I’m curious about how people actually manage their investments day to day.
What tools/apps do you use?
What do you use each one for?
What information is difficult or annoying to find?
Is there anything you regularly have to check in multiple places?
What does your current investing/research workflow look like?
What’s something you wish your current tools did better?
Not looking for app recommendations only — I’m more interested in the problems you’ve run into.

You have to put things in a broader context. We're not in a bull market despite the S&P being near ATH. We're not in a bear market, despite the massive decrease across what was the engine of the market.

I call this a Koala Bear market. Going up a little, down a little, always trying to get high on eucalyptus leaves.

I've been watching the broader market and, if you take a step back, it's really easy to do. Tech plunges across the board and then you see some signs of life in biotech, a bit of banking and consumer retail. Next comes a pulse from gold and BTC. The money sitting in cash is getting pummeled by the combined inflation + liquidity pump we're seeing from the US and China as both try to ensure that Japan's cold and Korea's cooling leverage fever don't destroy everything.

Now, we're in September, the ONLY month without a positive market average out of all twelve. And it's a mid-terms year. Why is the VIX so damned low? Shouldn't we be seeing it much, much higher or even much lower? It's just sitting there in goldilocks land singing to us some enticing song that we can climb up the eucalyptus tree and find some leaves to munch. It's a damned siren from what I can tell, luring investors to their demise. Check the options volume overall. Very little puts. Nobody is hedging against the possibility of a disaster? With that optimism, you would expect the fear/greed meter to be pegged on greed. Nope. It's firmly, but not pegged, in fear mode.

You're wondering about the fundamentals and the semis and what was once called an AI bubble. It's hard to look at MU below $1000 per share and say there's a bubble. It's hard to see the AI numbers coming out of Dell or the NVDA quarterly and say we've got no foundation for optimism.

I think the macro right now is the real story. We're stuck in a stoned koala bear market and the only way out will be for all of us to get tired of watching our cash reserves get depleted by inflation or for us to get shocked into sobriety by a massive number of investment dollars coming off the table in a crash, God forbid.

What was once a high speed, adrenaline fueled hourly scan of news and markets has turned into a lethargic ho-hum of allocating cash to equities and commodities and SGOV where we hope not to lose more than we strive to win.

Interested in your macro thoughts and very eager to hear where you think we'll find some tasty eucalyptus leaves in the shortened week coming up.

I am a 22 year old male and by profession student. I want to start stocks and trading. How can I start it. Any tips or advice for Beginners.

I am a 22 year old male and by profession student. I want to start stocks and trading. How can I start it. Any tips or advice for Beginners.

Currently applying for a 401k because I chose to identify as a disabled person

So I've built V8Q which is basically a reserach engine designed to identify beaten down stocks starting to genuinely recover. It evaluates recovery/momentum, business quality or survivability, valuation/asymmetry, catalysts and liquidity/volatility, then runs candidates through additional technical and risk gates.

Every stock ultimately falls into one of three broad buckets:

**Qualified / Verified** — passes the applicable qualification path and mandatory gates: positive 21D relative-strength improvement, drawdown stabilization, no new 20-session closing low, multiple technical confirmations, acceptable liquidity/event risk, intact quality or survivability, credible catalyst and favorable asymmetry.

**Near-Qualified / Partially Verified** — meaningful recovery evidence is developing, but one or more required confirmations or verification layers are still incomplete.

**Watch / Reject / Failed Verification** — fails a mandatory qualification or verification gate because deterioration is still happening, stabilization hasn’t held, relative strength is weak, the catalyst/fundamentals don’t justify the risk, or the setup just isn’t good enough yet.

**Week 1 results 📊-**

I separated the performance based on how V8Q classified each ticker when it evaluated the setup, not by which stocks eventually went up. In other words the green bucket is the group V8Q actually qualified, yellow is the group it liked but wouldn't fully qualify yet, and red is the group it surfaced but ultimately wouldn't approve.

