The Running Of The Bulltards

The Running Of The Bulltards

5/19/26 Recap and Changes Coming

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James Bulltard
May 19, 2026
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The SPY gapped down under the 8 ema for the first time since the ceasefire as yields continued to rise with the 30 year nearing 5.2%, its highest point in nearly 20 years. I mentioned yesterday that your first warning sign was us losing the 8 ema for the first time since this uptrend began. Typically that isn’t a one time thing and now we have a downtrend, how small or big it is depends on where we find support. If we hold that 21 ema, we’re fine, if we lose it, then its time to get ready for a move lower to that 50 day over 690. The market is stuck between wanting to be long the ai trade and worrying about the inflation being caused by this Iran mess. For the moment, we do remain over the 21 ema so the best hope is we test that light blue line and hold there.

Changes Coming

I’m implementing some changes to the database over the next 2 weeks and I think you’ll really enjoy them

  1. Me, scaled - alot of people out there are offering AI trades, its not hard to throw a name in claude and ask it to build trades but this will be different, this will be my reasoning, my parameters, and based off my dataset hooked up to live options pricing. I only highlight 5 names in the database everyday but this will let you see better reasoning across all tickers because every name is a buy somewhere, but its also about how you structure trades for a credit so you can profit even if you’re wrong. I like to think I’m more of a set of rules of how to trade data more than anything else. This won’t be like other services just generating AI trades based on options flow, this will be a deeper set of reasoning on the where to place trades and how to build them in your favor. It’s taking a bit more tweaking but we’re making really good progress. Here is a screenshot I posted to the live group yesterday of an example using AMZN

  2. Gap Up - This is a new scanner that was developed to identify potential gap ups/down names based on multiple datapoints. This example below is from May 12th exactly 1 week ago, look at the prices of the tickers identified and where they are today. Identifying pockets of strength early through various technicals is key to being in the right names at the right time. Connected with my dataset this will be another incredible tool in helping you find the right names to trade.

  3. More in Depth look at all names, take this AEIS I’m highlighting below today, this is a tiny $11b company you have likely not heard of. You’ll be able to click on it, get a quick summary of the business and fibonacci levels to trade off of, but more than that you’ll be able to generate a thesis on the name. Now this is really of no importance to me as a trader, I trade charts/flow but alot of you are more fundamental traders and this will give you all sorts of alignment for you to get behind from technicals to fundamentals along with potential risk factors.

    There’s more things coming as well but those are just some teasers. I will still be writing the recaps and doing everything as I’ve always done, this is just more about giving you more insights on the other names in the database that I cannot get to every single day in these recaps. I know you’re going to ask, but no, I’m not raising the price for any existing user here. I never have in the 4 years I’ve done this. However I will raise the price for all new users whenever I actually roll this out because it costs quite a bit in terms of tokens, API costs, etc to operate this. So fear not, you will never pay more than you agreed to, but new people will pay more the day I roll this out so if you’re on the fence, sign up before then.

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