On 10 November, Coffee Chats by Trade to Win brought investors together for an engaging session featuring market insights, lively discussions, and an interactive stock debate. Let's revisit the highlights! 👇 📊 Market Outlook Sharing by James James @Tiger_James Ooi started the session by sharing his analysis and insights from Anthropic’s IPO prospectus, highlighting the company's growth potential, improving cost efficiency, and key risks investors should consider. He pointed to Anthropic’s improving operating leverage, with compute costs per dollar of revenue declining significantly as the business scales. He also highlighted the substantial room for growth among enterprise customers. While Anthropic already serves more than half of the

Last week brought sharp swings in US stocks. The Nasdaq fell around 5.5% in a single session, with semiconductor stocks hit especially hard. Yet two Prestige traders booked profits from inverse ETFs and volatility-linked products. When markets tumble, where can traders find opportunities beyond betting on rising prices? Quick recap of last week's rankings: Prestige Top 3: 🥇@肯特岗小镇做T家 , 🥈@Mighty Ang , 🥉@IcyBao Elite Top 3: 🥇@YOOGIN , 🥈@Godz11la2010, 🥉

Trade to Win (TTW) traders came together to celebrate the achievements of Season 3, exchange trading insights and prepare for an exciting new season ahead. Event Venue Setup Breakfast for Participants Celebrating Season 3's Top Traders and Winning Teams Season 3 marked another exciting chapter for the Trade to Win community. The ceremony revisited the season's trading highlights and leaderboard achievements before honoring the top traders, leading teams and standout performers across futures, index options and DLCs. From impressive individual returns to the collective efforts of winning teams, the awards showcased the diverse trading styles, determination and team spirit that defined Season 3. SocGen DLCs Leaderboard – 1st Place SocGen DLCs Leaderboard – 3rd Place Cboe Index Options Leader

On 19 October, 38 participants gathered for Coffee Chats by Trade to Win to explore trading strategies, risk management and trader psychology through speaker sessions and group discussions. A. US Market and AI Outlook by James James shared his outlook for US equity and bond markets, examining the relationship between AI capital expenditure, long-term Treasury yields and equity valuations. He also discussed potential risks in the AI industry, including debt financing and excess infrastructure capacity. Amid the enthusiasm for AI, he emphasised the importance of assessing companies’ cash flow, balance sheets and profitability, rather than making investment decisions based solely on popular themes. B. Options Strategies and Risk Management by Mr Quek Drawing on his own options trading experie

In a week when many participants recorded profits from options, all three entries shown on the Prestige champion’s profit list were stocks—and all belonged to the same industry segment. Young investor topped the Prestige leaderboard with a weekly time-weighted return of 14.90%. What trading ideas might connect PSX, MPC and VLO? $Phillips 66(PSX)$ $Marathon Petroleum(MPC)$ $Valero(VLO)$ Quick recap of last week's rankings: Prestige Top 3: 🥇@Young investor, 🥈 @TheRealKal , 🥉 @NicolasSoo<

QQQ calls and puts appearing on the same profit list already catch the eye. What if they share the same strike and expiry too? Elite champion saintkf realised profits on both the QQQ 740 call and 740 put expiring on 1 October. His two largest winning contracts were also a call and a put, with less than US$100 separating their profits. Which contracts did he choose, and what opportunities might he have captured in this single ETF? Quick recap of last week's rankings: Prestige Top 3: 🥇@Lingg07 , 🥈@Jianzhang , 🥉@Kaya21 Elite Top 3: 🥇@saintkf , 🥈

A. Options Trading Features Demo The session kicked off with a demonstration of new features designed to support options trading. One highlight was the GEX analysis tool, which helps traders better understand how dealer hedging may influence short-term price action. In a positive GEX environment, dealer hedging tends to work against market moves, potentially dampening volatility and encouraging mean reversion. In a negative GEX environment, hedging can reinforce market moves, increasing the risk of sharper intraday swings. B. Market Outlook Sharing by James James shared his views on the recent Fed rate hike. A rate hike does not necessarily mark the end of a market rally. Following the preventive hike in 1997, the market went on to gain another 94% before entering a sustained downtrend. Ev

