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$Fluence Energy, Inc.(FLNC)$   What we just witnessed was a textbook institutional reversal. The morning squeeze to $21.87 wasn’t organic strength — it was a manufactured vacuum move designed to trigger: • Short-covering • Retail breakout chasing • FOMO momentum buying Then came the hammer. Major holders, including the Qatar Investment Authority via Qatar Holding LLC, unloaded a staggering 2,867,172 shares at exactly $21.00. Once the buy pressure exhausted, institutional sell blocks completely steamrolled the bid. The result? A brutal swing that destroyed BOTH longs and shorts within hours. But here’s the important part: 💡 The more violent the swing, the more likely massive accumulation is happening underneath the chaos. Smart money often cre

The IPO of the Century Is Coming: SpaceX Targets June 12 Listing — Which Stocks Could Benefit? SpaceX, Elon Musk's commercial space leader, has reportedly accelerated its IPO timetable. The company may file its prospectus as early as May 21, begin its global roadshow on June 4, and list on Nasdaq as early as June 12. The IPO could raise $80 billion or more, with a potential valuation of $1.75 trillion to $2 trillion, which would make it one of the largest IPOs in capital-market history.  The proceeds are expected to support two strategic priorities: accelerating large-scale regular launches of the next-generation Starship program, and building a low-Earth-orbit space data-center network. Recent Major Developments Capital Strategy: Institutional Support and a Stock Split to Lower the R

GLD Short Volume Doubles as Inflation Shock Revive January Flash Crash Concerns Short sellers significantly stepped up their bets against Gold ($SPDR Gold ETF(GLD)$  ) on Thursday, with short volume surging to 1.49 million shares — double the approximately 745,000 shares shorted the prior session. Three reasons stood out. As a pair of hotter-than-expected inflation prints last week forced a dramatic repricing of Fed expectations and raised an uncomfortable question: could gold be setting up for a repeat of its late-January flash crash? A one-two inflation punch. The bearish case crystallized last week when back-to-back inflation reports came in above estimates. CPI printed at 3.8%, edging past the 3.7% consensus

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST INVESTORS ARE ALL SELLING AT THE SAME TIME. The newly filed Q1 2026 portfolios reveal a massive de-risking wave across Wall Street's smartest money. Warren Buffett's successor Greg Abel trimmed the Berkshire portfolio from 40 positions down to 26, fully exiting Amazon, UnitedHealth, and Domino's while cutting Chevron and Bank of America. Bill Ackman sold 94.94% of his Google Class C shares and 95.23% of his Class A shares, effectively exiting the position entirely. Chris Hohn's TCI Fund sold almost its entire $8 billion Microsoft stake, cutting from 10% of the portfolio down to 1%, citing AI disruption risk to Microsoft's core software business. Daniel Loeb fully exited Microsoft and PG&E, reduced Nvidia by 93.56%, Union Pacific by 94.48%, and exited 20 pos

$Home Depot(HD)$ is scheduled to report its fiscal first-quarter 2026 earnings on Tuesday, May 19, before the market opens. The stock enters this print under significant technical pressure, hovering just above its 52-week low of roughly $299 (down from a high of over $426). This sets up a highly interesting risk-reward profile for short-term traders. Here is a breakdown of what to expect, the key metrics to watch, and potential short-term post-earnings trading strategies. Wall Street Expectations & Consensus Revenue: Expected at $41.5 billion to $41.6 billion, which represents a year-over-year increase of about 4.2%. (Note that top-line growth is being supported by recent acquisitions like SRS and GMS). Earnings Per Share (EPS): Consensus sits a

The AI Toll Collector Nobody Expected Most investors still think $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ is fighting Nvidia for the AI throne. I increasingly think AMD may profit even if it never wins the crown. That is what makes the stock so dangerous at today’s valuation. At nearly $700 billion in market value and more than 140 times trailing earnings, AMD is no longer priced like a challenger. It is priced like a future AI superpower. Yet unlike Nvidia — whose software ecosystem behaves less like a product suite and more like a fully electrified railway network that developers are already locked into — AMD is still racing to prove its moat can widen fast enough to justify the premium investors have assigned it. The paradox is brutal. AMD may not need to

