These 4 Stocks Are About to Explode‼️ [September 2026]

As the market has delivered one of the best earning seasons ever, we could see that tech momentum is still absolutely getting sandlasted here on a 60-day rolling basis. And if you look at some of the tech sectors that were absolute winners during the first half of the year, these are the ones that have been beaten up since June. However, a lot of them look like they're about to set up once again. So, in this video, we're going to be looking at the top stock setups for asymmetric profit opportunities. And I'm specifically going to be looking at four sectors that you should also be looking at and keep on watch if you care about your portfolio. In this weekly stock market roundup video, I'm also going to talk about the investing plan for the rest of 2026 and 2027. As we know, bond yields are delivering some of the best returns that they have in 20 to 30 years, and you just can't ignore them anymore. So, where is the balance between bonds and equities in one's portfolio? Then we're going to talk about some of the upcoming market moving news with CPI and PPI coming up. We also have the Fed meeting which surprisingly the market is still pricing in a Fed rate hike. There may be an asymmetric bet there as well. September opex options expiration for September. This in the last three midterm years has delivered minus 10% drops in each of the last three midterm years after September opex. So we're going to take a look at that. The Treasury starts buybacks this week, September 9th, for the first time ever. $4 billion in buybacks. Will this have an effect on lowering long-term yields? The VIX is eerily quiet going into the midterms. Then we're going to talk about earnings. Apple has an event coming up next week as well. And then one of our biggest stock picks recently, if you guys are fans of this channel, you should already be in this trade, but be Bloom Energy was announced that it was added to the S&P 500 on Friday. And this was one of our biggest swing trades last week. Also still in the shares. If you don't know who I am, my name is Z. I run this channel, The Traveling Trader. I've been running it for the last eight years. I cover the markets on a week-toeek basis from a trading and an investing standpoint. I have a professional background in tech and in finance. And without further ado, let's get right into it. So, first going to get into the news, the upcoming news real quick, and then we will get into the top stock setups, the four sectors that I'm watching, as well as what an investing plan looks like for the rest of 2026 and 2027. Going to run through this real quick, but CPI and PPI is next week. We have PPI on September 10th and CPI on September 11th as well as consumer sentiment and inflation expectations. And those numbers are going to be extremely important because as Kevin Worsh told us on Jackson Hole, we have to look at the remaining inflation prints that we have for the rest of the year before making a decision on the FOMC. The FOMC is on Wednesday, September 16th. So we have to assume that the data that comes out this week is going to affect what happens in the FOMC next week. And if we take a look at the Fed funds rate, you can see here there is a 60% chance according to the market that the Fed is going to do a hike on September 16th. And if you take a look at the prediction markets, it's about a 50/50 whether the Fed maintains rates or hikes them. And although I'm not a prediction markets person, this may be something that I'll look at depending on how the inflation data comes out. And on September 18th, we have September OPEX. September OPEX going into a midterm year has traditionally been one of the most violent times for stocks. If we take a look at what happened after OPEX in 2022, you could see this drop here on QQQ. You can argue 2022 was a bare market. In 2018, we almost hit a bare market right after September OPEX and QQQ actually did hit a bare market while the S&P 500 narrowly dodged one. Same thing in 2014 after September OPEX, we dropped 10% on the NASDAQ. So, with the VIX eerily low here going into September and October, I would not be surprised if we got a pullback on the major indices. Now, I'm not in the camp just yet that we will see a full-on correction. We already had two minus 10 corrections in the NASDAQ and we've never had three in a single year ever when not in a bare market. Additionally, this week the Treasury is going to start their buyback program on September 9th. We've never had a buyback program of this magnitude. They're going to be buying back $4 billion of treasuries and specifically longdated treasuries as the 30-year still sits at 5.244%. and they're hoping that this brings down long-term yields. I honestly have no idea what this is going to do since it was so heavily priced in and $4 billion is just a drop in the ocean compared to the $40 trillion that the US currently has in debt. In terms of earnings this week, here's what we have going down. We have Oracle and Adobe after the close on Thursday. Earning season is largely over, but as always in the Discord, I will have the earnings plan if there are earnings to be played here. You know that we only look for asymmetric opportunities. So whether the stock beats or meets the expected move most of the time. If it beats the expected move most of the time, then a strangle might be in play. If it doesn't beat the expected move most of the time, then an iron condor might be in play. So we will take a look at those in the Discord. We also have the Apple event coming up this week. It'll be on September 9th. This is when the market thinks that the