Stocks in Play - August 11th 2025

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Welcome to today's Stocks in Play report. Below are the key stocks to watch, along with brief x-ray and analysis.

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Honorable Mention to:

MU: Pre announced a nice Beat and Raise on earnings. Nice looking weekly chart and daily. Has potential for a sustained run. May work better as a delayed reaction but could push today also.

X-Ray MU: Industry Group: Semiconductors, Market Cap: 133.05B, Float: 1.11B Short Interest 2.98%, Days to Cover: 1.50, Exchange: NASDAQ

SPHR: Mixed earnings but better than feared, Return to positive growth. Watching this mainly for the short squeeze potential. High short interest, Reasonable chart if it can push above $46 it can really get going. Remember these tend not to move until later in the day. So just setting some alerts.

X-Ray SPHR: Industry Group: Entertainment, Market Cap: 1.45B, Float: 27.43M Short Interest 25.74%, Days to Cover: 10.65, Exchange: NYSE

ALTS: $1.5b Private Placement with WLFI. Getting new CEO, Zach Witkoff, Board of Directors: Eric Trump. Creating a WLFI Token treasury. Mat Morgan as CIO. Large institutional and crypto VCs involved. In theme - Crypto & Stablecoins. Has all the hall marks of something that should be capable of running hard. Negative pre market but watching for Red to Green move. Chart looks great over $10.

X-Ray ALTS: Industry Group: Software - Application, Market Cap: 156.57M, Float: 15.07M Short Interest 6.62%, Days to Cover: 3.57, Exchange: NASDAQ

POTSTOCKS: Cannabis Companies are popping pre market after the WSJ reported that Trump is considering whether to reschedule marijuana as a less dangerous drug under the controlled substances act. When Potstocks go they really go. This might be early but there could be a really powerful theme brewing here - CGC, TLRY, CRON, ACB, SNDL, OGI, GRWG and others. Here is a full watchlist: https://www.tradingview.com/watchlists/148258125/

Delayed Reaction Watchlist (click here Tradingview)

The Week Ahead & Monday Awareness

CPI Week this week along with plenty of earnings, The CPI numbers are likely to play out as expected lining up the first cut for September. CPI Tuesday @ 8:30am, PPI Thursday @ 8:30am, Jobless Claims @ 8:30am.

Plenty of Earnings this week, not the mega market movers but lots of potential for powerful moves. I’ve listed the ones I’ve reviewed below to keep an eye out for. The new IPOs CRCL, CRWV will be interesting plus plenty of in theme names - ACHR (Drones), USAR (Rare Earth), ASTS (Space), PONY (Robotaxi), RGTI (Quantum) and many more.

Peter Thiel backed Crypto firm Bullish BLSH will IPO on Wednesday. This should be another hyped name. In Theme and should have the usual Thiel cult status attached.

I continue to look at $600 on the QQQ as the target before we have some meaningful correction on the indices, we are quite narrow in leadership at the moment but that can continue for a lot longer than people think. It’s also worth noting that IWM is getting tighter and tighter on a longer time frame. Likely setting up to Breakout on rate cuts. I am bullish overall but I think each day is getting more choppy and more whipsaw in the short term. Peeling faster, grinding my account on good ideas, keeping an open mind to recognize the strongest catalysts and switching to take a chance on those.

Earnings Highlights

Monday :

(Before Market Open) - MNDY

(After Market Close) - BBAI, PLUG, ACHR, OKLO, USAR, ASTS,

Tuesday:

(Before Market Open) - CRCL, PONY, ETOR, TME, SE

(After Market Close) - RGTI, CRWV, CAVA,

Wednesday:

(Before Market Open) - EXK, GLBE, EAT, SPRY,

(After Market Close) - CSCO, EQX, DLO, GAU, RILY, ITRG,

Thursday:

(Before Market Open) - AG,

(After Market Close) - NU, AMAT, BZAI, NNE

Friday:

(Before Market Open) - SBET

Next weeks full earnings watchlist on TradingView can be accessed here.

Macro Events (Eastern Time)

Sources & Services I Use in my Trading:

• Finviz - Short Interest, Float, Articles, Fundamentals (Free)

• Benzinga Pro - News Source + News Squawk + Earnings Data (Paid)

• Tradingview - Charting & Scanning (Paid)

• Koyfin - Fundamental Data (Paid)

• EarningsWhispers - Earnings Calendar (Free)

• Tradersync - Trade Journal (Paid)

_{PS: There are many ways to trade stocks in play. It does not have to be the one that keeps going straight up and sometimes it doesn’t even have to be day one of the catalyst. Everyone must find a setup, timeframe and method that works for them. This list is supposed to educate on the criteria I use and the methods in which I find Stocks in Play. Yours may differ and that is completely okay.}