Harvesting Dividends on the ASX with VAS ETF  🌟🌟🌟$VANGUARD AUST SHARES IDX ETF(VAS.AU)$ is Australia's largest ETF with assets under management of AUD 24.3 billion.  VAS dwarfs its closest rivals Beta Shares A200 at AUD 9.2 billion and iShares IOZ at AUD 8.3 billion.  VAS stands as the undisputed heavyweight king of Australian ETFs. Why Invest In VAS? The Blue Chip Cartel : An Elite Dividend Machine  If you are evaluating VAS through an income lens, VAS is an exceptional dividend ETF.  It is built on raw, tax shielded cash flow power. The Power of Australian Blue Chip Giants: VAS tracks the top 300 largest companies on the ASX.  This means that your capital is tied directly to the most profitable cash printing gian

Earnings Calendar (18May2026) I am interested in the earnings of ZIM, Nvidia, Baidu, and NIO next week. ZIM Overview ZIM has delivered a strong share price performance over the past year, but the broader picture is mixed. While valuation and income metrics appear attractive, technical indicators suggest caution, and analyst sentiment remains “neutral”. · Share price performance: Up 39.5% from a year ago. · Technical analysis: Signals a strong sell. · Analyst sentiment: Neutral. · Target price: $22.78, implying a potential downside of 10.93%. · P/E ratio: 6.5, which may suggest an attractive valuation. · EPS: $3.98. · Dividend yield: 13.8%, which stands out as especially attractive. Financial Performance Trend · Tota

Tencent’s first-quarter 2026 results show a company in transition. Its core business is still highly profitable and generates strong cash flow. At the same time, it is making an aggressive push into artificial intelligence. This pivot has yet to be proven. Tencent continues to position AI as its next major growth driver. But execution is still a work in progress. The launch of the Hy3 preview large language model is a sign of progress in its in-house capabilities. A revamped AI infrastructure supports this. Even so, Tencent trails its domestic peers. Alibaba Group and ByteDance are ahead. Global leaders like Microsoft and Alphabet are further ahead still, both in frontier model performance and ecosystem scale. Tencent’s hybrid approach uses both proprietary models and external partners lik

Precious Metals Bloodbath: Gold, Silver Miners Crushed as Dollar and Yields Surge Against the backdrop of continued strength in U.S. economic data and a market rapidly repricing the Federal Reserve's rate-cut path, the precious metals sector suffered its most severe systemic selloff of 2026 on Friday. Spot gold plunged 6.38% while spot silver collapsed 8.45%, triggering a broad-based selloff across precious metals and mining stocks. At the same time, the U.S. dollar index and Treasury yields surged sharply, becoming the key drivers behind the collapse in bullish sentiment toward the sector. Data showed the ICE U.S. Dollar Index rose about 0.3% to around 99.17, while the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield briefly climbed to 4.54%, marking its highest level in nearly a year. For gold and silver, th

The Cybersecurity Vendor That Quietly Became an Operating System There is a strange irony surrounding CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.. Despite becoming one of the most dominant software platforms in enterprise security, many investors still discuss it as though it merely sells antivirus software with better marketing and cooler conference booths. That framing now looks wildly outdated. What I increasingly see is a company evolving into the operating layer for modern cybersecurity operations — a position that tends to create frighteningly durable economics. Once enterprises centralise endpoint security, identity protection, cloud workload monitoring, threat intelligence, SIEM, and incident response into a single architecture, the cost of ripping it out becomes about as appealing as replacing a j

🔥 AI’s Next Gold Rush Isn’t GPUs… It’s What Moves the Data The AI revolution has officially entered a new phase. Everyone was obsessed with computing power. But the real bottleneck now isn’t how fast AI can calculate — it’s how fast data can move between thousands of GPUs. As physical limits hit copper interconnects hard, the industry is making a massive shift: Light in. Copper out. Welcome to the Optical Communication era — the hidden backbone of the AI boom. I’m breaking down the two absolute giants dominating this space: 🇺🇸 $Ciena(CIEN)$  – America’s optical networking king 🇫🇮 $Nokia Oyj(NOK)$   – The European heavyweight going on the offensive Both are eati

$Fluence Energy, Inc.(FLNC)$   Everyone saw the headline: SPT Holding Sarl sold 10M+ shares (~$206M) But the real story isn’t the sell. It’s what the market did after. This is what absorption actually looks like: A single-day block equal to ~1 full trading day of volume didn’t crash the stock. Instead: Price held a wide range (~$19–$21) Heavy volume traded through the tape Buyers consistently stepped in below $20 Sellers failed to force a clean breakdown That is not panic selling. That is distribution being absorbed in real time. Think of price action as 3 stacked zones: 🔴 Upper Supply Zone: $21.5 – $23 Where sellers still “lean on the tape” Rallies get sold into Intraday spikes fail quickly This is the last visible overhang area 👉 If price k

