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Over the past two days I’ve explained what we do and why we operate the way we do.
Today I want to make it practical – so that when something lands in your inbox, you know exactly how to read it and what to take away from it.
First, a distinction worth understanding: not everything we send is an alert.
Watchlist Posts vs. Alerts – What’s the Difference?
You’ll receive two types of analysis from us, and they mean very different things.
A watchlist post is us saying: “We’ve found something interesting and we’re watching it closely.” The stock has caught our attention – it may be deeply oversold, showing signs of a potential setup, or sitting in a position where the fundamentals and the price are starting to diverge. We’re sharing it early so you can follow along as the situation develops.
Watchlist posts do not mean the setup has confirmed. They’re a heads up, not a signal.
An alert is different. When we issue an alert, it means the setup has moved through our full evaluation process and we believe the risk-reward is compelling enough to bring to your attention with a high degree of conviction. The technicals, the fundamentals, the sentiment, and a specific confirmation trigger have all aligned.
The gap between a watchlist post and an alert can be days, weeks, or sometimes never – if a setup we’re watching deteriorates before it confirms, we’ll tell you we’re removing it from the watchlist and why. That transparency is intentional.
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Because it changes how you read what we send. A watchlist post is the beginning of a story. An alert is us saying the story has developed to the point where the setup is actionable.
Some subscribers enjoy following the watchlist posts and tracking how setups evolve before confirmation. Others focus primarily on the alerts. Both are completely valid ways to use this newsletter.
Now – here’s how to read our full analyses.
Whether it’s a watchlist post or a full alert, our analyses follow a consistent structure. Here’s what each section is doing and why it matters.
The Setup Summary
Every analysis opens with a high-level snapshot of the situation – what happened to the stock, why the market reacted the way it did, and why we think the reaction may be overdone. Read this first to orient yourself to the story.
The Technical Picture
This section covers what the chart is telling us – oversold readings, key support levels, volume patterns, and historical context. We’re looking for a convergence of signals that suggest selling pressure may be exhausting itself, not just a single indicator flashing green.
The Fundamental Case
This is where we dig into the actual business. Revenue trends, margins, earnings results, and guidance. The central question we’re answering: does the stock price reflect what’s actually happening in the business, or has fear created a disconnect?
This is also where we identify what caused the selloff and whether it’s temporary or structural. A one-time accounting charge is very different from a deteriorating customer base. We make that distinction explicit.
Sentiment and Analyst Positioning
Here we look at what professional analysts think, where institutional money has been moving, and whether broader sentiment has reached an extreme. When 80-90% of Wall Street maintains Buy ratings while a stock sits near 52-week lows, that gap between perception and value is worth examining.
The Risk-Reward Breakdown
Every analysis includes a clear picture of the upside and downside scenarios – the support levels that need to hold, the resistance levels that represent logical targets, and what the setup looks like if things go wrong. We always present both the bull and bear case, because understanding the risk is as important as understanding the opportunity.
A note on how we frame our analysis
You won’t find language like “guaranteed” or “can’t miss” in our work. No setup is certain, and we believe the most useful analysis is honest analysis – one that gives you the information to think through a situation yourself rather than just telling you what to conclude.
When we’re high-conviction, you’ll know it from the weight of evidence we present. When something is on the watchlist but waiting for confirmation, we’ll say that clearly too.
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You now understand what we look for, why we wait for confirmation before issuing alerts, and how to read our analysis when it arrives – whether it’s a watchlist post or a full alert.
From here, you’ll hear from us when we have something worth sharing. We cover losses honestly, not just wins. And when a setup we were watching doesn’t pan out, we’ll tell you that too.
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🧨Anthropic Crashes the SpaceX IPO Party… Donnie Gets Left on Read
The same intrusive thoughts that directed Dario Amodei to announce on live tv that 50% of tech workers would be coked out of their minds and pan handling on the street soon… once again made a surprise entrance.
Because now that we’ve officially entered June (aka SpaceX IPO countdown season), Anthropic has decided to steal a little of the spotlight.
The AI company behind Claude (and one of the few firms on Earth capable of making OpenAI glance nervously over its shoulder) has reportedly filed to go public.
You just know Elon’s fuming right now scrolling Twitter seeing “finfluencers” crank out Substack posts with headlines like “Bigger Than SpaceX?” despite spending last week explaining how Anthropic leasing capacity from Colossus was actually a massive win for Musk’s upcoming IPO. (How the turn tables).
Anyways, stonks were in the green yet again thanks to Nvidia’s new laptop chip and Iran peace talks both doing their part. The S&P 500 (+.5%) and the Nasdaq (+.7%) continued their legendary run… while the Dow did absolutely nothing.
Of course, the biggest WTF moment of the day was Nvidia (+5%) which had AI bros going nuts after Jensen unveiled a new processor for PCs that he claims could replace the need for data centers. In response, Intel got taken to the cleaners (-3%) with “I’m scared I’m gonna lose my job” energy that not even a Trump sympathy tweet could help.
