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Interesting NYT story about the most popular Uber Eats delivery restaurant in the world - an Indian restaurant in a Houston strip mall. Some of the drivers only deliver from there,

This is crazy.

Someone would pay me roughly $3,930 upfront to agree to buy 100 shares of $META at $500.

One put. Expiring January 21, 2028.

If the put expires worthless, I'd keep the full $3,930.

If I get assigned, I'd buy 100 shares at $500 and still keep the premium. That's a $50,000 purchase, with an effective cost of $460.70 per share after the premium.

My existing portfolio could support the margin requirement, allowing my shares to stay invested instead of setting aside the full $50,000 in cash.

That's how a portfolio-secured put would work.

But agreeing to buy at $500 means paying $500 even if the stock falls much further.

If the stock's price is $400 at expiration, I'd be down $6,070 after the premium.

I'd be collecting $3,930 for taking on that buying commitment.

Amazon cuts off Muse.

While I am bullish Meta and Muse, I think many people are overlooking the digital knife fight that’s about to occur

Nobody wants to get commoditized or layered here. Let the games begin

FUCK.

Been a while since I posted something this interesting.

Today, QQQ was
▪ Up at least +2.75%
▪ On a day VXN (VIX for QQQ) was up at least +1.00 point

And how has QQQ done 2 weeks and 1 month after every similar event in the past?

Hahahahahahafuck.

Forget 4H and 15m candle strategy try this new strategy in the stock market trading

Holy crap POTUS just phoned in @JensenHuang live on stage at All In Summit

We will not lose the ai race! And whatever Dario said this weekend won’t stop our progress

This made my morning!

$NVDA

You could buy 100 shares of $AMZN right now for about $25,800.

Or you could buy the $250 call LEAP expiring January 2028 for about $5,400. Leveraged exposure to 100 shares. ~79% less capital. Over 480 days of runway.

The trade:
Strike: $250
Expiration: January 21, 2028
Premium: ~$54 per contract
Breakeven: $304

If $AMZN hits $320, this LEAP returns ~30%
If $AMZN hits $360, this LEAP returns ~104%
If $AMZN hits $400, this LEAP returns ~178%

100 shares at $400 returns ~55%. The LEAP returns more than 3x that on a fraction of the capital.

Why I like the setup:

- Q2 revenue up 20% to $200.6B, operating income up to $27.5B from $19.2B a year ago
- AWS grew 37% to $42.2B, its fastest growth in 18 quarters
- AWS backlog sits at $496B, up from $364B the prior quarter
- Custom chip business now runs above $25B a year, growing triple digits, with Anthropic and OpenAI both committed to Trainium for multiple gigawatts
- Advertising up 26% year over year
- Stock is about 10% below its August high, and next earnings are expected in late October
- 487 days of runway gives this trade time to work through short-term noise

The max you can lose on a LEAP is the entire premium you paid. In this case, that's $5,400 per contract. LEAPs are leveraged and can lose value quickly if the stock drops or stays flat. Only size this so you're comfortable losing all of it.

Note: LEAPs are one tool inside a broader portfolio. Owning shares is always the primary use of capital. This is a selective add-on for high-conviction moments when conditions align.

NFA DYOR

The next 25 years of Indian consumption, according to HSBC.

My lord, three IPOs are worth more than… all IPOs in the last 45 years of tech 🤯

Slow hiking cycles are positive for stocks.

We're also entering the most positive phase of the US Presidential Cycle and our portfolio is positioned for a multi-month rally. $NDX $SPX

Chart @edclissold

Zuck including Palmer in the new VR launch is legendary.

We will always do whatever we can to give our merchants a better chance at success.

I keep saying it and we keep proving it. Case in point: Claude Commerce Agents launched today, and our reference implementation is already live.

@Shopify gives every merchant a path into agentic commerce. Out of the box tools for most merchants, or flexible building blocks for those who want to go deeper and build their own agents.

🔗 github.com/Shopify/claude-for-commerce-examples

My favorite airlines are low cost ones like Easyjet, Air Asia, Transavia (and Ryanair if they'd not fly with 737MAX) and premium ones like Qatar

The entire middle section is the one I try stay away from and where everything is expensive but usually sucks

Usually there you have national flag carriers like KLM, British Airways, Lufthansa or Swiss which have very mediocre service for a high price

With low cost airlines you don't pay a lot, but you get a basic functional no frills service, and because it's so high volume (Ryanair for example does the most flights out of any airline in Europe!), they have their workflow dialed in well

With premium airlines like Qatar you pay a lot, but you get a very premium consistent service

Meta’s Muse agents are about to ignite the next CPU boom (Save this).

The more tasks these agents complete, the more CPU power Meta will need to run them.

Here are the five stocks positioned to win from this.

Interview with an industry expert on why $META Business Agents are one of the most significant new growth drivers for the company:

1. The expert reports strong $META ad spend growth at their company, with Q1 and Q2 of this year both up more than 30% YoY, and Q3 and Q4 forecast at more than 20%, with the slowdown driven by tougher comparisons rather than any underlying deceleration. On a two-year stack, growth is actually accelerating, reaching more than 60% in Q2 and expected to hold there through year-end.

