Hi, I’m Graham Lindman, and I’d like to show you the most rebellious trade I’ve ever placed.
It was February 1st last year.
Nvidia was trading at $620… Every trading manual and "expert" would have told you, you needed the stock to move at least 5% to make real money.
But I didn’t care, I issued an alert on an option contract for $1.20.
Not $120… Not $12.
One dollar and twenty cents.
Eight days later? That trade paid out 108%... While NVDA barely budged 3%.
While there were some smaller gains and some that did not work out, here’s what I realized…
Everything they teach about options is wrong.
The truth? You don’t need big price moves, fancy strategies, or even huge accounts
Here’s what I’ve found: there’s an underground method that lets you…
Trade popular stocks like Apple, Google, and Nvidia for less than a Starbucks latte… Target 100%+ gains weekly, and profit when everyone else is stuck watching paint dry.
The secret? A market anomaly so counterintuitive, even seasoned traders don’t believe it until they see it work.
Like Ben from Ohio, who texted me:
Or Jim…
Now here’s why this matters today…
Even though we’re climbing now, things could fall apart any moment, like in 2008, as this chart shows you.
And this setup is going to be my edge as we approach the rest of the year, no matter what happens.
While I cannot promise future returns or against losses…
If you want to see how these dirt-cheap options work and get your hands on the next couple of trade setups…
I’ve detailed everything I’ve learned over the past 18 months of doing this right here.
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3 Stocks to Avoid as Software Sector Stumbles
Reported by Dan Schmidt. Article Published: 1/17/2026.
At a Glance
- Software stocks have struggled over the last few months, especially those in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry.
- SaaS firms face substantial disruption from AI agents like Claude Code, which can automate entire workflows and eliminate the need for expensive software licenses.
- Salesforce, DocuSign, and Atlassian could be three industry stocks at risk of losing revenue to new AI tools.
The software sector has already seen more carnage this month than the finale of Game of Thrones, and we're still only halfway through January. While many stocks in this industry have been undergoing extended drawdowns since early 2025, large software companies got fresh bad news this week from "Claude Code," the agentic coding tool for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet AI bot. Claude Code was launched last year, but a recent update has reignited selling pressure in several legacy software names. Is the selloff overdone, or are software stocks facing a prolonged bear market?
Why ‘Claude Code’ Has the Software Sector Spooked
Claude Code is rattling the tech sector because of its fully autonomous design. Unlike early AI agents that produced snippets of code for specific tasks (for example, bug fixes), Claude Code offers a command-line system that can be integrated into developers' workflows for writing, testing, and debugging. Rather than acting as an assistant or editor, Claude Code's agents can oversee an entire task from start to finish, executing high-level design of complete software stacks with minimal human oversight.
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A recent anecdote from a Google engineer illustrates why Claude Code is unnerving Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. Earlier this month, Gemini API developer Jaana Dogan went viral after claiming Claude Code recreated a year's worth of her team's work in about an hour. If a year's work can be condensed into a single hour, that is a worst-case scenario for SaaS firms that derive a large portion of revenue from annual licenses. Analysts at Oppenheimer cited that risk in their downgrade of creative-design giant Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE), arguing that advances in these tools have flipped software from an AI beneficiary into an AI victim.
3 Software Stocks to Avoid as Sector-Wide Panic Ensues
Adobe shares are down more than 25% over the past 12 months, but it isn't the only software stock under pressure. The three stocks below face meaningful headwinds as AI increasingly displaces traditional workflow tasks.
Salesforce: Agentic AI Risks Cannibalizing Key Business
Salesforce Inc. (NYSE: CRM) is the original SaaS giant, having built the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) category and a wide suite of cloud-based business platforms. Historically, the company has relied on substantial revenue from licensing its platform to large enterprises.
But if a handful of AI agents can perform the work of hundreds of human reps, Salesforce could lose much of that high-margin license revenue. Compounding the risk, the company spent more than two decades building a complex cloud ecosystem that many modern businesses view as cumbersome, inefficient, and costly.
CRM shares staged a brief rally in December, breaking above the 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages (SMAs) before Adobe's downgrade and the latest Claude Code update hit the market.
On Jan. 13, CRM plunged 7% in a single session, falling below those SMAs amid renewed selling pressure. A bearish signal appears to be forming on the moving average convergence divergence (MACD) indicator, suggesting the selling may not relent soon.
DocuSign: A Middle Man at Risk of Being Cut Out
DocuSign Inc. (NASDAQ: DOCU) benefited greatly from the work-from-home boom during the COVID-19 pandemic. At its peak, DOCU shares traded above $300 and the company's valuation soared. But as interest rates rose and market dynamics shifted, DocuSign's momentum faded and the company now faces growing obsolescence risks.
DocuSign's challenges began as e-signature functionality was increasingly bundled into larger platforms like Microsoft 365. In addition, the company's Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform could be bypassed entirely as AI agents become more customized and enterprises negotiate agreements within their own software ecosystems.
DOCU shares recently notched a new 52-week low and continue to face strong resistance at the 50-day SMA. Investors searching for hope aren't finding much on the chart: the Relative Strength Index (RSI) has dipped into oversold territory (below the 30 threshold), and selling volume is beginning to pick up.
Atlassian: Potential Obsolescence From Autonomous Workflows
Atlassian Corp plc (NASDAQ: TEAM) is the Australian SaaS firm behind widely used workflow tools such as Jira, Confluence, Trello, Bitbucket, Loom and Slack. If you collaborate on projects, you've likely used one or more of these products. Although Atlassian has been integrating AI across its suite, it still risks some platforms becoming redundant as agentic tools like Claude Code make it easier to centrally integrate and automate workflows. Atlassian licenses several standalone products, and the loss of relevance for any one of them could materially hurt revenue.
TEAM shares were rejected at the 50-day SMA and have fallen seven of the last 10 trading days, losing more than 15% in the process. A bearish MACD crossover confirms the latest leg of the downtrend, and the stock risks erasing more than two years' worth of gains if the trend continues — which, based on current momentum, appears likely.
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