To The Moon

This week, global markets faced a "fire and ice" test📈: U.S. stocks swung from record highs to sharp drops, while HK stocks bled out as tech weakened.

Yet in this extreme environment, the top 10 traders🏅 on the leaderboards delivered remarkable results, falling into two distinct camps:

• Stocks or long-dated options: no timing, long-term focus, higher error tolerance

• Weekly high-leverage options: ultra-short-term bets for excess returns

First, we review the macro trends in the U.S. and Hong Kong markets this week, then break down the strategy of top trader FaithX:

🔎 In this high‑volatility game, what can be copied—and what’s just luck?

I. U.S. Stocks: A Week of Epic Volatility with Little Room for Error

U.S. stocks rode a rollercoaster——AI and optical communications drove early gains, then hot CPI triggered a chip sell-off. Tech rebounded Wednesday, Nvidia surged Thursday pushing the S&P above 7,500, before a Friday post-Trump-Xi meeting rout sent AI chips plunging.

✅ Extreme intraday swings with frequent reversals—day traders or those engaged in short-term high-frequency trading were easily caught in stop-losses amid the violent swings.

II. Hong Kong Stocks: Tech Stocks Continue to Bleed, Shorting the Market Becomes the Consensus

Hong Kong stocks performed even weaker——HSI fell 1.6%, Hang Seng Tech dropped 3.2%. Telecom barely gained; materials and healthcare led the declines.

✅ As tech bled, shorting the market and growth tech became the week's most crowded trades—just like holding puts, it's about betting on direction within a specific window.

III. Macro Logic: Why Is “Waiting” More Effective Than “Chasing”?

• Volatile inflation data has delayed expectations for interest rate cuts

• Geopolitical tensions have kept oil prices high

• A new framework for U.S.-China relations has emerged, but no substantial breakthroughs are expected in the short term

✅In this environment, intraday direction is nearly impossible to predict: hot CPI → rate fears → tech down; the next day, AI boom → tech hits new highs.

🤝 The real edge isn't predicting tomorrow's move—it's knowing whether mega-trends like AI infrastructure, semiconductor demand, and tech capex will hold over weeks or months❓

IV. Top Trader Breakdown — FaithX🏅

FaithX’s explosive returns this week were the result of ”high-volatility markets + extreme leverage + perfect timing + survivor bias“.

1. Core Strategy: Full-position weekly options, short-term high-leverage directional bets

• Underlying Assets: High-volatility tech (NVDA, TSLA) + event-driven (BABA, PLTR)

  1）BABA: 618 Shopping Festival hype + market rumors suggesting Ant Group’s regulatory rectification is nearing completion → betting on "policy + sentiment" release before Friday

  2）PLTR: Rumors of a new DoD AI contract → IV spiked Wednesday

• Contract Type: Calls only → pure upside bets within a specific pre-expiry window

• Expiration & Strike: Weekly, ATM/OTM calls; strike near spot price; Delta:0.4–0.6; extremely high Gamma; rapid time decay; massive leverage

• Rolling Position: Same underlying (NVDA), same strike (220), different expiries

  1）May 13 expiry → bet on a violent first-half rebound

  2）May 15 expiry → bet on continued second-half premium

2. Market Context & Strategy Fit

• 5.13 NVDA & TSLA calls: Likely betting on a Wednesday rebound after Tuesday’s pullback; closed before expiry

• 5.15 NVDA, BABA, PLTR calls: Betting on Thursday’s NVDA surge + event-driven moves in BABA/PLTR; closed before Friday’s crash

3. What can be copied 🔎

• Identifying high-volatility tech & event-driven names during earnings lulls

• Using weekly ATM/OTM options to capture sentiment premium

• Multi-expiry positioning on the same underlying → short-term profits act as a cushion for longer-term positions; even if first-half bets fail, second-half opportunities remain

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