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Nvidia $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$ just reported earnings on Wednesday after close. At a glance, FY25 Q2 non-GAAP EPS $0.68 beats by $0.04, revenue $30.04B (+122.4%) beats by $1.31B. Data Center revenue $26.3B, up 154% from year ago & 16% from Q1. Q3 guidance revenue $32.5B vs expect $31.75B. Initiates $50B buyback.  Stock falls more than 6.8%, which shows that marlets are always behaving irrationally. Hence I would like to highlight an important metric that is overlooked. Price to Earnings Growth Ratio Oftentimes, investors look at the Price to Earnings ratio of a stock and think that the stock is expensive. NVDA metrics from Finviz One good source I use for researchIng stocks is looking at Finviz, and search the stock ticker symbol. I

Today let me share with you a options strategy on how to own 100 shares for very little cost. Suppose if you think interest rates will be coming down soon, then bond prices will rise. One way to go bullish on bonds is to trade the iShares 20yr+ ETF ($iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF(TLT)$ ).  As of Thursday August 22, TLT last closing price was $97.75. To buy 100 shares, it will cost $97.75 x 100 = $9,775. For some traders, that is a huge cost of investment.  Let me show you a more cost effective way instead, using a bullish synthetic option strategy. A bullish synthetic option spread involves buying a call option and selling a put option at the same strike price and expiration date. This option trade is equivalent to owning a 100 share

Geovax soars on Mpox news recently. This is often one of the tricks of the market maker, to make use of the news to lure retail buyers in. Let’s play a game and see if you understand how price action works. If you see a stock price going parabolic and almost vertical, do you think after that it will go: A. Higher  B. Lower

GameStop is something you should never put your money into. Its business is declining unless it can reinvent itself. Gamers are buying games from their respective console online game stores, and PC gamers on Steam and EA Online.  Even if the whales are shorting them, let it be and just watch the show. Then go invest into names that you know will be the winners in 3 to 5 years time that will compound your wealth.

Haven't posted in a long time. Not very active using Tiger now. But seeing the hype in GameStop made me post this. Consumers are now buying games as digital downloads as it's more convenient. I bought a PlayStation 5 recently and I went with the digital edition, as I do not foresee I will be buying physical copies of games. The advantage is that I wouldn't need extra space to keep the games, and the disadvantage would be I can't sell off games when I am done. It's unlikely GameStop will be able to turn things around. For those who got sucked into 2024's mini meme rally, maybe you would learn a lesson from Mr Market.

Let's explore an Options Strategy known as a Bullish Synthetic spread, which allows an options trader to control 100 shares for less capital compared to buying 100 shares of a stock. Options chain for AAPL expiring on Apr 19 Suppose one is bullish on Apple, and Apple is currently trading at $181 (as of the time of this writing). If you want to buy 100 shares, the capital required (not including commissions) is $181 x 100 = $18,100. For every $1 rise in the stock of Apple, the gain on the position is $100, and vice versa. Let's explore a strategy that allows you to control 100 shares of Apple for less capital, and that is done by a Bullish Synthetic spread, by entering a Call option on a buy leg, and a Put option on a sell leg. First select an options expiration, in which I have selected Ap

Magnificent Seven-ex Tesla has driven the S&P 500 to close at 1.47% year-to-date after the first three weeks of 2024. Expecting the group to push higher this year due to strong balance sheets and their revenue growth (except Tesla) will be less immune to the effects in the event the Fed does not hike the 6 rate cuts the market is pricing in. As Tesla is primarily selling cars, if interest rates remain higher for longer, revenues will remain pressured this year, coupled with intense competition from Chinese EV makers. Year-to-Date Magnificent Seven gain (loss) Nvidia +20.13% Meta +6.26% Alphabet +4.79% Microsoft +4.74% Amazon +2.24% Apple -0.50% Tesla -14.6% S&P 500 +1.47% Nasdaq Composite +2.0% Dow Jones +0.46% $Microsoft(MSFT)$  

A recent article on SCMP revealed that pessimism in Chinese stocks has been the highest amongst foreign investors.  The recent fund managers survey by Bank of America Global Research found that fund managers are now more net short on Chinese equities compared to the previous three months, and also are more bullish on the Japanese market.  BofA Global Research FMS survey Indeed the Chinese CSI 300 index, which comprises of 300 top companies listed on Shanghai & Shenzhen Exchanges is now down 4.5% in 2024. Over the past 6 months, it is down 14.3%, and past one year down 20.7% Stocks like Alibaba, perhaps a hot favourite among investors here have suffered greatly. Year-to-date Baba is down 12.2%, after paring back some losses on Friday afternoon due to monthly options expiration

Last Friday's sudden draft rules on gaming hit Tencent & NetEase hard, and in the Friday's trading session on the US market TCEHY fell 9.8%, while NTES fell 16%. Bilibili fell around 4.9%. According to a Bloomberg report, that had wiped out $80 billion in Tencent, NetEase and Bilibili combine market value on the Hong Kong and China exchanges. The draft rules are designed to protect users from spending too much time and money on online gaming. Rewards cannot be given for daily logins, first-time recharge, and continuous recharge. All online games must set user recharge limits and announce them in service rules. In addition to that, pop up warnings should be issued for irrational consumption behaviour. Also also include caps on the amount each player can spend within a game. Online game

Alibaba trades at a low multiple of 10 times forward earnings, compared to Amazon that trades at 57 times for PE. BABA valuations (source Seeking Alpha) AMZN valuations  If we were to compare the price alone, Alibaba is trading around $75, which is around the price back in June 2016. Looking at their financials, for FY ending March 2016, basic EPS was $4.50 per share, compared to today’s Trailing Twelve Month EPS of $7.05. At the end of FY 2016, total revenues was $15.67 billion, gross profit of $10.34 billion and operating income of $$4.5 billion. Comparing to today’s (trailing twelve month) revenue of $125.31 billion, gross profit of $47.28 billion and operating income of $18.37 billion. So that creates this huge doubt that many Baba bagholders have in their minds, why isn’t the sh