【08.03-08.09】🏆 Weekly Review | 10 Weeks Running, PLTR Has Been in the Prestige No.1's Top 5 Profit List — What Is He Actually Trading?

Last week's Prestige No.1 was Ingstrid Capital, with a time-weighted return of 41.25% and a maximum drawdown of 3.62%.

Three of the five entries on his Top 5 profit ranking last week involved PLTR. This was not a position that appeared out of nowhere: PLTR first showed up in the week of 06.01-06.07, and has stayed on the ranking for 10 consecutive weeks since.

A quick look at last week's rankings:

• Prestige Leaderboard TOP 3: Ingstrid Capital 41.25%, Wolveofwallstreet 36.87%, BillyR 35.94%

• Elite Leaderboard TOP 3: JoshuaYeo 98.79%, Kenny Loy 84.76%, Sapravi6 81.12%

• Team Leaderboard: Team o.o took first place with US$792,950

🏆 Full rankings at the end of this post.

We start with last week's US and Hong Kong markets, then turn to Ingstrid Capital's 10 weeks of PLTR.

1. US markets 📈: payrolls turn negative, yet US equities keep climbing

All three indices rose last week: the Dow +3.0%, the S&P 500 +3.6% and the Nasdaq +5.2%.

• July payrolls turned negative: US non-farm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July, well below expectations, and May and June employment was revised down by a combined 103,000.

• Weaker jobs data lifted risk appetite instead: The softer-than-expected reading pushed Treasury yields lower. That eased concerns about a near-term rate rise, and US equities extended their gains.

• Technology and semiconductors led: Technology and semiconductor stocks were the main source of the week's gains, with the PHLX Semiconductor Index up about 9% over the week. PLTR reported after the close on 3 August, then gapped up 15.52% at the open on 4 August and closed the day 29.45% higher.

2. Hong Kong markets📉: indices diverge as banks pull back, Hang Seng TECH held up by Alibaba

The Hang Seng Index fell 0.8% last week while the Hang Seng TECH Index rose 0.6%, leaving the two moving apart.

• Banks pulled back: HSBC, ICBC and other major bank stocks weakened last week, weighing on the Hang Seng Index.

• Alibaba rose against the trend: The stock gained about 5.8% for the week, providing important support for the Hang Seng TECH Index's advance.

• Energy and telecoms weakened: Heavyweights including PetroChina and China Mobile declined, adding further pressure on the benchmark.

3. Trader breakdown: 10 weeks of PLTR

🧩 Breakdown 1: only five names keep appearing across 10 weeks of profit rankings

• A concentrated watchlist: Since the start of June, only five names have reached his Top 5 profit ranking, all of them high-volatility US growth stocks: PLTR on all 10 weeks, SOFI and HOOD on eight each, RKLB on five and IREN on two.

• A wide spread of expiries: At the near end sit weekly options; at the far end, expiries run out to June 2027, December 2027 and even January 2028.

🧩 Breakdown 2: still trading actively in June, a core holding from late June

• Active trading: From 06.01-06.07 PLTR slid from about 160 to 135.53, yet the stock line still showed a profit of US$122,880. From 06.15-06.21 PLTR gained only US$0.48 a share, yet the stock line reached US$811,220. Neither figure can be explained by the weekly price change on a single static holding; both fit a period that contained active trading, or realised profit and loss.

• A converging share count: Across the four up weeks from 06.29-07.05 onwards, dividing the profit by that week's move per share gives the same 8,000 shares every time, even though the move per share ranged from 0.14 to 48.95 — a 350-fold spread. PLTR fell in the other two weeks, and public data offers no detail on those.

• The decisive week: In 07.27-08.02 PLTR traded between 117.89 and 132.41, closed just US$0.14 above the previous week's close and produced a stock profit of US$1,120. A 12% swing, and the figure still lands exactly.

🧩 Breakdown 3: selling premium is the norm, earnings week is the one exception

• Reading the direction: The PLTR 170 call expiring in December 2026 appeared three times. It appears when the stock falls and disappears when the stock surges, which is the profit-and-loss signature of a sold call.

• The same pattern on both sides: The PLTR 85 put and the SOFI 12.0 put both reached the ranking in weeks when the underlying rose, with strikes sitting 31% and 26% below the price at the time. The platform does not disclose which side a position was opened on, but these relationships are internally consistent: he is systematically selling options well out of the money and collecting time value.

• The one exception: US PLTR 20260807 129.0 CALL expired on 7 August with a strike of 129, only 2.7% above the close of 125.65 on the day before earnings. PLTR finished at 172.01 after the results, leaving intrinsic value at expiry of US$43.01 a share — clearly the profit signature of a long call. It is also the most unambiguous long call across these 10 weeks of Top 5 profit rankings, and it happens to sit in PLTR's earnings week.

💡 The Logic You Can Reuse

• Build the watchlist first, then talk strategy. Only five names reached his Top 5 profit ranking over these 10 weeks, and PLTR was on every one of them. Following a stock for long enough is what makes continuous observation of its earnings rhythm and historical swings possible, and this account did not start trading PLTR in earnings week.

• Shares as the core holding, because they carry no expiry. PLTR reached an intraday high of 138.90 on 7 July and an intraday low of 117.89 on 28 July, a drawdown of roughly 15% across that range, including a single-day fall of 6.08% on 28 July with only three trading days left before earnings. Shares have no expiry date and cannot be eroded by time decay, so that stretch was only a paper move for the core holding. The same directional view expressed through short-dated options would have been cut down sharply, or wiped out altogether.

• Before selling a call, settle how much upside you are willing to give up. With PLTR still at 123, a strike of 170 meant a 38% rise away and looked remote — yet last week the stock did reach it. Collecting premium on a sold call also means handing over part of the upside above the strike.

⚠️ Risks and challenges

• The direction of an earnings move cannot be guessed. On 4 August PLTR gapped higher to open at 145.15 and closed at 162.66, up 29.45% on the day. Had the move gone the other way, the shares would have taken the fall directly, and that week-expiry call would have decayed to nothing.

• A sold call always lags the shares in a one-way rally. PLTR closed at 172.01, above the 170 strike. If that leg was still a sold position at the time, it must have lagged the shares clearly.

• The profit sources are highly concentrated. Of last week's five profit entries, three related to PLTR and two to SOFI, which leaves little cushion when the direction is wrong.

💎 Summary

Last week his Top 5 profit ranking totalled US$454,010, and 86.3% of that came from PLTR shares. This was not an earnings trade that appeared out of nowhere. From early June to last week PLTR reached the Top 5 for 10 consecutive weeks: the stock-line profits in early June fit active trading, while from late June onwards several weeks of data point to a stable core holding of roughly 8,000 shares. The options legs kept selling contracts well out of the money to collect premium, and in earnings week a call with a clear long signature appeared.

What deserves attention is the sold-call side. While the underlying churns, a deep out-of-the-money call contributes premium week after week; once the underlying breaks through the strike, that premium turns into upside handed over. The income and the cost are two sides of the same decision.

*This analysis is based only on publicly available Trade to Win information and does not constitute investment advice.

💬 Community Corner

📊If you are bullish on a name for the long run, which approach do you lean towards?

A. Hold the shares long term and wait for the fundamentals to play out

B. Keep shares as the core holding and sell options for premium

C. Adjust option expiries and strikes around earnings and event windows

Leave A, B or C in the comments. — And if you see it differently, do say so.

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