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SpaceX Stock: I Believe
Want 14 FREE days with JR? Go here. JR Romero is a long-term believer in SpaceX (SPCX) stock, and here’s why: Starlink is firing on all cylinders. And Elon Musk is doing a great job as positioning the company as a premier neocloud. Get the full breakdown of SpaceX in this video.
Continue Reading -->Is AI About to Die?
Want 14 FREE days with JR? Go here. AI earnings are kicking off with SpaceX (SPCX) and Meta (META) this week. JR cuts through the hype to give you the real big picture on AI: As a pivotal tech earnings wave hits Wall Street, fears of an AI bubble and runaway capex spending have triggered sharp volatility across semiconductor and mega-cap tech stocks. JR slices and dices the market noise to explain corporate fundamentals, infrastructure risks, and actionable trade setups designed to help investors navigate the turbulence. AI Reality Check vs. Bubble Fears We tackle comparisons between current market conditions, the 1999 dot-com crash, and the 2008 credit crisis. Tier-1 market leaders like Micron (MU), Nvidia (NVDA), and Meta (META) remain supported by genuine EPS acceleration rather than pure speculation. The discussion also explores emerging credit risks surrounding debt-heavy compute providers like CoreWeave (CRWV), contrasting today’s exponential demand for compute against 1990s telecom buildouts (think Global Crossing) where excess fiber capacity sat idle. Policy Hurdles, National Security, and SpaceX Beyond the balance sheets, we go over potential regulatory headwinds, including proposed legislative moratoriums on AI data center construction. Reality: aggressive restrictions are unlikely to derail the sector, given that digital infrastructure is increasingly treated as a critical national security priority. We also go over SpaceX’s earnings potential, covering everything from Starlink subscriptions to compute leasing developments, so the persistent speculation about a possible Tesla-SpaceX merger. Actionable Chart Setups For traders looking for high-probability setups away from the headlines, the video breaks down key chart patterns across multiple sectors: Arcutis Biotherapeutics (ARQT): A clean base breakout supported by heavy follow-through volume. Hasbro (HAS): An inverse head-and-shoulders formation testing critical neckline resistance. Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE): An ascending triangle coiling for a potential technical push. Amazon (AMZN): A consolidating wedge pattern setting up right before earnings, with key upside levels mapped out toward the $308–$312 range. Make sure you watch the whole video for an end-to-end look at the AI boom.
Continue Reading -->Markets in Turmoil Headlines = Buy!
ATTN: Sami Abusaad and James Rich Young’s next Pristine Mentorship is on the calendar for October through December 2026. Spots are running out! When Sami hears “Markets in Turmoil,” he wants to do 4 things: Tune out the noise Check the daily charts Identify key support Look for buying opportunities When you hear “Markets in Turmoil” on financial TV stations, it’s usually time to buy. We saw it with the bond market, which is why Sami bought TLT. And it just happened with semiconductor and AI stocks, which were under tremendous pressure. This disconnect exposes a major trap. News outlets focus on market drama when assets are actively tumbling, which is typically when traders should avoid catching falling knives. Conversely, when selling exhaustion occurs and strong technical setups emerge at support, the coverage goes silent. So hearing the phrase “market in turmoil” is usually a reliable cue to look for long entries rather than short positions. A clear example is the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH). After a sharp sell-off straight into daily support, the setup was not an area to chase shorts, but an attractive spot to initiate a long trade. Similar favorable risk-reward entries surfaced across beaten-down assets, like leveraged index funds like TQQQ and TNA and high-beta stocks like Robinhood (HOOD) and MicroStrategy (MSTR). (you need a strong stomach for these. Unless a chart is establishing a rare secular top, history shows that sharp pullbacks into established support levels repeatedly reward dip buyers. The next time financial headlines declare panic across the markets, tune out the noise. Check the daily charts, identify key support, and look for the buying opportunities the crowd refuses to see. Want to go elite under Sami’s watch? Consider his Pristine Mentorship, which he co-leads with James Rich Young.