2. Reels has been the biggest tailwind for the expert's company, growing from under 30% to under 40% of total $META ad spend YoY, representing around a 4-5 point tailwind, though the expert expects this to ease as Reels matures. Forms and click-to-messaging, which route users into WhatsApp or Messenger, have roughly doubled as a share of spend and represent a meaningful CPM uplift as higher-value ad units replace lower ones.

3. Shopping ads keep users within the $META ecosystem through integrations with $AMZN and $SHOP, creating an on-site conversion experience without users feeling like they left the platform. These high-CPM ads replace lower-CPM ones, representing a small, single-digit tailwind for the expert's company. Overlay ads, which appear on creator content with a button and text, are a bigger and more purely incremental tailwind since they represent genuinely new inventory that was previously ad-free rather than replacing existing ad formats.

4. The expert describes Meta Business Agents as one of the most significant new tailwinds coming online, framing it as the evolution of Meta Business AI into something far more ambitious. What stands out is that the product leads with analytics rather than ads, integrating data from various ad stacks to give even a one-person business a unified view of multiple metrics. Ad campaign automation and chatbots remain, but the expert sees the broader business intelligence layer as the genuinely new and exciting development.

5. The expert highlights the brand linking feature as one of the most exciting elements of Meta Business Agents, where paying subscribers have their brand name turn into a live link whenever it is mentioned in a WhatsApp, Messenger, or Instagram conversation. The expert sees this eventually becoming an auctioned ad product where brands bid for the right to be linked when mentioned, with the current $10-30 per month subscription pricing being used to drive upgrades rather than capture full value upfront.

6. The expert sees $META's TAM as far larger than the traditional ads industry, with chatbots and business messaging representing a new layer of communication with customers that will eventually be part of how the ad market is defined. The expert puts the long-term TAM for the ads industry, including chatbots, at north of $3 trillion annually, with micro and small businesses seen as the biggest beneficiaries of AI-driven advertising tools.

7. Adoption of Meta Business Agents within the expert's panel of 300 advertisers has jumped from 30 to 45 in the last six weeks, a 50% increase driven entirely by opt-in rather than any push from $META. The expert estimates their panel is well ahead of the broader market, guessing $META's overall penetration is around 3% versus 15% within their own panel.

found on @AlphaSenseInc

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My portfolio (+812%) vs. S&P 500 (+83%). In 4 1/2 years since my portfolio has been public, I've outperformed the S&P 500 by ~10x.

I've been told consistently that it's nearly impossible to beat the S&P 500, yet I've been doing just that for ~25 years! Kind of wild.

What am I buying now? My portfolio is public and 100% free (link in bio). But if you must know, this year, I've been going heavy into $MU (my AI semiconductor bet, trading at a ridiculous forward PE of just 7, or a 70% discount to FPE of the S&P500), $META (my overall "amazing business" that's growing faster than peers with huge AI upside, yet trading at a massive discount) and $RIVN (my "future is EVs + Autonomy" bet, but on a company that has a ridiculously low valuation of just $22 Billion rather than $1.4 Trillion!).

I share my views and what I'm doing publicly, including alerts of when I make trades, but I don't give investment advice. Everything I share is for awareness and helping others learn from my transactions.

If it's helped you in any way, comment and say hi!

🚨 BREAKING: Claude has a feature called Stock Trading Mode.

You can use it to research and trade literally any stock, like an expert stock market analyst.

Here are 9 prompts to access it:

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PUT OPTIONS on the SP500 changed my life!

I did IT TEAM - I sold puts 186 times over 1500 contracts in 18 months all expiring WORTHLESS

The dark secret in the market is they want RETAIL to chase 0 dte and OTM where the big boys are selling it! PUTS are DESIGNED to go to 0 I documented the full challenge!

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Uber's layoff PR is wild. Yes, let's justify the layoff, in part, due to feedback from the employees themselves!!

> In Pulse surveys and conversations with many of you, we’ve heard that too much work requires coordination across teams, debates take too long, and decision-making rights are unclear. I’m sure many of you have felt that you spend too much time “aligning” rather than building, shipping, or serving customers. To improve this, we have reduced roles primarily focused on coordination, and have clarified the remit of the coordination roles that remain.

Yes, point the finger back at the employees as one reason why you're firing their colleagues. Yeah, maybe I'm strawmanning here, but any org leader who runs and owns Pulse results knows that employee trust in how the feedback is managed is incredibly critical to getting honest results in the first place. And honest results are necessary to improve things.

I actually do agree that more layers and more coordination hurts maximizing productivity in the agentic era. And yes, as much as they hurt, layoffs are a way of snapping quickly to that. But don't weaponize employee feedback so directly. Just own it!

$META CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, basically said that the EASIEST way to get RICH is to buy the AI Bottleneck Suppliers to Meta.

Here are 5 stocks that can 10x:

1) $NBIS