We had a resting GTC order filled at our profit target in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today:

The next new position in our Paid-to-Play portfolio is:

I’m a serial tinkerer with trading strategies, particularly in index options trading. In most cases, I’ll start with a simple concept and iterate from lessons learned along the way.

Each iteration is done with good intentions as I’m finding holes in the process and trying to fill them as I go along. I’m like a deckhand moving around the boat, patching small leaks with spackle.

This goes on for a while. And it happens slowly. But like compound interest, it grows stealthily… then mightily.

Unfortunately, I too often find myself in a situation where my PnL is going the wrong way and I’m suddenly handcuffed because I’ve created too many patchwork rules that are doing nothing now but causing confusion and slowing me down.

Then, frustration sets in.

The largest insider buy on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by the executive chairman of Energy Transfer LP $ET, Kelcy Warren.

Warren revealed yet another ET purchase, this one worth  $4.4 million.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Happy Memorial Day, and thank you to our Veterans!

It's Friday, and it's options expiration, so trading is bound to be more difficult today.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

This market can easily whip you around.

We have the Nasdaq really doing all the lifting.

There are a lot of negatives under the hood.

The next new position in our Paid-to-Play portfolio is:

There are only about 30 companies in the S&P500 that are bigger than what Nvidia is up after hours today.

That's a new all-time high for America's now 5th largest company. It's the first time it's able to breakout to new a all-time high since late 2021:

The largest insider buy on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Baker Bros Advisors LLC.

The hedge fund revealed a purchase of ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc $ACAD worth $22 million, increasing its ownership stake to 26.6%.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It's $NVDA's world!

What a stellar earnings report for this company.

But, at the same time, it's a crowded long.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to the 2 to 100 Club.

As many of you know, something we've been working on internally is using various bottom-up tools and scans to complement our top-down approach. It's really been working for us!

One way we're doing this is by identifying the strongest growth stocks as they climb the market-cap ladder from small- to mid- to large- and, ultimately, to mega-cap status (over $200B).   

Once they graduate from small-cap to mid-cap status (over $2B), they come on our radar. Likewise, when they surpass the roughly $30B mark, they roll off our list.

But the scan doesn't just end there.

We only want to look at the strongest growth industries in the market, as that is typically where these potential 50-baggers come from.

Some of the best performers in recent decades – stocks like Priceline, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, and myriad others – would have been on this list at some point during their...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Wild markets today, and $DIA is riding a very fine line here. It's right at its 200-day moving average.

If it falls through, there's potential down to 322.50.