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Hollow Point TradingProfile picture@hollowpointtrading·16h

BRKB CALL SETUP — THE ORIGINAL CALLOUT + PRICE ACTION.


Follow the levels. Build a plan. Understand your risk. Learn how to trade with Hollow Point Trading.


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Hollow Point TradingProfile picture@hollowpointtrading·17h

QQQ BANKED. BRK.B RIPPED. LEVELS DON’T LIE.


An inexperienced trader can keep following the Q’s down in calls. We had already banked the morning QQQ move and rolled profits into BRK.B. BANG BANG BANG.


BRK.B $560 calls: +$1,192.50 · +27.6% · held 27 minutes.


THIS IS WHY I GO:

Index → sector → stock.

Macro. Fundamentals. Technicals.


After the prior-day-high rejection, observe where strength is holding. Check Amazon, Berkshire, Visa, financials, and the rest of the board individually. Missing those connections can turn a winning morning into a damaging giveback. This is beginner-level work. Observe. Connect. Adapt.


Actual Discord callout, updates, closed result, and the previous Berkshire levels:


#HollowPointTrading #BRKB #QQQ #DayTrading #OptionsTrading

Options involve risk. Results vary with execution and fees.

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Hollow Point TradingProfile picture@hollowpointtrading·18h

NEARLY $3,000 IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.


QQQ calls: $2.43 → $3.60.

+48.15% · 25 contracts · $2,925 before fees.


Opening callout at 8:33 AM CT. A drawdown first, then the recovery. Trim update at 9:18. Fully out message at 9:21.


See the actual Discord callout, updates, chart, and member receipts in the full recap:


Learn how to day trade with Hollow Point Trading.


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Options involve risk. Results vary with execution and fees.

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Hollow Point TradingProfile picture@hollowpointtrading·1d

The Bounce Is Distracting From the Rotation. I’m Still Bearish.

A bounce is not the same thing as money coming back into growth. That is the problem I want people to see before Monday. You can get an aggressive recovery inside the session while the bigger chart is still damaged and the market is rewarding a different group of businesses. If you only watch the green candles, you miss the connection.

I’m bearish into November, with the larger risk extending into December. I want sustained price repair before I change that view. A headline, a seasonal story or one good rebound does not do that job.

Sunday, November 1, 2026. This is a fresh written companion to my October 31 video, reviewing October 30 market data and preparing for Monday, November 2. It is not a report of a new Sunday cash session.

Watch the full breakdown: QQQ, SOXX, value versus growth, earnings and my Monday plan ( The video shows the actual drawings and the connections discussed here.

The first question is where the market is placing its confidence

Start with the value-versus-growth chart. VTV divided by VUG is a relative-performance comparison. When that ratio rises, value is outperforming growth over the measured period. That can happen because value rises faster, because growth falls harder, or because value holds up while growth sells off. A rising ratio alone does not tell you that every value stock is going up.

That distinction matters. I can be bearish on the growth-heavy index and still look for relative strength somewhere else. “The market” is a collection of businesses with different cash flows, valuations and financing needs. My concern is that the market may be changing what it is willing to pay for the growth story. The ratio is a reason to examine that possibility, not proof of who is secretly buying or selling.

CHART 1 • The saved weekly VTV/VUG comparison used in my video. The ratio compares value with growth; its candles are not the dollar price of either ETF. Drawings are my interpretation. A relative improvement is different from a guaranteed positive return.

The earnings bill is the fundamental part of that story

A company can grow sales, report a profit and still have less cash left after building its next stage. Capital expenditure, or capex, is money spent on long-lived assets such as servers, facilities and equipment. Free cash flow is operating cash generated by the business minus that capital spending. It asks a different question from accounting profit.

Alphabet makes the tension concrete. Its Q3 release reports about $42.3 billion of operating cash and $51.4 billion of equipment-and-property purchases, leaving roughly negative $9.1 billion of free cash flow. Q2 was also negative. The trailing twelve-month total was still positive at about $19.7 billion. Those windows should stay separate. Source: Alphabet’s Q3 cash-flow reconciliation, page 8. ()

The issue is not that Google stopped making a profit. The issue is how much cash the expansion consumes now and what return that spending will eventually produce. If the investment creates durable, profitable demand, it can pay off. If the cost rises faster than the cash benefit, shareholders carry a heavier bill. The spending number alone cannot settle which outcome wins.