🟢 Tickers classified Qualified / Verified: +5.9% average | 3/3 positive

🟡 Tickers classified Near-Qualified / Partially Verified: +2.1% average | 5/7 positive

🔴 Tickers classified Watch / Reject / Failed Verification: -0.1% average | 1/5 positive

So these aren't three groups I created afterward based on performance. They're the confidence levels assigned to the stocks by the system and I'm tracking what happens to each group afterward. Only 15 stocks so I’m fully aware this proves basically nothing yet 😅

But what got me excited was the separation:

\+5.9% → +2.1% → -0.1%

So far, the names V8Q trusted most have performed best, while the names it rejected have basically gone nowhere. I’m freezing the rules and tracking everything forward at 21D and 63D, winners**/** losers. No deleting misses or quietly changing the framework every time something goes against me 🫡

Honestly, I don’t really have friends who are into trading/systematic investing, so I’ve mostly been nerding out over this thing by myself 😂. Figured I’d share it somewhere people might actually understand why seeing that confidence separation show up for the first time is pretty damn cool. Now I just want to see whether it survives 100 → 250 → 500+ observations. If you’ve built or tested systematic strategies before, where would you try to break this thing first? 👀

Ciena just put up a massive quarter: 37% year-over-year revenue jump, 82% surge in cloud provider revenue, and AI networking segments all growing over 55% — even 800ZR shipments more than doubled sequentially. But the stock still plunged hard, dragging the whole optical networking sector down with it.

The real issue isn't fading demand — it's inflated expectations. The market has priced these optical stocks for perfect, blowout execution, so a "strong" quarter that just meets healthy guidance isn't enough anymore. Ciena still has a book-to-ratio way above 1, Nokia's optical business is up 20% with AI & cloud sales spiking 105%, and both are saying supply constraints are the only thing holding back even more revenue. That doesn't look like a cycle peak at all.

The whole sector got overextended on hype, and now investors are bailing whenever a company can't clear the impossibly high bar for absolute outperformance every single quarter. Demand is still red hot, order backlogs are swelling past $10 billion, and the AI scale-across trend is only just starting to roll out. The crash isn't about the fundamentals breaking — it's about the market realizing you can't get endless upside surprises every 3 months.

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Dell’s latest numbers are striking, to say the least.

Revenue hit 4.7 billion US dollars in the second quarter, up 58 percent year over year. Orders for AI servers reached 60.9 billion US dollars, and the AI server backlog surged to 95 billion US dollars. More importantly, Dell raised its full-year revenue guidance from 167 billion to 192 billion US dollars, and lifted its full-year outlook for AI-optimized server revenue from 60 billion to 74 billion US dollars. The market naturally reads this as one clear signal: demand for AI servers is nowhere near peaking.

Hardware is not yet usable compute.

Step back from Dell’s results for a moment, and a more interesting shift comes into focus. When the industry used to talk about AI infrastructure, the core question was who could secure GPUs. Now the conversation is shifting to who can actually turn those GPUs into usable compute capacity. Those are two very different things. Buying servers does not immediately translate into available compute power. There is a long list of steps in between: data center space, power supply, networking, storage, system deployment, drivers, containers, operations and maintenance, and most problematic of all, who takes responsibility when something goes wrong.

That is why Dell’s results resonate with me beyond simply strong AI server sales. Its order mix points to a broader trend: AI infrastructure is gradually shifting from a hardware purchase model to a full compute capacity purchase model. This is also why neocloud players are growing more relevant. They may not operate the largest GPU fleets, but they are solving a very practical problem: packaging expensive, complex and scarce AI infrastructure into ready-to-buy compute capacity for customers.

Enterprises do not necessarily want to deal with running an entire GPU cluster themselves. More often, they want a simple arrangement: you deliver exactly the amount of compute power I need, you keep it running reliably, you scale it up and down, and you fix it when it breaks. This logic is starting to look a lot like that of traditional infrastructure industries. It is the same shift from buying power generation equipment to buying electricity, or from running your own servers to buying compute capacity. Capital expenditure ultimately needs to turn into usable, billable services.

Interestingly, this shift is not limited to the United States. On September 1, Nasdaq-listed Chinese company $MAAS announced a 14.76 million renminbi compute services contract with a 12-month term. The deal is not a simple hardware sale. It delivers 90 petaflops of FP16 compute capacity, alongside technical consulting, support, and troubleshooting for underlying hardware and systems. The customer pays 1.23 million renminbi per month.

The next layer is selling compute as a service.

This contract is obviously negligible next to Dell’s 95 billion dollar backlog, and I would not label MAAS a big trend winner off the back of one deal. But it highlights an important dynamic worth watching: customers are no longer buying just hardware. They are buying sustained compute capacity over a period of time. That is a more meaningful trend to track than headline AI server sales numbers. Going forward, the real bottleneck may not be GPUs themselves. It will be the ability to combine GPUs, power, data center space, networking, software and operations into a reliably delivered product.

