steep decline. Over the next few weeks, potentially months, NVDA could take it on the chin as money reallocates itself post-split. By the end of the year, they had both moved into positive territory.īut let’s focus on the short term. Now, it’s important to note that both AAPL and TSLA eventually found their footing. But in the weeks following, it crashed 34%. The stock went up a whopping 81% between the split’s announcement and the split itself. But in the month after, it dropped almost 20%. In the month before the split, AAPL rose 40%. (Nasdaq:AAPL) underwent its own four-for-one stock split, taking it from $500 per share to about $125. At the end of August last year, Apple Inc. When stocks blow higher into a split, like NVDA has, a lot of that money tends to leave the stock post-split and move itself somewhere else. Splits like this tend to indicate a top in a stock’s price. Here’s where NVDA’s headed post-split – and how you can play it… Now, what was a $750 stock on Monday has a price tag of just $185 per share.īut it’s about to get even cheaper than that. A single share for $800-plus? Not many individual traders want to fork over that much cash. The main reason behind the split is to make the stock more accessible to average traders. Last quarter, impressive earnings boasting over 88% year-over-year revenue growth sent shares all the way to $835. I mean, it’s had an incredible run over the past six months. Investors liked NVDA heading into the split. That means that what was one share of NVDA on Monday is now equal to four shares – giving investors three extra pieces of the pie.

(Nasdaq:NVDA) underwent a four-for-one stock split.

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