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In today's edition, we will track the fundamental readings of long-term bullish companies in strong (TigerTrade Top 1 Gainer) concepts each week and look forward to your attention and discussion.Disclaimer: Capital at risk. This is not direct financial advice or a recommendation to acquire or dispose of any investment, but for communication only. Apple capped off big tech earnings with stronger-than-expected iPhone sales and $90 billion of buybacks and dividends. That helped offset regional banks freefalling, with the market focused on $PacWest(PACW)$ and $Western Alliance(WAL)$ among others. Additionally, JPMorgan Chase “rescued” First Republic Bank to start the week. The best-performi

In my post on Tue, 02 May 2023 (click here to read ! and give a “Like”), I have shared my worries about US debt limit impasse may further weaken US stock market, that is still reeling from the US regional bank crisis contagion. US Debt clock Above is the latest snapshot of US debt clock: Figures in “red” represent expenses / money spent. Figures in “green” represent revenue / money received. So many red items and so few greens ! Latest Development: President Biden has invited Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to meet at the White House on Tue, 9 May 2023. This will be the first meeting between the two leaders to discuss the issue since it first surfaced on 13 Jan 2023 when US Treasury Secretary, Ms Janet Yellen s

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Institutions short $Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund(XLY)$ again:buy$XLY 20230915 145.0 PUT$sell $XLY 20230915 95.0 PUT$Institutions bought 4,000 puts with a strike price of 145 and sold 20,000 puts at 95.Yesterday's article wrote that a basket of stocks bought by XLY may be the source of the decline. As the chart shows, the top 10 holdings are as follows:Both Amazon and Tesla could be the trigger for a pullback, but I didn't expect an answer so soon: Yes, Tesla is leading the way again! How far will the correction go? There was a lot of buying at the open today on the

what happened?According to Reuters news, Chilean President Gabriel Boric said on April 20 local time that he will nationalize the country's lithium industry and that future lithium mining contracts will only be awarded to state-controlled public-private partnerships.Shares in lithium producer $美国雅保(ALB)$ were hammered intraday on Friday after the news and were still down 10% at the close. However, there is also good news for Albemarle investors.how so?Specifically, the good news is that while Albemarle may be hurt by Chile's lithium nationalization process, it isn't hurt as badly as Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile $智利矿业化工(SQM)$ , which is down almost as much as Albemarle today twice as much. Both compani

$First Republic Bank(FRC)$ plummeted to an all-time low in Tuesday’s trading session. The price per share hit an all-time low of $8.10 as the markets closed.It was driven by the latest earnings. Although the bank’s EPS in the first quarter topped analysts’ estimates, its deposit flight was worse than what analysts had estimated, plunging 41% to $104.5 billion, missing the estimates of $145 billion.Everyone is preparing for an imminent bankruptcy?The White House is expressing concerns about whether it has the capacity to find a solution for First Republic Bank's insolvency.The rescue plan for First Republic Bank did not succeed. The bank suspended its dividend and its shares continued to slump, raising speculation about the bank's future as a s

The Bank of Japan has a new governor, Kazuo Ueda, and two weeks ago he held his first press conference. The result was a rising stock market and a falling yen. Ueda promised to be cautious about policy adjustments. That policy consists of a price ceiling on 10-year interest rates. The Bank of Japan buys up all bonds above that price ceiling. Normally then the market does the work for the central bank and interest rates do not rise above that price ceiling. But since the Bank of Japan raised that price ceiling from 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent in late December, there has been plenty of speculation since then that the Yield Curve Control policy is finite. For now, the surprise that interest rates will remain low for a little longer was good news for the stock market, less good for the yen. T

I have bad news and good news about the recent pullback in the market.The bad news is that big orders have been put in and institutions have really started shorting.The good news is to put the spread bearish, but the downside is limited.Institutional short strategies have generally been less aggressive this year than last, with the exception of banks. In the strategy design belongs to the relaxed state, the price drop is the best, if the price does not fall, there is no loss. So while there's very little upside right now, there's not a lot of downside, especially in the heavily weighted tech stocks.Personally, I think we can give up small-cap stocks to some extent this year. Comparing $C3.ai, Inc.(AI)$ to $Micr