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Weekly Stock Analysis by MetisTrades.com episodes
- META Options Outlook: Will the $580 Put Wall Hold Through August 21?
Meta Platforms — ticker META. It's August 15, 2026, and the stock just closed Friday at $589.76. Here's the state of play heading into the August 21 options expiration: the market's positioning is neutral, with just a slight lean toward the upside. Traders are pricing a possible six-day swing between $564.50 on the low end and $615.00 on the high end. But the number to actually remember is $580…
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6 min - QBTS Options Are Pricing a ±$2.13 Move by Friday — Our Read Sees a Tighter, Choppier Week
Here's your QBTS briefing for August 15, 2026 — D-Wave Quantum, ticker QBTS. The stock closed at $21.17, and options traders are pricing the next six days as neutral with a bullish tilt. Straddle pricing into the August 21 expiration puts QBTS anywhere between $19.04 and $23.30 by Friday — that's the market's own bet on how far it moves. But one number breaks this story: a close below $20.75…
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5 min - ASTS Options Outlook: Will the $70 Put Wall Hold Into August 21?
AST SpaceMobile — ticker ASTS. It's August 15, 2026. The stock closed Friday at $70.98. Options positioning here reads neutral, with just a slight bullish lean, into the August 21 expiration, and the market's pricing implies ASTS trades somewhere between $63.27 and $78.69 by then. But there's one number that breaks this whole picture: a close below $69. Under $69, the floor this whole read…
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6 min - SMCI Options Are Pricing a ±$4 Move Into August 21 — After an $8.73 Five-Day Run
Super Micro Computer — ticker SMCI — it's August 15, 2026, and the stock just closed at $39.84 after an absolutely wild run. Here's the read on options right now: slightly bullish, but jumpy. The options market is pricing a range of $35.78 to $43.90 by the August 21 expiration. And there's one line in the sand you need to know up front: if SMCI closes below $38.50, this bullish case is dead. So…
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6 min - SMH Options Are Pricing a $26 Move Into August 21 — the Technical Read Sees Half That
Hey, it's August 15, 2026, and we're talking VanEck Semiconductor ETF — ticker SMH. It closed Friday at $587.65. Here's the headline: the options market is neutral, with just a mild bullish lean, and it's pricing SMH to trade somewhere between $561.91 and $613.39 over the next six trading days, into the August 21 expiration. That's roughly a 4% swing in either direction baked into prices right…
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5 min - BB Options Are Pricing a ±$0.67 Move by August 21 — Our Technical Model Sees Roughly Half That
BlackBerry Limited — ticker BB — it's August 15, 2026, and the stock closed at $8.89, basically parked there for a month. Here's the call: options positioning leans slightly bullish heading into the next stretch, and the options market is pricing a range of $8.23 to $9.56 by the time this week's contracts expire on August 21. The level that breaks the whole thing is $8.75 — a close below that, and…
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5 min - GLD Options Are Pricing a ±$10 Move Into August 21 — the Flow and the Charts Point Opposite Ways
Hey folks — it's August 15, 2026, and today we're talking SPDR Gold Shares, ticker GLD. It closed Friday at $401.46. Here's where things stand: the options market is leaning bullish on gold right now, but the charts are quietly arguing the opposite. Options pricing says GLD should trade somewhere between $391.14 and $411.78 through the August 21 expiration — call it a ten-dollar band in either…
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7 min - QUBT Options Are Pricing a ±$0.85 Move Into August 21 — And Max Pain Sits Above the Stock
Quantum Computing Inc., ticker QUBT. Here's the read for August 15, 2026. The stock closed at $8.99, and the options market right now is neutral — genuinely split on which way this goes next. Traders are pricing a range of $8.14 to $9.84 between now and the August 21 expiration, roughly a 9% swing in either direction. And there's one level that overrides everything else: if QUBT closes below…
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6 min - QCOM Options Are Pricing a ±$8.90 Move — Our Technical Model Sees Less Than a Third of It
QUALCOMM Incorporated — ticker QCOM — heading into August 15, 2026. The stock closed at $165.81, and here's the state of play: options traders are pricing this neutral. Not bullish, not bearish. The market's built-in range into the August 21 expiration runs from about $157 up to $175. And there's one number that breaks this whole read: if QCOM closes below $160, the setup falls apart. That's the…
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6 min - DELL Options Are Pricing a ±$43 Move Into August 21 — Our Positioning Read Leans Lower
Dell Technologies — ticker DELL — here's the read for August 15, 2026. The stock closed at $490.97. Options traders are pricing a range of roughly $448 to $534 into this Friday's expiration, August 21. Our bias: neutral, with a mild bearish tilt. And here's the number that breaks that read — a close above $505. Keep that one in mind: above $505, this whole bearish lean falls apart. That's the…
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50+ tickers. One options chain read per week. No hype.
We break down what the options market is actually pricing — implied moves, call and put walls, max pain, skew, unusual flow — and check it against the charts. Then we lay out three ways the week can go and the defined-risk structures that fit each one, including what invalidates the whole read.
When there's no edge, we say so. Educational analysis, not financial advice.