QQQ calls and puts appearing on the same profit list already catch the eye. What if they share the same strike and expiry too? Elite champion saintkf realised profits on both the QQQ 740 call and 740 put expiring on 1 October. His two largest winning contracts were also a call and a put, with less than US$100 separating their profits. Which contracts did he choose, and what opportunities might he have captured in this single ETF? Quick recap of last week's rankings: Prestige Top 3: 🥇@Lingg07 , 🥈@Jianzhang , 🥉@Kaya21 Elite Top 3: 🥇@saintkf , 🥈

A. Options Trading Features Demo The session kicked off with a demonstration of new features designed to support options trading. One highlight was the GEX analysis tool, which helps traders better understand how dealer hedging may influence short-term price action. In a positive GEX environment, dealer hedging tends to work against market moves, potentially dampening volatility and encouraging mean reversion. In a negative GEX environment, hedging can reinforce market moves, increasing the risk of sharper intraday swings. B. Market Outlook Sharing by James James shared his views on the recent Fed rate hike. A rate hike does not necessarily mark the end of a market rally. Following the preventive hike in 1997, the market went on to gain another 94% before entering a sustained downtrend. Ev

US Treasury yields continued to climb, while oil prices and geopolitical risks kept markets on edge. The S&P 500 remained near record highs, but only three sectors had posted gains so far in September, while the equal-weighted S&P 500 was down around 4%. The index held up, but the pool of winners was getting narrower. The same pattern showed up on last week’s Trade to Win leaderboard: AMD, MU, INTC, QCOM, MRVL, STX... AI, semiconductor and computing hardware names repeatedly appeared in the Profit Top 5 of leading Prestige traders. As the market became more selective, the sources of profit across the leaderboard started to look increasingly similar. Quick recap of last week's rankings: Prestige Top 3: 🥇@FFree

A. Market Outlook Sharing by James James highlighted several new market developments, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s view that heavy AI capex could begin translating into stronger productivity and disinflationary benefits within the next six months. He also noted that S&P 500 short interest has recently risen above 3% of market cap, leaving room for some short covering. US strategic-sector investments James also discussed the Trump administration’s growing use of direct investments in strategic industries, from rare earths and semiconductors to quantum computing and frontier AI. The latest example is the Venezuela oil deal involving North American Blue Energy Partners, reinforcing the broader push to secure exposure to strategically important assets and supply chains. Why

Same storage rally. Three standout traders. Three very different ways to play it. Storage stocks surged last week. SanDisk rallied sharply after its Investor Day on August 13, while other storage names including Micron and Western Digital moved higher as well. All three traders featured this week were bullish on the same theme — but they expressed that view very differently: one rode the move with SNDK shares, one spread exposure across multiple storage names, and another used short-dated options to bet on a breakout. So how did they catch the move? 👀 A quick look at last week's rankings: Prestige Leaderboard TOP 3: 🥇 lkyuptrend · 🥈 David Tan 89 · 🥉 YoMan Elite Leaderboard TOP 3: 🥇 5d0efe97 · 🥈 P.Dwayne · 🥉 Huatge68 Team Leaderboard: 🥇 o.o 🏆 Full rankings at the end of this post. 🧩 Trader

Have you noticed that the Derivatives Leaderboard in the Trade to Win just got a revamp! 👀 We've expanded the ways you can compete, from individual leaderboards for CME Futures, CBOE Index Options, and DLCs to the All Options P&L Leaderboard for teams. And more winning spots mean more chances to take home rewards! Weekly vouchers, seasonal prizes — including physical gifts! 🎁 If you trade derivatives, take a look and find the track that's right for you.👇 🏆 4 Leaderboards: Which Track Is Right for You? Four derivatives trading tracks cover both individual and team competition. Here's a quick look at what you can trade and how each leaderboard is ranked. 👇 🎁 Rewards at a Glance: Weekly Vouchers, Seasonal Grand Prizes There are also weekly and seasonal rewards to win. Weekly leaderboards