This is why I connect the cloud customer to the chip, memory and storage suppliers. One company’s equipment bill can support another company’s revenue. It does not automatically guarantee every supplier a strong margin, attractive valuation or rising share price. In the video I work through Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Intel, Micron and SanDisk through that lens. I also separate a reported OpenAI fundraising target from completed funding; expectations about money are different from money already received.

The macro backdrop raises the standard for the growth story

The Federal Reserve held its policy-rate range at 3.75%–4.00% on October 28, described inflation as elevated and recorded two dissenters who wanted a quarter-point increase. Source: the Federal Reserve statement. () A hold is not an automatic promise of easier money next. My inference is that a spending-heavy business still has to justify the amount and timing of future cash returns.

That is the macro, fundamental and technical connection: the cost of money affects what investors will pay; company accounts show what is being earned and spent; price shows whether buyers are accepting the story at the current valuation. None of those replaces the other two.

Then I want the sector chart to support the index story

QQQ is my index check. SOXX is the semiconductor-sector check. If both are struggling to sustain recoveries, I have a broader problem to investigate than one disappointing company. That is why the side-by-side view belongs on the screen when I make the connection.

CHART 2 • My saved SOXX daily chart on the left and QQQ daily chart on the right, through October 30. The red undercut markings and future paths are interpretations and scenarios; the existing candles are the historical record.

A stock can bounce inside a weak sector. A sector can outperform a falling index and still lose money. I want to distinguish actual strength from simply falling less. That is also why I use breadth and equal-weight comparisons in the video instead of treating a handful of large companies as the whole market.

The small chart can recover while the big chart remains damaged

Friday’s QQQ cash-session range was 698.63 to 683.45, with a 690.49 close. Halfway through that one-day range is 691.04. My larger daily swing drawing uses approximately 762.29 and 683.53, putting its halfway point around 722.91. A rebound through the first midpoint can therefore remain a long way below the second one.

CHART 3 • My daily QQQ swing drawing. The larger 50% reference is 722.9138, compared with 691.04 for Friday’s high-low range. Different anchors answer different questions. The nearby profile labels are separate references.

That is where traders get trapped. A move can be good enough for a short-term trade without being strong enough to reverse the daily trend. The weekly candle gives the wider context: the completed week opened at 707.06, reached 726.14 and finished at 690.49. The week’s low was 683.45. Buyers did not retain that recovery into the completed weekly close.

CHART 4 • The completed QQQ weekly chart used in the HPT recording, through October 30. Header: open 707.06, high 726.14, low 683.45, close 690.49. This is a completed bar, rather than the earlier developing Friday snapshot.

My Monday plan has a bearish bias and a price test

I’m watching 691.04 first as Friday’s midpoint, then 694.46 as the first-five-minute low, 697.21 as Friday’s open and 698.63 as Friday’s high. A recovery that gets above a reference and immediately loses it leaves the failed-reclaim problem intact. A sustained recovery above Friday’s high, followed by a separate held retest and better sector participation, would challenge my immediate bearish setup.

On the downside, 683.45 is the first reference. My broader daily map also marks 674.42 and 652.13. Those are lower scenario references, not a promised route or a deadline. A bounce remains possible inside this view. What I require before upgrading it is evidence that the market can take back and defend lost structure.

The saved November 2 gamma snapshot is paused: put wall 695, HVL 715 and call wall 725. Those are dated options-model references and need refreshing for the next liquid session. They are different from cash-session highs, volume-profile levels and price-range midpoints.

The takeaway is preparation. Read the index, check the sector, inspect the company, and know what price would make your view wrong. I’m not upgrading the growth trade because it manages to bounce. I want to see what survives the bounce.

Watch the complete video here. () Rotation starts at 2:54; the QQQ/SOXX connection at 4:12; daily and weekly context at 11:53; the Google cash-flow discussion at 21:27; and the Monday plan at 28:45.

Sources: the linked company release, Federal Reserve statement, original HPT chart downloads and archived October 30 price data. Historical captures and drawings are dated review material. Price paths are scenarios. Commentary and education; trading involves risk. The video discloses edited narration and conceptual AI visuals, and identifies the RixTrade clip as simulated-platform footage.

