Episode 72: Trading Sardines

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• Position Closed: TSM AUG $210 CALLS - Purchase $7.00, Sell $15.00

⭐LongVol Report Highlights Of The Week⭐

ShitCos is a term used on Wall Street to describe companies that can have little to no FCF, dilution and general nonsense aka, ShitCo. - There’s nothing wrong with trading ShitCos but investing into them is another story.

A few PDF reports ago we introduced a section called the GlueEater Index with “ShitCo” names we wanted to watch. Some of those names we’ve been trading the past month and this week a few of them had BIG rallies which led to big gains.

Some of those names were $OKLO ( ▼ 5.09% ) which we’ve been tracking as a potential trade the last month or so even before this article yesterday about them providing nuclear power to a US Air Force Base.

This would qualify as a “ShitCo” for us and knowing that we tracked it because of how volatile it can be and for good reason because some readers cleared north of $10,000 on some of the trades this week (and last week) on the name.

It will remain in the report as a Trading Sardine.

$TSLA ( ▼ 0.65% ) also had a nice week starting Monday with a bullish outside day reversal from the $282 lows which saw the stock travel to $334s by Wednesday. We talked about this name briefly on the show and this is and remains a trading sardine name for me (and has been for a decade).

Moving on….

This week we had CPI which presented a straight-forward case in that if we were cool we got a light market rally. There were some other report noted names like $TSM ( ▼ 0.26% ) (closed swing trade from AST Alerts which many booked this week - see below) and then $GOOGL ( ▲ 1.33% ) which had a nice 2-day rally.

Gold decided to continue to rally this week but we noted it as a potential short-idea if $300s broke. But, we didn’t break so there was no short idea put on and that’s the process we use in the report to generate L/S ideas ahead of time.

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And finally…. The LongVol Fall Investor Conference has been scheduled from November 10-14th in Phoenix. This is going to be a great event with 4-days of learning, a day of golf and a final night at my favorite wing spot and local dive bar in Phoenix called JTs Wings, we’ll be renting out the bar/event space for everyone who attends and it will be a great time to meet other members, learn and wind down the trading year.

⭐Reader P&L Highlights of The Week⭐

✅ Conclusion:

A good week for ShitCo names and the $TSM ( ▼ 0.26% ) AST Swing Alert which was closed out this week for subscribers. The CPI print, while cool, seems to have not have had that big of an affect on the broad market with other concerns with Iran and tariffs still even with the China deal all but being done. Most of my risk has been brought back down to nominal levels in my PA and I’ll keep trading the ShitCos for the foreseeable future until we get some pullbacks on the Core Position ideas we’re tracking.

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