My Top 2 Stocks On Watch For Monday (Day Trading Watch List)

What's up everyone? All right, in
today's episode I'm going to break down
my watch list for Monday morning and the
game plan for the week ahead. We're
coming to the end of the month of
August. New month is right around the
corner and this is a good opportunity to
look back at what you did in August and
where there's room for improvement cuz
there's always room for improvement even
for a trader like myself. So I'll spend
a little time during this episode going
over some of my ups and downs from
August. I had both um two of my biggest
losing days of the entire year this
month.
Not great.
Uh but and I also however had a couple
of big winning days. So a little bit of
a roller coaster.
I would say that uh last week in
particular I noticed that things really
cooled off. I kind of got off the roller
coaster uh which was good. I didn't have
like
you know, quite as much of a swing but
things definitely were a little colder.
Uh so if we look at the charts here, we
had this move CRE
um last week. Uh it was I think
Wednesday into Thursday and then Friday.
And what was kind of interesting with
this stock was that, you know, you had
this really big move right here, which
is awesome. We love to see that. A big
squeeze and then
that was kind of it. You know, this was
just range bound. I mean, yeah, you
could trade here and there was some
opportunity but not a lot. And then it
was sideways and then kind of went lower
and then sort of sideways and then a
little bit lower. Um ARCON, another good
example last week where we had one
really big pop, which was impressive. It
went from $3 to $9 a share and this
isn't just like, you know, on 10,000
shares of volume. This is on, you know,
15 million shares by the time it came
all the way back down. I mean, this was
on a lot of volume but we got this big
move and then it came right back down.
And so that was a little bit
discouraging. I found that last week I
struggled a little bit with
uh uh being a little hesitant to jump in
something just hitting the scanners cuz
I didn't want to catch a round trip, but
on the other hand, by the time it was
really moving, being concerned that it
was too extended and it wasn't going to
hold up any longer. And those were those
were valid concerns and was one of the
reasons I didn't perform as well last
week as
um maybe I would have had the market
been a little bit stronger. So, this is
the move on ARCON, for example. You
know, an amazing squeeze and then way
back down, false breakout, and just
unwinding.
So,
I feel like what we really need are some
strong catalysts. We need some really
good headlines, and without that, when
you have sort of a subpar headline, but
traders are really eager to jump in,
you'll get a big move, but ultimately
the move is far greater than what the
headline can support, and the price ends
up coming back down through a
combination of short selling, but also
the company selling shares on the open
market, which we get through direct
offerings. And we saw a few of them last
week.
Um
you know, September will be the end of
the quarter and the end of September.
So, we may see more of them in September
as companies try to boost up their
balance sheet a little bit. Um but what
we also may see are some companies that
try to drive up their stock price a
little bit before the end of the quarter
just to make things look a little
rosier. So, none of that is uncommon uh
both directions certainly on a number of
small cap um companies. So, I expect
we'll see some volatility in September,
but
it will be important to build a little
bit of a cushion before I uh do anything
too crazy. Now, if we look at the month
of August, um let's see. We'll just look
detailed and by day of the week, I
really struggled on Fridays. And you
might be wondering why I didn't post a
recap on Friday. And you might be
worrying that I got absolutely
destroyed.
Um well, I took one trade on Friday. And
as you can see here, I made $84.91,
which it was pretty pathetic. Um I was
red on it, it came back up, I got out
green, and that was it. And I didn't
take any more trades than that. So,
there wasn't much to talk about on
Friday.
Um but last week was um the slowest week
of of the month.
Um
So, you know, that's
a little bit surprising having come off
this really big um green week here on
week four, but uh you know, it just is
the way it is. So,
uh on the one hand, I'm pretty excited
for Monday morning because Mondays have
been uh the best day of the week uh
through the month of August. Uh but on
the other hand, because things were a
little slower uh last week and on
Friday, I don't want to get too excited
because I don't think there's any
certainty that um you know, we're going
to get a great catalyst. But it does
make sense why I would struggle a little
bit a little bit on Fridays. And it's
that companies are less inclined to put
out good headlines on a Friday. They're
much more inclined to put out those good
headlines earlier in the week. So, early
in the week on a Monday or Tuesday,
you're more likely to have headlines
because then there's a couple of days
where the market can react and continue
to sort of drive the price higher.
Putting out bad news is more common
towards the end of the week in hopes
that traders forget about it. And in any
case, the market's closed for the
weekend, so they can't trade it. And
then by Monday, you know, the dust has
sort of settled. So, then combine that
with sort of summertime trends of more
traders taking vacation, um a little bit
less volume in the market, even
executives at companies not wanting to
you know, put out news on Fridays if
they're taking long weekends.
