So many plays and so little time. We are entering this week with many big catalysts. We have the Speaker of the House giving 48 hours to come to a stimulus deal. We have the Senate voting on a separate stimulus bill.

We have many major European cities going under lockdown as the beer bug spreads again over there and earnings season is kicking off strong with earnings being reported in Tesla, Intel, Netflix, and many others in this upcoming week. and with all of this in the forefront, many of you have returned back here in order to ask just one simple question. And that question is what? What Charlie Are The top three stocks for this week? Well, in this video, we're going to be brutally but also gently talking about the top three stocks for this week. But first, what What Charlie happened with last week's picks? Well, in last week's top three Stocks video, we started with Workhorse Workhorse was due for a contract decision on their partnership with Usps and that was supposed to come out on Tuesday, but most of the opportunity was on Monday.

On that day, it had found a bottom and ran 14 Monday morning. However, what happened was the contract ended up getting delayed. This is why we always emphasize playing pre-runs and post runs if we get them, but never holding through. Catalysts You can always benefit from uptrends without locking yourself into the gamble of a catalyst.

It's also true that the contract decision still hasn't been made, so this is still very much a play that's in effect. Okay, Dphc was another play hinging on this Usps contract. It had the same sort of deal we gap up pre-market but this one ran up towards the end of that first trading day. had a similar reaction to Workhorse.

Most of that move was concentrated in that first trading day, and this is sort of the kerfluffle of making top stock videos when you have catalysts that are early on in the week. If we identify a catalyst earlier in the week, like was the case with Dphc and Workhorse, almost always the run will be fizzled out by midweek, especially if the catalyst is negative. And this is sort of the limitation with making these top stock videos if you look at one of our morning briefing plays from Thursday S T A F. Staff had literally doubled after we called it out even though we called it out late, but even though it doubled by a few hours, it had completely erased its gains.

So yes, the opportunity was there if you traded it using clear entries and exits, but it literally was only opportune for one day in the whole week. My point here is that if you're not trading these stocks and you're looking to just buy and hold them because I talked about them in a video, well, you're most likely going to lose. So when you look at these previous picks, you have to say hey, wait a second. All of the opportunity is for traders.

There's literally no opportunity here for people who are buying and holding it. If you're looking to buy and hold, well, that's a completely different strategy. Trading is completely different when it comes to trading. We're identifying these fluctuations ahead of time and then we're trading off them.

When it comes to investing, you're talking about long-term value. It's a completely different mindset. Okay, Lastly, we spoke about Apha. Now, Apha was an Mj stock running up in a hot sector, and we made the case that it was worth watching for pre-anticipatory runs and post-reaction runs as we approach earnings.

Well, Apha ran up from 575 to 644 literally the next day 12 run in 24 hours, but then it sold off as the market sold off and then when earnings came out, it sold off again. Apha was a play that was great on Monday, but it was exhausted literally right after that Monday. Okay folks, well anyways, let's go ahead and get into this week's picks, but the only thing that I ask in return from you is that you hit that ravishing like button and also quick plug for folks who are looking to learn how to trade. Well, we do offer zip Trader U, which I'll go ahead and link to below so you can determine if we are a good fit or not.

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Now Tesla will be reporting their earnings on Wednesday. Now a few things to know about Tesla's earnings: Number One: Tesla does historically tend to be a stock that reacts massively to earnings. The last two earnings had pre-anticipatory runs and post-announcement reactions. Tesla does tend to underperform after an announcement and then pick up running a few weeks later, so that's something to keep in mind.

Second thing to consider: Tesla reported record-breaking deliveries earlier this month, but this means that investors are expecting some change in revenues and profit with this increase in deliveries. And that brings us to number three, Number Three. Tesla's profit has been on a trailing uptrend this year, and investors will be looking to see how this converts to more profit for Tesla number four. In terms of revenue, Investors are certainly going to be looking for growth across the board, but I personally am going to be paying more attention to a few different segments of the earnings report.