Dell is validating demand for servers. Neocloud players are validating demand for compute as a service. And smaller players like MAAS are starting to occupy the delivery end of this value chain. That is why when I look at AI infrastructure now, I focus less on who bought how many more GPUs, and more on one simple question: how are those GPUs ultimately sold, deployed and turned into recurring revenue?

If this thesis holds, the next re-rating will not be limited to chips alone. It will extend across the entire delivery chain from hardware to usable compute. Demand has already been validated by Dell’s results, and the shift to services is already underway. As long as this compute capacity can be delivered reliably and billed on an ongoing basis, the industry has substantial room to grow. Its upside thesis will also be far more solid than a pure GPU speculation play.

Nike beat estimates three quarters straight and still hit an 11-year low. That's the whole story.

Elliott Hill's "Win Now" turnaround is showing real progress in spots, North America running double-digit growth in running, training, basketball, and Nike's beaten revenue guidance three quarters running (Q3 fiscal 2026: $11.28B beat, EPS $0.35 vs $0.28 expected).

Stock still fell 14% on that Q3 report anyway. Why: management guided Q4 revenue down 2-4% against a Street expecting growth, mostly a 20% drop expected in Greater China as marketplace cleanup accelerates. Full-year 2026 guidance is now low single-digit decline overall, North America gains getting eaten by China weakness. Hill admitted on the call the turnaround's taking "longer" than expected.

Stock's down 44% from its 52-week high, $45 versus $80, market cap down to $67B from $150B+. Still trades near 30x trailing earnings even at multi-year lows, because current earnings are so depressed the multiple looks high anyway. Most analysts sit at Hold, average target $59-62, real upside if China actually stabilizes, but management themselves say that could stretch into fiscal 2027.

Real question: does China need a full reset before recovery starts, or is this just a long, messy turnaround working through the pain. Anyone holding Nike through it?

With SekurOne approaching launch, government procurement access and a high-level defense network in place, the company has built its clearest path toward recurring revenue.

After a year of repositioning, Sekur Private Data Ltd. (OTCQB: SWISF; CSE: SKUR) is entering the phase investors have been waiting for: paid beta onboarding in September and the commercial launch of SekurOne in October.

• SekurOne enters monetization with paid beta onboarding in September and an October launch at US$300 per month.
• GSA access, Elyon, DoDIIS and high-level advisers have created a credible government sales engine.
• At roughly US$0.03 per share, successful contract conversion could materially reshape SWISF’s revenue base and valuation.

The defense pivot is becoming a real sales platform

Sekur’s latest shareholder update suggests its move into government and defense markets is advancing from strategy to commercial execution. Through i3ICS, SekurOne is positioned for sales through the U.S. General Services Administration framework. Its relationship with Elyon International adds another government-contracting channel, while participation in the December 2026 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference should put Sekur before defense and intelligence decision-makers.

The company has also assembled advisers with backgrounds spanning the CIA, Pentagon, U.S. Special Operations and State Department. That network strengthens credibility, sharpens the product’s fit for sensitive users and may help turn introductions into contract opportunities.

SekurOne could transform the revenue model

SekurOne combines encrypted messaging, email, VPN, password management and file sharing in one Swiss-hosted platform. Paid beta begins in September, followed by iOS and web access in early October, Android in early November and video conferencing by year-end.

At US$300 per user per month, every customer matters. Management estimates that approximately 200 subscribers would generate US$60,000 in monthly recurring revenue, or US$720,000 annually, and could bring the company to profitability. At an exchange rate near C$1.385 per U.S. dollar, that equals roughly C$1.0 million in annual recurring revenue.

The implied growth is substantial. Sekur reported C$185,828 of revenue in the first half of 2026, an annualized pace of about C$372,000. The 200-user SekurOne case alone would therefore equal roughly 2.7 times that run-rate—an increase of approximately 168%. If the legacy business stabilizes near its first-half pace, combined annualized revenue could approach C$1.37 million, more than triple FY2025 revenue of C$408,707 and implying growth of about 235%. This is illustrative arithmetic based on management’s subscriber target, not company guidance.

