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Intel (INTC) is at all-time highs afterhours. September 2025. INTC broke $26 and the Flow Score triggered a buy on a name nobody wanted. We opened the first position.. targeted the January 2026 contracts.. and we've been in the trade continuously ever since. Not a new call. Not a fresh trade. A continuous position held through one of the most hated stocks on the tape. Seventeen days ago I wrote a piece called They Bought The Tech Sector Last Week. I showed you the data. Seven tech names in the top 20 of our universe. XLK pulled in nearly +$425M on the week.. the only sector ETF absorbing real money. XLE bled $871M in the same stretch. Everyone was staring at the Strait of Hormuz. We were watching where capital was actually going. And capital was going into semis. Specifically, it was going into Intel. The Flow Score flagged it. We followed. That's our whole job. Here's how the trade has actually played out. We opened the first position in September 2025 using January 2026 contracts. Those worked. We rolled them into June 2026 contracts. Those worked. We rolled a portion of those into July 2026 contracts. We're likely to roll them again by the end of the month. 3 for 3 on the rolls. After tonight's earnings print.. if this move holds.. our July 2026 contracts, the same ones I sent to Profits Over Prophets readers, will be worth around 550%. Let me say the second part again. The July Intel contracts we called out in this free newsletter will be up roughly 550%. That's not a typo. That's not a back test. That's the actual position Market Blueprint members are sitting on this morning. Here's the part people miss. It's not the entry that makes a trade like this work. It's what you do after it works. When the option doubles, we sell half. We remove the original capital. The remaining contracts are playing with the market's money, not ours. Once your risk is zero, you can ride a name for months without flinching at every red candle. That's how you stay in a trade from $26 to all time highs. You don't predict. You don't get cute. You respect your risk, take the double off, and let the trend take you wherever it wants to go. No stops on options. Premium paid IS the risk. If a trade doesn't work, the loser expires and we move on. If it does work, we ride it until the flows roll over. Right now the flows on Intel aren't rolling over. They're accelerating. Look at the behavior of the stock. September 2025.. nobody wanted Intel. December 2025.. nobody wanted Intel. Early April 2026.. very few wanted Intel. The financial institutions did. Quietly. Consistently. Week after week. They were building a position while the jokers on CNBC was still arguing about an AI bubble and oil shocks. The Flow Score doesn't care what the narrative is. It tracks where capital is actually moving. And it had Intel scored high through the whole ugly, sideways, rejected tape. Own what they own, when they own it. That's our edge. That's the whole thing. Here's what I want you to take away from this one. The Flow Score did exactly what it was built to do. It flagged institutional accumulation in a name that everyone had written off. We respected that signal when the chart looked like nothing. We sized the trade properly, took the first double off to remove risk, and let the remaining contracts run. This isn't magic. It isn't chance. It isn't luck. It's a process built over two decades of watching where money actually moves versus where the headlines tell you to look. Follow the money. Respect your risk. Swing for the fences. Let your best trades win big. That's the playbook. Profits Over Prophets, Hamilton PS.. The July 2026 INTC contracts were free. Everything else we've doubled this year, including the rolls, the exits, and the next Flow Trade, lives inside Market Blueprint. Click here to learn more. |
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