I'm going to be paying special attention to revenues generated from their non-automotive sector, such as energy generation in storage and other services. As I said last month, Tesla is right now furthering its mission of becoming more than just a car company, it's also an energy company. I'd like to see the data reflect that in this upcoming earnings release number five. If Tesla reports a healthy profit, it's very possible that it ends up getting back into the running for joining the S P 500..

this is something that will give Tesla even more relevance and even more capital. And the idea that this could happen is something that greatly fueled Tesla earlier this year and would be again a huge player if that does seem to be in the running again. But anyways, the analyst monkeys are mostly bullish on the earnings, but they do think that Tesla is overpriced. Who could have known that analysts would think Tesla was overpriced? But sarcasm aside, analysts are obviously expecting an increase in revenue, but the question is whether Tesla will beat that expectation? If it does, we can certainly be seeing a post earnings run up.

But I'd say what's far more likely for Tesla is that it has a good earnings report that actually gets pre-factored in ahead of time and then as a result, gets beat down. And so the way that I'd play this is by looking for setups as people wait for the reaction to take place and see if we get some pre-earnings runs. If history repeats itself, Tesla tends to run directly prior to earnings, and so that's certainly something that I'm going to be watching for. Okay, next Intc Intel, They will be reporting earnings on Thursday.

Now, Intc earlier this year got totally beat down after they delayed the production of their next generation chip. Folks got worried that they'd start losing their market share to some of their competitors like Amd. and for those of you who remember, we hammered this one back on August 2nd. We talked about how this was an inevitable overreaction correction play, and ever since then, it's been consistently up trending.

That being said, it certainly hasn't shied away from short-term pushbacks and stagnation either, and the recovery has been quite slow, though consistent. Intel certainly has had a awful quarter in terms of share price, but this uptrend has closed a lot of that gap that we had in the summer. And in terms of Intel now, I see a few different scenarios. Number One: we get a pre-anticipatory run to earnings.

Scenario Two: we get a post earnings beat down. We're almost guaranteed to get some bad light on Intel as this earnings report comes out, because again, Intel had a huge delay, but because of this run up, we now have a lot further to fall if investors have been over optimistic about this earnings report. Third scenario that I see happening is perhaps we get a post earnings run that fizzles out quickly and sells off. The thing is that I see Intel continuously climbing for the next six months to a year, so if it dips a lot because of this earnings, that's a great opportunity to dip buy.

Of course, the biggest problem I see with this is the threat of stagnation. That's why you only only only buy in when you see signs of recovery. Okay, next, and lastly, Snapchat. Now, Snapchat has just been on this consistent care all year, and this Tuesday they will be reporting earnings.

When it comes to Snap's previous trading around earnings, we've established that it has a history of reacting massively going up massively on April's report, then going down massively on July's But of course, we don't necessarily care what direction a stock reacts to earnings since every reaction is different. But we do care that it actually reacts so that we can get some action to trade off of. And in terms of what investors are looking for, I'd say the two heavy hitters are user growth, how many new users are joining Snapchat and then number two advertisement revenue, But in effect, this is another one of those plays that where as traders, it would be much, much better if we got a bad reaction, because then we can play off the dip and recovery. And these tech companies, especially the social media variety, tend to rally massively on anything that just resembles a bullish future.

So of course you know the drill. Be direction independent, understand that anything is possible, and we have to make sure that we're playing reactions before and after and not holding through because anything can happen. And if you hold through, that's essentially a gamble. Okay, and two quick bonuses that I don't want to get too much into, but you need to know about: Netflix will be releasing their earnings decision this week as well as will at T and these are two of the big plays that I'm also watching, but we don't want to get too much into those in this video just because this is a top three stocks video.

I will talk about those in the morning briefings and I will put those on the free Zip Trader Circle watch list as well. In any case, two big earnings coming up. Okay folks, well if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us in the comment section below. Also, make sure to join us on Zip Trader Circle.

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