iPhone 18 and a potentially foldable iPhone will be announced on September 9th, which is a Tuesday or sorry, Wednesday. And lastly, BE was included in the S&P 500 Nancy Pelosi does not miss. This is a stock that I talked about on this channel both from an investing and a trading perspective. And you can see here that it hit $266 after hours on Friday. Now, I suspected that the S&P 500 inclusion might be a sell the news event. So, I would not be surprised to see a little pullback, but in my opinion, that is buyable and longable. I did a full analysis on Bloom Energy in the Traveling Trader Academy stock section for long-term alerts. And in this video here from seven days ago where I was talking about Elon Musk speaking about what the true bottleneck is for AI, I told you that I was looking at the power sector heavily and that BE was my top choice. Bloom Energy had their first billion dollar quarter in company history and revenue grew 166%. And if we take a look on Alphascope, you can see here their revenue was at an all-time high. Ebidal all-time high, gross profit, net income all-time high. All while their stock price up to that point had dropped 55%. So all of those metrics were trending this way and their price was trending this way. And how can we forget about the number one catalyst of any stock, Nancy Pelosi buying the stock. As long as Bloom Energy continues to grow quarter over quarter, I have no doubt that it can get back to its all-time highs within the next year, especially now that it has been added to the S&P 500 and a lot of funds have to buy Bloom Energy during the rebalancing. So, what are the top four sectors that I'm looking at here for asymmetric trade opportunities in the market? Well, if we start with the sector that kicked off the video last week and this crazy trade on Bloom Energy, it is power. Power is the number one bottleneck. And if we take a look at two important metrics as it relates to AI here, annual token usage expected to reach four quadrillion by 2030 and this report by Goldman Sachs that projected that AI data center investment could triple to 2030 to $7 trillion. And although there are many themes in the bottleneck, the number one constraint is still power because that is not something that can be built quickly. So let's say that you missed every single video that I did on Bloom Energy in the last month. Another name that I'm looking at is Vistra. VST. Vistra is still down 32% from all-time highs. And I did some poking around into who owns Vistra. Peter Teal owns Vistra. So does David Ter. John Armmitage owns uh VST as well. And Steve Mandel. It's one of his largest positions. But you guys really only care about one name here, and that's Nancy Pelosi. And did she buy VST? Yes. And as a matter of fact, her cost was at around 180. So, let me pull up VST here in Alphascope. By the way, Alphascope the best fundamental tool in the market in my opinion. It is the quickest way to analyze stocks and get back the only the relevant information that you need and leave all the junk out of the window. But if you take a look here, PE 24.9 PE on VST for PE is 14. So, if you compare that to a growth company like BE, which I do like, but BE is definitely expensive by traditional metrics. So if we go back to VST here, forward PE of 14 and it has since secured massive hyperscaler power agreements with both Meta as well as Amazon AWS. It's backed by $10 billion in capital commitments. And one of the main things I like about Vistra is that it spans nuclear, natural gas, solar, and battery storage. And as I said, it's so hard to spin up new power generation facilities, especially new nuclear facilities. Some of the other names that I like in this sector, not going to do a deep dive on every single one, but GE Verova is starting to trade at an attractive discount here. And another name, which this one is on watch me, watch for me for a potential swing trade as well, is Vertive here, down 26% from highs, but it looks like it might break the downtrend line here. But whether we are talking about an investment or a trade, I do like this for a trade. I will want to see a break in a retest. So not quite ready there yet, but from an investment perspective, I do like Vertive because it is one of the only companies that does what it does at scale and it is much needed in the power bottleneck. All right, I told you there were four sectors. The other sector that I'm looking at here is chips and this is no surprise as chips took an absolute dive from June highs. SOXL was down 70%. Now SOL is a 3x ETF. So if you take a look at SM SMH or SOXX, you could see that this was down 25%. Chips were in a bare market and this was something that I had called out back in the beginning of August. And names that absolutely took a hit since June were Marll, Broadcom as well. Names like Intel, which is one of my top stocks, and also on the verge of breakout. These stocks were the reason that the SOX or SMH ETFs took a hit. So, a couple of stocks that I'm looking at here in terms of stock setups on the verge of potential breakouts is Intel. Now, Intel again is a stock that I went through before, did a deep dive for you guys, an investment thesis. I do like Intel as an investment, but I do also like it right now as a potential swing trade. for a swing trade. I still need to see another day candle here and I need to see if we get a break and a retest or does this turn into just a swing failure and a fake breakout before going back down lower to attack these equal lows. So that is what I will be looking for and we'll be alerting the Discord group when that happens. And then on the ETF side again this downtrend