Don here,
I want you to look at one trade.
TSLA spent a month going nowhere. Then three days took it from $348 to $410.
Gianni Di Poce, a market strategist here at TheoTrade, traded that move with options. He held for four days and closed up 155%, or +$4,920 per contract. It was the fastest of his six triple-digit pops in the last 13 months.
The key is when he gets in. Gianni buys pre-pop, while a stock is quiet, nobody's watching and the options are still cheap.
The usual way runs backwards. Every app, alert and TV segment shows you a stock after it has already popped. By then the crowd is piling in and the options are marked up to movie-theater prices. When the excitement fades, the markup disappears, and you can be right about the stock and still lose money on the option. Gianni calls it the Post-Pop Trap, and it's the mistake that costs traders money on winning stocks.
Here's how he puts it: "I buy the kernels. The crowd buys the popcorn."
He's picky about it, too. Every trade has to pass three checks, and he usually takes just 1 or 2 plays a month. Sized at $1,000 a play, all 21 of his plays, duds included, come to +$7,541 on $21,000.
This Thursday, November 5 at 2 PM ET, Gianni is teaching the Popcorn Setup live in a free training. He'll show you how he finds stocks before they hit the top gainers list, his Two-Second Rule for getting out, and every one of those 21 plays.
Enjoy the show,
Don Kaufman
P.S. His newest pop, SPCX, closed in October 2026 up 149% after six days. On Thursday he'll show you the newest one on his radar. Register me for Thursday