🚀 My NVDA Cash Secured Put Strategy — Earning $20 to $40 Daily From Market fluctuations  One of my favorite option strategies is selling cash secured puts on NVIDIA because it allows me to generate consistent income while being willing to own one of the strongest AI companies in the world. Instead of chasing hype or gambling on short-term moves, I focus on collecting premium daily through disciplined option selling. Over the past few months, this strategy has helped me generate more than $5,171 in profits, as shown in the screenshots above. 📈 💡 Why I Like Selling Cash Secured Puts A cash secured put means I sell a put option while keeping enough cash ready to buy the shares if I get assigned. In simple terms, I am getting paid upfront for agreeing to potentially buy NVIDIA shares at a

Microsoft Retail Traders Build Bullish Positions After Ackman Takes Stake $Microsoft(MSFT)$   is seeing retail traders build bullish option positions in the tech giant, betting they can profit from billionaire Bill Ackman's disclosure, which could trigger increased institutional buying of the stock that has trailed its Magnificent Seven peers this year.  Call options that give their holder the right to buy Microsoft shares rose to about 777,200 contracts in the first one-and-a-half hours of trading Friday, surpassing yesterday's total of 545,644 contracts and the 20-day average of 578,778 contracts. This lopsided shift in the derivatives market indicates that investors are attempting to front-run—or buy in

Now You Seat Me, Now You Don’t ServiceNow just delivered the sort of quarter that normally sends software stocks sharply higher. Subscription revenue rose 22% year over year to $3.67 billion. Customers spending more than $1 million annually on its AI product, Now Assist, surged over 130%. Management then raised its AI revenue target from $1 billion to $1.5 billion midway through the year. The reward? A near-20% share price collapse in a single trading session. That reaction tells me something important about where markets are in 2026. Investors are no longer questioning whether AI adoption is real. They are questioning whether AI quietly destroys the business model that made enterprise software wildly profitable in the first place. AI may be replacing the very seats SaaS once monetised And

​⚠️ $Fluence Energy, Inc.(FLNC)$  Epic Bear Trap Breakdown 🐻🪤 ​Insane price action on Fluence Energy (FLNC) yesterday. Massive -10% dump straight into a V-shape reversal to close practically flat.  Here is exactly what went down behind the scenes: ​1. The Backstory (The Supply Shock) ​AES Redemed Units: AES converted ~10M LLC units into brand new tradable Class A shares. ​Massive Secondary Offering: Insiders (AES, Siemens, Qatar) dumped a massive 23M share block onto the market via a secondary offering priced at $21.00. ​Crucial context: Fluence received $0 from this—it was purely institutional rebalancing, meaning a massive influx of float liquidity all settling on Friday (May 15). ​2. The Short Attack Mechanics ​Shorts saw the huge flo

$S 20260618 16.0 CALL$  $SentinelOne, Inc(S)$   Disclaimer: Nothing I say or post should be considered financial advice. Please do your own due diligence before making any investment decisions. Started a covered call strategy on S today as I took advantage of the late-morning momentum as SentinelOne broke past $17.00 today to lock in a highly optimized defensive position. By routing a Net Debit order to buy the shares at $17.05 and simultaneously selling that June 18 $16.00 Call for $2.00, I successfully established a position that completely insulates myself from most downside earnings volatility. Here is the exact scoreboard for this trade: 1. The Key Numbers Gross Stock Entry:

For me it’s a hype that will flatten soon. Better get out when the going is good

By now, I am certain most of my regular readers would ‘know’ that I think Quantum computing will be the next ‘big’ Tech after AI. I have in the past, shared posts on stocks like $Rigetti Computing(RGTI)$ and $D-Wave Quantum Inc.(QBTS)$ where I have vested interests. Click here ! for the most recent. This post is no exceptions and it’s QBTS’s latest quarterly earnings. Q1 2026 Earnings. On Tue, 12 May 2026, QBTS reported its Q1 2026 earnings: Earnings per share: Came in at -$0.05 vs analysts’ forecasts of -$0.08 vs Q1 2025’s -$0.02; that’s a -150% YoY dip. Revenue: Fell by -$12.1 million to $2.9 million vs Wall Street’s consensus of $