And it makes for a little bit of a uh
shift in volume weighted heavier to the
front of the week. So, you know, Monday
morning,
time to put the pedal to the metal. In
theory, uh except that it was slow uh to
finish on Friday. And in fact, our
leading gainer by the end of the day on
Friday, 44%, which is downright
pathetic. And the after hours top gainer
scanner, well, you had AEHL. So, AEHL
made uh the biggest move, as you can see
right here. And this one, um you know,
is another one of these Chinese stocks.
We get this big pop. This is not the
first time we've seen it. We've seen
AEHL come up on the scanners a number of
times. This one from 350 up to 450 to 5.
I'm going to just uh back this up. So,
um there we go.
So, AEHL
pops up on Friday. And because Friday
had been such a slow day uh from
pre-market to regular through regular
hours, that this move at 4:00 p.m.
really certainly got traders excited.
From 350 up to 450, pulling back up to
5, pulling back up to 6. And then we
kind of went into this sideways
consolidation, but it closed 8:00 p.m.
right back up at those highs of the
after hours session.
Looking at the chart, I don't really
feel FOMO on this. It's not like there
were super super clear patterns that
were just so clean and I missed it. Um
but clearly it did go up 92%. What was
the volume? Well, the volume was about 5
million shares. So, it was pretty light.
It's got a 1.3 million share float, as
you can see right there. So, you know,
it is a bit lighter on volume, um
but it wouldn't surprise me at all if
that continues into um a 4:00 a.m. pop
on Monday morning. And then the question
is where does it sustain and hold? And
is it still the leading gapper and
gainer in the market by 7:00 a.m. when
most retail traders are coming online?
If it is, then we'll look for
continuation higher. And why don't we
just analyze um this chart in a little
bit more detail first. So, looking at
the daily chart on this one,
um if we back back this up, we can see
that it's had a couple of days with some
volume. It's a company like many Chinese
small caps that have done a number of
reverse splits right here. Often, um you
know, you get that pop following a
reverse split. So, this is a stock that
has had some big pops in the past. Also
has had some pretty big red days. And
the chart is is tough because the price
keeps going lower and lower and lower,
as is the case with a lot of these
companies. They do reverse splits, they
do secondary offerings, and they just
continue to basically
capitalize on participants willing to
trade it in the public markets, but the
company is not um obviously at a level
of um prosperity where they're able to
sustain um even $1 a share for an
extended period of time. Otherwise, they
wouldn't have to do these splits.
So, then you might say, "All right,
well,
you know, okay, so that's fine. Well,
well, what is the catalyst that was
driving this higher?" And what you'll
notice right here is that there is, in
fact, no news. So, this went up for we
don't know what reason. There is no
news. You might speculate that there's
got to be a reason. Someone somewhere
must know something. Or maybe, you know,
someone involved with this company
decided to
I don't know, do a kind of off-the-books
stock promotion campaign. Those happen.
And next thing you know, you're getting
WhatsApp messages and all these other,
you know, social media alerts on the
stock being the next big thing. That's
all speculation cuz we don't really know
why the price is going higher, but uh
given that there is not a fundamental
catalyst to support the move, we always
have to kind of treat it uh or approach
it with some skepticism. Now, uh we go
into the filings, which I often will do
on these. There's a couple things that
I'll check
just to get a little bit of better sense
of what's going on. Now, it's a foreign
listed security, so they're not required
to do quarterly filings. The latest
filing is
from the period that ended in September
30th of 2025. It was filed in January.
That's the latest filing here in terms
of financials. So, this is going to be
one of those companies where, you know,
a lot of time has gone by where we don't
have clear insight into what's been
going on. You can see that it's a
company that has a number of
subsidiaries.
As you can see, a number of them. So, a
bit of a complex corporate structure
there. Certainly not unusual. And so,
what I typically look at
All right, so that's that.
So, here we go. So, typically what I
look at for the 9 months ending
and for the year ending. So, for the
year ending, this was in the end of
December of 2024. So, that's pretty old.
So, if we look at the 9 months ending
September 30th, you can see their net
sales, their cost of goods sold, the
gross the gross profit or loss.
And then you can see other income, loss
before taxation, loss for the period
year from the continuing operations, da
da da. And so, what we see is a company
that is losing money. Okay, well, that's
not surprising. Of course, the stock
price sort of reflects that. The
The challenge
with these types of companies is that
then you have to ask yourself, well, how
much cash they have on the balance sheet
to sustain operating at a loss?
