Rick Ackerman

Actionable Trade-Alert from Rick in the Trading Room (Please check all related discussion in the room before you do any trades.) Thursday, July 23, 2026  05:0005:22  RickGluggle's psychotic, 7% swing overnight bottomed at 326.22. That's 0.08%, or 27 cents, from my target. A relapse would probably put in a new bottom at 321.79, the alternative target that I identified. TSLA, which, like Gluggle/Alphabet, announced unbeatable sales and revenues, plunged 6% overnight to a low that fell within 0.3% of my target. This gave the mouth-breathers who invent the news at Bloomberg, WSJ et al. the chance to explain, as they invariably do, that the earnings, even though spectacular and above estimates, still somehow "disappointed" investors. Whatever these nitwits (and Cramer) say, a temporary bottom is in, or at least very close, for the johnny-one-note, chimpanzee theme of overinvestment/underinvestment in AI. I say "temporary" because an absolutely certain AI crash is coming sooner or later. 

Actionable Trade-Alert from Rick in the Trading Room (Please check all related discussion in the room before you do any trades.)10:54  BlackfishWell my AMD long targeting 587.53 has suffered. Thanks for posting the SPCX chart yesterday Rick. I had a v busy day with work and didn't really have time to interact. Are you still expecting crude to rise it now having retreated below the 79.37 pivot on the tout? Thanks.10:57  Formula382AMD. I'm holding deep, deep in the money put credit spreads for 10/16 expiration on that pig 11:0011:41  newbieAMD -420, MU - 780 sometime soon??11:48  RickBlackfish: The 587.53 target in AMD is still valid in theory and will remain so until such time as the stock falls below C=498.15. In practice, however, any long positions should have been exited yesterday no lower than 567.53. That implies the use of a 'dynamic' trailing stop, a simple technique that I advise for ALL trades, ALL the time. Very simply stated, when AMD topped yesterday at 574.20, it was $13.33 from the target. Logically, you should never risk more on a trailing stop than half of what you stand to make if the symbol reaches the target. This means your 'shrinking' trailing stop at 574.20 should have been $6.67. Even if you are willing to accept 1:1 risk/reward to milk the last ounce of potential gains, the stop should have been no lower than 560.87. This is the easiest and most practical risk management tool that I have to offer. Everyone who reads this should take the time to figure it out, and to implement 'dynamic' trailing stops at all times. 

Actionable Trade-Alert from Rick in the Trading Room (Please check all related discussion in the room before you do any trades.)22:00  22:42  RickAugust Gold's waft tonight is putting more distance between it and a 4312 downside target hit yesterday that was ten weeks in coming. With a dozen good reasons to hate the rally, I'd suggest taking it seriously and trading bullion with a bullish bias for at least a short while. Key resistance lies at 4403.40, but an easy push past it would imply more upside to 4514.20. A pullback from around 4430, to 4348 would generate a back-up-the-truck buying opportunity, stop 4292. Virus-free.www.avg.com

Actionable Trade-Alert from Rick in the Trading Room (Please check all related discussion in the room before you do any trades.)15:46  sportsdocRA I missed earlier trades, any rec here near close? TY 17:0017:03  RickSorry, Doc, but there are no closing-minutes handouts for today. But I'm going to make this the last call for the proposed Options Class. I need at least 12 signups, but only four have expressed interest so far. This is a surprise, since more than 90% of the option day-trades I've posted in here have made money. Even more noteworthy is that all of them have more than doubled in value, and some made back as much as ten or more times the original bet. No one else I am aware of does this trick, and that's why I am raising the price of the class to $2,000. If there is insufficient interest, the knowledge will be locked away forever, much like the tricks I divulged in the Advanced Tactics class a few years ago. Serious inquiries only: rick@rickackerman.com. I will close the door on this opportunity next Friday. Please note that if the class takes place, all registrants will need to sign an NDA. Virus-free.www.avg.com

Actionable Trade-Alert from Rick in the Trading Room (Please check all related discussion in the room before you do any trades.)10:45  ronblDay Trading & Margin (Rule 4210): Broker-dealers are no longer required to track trade counts or enforce the $25,000 minimum equity rule to designate someone as a Pattern Day Trader. Instead, the system uses modern "intraday margin standards" to ensure customers maintain equity that matches their market exposure throughout the trading day. Firms have a phase-in transition period to implement these standards.10:51  RickWorst rule ever. Are you saying, no more pattern day-trading rule? If so, then my option strategies can be used by everyone in here, even thinly capitalized lurkers, since they rarely require more than $1,000 of buying power.10:53  ronblThat's what it will be. This just came out today. Will be phased in by each broker 11:0011:00  RickSPY 755 calls (see above) tripled, but they've only held their own against time decay for the last 30 minutes. SPY is buoyant but reluctant to break out and squeeze the 755s. It might have been different if the calls had traded down in no-man's-land, below 0.15, but 0.37 was the lowest they traded. // Maybe I spoke too soon. SPY popped just as I was typing that last post.11:04  RickTradestation confirmed that they have already ditched the Pattern Day Trader rule, so you can now get by with just $2000 in an option account -- more than enough unless naked-shorting puts/calls. Lurkers please note: Any one of the last dozen or so option trades I've posted in here would more than paid for your subscription. Virus-free.www.avg.com

