Good morning, traders…

I joined the OMEN room yesterday and said something you probably ignored.

eBay. Watch the $88 calls.

Smart Money was hammering them. Sweeps all morning. Short-dated. Aggressive.

The stock was sitting at $86. Earnings that afternoon. 

Those calls surged 220% in 25 minutes after I mentioned them.*

And eBay wasn’t the only setup I called out this week that ended up blasting into the stratosphere…

I made 138% gains in 4 hours on Tuesday.*

This isn’t rocket science.

These trades keep working for one simple reason…

The Market Everyone Else Was Trading

Yesterday, you were probably watching the indexes, trying to figure out the direction.

The S&P 500 up 0.56%. The Nasdaq barely green at 0.14%. Everything choppy. VIX elevated. Options expiration week.

Classic recipe for getting chopped to pieces.

But I wasn’t trading the indexes…

I was trading charts showing relative strength with massive Smart Money volume.

Pay yourself quickly. 

This is an options expiration week with a high VIX. We’re not expecting follow-through. When the market makes money available to you, you take it.

That’s the edge in choppy markets. 

Not trying to predict what happens next. Just taking what’s there and moving on.

The Stock That Lit Up The Scanners

Thursday morning, I pulled up my OMEN Scanner and started filtering.

eBay was flashing everywhere. Multiple strikes. Heavy call volume. Most aggressive flow? 

FEB 20 $88 calls (expiring the next day).

The stock was sitting at $86. Earnings after close. Everyone nervous. 

But Smart Money wasn’t nervous. They were piling in.

And you didn’t even need to hold overnight into earnings risk to catch an insane move…

Those calls surged 220% in 25 minutes after I mentioned them.*

Because they followed a winning formula:

Smart Money flow + short-dated options + clean technical setup = high-probability trade.

4 Swing Setups I’m Watching

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR)

Alert at $136.50 for the Feb 27 $145 calls. If this thing can recapture $136, I like it. The stock bounced. The calls moved. Done.

Fastly Inc. (NYSE: FSLY)

Running since earnings. Doubled from $8 to $16+. If Fastly can get over $19.20, it still has gas in the tank. The $18.50 calls were getting hammered yesterday. Stock’s still holding above $18.50 this morning.

Pinterest Inc. (NYSE: PINS)

Run, rest, run pattern with a bull flag forming. Gap to fill at $18. Risk/reward at least 2-to-1. 

If Pinterest can get over $16.60, I really like these March 20 $18 calls.

Why March instead of short-dated? The setup has a gap to fill. But if it breaks, the upside is $18+ (and the downside is clearly defined).

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD)

AMD pulled back into a previous resistance zone that’s now support. Long-term, weekly chart, just with shares… I like AMD. I think it’s a nice pullback zone personally.

Stock ran from $80 to $164, pulled back to the $140s.

Do you think data centers are gonna need less chips? No. More chips. Obviously, more chips.

Sector strength. Technical setup. Smart Money confirmation. 

When all three line up, you pay attention.

Why My Process Keeps Working

Every morning, I pull up my scanners. 

I filter for Smart Money volume. 

I check the technical setup. 

I build my daily watchlist. 

Then I wait for the setups to trigger…

That’s how I made 138% gains in 4 hours on Tuesday.*

The process doesn’t change. The stocks change. The setups change. But the process? Same every week.

Smart Money volume + technical setup + sector strength = trade.

You either follow it or you don’t.

Be good (and be good to others),
Ben

*Past performance does not indicate future results