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Publisher of Coolcat Report investment newsletters, 1997-2016; journalist for more than 35 years. Interested in stocks, sports, politics, life and love.

Joined March 2009
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Ross is right. This is no time to be a hero, and cash is king.
The Nasdaq and S&P 500 gapped down Friday, sold off sharply, and closed below key support on heavy volume. The Russell 2000 and Dow followed suit, although both showed slightly better relative strength. The Russell held above its key long-term 200-day SMA, while the Dow found support at its rising bottoms line—its last meaningful support level before reaching the 200-day SMA. Breadth deteriorated further, with 207 new highs versus 500 new lows on Friday. The FOMC left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a target range of 3.75%–4%. Meanwhile, earnings reactions suggest this is very much a “show me” market. Companies delivering clean beats with clear evidence of AI-driven revenue growth are being rewarded, while those ramping up spending without corresponding revenue are getting punished. At the same time, money appears to be rotating quietly into the broader market. The number of leaders across traditional growth areas has narrowed considerably since my last report, particularly on Friday. Software stocks weakened significantly, and very few semiconductor names remain above key support while holding up in technically sound bases. This weekend’s Focus List highlights a handful of technology names that are still holding up, but much of the list consists of medical/healthcare, retail, insurance, and energy-related stocks. Utilities, materials, and chemicals also attracted rotation. While these groups may offer individual opportunities, they are not where I typically look for the market’s strongest traditional growth leadership. I never initiated any long positions and remain entirely in cash. That’s where I intend to stay until a new uptrend in the general market begins to develop. We’re back to watching for the first rally day of a potential new follow-through day count. With earnings season still in full swing and midterm elections approaching, volatility is likely to remain elevated. This is a time to do your homework, refresh your watch lists, and identify the stocks worth owning when the market eventually turns.
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Amen.
Whoever says: “I' created a dedicated WhatsApp group for” you gotta block him.
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Holding $UMC $AMD $SNDK $ASX $MU $LITE. Added $HUT, holding $MSTR $COIN $BKKT, will consider more crypto stock exposure. Badges 🛡️ KQ = Qullamaggie
📈Minervini "Trend Template" Stock Scan 🧙 20 Stocks $TWST $TRMD $SMTC $UMC $TH $ADPT $AMD $SNDK $ASX $RIOT $PBF $YPF $MU $MRX $COHU $AVT $LITE $ARW $SIMO $RAL Badges 🛡️ KQ = Qullamaggie MM = Minervini ON = O'Neil DB = Darvas Breakout SB4 = Stockbee 4% daily gainer SBW = Stockbee 20% weekly gainer SB9 = Stockbee 9M Mover TML = Liquid Growth 97C = 97 Club ER-1 = Earnings yesterday📅 2A/2B = Stage 2A-2B 📈📉 Relative Trend Strength (square badge) Strike Zone (circle badge) ⚾️
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$MRVL definitely looking good here. $350-$400 or more by year’s end would not be a surprise.
$MRVL Weekends are for zooming out to HTFs Bullish engulfing weekly candle with an extremely strong close This is a no-brainer next week over PDH All we need is a few days of follow-through… lock in
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I think a Nasdaq break over 29,000 or 30,000 is in the cards for the fourth quarter.
Tom Lee said today on CNBC: “Q4 will be the start of one of the biggest market rallies in our lifetime”
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Tech stocks and semi stocks in particular definitely showing leadership at the end of the week after Thursday’s Nasdaq multi-week low and reclaim. Did a lot of buying Thursday and Friday.
