 Just welcome on back here this Thursday, August 24th, shortly after 2.30 p.m. Eastern. Welcome back here for our afternoon meeting. I know that I saw Donald just dip out a moment ago, but aside from perhaps it's great to see all of our members and students alike here rejoining us. Antonio, Kathleen, Mike, just before later, loud and clear from them. So good to go across the cyber group room. Great to have all of us back otherwise on social media, Facebook, Live LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, the works. Now, with that in mind, we have class coming up later on this afternoon, continuing along the phase two stock course, just really just picking up where we left off, just as far as showing you what had happened from this morning. I'm still down on this morning, just I have no shame in admitting that. Everyone has a down day every now and then, right? So, hey, I'm down like 150 bucks right now at this point in the afternoon. I'm done trading since we got class coming up ahead as well. So there's a couple of things long term, my position myself, we're actually just coming up here. We'll see if it ends up breaking lower because Mara right now, we're gonna show that in just a moment. That one was one that we were focused on is a swing trade. Fausto from yesterday, myself just from last week, I was telling you, it was gonna pull back towards this like 1050 issue. We'll show that in just a bit. So, for right now, the ELIQ is on the screen here, at least it's still up 84% but the trend is down. So, definitely at this point, I think that this stock has ran its course. I'm not really expecting much more of this or much more out of this trade really. So, you know, I'll pass on it for right now. I just wanted to start off with what was on the top of the gainers list here. You'll probably see a few lines on some stocks as we go through, you know, that's kind of where we are focused on in class. And I'll really just go over these trades in the phase two course at 305. So, looking forward to it, just for any of our gold, platinum, and diamond C2 students. But yeah, for right now, same thing with this BRSH trend right now, down. You know, it's filling the gap actually looking at the daily chart. So, a couple of gamble stocks that were like making these like big moves, like low volume, low flow, huge spreads because they're already pretty expensive here. So, you know, VFS, GES, you know, two stocks that just popped earlier in the morning, but they were like basically untradable. So, aside from really those, it was a tough, tough day to, you know, go long. So, normally on a day like today where the markets are down, there's like typically a couple of stocks that are going against the grain pretty nicely that are tradable, that are within our price range, that have good volume. This morning was not the case. So, it was a really tough morning to pluck a profit out there. WeWorks, cheap stock, like really cheap, too cheap. So, I'll pass on that. So far, we got nothing here. Nothing really appealing to me from the top of the gainers list. You know, hey, I gotta go through it with the spy at the low right now. I'm not really expecting to find too much here, especially, you know, I just mentioned from before, we didn't really have a whole lot. This LC trade, you know, that's like the first thing here so far that looks decent. So, you know, it's at the highs, it's at seven. Looks like a big volume level right around 695 or so. You know, hey, I guess I'm gonna add this to our watch list so far to begin, but I'll be honest with you. Certainly hoping for it to make a nice pop up higher. Trust the trend at least, but you know, we'll see if it really gets going. HUIA from the morning session popped up a little bit, but now it died off kind of quickly too. Market dropping off, so UVXY perhaps moving up pretty nicely here at SOXS. This is a semiconductor tech chip ETF. So, you know, NVIDIA down, filled the gap off earnings basically, AMD got smashed today so all these trades will kind of cover in our class at 305 Eastern later on this afternoon as I've been saying. So, you know, going back to SOXS on the gainer side here, if the markets keep breaking lower, it wouldn't be a bad idea to follow this on the way up, right? So, look at this, look at UVXY. This is way choppier. I just feel like that other one, the SOXS, just moving a little bit better here at this time of the day. So, I'll add that, I'll pass on this. Footlocker had actually a pretty surprising run from the morning session here. You know, that's where at first say, if it takes you off guard, I wasn't really expecting Footlocker to continue so strong when markets were dropping. Typically when a stock was coming off bad news anyway, it's gonna be actually one of the stocks to lose traction a lot faster. So, actually held pretty nicely up until that fame for Versaltime 10, 15, 10, 30, actually a little bit after, but failed to break. And then, here we are now. So, honestly, this as a sideless stock wouldn't be a bad one to like just keep on the back burner. Maybe it's a short, oh, SQQQ, I forgot about this. So, you know, UVXY, the chip bear ETF stocks. And then this one here, SQQQ, same deal, just another one. We're not gonna really like add all these ETFs now at this point, just the one. All right, so I think that's just about it. No surprise, we're already below 5% really kind of desperate there at that point. So, let's