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  • Is gold on the verge of another leg up? Passing these resistance levels will be key

    When it comes to the daily chart, I am always looking for some sort of indicator or pattern, whether it be bullish or bearish. Like for example: the cup and handle on the macro—which we have went over previously with gold, Palantir, Hims and Hers, Bitcoin—or other charts such as the inverse head shoulder and…

  • Where institutions stand with popular growth stocks

    I am interested in growth stocks popular with retail investors heading into the near midpoint of Q2 2025 and where institutions stand on these names. I have compiled a list of what I think could be great potential trades in the coming weeks / months / years depending, along with the most recently updated institutional…

  • Trading in Themes: Companies Developing Their Own Weight Loss Drug

    I love a theme! And even better, I love when a theme just so happens to work with a trade making lots of bullish volume, which is what has been happening with the biotechs lately the last few weeks despite the market turmoils in big tech stocks and those companies reliant on Chinese imports that…

  • Analyzing SPY and other popular stocks heading into Q2 2025

    From a purely chartist perspective and trying to make sense of everything this past week economically, I actually think there are more reasons to be bullish than bearish right now if the market is forward-thinking. Maybe it’s because of St. Patrick’s Day last week and the Irish in me, but I have to say I…

  • Bearish SPY until this one indicator…

    “It doesn’t have to make sense” It is so hard not to get caught up in the drama of the markets; it seems every asshole (myself included, with my little stocks blog) has their opinion about what should happen, or what is going to happen. And while I wish we could see who exactly is…

How it all started:

About 4 years ago in February of 2020 I was working in a small real estate office in Brooklyn and one of my colleagues was trying to get people to download Robinhood using his referral link. Not having the slightest clue as to what I was getting into, I obliged and downloaded the app on my phone. It was right when Covid had just began: lockdowns were underway, mask mandates were on the horizon, and nobody knew what was to come. I was not sure which stocks to buy, so I turned to Twitter to start searching for what people were talking about. I went with my gut instinct to buy Alpha Pro Tech aka APT since they were a N95 face mask manufacturer and I had a feeling the sentiment would follow. Well it turns out I was lucky because the stock ended up running from just $9.31 on February 25 all the way to $18 on February 27th and $38 on Februrary 28th. I could not believe my eyes at what I saw on the screen; how was this even possible? And well, I guess you could say the rest is history…because I haven’t stopped thinking about stocks since. Never would I have dreamed of me ever being interested in the market (in fact, I used to delete the Stocks App from my phone before all of this). But some things just happen for a reason I suppose, and while I have had some great trades and some absolutely horrific trades, I am constantly learning every day. I am so thankful to have been able to devote my time studying the market learning not only all aspects of technical analysis, but even diving deeper into the fundamental side doing company and industry research. In some ways even though it’s been almost been 5 years, I feel like my investing journey is just beginning, and why I started the Stonks and Whatnot blog. I look forward to sharing my thoughts and connecting with traders and investors alike navigating this ever-changing and totally unpredictable market.

About the author:

Kaitlin Duffy is a writer from Cleveland currently residing in New York City since 2014. While stocks were never really on the radar in her early career and she did not take the traditional road to learning about trading and finance, she has proven that it is never too late to learn something new. When she is not reading, writing, making playlists on Apple Music, watching the latest film, shitposting on Twitter, or eating a bunch of delicious food, she is working on her newest entrepreneurial venture East End Agency and just trying to find a decent setup. You can find her roaming around the streets of Manhattan or at the bar at 5pm drinking an Old Fashioned.

Kaitlin Duffy

Writer, Blogger, & Amateur Wannabe Stock Trader