Continue Reading -->Oracle Is Not a Buy
ATTN: Sami Abusaad and James Rich Young’s next Pristine Mentorship is on the calendar for October through December 2026. Spots are running out! Thinking of buying the dip in Oracle (ORCL)? Sami Abusaad says no. See why in today’s video: The broader market enters the week in a precarious standoff between bearish breakdowns and key technical support. Sami Abusaad shows you the troubling pattern across major indices: Friday’s sharp sell-off completely erased Thursday’s bullish green bar on both the QQQ and SPY. While taking out a strong green bar is inherently bearish, the pullback landed directly into daily chart support, pointing to potential two-way chop rather than a fast decline decline. Meanwhile, small caps (IWM) and semiconductors (SMH) exhibit clear relative weakness. IWM is in a steep downtrend and SMH is dragging tech lower. So it’s time to be selective and look for longs and shorts. Long Candidates: Constructive basing and breakout patterns stand out in names like Allot (ALLT), Teva Pharmaceutical (TEVA), and ServiceTitan (TTAN). Plus, gold miners Galiano Gold (GAU) and Newmont (NEM) are looking very interestined. Short Setups: Vulnerable charts and prominent breakout failures offer clean downside opportunities, particularly in American Bitcoin Corp (ABTC), Oracle (ORCL), Rush Street Interactive (RSI), and Vistance Networks (VISN). With earnings season heating up this week with Tesla (TSLA), Netflix (NFLX), SpaceX (SPCX) and others, key technical levels may be tested. Expect choppy, back-and-forth price swings over the coming days until the market establishes a definitive trend. Only look for setups with the right risk-reward. You don’t want to get steamrolled at a time like this. Want to learn how he makes these gamebreaking ideas? Consider his Pristine Mentorship, which he co-leads with James Rich Young.
Continue Reading -->Did Michael Dell Say Buy Micron?
ATTN: Sami Abusaad and James Rich Young’s Pristine Mentorship starts soon. Check it out here.What a week! Elon Musk showed us a flying car. Inflation came in hot. And my portfolio got smoked. But… Michael Dell might have handed us a big new idea. Let’s dig in. Skip Ahead! Red October for TechDid Michael Dell Tell Us to Buy Micron?Earning Season Is Going Okay, But Could Be About to Go BOOMMeta Is Key to AISentiment Is NeutralRate Hike Expectations Subject to ChangeREMINDER: Join the Mentorship Red October for TechIt’s been a rough month for tech. QQQ is down 4.1%, while SPY is down just 0.1%. Meanwhile, DIA is up 1.9%. But bizarrely, every S&P sector is up aside from Tech and Communications.And Communications might as well be tech because it includes names like Meta (META) and Alphabet (GOOGL). If we did deeper into the QQQ’s, 55 of 101 names are up in October. Sounds decent. But the average winner is up 6.3%, while the average decliner is down 11.1%. That’s because the decliners list is dominated by beaten-up AI names like SanDisk (SNDK), Nebius Group (NBIS), and CoreWeave (CRWV). Speaking of beaten-up AI names…Did Michael Dell Tell Us to Buy Micron?A Friday Wall Street Journal article about Dell (DELL) included an interesting little nugget from company founder Michael Dell. When speaking about the memory supply crunch, he said “It’s gonna get worse.” Was he telling us to look at Micron (MU), which is trading at 5x forward earnings?Supply shortages favor sellers like Micron. And the longer the shortage, the better for Micron. However, it’s not easy to feel confident when the AI trade is taking the elevator down… Our own JR Romero is a big Micron fan. Here’s why:Earning Season Is Going Okay, But Could Be About to Go BOOMAccording to FactSet, 9% of the S&P 500 has reported earnings. 