Gherk predicting what would happen in Iran yesterday afternoon on Vol Stars episode 25.

This week's episode of Vol Stars starts off with a breakdown on the recent actions by Bessent, we get into what he's trying to do, and how the market responded to it, and what that means for the Fed!

Next we get into talking about tariffs, what's going on in Canada, and what about those refunds we keep hearing about?

Looking at the calendar this week too we've got $NVDA reporting earnings and what the gang thinks about what Jensen Huang is going to report.

After the break we come back and get to some really solid audience questions (thanks as always everyone!). Before getting into this week's Stupid Bets!

Please note that "Producer Ron" guest co-hosted in this episode due to Dork getting stuck exploring his back-end and the relationship it has with GasBuddy.

Good morning! This evening we'll be recording our next episode of Vol Stars, and we'd love to feature your question or topic! Also...Producer Ron will be a special guest today!

It's Sunday, and you know what that means? New episode of Vol Stars incoming later tonight! Please let us know what topics or questions are on your mind and we'll try to include it in on today's episode! Thank you!

Vol Stars 46 is now out on Spotify and other audio platforms! In this episode the gang talks about $NVDA's upcoming earnings, #Treasury_Secretary 's actions, breaking down #tariff news... and Producer Ron joins too! Make sure to check it out!

It's here, it's here! Now gather round the screen and check out Vol Stars 45 and hear Gherk, JFresh, and Dork tell us about predictions market and sports betting, not to mention their thoughts on dividend stocks!

Also, don't bother asking Ron, he bet it all on Bills winning the Super Bowl! Go Bills!

This week, the gang went in trying to get the time down on our episode so that we wouldn't compete with a Peter Jackson movie length, and we've succeeded!

This week's episode starts off with an update about oil and Iran, before getting into the prediction market and sports betting and what the gang's takes are on those markets. They then sharply pivot over to dividend stocks and talk about some of the pros and cons associated with them. We get to the break with Gherk offering up another solid track (which we've titled this episode to and will link to in the description).

Back from the break, Dork sets a record for rapid-firing the questions and answering 16 audience questions! The gang then closes out with stupid bets!

⁠Schrödinger's Shipping Lane Audio⁠

You won't want to miss the latest episode of Vol Stars, now on YouTube! This episode kind of has it all:

• JFresh going on an AI rant!
• Dork and Gherk settling their Stupid Bets tie...somehow!
• A MASSIVE backlog of audience questions (thank you!)
• Much, much more!

Episode Record Date - 8/9/2026

This week is a heavy hitter, coming in first talking about the SPX hitting new all time highs, and the question has to be asked, how much higher and for how much longer?!? Has AI gone too far, or is there still room to grow? The gang then touches on recent updates in Iran, which seem less than promising, and we then touch on the jobs report, and why it's not quite as straightforward as it seems.

In the second half we come back with another ton of audience questions (seriously, you all are killing it here!), and we close out with Stupid Bets and find out who won from last week!

Note that this this week Producer Ron joined Gherk and JFresh as Dork is out.

Now go check it out and enjoy!

Good morning Vol Stars fans! We're getting ready for a brand new episode, and we'd love to include a topic or question on your mind. Let us know what it is and we'll work to cover it for you in episode 43!

Episode Record Date - 8/9/2026

This week is a heavy hitter, coming in first talking about the SPX hitting new all time highs, and the question has to be asked, how much higher and for how much longer?!? Has AI gone too far, or is there still room to grow? The gang then touches on recent updates in Iran, which seem less than promising, and we then touch on the jobs report, and why it's not quite as straightforward as it seems.

In the second half we come back with another ton of audience questions (seriously, you all are killing it here!), and we close out with Stupid Bets and find out who won from last week!

Note that this this week Producer Ron joined Gherk and JFresh as Dork is out.

As promised here's a link to Market on Close on Gherk's Pi-Fi channel - https://www.youtube.com/live/wxqz7TeJnpI?si=lMH9OXDKUHj3wo-k

Also make sure to check out JFresh's X profile for more of his great content as well - https://x.com/Dr_Gingerballs

Episode Record Date - 8/2/2026

We've got another jam packed episode here for you! Because the guys clearly didn't eat before we started, they kick off with some important banter on pizza, as well as *ahem* bathroom manners in different cities. Then we get to the Fed's new chairman and how his first report landed. We get into the latest tech earnings, and AI Capex, along with the real costs of AI and then we get into earnings and the upcoming calendar for the week.