Actionable Trade-Alert from Rick in the Trading Room (Please check all related discussion in the room before you do any trades.)Sunday, May 24, 2026  14:00  14:01  SKIBUMRA: Suffice it to say, your early Saturday morning update on the 10-year is brilliant, and clearly, no more kicking the can down the road. Time to reef the main and batten down the hatches. Ready about! Hard a' lee! 14:48  RickThanks, SB. Clarity, simplicity and precision are what I aim for -- and no waffling. I try extra hard when it seems like nearly everyone else is baffled, confused or flat-out wrong. 14:54  RickJuly Crude is a buy at 92.77, stop 86.12, for a one-level move to p=99.41. The 'camo' rule -- don't do it unless you know how to pare risk down to relative chump change -- applies. 14:57  RickYou'll notice that the chart accompanying the latest Crude tout is not annotated. This is for proprietary reasons, and it will be an increasingly common feature of my charts from now on. My Hidden Pivot targets are getting front-run more and more, and this is an appropriate response. 15:00 15:12  RickI am also ending one-on-one consultations for the same reason: Trading secrets that have taken me nearly 40 years to develop have become too valuable to share. The sessions will still be available at the old rate of $400/hour, but only to subscribers who have met with me privately online in the past. I am also willing to teach "everything I know," but for a non-negotiable price that reflects the true value of this information. Serious inquiries only. 15:24  RickI have stopped marketing Rick's Picks altogether, since it doesn't work -- even with an unseemly amount of hyperbole, and regardless of how well my recommendations perform. The extraordinary results achieved with targets, stops and trend calls that I post informally in here seem destined to remain invisible

Actionable Trade-Alert from Rick in the Trading Room (Please check all related discussion in the room before you do any trades.)13:38  RickI've exited the last of my WMT shares at 135, as I stated I would in a post last Friday. I had recommended entry at 128.18 on May 11, and although a subsequent dip that day might have tested one's nerves, the stop held and WMT was off and bounding thereafter. It spiked to 133.95 on Friday, but I was unprepared for this and watched ithe stock settle back to 130.79 as the market sold off. I stuck with it, and three days of solid gains took me out this morning. This trade was intended for traders of all abilities, including novices. Using margin, an account with just $8k in it could have produced a profit on 200 shares of more than $1300 in just nine days. 

Actionable Trade-Alert from Rick in the Trading Room (Please check all related discussion in the room before you do any trades.)A friend sent me a skeptical note concerning Armstrong's assertion that the Dow will continue to rise until 2032, reaching 61,608.  My response: As a permabear it really pains me to say this, but I wouldn't dismiss Armstrong's unapologetic bullishness out-of-hand, even if he is half-huckster. I was preparing a new ES tout for the list that will publishlater today on my home page, wondering what if the SPY 720 puts I told subscribers to buy on Thursday for 0.90 actually caught THE top. (They more than doubled on Friday's opening bar,and we 'reloaded' toward the end of the day).  However, even if they turn out to have caught an important top, the absolute worst that I could see between now and 2027, going by the attachedchart,  is a barely-10%-correction in the E-Mini S&Ps, to 6796.75. The chart is so clear on this I dare not pat myself on the back, even if stocks collapse this week. RA      

Actionable Trade-Alert from Rick in the Trading Room (Please check all related discussion in the room before you do any trades.)23:01  RickSPY, currently 738.18, will reach 751.52 and stall // QQQ, now 707.21, headed to 723.11 HP resistance. Sorry I didn't notice this earlier, since the May 13 745 calls for 0.03 would have been a tempting buy. They more than quintupled as today wore on, leaving one to wonder what kind of homunculus would sell them. 5,549 of them traded, so someone did // Hey, just what I needed: another ES target, and its clarity makes me want to jilt the three I've already rhapsodized about. It lies at 7504.25 (or perhaps a tick lower) and looks like a slice of berry pie (MESM26 equivalent is 7498.25). Trust me, no one knows about either // Don't forget about the succulent 4847.40 HP drum-rolled in the June Gold (GCM26) tout // SI equivalent 94.032 // CLM26 stealing up on 104.64, still a very important number (see tout) // Hold on a sec while I slit my wrists for not putting up a 62.04 bid today in GBTC. I was too busy salivating over the prospect of buying the little gasbag for 60.23 // AAPL still a juicy short at 296.84. Currently 294.88. Puts okay for this one (I like the 22 May 285 puts for 0.72, stop 0.59 // I like 400.56 for bottom-fishing MSFT, camo trigger required for tightest possible stop // GOOG pullback to 323.23, however unlikely, MUST be bought mechanically, stop 271.54 // TSLA may not be able to avoid 453.53 target furnished above, even though the stock is being a real douche these last two days about doing what it knows is right //     15:00 15:35  RickOffering some May 12 QQQ 710 calls for 5.24 good till the close. Currently