You know, how how many how many months
can they run run like this? How many
years can they run like this? So, then
you got to find their balance sheet,
which is another one of those tables.
You could search for it, but I'm just
going to scroll. So, this is a pretty
long uh
So, assets and liabilities.
Um
So,
plant equipment, right of use assets,
security deposits, notes receivable.
Um
You know, these are always tricky.
Uh
and I'm surprised I'm just looking for
um
I'm I'm honestly look Oh, so cash is
down here. I was look saying I'm looking
for cash. Just cash. Like, how much
actual cash do they have in a checking
account? Loans receivables, you know, I
we don't know how good those loans are.
We don't know if those are loans that
are going to be paid up or may end up,
you know, defaulting.
It's unknown. Um similarly with
inventory, and not that that's a big one
on this um company, but on some
companies inventory is a big line item.
But,
you know, how are they pricing the
inventory on their balance sheet? Is it
at, you know, the true market price or
is it, you know, something else? So, in
any case, with $1.9 million of cash,
um they didn't have enough money to
operate re- really even another um
certainly 6 months. So, either some of
this money came through or if we look
more closely, oops, sorry, back here. Um
we could check to see if there were
other
um Oh, I'm not logged in. I'd have to
log in. But, in any case, you could see
if there were other um
um events that took place such as a
company raising money and selling
shares. So, we see there's a prospectus
for primary offering. This is um here.
And this is they probably, my guess is
um
that they did some form of offering over
the last 6 months, which gave them the
financing to continue operations. All of
that paints a picture of a company that
suddenly has her stock price going up,
uh which is very exciting for them, but
um are in a position seemingly where
they're in need of capital. And so if
this is an opportunity for and it likely
would be for them to sell shares on the
market because there's a decent amount
of volume, then we may not see that
they're able to sustain this price
because they're going offset any of the
buying by selling shares on the market.
Um as would perhaps any institutional
investors who
um took stakes in the company through
those offerings. So that's AEHL. Um
could it continue going higher? Could it
be completely disconnected from its
fundamental value in terms of its
trading price? Sure, that can happen.
Um
Is it going to do something really
exceptional? It's got a $160
uh 200 EMA. It's got a lot of room
there, but I'm not going to hold my
breath. So then the next one down is
COOT with 27 million shares of volume.
Um
And uh that was all after hours,
but it's a cheaper stock. So I'm not
really crazy about that. YDDL, NCRA.
YDDL, um
floats a little higher at 18 million
shares. NCRA, this is one that we've
traded before.
Um
You know, it
it it's it's kind of hard to trust
because it's had a few days back here on
the daily chart where it's popped up and
reversed. So my gut feeling for Monday
is that probably there will be traders
that jump in AEHL at 4:00 a.m. just to
ride that momentum. Uh but I'm not sure
that it's going to be able to sustain.
I'd be kind of surprised if it can, but
for lack of anything else to trade,
maybe it does. So AEHL definitely on the
watch list.
Um COOT for traders that like the
cheaper stocks. You know, if it breaks
through the um after hours high of 184,
you can get a little bit of a move
higher. It is up 55% with a 6.6 million
share float. Um and then the others I'm
not really interested in at all. So
you've got two stocks on the watch list.
Uh both are foreign listed securities,
Australian here uh for COT and Chinese
for AEHL. My game plan is that I'm going
to be sitting down around 6:45 and I'll
be looking at the top gainers scanner
right here and I'm really going to be
ranking the top three or four leading
gainers to decide which one of them most
closely matches or meets my five pillars
of stock selection. And based on those
five pillars stock selection and which
stock I think is the most obvious, I'll
then be able to position myself to take
a trade, potentially ride it um 7:00
a.m.
In my small account challenge, I'm
getting very close to the finish line,
which is exciting. Um I would, you know,
love to be able to wrap that challenge
up this week uh crossing over $100,000
and over half a million dollars in uh
money raised and donated charity. By the
way, these are the five pillars of stock
selection here. Um but
um I just want to make sure I continue
to focus on high-quality setups and I
want to recognize the market has been a
little cooler the last week and it
doesn't feel like it's the time to go
out on a limb and do anything crazy. So,
I think this might end up being kind of
a
not like a, you know, photo finish, like
I'm leaping through the finish line and
taking a crazy trade. It's just going to
kind of be like jogging through the
finish and um just passing that line of
$100,000.
All right, so that's the game plan. Now,
if you guys would like to watch over my
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with me or you learn on your own. So,
please manage your risk, take it slow,
and always practice in a simulator
before putting real money on the line.
With that, I'll see you guys on Monday
morning.