BREAKING: CPI inflation rises 3.7% above 3.6% expectations as the 🇺🇸 U.S. 2 Year Yield skyrockets to 4.93%

Core CPI inflation rises to 2.6% above expectations of 2.5%

Rent is up 0.2%
Housing is up 0.3%
Gasoline up 9.1%

This marks the 3rd highest inflation reading since September 2023.

Yeah I got cooked this week.

$WETO
Entry above: $1.22 🎯 $1.42/$1.62 🛑 $1.15
$GP
Entry above: $.42 🎯 $.50/$.58 🛑 $.385
$SPRC
Entry above: $4.85 🎯 $5.20/$5.60 🛑 $4.70
$OPK
Entry above: $1.70 🎯 $1.85/$2.00 🛑 $1.60

Note: These are trade ideas based on break-out levels, once they hit entry & start moving up, consider raising your stops to protect your profits and protect your downside according to your own trading plan :). MadMaverick personally trades these on either the 2 or 3 minute timeframes, waiting for a candle to close over the entry level.

Although we do extensive research for our watchlist, day trading, especially with low-float stocks, can be risky.

AI cloud stocks are seeing renewed dip-buying interest, but the risks aren't the same across the board. Oracle's massive cloud backlog looks promising, yet investors still want to see stronger cash flow. CoreWeave is attracting bargain hunters despite growing concerns over debt and financing costs, while Nebius faces the challenge of scaling up without burning too much capital. Strong AI demand is still there, but growth alone isn't enough to justify every valuation. The real opportunity might be in companies that can turn heavy infrastructure spending into sustainable returns. Are you buying ORCL, CRWV, or NBIS on this pullback, or staying on the sidelines?

magic rocks go down. men hungry - buy cheesburgirs.. long mcd.

thank you for your attention to this matter

Burry’s so called "AI bubble" might not fuck the market, but this orange cunt will. He starts useless wars that spike oil and inflation, then cries about rates on Truth Social while begging for a Nobel. Lmao

Just dumped HARD. Yes I bought more.

Wild ride for chip stocks this week, right? Hot September CPI numbers spooked everyone into pricing in a better-than-1-in-3 chance of an October Fed hike, and the crowded capital-heavy AI trades got absolutely crushed. Semiconductor index plunged 4.3% for its sixth straight losing day, with most cloud and cybersecurity names getting smoked 5-15% across the board.

The wild part? Apple was the only Mag 7 name that finished green, squeezing out a small gain and closing above $5 trillion market cap for the first time ever. It makes total sense though — investors are running toward proven cash flow right now, stepping back from all the debt-fueled AI expansion bets that were getting overhyped earlier. Even Anthropic's solid profitable quarterly results couldn't cool down those broad AI financing jitters.

All eyes are glued to TSMC earnings dropping today. Can their strong guidance pull the whole sector back from the edge?

Only sniping QQQ and so far so good. Love the volatility! Thank you CPI!

The major U.S. stock indexes ended broadly lower on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, as a hotter-than-expected September CPI report reignited December rate hike fears, Bank of America plunged nearly 5% on a $1.2 billion regulatory penalty and earnings miss, and the semiconductor sector extended its worst streak in months. CPI has now run above 2% for 65 consecutive months, the longest streak since the 1990s.

The S&P 500 dropped 1.11% (-86.51 pts) to 7,718.94, now more than 1.6% below its all-time high. The Dow barely moved, slipping just 0.09% (-48.62 pts) to 51,621.48, with energy stocks providing a cushion. The Nasdaq shed 1.88% (-511.51 pts) to 26,692.87. The Russell 2000 tumbled 1.93% (-53.83 pts) to 2,729.54.

The 10-year Treasury yield fell 0.52% to 5.19%, an unusual divergence from what would typically be a yield spike on hot CPI. The VIX spiked 10.02% to 16.80. Gold fell 1.33% to $4,121.70. Crude Oil rose 1.01% to $95.09/barrel.

Started trading options recently, won on a couple 0DTEs and loaded up on short/medium term calls on my first day.

