Alex's PF performance. - May 2026 📊🛡️ MTD ( +23.3% ) YTD ( +26.8% ) YTD benchmark QQQ ( +10.5% ) Hey guys! What a month —best monthly return since 2020 for me — another cruise month, back to back after April, and I'm very happy with my execution overall. We can always be better and keep improving, but this was a clean follow-through on everything I talked about last month: trust the system, trust the process, get size in the right names, and let the trend do the work. The one thing I'll flag on myself is that I went into that mid-month pullback a bit too exposed. I took some heat and drew down more than I wanted — but I played it well from there. I recognized the constructive action, held my positions, and stayed patient, which let me recover from the drawdown super quickly and push my EC into a fresh all-time high. That's the difference between reacting to noise and trusting what price is actually telling you. This month really came down to two things. First, adding to my core positions and trading around that core in what I see as the liquid leaders of the leading groups and themes — I did more of that and it paid well. Second, having real size in those leaders and staying patient with it, trusting the trend even when it looked extended. There's a lot of money to be lost trying to anticipate the end of a move, and I did well by simply not trying to do that. The win rate came in at 44.4% with a 1.94 RRR, and I pushed +36.2R in profits on the month. Lower hit rate than April, but it didn't matter — my winners did the heavy lifting at a 10.8% avg gain (biggest +47.6%) while I kept my losers tight at -4.3% avg. That asymmetry is the whole game: let the winners run, cut the losers fast. Now it's about staying disciplined and capturing the best part of this trend for as long as it lasts. Let's kill June, let's go! 💪 Cheers, Alex ✌️ • Every entry, exit, and trims are taken in real time in the PrimeTrading Discord community, with educational explanations for all trades. • I share all my trades and monthly trading performance results since January 2020 for transparency.

Prime Report — Sun. Oct. 25th 📌 Today's Highlights — Friday, October 23 Oil took over from AI as the worry. Fresh Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia sent WTI up nearly 4% to $103, its highest settle since spring, and the selling moved into staples, financials and consumer names while chips steadied. The Dow lost more than 600 points. The flash PMI added to it, with output prices rising at the fastest pace since August 2022. Bloomberg reported SpaceX is in talks for access to at least 80,000 US cell sites, Crown Castle among them — the ground network a fourth national carrier would need. $T fell 8% and $TMUS nearly as much, two weeks after SpaceX bought spectrum for Starlink Mobile. $VZ, which reports Monday, slid with them. Oil split the earnings tape. $SLB rose 7% on revenue of $9.45B against $9.27B expected. $AXP beat on EPS at $4.68 against $4.50, but revenue came in just short and the stock fell about 4%. 🗓️ Tomorrow — Monday, October 26 A data-light Monday on the eve of the FOMC, with the Fed in blackout and a carrier, a chip-design name and a steelmaker carrying the slate. 📊 [7:00 AM ET — $VZ Verizon Q3] Consensus: EPS $1.27–1.29, revenue ~$34.8B. Call 8:30 AM ET. Focus: postpaid phone adds and the full-year guide, already raised twice, in the first carrier print since Friday's SpaceX tower report. 🏭 [10:30 AM ET — Dallas Fed Manufacturing (October)] September printed 9.8; no consensus could be verified. Focus: prices paid, after the flash PMI's output-price gauge hit a four-year high. 💻 [After Close — $CDNS Cadence Design Q3] Consensus: revenue ~$1.61B against a $1.595–1.625B guide; non-GAAP EPS guided to $2.01–2.07. Focus: backlog and AI design demand, with the stock down about 13% since July's report. 📊 [After Close — $NUE Nucor Q3] Consensus: EPS $5.80–5.84, above the $5.55–5.65 guide, on ~$10.8B. Call Tuesday 10:00 AM ET. Focus: realized steel pricing and the Q4 outlook. Also: Chicago Fed National Activity Index at 8:30 AM; $69B 2-year auction at 1:00 PM. primetrading.substack.com/p/…

Liquid Leaders scan Goal: Find the top liquid leading stocks • Top RS Rank (Alex’s RS composite rating) • Group & Theme RS score > 50 • 250mil$/daily liquidity • Minimum 1mil shares avrg. daily volume. • 15% > ADR > 3% • Price > 10$ • Market cap > $1 Billion • Exclude China & HK • Exclude Biotech, Defensive, Real Estate, Energy, Financials, Basic Materials, Industrials, Utilities, and Healthcare. traderslab.gitbook.io/primet…

Liquid Leaders 21dma-structure Pullback sorted by RS Rank. $CRWD, $NTAP, $S, $TXN By @TradersLab_

Liquid Leaders Scan sorted by RS Rank. $TEAM, $DOCU, $SN, $RBRK, $BBY, $ETSY, $DT, $OKTA, $W, $ACN, $FTNT, $CRWD, $SHOP, $HPQ, $DDOG, $NTAP, $PANW, $S, $PLTR, $CRM By @TradersLab_

Themes Lab — 10/25 🧪 Themes ranked by 8-week RS change. BIGGEST RS GAINS (8w) • Oil & Gas Major +31.7 → RS 85 • Global IT Consulting +27.1 → RS 79 • BPO & Digital Services +25.5 → RS 79 • Vaccines +21.2 → RS 66 EMERGING • Hospitality +24.7 → RS 62 • Utilities - Electric + Gas +22.3 → RS 54 BIGGEST RS LOSSES (8w) • Asset Management −25.1 • Housing −23.3 • Gene Therapy −23.2 SETUPS @ 21dma-structure area $DHR 91 — Life Sciences Tools Energy and IT services have the RS change. Healthcare has the setup. By: @TradersLab_