The IPO of the Century Is Coming: SpaceX Targets June 12 Listing — Which Stocks Could Benefit? SpaceX, Elon Musk's commercial space leader, has reportedly accelerated its IPO timetable. The company may file its prospectus as early as May 21, begin its global roadshow on June 4, and list on Nasdaq as early as June 12. The IPO could raise $80 billion or more, with a potential valuation of $1.75 trillion to $2 trillion, which would make it one of the largest IPOs in capital-market history.  The proceeds are expected to support two strategic priorities: accelerating large-scale regular launches of the next-generation Starship program, and building a low-Earth-orbit space data-center network. Recent Major Developments Capital Strategy: Institutional Support and a Stock Split to Lower the R

GLD Short Volume Doubles as Inflation Shock Revive January Flash Crash Concerns Short sellers significantly stepped up their bets against Gold ($SPDR Gold ETF(GLD)$  ) on Thursday, with short volume surging to 1.49 million shares — double the approximately 745,000 shares shorted the prior session. Three reasons stood out. As a pair of hotter-than-expected inflation prints last week forced a dramatic repricing of Fed expectations and raised an uncomfortable question: could gold be setting up for a repeat of its late-January flash crash? A one-two inflation punch. The bearish case crystallized last week when back-to-back inflation reports came in above estimates. CPI printed at 3.8%, edging past the 3.7% consensus

$Home Depot(HD)$ is scheduled to report its fiscal first-quarter 2026 earnings on Tuesday, May 19, before the market opens. The stock enters this print under significant technical pressure, hovering just above its 52-week low of roughly $299 (down from a high of over $426). This sets up a highly interesting risk-reward profile for short-term traders. Here is a breakdown of what to expect, the key metrics to watch, and potential short-term post-earnings trading strategies. Wall Street Expectations & Consensus Revenue: Expected at $41.5 billion to $41.6 billion, which represents a year-over-year increase of about 4.2%. (Note that top-line growth is being supported by recent acquisitions like SRS and GMS). Earnings Per Share (EPS): Consensus sits a

The AI Toll Collector Nobody Expected Most investors still think $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ is fighting Nvidia for the AI throne. I increasingly think AMD may profit even if it never wins the crown. That is what makes the stock so dangerous at today’s valuation. At nearly $700 billion in market value and more than 140 times trailing earnings, AMD is no longer priced like a challenger. It is priced like a future AI superpower. Yet unlike Nvidia — whose software ecosystem behaves less like a product suite and more like a fully electrified railway network that developers are already locked into — AMD is still racing to prove its moat can widen fast enough to justify the premium investors have assigned it. The paradox is brutal. AMD may not need to

$Fluence Energy, Inc.(FLNC)$   What we just witnessed was a textbook institutional reversal. The morning squeeze to $21.87 wasn’t organic strength — it was a manufactured vacuum move designed to trigger: • Short-covering • Retail breakout chasing • FOMO momentum buying Then came the hammer. Major holders, including the Qatar Investment Authority via Qatar Holding LLC, unloaded a staggering 2,867,172 shares at exactly $21.00. Once the buy pressure exhausted, institutional sell blocks completely steamrolled the bid. The result? A brutal swing that destroyed BOTH longs and shorts within hours. But here’s the important part: 💡 The more violent the swing, the more likely massive accumulation is happening underneath the chaos. Smart money often cre

Harvesting Dividends on the ASX with VAS ETF  🌟🌟🌟$VANGUARD AUST SHARES IDX ETF(VAS.AU)$ is Australia's largest ETF with assets under management of AUD 24.3 billion.  VAS dwarfs its closest rivals Beta Shares A200 at AUD 9.2 billion and iShares IOZ at AUD 8.3 billion.  VAS stands as the undisputed heavyweight king of Australian ETFs. Why Invest In VAS? The Blue Chip Cartel : An Elite Dividend Machine  If you are evaluating VAS through an income lens, VAS is an exceptional dividend ETF.  It is built on raw, tax shielded cash flow power. The Power of Australian Blue Chip Giants: VAS tracks the top 300 largest companies on the ASX.  This means that your capital is tied directly to the most profitable cash printing gian

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST INVESTORS ARE ALL SELLING AT THE SAME TIME. The newly filed Q1 2026 portfolios reveal a massive de-risking wave across Wall Street's smartest money. Warren Buffett's successor Greg Abel trimmed the Berkshire portfolio from 40 positions down to 26, fully exiting Amazon, UnitedHealth, and Domino's while cutting Chevron and Bank of America. Bill Ackman sold 94.94% of his Google Class C shares and 95.23% of his Class A shares, effectively exiting the position entirely. Chris Hohn's TCI Fund sold almost its entire $8 billion Microsoft stake, cutting from 10% of the portfolio down to 1%, citing AI disruption risk to Microsoft's core software business. Daniel Loeb fully exited Microsoft and PG&E, reduced Nvidia by 93.56%, Union Pacific by 94.48%, and exited 20 pos