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FULL VIDEO | Wall Street Checkmated Retail. The Largest Reversal Signal Since 2008 Just Fired.

The full video is live. I’m staying bearish into November, with the larger risk extending into December.

A sharp bounce can distract from three things: growth losing relative leadership, the cash required to build the AI trade, and QQQ/SOXX still needing to repair lost structure. I connect those pieces on the actual charts rather than treating an earnings headline as the entire story.

Watch:

Inside the breakdown:

2:54 Value versus growth: what the ratio actually says

4:12 QQQ and SOXX: the connected warning

5:13 Opening bars, failed patterns and the Monday levels

11:53 Daily and weekly context

19:21 Microsoft: demand versus cash

21:27 Google: profit versus the spending bill

25:17 Micron and SanDisk: why customer spending is not a guaranteed stock return

28:45 The Monday plan

This reviews October 30, was recorded October 31, and prepares for Monday, November 2. My bearish outlook is an analysis with invalidation levels, not a guaranteed outcome. Education; trading involves risk.

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This is what joining Hollow Point Trading looks like. 🔥


Hard week for a lot of people. We were war ready—with a plan, clear levels, and the discipline to execute.


Straight from our member-gains channel: GSP375 shared this Webull screen showing +14,262.16% Account Day’s P&L on October 30. Swipe from the original Discord context to the close-up.


Preparation matters. Community matters. Put in the work.


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Member-submitted screenshot; not independently audited. Individual results vary and are not guaranteed. Trading involves risk.

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Hollow Point TradingProfile picture@hollowpointtrading·3d

THE WEEK IN HPT: MY REPORTED ~95% CALLOUT RECAP. ONE LOSS.

October 26–30, 2026


MONDAY

QQQ puts, calls, puts, calls. Four opening callouts. The 706 calls moved from $2.33 to $10.00. Jaybob and Faztcobra shared their member pictures.


TUESDAY

QQQ 717, 719 and 722 calls. DELL 500 calls. AMD 570 calls. SPX 7735 calls from $0.55 to $4.12. The first AMD attempt was a $15 loss; the later re-entry was a separate decision.


WEDNESDAY

MU 980 calls and QQQ 721, 722, 723 and 725 calls. Five 100%+ contract extensions. Members shared their trading pictures, account passes and certificates.


THURSDAY

QQQ puts and NQ shorts. Opening momentum, rebounds and later entries. The full recap includes the original charts, callouts, position screenshots and member pictures.


FRIDAY

Another QQQ put recording, plus DonSteven’s and Bacchus’ member screenshots. Watch the new video and study the timing.


DAVID

His full original Discord message and the attached screen showing +$67,183.42 “Past day.” Read his account journey in his own words.


The reported percentage summarizes my callout recap, not every trade across the account histories shown.


The entire week’s article library, recordings, E8 videos, certificate hub and learning links are below. Learn how to trade futures, study the process behind an account pass and do the work before the next entry. Have your levels marked. Adapt like water.


LEARN HOW TO TRADE FUTURES. STUDY AN E8 ACCOUNT PASS.

Start with the preparation, levels, risk rules and execution. Watch the evaluation pass, then inspect the original certificates.


How I Passed My 13th E8 Account — full video:

E8 account-pass short video:

13 original E8 certificates / certificate hub:

Account milestones:

Free Academy:


THIS WEEK’S ARTICLE LIBRARY

Monday: You missed 4/4 on a Monday


Tuesday: QQQ 717 calls, $2.21 to $5.84


Tuesday: QQQ 719 calls, $1.28 to $4.00


Tuesday: QQQ 722 calls, $0.55 to $1.62


Tuesday: DELL 500 calls


Tuesday: AMD 570 calls, first exit and re-entry


Tuesday: SPX 7735 calls, $0.55 to $4.12


Wednesday: Full extension and member wins


Wednesday: MU 980 calls


Wednesday: QQQ 721 calls


Thursday: QQQ puts and member results


WATCH THE WORK

Tuesday: AMD 570 calls

Tuesday: DELL 500 calls

Tuesday: SPX 7735 calls

Wednesday: MU / QQQ recording

Thursday: market breakdown

Friday: QQQ puts while getting gas


EXPLORE HPT

Website:

Video library:

Member gains:

Weekly member receipts:

Testimonials:

Certificates and proof:

Payout records:

Learn with HPT:

Discord guide:


Historical trading education. Results vary; trading involves risk. Not financial advice.