Outside of Dario wearing a white dress to Elon’s wedding, and Jensen Huang claiming to have the biggest computer revelation in the last 40 years… Marathon (+3%), Exxon (+2%), and Chevron (+1%) all caught a bid after Iran’s media reported they are done communicating with Donnie and will completely shut the Strait close once again. This comes after Israel attacked Lebanon over the weekend.
When asked about his response, POTUS exclaimed he doesn’t give af if peace negotiations with Iran are over (summarized). He then said he would ask Benjamin Netanyahu “what’s going on with Lebanon.” So yeah, major progress is clearly being made.
And lastly, light one up for Greg Abel who finally did something with that record $397 billion cash pile. In true Buffett fashion, instead of buying a tech stock or something sexy, he opted for spending 2% of it on the homebuilder Taylor Morrison. The stock exploded 22% because when Warren Abel writes you a check…your business must be a sleeping giant.
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Greg Abel Finally Opens Berkshire’s $397B Piggy Bank… Drops $6.8B on America’s Housing Market
Babe, wake up! Greg Abel finally found the “Buy” button on Berkshire’s brokerage account…
No this is not a dream… after more than 5 months of officially wearing the Berkshire Hathaway CEO badge, and sitting in the big office with a view… Warren Buffett’s handpicked replacement has finally pulled the trigger on his first multi-billion acquisition.
Meaning: we’re finally going to be able to judge him off of you know what he was hired for… as opposed to nitpicking quotes he…
Nvidia Gives PCs Their ChatGPT Moment with AI Superchip Designed to Shrink the Datacenter
Because for Jensen, the world is not enough…
Most CEOs spend their careers trying to dominate survive in one industry. Jensen Huang appears to be collecting them. Because after turning Nvidia into a $5 trillion monopoly by selling every GPU on earth to hyperscalers with AI fever, Huang has now decided it’s time to come for the thing sitting on your desk.
At Computex in Taiwan, the GPU king unveiled his new RTX Spark “superchip” for Windows PCs. And if Jensen gets his way, not only will all our computers operate at supersonic speed… but it will make society as a whole…
Barry Diller Bids $18B to Take MGM Private, Betting AI Can’t Lose It’s A$$ At a Craps Table…
Ole Diller has a fever, and the only prescription is full-send degeneracy…
Well friends, the GOAT who owns Tinder, Match, and Expedia has decided the real money is in the part of the weekend where the degens lose it all. Barry Diller’s People Inc. offered Monday to buy the 74% of MGM Resorts it doesn’t already own, valuing the casino giant north of $18 billion.
The bid, for those wondering, is $48.30 a share, all cash, a 10.6% premium to Friday’s close and the kind of offer that tends to get a board’s full attention. MGM stock lit up 12%. Shares of People… the company formerly known as IAC, which rebranded itself around a magazine in April… managed a comparatively shy 3%.
For context, six years Diller has been content playing just the tip, sitting on 26.1% and a board seat without committing. Monday he decided to buy the whole house. So y now? Apparently, the desire for an 84-year-old media titan to drop $18 big ones on carpet and slot machines simply has to do with the fact that the robots can’t touch it. He told shareholders MGM is “a…
Honeywell’s quantum spinout filed a prospectus that says, out loud, “high error rates” still “limit practical performance.” Then it upsized their IPO offering by 39% (because, math). Quantinuum (read: not just a thermostat company’s hobby anymore) yanked its filing, came back, and reset the deal at 26.5 million shares between $53 and $55, up from 21 million at $45 to $50. The top end values a company in the “early stages of commercial growth” at $14.3 billion. Translation: The building is open, bookies.
For the uninitiated, quantum computing is the new AI in the sense that everyone wants to own it and nobody can explain it (kinda like Palantir). Quantinuum’s S-1 tells you the machines crunch problems “faster than classical computers” and could reshape drug discovery, financial modelling, and cryptography. It also notes, with the politeness of a confession, that “high error rates” still “limit practical performance.” Fine print doing a lot of work in one sentence.
Of course, demand was strong enough to upsize the float and lift the range by 16%. Which is precisely the move you make when retail is camped outside the building, with the macro window for “buy any company that sounds like a Nolan movie” open for exactly this week, before SpaceX backs the brinks truck up to the same parking lot. You might recall that Quantinuum exists because Honeywell stapled its quantum lab to…
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The Iran War Just Broke the Gold Market
Dear Fellow Investor,
The Iran war isn’t just a geopolitical event.
It’s a financial one.
Within hours of the strikes, oil surged…
Defense stocks exploded…
And gold ripped past $5,000.
But something even bigger just snapped inside the gold market.
Wars don’t just move markets.
They expose broken financial systems.
For decades, the price of gold has been controlled by paper contracts traded between the largest banks in the world.
But wars create a problem for that system.
Because when global tensions rise, investors stop trusting paper promises.
They want the real thing.
And on July 31, a legal deadline could force the paper gold market to confront a reality it has hidden for years.
When that happens, gold could surge.
But the biggest gains won’t come from gold itself.
They’ll come from the tiny companies sitting on massive untapped deposits of the metal.
There’s one company sitting on more gold than France, Italy, and China combined.