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

Elite Leaderboard: Atriston claimed the No. 1 spot with a 285.33% return—nearly 1.9x the runner-up. Prestige Leaderboard: NicolasSoo took No. 1 with 34.50%, followed by Ja3per at 20.74% and YoMan at 15.98%. Let’s start with a quick recap of last week’s U.S. and Hong Kong markets, then take a closer look at the disclosed trades of Atriston, who topped the Elite leaderboard. I. U.S. Stocks 📉: Oil Shock and an AI Valuation Reset Last week, the S&P 500 fell 0.6%, the Dow slipped 0.4%, and the Nasdaq dropped 2.1%, with tech leading the decline: AI Spending Faces a Reality Check： Higher Alphabet capex and Tesla's earnings miss pushed investors to question whether AI spending is converting into cash flow fast enough, pressuring richly valued tech stocks. Oil and Rates Tightened Valuation Pres

Elite Board: High-leverage short-term strategies, returns from high-frequency trading & volatility arbitrage. Prestige Board: Medium-term positioning, returns from directional selection & fundamental filtering. Weekly macro review, then strategy breakdown—what's replicable, what's luck? I. U.S. Stocks 📈: Mega-IPO & Hawkish Repricing Markets diverged—Nasdaq & S&P lagged, tech volatile: Mega-IPO resets anchors：SpaceX listed at 100x+ valuation, shifting capital from narrative to cash flow. Open AI, Anthropic IPO expectations reinforce winner-take-most, squeezing mid-tier growth names. Warsh's hawkish debut：dropped forward guidance & dot plot, signaling data-dependent tightening; markets sold off. Geopolitical détente： US-Iran ceasefire MOU cut oil, easing inflation fe

Elite Leaderboard ：A high-leverage, event-driven volatility strategy, with returns from gamma scalping and IV shifts, not underlying trends. Prestige Leaderboard ：A medium-term fundamental trend-following strategy, with returns from directional moves, not volatility arbitrage or HFT. Below: U.S. & HK macro review, then standout strategies—replicable skills vs. unforced luck❓ I. U.S. Stocks 📈:"Super IPO Siphon Effect" & Policy Vacuum Fuel Volatility U.S. stocks were mixed this week: the Dow advanced, but the Nasdaq and S&P 500 came under pressure as tech stocks swung sharply: Super IPO Siphon Effect：SpaceX debuted June 12, raising $75B and topping $2.6T market cap. With OpenAI, Anthropic, and others queuing for IPOs, capital flooded primary markets and top-tier names, siphoning

The Elite Leaderboard targets short-term, nonlinear macro inflections—extreme “event-driven + macro leverage”: The Prestige Leaderboard trades time for space on certain trends, profiting from continuity, not volatility: Below: U.S. & HK macro review, then two standout strategies—replicable skills vs. unforced luck❓ I. U.S. Stocks 📉: Macro Expectation Reversal & AI Crowd Exit Macro: Strong May nonfarm payrolls triggered a “rate hike repricing,” sending yields and the dollar higher. Market focus shifted from “when to cut” to “whether to hike,” pressuring long-duration assets. Structural: Overcrowded AI positions triggered a sell-off, with former leaders like Micron hit hard. Flows: Risk appetite fell; capital rotated out of high-volatility tech growth into defensives and Dow componen

Two Leaderboards, Two Paradigms: Certainty vs. Event-Driven Leverage The Elite Leaderboard captures full directional moves via OTM options on macro inflections： The Prestige Leaderboard uses short-term options for leveraged returns within a safety margin on AI trends： Below: U.S. & HK macro review, then two standout strategies—replicable skills vs. unforced luck❓ I. U.S. Stocks 📈: AI Earnings vs. Rate Expectations – A Structural Tug-of-War U.S. stocks rose last week with sharp internal divergence: the Nasdaq gained, outpacing the Dow and S&P 500, as capital concentrated into growth tech. Earnings anchor: Beats from AI chain stocks, with Micron's market cap topping $1T and Morgan Stanley's NVIDIA teardown fueling computing power revaluation. Macro constraint: High rates still suppre

Global markets saw sharp divergence this week: US stocks traced an "N-shaped" pattern amid AI-macro tug-of-war, while HK stocks continued to weaken. Amid these extreme market conditions, Top 10 on leaderboards delivered strikingly different yet equally impressive results: The Elite leaderboard stuck to stocks and longer-dated options, prioritizing margin for error amid high volatility. The Prestige leaderboard bet almost entirely on weekly at-the-money/out-of-the-money options, leveraging extreme leverage to chase short-term breakouts. The two leaderboards mirror the market divide: safety in predictable trends VS. chasing event-driven windows. Below, we review last week's macro trends , then break down the strategies of top 1 on these two leaderboards—exploring which moves are replicable a