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Anywhere Realty/Compass Merger: This week $HOUS ( ▲ 0.19% ) had a merger with $COMP ( 0.0% ) and we made over +80% so far on that equity position and that has zero do do with market tops, macro or any of the other noise that so many investors spend their time on. Some of the readers in this report who really do listen had that position in their portfolios and made a lot of money with it yet I can go to X and see people talking about “unusual call flows” on the name a few days before. If I had to spend my career searching each day for call flows instead of running a repeatable approach to analyzing companies and investments then I’d likely be a financial advisor at Wells Fargo selling you life insurance and telling you that you need to buy bonds - but I’m not.

Valero Long - $VLO ( ▲ 0.69% ) This was an idea listed in the PDF report last week as a “Best Idea” and a few weeks back in the PDF report I began flagging other energy names. I don’t like investing into energy or believe it has to have a space in a portfolio but it has been left-for-dead this year and it was only a matter of a time. $VLO ( ▲ 0.69% ) is a fundamentally sound name with many reasons to own it so knowing that it became a situation of waiting on a technical trigger to get in last week which we did.

Micro Strategy Short - $MSTR ( ▲ 2.78% )

This was a large trade this week on the short-side. We don’t cover it in the report because it’s not something that is in our framework but it is a bonafide trading-sardine and it can be used as such. This week we traded nearly -15% lower in two days - and guess what? This stock does that a few times a month which means I don’t need call or put flows to tell me to watch it - I know that it moves so it becomes a game of watching it at key levels then watching for order flow to send it in whatever direction it goes.