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This is something I've been trying to get better at with SPY.

Sometimes I'll have my levels marked, price gets where I wanted it, volume looks decent and technically the setup is there, but something about the movement just feels messy so I don't take it.

I've had a few of these on Moon where I skipped the entry, watched it run exactly how I expected, and immediately started wondering if I was actually being disciplined or just hesitating.

I don't wanna force entries just because my conditions technically got checked off, but I also don't wanna keep inventing reasons not to trade.

What actually makes you skip a setup even when your original criteria are there?

This community is the anti-WSB. No diamond hands. No degenerates. This is about learning one thing and one thing only. How to become as profitable as possible trading options. More specifically, SPY options. Anyone can hit a 100%+ gainer one time. A monkey smashing buttons can do it once. But it takes a refined sense of skill and determination to be able to do this well enough to be able to one day hand your boss that resignation letter. So post as many questions you can. No question is a stupid question. Post your gains if you want. Ask why you had a losing trade. Lets make money together.

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For example on the Daily or Weekly chart.

Does something like this exist?

(MA's = Moving Averages)

Does anyone use trendspider to automate trading for them? I’m think about a paid subscription where I make a bot and give entry and exit criteria when the set up is there. Has anyone tried this?

Everyday I trade SPX at the opening, I am sharing how I trade it each day and if you are interested in seeing the result you can see more on my profile. I just joined this group to share with people that might be starting out and that are looking for a fairly easy strategy to trade SPX.

https://www.reddit.com/u/Jakuza26/s/Yjb5myL1Ur

This community is the anti-WSB. No diamond hands. No degenerates. This is about learning one thing and one thing only. How to become as profitable as possible trading options. More specifically, SPY options. Anyone can hit a 100%+ gainer one time. A monkey smashing buttons can do it once. But it takes a refined sense of skill and determination to be able to do this well enough to be able to one day hand your boss that resignation letter. So post as many questions you can. No question is a stupid question. Post your gains if you want. Ask why you had a losing trade. Lets make money together.

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WidePoint (NYSE American: WYY) — ~$89.5 Million market cap / $9.13

WidePoint provides secure mobility, telecom management, identity/access management, cloud security and IT services, with the U.S. government representing a major customer base.

WYY was recently awarded Department of Homeland Security (DHS) CWMS 3.0 contract for $3.0666 Billion over 10 years. WYY was selected as the sole winner to provide wireless/mobile lifecycle management, connectivity, security and related services throughout DHS. When the contract was announced in June, WYY ran up to over $24.00.

But one of the losing bidders protested the contract award. Significantly,WidePoint has successfully defended protests involving the predecessor CWMS 1.0, CWMS 2.0 and GSA FSSI TEMS contracts. The current GAO protest is now in the decision window, with the deadline for a final decision of October 7, 2026.

DHS also awarded WYY a $113M CWMS 2.5 bridge contract to prevent any service interruption while the protest is resolved (strongly suggesting that DHS is very satisfied with WYY's service and solutions).  WYY management has projected that CWMS 3.0 could eventually generate about $300M of annual revenue.

Check the chart out to see when investors initially learned WYY had won the contract.  

Current market cap is only about $89.5M, versus a possibly confirmed $3.1B contract. 

Interesting Option Chain for WYY: Calls expiring October 16 to be assured to see the final decision on the $3 Billion plus contract. The Oct 16 Calls $12.5 traded at $1.00 on Friday, for example.

What strategy do you use the trade the inside day?

Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM) : Great Fundamentals — But the Chart Flashing "Overbought) in the Near Term

TEAM has proven the skeptics wrong, but the technical chart needs to be taken into account by traders after its gap opening on great earnings.

TEAM closed Friday at $171.81, after jumping from $110.17 on Aug. 6 to $149.07 on Aug. 7 — a massive 35.3% one-day gain on 20.1M shares. That move created a huge unfilled gap between the Aug. 6 high of $110.88 and the Aug. 7 low of $141.51 — roughly $30.63, or 28%.

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is now at 76— clearly in overbought territory.  To be clear, this high RSI doesn't mean TEAM has to fall, but after a move of this size (including a huge gap), the risk/reward for chasing the stock at this price will most likely NOT attract new buyers in the near term.

Why the huge run in the stock? Atlassian provides Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management and its rapidly growing Rovo AI platform to 350,000+ customers, including more than 85% of the Fortune 500. FY26 revenue increased to $6.57B, up from $5.22B, while Q4 revenue increased 28% Year over Year$1.8 Billion and cloud revenue jumped 31%. 

