June 18, 2026
The SpaceX IPO Was Just the Beginning.
Featured – Post-Earnings Volatility Crush: ACN
Editor’s Note: Hedge fund legend who delivered a 279% return on cash in 2025 and went on a 20 year winning streak, says Elon Musk is now executing the “Final Phase of his Master Plan”… and he’s identified the ONE ticker that stands to benefit most (it’s not SpaceX, Tesla, or anything you’d associate Elon with). Click here to see the details.
Dear Reader,
SpaceX is public.
And that means one thing: Elon can now execute the “Final Phase of his Master Plan.”
Many saw the SpaceX IPO as the money-making event of the decade.
But the truth is that the SpaceX IPO was never a big opportunity.
The big opportunity – the one that’s been overlooked and overshadowed – is the one that comes AFTER the IPO.
One that could be triggered at ANY TIME.
Billions of dollars are set to flood across the market and into one specific ticker.
It’s not SpaceX, Tesla, or any of Elon’s companies.
In fact, it’s nothing you’d associate with him at all.
That’s why this could be one of the trades of the year, if you get in early and play it right.
Larry Benedict, the man who made over $274 million for his clients and went on a 20-year winning streak, says now that the distraction of the SpaceX IPO circus has gone…
Investors who want to make real money need to focus on this ticker.
Click here to find out what it is before it’s too late.
Regards,
Lauren Wingfield
Managing Editor, The Opportunistic Trader
P.S. Most investors will still be talking about the IPO as this move is already underway. Click here now.
Post-Earnings Volatility Crush: ACN
Post-earnings moves don’t need to be mysterious. A stock can drop, the options can still get cheaper, and both things can be true at the same time.
That’s the whole game in a volatility crush: the market finishes the uncertainty event (earnings or guidance), implied volatility contracts, and long option holders find out they didn’t just need direction – they needed more direction than what was already priced in. What’s interesting is how often traders forget that second part.
Accenture (ACN) is a clean example from this cycle. In late March 2026, the company reported fiscal Q2 2026 results with EPS of $2.93 versus $2.84 expected and revenue of $18.04B versus roughly $17.8B expected. Solid quarter. The stock reaction leaned negative anyway because the forward view mattered more than the backward-looking beat. Reuters noted Accenture forecast quarterly revenue below estimates as clients remained cautious on large transformation spending, and shares were down more than 3% premarket around that release.
Then in early April 2026, the pressure intensified when full-year fiscal 2026 revenue guidance was discussed as $71.8B–$73.2B versus about $73.9B consensus (EPS guidance was roughly in line). When revenue guidance misses, the multiple often compresses first and asks questions later.
The entire world is flooding into U.S. stocks right now
Foreign investors own $21 trillion of U.S. stocks – more than during the dot-com peak. President Trump is putting millions of his own money into U.S. stocks. The S&P 500 just added $11 trillion of value in 7 weeks. This is what a Melt Up looks like. But history says it’s not over yet. One Florida millionaire says you may have just days to act.
So how do traders express “downside continuation” without paying top dollar for panic puts? Often with defined-risk bear put spreads. You buy a put closer to the money (higher delta) and sell a lower-strike put to reduce cost. You cap max gain, yes. But you also reduce exposure to the volatility drop that frequently follows the headline move.
- Bear case template: Debit put spread 30–60 days out, long strike near spot, short strike at a prior support zone.
- Neutral-to-bear template: Put spread with a tighter width, targeting a measured move rather than a crash.
- Risk control: Position size so the full debit is tolerable; spreads are “defined-risk” only if sizing is.
If ACN keeps sliding, spreads can keep pace without needing implied volatility to stay elevated. And if the stock stalls, you at least avoided the pure long-put pain that shows up right after the event passes.