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Great picks @CoolcatReport - lots of strength in those names this week. 🔥 Technology $XLK was the ONLY Sector showing strength this week in Stage 2B
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Great weekend list from @ConnorJBates_ . Currently locked and loaded and holding $MU $DELL $SNDK $STX $WDC $SNOW $OKTA $AMD $ARM $MRVL $ALAB $INTC $ASX $UMC $MSTR $COIN $PURR $BE $TSEM
Some nice-looking industry groups heading into next week. Worth watching, as many of these groups look coiled. Computer Hardware - $MU $SKHY $DELL $SNDK blockstack:native $WDC $P $NTAP Computer Software Enterprise - $MSFT $PLTR $CRM $SHOP $NOW $NET $SNOW $DDOG Software Security - $PANW $CRWD $FTNT $OKTA $ZS $RBRK $GEN Semiconductor Fabless - $NVDA $AVGO $AMD $ARM $MRVL $ALAB $CBRS Semiconductor Manufacturing - $TSM $INTC $TXN $ADI $ASX $UMC $NXPI Crypto/Blockchain - $MSTR $COIN $CRCL $BMNR $IBIT $ETHA $SOLD $XXRP $BHYP $PURR Electronic Parts ~ APH COHR Alternative Energy - GEV BE CEG Machinery - CAT DE Fiber Optics - AAOI CIEN COHR TSEM
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Nice list of stocks. Pretty close to fully invested based on this past week’s Nasdaq reversal and holding $AMD $ARM $IBRX $LITE $MRVL $MU $SNDK from Steve’s list.
📈Stock Watchlist For Monday (Pinescreener) 👀 16 Stocks $AMD $ARM $BMNR $HOOD $IBRX $IREN $ISRG $LITE $MRVL $MU $PBF $RBLX $RIOT $SIMO $SKHY $SNDK Watchlist is generated by an TradingView Pinescreener algorithm based on backtesting and modelling studies. +$1B Market Cap w. D$V $50M+
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I added $COIN and $MSTR last week, and just picked up shares of another bitcoin-related play: $BKKT. Fairly volatile stock and some 3-4x spikes in the past few years to take some potential profits at. stockcharts.com/sc3/ui/?s=BK…
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Another bottomfisher pick: $DJT, the Trump stock. $DJT has traded over $100 in the past and made its low at $6.96 in June. $DJT might be a good play if it can break over recent short-term high of $10.55. stockcharts.com/sc3/ui/?s=DJ…
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Makes sense.
THIS gave me multiple 100%+ years since 2020, and it's all you need to make it in trading: 1) Momentum 2) Volatility contraction/expansion Stocks do the same thing and have been doing it for 100s of years. Whenever there is a trend, buyers push the price higher, and momentum develops; you will see: • the 8, 20, and 50 EMAs stacked up • a pattern of higher highs - higher lows • volatility transitions from expansion > contraction • a consolidation develops, buyers absorbing sellers • You see candles get tighter in a range • tend to do so against the 8/20 EMA layer • once the contraction comes to an end, most of the time you see expansion in the direction of momentum. You don't have to take my word for it; go back in charts and look at thousands of stocks when they get into strong trends. I even built an out-sample database of 10k+ signals of my momentum breakout system in my Hub App, and those from 1950 look THE SAME as the ones triggering today in form... You always see the same pattern, and it offers a GREAT foundation to build a system/method/setup around. Build around stuff that works and is proven to get returns, and your success in trading shoots up 10x 📈
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Nice list of leading stocks from IBD. Currently holding $NTRA $SNOW $MU $ARM. What’s the top stock on the list that you’re looking at adding this week?
IBD 50 MEGA STOCK LIST: Stop looking at 50+ tickers randomly. Start organizing the market by sector + leadership + momentum. 🏥 Healthcare / Biotech $TVTX $ETON $KNSA $TGTX $NTRA $HNGE $HALO $GKOS $URGN $OSCR $ADPT $DXCM $ARGX $KRYS $LLY $MEDP $OMDA ⛏️ Materials / Mining $ERO $ATI $WT $AU $SCCO $WPM $NEM $IAG $HMY 💻 Technology / Semiconductors $ANET $NET $SNOW $MU $ARM $RBRK 💳 Financials $ENVA $VCTR $VIRT $STT $RELY ✈️ Travel / Consumer $EXPE $FIVE $GRMN $TGTX 📡 Energy / Infrastructure $ARIS $ATEYY $FLYW High-Growth / Emerging Leaders $ZETA $SN $NAVN $AUGO $MGNI $FIVE The goal isn’t to own every stock. Find the strongest sectors → strongest stocks → strongest charts → strongest volume. That’s where leadership usually starts. SAVE THIS MEGA LIST. Which sector are you watching next week? 👇
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Added $MSTR $COIN and $BKKT today.
