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Earnings Gap Playbook (Version 2025-06-19) 🚀 STAGE: Earnings Gap Playbook Use this framework to evaluate stocks that have gapped up 10% or more pre-market. 1. 🔎 S – Stage 📈 Weinstein Stage 1 or early Stage 2 📊 Early stage uptrend 2. 💰 T – Tier 🏷️ Small to Mid Cap (preferably < $20B) 📦 Easier to move up 3.⚡ A – Acceleration (Growth) 📈 Earnings or Sales beat by 100% or more 📊 Year-over-Year Growth of 40% or more 4. 🔁 G – Gap Record 📆 At least one successful earnings gap in the last 52 weeks 🧼 If none, ensure no Gap & SQUAT in the past 5.🌐 E – Environment 🔥 Hot theme (AI, cybersecurity, etc.) 📈 Strong market → hold longer (swing trade) 📉 Weak market → took profit & exit same day

So many gaps up, hoping for a better environment.

@mmonis Smart

No trades today, I am all cash today No point in fighting the headline.

@gbstocks What a great performance! Congrats!

YTD returns as of March 31, 2026 (and also how last week closed on April 2, 2026): - My drawdowns were far too large in March (see charts!). I sold more often into weakness rather than selling into strength. When names become very extended, I need to focus on selling vs holding as they are inevitably going to pullback and consolidate - Tried to get into and took either too many and/or too large of losses on $BE $NBIS $PL $AXTI $RKLB $AAOI. Am now holding $PL and $AAOI at better entries. No desire to be in $BE $NBIS $RKLB for now - Took gains on $CIEN (wish I didn't sell this one!), $GEV (sold this on Thursday, it's a strong name that I had $600- $650 area entries on but money will do better in faster moving names), $DOCN (sold this on Thursday at close and maybe shouldn't have), and smaller gains on $MU $NAVN $VRT etc. - The best traders are the best at taking losses. In April, my main focus is on taking much, much smaller losses aka getting out much faster (I really like how @RealSimpleAriel takes very small losses & talks about not holding red names overnight) & letting my account move around more often by taking smaller 4%+ gains and churning into other names which @mmonis often talks about and I have yet to be successful at - List of names I traded in March: GEV DOCN PL AXTI AAOI SNDK LITE NAVN BW CIEN BE PLTR MU RKLB NBIS VRT CRCL FSLY GLW ASTS - Still learning & still trying to get better every day

@WOLF_Financial Love your stops, not your stocks

What is 1 piece of advice you would give to someone who is about to invest their first $$$ into the stock market next week

@JeffBezos One of Amazon's office building is named after the first customer.

🙂

Spending time going through last year’s tariff period and focusing on how true market leaders moved during the uncertainty. There’s a lot to learn from how the strongest stocks act when the market environment gets messy. Quite a learning experience.

@RyanPierpont with the prettiest charts amongst fintwit traders. Thank you for this 🫡

$75.22 perfect 50% retracement support and bounced back.

@drmansipd What does this mean @grok

USO higher high. but oil stocks lower high. we're close to the top...

Horrible rate for both sellers/buyers.

$NFLX looks to be transitioning into Stage 2. The 200-day MA is still sloping down, but the shorter-term signals are all pointing higher.

@NickDrendel @RealSimpleAriel Love it, you guys are doing great job!

@breakout_db 30 year career mentality that @RealSimpleAriel preaches. There's always room for improvement.

This is the type of day that would absolutely wreck me early in my career. Came in with a bearish bias thinking no one would want to hold risk over the weekend with the gap down, but then everything rips higher. Younger Nick would have been shorting every pop, adding to losers and eventually getting squeezed out. DON'T LET THIS BE YOU. When bias matches price = take action. When bias conflicts with price = take a break. Don't go into a long weekend sour that you fought the tape all day.

@NickDrendel 👍 great, like that you are still staying humble, and stay hungry.

@breakout_db I've been trading seriously since 2019, but I learn something new every day.

@SJosephBurns Not his money

When you feel bad about a losing trade remember Mark Zuckerberg lost $80 billion in his Metaverse endeavor to create this:

LMAO, 😂

$PL $AAOI so far strongest action from my list.

@ZaStocks Up on bad news => super bullish

NASDAQ up almost 2% on headlines that Iran won’t accept a ceasefire or open the Strait is pretty notable.

@HumbledTrader18 Hahaha, same here. After the last few months of back-and-forth, this market almost gave you PTSD.

I almost forgot that stocks can still go up

Well said. I’ve always had an intuitive sense of the importance of secondary buying into intraday weakness, but you articulated it in a way that immediately clicked. Curious whether there are any quantitative metrics that capture this kind of intraday buy-the-fade behavior. @grok

As the indexes carve out a bottom, the biggest thing to watch is not the open but the close. How we close is probably most important. The second thing that I always watch as a market goes from a corrective phase to then finding its footing and then working its way to a new trend is that the intraday weakness is supported and we get a bounce intraday. That intraday support where the early morning strength is faded, markets come in and get washed out, and then they get secondary support or secondary buyers coming in within the same session is a very very strong sign.