The Research Desk publishes stock ideas, market warnings, options education, and research for investors and traders.
The desk focuses on what investors are already watching: major stocks, market risks, income opportunities, options activity, and Wall Street clues.
Our job is simple: here's what we're watching, and why.
Research is reviewed through Belanger Trading's editorial process and may be reviewed by Josh Belanger when it involves trading strategy, options, or market interpretation.
OpenAI is the most important company you can't actually own. There's no ticker, the IPO is reported but not filed, and most 'ways in' are off-limits, diluted, or a scam. Here's what's real — the proxies, the numbers, and what we're watching.
Cheap stocks can be bargains or broken companies. Here are 7 recognizable beaten-down names Belanger Trading is watching — why each looks cheap, what could change the story, and the risk that keeps it cheap.
AI is moving beyond chips. Data centers are where the buildout becomes physical — servers, networking, power, cooling, real estate. Here are the seven buckets, representative names, and how to tell real demand from a story riding the theme.
AI is not just a chip story — it is an electricity story. A plain-English look at nuclear energy stocks tied to data-center power demand, separating cash-flowing operators from speculative reactor stories. A research watchlist, not a buy list.
Nvidia's next earnings report is the most-watched number in the market because it tells investors whether the AI trade is still backed by real demand. Here is the confirmed date, what to watch, what the expected move means, and how to think about the event without chasing.
A Pelosi stock tracker shows publicly disclosed trades tied to Nancy and Paul Pelosi. But congressional disclosures are delayed and incomplete. Here is what investors can and cannot learn, and how we would actually analyze one.
SpaceX has filed to go public as SPCX, but the price isn't set yet. The story is real; the question is price. Here's exactly what we're watching before anyone buys, and why.
A stock market crash is a sudden, severe, broad decline driven by panic, forced selling, or a real shock. Most selloffs are not that. This is a living risk monitor: the eight things we watch to tell normal volatility apart from real market stress, and what they're saying right now.
When the market turns red, the reason matters more than the headline drop. A rate-driven selloff is not an earnings-driven one; a one-day headline is not a structural break. Here's how we read the driver behind a down day, and what tells us whether the move actually matters.
Seven stocks worth watching now, picked for market leadership, current catalysts, and risk/reward — with the real risk on every name. This is a research watchlist, not a list of buy orders.