pretty textbook here. I want to see a break and a retest of this downtrend line as opposed to getting here rejecting and going down to take out that low. Another Goldman Sachs report, this was the other graphic I wanted to share with you, is the TAM or the total addressable market for optical networking, which could reach a TAM of 154 billion by 2028. And you guys know how I feel about Marll and Broadcom, two of the most important stocks in optical networking. Again, I did a deep dive on Marll and Broadcom in the Discord stock section for the Traveling Trader Academy. And price-wise, I said that Marll has more upside than Broadcom in the long term because it is much smaller of a market cap than than Broadcom. Currently sitting at $195 billion market cap. If we take a look at Alphascope and then if we look at Broadcom, that's a currently a $1.7 trillion company. Broadcom trading at an 18.5 forward PE 24% return on invested capital 25% 10-year KGER all-time high revenue EBID gross profit gross profit margin net income cash from operations free cash flow earnings per share all while increasing their capex to an all-time high cash flow still came in at an all-time high to me both of these companies are excellent obvious major major player is Broadcom with Marll being a growth stock that is lagging lagging behind in terms of size that has more price potential sort of like AMD and Nvidia. So from an investing perspective I like those stocks within the chip sector and from a trading perspective I'm looking at Intel as well as SOXL depending on whether we can get a break in a retest. Another stock that I'm looking at this week for a potential breakout is AMD with this downtrend line since June. And we talked about power and we talked about chips and the next sector that I'm looking at is data centers. So once again from a trading perspective you could see stocks like iron for instance almost breaking this downtrend line want to see a break in a retest. There are the Bitcoin miners turned data centers like Cipher that are potentially going to break out here as well as CLSK. These are also on watch for a potential break and retest of this down of this downtrend line that they all really share in common. Same with Terowolf as well. Now, I'm on record of saying that my favorite data center investment is Nebius, although a lot of them are tradable whether you're trading iron or coreweave. But based on this chart here showing that this is the worst time for the tech momentum trade which includes data centers, chips as well as power. the fact that annual token usage is expected to be four quadrillion by 2030 and the fact that the total addressable market for optical networking is set to hit $154 billion within the next couple of years. And the last sector that I'm looking at which is probably the king of the momentum trade this year is memory. Now you guys know that I traded Micron. I gave you guys that trade in the last video and we also traded MU calls. MUU is the 2x ETF of MU. Wanted to maximize our gains from this move here. But once again, Memory absolutely got shellacked in June and we are finally starting to break out here. Now, I am invested in DRAM and I do think that that ETF is fine. But as I've said time and time again, I don't think that if we invest in memory here, that you're going to get the thousands of percentage gains that early memory investors got when they were buying, you know, SanDisk and Micron in the double digits. And although today as of the time of this recording is Labor Day, obviously it's not Labor Day in Korea. And I've showed you this before, but when Cosby, which is the Korean index, tends to range, we've hit these ranges of about 40 to 50 days when we are trading sideways. And we are hitting that mark currently at around 43 days. And it looks like the Cosby might be ready to break out as well. Here it actually did break out. Another ETF that I'm holding aside from DRAM is EWI which tracks the South Korean market. So those are the four sectors that I'm looking to trade. As you can see, some of the stocks are have already broken out and a retest would be prudent. Some of the the sectors and stocks have not yet broken out and we're going to be monitoring them for a breakout. Every one of the trades that we send out, whether it's swings or day trades, is extremely detailed, including the thesis for the trade. if it's an option, the option strike price as well as expiration and why I chose the strike price and expiration. Now, it's obviously not meant to be a copy service where you just blindly copy trades. We want everybody learning in this community. That's what it's about. And I share my trades transparently, win or loss, so that you could see how I mitigate the trade. How do I manage it? If it's a losing trade or a winning trade, how do I start taking profits? Why did I choose that strike price and expiration? Why did I decide to go with the leveraged ETF as opposed to options? Why I decided not to take a trade, as well as all of the long-term stock alerts, my macro analysis, etc. So, and I go live every single day at market open. if that wasn't enough. So, all of this right now, if you are watching this before the Labor Day coupon expires, there is a Labor Day coupon to join us that is down below. Make sure that you sign up. If you I think there's a coupon for 30% off the annual, 20% off the monthly for one month. So, if you ever wanted to join us, make sure you take advantage of that if it's still available. If it comes up as expired, well, then it's expired. And I wanted to briefly talk about the investing plan for the rest of 26 and 27. So if we take a look at