We were around the campfire with family, over the weekend, and I tried to explain the power of trading (esp Options).They were speechless.I’m not sure they believed me.
If you’ve been following, you believe it. If you missed the moves, look back at previous Newsletters & backtest. These were the trades provided in the Newsletter last week:
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AXTI 9/18 Calls went 170% (8/14 Calls went ~ 400%) 📰 🚨
PATH Commons went 17% (8/14 Calls went > 300%) 🔁 📰 🚨
IWM Calls went > 200% 📰 🚨
OWL Commons went 17% and hit the 200 EMA 📰 🚨
IBM Calls went almost 100% (8/21 Expiry) 🔁 📰 🚨
CCXI Commons went 17% 🔁 📰 🚨
AIRJ commons went > 30% 📰 🚨
HPE Calls went 38% (The above make these gains look tiny) 🔁 📰 🚨
UROY Commons went > 31% 📰 🚨
CRCL Calls went > 40% 🔁 📰 🚨
SPCX, SPCF Commons went well > 30% 🔁 🚨 (shared in Discord)
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You might notice I’m choosing shorter-dated options. That is just my personal style. I like to do that for 2 reasons: 1) I rarely hold longer than 2 weeks 2) I love the volume
Thesis: Falling Wedge Reversal
Just look at how its curling off support.
News/Fundamentals
Circle Acquires IBM Blockchain Patent Portfolio: Nearly 1,000 issued patents and 680+ patent families now sit under Circle, making it the top U.S. blockchain patent holder and locking in the infrastructure moat behind USDC and ARC.
Circle’s USDC Pulls Ahead of Tether as Stablecoin Volume Hits Record $1.79T: USDC now runs about 70% of adjusted stablecoin transaction volume versus Tether’s 25%, a reversal from 2020 that shows institutions actually settling in USDC, not just holding it.
Circle Q2 Earnings: $701M Revenue and Reserve Income: USDC circulation up 19% and transaction volume up 151%, and management raised full-year guidance on top of it.
🚨 Trigger: Continuation as long as $66.24 support holds
🛑 Stop: Soft stop, daily close < $66
🎯 Targets: $72.86 → $85.00
🔁 My personal plan: 8/21 Calls ($70 strike)
Thesis: Falling Wedge Breakout
Shares just punched out of a multi-month falling wedge on rising volume. I don’t need to know much more than that.
News/Fundamentals
Kratos Receives U.S. Army Contract to Develop a Next-Generation Seeker for the Javelin Missile System: the award lands just two weeks after Kratos’ $156 million single-award counter-drone contract, part of a run that’s pushed backlog to $2.08 billion against a $15 billion bid pipeline.
KTOS Stock Hits Two-Month High As Clear Growth Prospects Spur Piper Sandler Ratings Upgrade: Piper Sandler jumped to Overweight with a $75 target, roughly 45% above current levels, arguing the valuation hasn’t caught up to the hypersonics and Spartan-engine ramp.
Kratos Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results: revenue jumped 30.5% to $458.8 million and management raised full-year guidance to $1.75-$1.81 billion, giving this breakout real earnings backing.
🚨 Trigger: DCA as long as $58.88 support holds
🛑 Stop: Soft stop, daily close below $58.50
🎯 Targets: $64.50 → $76.29
🔁 My personal plan: 8/21 Calls ($65 strike)
Thesis: Falling Wedge Breakout
The weekly chart just broke out of a multi-month falling wedge riding off the 200-week moving average … on good news.
News/Fundamentals
Oklo’s Groves Reactor Just Achieved First Criticality. Here’s What It Means for OKLO Stock.: the Groves isotope reactor went critical on Aug. 5, just 11 months after groundbreaking and 229 days of substantial construction — the fastest privately funded, privately sited reactor build in U.S. history — and the stock popped nearly 15% on the news.
Nuclear Stock Oklo Can Jump 65% From Here, Says Top Analyst: Wedbush’s Dan Ives, ranked in Wall Street’s top 3%, reiterated Outperform this week with a $110 target, implying roughly 65% upside from here.
Oklo Q2 2026 slides: first criticality achieved, $3B liquidity: the balance sheet now carries $3.0 billion in cash and securities after raising $1.9 billion through at-the-market offerings this year, plenty of runway to fund the build-out.
🚨 Trigger: DCA as long as $45.83 support holds
🛑 Stop: Soft stop, daily close below $45.60
🎯 Targets: $58.88 → $81.50
🎬 My personal plan: 9/18 Calls ($70 strike)
Thesis: Rounded Bottom Breakout
Price carved out a multi-week rounding bottom on expanding volume… what else do you need to know?
