David Durand - Sun and Storm Investing™

I get frequent responses for my #Bitcoin posts, and those are from a handful of grateful people. I appreciate you, but in the interest of time, which is precious, and given the lack of platform management support, I will not be posting here regularly going forward. 2/2

Please follow me @SunAndStorm on @StockTwits, where I post first, or on X @SunAndStormInv for updates going forward. I asked @BlueSky to recognize my contribution of over 1,500 posts here and my presence in the investing community with a blue checkmark, and they seem to have declined. 1/2

#SPY $SPX $SPY $IWM $GLD #Bitcoin etc.

"Where Key Markets Stand Midday"

$IWM $RUT US Small caps are the closest to the top of their predicted range for today....

10/03/2025 12:00 pm ET Opportunity Range™ Positions
They haven't moved that much since noon

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Now at about 98% of usual max. equity exposure worldwide (meaning vs. usual max. for a Bull Market).

#PFE $PFE $XLV “Market Forensics Say Somebody Cheated!”

I reconstructed the following forensic analysis from the one minute chart…

September 30, 2025

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#JNJ $JNJ It is a bit high in today's range, but it's the 3rd D of a recent breakout. It was better priced at 33% vs. the predicted range earlier.

Price/Opportunity Range™ Position/Today's Chg

186.27 79% 0.13%

Opportunity Ranges™ are short term predicted trading ranges

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He lost his bestie, Putin! #Ukraine deserves better than foot dragging from the West.

$JNJ Started a position. #JNJ

#GDX #GLD $GDX and $GLD had both exceeded their longer term ranges despite being in strong uptrends, so a pullback was expected. Now we'll have to monitor whether it's just a slip or more as discussed 2 days ago.

#BABA $BABA Now +39% since that buy about 1 month ago.

#MELI $MELI The high volatility move yesterday on big volume off a recent high often means more to come, which is why I sold it yesterday even though it was down about 7%. At the close today, it's down another 6.85%.

You can also take some profits at the stretched points, and then #BuyTheSlips. But limit the percent you sell, so you don't miss the big up days.

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#SPY $SPX $SPY $QQQ Esp. for trading stocks, cut your losers/weak stocks and move the capital to winners when they slip, but remain strong.

That is unless there is a long term story and trend you are investing in, and the long term trend is still up. Then you add on pullbacks 1/

#MELI $MELI Out on my stop on a starter position. I don't add to positions that don't perform well, so there has been no further add.

The rest is here...

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The 3 largest banks have higher CET1 requirements...

#JPM $JPM 11.5% CET1 /2.5% SCB $BAC 10.0%/2.5% $C 11.6%/3.6%

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is running above the CET1 (Common Equity Tier 1) requirement announced today of 9% of which 4.5% is SCB (Stress Capital Buffer). That's the typical outcome for some of the large banks.

#COF $COF is -5.7% on the same news it appears (9% CET1).

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#XLF $XLF What I did with stocks I had not recommended here is switch yesterday from one badly behaving bank stock to a better behaving bank stock.

The "good one" is down 1.8%, while the "bad one" is down 3.8%. The good one has greater share buyback capacity and 1/

Not taking questions is part of Trump's authoritarian framework for our country. Trump = Hitler when you look at his immigration policy (hateful persecution of many who've been working here for 10, 20 or more yrs paying taxes!) plus centralized power in one man. That equation is no exaggeration.

Isn't that illegal? Politics in the workplace, except for the POTUS and VP? Yes! The Hatch Act forbids political speech by everyone in the fed govt while on the job. Using government resources for political purposes is ILLEGAL, again for all but the POTUS and VP.

PPLT GLD GDX SLV etc. IF rates start climbing further vs. rolling over here, and the economy starts accelerating appreciably, metals won't like it (go to MarketTiming. Blog and read the bottom of any of the longer posts to see why. 3/

It shows you small and large trades. Large trades are the only ones seen on Level II quotes, so that can hide a lot of volume.

My suggestion is that they pool trades and change the price when every 100 cumulative shares traded are reached. Makes more sense doesn't it? 2/

PPLT Volume is fairly small, but it's 101K per day per @YahooFinance. Bidding at mid-range will probably work, but I prefer going with the TOS data on ThinkorSwim (click on TS to right on Chart tab on desktop version), now a @CharlesSchwab platform. 1/

$PPLT Added some more. PPLT @ 142.36 is at 12% vs the predicted short term trading Opportunity Range™ for today. Low was at -2% which is a slight breach. #PPLT

@ 114,464 its at 71% vs. the short term trading Opportunity Range™ for today.

"Today" starts at 11:59 pm ET, which for now = 8 pm ET. 2/2

COINBASE:BTCUSD Chart Image by BeatTheSt

$BTC.X #Bitcoin Follow it out of the triangle shown (marked by the 2 slanted red lines), but remember it has to keep going after breaking one of the two lines, not just take a peek and fail...

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#SPY #IWM $SPX $SPY $IWM (RUT shown) etc

"Closing Snapshot of the Markets"

$GLD and #Bitcoin ruled their ranges today. GLD closed just above its predicted range, while #Bitcoin showed...

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#KLIP #KWEB $KLIP For those of you who own both $KWEB and $KLIP... The monthly KLIP Dividend of 0.668537 today is 2%, where it is capped, and the rest is used to buy back shares. They are currently within range at a 21.10% trailing 12 mo. total return

Details...

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Have a great weekend!

#SPY $SPX $SPY #Bitcoin $IWM $GLD After the Close...

My Fast Sell Signal is still Bearish and my Fast Buy is Neutral, which is an improvement.

The rest of my signals and range positions including #BTC.X are here...

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