yields here, yields are currently trading at 20 30-year highs, depending on which yield you're looking at. If we take a look at the 30-year yield, for instance, this is currently trading at 5.244. The last time that we were at this level was back in 2007. So, we are talking about 20 years since the 30 30-year yield has traded this way. If we take a look at TLT, which is the ETF that tracks the 20 plus year treasuries, this is at an all-time low only matched by what we saw back in the dot bust. Now, we are getting to a point where treasury yields are so juicy that we have to put that up against the stock market and see whether it's worth it to keep holding risky assets or not because equities can be risky, especially when they're trading at this valuation. Now, the S&P 500 4 PE is actually currently trading at 19 a.5 and tech is trading at 19.7. Tech technically trades at a higher PE normally, especially if we're talking about the last 5 years, but the S&P 500 at 19.5 is actually not bad. That is on the lower end of the spectrum considering the last 6 years and we just had some of the best earnings ever in the stock market. So, while I don't think that the S&P 500 is super overvalued here, when we look at the risk premium versus bonds right now, it's looking rather shallow because bonds are paying so much and the S&P 500 is pretty expensive depending on which metrics you look at. Even though, like I said, I personally don't think it's that overvalued. So, the risk-free rate is usually quoted as the 10-year Treasury yield. And currently that is paying 4.78%. And with the S&P 500 valuation where it's at, it's expected to return less than that over the next year. I'm not saying it is, but per the calculations or the traditional calculations. So the risk premium for the S&P 500 is actually currently negative, sitting between -1 and -1.43, 43, meaning that the asymmetric bet here is actually bonds and not the S&P 500. And how you invest here is going to completely depend on your risk profile and your time to retirement. So there isn't going to be a portfolio that suits everybody. And I just pose these things to you so that you that you could think about risk in the right way and make the necessary adjustments for your portfolio. If you are not if you don't have an appetite for risk currently and or you are likely to retire it within the next 5 years, you might not want to take the risk with the S&P 500 at this valuation. And you might say, you know what, I'm happy locking in 5 a.5% or 5.3% for the remainder of my time until retirement. I don't need to be in the S&P 500 to capture a potential 8 to 10%. I'm okay with the 5.3% in treasuries. And I personally don't like an all-in approach, meaning all in bonds or all in equities. You have to divide your portfolio again based on your risk tolerance and time to retirement. So, the shorter that you have until retirement, the less that your risk profile is, the more you'll want to be in risk-free assets such as high yield savings or bonds/bond ETFs. So, you might have a 40% bonds and a 60% equities portfolio. And of this 60%, you might have 30% in index funds like QQQ and SPY and 30% in individual stocks. a mix of potentially high growth and defensive stocks such as consumer staples. If you are younger, you may say, "I don't want any bonds. I want a 100% of my portfolio in equities, and I'm going to divide it up between hyperrowth stocks and index funds." If you're somewhere in the middle, you might say, "Okay, 25% allocated to bonds and 75% allocated to equities." It's really there is no right answer. It really depends on you. I again I just want you guys to think about this. And in terms of bond ETFs, there are really two bond ETFs that are considered safer than TLT. ESG, which the price of ESG doesn't really fluctuate, but it also only pays currently about 3.6% annual yield. There's VGIT, which tracks inter intermediate term treasuries. And this one is not as violent as TLT. And this closer tracks the 10-year Treasury. And this one currently has about a 4 and a.5% yield. And then TLT tracks the long-term treasuries. And this one pays about a 5 12% yield, but the price can fluctuate wildly depending on policy as well as what's going on with the bond market and the buybacks, etc. So, if the long-term yields keep going up, then TLT can actually go down in price even though you do end up still capturing that 5 1.5% in dividends. But just to give you an example, if you bought TLT in September of 2024, you are currently down 20% in terms of your net asset value, even though you still capture that 5% plus every single year in dividends. However, you might say to yourself, because TLT is near all-time lows that we haven't seen since the.com bust, and because the Treasury is about to start buybacks and hopefully lower long-term Treasury yields, I actually like buying TLT here because not only do I get the 5.5%, but if TLT goes up because yields go down, then I also capture that r that rise in the ETF price. So, let's say that TLT rallies to $87. You gain almost 7% on top of the 5 a.5% dividend that you capture in TLT. Again, I just want you guys to think about this stuff practically. And I may do a whole webinar on how to structure your investments in your portfolio, how to think about this stuff depending on your time to retirement, your risk tolerance, your investing profile. But I hope this stuff helps. And if you want to join the Traveling Trader Academy again, use the code below if it's still active. If not, then you'll have to sign up at full price. Make sure that you get yourself an Alphascope account. 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