Oil Tops $100! Goldman Says Real Alpha in Oil Stocks?
$WTI Crude Oil - main 2604(CLmain)$ posted its biggest single-session move in years. $Brent Last Day Financial - main 2605(BZmain)$ is now near $110/bbl — up over 70% vs Q4 2025 average. Most retail traders rushed into oil ETFs. Goldman Sachs quietly dropped a note this morning suggesting that's the wrong trade. Hormuz Disruption: 17x Larger Than the Russia Shock of 2022 The Strait of Hormuz — carrying roughly 20% of global oil and LNG supply — is effectively shut. Goldman Sachs estimates the total hit to Persian Gulf flows at 17mb/d, a disruption 17 times larger than the peak April 2022 hit to Russian oil production. Pipeline alternatives via Saudi Arabia and UAE can theoretically redirect up to
USO Bear Bullish Spread Steps in as Oil Surge Amplifies Volatility
On March 9th, the international oil price soared sharply against the background of further escalation of the situation in the Middle East. The market's worries about the blockage of transportation in the Strait of Hormuz and the interruption of crude oil supply in the Middle East rose rapidly, pushing Brent crude oil to rise to $119.50/barrel once.$WTI Crude Oil Main 2604 (CLmain) $Simultaneous surge. At the same time, Iraq's crude oil production has dropped sharply, and the G7 has also begun to discuss the joint release of emergency oil reserves, indicating that the current crude oil market has entered a stage of high risk and high volatility. Corresponding to USO, although the short-term trend is still strong, the price has risen significantly,
Trading NVIDIA Puts – A Fast Korean-Style Rhythm Strategy
Last week I focused on trading options on NVIDIA Corporation, but instead of simply selling long-dated cash-secured puts and waiting weeks, I used a faster approach: selling puts first and then buying them back at a lower price. This style of trading is very active and dynamic. Rather than waiting passively for options to expire, I monitor the price movement closely and close positions once a reasonable profit appears. $NVDA 20260327 170.0 PUT$ The rhythm is quick, disciplined, and precise—almost like a Korean-style performance rhythm, where timing and speed matter. The goal is simple: collect premium, close early, and repeat multiple times. Last week, using this method across several trades, the total profit added up to
Sea is a comeback ! Trio power SGD 688 Cash Vouchers* up for grabs
#SEA’s 16% Drop — Don’t Panic, BLINKs! The Comeback Stage Is Coming 🎤🖤💖 ⸻ 1. The Market Reaction: When the Crowd Panics 😱📉 The latest earnings from Sea Limited caused quite a dramatic reaction in the market. Despite delivering strong revenue of US$6.9 billion, up 38.4% year-over-year, the company reported EPS of $0.63, missing expectations of $0.80. And just like a concert crowd that suddenly hears a wrong note, investors panicked. The stock plunged more than 16% after the announcement. 📉 But sometimes markets behave like overly emotional fans. One small mistake and suddenly everyone screams “It’s over!” even though the performance is still amazing. In reality, the fundamentals behind Sea’s ecosystem are still strong. ⸻ 2. Why I Bought Sea at $85.71 💸🛒 When the stock dropped sharply,
😀Hi Tigers, We invite you to take a closer look at the possible winners by EPS in the Q4 earnings season. In this post, we have highlighted the top 20 stocks by market capitalization with an estimated higher EPS ahead of their earnings in the period from March 9 to March 13. 1. Why EPS Matters? Earnings per share(EPS) refer to the income per share brought to investors/shareholders in the open market. EPS is calculated as a company's profit divided by the outstanding shares of its common stock. The resulting number serves as an indicator of a company's profitability. Investors like companies with high profitability, and the market always rewards those earnings results that beat the estimates. Hope the following content helps you learn more about good companies. 2. Weekly List of Stocks
(Part 3 of 5) S&P500 outlook for the week 09Mar2026
Market Outlook of S&P500 (09Mar2026) Technical Analysis Overview MACD Indicator The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator is on a downtrend, implying a bearish outlook. Moving Averages The price action, as depicted by the candlesticks, is currently situated below the 50-day and 200-day moving average (MA) lines. This positioning indicates a bearish trend in the short term, and a bullish long-term outlook. Both the 50 MA and the 200 MA lines are trending upward, reinforcing the positive trend. Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) The three Exponential Moving Averages (EMA) lines are showing a bearish outlook. The 3 lines have converged, and we may see a trend change. Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) The Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) currently registers at 0.23
