AMDOctober 2025
+389%
- Held
- 5 days
- Profit
- +$4,933
Six quiet weeks. Then one huge Monday.
New free live training: Gianni Di Poce’s Most Explosive Setup Yet
“6 Triple-Digit Blockbuster Pops in 13 Months… and I’m Just Getting Started!”
Join me live and I’ll show you the setup behind +389% on AMD, +155% on TSLA and +149% on SPCX, plus the newest pop on my radar.
Thursday, November 5 at 2:00 PM ET. Live and free.
The Post-Pop Trap
You know how it goes. A stock shows up on the top gainers list. Your phone buzzes: up 12% today. You buy the option. The stock keeps climbing, and somehow your option is worth less than you paid.
Right about the stock. Still lost money. That’s the Post-Pop Trap, and almost every trader I know has fallen into it.
Every app, alert and TV segment shows you the stock after it has already popped. By then the whole crowd is piling in, and the options get marked up to movie-theater prices. You pay the markup on the way in. When the excitement fades, the markup disappears, and it takes your money with it.
Buying post-pop is the trading version of cold popcorn. You paid full price, the fun part’s already over, and what’s left in the bag is good for nothing.
Those tools are built to show you what just happened. So you keep buying post-pop and paying full price, even when you pick the right stock.
I buy the kernels. The crowd buys the popcorn.
I get in pre-pop, while a stock is quiet and nobody’s watching and the options are cheap. Then I let the crowd show up after me.
What makes a Popcorn Setup
The Popcorn Setup is a small, fixed-cost options trade on a stock that’s gone quiet, taken before the crowd shows up. A pop is what it pays when it works. I’ve traded it the same way for 13 months, and before I take any trade, it has to pass three checks.
The Kernel
The stock has to go quiet in a very particular way. Most quiet stocks don’t qualify.
The Steam
The option has to be cheap enough that one pop can pay for a couple of duds.
The Two-Second Rule
Before I get in, I already know how I’m getting out, win or lose.
- 21 plays in 13 months
- 1 to 2 a month. I pass on far more than I take.
- Same size every time
- 2% to 3.5% of the account on each play.
- Called in writing
- Every entry and every exit, the day it happened.
- Nothing went to zero
- Every losing play was cut before it could.
Fourteen years studying market cycles taught me one thing: quiet never lasts. Every stretch of nothing ends in a move. The Popcorn Setup is built to get me in before it does.
Now showing
Three of the six triple-digit pops. Different stocks, same setup.
TSLASeptember 2025
+155%
- Held
- 4 days
- Profit
- +$4,920
A month going nowhere. Then three days that took it from $348 to $410.
SPCXSeptember 2026
+149%
- Held
- 6 days
- Profit
- +$1,575
The newest pop on the board, closed in October 2026.
Also playing
- AMD, againApril 2026+171%15 days
- RIOTApril 2026+137%19 days
- SPCXAugust 2026+132%6 days
Wrong 11 times. Still up $11,393 per contract.*
- Popped
- Popped
- Popped
- Popped
- Popped
- Popped
- Popped
- Popped
- Popped
- Popped
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
- Didn’t pop
10 popped11 didn’t
Here’s every play from the last 13 months, duds included. The duds got cut small, and the pops ran big. That’s how you can be wrong more often than right and still come out ahead.
- Average pop
- +133.8%
- Average dud
- −53.1%
- Fastest triple-digit pop
- 4 days
- Duds that went to zero
- None
- Same plays at $1,000 each*
- +$7,541 on $21,000
- 2026 by itself
- 7 of 14 popped, +$4,359 per contract
On the training, you’ll see
- How the Post-Pop Trap works, and how to stay out of it
- How I find stocks pre-pop, before they ever hit the top gainers list
- My Two-Second Rule for getting out, straight off the back of a popcorn bag
- All 21 plays, every pop and every dud
Your host
Gianni Di Poce
Market strategist and sector rotation specialist at TheoTrade
- 14+ years trading and investing
- Former financial advisor
- Market-cycle analyst since 2018
- Featured speaker at Benzinga events
Gianni spent years managing money for the public as a financial advisor. Then he got hooked on the thing that actually moves prices: market cycles, and where money is about to rotate next. He’s worked as a cycle analyst with MMA Cycles since 2018, and he wrote the book Esoteric Economics.
That’s the skill behind the Popcorn Setup: finding the stock while it’s still quiet, before the crowd shows up.