hop over to the loser side. Took a small loss on BETR. It was like one of the smaller losses on the day, it was minus two. Not really minimal damage here, but it was already after like a few losses already. And it was just like, not even this could make a pop. So, this thing was down so much from the pre-market and after the market opened up, it got clobbered again. You know, we were saying maybe at a dollar it can make a move or so, right? So, we were hoping for it to make a move from there. Initially, it ended up kind of like bottoming out and then broke lower later on, right? From there, I guess it tried to go back up and made that bounce from 80 cents up to like $1.30, $1.40. And now at this point, you know, for a stock that's not only down so much, but trading properly like 100 times more volume than what it normally does on a day-to-day. I'm gonna pass on this trade, I'd say. Yeah, maybe keep it on your side list for tomorrow and if it doesn't move tomorrow, then scrap it, but pass on this. Got another one down big, what happened here? RETO, I didn't even notice this one from earlier. I think I clobbered going into the late morning from seven all the way down to obviously now to buck. This one has a little bit more potential for that dead cap bounce right now, heading into the afternoon timeframe. It's not like this like got clobbered from early in the pre-market. So, you know, granted, it's still trying a ton of volume compared to its average, but I sniff a better opportunity on this one compared to that last one, BETR. This one's still down 85%. So, no guarantee it's gonna make like that 30, 50 cent breakout pop that you want, but definitely good enough right now to keep it on our main list. AMC is just gonna keep dropping, I think, over time here. So, I would be really careful about holding on to that. I know it dropped off already. You figure like, oh, it's off a reverse split. It's probably gonna go up a little bit. Well, it should have already. So, for it to be down 27% instantaneously off of that, yeah, it's bad news. All right, so with that, what else we got here? Woof, this thing is actually right off the low of the day, really liquid, which I normally like, but is it really gonna break below five, that 138,000 share order on the bid? And if it does, how much lower is it gonna keep dropping? So, you know what, I'll put it on our list right now. It's tradable, makes the cut here for the meantime, and it's more of like a level one or two trade. So, don't expect a lot, but just follow that five level, maybe 514 is a lower high coming up. Opera, not much happening there, really. Train, actually very little volume. Pass on that one. AI trade down big. This one was a nice pot from yesterday, I think it was. Like, nice little move. Mara, here we go. So, you know, long-term on positioning for a nice swing trade on Mara, even from last week, as Fausto was out, I was saying that. You know, it is at a big level now at this point, it's in this like range of an area between like 1040-ish, 1073, and for separate reasons, a lot of these prices are incredibly strong historically speaking. So, I'd love to see it hold here, and I started to position myself a little bit for a long-term trade on the option side. But, I do think there's a great chance though that it is gonna break lower before the real run-up actually happens. So, if you're looking long-term and you don't care about, you know, like being down a little bit initially, then this is one to begin to, you know, think about here because over time, if you're bullish on crypto, if you're bullish on the market, perhaps as well, it's just a matter of time, you'd imagine. Mara dropped off already so much just from when we were first plotting it out from like 15 bucks, 14 bucks, we were talking about it. So, you know, initially, it was like right around 1050-ish, 1040, and then here we are. Well, if it keeps breaking lower, I think that there's a good chance to see like 980-ish to 10, and then we'll kind of go from there. So, that's just something to kind of watch out for as a swing trade over time. And then, yeah, I mean, for right now as a trade going into the close today, I just think it's kind of more exhausted now at this point if Bitcoin really drops, then I'd say you put it on your side list or, you know, come back to it at three o'clock in the afternoon, but if you all see and not much happening there, APLD, same deal. IO&Q, that might just be about it here, folks. If there's anything else looking good in the chat board, just let me know. Up down, left, right, more than 5%, just let me know here. Obviously, probably more on the way down, something just like near the lows, at the lows is a short. Take a look at the spy right now. So, obviously, steady, she goes on the way down. I know a firm has earnings tomorrow, so it might be more hesitation on them. Who knows? I'm not really doing a whole lot just over the last, like, 30, 45 minutes. So, got them on my side list for tomorrow to wrap up. Path in another side list stock just to keep a small eye on, I've seen here and there. And, you know, down three plus percent. It's dropping a little bit, but, yeah, not a great need to add too much else unless it's looking really strong. Brush trying to make a tiny bounce, but I guess you could have said that much earlier in the day all throughout the day and we'll look at what happened. Just continue to break lower. So, yeah, at