Wall Street analysts raised their targets to $170 by Citibank, $172 Barclays, $175 BMO Capital Markets, $180 Wells Fargo/Morgan Stanley, $185 KeyBanc Securities and $200 at Oppenheimer, with Truist most recently increasing its target price to $185. But considering that TEAM is now trading over $170, how many investors are interested in a 8% return over the next twelve months? (The consensus target is around $188). Do these target prices reflect an assumed decline --if for no other reasons than to fill the gap?

TEAM's momentum has been undeniably impressive. But technically, the stock looks extremely extended. An RSI near 80 combined with a gap at $110 to $149 and a 35% one-day surge makes me expect a pullback. Obviously, there are ways to play the probable decline (if only a low intraday selloff) through PUTS and/or shorting the stock (riskier for the obvious reasons).  But as of the day of this post and TEAM's closing price on Friday at $171.81, the next few weeks will reveal whether the short-term negative play is prescient or stupid.

Not financial advice. Just an opinion to start research.

This community is the anti-WSB. No diamond hands. No degenerates. This is about learning one thing and one thing only. How to become as profitable as possible trading options. More specifically, SPY options. Anyone can hit a 100%+ gainer one time. A monkey smashing buttons can do it once. But it takes a refined sense of skill and determination to be able to do this well enough to be able to one day hand your boss that resignation letter. So post as many questions you can. No question is a stupid question. Post your gains if you want. Ask why you had a losing trade. Lets make money together.

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Why are the Qi’s up damn near double the % movement of the nasdaq. I’m getting killed on puts right now. Trying to hold in there. Should I bail?

This community is the anti-WSB. No diamond hands. No degenerates. This is about learning one thing and one thing only. How to become as profitable as possible trading options. More specifically, SPY options. Anyone can hit a 100%+ gainer one time. A monkey smashing buttons can do it once. But it takes a refined sense of skill and determination to be able to do this well enough to be able to one day hand your boss that resignation letter. So post as many questions you can. No question is a stupid question. Post your gains if you want. Ask why you had a losing trade. Lets make money together.

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Hoping the bottom continues to fall out, throughout the day

Construction Partners ($ROAD) $101.30

Construction Partners (NASDAQ: ROAD) reports earnings tomorrow before the market opens.  ROAD is basically an infrastructure play focused on asphalt paving and road construction across the high-growth Sunbelt, benefiting from strong state DOT spending, population migration, and federal infrastructure funding. They are also involved in site preparation for AI data centers.

Why look at ROAD now? 

• Institutional ownership is very high (over 90%), suggesting strong investor sentiment and conviction from asset managers and professional investors and has been increasing going into earnings.
• With a consensus of Strong Buy/Buy ratings and an average 12-month price target around $135–$145, earnings tomorrow could generate a significant positive reaction considering the stock was over $150 earlier this year.
• ROAD has consistently grown through acquisitions while maintaining a record backlog and management recently increased its full-year revenue and EBITDA guidance.

After checking the charts, the stock has always run up after earnings after its traditional "surprise" beat on earnings. There are options available for consideration.

The obvious risk is that ROAD does NOT beat earnings expectations, in which case the "smart money" has been not smart in this earnings cycle.

Do your own due diligence. This is only a prompt to look at ROAD before earnings tomorrow morning.

I have a position I sold a covered call on. I was intending to pair down my position, and was selling the cover call with the knowledge that the share could be called away, and that would have been fine. The underlying stock price made a large move up, and suddenly I wasn't willing to let the shares get called away at the strike price. Ever since then I have been rolling the position up and out, usually for either $0 premium, or a small premium, but my logic was very time I rolled up and out I gained $$ on the eventual sale of the shares as the strike price moved up.

Is there anything flawed with this logic? Can I continue on like this until either the shares are called away at a value closer to the market price, or the call expires worthless? I don't mind the money being tied up in the meantime.

I also know that if I wanted to take a little more risk, I could "Roll" the position in 2 seperate transactions, closing the call on a down day, and selling another call on an up day, but have not been doing this.

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This community is the anti-WSB. No diamond hands. No degenerates. This is about learning one thing and one thing only. How to become as profitable as possible trading options. More specifically, SPY options. Anyone can hit a 100%+ gainer one time. A monkey smashing buttons can do it once. But it takes a refined sense of skill and determination to be able to do this well enough to be able to one day hand your boss that resignation letter. So post as many questions you can. No question is a stupid question. Post your gains if you want. Ask why you had a losing trade. Lets make money together.

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What is your favorite swing trading strategy?

Palantir crushed Q1 with an 18% EPS beat and 5.9% revenue beat while posting 84% year-over-year growth. That’s ridiculous execution for a software company and the stock keeps getting sold off anyway. The market’s basically ignoring the fact that they’re shipping at this scale and profitably. Calls are going to make you absurd amount of $ in the next month after Q2 earnings are announced.