And my research suggests it could surge 1,000% as the gold market resets.
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“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.” -Mark Twain (1835-1910, American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer)
For the past few years I’ve offered some book titles to check out for summer reading, so let me do so again. Given the dramatic increase in book banning in the United States in the last few years, two of these books may well be on somebody’s list for banning, but worth the read, I think. If the other five are on somebody’s list, then we are in worse shape than I thought. I’ll leave it to you to decide.
An Altar in the World, A Geography of Faith (Barbara Brown Taylor, Harper Collins 2009) If St. Ignatius Loyola were to write a promo for this book, I think he’d write, “This is a great help in rethinking how to find God in all things!” There are altars everywhere and in all facets of our lives. Sanctity is found in the mundane as well as in the extraordinary, in fact probably more so in the ordinary, everyday. We have to learn to rethink how and where to find God all the time. If Mary Oliver were to write a promo, she’d write, “Pay attention, be amazed, and let Barbara Brown Taylor tell you about it.”
Circe (Madeline Miller, Little, Brown, 2018) When I was in high school we had to read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe are told with perhaps a modern day slant which I am sure some will say has more agenda to the story-telling than the original Greek tales. But the Greeks certainly had their agenda for telling the stories in the first place. Whatever – just good stories and a refresher from my long-ago high school myth readings. In Time of Distance & Other Poems (Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon Books, 2020) The Scottish author is known for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series (1998-2026), the Isabel Dalhousie books (2004-2026), and the 44 Scotland Streetbooks (2005-2026), and a bunch of others. He’s a fanciful and engaging writer whom I’m happy to recommend, especially the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. I stumbled on this book of poems at our public library. It’s different from his stories, but has the same lightness of heart. And poetry is always important for the soul.
The Molly Murphy Mysteries (Rhys Bowen with Clare Broyles, Minotaur Books, 2001-2026) Rhys Bowen is the pen name of Brophy faculty member Tim Broyles’ mother-in-law. The last three books in the 20 book series are co-authored by Tim’s mother-in-law and Tim’s wife Clare. The wonderful main character, Molly Murphy, is a female detective in early 1900s New York City, married to a policeman and raising a family. She is quite adept at solving crimes and mysteries before the men on the scene can. The history of the time and place are well researched, so along with the crime solving, we get a good look at the Big Apple when it was becoming itself.
Paul, a Biography (N.T. Wright, HarperOne, 2018) Tom Wright (1948-) is an English scripture scholar, theologian, and Anglican bishop who has authored more than 80 books and has taught at Cambridge, McGill, St. Andrews, and Oxford Universities. His works are very readable, yet based in real scholarship and theology. I just recently read this biography of St. Paul and it was for me a whole new window into the life and the beliefs of Paul of Tarsus. Until now, Paul was pretty far down on my list of folks to meet in heaven because he seems, often enough, so disagreeable and harsh in some of his writing. After reading Wright’s Paul, I look forward to meeting him!
Queen Esther (John Irving, Simon & Schuster, 2025) John Irving has been writing books since 1968 and there are certain themes, you might even say social justice themes, woven through many of his novels. Family in many forms, the dignity of misunderstood persons, care for those mistreated because they are different – my Catholic morality doesn’t agree with some of Irving’s way of dealing with the issues he writes about in his stories, but his characters and their issues are real. From the title you can guess that Jewish culture and antisemitism plays a big part. But the story isn’t about the scripture’s Queen Esther or Esther Nacht, a Jewish orphan in the early 20th century that starts the novel – it’s about Jimmy Winslow, Esther’s son and his college junior year abroad. Like all Irving novels, this one is a fun read with characters I really got to know and like. Not my favorite Irving tale, but glad to have read it.
Theo of Golden (Allen Levi, Atria Books, 2023) I’m not sure how many times I’ve heard the story of the newly ordained priest who asked an older priest for three pieces of advice and the older priest says,”be kind, be kind, be kind.” An elderly Theo in Allen Levi’s novel shows up in the city of Golden, Georgia, and through 400 pages we experience Theo’s kindness, and not just three times. I was captured by Theo and all the people he meets and connects with. I was left remembering Naomi Nye’s poem “Kindness” that when we enter into someone else’s life with empathy and understanding, we are left with kindness that “goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.” My favorite book this year.
June Dates of Note
Pride Month
6 – D-Day, World War II (1944) 7 – Solemnity of Corpus Christi 9-15 – National Men’s Health Week 11 – Feast of the Apostle Barnabas 12 – Solemnity of the Sacred Heart Assassination of Medgar Evans (1963) 13 – Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Supreme Court Ruling Miranda v Arizona (1966) 14 – Flag Day 15 – Father’s Day Signing of the Magna Carta (1215) 19 – Juneteenth 20 – World Refugee Day Summer Solstice 21 – World Day of Music 24 – Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist 29 – Feast of Saints Peter and Paul William Mayo’s Birthday (1861-1939)
Pope Leo’s Prayer Intention for June
For the values of sports
Let us pray that sports be an instrument of peace, encounter, and dialogue among cultures and nations, and that they promote values such as respect, solidarity, and personal growth.
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