(Part 5 of 5) My investing muse - of layoffs, Dubai, war and private credit (09Mar2026)
My Investing Muse Layoffs, closures and Delinquencies U.S. layoffs are now at numbers worse than the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. - X user The Patriotic Blonde South Korean battery maker SK On lays off 958 US employees - Reuters 92,000 people just lost their jobs in one month in The US. Just a regular Tuesday in 2026. And Anthropic released a report this morning saying the jobs AI can't kill are plumbers, farmers, and electricians. Your office job is not safe. The economy is confirming what AI companies already told you. The guy who learned to fix pipes in 6 months has more job security than you. - X user Tuki Morgan Stanley laying off 2,500 employees across all divisions amid economic challenges - MacroEdge Amazon cuts jobs in robotics division - MacroEdge Kuehne+Nagel to layoff 2,000 wor
News and my thoughts from the past week (09Mar2026) Two of the world's largest funds are limiting the amount you can withdraw. BlackRock froze requests for withdrawals of $1.2 billion from its private credit fund. Investors in the BlackRock fund with assets of $26 billion requested the withdrawal of 9.3% of their funds. BlackRock refused, limiting the withdrawal to 5%. The Blackstone fund with assets of $82 billion recorded a record number of requests for withdrawals in the same week. Blackstone had to invest $400 million of its own funds to cover the costs of withdrawals. Similar problems exist with the Blue Owl OBDC II fund, where withdrawals have been suspended. - X user Cha Bowes Kuwait Petroleum declares force majeure on oil sales - MacroEdge Insider sales continue Deutsche warns the
🎁Capturing Top 10 Ex_dividend: CME, HD, UNH, SPG, ELV...
1. Which High Ex-dividend Stock (on 9 March ~ 13 March) do You Like the Most? Be Sure To Check Out the Last Chance to Buy the Top 10 High dividend stocks going to Ex-dividends This Week: many companies like $CME$ and $HD$ showing below are about to give decent dividends into "your pocket". Editor's notes: A dividend-paying stock ex-dividend date, or ex-date, is very important to investors. In a nutshell, if you buy a dividend stock before the ex-dividend date, then you will receive the next upcoming dividend payment. If you purchase the stock on or after the ex-dividend date, you will not receive the dividend. Some investors utilize strategies whereby they will purchase stocks just prior to an ex-dividend date and sell shortly thereafter. 2. YTD26 of the Above 10 Stocks are as Below: Accor
🐶 Options Puppy Weekly plan going forward – 9 March SGD 688 Cash Vouchers* up for grabs
Three Trades Last Week & The Plan Going Forward Another week in the options playground has passed, and as always the Options Puppy strategy stays simple: sell fear, collect premium, and keep a safety buffer. Instead of chasing fast-moving stocks like an excited puppy chasing a tennis ball, I prefer to position trades where probability is on my side. Last week I made three trades involving KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF and iShares Gold Trust. These trades were small, tactical, and focused on collecting option premium rather than predicting the exact market direction. Let’s break down the thinking behind them. ⸻ 🐕 Trade 1 – Selling casg secured put options east kweb Tech Trade: Cash-secured sell put on KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF Strike: $25 Expiry: 27 March 2026 Premium coll
Axioma ROOF™ Score Highlights: Week of March 9, 2026
Investor sentiment continued to slide this week, as hopes for clarity in the Middle East once again gave way to thicker and more oily fog. Investors are now decisively bearish in eight of the ten markets we track, with the remaining two - the US and China - clinging stubbornly to negative territory. And this snapshot was taken before oil reminded everyone of its geopolitical résumé by vaulting back above $100 over the weekend for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A bearish signal simply means that caution has won the popularity contest. Risk‑averse investors now vastly outnumber those still willing to take risk, leaving plenty of sellers and very few buyers at current prices. The adjustment mechanism is neither subtle nor new: sellers accept discounts to entice the shrinki