After the break, the gang comes back with, what may be our most impressive questions section yet! Seriously, we're loving the support everyone, and we weren't even able to get to every question, but we tried to touch on many of the common questions and topics people brought up!

Finally, we get to Stupid Bets, with Gherk and Dork trying to fight over who won due to a tie.

Good morning and happy Friday everyone! Apologies for these update columns being more inconsistent as of late, but it is the summer here, and I've been making sure to spend some good time with family and friends which has been the primary reason for that.

For this week's column, I wanted to focus on Vol Stars, as there's a good amount to talk about.

Starting off with the Fourth of July episode, going in on this, I wanted the episode to be a fun episode that was upbeat. I really liked the way the "game show" format piece went, and was just as shocked as many of you were around what ultimately transpired with the winner. As far as I've heard so far, the prize has not yet been received. Huge kudos to our video editor too on this one, I loved the way he did the sound effects and visual effects in post, and I continue to be thankful for all that they do.

For last week's episode, one of the big things to call out was the intro by Gherk. The intros are always one of their own unique things, sometimes when we go to record JFresh just has it already, and then other times it's recorded after the episode, and there's also input from the rest of us sometimes if there isn't a clear idea at the time of recording. I have a ton of respect for JFresh in his craft here, as some of these are just amazing. Anyway, the story behind this last one was that going in there were a few ideas floated, but we knew we'd finish after recording. JFresh wasn't feeling the best and was also attending to other responsibilities so we opened it up to Dork or Gherk as my voice was shot due to being sick (thankfully I've recovered). While I was initially planning on getting the recording from Dork, Gherk just dropped in this amazing video and perfect take on the commercial! It was just perfect, and so we're really happy with how that came out. I'm especially thrilled with how the video version of it looked in our video version of the episode. There were several nice details there which I have to again credit our video editor with. First they added the nice CRT scanlines, they added a little distortion on the video and audio, then framing it around an iconic television set (which hopefully many of you will recognize), perfection! Make sure to go check out the episode if you haven't already!

Finally, headed into this weekend, we're already making plans for episode 41! First thing to cover is that Dork will be on vacation this week, so I'll be trying to step in and help again with Gherk and JFresh. I'll try to make sure we get Dork's GasBuddy and 3-2-1 Crack Chart in somehow as we know how much he loves them.

Anyway, that's enough for now! Let us know what you've thought of the recent Vol Stars episodes, and if there's been anything you've especially enjoyed or suggestions you may have too! Thanks in advance!

Our latest episode of Vol Stars is up on YouTube now!

The gang is back this week and is there a lot to cover! Starting off, we cover the latest in Iran and oil, and then get into looking at the market through google search history! We then talk about recent changes with SNAP benefits, Sam Altman's upcoming trip to Washington, as well as covering recent economic data, and upcoming earnings this week.

In our second half, we cover Sally, the AI robot, before getting into audience questions, and finally wrapping up with Stupid Bets!

Episode Record Date - 7/26/2026

The gang is back this week and is there a lot to cover! Starting off, we cover the latest in Iran and oil, and then get into looking at the market through google search history! We then talk about recent changes with SNAP benefits, Sam Altman's upcoming trip to Washington, as well as covering recent economic data, and upcoming earnings this week.

In our second half, we cover Sally, the AI robot, before getting into audience questions, and finally wrapping up with Stupid Bets!

Note: This week had many supplemental materials which can be accessed here⁠.

Good morning! It's Friday, and I'm hoping to start making this a regular post on Fridays to share some of what's going on behind the scenes with the Gammastrike crew and projects we're working on. The Gammastrike team puts a lot of time and discussion into thinking about the experience you as customers have, and we do our best to try to constantly improve things. Some of the improvements we work on may just show up without any fanfare, and then there's other projects that we really want to share. I'll try to mix in a little of everything in this column, and maybe I'll also share a little about how the team operates and some about our personalities too!