Earnings Calendar (18May2026) I am interested in the earnings of ZIM, Nvidia, Baidu, and NIO next week. ZIM Overview ZIM has delivered a strong share price performance over the past year, but the broader picture is mixed. While valuation and income metrics appear attractive, technical indicators suggest caution, and analyst sentiment remains “neutral”. · Share price performance: Up 39.5% from a year ago. · Technical analysis: Signals a strong sell. · Analyst sentiment: Neutral. · Target price: $22.78, implying a potential downside of 10.93%. · P/E ratio: 6.5, which may suggest an attractive valuation. · EPS: $3.98. · Dividend yield: 13.8%, which stands out as especially attractive. Financial Performance Trend · Tota

The Cybersecurity Vendor That Quietly Became an Operating System There is a strange irony surrounding CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.. Despite becoming one of the most dominant software platforms in enterprise security, many investors still discuss it as though it merely sells antivirus software with better marketing and cooler conference booths. That framing now looks wildly outdated. What I increasingly see is a company evolving into the operating layer for modern cybersecurity operations — a position that tends to create frighteningly durable economics. Once enterprises centralise endpoint security, identity protection, cloud workload monitoring, threat intelligence, SIEM, and incident response into a single architecture, the cost of ripping it out becomes about as appealing as replacing a j

Precious Metals Bloodbath: Gold, Silver Miners Crushed as Dollar and Yields Surge Against the backdrop of continued strength in U.S. economic data and a market rapidly repricing the Federal Reserve's rate-cut path, the precious metals sector suffered its most severe systemic selloff of 2026 on Friday. Spot gold plunged 6.38% while spot silver collapsed 8.45%, triggering a broad-based selloff across precious metals and mining stocks. At the same time, the U.S. dollar index and Treasury yields surged sharply, becoming the key drivers behind the collapse in bullish sentiment toward the sector. Data showed the ICE U.S. Dollar Index rose about 0.3% to around 99.17, while the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield briefly climbed to 4.54%, marking its highest level in nearly a year. For gold and silver, th

By now, I am certain most of my regular readers would ‘know’ that I think Quantum computing will be the next ‘big’ Tech after AI. I have in the past, shared posts on stocks like $Rigetti Computing(RGTI)$ and $D-Wave Quantum Inc.(QBTS)$ where I have vested interests. Click here ! for the most recent. This post is no exceptions and it’s QBTS’s latest quarterly earnings. Q1 2026 Earnings. On Tue, 12 May 2026, QBTS reported its Q1 2026 earnings: Earnings per share: Came in at -$0.05 vs analysts’ forecasts of -$0.08 vs Q1 2025’s -$0.02; that’s a -150% YoY dip. Revenue: Fell by -$12.1 million to $2.9 million vs Wall Street’s consensus of $

🚀 My NVDA Cash Secured Put Strategy — Earning $20 to $40 Daily From Market fluctuations  One of my favorite option strategies is selling cash secured puts on NVIDIA because it allows me to generate consistent income while being willing to own one of the strongest AI companies in the world. Instead of chasing hype or gambling on short-term moves, I focus on collecting premium daily through disciplined option selling. Over the past few months, this strategy has helped me generate more than $5,171 in profits, as shown in the screenshots above. 📈 💡 Why I Like Selling Cash Secured Puts A cash secured put means I sell a put option while keeping enough cash ready to buy the shares if I get assigned. In simple terms, I am getting paid upfront for agreeing to potentially buy NVIDIA shares at a

Now You Seat Me, Now You Don’t ServiceNow just delivered the sort of quarter that normally sends software stocks sharply higher. Subscription revenue rose 22% year over year to $3.67 billion. Customers spending more than $1 million annually on its AI product, Now Assist, surged over 130%. Management then raised its AI revenue target from $1 billion to $1.5 billion midway through the year. The reward? A near-20% share price collapse in a single trading session. That reaction tells me something important about where markets are in 2026. Investors are no longer questioning whether AI adoption is real. They are questioning whether AI quietly destroys the business model that made enterprise software wildly profitable in the first place. AI may be replacing the very seats SaaS once monetised And

