NVIDIA, Hormel Foods, Rio Tinto And Some Other Big Stocks Moving Lower In Today's Pre-Market Session


27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


  • MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDB) shares dipped 17.3% to $267.00 in pre-market trading after the company issued earnings guidance below analyst estimates.
  • C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI) dropped 15.6% to $15.20 in pre-market trading after the company reported worse-than-expected Q1 sales results and issued Q3 and FY23 sales guidance below analyst estimates.
  • Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC) declined 14.2% to $39.64 in pre-market trading after the company issued Q3 sales guidance below analyst estimates.
  • Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA) tumbled 14% to $78.59 in pre-market trading after the company reported Q2 earnings results and issued Q3 and FY23 financial guidance. Canaccord Genuity downgraded Okta from Buy to Hold and lowered the price target from $155 to $85.
  • Veeva Systems Inc. (NYSE:VEEV) dropped 11.2% to $176.95 in pre-market trading after the company issued Q3 and FY23 sales guidance below analyst estimates.
  • Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN) fell 10.9% to $45.19 in pre-market trading following weak quarterly sales.
  • NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) declined 5.4% to $142.75 in pre-market trading following a late Wednesday filing by the company that revealed that the U.S. government has communicated to it the need to secure a license for exporting its powerful AI processors such as the A100 and the yet-to-be-released H100 chips to China. This would prevent the export of these chips to China, one of its key markets.
  • Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL) fell 4.3% to $48.11 in pre-market trading after the company posted downbeat Q3 earnings and lowered FY22 earnings forecast.
  • Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO) dropped 3.9% to $ 54.07 in pre-market trading after the company announced plans to acquire full ownership of Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (NYSE:TRQ) for C$43 per share in cash.
  • Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (NASDAQ:AMD) dropped 3.5% to $81.92 in pre-market trading following news that the chipmakers were slapped with certain chip export restrictions to China.

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27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


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