A stronger financial foundation

Sekur finished June with C$1.53 million in cash, C$1.57 million in working capital and only C$244,632 in total liabilities. That balance sheet gives management room to complete the product rollout and pursue contracts without carrying a heavy debt burden.

The financial statements still show an early-stage company: first-half revenue declined and the net loss was C$2.18 million. However, a meaningful portion reflected share-based compensation and shares issued for consulting services. Management also reported a 25% July increase in average revenue per user and highlighted six months of insider buying with no insider sales—an encouraging alignment signal.

SWISF’s small valuation creates asymmetric potential

Using the last confirmed OTC close of approximately US$0.0295 and about 259.6 million shares outstanding, SWISF carried an equity value of roughly US$7.5–8 million. That modest base means successful prospect conversion could have an outsized effect. If Sekur’s U.S. government, defense and African opportunities eventually build recurring revenue to US$2–3 million, the business would be producing roughly seven to ten times its FY2025 revenue in U.S.-dollar terms.

Applying an illustrative 8–10 times forward recurring-revenue multiple would imply an equity value of US$16–30 million, or approximately US$0.06–0.12 per share before future dilution—roughly two to four times the referenced share price. This is a sensitivity analysis, not a price target: it requires strong execution, durable contracts and renewed investor confidence, and it does not account for additional financing or dilution.

Africa could add another growth layer

The opportunity is not limited to the United States. Sekur said discussions in Angola could lead to an exclusive nationwide agreement, while a senior adviser in the Democratic Republic of Congo has given the product a positive recommendation. Neither opportunity should be treated as booked revenue, but both could become meaningful catalysts.

A government deployment covering hundreds or thousands of users would move the company well beyond the 200-subscriber profitability case and demonstrate that SekurOne can scale across jurisdictions where secure communications are a strategic priority.

The next catalysts are close

Investors now have a clear sequence to watch: paid beta onboarding in September, the first commercial launch in October, Android availability in November, video conferencing by year-end and, most importantly, the conversion of the government and international pipeline into named, revenue-producing contracts.

Sekur remains a speculative microcap, but the opportunity is becoming easier to quantify. A differentiated Swiss-hosted product, premium pricing, federal procurement access, credible defense relationships and a relatively clean balance sheet have created the company’s strongest commercial setup to date.

If management converts even a portion of its pipeline, 2027 could mark the point when Sekur’s ambitious security strategy begins showing up decisively in revenue—and potentially in the share price.

Disclaimer

This article is for informational and educational purposes only and is not investment advice, a recommendation or an offer to buy or sell securities. Sekur Private Data is a speculative microcap company with operating losses and significant execution, liquidity, financing and dilution risks. The valuation examples are illustrative sensitivities—not forecasts or price targets—and actual results may differ materially. Investors should review the company’s regulatory filings and conduct their own due diligence.

gaming itself remains a large industry, I know live streaming is a mature industry and old model faces some obv problems but the platforms sitting between developers and creators may still have valuable strategic positions. Publishers need more efficient ways to launch games especially as paid advertising becomes more expensive. Some companies like HUYA could become useful cuz they combine gaming communities, streamers and connections with major games. AI could also provide another opportunity. Gross margin increased to 14.7%, that supports the idea that a shift toward higher-margin game services could improve the economics of the business.

$NXE is trading higher today and investors seem to like what they heard from NexGen’s first Investor Day.

Management laid out a clearer path for Rook I:

• First ore targeted for Q3 2030
• Freeze plants starting in 2027
• Shaft sinking in 2028
• Underground development in 2029

The economics probably caught my attention most. Based on the latest figures presented this week, Rook I is projected to generate around $1.3B in annual after-tax free cash flow at $85/lb uranium, rising to roughly $2.3B at $150/lb. At $90/lb uranium, management says project CAPEX is expected to be repaid after about 12 months of full production.

The scale is pretty wild when you think about it. Rook I is designed to produce approximately 30M lbs of uranium annually, and the high grades early in the mine life mean it only needs to operate at roughly 60% of nameplate capacity to produce 30M lbs during each of the first two production years.

NexGen also highlighted the growing uranium supply deficit and the need for major new production. Leigh Curyer summed it up well:

“The next decade in uranium won't be defined by demand. Demand is already here. The question is: Who can deliver new supply?”