Weekend look at the Liquid Leaders Map. The picture is pretty balanced right now. 17 names are sitting inside the buy area, while another 14 remain above it without being overly extended on the weekly timeframe. Only 3 names are stretched on both timeframes. At the same time, 15 of the 50 strongest Liquid Leaders have already lost their weekly structure. That combination matters. Plenty of stocks are still holding up well underneath the surface, but the leadership pool has clearly narrowed. I don’t want to confuse “there are still some good charts” with a market environment that deserves aggressive exposure. The goal isn’t to find something to trade every day. It’s to know exactly where to look when the environment says it’s time. Right now, the names closest to where I want them: In the buy area: $OKTA $W $FTNT $CRWD $SHOP $DDOG $NTAP $PANW $S $PLTR $TWLO $NET $SWKS $GME $ADI $TXN $TOST Above the buy area: $TEAM $SN $RBRK $BBY $ETSY $DT $HPQ $CRM $NOW $WDAY $CTSH $SPOT $GDDY $ADSK Extended on both: $DOCU $ACN $ZS On the other side, these have lost their weekly structure: $SNOW $DELL $EXPE $U $XYZ $HPE $MDB $LITE $AMD $MRVL $ZM $MU $GEN $KEYS $SMTC For now, the watchlist can keep building while the broader market earns back my attention. When the regime improves, I already know exactly where I want to start looking. Liquid Leaders Map — primetrading.one/traderslab

This might be one of my favorite additions to the Liquid Leaders Map so far. Instead of only looking at the 50 strongest liquid leaders stock by stock, this view groups every name by Theme and sorts those themes by relative strength. That completely changes how I read the list. At a glance, I can see where leadership is clustering, whether it's improving or deteriorating, and where the strongest stocks within those themes sit relative to their 21-day structure and buy area. Right now, some of the strongest themes are concentrated in areas like Workflow & Automation, Content & Document Management, Vertical SaaS, IT Consulting, DevOps, CRM, and Cybersecurity, while several semiconductor and AI infrastructure groups sit much further down the ranking. That context matters. A strong stock in a leading, improving theme is a very different setup than a stock trying to hold together while its entire group is losing relative strength. And because every Liquid Leader is still plotted against its 21-day band, I can immediately see which names are actually actionable versus simply strong and extended. Instead of asking “what stocks are strong?” the better question becomes: where is the market concentrating its strength, and which leaders inside those themes are giving me an entry? That’s the kind of view I’ve wanted for a long time. Theme leadership → individual leaders → location → setup. All in one screen. Liquid Leaders Map — primetrading.one/traderslab

Don't make it more complicated... Top Liquid Leaders at their 21dma-structure buy area, showing constructive action. $OKTA, $W, $SHOP, $PLTR. Auto-generated from my setup criteria in The Plan.

$PLTR having that higher low into rising 21dma-structure, and backtest setup. Only 1 week before ER, but still solid action during last week. When you see these higher lows forming around the 21dma-structure while the market $QQQ made a lower low... that's always good information.

$SHOP been a name leading and just going sideway despite the growth recent pullback. Higher low at the rising 21dma-structure with a tight inside day on Friday. Solid setup on this one.

$W inside day just above stage 1 base & rising 21dma-structure area.

If one group is really standing out this weekend, it's Cybersecurity. $RBRK, the leader, is gone with a powerful move despite the market weakness, while $OKTA remains in the buy area with a solid backtest/higher low and a full reclaim of the 21dma-structure.

One thing I’ve appreciated this week is having a higher-timeframe regime model that doesn’t react to every intraday bounce. My Growth Cycle flipped Risk-Off on Oct. 16 after Growth vs. Value lost its 10-week structure and momentum began to deteriorate. Since then, we’ve had plenty of short-term moves that could have tempted me back into pressing risk, but the broader environment for Growth never really improved enough to justify it. That’s the part I value most about the model. It’s not trying to predict whether tomorrow will be green or red. It’s answering a much more useful question for the way I trade: is this still an environment where I should be aggressively taking Growth risk? When the market is Risk-Off, the answer usually isn’t to find a better setup. It’s to stop looking so hard for one. That changes how I operate. In times like these, you’ll notice I share a lot fewer individual charts, setups or trade ideas. That’s intentional. When the market is Risk-Off, my analysis mostly starts and stops at the market level because there’s very little reason for me to spend hours digging through individual names looking for something to do. I’m still watching what’s developing underneath, but I don’t need to react to every bounce, force exposure because something is moving, or convince myself that one good session means the regime has changed. For me, that meant staying in cash this week, protecting the mental reset, and waiting for Growth to actually earn its way back into a better environment. That’s really what the Growth Cycle inside TradersLab.io is built for. It’s a simple part of the process, but this week was a pretty good example of why I wanted it in the first place. primetrading.one/traderslab

You can't make that shirt up. literaly 30 seconds after market close 🤣

/BTC is getting weaker & weaker here below the 21dma-structure, and after that, it failed to reclaim 2 days ago. That weekend's action will be interesting AF.

/ES first close below the weekly structure since April's reclaim. Shakeout or real trend reversal? Respect it.

$AVGO is closing at a weekly low as it tries to accelerate from the declining 10wma structure.

$AMZN having that failed weekly pivot failure as well. A lot of those in tech / MCs.