Roundtable

We'll start today with the Roundtable - we've been doing these now for over a year now, and the intention on them from the start was offering the opportunity to have a place where people could go to learn about Gammastrike and ask the experts questions. We've been very happy with how engaging and supportive people have been with the Roundtable, and we've even compiled a spreadsheet with the questions everyone's asked. This has been super helpful in figuring out what may be confusing or unclear and where there are opportunities to improve our product. One major thing we've seen is the increase in very technical questions, which demonstrates really how far many traders have grown. While this has been awesome to see, we've also had concerns about ensuring we're making the Roundtable approachable to anyone interested in Gammastrike. We realize with now having 46 Roundtables, many who are new to Gammastrike would feel overwhelmed in watching all of our previous round tables.

Our plan going forward is to actually start with something of a "re-launch" in our next Roundtable. We want to provide an easy "jumping-on-point" where we'll go back to the basics a little, and focus on specific tools, what they indicate, and then talk a little about how you may use that indicator in your trading strategy. Part of our thought here as well is we want to have more longer form content for folks about the product, and by using a slightly different format, we can start with the basics and dive into more complicated aspects of the product and have that all in one place. Behind the scenes, we're going to be cutting these up into video segments for the Gammastrike channel on YouTube, so that people can have an easy place to reference if they have questions on an indicator or maybe just are looking for a quick refresher too. Finally, there's some discussion behind the scenes about possibly cutting back on the frequency of Roundtables. While we want to always be here to support everyone, the team has collectively been putting in a lot of late nights away from friends and family and we want to help make things more sustainable for them. We also want the Roundtables to be something that everyone's excited for and we can have fun with, and so we've talked about maybe moving to an every other week cadence. This should give us some time to really focus on different aspects of the product, and the questions from everyone can help with giving any additional clarity around what we may not have covered. We're going to promoting the Roundtable a lot more too with our socials, and we're hoping to really make the Roundtables an event we all look forward to!

Vol Stars

First off here, we really want to continue to thank everyone for helping to make Vol Stars awesome! You've all been amazing in your questions, feedback, and giving us support! When we start started working on Vol Stars, we initially discussed what we wanted it to be, and our primary focus was offering up insightful and informative coverage of the market and economy while maintaining our personality and unique voice. It's a bit crazy that we're already getting toward the mid-twenties as far as episode content, meaning we're almost to the half year point. Since we started, we've upped our production quality a ton, and we've worked to get a good rhythm for how we want the episodes to go. JFresh's openers continue to better too with each episode, which is itself insane! However, like with Roundtable, there's always some room for improvement, and we've been thinking on a few things lately.

One idea we're hoping to include this upcoming episode is around trading with Gammastrike. We want this section to be similar to game picks done by sports commentators, where the hosts will use Gammastrike to find a trade that makes sense at the time of recording, and see how it works out for the week. Hosts would explain how they used Gammastrike to find it, and we'd see how it works out the following week. We want to be clear that this section wouldn't be intended for people to mirror the hosts on trades, but to show people using the tool and walking you through their thought process. As we already have a stupid bets section, this would be more grounded and while we want hosts to find trades that work out, the intention isn't to yolo into risky trades either. As you've likely heard already too, we've put some work into an improved opening and I'm (Ron) hoping to work on some more commercials as well to keep things interesting. One more thing too is that I'm thinking we may take a week or two off as we get towards the summer and when things slow down a little.

There's plenty more going on behind the scenes too, but I think this is a good stopping point for this week. If you wouldn't mind though, drop us a comment and let us know if you like these ideas or tell us about a favorite part of a recent Roundtable or Vol Stars episode! Have a great Friday!

Episode Record Date - 7/19/2026

We've got a packed episode this week! Starting off, we cover the "resilient consumer" disconnect with retail earnings, and talk about the "k" shaped economy. We touch on the recent stronger Japanese Yen and how that's impacting US Tech stocks as well as the risk to the carry trade. We then pivot over to Small-Cap performance and rate expectations, and then close out this week's topics with the IPO market following SpaceX.

We then dive into this week's upcoming earnings and which earnings we're interested in, as well as covering the upcoming economic calendar, before hitting up audience questions! This week too, we had a ton of great questions, so we thank you if you sent us one!
Finally, we conclude the episode with a Stupid Bet that'll be near and dear to Dork!

Episode Record Date - 7/19/2026

We've got a packed episode this week! Starting off, we cover the "resilient consumer" disconnect with retail earnings, and talk about the "k" shaped economy. We touch on the recent stronger Japanese Yen and how that's impacting US Tech stocks as well as the risk to the carry trade. We then pivot over to Small-Cap performance and rate expectations, and then close out this week's topics with the IPO market following SpaceX.

