$SpaceX(SPCX)$ It would be surprising if $111 isn't the bottom. That's nearly a perfect 50% haircut from the highs. If the stock keeps falling apart, it probably kills the idea of another trillion-dollar IPO because the market simply won't trust underwriter pricing anymore. Underwriters already made around $560 million off this IPO alone. No telling how much Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and others have pocketed shorting the stock along the way. The same kind of setup looks likely for the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs. Overprice and overhype to squeeze maximum underwriting fees, run the price to a blowoff top, then short it all the way back down. The whole thing plays like a game run by the casino operators. And now the casino operators happen to have
$Direxion Daily Semiconductors Bear 3x Shares(SOXS)$ The stock looks like a coiled spring with a potential initial 10x upside back to the 500s. From these oversold levels, there could be successive days of 100%+ gains.
$IBM(IBM)$ I can't believe my luck with this one. I had sold my position above $300, waiting for a pullback to around $280. I was genuinely surprised when it opened in the $220s recently. I started buying just below $220 and added more around $205. It's set to go ex-dividend in about three weeks. I'm watching to see if it jumps after the earnings report.
$IBM(IBM)$ The stock got hit during the Halftime Report segment, but it bounced back higher afterward. It seems like a large short position might have been trying to cover.
HSBC suggested investors consider $IONQ Inc.(IONQ)$ as an alternative to $IBM(IBM)$ for a synthetic holding. I've been holding this stock since it was under $3, and from where I stand, the conviction hasn't been stronger. The recent retail-driven moves feel like positioning before another potential move up, with a solid base already established.