Wall Street's three main indexes closed down on Friday(Mar 6) amid a sudden setback in the U.S. labor market and a 12% spike in U.S. oil prices due to the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Regarding the options market, a total volume of 68,491,663 contracts was traded on Friday. Top 10 Option Volumes Source: Tiger Trade App $Tesla(TSLA)$ stock fell Friday, failing to eke out a gain for the week. An energy report from William Blair didn't give the shares a needed boost. Shares of the electric-vehicle maker dropped 2.2%, closing at $396.73, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.3% and 1%, respectively. Most stocks were down because of rising oil prices and a weak U.S. jobs report. There are 3.3M
Many investors today view gold purely as a speculative asset due to its recent strong rally. In reality, gold plays a much broader role in portfolio construction. Rather than being solely a growth asset, gold can also serve as a defensive allocation that enhances portfolio resilience across different economic environments. Below are several reasons why gold may deserves a place in a diversified investment portfolio. 1. Gold Has Delivered Good Long-Term Returns Although gold is often categorized as a defensive asset, its long-term performance has been surprisingly strong. Gold outperformed the STI in 7 of the past 10 years and the S&P 500 in 4 of the past 10 years, based on annual returns. Gold has delivered strong performance over 3-year, 5-year and 10-year annualised periods. For exam
UI Boustead REIT: A New Entrant in Singapore’s Industrial REIT Space
UI Boustead REIT is expected to commence trading on the SGX Mainboard on 12 March. The REIT has a mandate to invest in logistics, general industrial, hi‑specs industrial and business space properties across the Asia Pacific region. The IPO portfolio comprises 23 properties, of which 21 are leasehold assets located in Singapore and two are freehold properties in Japan. The total agreed property valuation stands at S$1.9 billion, with a total gross floor area of 5.9 million square feet and a net lettable area of 5.3 million square feet. The portfolio is well diversified across the various property types, with no single property type contributing more than 30 per cent of the agreed property value. The REIT’s portfolio currently has an occupancy rate of 89.4%. Key properties include Razer’s So
Weekly: Centurion, Raffles Medical, Nam Cheong, & Aoxin Q & M directors see Huge Acquisitions
Over the five sessions, more than 130 director interests and substantial shareholdings were filed for more than 50 primary-listed stocks. Directors or CEOs reported 25 acquisitions and five disposals, while substantial shareholders recorded nine acquisitions and 10 disposals. This included CEO or director acquisitions filed for ASTI Holdings, Avi‑Tech Holdings, CapitaLand China Trust, Centurion Corporation, Duty Free International, Far East Orchard, Hyphens Pharma International, IFS Capital, Megachem, Nam Cheong, and Raffles Medical Group. On March 4, Silchester International Investors also increased their interest in ComfortDelGro Corporation from 6.86% to 7.05%, following the acquisition of 4 million shares at an average price of S$1.46 each. This followed Silchester re-establishing itse
Inflation kills US Market tis week, like US Jobs ?
The escalation of US-Iran conflict and subsequent spike in oil prices have been, the primary causes for US market's volatility last week. (see below) For week ending 06 Mar 2026: Dow: -2.87% (-1,403.28 to 47,501.55). Its biggest decline since early April 2025. S&P 500: -2.06% (-141.60 to 6,740.02). Its biggest weekly percentage loss since mid-October 2025. Nasdaq: -1.59% (-361.18 to 22,387.68). Objectively speaking, there were other underlying economic and technical factors that ‘aided’ to exacerbate the decline. (see below) Other Reports. Below were US economic reports for last week: (1) Jobless Claims. (a) Weekly claims. For week ending 28 Feb 2026, US weekly jobless claims came in ‘flat’ at 213,000 vs market consensus of 215,000 vs previous week claims of 213,000. (see below) Despit
🐶💾 Options Puppy View: SanDisk Up 120% — Super-Cycle or Supply Mirage
🐶💾 Options Puppy View: SanDisk Up 120% — Super-Cycle or Supply Mirage? Memory stocks are famous for one thing: big booms and brutal busts. Now that SanDisk has surged more than 120% year-to-date, the debate is heating up. Some bulls believe we are entering a NAND memory super-cycle, while bears like Andrew Left from Citron Research argue the rally may be built on a fragile foundation. So is this the beginning of a long bull run — or a classic semiconductor cycle peak? The Options Puppy thinks the answer may lie somewhere in the middle. 🐶 ⸻ 🧠📈 The Bull Case: Why Memory Stocks Can Explode Supporters of SanDisk believe the current rally is driven by strong structural demand. NAND flash memory is used everywhere: • AI servers • Cloud storage • Smartphones • Data centers • Gaming systems As glo