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🚨 BIG UPDATES FROM THE IRAN WAR:

You say resistance band, I say consolidation pattern. It’s consolidating for the NEXT BIG LEAP!

>"BIG NEWS, FOLKS! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Just declared a TOTAL CEASEFIRE with Iran—nobody does deals like ME! Oil prices? DROPPING LIKE A ROCK—releasing the STRATEGIC RESERVE, and gas will be so cheap, you’ll think it’s WATER! And guess what? The Fed is cutting rates—BOOM! Economy’s going to be YUGE!
It came to me in a dream.

**Post Open**
Today we are seeing more red as the indices are close to tagging their lows from earlier this week while the VIX is back over the 28+ high for the week. MRVL turned in a marvelous earnings report last night and is one of the few Green spots on the charts so far this morning. So are we going to see this become a double bottom situation or is the market actually going to break down and move lower? I don't know, but I will also say, I find it uncommon that we have a BIG rally on a Friday. The price action the past 7 days has led to contractions of the Bollinger Bands for most all stocks. This occurs ahead of big moves, but the move can be in either direction. This is where the VIX offers a clue that I am fervently seeking to find. In my view big crashes do not start from very high levels of VIX as we are witnessing today and this week. More often we get a rally, even if it is short-lived as we already witnessed this week. We do not have fundamentally poor performance with our favored stocks. In fact they are for the most part performing exceptionally well. What we do have is an economy in transition and potentially a world order and this level of transformation is causing extreme levels of uncertainty. My base thesis is once the storm clouds part which may take a few more days or even a few weeks, we will see a substantial rally as the VIX crashes lower. At some point buyers simply cannot hold off buying.
Stay the course and full speed ahead!

BIG RED!!

BIG MISS
US LOSES 92K JOBS IN FEBRUARY, UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TO 4.4%
Economists had expected 55K jobs and for the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.3%

What if... You put the BIG ARCH sauce on a baconator. 😩

Slowly greening out, let’s go baby, BIG RUN TO CLOSE!

NEED HELP! HAVE PURCHASED SOME GOLDEN SILVER OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS THROUGH COMPANIES THAT WERE SUPPOSEDLY GOOD AND SUPPOSEDLY BIG AND HAD HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE HAVE WAITED MONTHS AND MONTHS FOR DELIVERIES THAT THEY SAID WE’RE ALREADY SENT MONTHS AGO. PLEASE ADVISE ON THE BEST COMPANIES TO BUY FROM. I’M TRYING TO GET IN ON THIS STUFF FOR MY CHILDREN.

BIG DADDY TRADING HALT. Tell me there isn’t fuckin insider trading on AT4 lmao

Calls on McDonalds everyone talking about that BIG ARCH
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BIG ERN says paying off a mortgage in an alternative to bonds because doing so has the same stabilizing effect on expenses as cash or bonds do

Choose FI 066 and 035

RC has said it out loud that money can't buy what gme holders have given the company,the truth is its US that have saved the company,and its past time to pay us back,I don't have fuqing decades,I don't give a sh1t about being the richest person in the carehome or graveyard .
He is going to REALLY p1ss people off this earnings if he doesn't announce BIG or before.

BIG MEAT MEETS BIG MEAT

That was a BIG LOAD….for a BIG CHALUPA!!!

Wait, you're on to something. Can BIG PIZZA lobby to make every day a holiday to sell more pizza?

I have the premium course people drop BIG 💸 on. Letting it go dirt cheap rn. 📩 dm meanwhile

Would you like another EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES?

The reason so many of us are so red is because we went in with large percentages of our life savings, like way more than is rational. I put most my savings in GME in 2021, then sold a home / moved and put almost half the equity in GME in 2022, sold a btc I'd saved a decade and put most of that (in I think 2022) too.
I can't remember off the top of my head my buy ins, but the price was almost 200 when I first bought in and the majority of my BIG purchases were years back when value was 2-8 times higher than the last couple years of price in the teens to 30. I recognize that my big share buys were times I was more concerned about missing golden tickets in FOMO of MOASS than the impetus or fervor of the times I was trying to average down my share price--and plenty of times I made big purchases at $100, $80, $60 thinking it would never go lower.
I actually DID buy my average cost down some over the years, but there just isn't any way I have the means to offset the largest purchases that were 2-8 times higher when those were purchased with such a large amount of all I'd accumulated over the first 20 years I worked. TBF though, I'm kind of arguing nothing since I did still average down the cost basis pretty heavily. I just checked again and mine currently is down from the first purchases from close to $200 when I jumped in (presplit, January sneeze) to now having a $32 per share cost basis (at least of those I have in a broker instead of computershare).
I'm kind of stupidly complaining about having so many shares that new purchases don't dilute and lower the cost basis as much, but mostly I'm saying it makes sense that many of us have higher cost basis per share than we 'could' because we all went so heavy into GME compared to our income or savings and so many of us have held for so long the brunt of our cost basis was set 5 years ago. In my case while I bought a ton every time the price was rising like a dummy, and less the times it was falling.
Man, writing this inane comment out makes me think about how badly I've done the last \~6 years, I've made EVERY mistake (except selling my shares).. I lost a ton of money on options that many of them were at points in time showing 100%-500% profit, but I kept rolling them into new ones or not selling in FOMO of MOASS... I lost money with LRC and again at one point had profit there that I left, I had a LRC account that had crypto worth 17k for a minute, think I put like 6k in, lost crypto in the GME crypto market / app by losing a password key and missing the window of its shutdown, and most painfully I lost an unknown amount in bed bath during that mess but again I was massively up in options and that time I took some of the profit and collected thousands of their stock just for them to get delisted and be worthless. GME 5+ years ago was my first time ever getting into the stock market, completely ignorantly. As tangential as me complaining about all my failures during this escapade, it seems relevant to the original debate too though since I can't be alone in not making perfect moves, beyond people going in with life savings, GME was unique in that January and the buy button being turned off seriously enticed a shocking amount of investors like me that had no experience and would be learning as we went.

