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Palantir Pre-Earnings Playbook: A Risk-Weighted Long Into Q3

Palantir Pre-Earnings Playbook: A Risk-Weighted Long Into Q3

Palantir is trading near record highs after a stretch of blowout growth and margins. The business fundamentals are strong, but the market has priced near perfection. This trade idea outlines a disciplined, mid-term long that leans on execution, renewal cadence, and partner momentum while sizing risk tightly around the 50-day moving average.

Tower Semiconductor: Betting on a Photonics Inflection - Tactical Long

Tower Semiconductor: Betting on a Photonics Inflection - Tactical Long

Tower Semiconductor (TSEM) has moved from promise to volume in silicon photonics. Quarterly results, multi-million chip shipments, a fivefold capacity expansion plan and supply agreements for InP epiwafers give the company a path to meaningful revenue growth. The shares are trading off recent highs - creating a tactical long opportunity for investo…

Applied Materials: Buy the WFE Leader as AI Capex Drives Durable Orders

Applied Materials: Buy the WFE Leader as AI Capex Drives Durable Orders

Applied Materials is the dominant materials-engineering and wafer fab equipment supplier positioned to capture a multi-year AI-driven buildout. Strong Q3 Semiconductor Systems revenue growth, expanding margins, healthy free cash flow and a conservative balance sheet support a long trade. Valuation is rich but justifiable given secular tailwinds; tr…

Buy the Dip in PJT: Restructuring Tailwinds from an AI Credit Squeeze

Buy the Dip in PJT: Restructuring Tailwinds from an AI Credit Squeeze

PJT Partners is a specialized advisory and restructuring franchise that should see disproportionate deal flow as stress in AI-related private credit and smaller tech borrowers picks up. At roughly $3.6B market cap and trading near $141, the stock offers a mid-term asymmetric risk/reward: strong free cash flow, high ROE and historically low EV/EBITD…

NioCorp at $3: A High-Risk Asymmetric Play on Elk Creek

NioCorp at $3: A High-Risk Asymmetric Play on Elk Creek

NioCorp (NB) is a development-stage critical-minerals company advancing the Elk Creek project in Nebraska. The stock is trading near its 52-week low at $3, offering an asymmetric risk-reward if the company can secure financing, offtake, or policy support. This trade idea lays out an entry at $3.00, a stop at $2.50, and a target of $6.00 on a long-t…

Trump’s Diesel Interventions Grow Costly and Contentious as Midterms Near

Trump’s Diesel Interventions Grow Costly and Contentious as Midterms Near

As the November midterm elections approach, the administration has pursued multiple measures to lower diesel prices — from emergency farm aid and relaxed trucking rules to eased sanctions on Russian fuel and pressure on allies to tap strategic reserves. Despite those steps, U.S. diesel prices rose again last week, keeping pressure on voters in key …

Cerebras: Waiting For a Cleaner Entry Into AI-Hardware Upside

Cerebras: Waiting For a Cleaner Entry Into AI-Hardware Upside

Cerebras Systems builds wafer-scale AI processors and purpose-built systems for large model training and inference. After a volatile run, this trade targets a pullback as a lower-risk entry to ride potential customer wins and product momentum. Entry $15.00, target $24.00, stop $12.00; mid-term horizon (45 trading days).

Back the AI Flywheel: A High-Conviction Long on DigitalOcean (DOCN)

Back the AI Flywheel: A High-Conviction Long on DigitalOcean (DOCN)

<p>DigitalOcean has pivoted from SMB-focused cloud infrastructure to a differentiated AI-infrastructure play. Recent wins include nine-figure contracted commitments, accelerating AI ARR, and signs of sustained revenue acceleration. The shares are pulling back into technical support after a blistering run in 2026. For investors willing to stomach ex…

India's September Crude Purchases Rise as Gulf Supply Returns

India's September Crude Purchases Rise as Gulf Supply Returns

India's crude oil imports rose 16% month-on-month in September to 22.26 million metric tons, the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell reported. Imports were also 9% higher than September last year. Product imports edged down, product exports rose, and Russian crude volumes to India fell as Middle Eastern barrels returned to the market.

Kodak: A Cheap, Cash-Flow Rich Turnaround—A Mid-Term Long Trade

Kodak: A Cheap, Cash-Flow Rich Turnaround—A Mid-Term Long Trade

Kodak is showing tangible signs of a turnaround: expanding margins, improving revenue trends and a free cash flow print that dwarfs its market cap. At $9.23 the stock is cheap on traditional multiples and offers a clear risk/reward for a mid-term (45 trading days) long trade. Elevated short interest and execution risk are real, but the valuation cu…

Hidden Strengths in Crops Outpace Copper Despite AI Hype, OptionMetrics Says

Hidden Strengths in Crops Outpace Copper Despite AI Hype, OptionMetrics Says

OptionMetrics analyst Brett Friedman highlighted that sugar, Chicago SRW wheat and soybeans have produced outsized year-to-date gains and superior Sharpe ratios in 2026, while copper - despite attention as an AI-related input - has lagged on a risk-adjusted basis. The three agricultural commodities also carry notable weights in major commodity benc…

Nano Labs (NA) - A Cleaner Risk Profile for a Speculative Long Swing

Nano Labs (NA) - A Cleaner Risk Profile for a Speculative Long Swing

Nano Labs (NA) is a microcap Chinese fabless chip designer trading at $1.67 with a $36.8M market cap. The company reported a painful H1 2026 (net loss driven by crypto fair-value swings) but has a sizable crypto reserve (70,000 BNB) and is pivoting toward AI hardware and Web3 convergence. Technicals suggest oversold conditions; a disciplined swing …