The Setup Alphabet has crossed the $4 trillion mark, riding a renewed AI narrative and sitting just shy of all time highs ahead of Feb 4 earnings. Expectations are ambitious but not reckless: $2.64 EPS (+23% YoY) and $111.3B revenue (+16%). The real question is not whether Alphabet beats. It is where the growth is coming from next. Why This Earnings Is Different This quarter is less about Search stability and more about AI translation into dollars. Investors want proof that Gemini is not just a defensive tool, but an offensive one. If AI features improve engagement, protect margins, and slow competitive leakage, Search does  not need to grow fast. It just needs to not erode. That buys Alphabet time. The Cloud Question Google Cloud remains the swing factor. Wall Street wants to see cle

$Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$   The Pullback Nobody Wanted Palantir Technologies is down nearly 18% YTD, and sentiment has flipped fast. Just a year ago, PLTR was written off early in 2024, only to rip +340% by year end. That memory is exactly why this selloff feels uncomfortable. Investors have seen this movie before and are wondering if history is about to rhyme. The recent drop looks less like a company-specific failure and more like high-beta AI de-risking. Software names with premium multiples were sold first as macro uncertainty rose, even when fundamentals stayed intact. Why This Earnings Matters Q4 2025 earnings on Feb 2 are shaping up as a defining moment. Expectations are high: Revenue above $1.34

What Just Happened Bitcoin sliding toward the $80,000–$81,000 zone feels brutal, especially after a 34 percent drawdown from the October peak. Sentiment has cooled sharply, and the numbers look scary. US listed Bitcoin ETFs have now seen three straight months of net outflows, totaling about $4.8 billion, the longest stretch since launch. At the same time, Gold is rallying, making the contrast even starker. On the surface, this looks like capital abandoning crypto. Why This Selloff Is Different Zoom out. This move is not happening in a vacuum. Global markets are repricing Fed uncertainty, tighter liquidity, and political risk. Equities are volatile. Risk appetite is thinning. In that environment, Bitcoin is behaving exactly like a high beta macro asset. When liquidity pulls back, Bitcoin te

Markets did not sell off just because of headlines. They sold off because uncertainty hit a market that was already fragile. Positioning was crowded, liquidity was thin, and expectations were stretched. When the first crack appeared, selling became mechanical rather than emotional. This is why the drop felt violent. Once volatility spiked, risk managers stepped in, leverage was cut, and liquidity was pulled forward. Weak hands exited early, not because they wanted to, but because they had to. In fragile markets, bad news does not need to be large to cause outsized damage. The announcement that Donald Trump may name a new Federal Reserve Chair, with Kevin Warsh emerging as a finalist, forced investors to reprice more than just interest rates. It reopened questions about Fed independence, cr

Is 2026 the Start of a Bitcoin Institutional Supercycle? MicroStrategy (MSTR) jumped after MSCI reversed its decision to remove crypto-treasury companies from major global indices. At first glance, this looked like a technical change. In reality, it was much bigger. ✅ It removed the risk of forced institutional selling ✅ It reassured passive and index funds ✅ It kept MSTR viable as a Bitcoin proxy inside traditional portfolios At the same time, institutions are now buying 76% more Bitcoin than miners are producing — creating a clear structural supply deficit. This is not a short-term trade. This is a positioning shift. 🏛️ 1. Does MSTR Regain Institutional Appeal? Before MSCI's reversal, MSTR sat in an awkward middle ground: Too crypto for traditional mandates Too equity-like for pure Bitco

$Apple(AAPL)$   Apple has fallen seven sessions in a row, down more than 4% this week. That alone is enough to make dip-buyers itchy. What makes this move uncomfortable is the contradiction: FY2026 Q1 is expected to be one of Apple's strongest quarters iPhone 17 and iPhone Air just launched Shipments and revenue are projected to hit record highs So why is the stock selling off? This is not panic. This is a repricing debate. The Sell-Off: What the Chart Is Really Saying Seven red days rarely happen in Apple without a reason. Technically, this looks less like capitulation and more like: Position trimming after a s

The market is celebrating Tesla's 3% pop on strong China numbers. That reaction is understandable, but incomplete. Yes, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) data matters. But the real signal is not volume. It is strategic leverage. China is quietly becoming Tesla's most important AI and autonomy proving ground. And that changes the long-term valuation math. The Headline Everyone Sees: China Deliveries Are Back December 2025 numbers surprised to the upside: 97,171 wholesale units, a new monthly record +11% month-on-month Estimated 94,000 retail sales, up 13% year-on-year This confirms two things: Tesla demand in China is stabilising despite intense local competition Price cuts have already done their job — elasticity is improving But here is the key insight: volume alone does not just

This expiry feels less about direction and more about structure. With such a heavy concentration of ODTEs and strikes clustered around 6,800, the pinning effect has a real chance to dominate into the close — unless a macro surprise forces dealers to re-hedge aggressively. My base case is intraday volatility with a compressed close, not a clean Santa rally yet. Liquidity looks thin, sentiment fragile, and positioning crowded. For me, this is a session to trade levels, not narratives, and size down. December has been about survival and discipline, not hero trades.

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$   This Christmas, I chose to travel, and interestingly, Korea ended up giving me some of the clearest trading lessons of the year. K-culture looks flashy on the surface: K-pop performances, perfectly choreographed stages, polished visuals. But once you are there, you realise the real story is discipline, repetition, and respect for process. No idol debuts overnight. Years of training happen quietly before the spotlight ever turns on. That felt painfully familiar as a trader. In markets, we celebrate the breakout days and the winning trades. But the real edge is built off-screen, journaling, reviewing losses, cutting positions early, and sitting through boredom when there is nothing to do. Korea reminded me that consisten

Markets are entering the final stretch of the year with an unusual mix of seasonal optimism and macro anxiety. On the surface, U.S. equities look resilient. The S&P 500 has pulled back modestly, Bitcoin is volatile but holding key levels, and economic data still points to a relatively strong labour market. Yet beneath that calm sits a growing unease, will global liquidity tighten just as investors expect a Santa Rally? At the centre of this tension is Japan. 🇯🇵 Why the BOJ Suddenly Matters to U.S. Markets This week, the