84% of companies have beaten estimates. However, Q3 earnings are now tracking to grow by 29.0%, slightly below the 29.4% expected last week. This is because earnings beats are smaller than expected, and are being offset by lower estimates in the Health Care sector. However, we are about to get a bunch of big tech earnings reports which have the potential to shift sentiment. Starting with…Meta Is Key to AIEarnings season heats up big time next week, especially in tech. Meta (META) is the biggie, especially when it comes to AI. The market is desperate for reassurance that AI infrastructure spending can keep growing. Because that spending has been key to earnings growth. So consider Meta’s capex guidance a major market catalyst. The higher, the better. (duh) Yes, we have important companies like Netflix (NFLX), Tesla (TSLA), and Lam Research (LRCX) reporting, but Meta is the big one.Sentiment Is NeutralThe latest AAII Sentiment Survey shows that 38.7% of investors are bullish.That’s pretty much in-line with the long-term average of 37.5%. By 41.6% of investors said they were bearish, which is above the 31.5% historical average. Plus, CNN’s Fear & Greed Index is at just 18/100, indicating Extreme Fear.So it looks this market’s short on joyous participants.Rate Hike Expectations Subject to ChangeEven with hot CPI and PPI reports this week, expectations for the October 28 FOMC meeting haven’t changed much, according to the CME’s FedWatch Tool. The market is pricing in a 17.2% chance of a 25 bp rate hike, down from 27.7% last week.And the market expects an 88.2% chance of at least one hike by year-end. Not a big change from last week.REMINDER: Join the Mentorship Sami Abusaad and James Rich Young’s Pristine Mentorship starts soon. Learn about it here. Want to get to know them? Watch this webinar:
Continue Reading -->How to Find the Next Dell
If you want to catch real winners in the stock market, stop digging through the bargain bin looking for “cheap” stocks. A beaten-down stock in a dying industry is still junk. Finding mega movers like Dell (DELL) comes down to identifying the real leaders and ditching money-killing habits. Here’s how Inner Circle crushed Dell, and how you can find the next huge winner: Let’s break it down: 1. Hang Out in the Right Neighborhood Nobody is getting rich buying a bottomed-out stock when its entire sector is in the gutter. You want to put your money where the action and money flow are going. Look for massive TAM’s (total addressable markets), expanding profit margins, and companies that keep beat and guide higher. Take Dell: it wasn’t just an old-school hardware company. It had front-row positioning right alongside Nvidia’s Jensen Huang during the AI boom, showing serious relative strength when the rest of the market was slipping. The company also played nice with the White House. 2. Stop Kicking Yourself Over Past Prices The easiest way to miss a massive run is getting obsessed with where a stock traded a few months ago. We’ve all caught ourselves thinking, “Man, I owned this at $100—how can I buy it again at $300?” But that’s a rookie mistake. If the company just blew past all expectations and earnings doubled, paying 20 times earnings at $300 might actually be a better bargain than it was at $100. Focus on what the stock looks like today. Not what you could have paid yesterday. 3. Take Your Chips Off the Table Even market darlings don’t go straight up forever. Every big stock from Nvidia (NVDA) to SanDisk (SNDK) to Meta (META) has had ups and downs.When the broader macro picture gets rough (rising bond yields, spiking oil prices, or global tension) the big funds will eventually cash out. As the saying goes, when the market gets ugly, they “shoot the generals” first, and then the lesser names get tkaen out. There is nothing wrong with taking profits, letting someone else squeeze out the last few dollars, and waiting until the risk/reward tilts back in your favor. Trading top-tier stocks isn’t about guessing the exact bottom every freaking time. It’s about riding the strongest horses, keeping an open mind on price, and walking away when the easy money has been made.