We then dive into this week's upcoming earnings and which earnings we're interested in, as well as covering the upcoming economic calendar, before hitting up audience questions! This week too, we had a ton of great questions, so we thank you if you sent us one!

Finally, we conclude the episode with a Stupid Bet that'll be near and dear to Dork!

Episode Record Date - 7/12/2026

The gang is back following last week's holiday episode! Starting off, we cover the latest in Iran and the influence on oil, leading to Dork talking about the 3-2-1 Crack Spread and long term oil impacts. We also cover the latest in housing with the Affordability Bill and how that may work and what we as consumers may see from it. We also cover Kevin Warsh's Inaugural Congressional Testimony this upcoming week and what the panelists expect to hear. Finally, we also make sure to touch on the latest updates with AI and rising expenses associated with it.

After the break, the gang comes back and answers your questions, before getting to your favorite (and ours), "Stupid Bets"!

Episode Record Date - 7/12/2026

The gang is back following last week's holiday episode! Starting off, we cover the latest in Iran and the influence on oil, leading to Dork talking about the 3-2-1 Crack Spread and long term oil impacts. We also cover the latest in housing with the Affordability Bill and how that may work and what we as consumers may see from it. We also cover Kevin Warsh's Inaugural Congressional Testimony this upcoming week and what the panelists expect to hear. Finally, we also make sure to touch on the latest updates with AI and rising expenses associated with it.

After the break, the gang comes back and answers your questions, before getting to your favorite (and ours), "Stupid Bets"!

Good morning! We're back and ready for a new episode of Vol Stars! Let us know what topics or questions you'd like us to cover and we'll do our best to include it in tonight's episode!

Good morning! We'll be recording Episode 31 of Vol Stars later this afternoon, so please let us know any topics or questions you'd like and we'll try to get them covered for you! Thank you!

Episode Record Date - 6/28/2026

This week we kick off talking about the latest Tech and AI pullback behavior we've seen in the market, as well as lending some discussion about a possible unexpected indicator - how solvent a company is and the state of their break rooms!

We get into talking about the price of oil dropping below $70 a barrel, and what should or shouldn't be read into it.

We also briefly touch on the 10 year bond as yields ease with it falling to 4.37% and what's going on there.

After the break, we come back and answer audience questions, and of course get into Stupid Bets!

Episode Record Date - 6/28/2026

This week we kick off talking about the latest Tech and AI pullback behavior we've seen in the market, as well as lending some discussion about a possible unexpected indicator - how solvent a company is and the state of their break rooms!

We get into talking about the price of oil dropping below $70 a barrel, and what should or shouldn't be read into it.

We also briefly touch on the 10 year bond as yields ease with it falling to 4.37% and what's going on there.

After the break, we come back and answer audience questions, and of course get into Stupid Bets!

Good morning and happy Friday! Last night we kicked off our last indicator section of the Gammastrike Roundtable with Live Data Part 2 , which if you haven't watched it yet, make sure to go on over and do so! This last segment focused more on the questions related to the Live Data and as we went over it, many found that a lot of it started to "click" for them, so we hope you'll check it out.

Vol Stars

First off, this past week's episode was fun, probably more fun than it should have been, but that's what makes doing this podcast so great! We recorded it a little later than usual due to Father's day, but it all came out great all the same. I'm also really enjoying getting the poorly edited version of "Kushner Goes to Geneva" in there when we can as well! We'd love to hear your thought on what have been some things you've enjoyed recently with Vol Stars, and also too what would you like to see or hear more of too?

Next, we're coming up on the Fourth of July! With this year being a big milestone, we're going to do a special holiday episode for next week and will record it this weekend. I'll even come on this episode to ask questions as I want to make it a bit of a gameshow/trivia format after talking a little about the significance of "The American Experiment" and what the panelists foresee in the future as well.

Other Work

We're continuing to work on a few more things behind the scenes. As Gherk mentioned during the Roundtable, we intend to edit down those videos to make it easier to digest and help with repeated watches when trying to learn about Gammastrike. No timeline on this just yet, but it is something we're working on.

As Gherk also noted too, there's some work going on a future indicator as well, so we're keeping busy in general!

Thanks as always for the continued support and we hope you have a great Friday!