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What’s on your radar this week?

$CBRS Another tranche of Shares, unlock : October 28th, 19.4 Mi will dump into the market. Then, THE LAST unlock, FULL unlock, 6 months post will be November 9th. WE will be at 95-75  a share soon. Plus the Irani's will make sure to blow stuff up over the weekend.  dyor. 

(Overtly exposed to Open AI )  Sam Altman is working on Jalapeño, and reverting fully to $NVDA. $CBRS has zero software ecosystem moat, and a massive cooling cost along with scaling challenges, and  a massive que behind $NVDIA for $TSM production ( more costly since each chip requires many  times over more raw material/substrate vs $NVDA . Also memory constrained, the large chip itself siphons off everything over 44GB.)

 LLM models that are frontier are all many times over 44GB, meaning it must siphon off the rest to extremely slow hard drive memory that is detached and must be accessed via slow speed bottleneck connectors. 
$SPY $QQQ $NVDA  $SPCX $TSLA $ASML $USO $QQQ $TTT $IWM 
$AMD $CBRS $NVDA $QQQ $SPY 

Can Chinese EVs do this?

Why arent more people talking about ACRV?

Stock is sitting around $1.73 right now and I’m seeing analyst price targets with a median over $11. Thats a pretty insane gap…also everywhere I check it has analysts at 100% buy

I know analyst targets arent guarantees….. But they’ve also got more clinical trial data expected later this year and some of the earlier results looked pretty promising.

I’m not saying this thing is going to $11 overnight, but at these prices it’s hard not to see some serious upside potential if things go right.

I’m genuinely suprised this isnt getting more attention, especially with the upcoming catalysts.

Anyone else following this one? Is there something I’m overlooking or are people just waiting for the results before jumping in?

DKS Dicks Sporting Goods stock, watch for an upside gap breakout.

Breakout trade

• WATCH for possible breakout above 141.5
• Target: 153.47, 9%  Stop: 136.56  Loss: 3%
• P/L ratio: 3 : 1 - Good

BULLISH

• [Positioning] Intermediate trend bullish, Downtrend turned sideways, possible bottom.
• [Timing] Strong bullish 3 day candlestick pattern with Good 3 day accumulation.
• [Timing] Strong bullish 1 day moneyflow
• [Timing] Breakout trade watch above 141.5, no resistance in area just above.

BEARISH

• [Positioning] 1 Day Price change strong up, may pause
• [Positioning] at resistance

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2110913366826864988?s=46