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20 Oct 2025

Retail investors bought nearly $2 BILLION of US stocks on Friday, Oct 10, following the market pullback.

This marks the BIGGEST buying day since the April 2025 sell-off and one of the largest on record. Mom-and-pop investors are still buying the dip. Source: Global Markets Investor, Vanda

20 Oct 2025

The performance gap between $QQQ and $BTC is widening again, and this time more dramatically.

Usually BTC and QQQ are mostly correlated until recently. Something has to give. Will QQQ go down to play catchup? Will BTC go up to play catchup? Will it be a blend of both? Source: Heisenberg @Mr_Derivatives

16 Oct 2025

S&P 500 has now closed above its 50-day moving average for 116 consecutive trading days, the 3rd longest streak going back to 1990 (1995 and 2007 were longer)

Source: Barchart

16 Oct 2025

Billion dollar companies with no revenues.

$RGC Regencell Bioscience $QMMM QMMM $DGNX Diginex $TMC TMC the metals company $OKLO Oklo $TMQ Trilogy Metals $ASTS AST SpaceMobile $RGTI Rigetti Computing $QS QuantumScape $CRML Critical Metals $LAC Lithium Americas $PPTA Perpetua Resources $USAR USA Rare Earth $JOBY Joby Aviation $NNE NANO Nuclear Energy $NXE NexGen Energy $ACHR Archer Aviation $QUBT Quantum Computing $SERV Serve Robotics Source: Lin @Speculator_io

15 Oct 2025

J.P. Morgan Crushed Q3 Earnings Estimates as Wall Street’s Dealmaking and Trading Revenue Explosion Drive Revenue Beat

JPMorgan just beat Q3 2025 earnings with net income jumping 12% to $14.4B ($5.07/sh), vs estimates of $4.85-$4.87 per share Revenue climbed 9% year-over-year to $46.4 billion, topping the $45.3-$45.5 billion Street expected. What Drove This? - Investment Banking: IB fees surged 17% to $2.6B as JPM stays #1 on the IB deal making tables for fees - Trading: Trading revenues were also up 25% this quarter to $8.94B despite Q3 being generally slower in markets - Loans: Net Interest Income (NII) came in at $24.1B, up from previous quarters, management raised guidance for 2025 The bank maintained solid capital ratios with ROE at 17% and ROTCE at approximately 19-21% What Happens from Here? - CEO Jamie Dimon noted the U.S. economy showed resilience during Q3 but cautioned about “significant risks” - These include tariffs, trade uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, fiscal deficits, and elevated asset prices - He mentioned that JPM was prepared for a variety of outcomes $JPM JPMorganChase Q3 FY25. • Net revenue +9% Y/Y to $46.4B ($1.5B beat). • Net Income +12% Y/Y to $14.4B. • EPS: $5.07 ($0.23 beat). • FY25 NII ~$95.8B ($0.3B raise). Source: App Economy Insights @EconomyApp Perplexity Finance @PPLXfinance

15 Oct 2025

OKLO

One year ago: $OKLO $9/share, $0 in revenue. Today: $OKLO $175/share, still $0 in revenue. Source: Trend Spider

15 Oct 2025

$URA Global X Uranium miners ETF was up another +2.7% yesterday.

It is up +432.34% over the past 5 years

15 Oct 2025

US small-caps yesterday hit the highest levels since February relative to Large-caps

Source: J-C Parets

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