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DAVID’S FULL MESSAGE AND HIS ORIGINAL ACCOUNT SCREEN.

Posted October 29, 2026, 9:21 PM Chicago


David shared the attached screen showing $118,426.73 and +$67,183.42 (131.11%) “Past day.” Here is his complete message:


“I came here down $23k, and with the help of Hollow Point Trading I worked my way back to over $300k. I started again a challenge account full porting hollow point's callouts and now we’re back over $100k again. I’ll also be donating more to the local shelter where I help out on weekends if you guys aren’t following his callouts your missing something special here Thank you 🙏”


Thank you for sharing your journey, David, and for the work you do at the shelter. His complete Discord message and original attached picture are both included.


Original post:


LEARN HOW TO TRADE FUTURES. STUDY AN E8 ACCOUNT PASS.

Start with the preparation, levels, risk rules and execution. Watch the evaluation pass, then inspect the original certificates.


How I Passed My 13th E8 Account — full video:

E8 account-pass short video:

13 original E8 certificates / certificate hub:

Account milestones:

Free Academy:


THIS WEEK’S ARTICLE LIBRARY

Monday: You missed 4/4 on a Monday


Tuesday: QQQ 717 calls, $2.21 to $5.84


Tuesday: QQQ 719 calls, $1.28 to $4.00


Tuesday: QQQ 722 calls, $0.55 to $1.62


Tuesday: DELL 500 calls


Tuesday: AMD 570 calls, first exit and re-entry


Tuesday: SPX 7735 calls, $0.55 to $4.12


Wednesday: Full extension and member wins


Wednesday: MU 980 calls


Wednesday: QQQ 721 calls


Thursday: QQQ puts and member results


WATCH THE WORK

Tuesday: AMD 570 calls

Tuesday: DELL 500 calls

Tuesday: SPX 7735 calls

Wednesday: MU / QQQ recording

Thursday: market breakdown

Friday: QQQ puts while getting gas


EXPLORE HPT

Website:

Video library:

Member gains:

Weekly member receipts:

Testimonials:

Certificates and proof:

Payout records:

Learn with HPT:

Discord guide:


Historical trading education. Results vary; trading involves risk. Not financial advice.

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FRIDAY: QQQ PUTS, THE RECORDING AND THE MEMBER PICTURES.

October 30, 2026


The new video is live: “QQQ Puts +1,700$ While Getting Gas | The Wing Added Confidence.”


DonSteven’s QQQ 688-put screenshot and Bacchus’ two prop-account screenshots are attached. Bacchus wrote: “Used my two prop account today only. Bang.”


Watch the original recording. Read the chart, the timing and the decision-making, then go through the member pictures and this week’s articles. Preparation gives the trade a framework. Management is what you do when price starts moving.


LEARN HOW TO TRADE FUTURES. STUDY AN E8 ACCOUNT PASS.

Start with the preparation, levels, risk rules and execution. Watch the evaluation pass, then inspect the original certificates.


How I Passed My 13th E8 Account — full video:

E8 account-pass short video:

13 original E8 certificates / certificate hub:

Account milestones:

Free Academy:


THIS WEEK’S ARTICLE LIBRARY

Monday: You missed 4/4 on a Monday


Tuesday: QQQ 717 calls, $2.21 to $5.84


Tuesday: QQQ 719 calls, $1.28 to $4.00


Tuesday: QQQ 722 calls, $0.55 to $1.62


Tuesday: DELL 500 calls


Tuesday: AMD 570 calls, first exit and re-entry


Tuesday: SPX 7735 calls, $0.55 to $4.12


Wednesday: Full extension and member wins


Wednesday: MU 980 calls


Wednesday: QQQ 721 calls


Thursday: QQQ puts and member results


WATCH THE WORK

Tuesday: AMD 570 calls

Tuesday: DELL 500 calls

Tuesday: SPX 7735 calls

Wednesday: MU / QQQ recording

Thursday: market breakdown

Friday: QQQ puts while getting gas


EXPLORE HPT

Website:

Video library:

Member gains:

Weekly member receipts:

Testimonials:

Certificates and proof:

Payout records:

Learn with HPT:

Discord guide:


Historical trading education. Results vary; trading involves risk. Not financial advice.