this point, this trade's dead. Roberto's saying SPR a nice short. Got it off 20 or, like, just right around, like, 20-10-ish, you know, so far, you're looking really good. You know, if you're already in the trade, rooting you on, it is down 14 plus percent. So, perhaps there could be more room on the way down, maybe, right? You know, if you see lower highs, drop off more. Yeah, I mean, hey, not a bad setup, Roberto. Normally, though, right? This is where I'm just gonna say normally, I really want to keep to a stock that is at the low of the day right now or near the lows. This has got a ways to go to get there. And the volume's a little thin too, just be a little careful. So, it's, you know, tradable, but not gonna make our main list, but if you're already in, you know, got in off that, like, 20-10-ish little chart level there, you're looking pretty nice. I always say just any member here joining us, any students, like, you know, Fausto and I, like, we like to, you know, build up a list, not make it too big. Some days we gotta stretch it out, but normally, unless it fits, like, at the highs, at the lows at this time, we're not gonna be as inclined to put it on the main list, even if it's tradable. So, you know, again, there's like a litany of different trades that have good spread, good volume, like, obviously, Intel coming back to, like, the chip stocks. Well, this isn't down over 5%, but mind you, like, this is right at the lows, and in the case of it dropping with NVIDIA or the AMD again, actually, hell, AMD is at the lows, it's down over 7% plus, right? Little more expensive, but you could buy puts on this specifically and then otherwise. Yeah, I'm gonna add AMD and I'll slip Intel on there just because those are, you know, more near the lows, this down big. This guy smushed earlier today. Gee, I was not expecting to see as big, but it's like, I'm down on the day, but honestly, thank God, I didn't jump into this thing, because I was initially really confident of a bounce at some point on NVIDIA, which leads to a bounce on AMD. Well, as soon as the market opened up, as fast as NVIDIA broke down, like freaking 20 points within the first two candles, it's like, all right, well, we're gonna wait a little bit, wait a little bit here, and it just kept dropping and you knew that. All right, well, unless it reverses at 1030-ish or so, you know, it's just not really worth it. So we had class at 1030, finished up, was already at a 102 at that point. So yeah, this got obliterated today. It's at the lows, so AMD Intel. I'm sure you could add a micron on there too, but it's a little more expensive and not as weak and not as strong on the way down. So, all right, so hey, I think that's just gonna wrap it up here for me here. There's nothing else that I see that looks great. Oh, actually, ooh, pardon me, went too fast. There is one that actually stands out right now. I don't know what the chart looks like. It actually really sticks out on Benzinga Pro. Yeah, what the hell happened here? Hawaiian Electrics once again with another big drop. So, you know, we were talking about it, Hawaiian Electrics ended up, you know, the catastrophe in Maui just led to a big drop from last week and it just reminds us of PG&A, California Electric Company. You know, we were saying that all from last week, right? Were you on the tape? Go back to last week on our YouTube channel in the morning meetings. I know, hey, it took a while for that company to make a squeeze up over time, which led us to say a little back last week that, yeah, there's gonna be more room on the way down here. So, I don't know whatever news came out just now, but it doesn't surprise me that this just plunged. It's not down like five plus percent, but it just popped up on my Benzinga radar. I don't mind specifically adding this here too, at this point. Let's just check the news out on this trade here. Yeah, I got some stuff coming in here. So, just right now, breaking news right now, actually at 2.45, 41 seconds, the Hawaii power utility believed to have started the deadly Lahaina fire, removed damaged power poles and other equipment from key fire scene, potentially affecting evidence that is a part of the official investigation into how the blaze ignited. So, that's not even like even find this remotely funny, but it's just like, wow, they're really messing up here. This company's really messing up bad and led to a big drop. They're tampering with evidence right now in an official investigation. So, big drop and perhaps there's a lot more where that came from. So, yeah, not a bad one to put on our watch list here. So, folks, we're gonna wrap up. I look forward to seeing all of us in class for most of us with that. If you're not joining me, best of luck trading, going into the market close, but hey, for all of a sudden, social media, Facebook Live, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, the works. I always like to post my email here at the end of these streams. That is incorrectly spelled on the YouTube live chat right there. And just for a second. There we go. Josh at C2Trading.com. Listen, any questions, trades, or comments, anything that you wanted to go over with us on the side before joining us inside our live trading room. 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So, hey, if you're not joining me in class, best of luck trading, and we'll catch up with you heading into tomorrow. Take care.