Nvidia Current Headwinds. $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ has long been the undisputed leader in the AI accelerator market, commanding roughly 86% of share. This dominance, however, is increasingly being challenged as its partners and rivals begin to encroach on its territory. $Alphabet(GOOG)$, $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ and other major technology companies are no longer content to rely solely on NVDA’s GPUs. Instead, they are investing heavily in their own chip architectures: GOOG’s TPU program, for instance, has secured a massive 5-year, $200 billion commitment from Anthropic. AMZN’s Trainium chips meanwhile have attracted $225 billion in commitments, with

$Fluence Energy, Inc.(FLNC)$   Everyone saw the headline: SPT Holding Sarl sold 10M+ shares (~$206M) But the real story isn’t the sell. It’s what the market did after. This is what absorption actually looks like: A single-day block equal to ~1 full trading day of volume didn’t crash the stock. Instead: Price held a wide range (~$19–$21) Heavy volume traded through the tape Buyers consistently stepped in below $20 Sellers failed to force a clean breakdown That is not panic selling. That is distribution being absorbed in real time. Think of price action as 3 stacked zones: 🔴 Upper Supply Zone: $21.5 – $23 Where sellers still “lean on the tape” Rallies get sold into Intraday spikes fail quickly This is the last visible overhang area 👉 If price k

🔥 AI’s Next Gold Rush Isn’t GPUs… It’s What Moves the Data The AI revolution has officially entered a new phase. Everyone was obsessed with computing power. But the real bottleneck now isn’t how fast AI can calculate — it’s how fast data can move between thousands of GPUs. As physical limits hit copper interconnects hard, the industry is making a massive shift: Light in. Copper out. Welcome to the Optical Communication era — the hidden backbone of the AI boom. I’m breaking down the two absolute giants dominating this space: 🇺🇸 $Ciena(CIEN)$  – America’s optical networking king 🇫🇮 $Nokia Oyj(NOK)$   – The European heavyweight going on the offensive Both are eati

Nvidia's Defining Moment: Which Supply Chain Players Will Get Swept Up in the Earnings Whirlwind? $NVIDIA(NVDA)$   is set to report its quarterly earnings after the market close on May 20. The market consensus anticipates revenue to reach approximately $78.7 billion, representing a 79% year-over-year increase and a 16% sequential growth, slightly surpassing the company's prior guidance of around $78 billion. Beyond its own fundamentals, these results will serve as a critical barometer for the entire AI supply chain, influencing market sentiment across the ecosystem. Here is a comprehensive breakdown of the key players powering the AI infrastructure behind Nvidia: Chip Manufacturing Chip manufacturing forms

Microsoft Retail Traders Build Bullish Positions After Ackman Takes Stake $Microsoft(MSFT)$   is seeing retail traders build bullish option positions in the tech giant, betting they can profit from billionaire Bill Ackman's disclosure, which could trigger increased institutional buying of the stock that has trailed its Magnificent Seven peers this year.  Call options that give their holder the right to buy Microsoft shares rose to about 777,200 contracts in the first one-and-a-half hours of trading Friday, surpassing yesterday's total of 545,644 contracts and the 20-day average of 578,778 contracts. This lopsided shift in the derivatives market indicates that investors are attempting to front-run—or buy in

$Ondas Holdings Inc.(ONDS)$ $Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$  $AeroVironment(AVAV)$  🛰️⚔️📈 $ONDS Q1 2026: Defense AI Ambitions Go Hypergrowth While Cash Burn Explodes 📈⚔️🛰️ Ondas just delivered one of the most aggressive small-cap defense growth quarters of 2026. Revenue exploded +1065% YoY to $50.1M, backlog surged to a staggering $457M, and management raised FY26 guidance again as the company races to build what increasingly resembles a vertically integrated autonomous warfare and ISR ecosystem. But beneath the surface, this quarter was also a masterclass in financial engineering, acquisition-fuelled scaling, and operational complexity. Th

Tencent’s first-quarter 2026 results show a company in transition. Its core business is still highly profitable and generates strong cash flow. At the same time, it is making an aggressive push into artificial intelligence. This pivot has yet to be proven. Tencent continues to position AI as its next major growth driver. But execution is still a work in progress. The launch of the Hy3 preview large language model is a sign of progress in its in-house capabilities. A revamped AI infrastructure supports this. Even so, Tencent trails its domestic peers. Alibaba Group and ByteDance are ahead. Global leaders like Microsoft and Alphabet are further ahead still, both in frontier model performance and ecosystem scale. Tencent’s hybrid approach uses both proprietary models and external partners lik