franktrading Perspective KOL Profile: Timeline of Viewpoints
This channel serves as a daily record of a trader's operations and macro views: it posts links to Substack review articles and broadcasts real-time position increases and decreases in individual stocks and ETFs, take-profit and stop-loss levels, and options positions (such as DIA, SOXS, SMH, QQQ puts, LLY, INDA, SNOW, DDOG, etc.). The style leans toward short-term and options strategies, with emphasis on position management, scaling out take-profits, and keeping runners, often using indicators such as gamma and put support to gauge where the broader market stands. It also discusses macro topics such as oil prices, growth scares, and stagflation. Recent focus has been on AI-related shorts and pair trades, Indian indices, pharma and growth stocks, with repeated emphasis on not trading unclear markets and not taking heavy positions.
**Overall tilt**: bearish in operation but repeatedly emphasizing risk control
Opinion timeline over the past 7 days
- **2026-10-12** Returns from vacation, publishes review, starts scaling out of DIA: posts a Substack link with the 10/12 review and outlook, saying he is back from vacation. That day he states that part of DIA has already been sold and plans to sell another portion the next day.
- **2026-10-13** Keeps a runner in DIA, buys back SOXS, halves LLY: after trimming DIA he keeps a runner, takes profit on SMH puts while keeping a runner, buys back SOXS, and reduces LLY by half, continuing the practice of scaling out take-profits and keeping tracking positions.
- **2026-10-14** Declares going all-out short, switches to puts after NQ's sharp drop: says he is entering full short mode, adds to SOXS and sets a close-short-then-go-long trigger at SOXX 532; NQ drops sharply, 7700 is cited as put support and gamma is already negative; then closes the puts and trims SOXS while still keeping an oversized position, and swaps the bulk of SOXS for QQQ and SMH puts expiring this Friday and next week, emphasizing not betting large positions, taking profit once enough is made, and keeping a runner.
- **2026-10-15** Closes expiring puts keeping a runner, INDA stands out: expiring puts are closed with only a runner left; says INDA is the only index in the world rising and mentions 200%; trims LLY (1130–1258), ROST back to breakeven.
- **2026-10-16** Buys SNOW and DDOG, opens a small short position with a risk warning: waits for a bottom to buy DDOG, accumulates SNOW and DDOG (more SNOW); plans to exit India keeping only part of the calls; adds a starter short position in SOXS and November QQQ puts, sets a stop-loss as SOXX pulls back to 500, emphasizing that the position is not large and to watch the risk.
- **2026-10-16** Attributes the day's plunge to oil prices and growth fears: believes that day saw AI shorts and oil longs pressing at the same time, with the plunge stemming from oil prices plus growth fears; warns that if oil prices taco, puts will go to zero due to delta and vega, not to trade unclear setups, that the macro picture is even more chaotic than midweek, and that under the stagflation trade LLY is also under pressure.
- **2026-10-16** Proposes an anti-bottleneck pair trade idea: quotes his own X post saying that when not daring to go all-out short, an anti-bottleneck pair trade can be used instead, giving examples of long lite/short aaoi, long tsm short intc, long nvda short amd/avgo.