News/Fundamentals
Stock Market Today, Aug. 7: Space Exploration Technologies Surges on Q2 Revenue Beat, Lockup Relief, and Terafab Update: the company unveiled a $16.8 billion first phase of its Terafab semiconductor complex with Tesla, plus word that a $60 billion Cursor acquisition could close within the week — real catalysts behind Friday’s 242 million-share volume day.
SpaceX stock surges 11% after lockup expiry selloff, short squeeze eyed: 911.5 million newly unlocked shares hit the tape Thursday against a float of just 280 million, and when that flood of supply didn’t crash the stock, the roughly 29% short interest started scrambling to cover.
SpaceX (SPCX) Q2 2026 earnings results beat revenue in first report since IPO: revenue came in at $7.8 billion, up 92% year-over-year and well above the $6.72 billion estimate, giving buyers a fundamental reason to step in right as the lockup fear failed to materialize.
🚨 Trigger: DCA as long as $124 support holds
🛑 Stop: Soft stop, daily close below $124
🎯 Targets: $137.76 → $144.92 → $152.93 → $161.00
🔁 My personal plan: DCA as long as $124 holds (SPCF is worth considering)
Thesis: Falling Wedge Breakout
It is looking to breakout. I chose this one because of the 200 EMA support and VOL 🔊
News/Fundamentals
Hecla Mining (HL) Rallies As Drilling Results Fuel Silver Momentum: Q2 drilling extended high-grade zones at Keno Hill, Midas, Greens Creek and Lucky Friday, with Lucky Friday posting record output at a negative $8.10/oz cash cost — tier-one exploration news that sent shares up 6.17% on its own.
Silver prices today, Friday, August 7, 2026: Silver surge continues as jobs report disappoints: spot silver hit $65.05/oz and gold pushed to $4,305/oz after July payrolls showed a loss of 23,000 jobs, a miss that firmed up bets the Fed holds rates steady — exactly the backdrop that gets metals money rotating into miners
HL Stock Rallies As Q2 Cash Flow, Silver Output Jump: operating cash flow jumped 61% to $175 million and free cash flow doubled to $136 million on 4.2 million ounces of silver production, all while the balance sheet sits effectively debt-free with $483 million in cash — real fuel behind the stock’s 6.75% pop.
🚨 Trigger: Reclaim/hold above $17
🛑 Stop: Soft stop, daily close below $17
🎯 Targets: $17.93 → $20.85 → $24.50
🎬 My personal plan: 8/21 Calls ($17.50 strike)
Thesis: Cup and Handle Breakout
Price reclaimed both the 20 and 50 EMAs off a rounded multi-month base and is now working through a small handle pullback, a pause that often precedes a push)
News/Fundamentals
Pony.ai ties up with JD.com for China robotaxi maintenance: JD Auto Service now handles maintenance and parts across Pony’s Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen fleets, cutting the capital Pony needs as it scales toward a 3,500-vehicle, 20-city target by year-end.
China restarts robotaxi licence approvals: regulators reopened the licensing pipeline in July after a spring safety freeze tied to the Wuhan Apollo Go incident, lifting the regulatory overhang that had capped sentiment across every China robotaxi name, Pony included.
PONY Stock Heads For Best Day In Nearly Two Months – Says AI-Powered Evaluation Is Key To Scaling Robotaxis: the last reported quarter showed robotaxi revenue up nearly 5x to $8.6 million and total revenue more than doubling to $34.3 million against a $22 million estimate, with Q2 results due August 18 as the next test of that trajectory.
🚨 Trigger: DCA as long as $8 support holds
🛑 Stop: Soft stop, daily close below $7.80
🎯 Targets: $8.57 → $9.20 → $10.15
🔁 My personal plan: Commons
Thesis: Falling wedge breakout, gap above
We’ve been able to ride this one. It has paid well. However, I’m rolling over my 8/21 Calls (i.e. I’ve sold and now looking for entry in 9/18 Calls)
A leader in the Quantum Trade making former resistance into support (bullish)
IBM and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce America's First Purpose-Built Quantum Foundry, Supported by Proposed $1 Billion CHIPS Award: The Commerce Department is backing IBM's quantum foundry spinoff, Anderon, with a proposed $1B CHIPS Act award — part of a $2B, nine-company federal quantum push — to build a 300mm quantum wafer fab in Albany, NY, direct government capital validating IBM's quantum bet.
🚨 Trigger: Reclaim/hold above $228.55
🛑 Stop: Soft stop, daily close < $228
🎯 Targets: $243.68 → $258.50
🎬 My personal plan: Calls, 9/18 expiration, $250 strike — or IBX (2x IBM ETF)
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