Continue Reading -->Assume the Crash Position
There’s an old Wall St. legend that Joseph Kennedy Sr. kept the family fortune that he amassed from bootlegging by getting out of stocks just before the 1929 crash. His opportune timing was the result of his astute observation that even his shoe shine boy was giving him stock tips. Kennedy reasoned that if even the most uninformed shoe shine boy was levering up in stocks, there was literally no one left to buy stocks. I was reminded of that legend last week standing in line at the bank. There was an octogenarian at the only open teller, and I was next in line. While patience is the only virtue I possess naturally, and abundantly so, even my heroic levels of patience wore thin as I waited for this elderly gentlemen to figure out how to use the card reader to allow the teller to access his account. He was completely oblivious to the line forming behind him as he recounted his stories from opening up his first bank account in the 1970’s while the teller came out from behind the booth to operate the card reader for the old man. His stories went on, and he divulged many details about his financial life as the line grew longer behind me. He was there to transfer money from his RMD, the required minimum distribution, from his IRA. He was heavily in stocks and quite excited about all his gains that allowed him to now consume in his retirement. He struck me as someone whose enthusiasm for the stock market was far greater than his aptitude in operating in the stock market. This was my shoe shine boy moment. I saw embodied in this old man the spirit of a hapless shoeshine boy whose entire fortune is resting on hopes of a greater fool to come along and buy his stock from him at a higher price. This was the moment my bearish inclination hardened into a firm resolve to short this market. The market breadth has been bothering me for some time, and I’ve been in about 75% cash for a while, but this short setup is too perfect to pass up so I’m reflecting my increased bearishness by shorting. I’ve been laying out my bearish case for over a month. Nothing I’ve seen has changed my mind, and it remains this: I think the 2026 market looks awfully similar to the 1987 and 1929 stock market crashes. We saw a summer rally, a break in late August, and now we are in the rally back up to the break level. All that remains is a failure to recapture the breakdown level, and then an October crash would complete the template. The signal I’ve been waiting for occurred Wednesday this week. The signal I wanted was a follow through day to the down side after a failure at the breakdown level. Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average got rejected at the $53K level on bank earnings. Wednesday is what I’m considering the follow through day. I’ve got a low risk stop right above the 50 day moving average which is 2% higher. A good crash could see a 20% down move so this risk to reward setup is too good to pass up. Here’s a pro tip, if you ever get a 10:1 odds payout, you take that trade every single time. I win on only 60% of my trades, so there’s a 40% chance I get stopped out of this trade at a loss. I’ve accepted the terms of the trade, and I’ll live with the consequences. This is a trade I like because I think I’ve got an edge here. That edge is my knowledge of historical precedent for a crash. I like to read old newspapers from the 1929 era to get a feel for the zeitgeist. Recently I’ve been reading the Financial Chronicle. One thing that stands out is how commonly accepted was the inevitability of a crash due to all the speculative excess that was occurring for two years leading up to the top. Back then, as will be this time, blame was placed on the Fed’s easy money policies. Back then, it was understood that the Fed’s credit creation was leading to all manner of unprofitable business venture that served no purpose (read the Oct 26, 1929 edition of the Financial Chronicle). Today we have crypto currencies, and there is untold amounts of time, talent, and treasure poured into this enterprise of dubious value. Nothing has changed in a century since the last big crash or since the South Sea collapse three centuries ago. Human nature remains the same today as it has been throughout all human history. We tend to over estimate the benefits of the future and look for ways to get rich quickly. This is what allows bubbles to form. Like all bubbles, this one too must eventually pop, and my view is that this one’s time has come. Of course the pundits will blame speculators when this bubble pops. But of course it’s not us speculators that cause the bubble. It’s policy makers that create the incentives for bubbles to inflate. This time around, with the Internet, there will be a permanent record (until it eventually gets scrubbed) of all the warnings since 2012 made by market participants that policy makers were setting us up for some terrible bubble to form that would eventually succumb to market forces and pop. The pin that pops this bubble could be a foreign central bank move. Either the Bank of Japan or the People’s Bank of China are likely culprits. The pin could also be an Anthropic IPO. This would suck up massive amounts of speculative capital and unleash tons of new shares into the market. The AI trade in general looks vulnerable with a topping pattern in the SMH. It looks like a double top to me. The last top at $630 also has an island with three days of isolated
Continue Reading -->SPY: Breakdown?