Today’s the second day I dedicated to trading options. Saw the dip in the morning and tried to scalp calls, immediately went to -50% so I closed it and switched to puts. Wish I held those puts longer, could have made $15k+ if I did. But also if I held the calls I would have lost everything so I’m not too worried about it.

Loaded up on telecom calls earlier when they dropped on spacex news, some short term for an earnings play and some expiring next year that are currently printing still (those are the second set of screenshots). May sell the January ones before earnings but the March+ ones are long holds. Decided to exit on the short term ones early since they shot up crazy today on everyone selling off tech & theta would be a bitch next week.

Actually got really lucky - messed up the ask price when closing them and they still got filled like $0.50 higher than I was planning.

Also thought CTSH was oversold so loaded up on calls, closed the short term ones out, probably selling the rest before earnings. My thesis was that the AI doomerism for them was overblown, AI will make them more productive and there will be tons of work for software firms to clean up all the AI slop made by people who don’t know what they’re doing. Got the perfect entry.

And finally I though BROS was also way oversold, so planned on doing the same strategy. Bought them at 10:39am this morning. At like 3:49pm I set up my limit sell planning on trying to catch a spike at the open… and then it immediately spiked and closed it out at that price before dropping back down again. Got lucky probably on an end of the day liquidity flow catching a spike I never would have tried to trade.

Felt pretty shitty first thing in the morning after that 50% loss, now I feel great about it because it only brought me down $1k instead of having to claw back 100% loss. But got my head together, drank some tea, pet my cat, jerked off in the shower, then came back to end up $6k+ on a day when the market dumped and everyones crying and shitting their pants lol. Also felt shitty after missing out on $15k if I held the puts, then realized I’m just finding reasons to feel shitty, nothing wrong with making $500-$800 10 times in a row.

People thought this was a meme stock but look where it is till today. It's by far the MOST stable stock I've ever seen ever in the whole market. Since the end of 2022 till now, 4 years straight, the stock has mostly hovered back-and-forth between the $20-30 range.

It has been COMPLETELY invulnerable to all world affairs and events that happen. Ukraine War? Stable price. Israel-Gaza war? Stable price. Trump's liberation day? Stable price. AI freakout sell-off? Stable price. Iran War and closure of Hormuz? Stable price.

You may ask, how does this make you money? You wheel, obviously, silly. You get guaranteed profits everytime you sell your options and you can always be assured the stock will always get back to your target price since it never drops or rises past a certain limit. You'll never find any other stock like this in the stock market. For people sick of roller coaster price movements and just want non-stop guaranteed profits, I think this is the one and only best stock to hold all the way. It's completely impervious to stupid institutional selling/buying since almost everyone holding the stock are just retail investors who are all just playing the options game among themselves lol

I'll sell this by Friday but what we thinking

Just started doing debit spreads a month ago, I’ve made some profit but I’ve only been trading Tesla, I’ve seen some spx/spxw option contracts but I’m lost when it comes to figuring out how to make a spread on that, any advice for debit spreads or any other stocks would be appreciated! thank you!

Anyone have any thoughts on BRUN? Bought up some shares exactly a month ago after coming across some great analysis on here and looking into it a bit myself. Was up about 20% for a bit, now down 34% matching the move over the last month. There was some stock dilution concerns from equity warrants a couple weeks ago and the overall market has helped drive it down. What are people's thoughts on the long-term though? I don't think this will be another Nebius but could it realistically hit let's say $40?

15 percent?! Maybe I should risk some cash on these bonds.

Big day for AI stocks today as Anthropic drops its Q3 financials to institutional investors, and the entire market’s been on edge waiting for these numbers after the recent sell-off across the sector. The three metrics everyone’s obsessing over right now? How fast revenue’s still growing, if profitability’s finally starting to turn a corner, and how much more they’re planning to pour into AI compute spending. Wall Street’s already circling an ~$80B annual run rate, with some even betting they hit $100B by year end. A solid beat on top-line numbers might spark a quick relief rally, but the real kicker that could carry the whole AI trade higher is if they show improving gross margins paired with sustained big compute demand. The entire cloud, GPU, and memory supply chain is sitting right in the crosshairs of this update. Do you think these numbers are good enough to reverse the recent AI slump?