There are as many opinions on the market direction as there are investors and spectators in the world. I can see you haven't heard from all of them yet and I hope you sold your BIG position at much higher levels than AMD is trading at today. I have been trading using various strategies since the late 80's and typically call myself a swing trader mostly because that is what appeals to me AND I trade in a retirement account with tax advantages which is both a blessing and a curse. If you do not trade in a tax deferred account it is usually much better long-term to just do a buy and hold for the most part. To be a trader of sorts, I would recommend a few approaches and will identify a few challenges of being a trader, as I could write a book.
The biggest challenge to trading is having the mental fortitude to buy when the market feels and looks like it is melting down. Why didn't you buy some at 188 or 190 earlier this week? Even if you had bought 10 shares you would be up today and not wishing for 190 once more., or not quite so much. The point here is to average in and average out buy the way or if you make big sales, to have some place to park those dollars so they are still working for you.
In order to swing trade, I suggest dividing your pot of investable cash into 10-20 tranches and be disciplined to only invest one of those tranches when the stock reaches some low level. You could decide to look at a stock like AMD on a daily or weekly chart, weekly might be better really, and count the times AMD has hit some level such as the 20DMA or 50DMA over the last 2-3 years for example and to visually see where it is moving over those weekly timeframes. If you do not equip yourself with this larger timeframe context, then you are simply whipping around in the wind of every piece of news and rumor you hear every day. You should KNOW that VERY little of what you hear or read is truly current but has a one to 3 day lag and is not really all that actionable. Further many things posted as news today may be recycled from weeks ago as well.
So, let me offer some factual perspective on where AMD's weekly chart is as I read it today. I use SMA's not EMA but the real differences are immaterial and anyone can simply put both on their charts and see those differences. If I was day trading and looking at 1 to 5 minute charts, THEN, using EMA's matters.
So back to the AMD charts, AMD is now in its' 6 consecutive week of lower lows and that is important. I noted in my opening remarks today that AMD is very close to closing this week with a higher weekly close than last week, even though it dipped to a lower low early this week. THIS suggests we may be at a weekly low pivot point. I certainly do NOT KNOW but am simply observing the market behavior,. AMD closed last week at 200.21, so keep that number firmly in mind.
Stepping back for more context, AMD's 3 year mean weekly average is 187.98, which is almost tagged this week with a low of 188.22. That is damn close. We can also see that the 50week SMA which is in an ascending slope so moving higher si currently at the 173.01 level this week and moving up about 2-3 dollars per week. This dynamic is important as AMD last crossed the 50 week MA in June of 2025 and has operated above it ever since. In fact this is the longest consecutive week drop in AMD since that time as well. From my personal perspective, I am expecting AMD to put in some sideways range trading action over the next 2-5 weeks as we end the core of the earnings season and the stock puts in some consolidation before moving gradually higher back to the 220 level. It is very common for stocks to put in some sideways movement following a sharp decline as AMD has experienced. AMD is also prone to some sharper moves based on announcements of significant deals. We never know then that can happen.
One of my favorite SMA's or MA's is the 5 week and 5 day MA. AMD's 5 week MA is at 203.55 for this week and is in a sharp downward slope. The sideways action for a few weeks will give this average time to flatten and turn as the stock is likely to move above that 5 week MA effectively indicating a positive improvement in the stock price. You can also observe the 5 day MA for breakouts.
Everything I have written here is just from looking at the charts it is not predictive but offers perspective on the direction of the stock and one can estimate, infer or assign some probabilities of the moves over the next several days and weeks. It is important to consider that the market decides what happens next for AMD. I am observing that the price action for AMD today is fairly strong as AMD is down .61% as I write this exactly the same as the QQQ right now, but has actually been exploring higher prices than this moment most of the morning. Good Luck in your trading. Only you can decide how much the day to day news or commentary can or will influence how you actually trade