JR Romero breaks down $SPY to show you what could signal a drop to $740. The Technical Setup: A Triangle at a Crossroads SPY has formed an ascending triangle, but the price action is giving off late-stage bull market signals. Without broader market breadth and renewed leadership from the Mag 7 big boys like Nvidia, Tesla, and Amazon sustaining momentum at these levels becomes an uphill battle. JR highlights several key levels on the daily chart: Immediate Support ($765.50 – $766): This high-volume node represents critical trendline support that bulls need to defend ASAP. The Volume Gap ($761): Slipping below the trendline risks a fast drop down toward $761. The Liquidation Target ($739.25 – $740): Failing support could trigger a “liquidation break” where everyone dumps at the same time. This push targets a major confluence zone combining the lower anchored VWAP band with the primary volume Point of Control (POC). Pullback = Massive Opportunity? A flush toward $740 would not mean the sky is falling. A shakeout at the 200-day moving average and printing a hammer candle or V-shaped reversal could mean an awesome time to buy. For patient swing traders, a washout provides a much cleaner risk-to-reward entry than chasing extended highs. The Core Lesson: Trade Your Edge! Navigating a late-cycle bull market ain’t easy. While experienced traders who work across multiple market styles can capitalize on the chop, pure continuation traders have it tough. If the setups you see don’t align with your edge, then do two things. Sit. And. Wait.
Continue Reading -->Your Caveman Brain Is Screwing Up Your Trades
Your caveman brain was not made for trading stocks and options. JR Romero explains: Have you ever looked at an A+ trade setup, felt a sudden knot in your stomach, and decided to sit it out… only to watch the stock rip into the stratosphere? Or maybe you’ve panic-sold on a dip… minutes before a rebound. If this sounds familiar, don’t beat yourself up. Your natural human instincts are actually hardwired to be terrible at trading. It’s “sad but true” as our friends from Metallica would say. The Evolutionary Trap As human beings, we are the ultimate pattern recognition machines. Our brains evolved over millions of years to keep us alive in harsh environments environments. Back when we were cavemen, survival meant recognizing a rustle in the bush so we could detect a wild tiger coming for our necks. Our ancestors didn’t survive by investigating the threat. They reacted in an instant. The thinking comes after. While this fight-or-flight instinct is great for keeping you alive, it will wreck you in financial markets. Running Towards the Danger In trading, you often have to run towards danger. When the market is plummeting and fear is at its absolute highest, every fiber of your being is screaming “RUN!” Yet, historically, these moments of peak panic are precisely where the real money is made. Buying into weakness feels dangerous. It triggers our primal survival instincts. But leaning into that discomfort and acting logically when others are panicking is what separates the pros. They buy when it’s hard to buy. They sell when it’s easy to sell. Your Brain Will Deceive You Trading is a 100% unnatural act. Your brain will actively deceive you, making the most profitable decisions feel terrifying and the worst decisions (like buying into the top of a euphoric, hype-driven bubble) feel completely logical. Overcoming this doesn’t just require a good technical strategy. It requires reprogramming millions of years of evolutionary baggage. To become a consistently profitable trader, you have to recognize when your “caveman brain” is behind the wheel. The next time you feel the urge to abandon your trading plan out of pure fear, pause and ask yourself: Are you reacting to a real flaw in your setup? Or are you running from a tiger that isn’t there? The danger you’re feeling might just be your biggest opportunity. Of course, risk and trade management always matter. But beware of reacting to your first most natural instincts.
Continue Reading -->Why Micron Beats SanDisk
SanDisk (SNDK) looks very good. But Micron (MU) looks better right now. JR Romero explains: AI stocks have been in meltdown mode, with names like Lumentum (LITE), Cerebras Systems (CBRS), and Ciena (CIEN) getting hit hard. But JR is opting to look at this situation like Warren Buffett. He wants to buy when others are fearful. And based on his valuation work, he believes Micron is the way to go. JR also goes over: Why the selloff is healthy going into earnings season What to watch with this week’s CPI and PPI report Why you can’t just rely on the same old stocks and strategies He also explains why you must focus on what is freaking moving – something he elaborates on in this other video:
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