I am not gonna lie- This looks like a hot girl next door. You dont wanna look at her but you the urge to introduce yourself is too damn strong. A breakout above this downtrend line = Saylor time. $MSTR
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Linda Raschke’s 12 market rules: Read and repeat.
Market Wizard Linda Reschke's 12 Technical Trading Rules: 1. Buy the first pullback after a new high. Sell the first rally after a new low. 2. Afternoon strength or weakness should have follow through the next day. 3. The best trading reversals occur in the morning, not the afternoon. 4. The larger the market gaps, the greater the odds of continuation and a trend. 5. The way the market trades around the previous day’s high or low is a good indicator of the market’s technical strength or weakness. 6. The previous day’s high and low are two very important “pivot” points, for this was the definitive point where buyers or sellers came in the day before. Look for the market to either test and reverse off these points, or push through and show signs of continuation. 7. The last hour often tells the truth about how strong a trend truly is. “Smart” money shows their hand in the last hour, continuing to mark positions in their favor. As long as a market is having consecutive strong closes, look for up-trend to continue. The up trend is most likely to end when there is a morning rally first, followed by a weak close. 8. High volume on the close implies continuity the next morning in the direction of the last half-hour. In a strongly trending market, look for resumption of the trend in the last hour. 9. The first hour’s range establishes the framework for the rest of the trading day. 10. A greater percentage of the day’s range occurs in the first hour then was the case in the past, and thus it has become increasingly important to trade aggressively if there are early signs of a strong trend for the day. 11. There are four basic principles of price behavior which have held up over time. Confidence that a type of price action is a true principle is what allows a trader to develop a systematic approach. The following four principles can be modeled and quantified and hold true for all time frames, all markets. The majority of patterns or systems that have a demonstrable edge are based on one of these four enduring principles of price behavior. Charles Dow was one of the first to touch on them in his writings. Principle One: A Trend Has a Higher Probability of Continuation than Reversal Principle Two: Momentum Precedes Price Principle Three: Trends End in a Climax Principle Four: The Market Alternates between Range Expansion and Range Contraction! 12. In the world of money, which is a world shaped by human behavior, nobody has the foggiest notion of what will happen in the future. Mark that word – Nobody! Thus the successful trader does not base moves on what supposedly will happen but reacts instead to what does happen.
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This is good.
if LEGALLY BLONDE and A FEW GOOD MEN were in the same movie 😂👏 I need to know who did this
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I will try to play it soon, but my focus is just on solving Wordle and I don't care if it takes me 6 tries. I use the same three words every day unless I can solve it in three. Every once in a while I get a 2. SHARE is my starter word, and I got a 1 the day it was the word.
I created a new Wordle style game. I loved Wordle, but thought that there should be a time component. Check out Speedle. 3 games every day. Easy gives you 4 minutes to complete, medium 2 minutes, and hard 1 minute. More points for the faster you solve and the fewer guesses you take. You can play it here: sterling-far-driving-travell…**
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Yep, the last time I went to a Subway about two years ago was the last time, period.
Subway lost its way. I remember eating at a Subway back when I worked in SF in the mid-90s. The sandwiches were delicious. The beginning of the end came for Subway in 2008 when they rolled out $5 footlongs. They lowered the quality of their meats so that their franchises could earn a profit on the low priced sandwiches. No more real ham and turkey, instead they opted for chipped up ham and turkey held together in some gelatinous goo. Now a footlong sub is $16, more than triple what it was. Did they go back to higher quality meats with the price increase? Nope. Why would consumers opt for an inferior product when they can go to a local deli and get a sub with high end cold-cuts for around the same price? They have completely destroyed the brand, and I suspect that over half of the Subway locations will go under over the next 3 years. They need to have a come to Jesus moment, like when Domino's Pizza hired a new CEO and he asked why are we performing so poorly. His answer: our pizza sucks! And he set about fixing it. The result of this was a 3000% increase in the company's share price over the next decade. It might already be too late to rescue this former iconic brand, but doing nothing guarantees an epic downfall.
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$TSLA down 14% on shitty earnings. Nasdaq down 2.15% and undercuts June low of 24,980.38. The Nas closed more the 7.5% off its early June high of 27,190.21.
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I think they missed that offsides call on the Swede.
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