Every Sunday · Since 2020
Fifteen curated ideas a week. Each one with key catalysts, company notes and risk level — written from an institutional perspective but broken down in an easy-to-read format.
Inside the desk
Stock Monitor
Our analysts screen the market for the most actionable value and event-driven ideas, then argue for fifteen of them. Market cap, the catalysts that actually matter, the price action, and a plain read on what has to happen next.
From there you follow the idea flow as it turns — turnarounds, share buybacks, breakouts, thematic longs. And when a name has run, it gets marked red. Taking gains is a call too.
Weekly Cliff Notes
Our team curates the current equity coverage. Then Dan goes through it and writes down what he is actually watching — the market commentary, the week's key calls, and the names on his own screen.
Read it over coffee on a Sunday and you are current. Or use it as the door into the full report on the one line that stops you.
Market Flows Chat
Market Flows is a read-only room inside the Discord. The daily flows go up as they happen — index levels, the setups in play, and colour on what is moving underneath them.
Read-only on purpose. No thread to keep up with and no crowd to wade through. Open it when you want the read, close it once you have it.
Trade Alerts Portfolio
We name the company and send the alert with a suggested entry, a stop and targets — all of it ahead of time, never written up afterwards. You know where you are getting in, where you are wrong, and what you are playing for.
The structure leans on time rather than size: ninety days minimum, deep in the money. Less capital at risk, and the leverage without the decay that usually eats it.
On the record
“Losing her is like the Warriors losing Steph Curry.”
The call ran opposite Michael Burry’s bullish bet. Lululemon fell nearly 50% that year on slowing growth, competition and tariffs. That is the whole job: a clear, early, falsifiable view — in public, with a name attached to it.
“The hedge-fund CIO who won big in his short bet against Carvana last year is now betting millions that the housing market will slow significantly” — calling for 15–20% declines in home prices ahead.
“A top investment chief is betting this iconic industrial stock can jump 48% by 2026” — Bustamante’s single best idea for the year, written up by Phil Rosen.
On D.R. Horton’s rent-to-own pivot: “They have been focusing more on single-family rental development versus actual homes for sale, while investing over $1 billion in that arm the last three years.”
One reader found the letter the same way: “I found the report in 2022 when I was long Carvana and saw a video about it being a short. Sure enough, he was right.”
What lands Sunday morning
A curated list of long-only ideas for the week ahead in a clean PDF — the same screen-and-sort work a fund does, minus the fund.
Every idea has price action commentary with key levels, targets updated weekly and execution notes so you can think less and act more.
Too busy to read it? No problem. Each month 2–4 trade alerts using deep-in-the-money calls are sent out with entry, stop and target.
What he is personally watching into the week: flows, positioning, price action and the two or three things that actually matter.
The seat this is written from
It started at nine, selling fruit out of a backyard and reinvesting it into buying and selling golf clubs on eBay. In college it was class during the morning and working at Charles Schwab in the afternoon and evenings. Then the twenties on Wall Street: a futures desk, then equity research, then portfolio manager at a long/short hedge fund.
Four things survived all of it. They are the spine of every letter.
Short-term trader or long-term investor, it does not matter. Markets are made of uncertainty; a repeatable process keeps you spending your attention on the part you control.
Underwrite it and know where you are getting out before you are in. That is what makes the risk/reward — and therefore the size — an answer rather than a guess.
A turnaround and a short-term event trade are not the same instrument. Defining which one you hold sets both the size and the expectation.
There is a time to push the whole stack in, and it is rare. A portfolio of ideas beats a bet on one, because there is always something you could not have accounted for.
Yours in profits,
Daniel X. Bustamante
Trade Alerts Portfolio
Two to four ideas a month with a suggested entry, stop and target — built on deep-in-the-money calls. No shares to buy, no multi-leg strategy. Stock replacement, plus the time to be right.
The archive
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Big earnings ahead this week for names in this report, and the Mag 7 names report as well — which is a concern.
$META$RBLX$GNRC LitePlus updates to the ideas from last month inside.
FreeNew episode is out.
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Earnings season begins. CPI, capital-expenditure risk and the rotation underneath it.
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A new idea inside.
Lite
Earnings season begins, CPI and insights for this week’s letter inside.
Readers
I am a student of the FOPT lectures and subscribe to the report and both are incredible. The FOPT is so well done and in depth that it talked about concepts I never even thought to consider. I spent time as an analyst in my twenties at a hedge fund and we never used the ideas discussed in there — so this was an eye opener for me.
I found the report in 2022 when I was long Carvana and saw a video about it being a short. At first I was not sure, but sure enough he was right, and from there I was sold. It’s so well done that sometimes I wish they didn’t sell it — but I get it.
I’ve been a stock and commodity investor since the late 80s, when I used to get my charts mailed on the weekends — so that tells you how long I’ve been at this. This is one of the top 3 reports I have ever subscribed to over those years.
My background was in economics and some investing, really in Forex and stocks. I have read this report for about a year now and it is very thorough and filled with ideas to use. The best part for me is the weekly commentary — that’s where I get a feel for what to look at myself.
The LongVol Report is incredible. He is so straight-forward and the analysis is rarely wrong. My favorite part is the highlighted ideas, because it gives me confidence to pay attention to those over my own analysis, which I’m still working on.
I took Dan’s classes when he was with another company during Covid and he was one of the best teachers I have ever met — and I spent a lot of time and money at Online Trading Academy, so believe me. Three years in, it only gets better.
Been a long time reader and it has helped me make a good deal of money over the years. What I like most is the highlighted ideas each week — when I’m in a rush I can just read those, set some alerts, then manage it when I’m on the road.
I’ve been with you a long time and came back after these years because your takes were always unique. I have made more money with the report and the FOPT Lectures than anything I’ve done previously.
Just wanna say, the FOPT you put together is REALLY good. So much in there that I want to learn, and it’s right there. Looking back at the old stuff and the stuff now — WOW. It’s obvious how much you have grown.
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