When Wall Street's Math Stops Making Sense
Zoom trades at $85. The company: Earned $6 to $7 per share last quarter Sits on 400% cash reserves with zero debt Profit margins run at 25 Return on equity hit 13.5% DoorDash trades at $275, and they: Earned pennies per share Burn through cash to maintain 6% profit margins Bariely achieves a return on…
From $3 to $22 in Two Days
That 197 call on Wednesday for Friday was $3. It finished the week at $22. Nineteen dollars per contract in forty-eight hours while everyone else was arguing about China trade deals. This wasn't luck. This was watching an 8-day EMA cross a 20-day EMA on a 15-minute chart and understanding what institutional money does at…
When $3 Trillion Gets It Wrong
Don Kaufman here. And welcome to what might be the most expensive lesson in market psychology you'll see this week. I just closed out Christmas tree spreads for over 50% gains in less than a month. You'd think I'd be celebrating, right? Instead, I'm getting the hell out. Why? Because those trades should have made…
And There Goes Tech (Again)
All-time highs across the board for stocks. Last Monday, I pointed out how the market internals had settled down from their brief defensive rotation. Now we have the exact sector signal we were looking for. This latest sector development marks just the beginning. We're entering the most bullish time of year. Bulls have sent the…
Monday, October 27, 2025 - Tony's Pre-Market Playbook
China Headlines Ignite the Openby Tony Rago Big gap at the open this morning on China trade news, and we’re already seeing momentum build. Gap fills sit at 6,826 on ES and 25,500 on NQ — key markers to watch once the cash session kicks in. Plan is simple: let it open, watch how price…
The Quantum Computing Trade
Last November, I told members inside the Trinity Trade chat to start building positions in Rigetti Computing. The stock was trading just over a dollar. The thesis was straightforward. Quantum computing represented an emerging technology sector with massive institutional attention, government backing, and the kind of volatility that creates real trading opportunities. What followed was…
The Broken Watch: A Lesson in System Documentation
I have a Citizen watch that I have owned for decades. I love the watch for both the quality of the watch and for the sentimental value it holds. The problem with this watch is that it has a broken component in its movement, which makes it so it doesn't keep time well, and the…
How I Knew LAZR Would Explode
The Ghost Prints Surveillance Console just caught three squeeze setups identical to the pattern that delivered 59% on MARA in 4 days. Same purple bars. Same institutional block buying. Same compressed short interest ready to ignite. Most traders will never see these opportunities. They're buried in data most people can't access, let alone interpret. But…
The Rip Curl Wave
I grew up on the beaches of Los Angeles. Friends would drive us to the shore. We'd hit the water at 6 AM for the morning glass. Boogie boards. Surfboards. Wetsuits. I lived in Hawaii and surfed there too. I'm not a great surfer. But I was a damn good boogie boarder. Now I live…
Day Done in Four Minutes
Friday morning, the market opened and several traders in my room captured 50 points before their coffee got cold. Four minutes into the session, they were done. Logged off. Day complete. The setup was textbook. The pit opening range broke higher. The cash level held exactly where it should. Price bounced from the 66 level…