US Treasury yields continued to climb, while oil prices and geopolitical risks kept markets on edge. The S&P 500 remained near record highs, but only three sectors had posted gains so far in September, while the equal-weighted S&P 500 was down around 4%. The index held up, but the pool of winners was getting narrower. The same pattern showed up on last week’s Trade to Win leaderboard: AMD, MU, INTC, QCOM, MRVL, STX... AI, semiconductor and computing hardware names repeatedly appeared in the Profit Top 5 of leading Prestige traders. As the market became more selective, the sources of profit across the leaderboard started to look increasingly similar. Quick recap of last week's rankings: Prestige Top 3: 🥇@FFree

A. Market Outlook Sharing by James James highlighted several new market developments, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s view that heavy AI capex could begin translating into stronger productivity and disinflationary benefits within the next six months. He also noted that S&P 500 short interest has recently risen above 3% of market cap, leaving room for some short covering. US strategic-sector investments James also discussed the Trump administration’s growing use of direct investments in strategic industries, from rare earths and semiconductors to quantum computing and frontier AI. The latest example is the Venezuela oil deal involving North American Blue Energy Partners, reinforcing the broader push to secure exposure to strategically important assets and supply chains. Why

Same storage rally. Three standout traders. Three very different ways to play it. Storage stocks surged last week. SanDisk rallied sharply after its Investor Day on August 13, while other storage names including Micron and Western Digital moved higher as well. All three traders featured this week were bullish on the same theme — but they expressed that view very differently: one rode the move with SNDK shares, one spread exposure across multiple storage names, and another used short-dated options to bet on a breakout. So how did they catch the move? 👀 A quick look at last week's rankings: Prestige Leaderboard TOP 3: 🥇 lkyuptrend · 🥈 David Tan 89 · 🥉 YoMan Elite Leaderboard TOP 3: 🥇 5d0efe97 · 🥈 P.Dwayne · 🥉 Huatge68 Team Leaderboard: 🥇 o.o 🏆 Full rankings at the end of this post. 🧩 Trader

Have you noticed that the Derivatives Leaderboard in the Trade to Win just got a revamp! 👀 We've expanded the ways you can compete, from individual leaderboards for CME Futures, CBOE Index Options, and DLCs to the All Options P&L Leaderboard for teams. And more winning spots mean more chances to take home rewards! Weekly vouchers, seasonal prizes — including physical gifts! 🎁 If you trade derivatives, take a look and find the track that's right for you.👇 🏆 4 Leaderboards: Which Track Is Right for You? Four derivatives trading tracks cover both individual and team competition. Here's a quick look at what you can trade and how each leaderboard is ranked. 👇 🎁 Rewards at a Glance: Weekly Vouchers, Seasonal Grand Prizes There are also weekly and seasonal rewards to win. Weekly leaderboards

Last week's Prestige No.1 was Ingstrid Capital, with a time-weighted return of 41.25% and a maximum drawdown of 3.62%. Three of the five entries on his Top 5 profit ranking last week involved PLTR. This was not a position that appeared out of nowhere: PLTR first showed up in the week of 06.01-06.07, and has stayed on the ranking for 10 consecutive weeks since. A quick look at last week's rankings: Prestige Leaderboard TOP 3: Ingstrid Capital 41.25%, Wolveofwallstreet 36.87%, BillyR 35.94% Elite Leaderboard TOP 3: JoshuaYeo 98.79%, Kenny Loy 84.76%, Sapravi6 81.12% Team Leaderboard: Team o.o took first place with US$792,950 🏆 Full rankings at the end of this post. We start with last week's US and Hong Kong markets, then turn to Ingstrid Capital's 10 weeks of PLTR. 1. US markets 📈: payrolls

Elite Leaderboard: Atriston claimed the No. 1 spot with a 285.33% return—nearly 1.9x the runner-up. Prestige Leaderboard: NicolasSoo took No. 1 with 34.50%, followed by Ja3per at 20.74% and YoMan at 15.98%. Let’s start with a quick recap of last week’s U.S. and Hong Kong markets, then take a closer look at the disclosed trades of Atriston, who topped the Elite leaderboard. I. U.S. Stocks 📉: Oil Shock and an AI Valuation Reset Last week, the S&P 500 fell 0.6%, the Dow slipped 0.4%, and the Nasdaq dropped 2.1%, with tech leading the decline: AI Spending Faces a Reality Check： Higher Alphabet capex and Tesla's earnings miss pushed investors to question whether AI spending is converting into cash flow fast enough, pressuring richly valued tech stocks. Oil and Rates Tightened Valuation Pres