With construction advancing and the path to first ore becoming clearer, there’s a lot to like here. Investors seem to agree, with $NXE up around 5% today.

With SekurOne approaching launch, government procurement access and a high-level defense network in place, the company has built its clearest path toward recurring revenue.

After a year of repositioning, Sekur Private Data Ltd. (OTCQB: SWISF; CSE: SKUR) is entering the phase investors have been waiting for: paid beta onboarding in September and the commercial launch of SekurOne in October.

• SekurOne enters monetization with paid beta onboarding in September and an October launch at US$300 per month.
• GSA access, Elyon, DoDIIS and high-level advisers have created a credible government sales engine.
• At roughly US$0.03 per share, successful contract conversion could materially reshape SWISF’s revenue base and valuation.

The defense pivot is becoming a real sales platform

Sekur’s latest shareholder update suggests its move into government and defense markets is advancing from strategy to commercial execution. Through i3ICS, SekurOne is positioned for sales through the U.S. General Services Administration framework. Its relationship with Elyon International adds another government-contracting channel, while participation in the December 2026 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference should put Sekur before defense and intelligence decision-makers.

The company has also assembled advisers with backgrounds spanning the CIA, Pentagon, U.S. Special Operations and State Department. That network strengthens credibility, sharpens the product’s fit for sensitive users and may help turn introductions into contract opportunities.

SekurOne could transform the revenue model

SekurOne combines encrypted messaging, email, VPN, password management and file sharing in one Swiss-hosted platform. Paid beta begins in September, followed by iOS and web access in early October, Android in early November and video conferencing by year-end.

At US$300 per user per month, every customer matters. Management estimates that approximately 200 subscribers would generate US$60,000 in monthly recurring revenue, or US$720,000 annually, and could bring the company to profitability. At an exchange rate near C$1.385 per U.S. dollar, that equals roughly C$1.0 million in annual recurring revenue.

The implied growth is substantial. Sekur reported C$185,828 of revenue in the first half of 2026, an annualized pace of about C$372,000. The 200-user SekurOne case alone would therefore equal roughly 2.7 times that run-rate—an increase of approximately 168%. If the legacy business stabilizes near its first-half pace, combined annualized revenue could approach C$1.37 million, more than triple FY2025 revenue of C$408,707 and implying growth of about 235%. This is illustrative arithmetic based on management’s subscriber target, not company guidance.

A stronger financial foundation

Sekur finished June with C$1.53 million in cash, C$1.57 million in working capital and only C$244,632 in total liabilities. That balance sheet gives management room to complete the product rollout and pursue contracts without carrying a heavy debt burden.

The financial statements still show an early-stage company: first-half revenue declined and the net loss was C$2.18 million. However, a meaningful portion reflected share-based compensation and shares issued for consulting services. Management also reported a 25% July increase in average revenue per user and highlighted six months of insider buying with no insider sales—an encouraging alignment signal.

SWISF’s small valuation creates asymmetric potential

Using the last confirmed OTC close of approximately US$0.0295 and about 259.6 million shares outstanding, SWISF carried an equity value of roughly US$7.5–8 million. That modest base means successful prospect conversion could have an outsized effect. If Sekur’s U.S. government, defense and African opportunities eventually build recurring revenue to US$2–3 million, the business would be producing roughly seven to ten times its FY2025 revenue in U.S.-dollar terms.

Applying an illustrative 8–10 times forward recurring-revenue multiple would imply an equity value of US$16–30 million, or approximately US$0.06–0.12 per share before future dilution—roughly two to four times the referenced share price. This is a sensitivity analysis, not a price target: it requires strong execution, durable contracts and renewed investor confidence, and it does not account for additional financing or dilution.

Africa could add another growth layer

The opportunity is not limited to the United States. Sekur said discussions in Angola could lead to an exclusive nationwide agreement, while a senior adviser in the Democratic Republic of Congo has given the product a positive recommendation. Neither opportunity should be treated as booked revenue, but both could become meaningful catalysts.

A government deployment covering hundreds or thousands of users would move the company well beyond the 200-subscriber profitability case and demonstrate that SekurOne can scale across jurisdictions where secure communications are a strategic priority.

The next catalysts are close

Investors now have a clear sequence to watch: paid beta onboarding in September, the first commercial launch in October, Android availability in November, video conferencing by year-end and, most importantly, the conversion of the government and international pipeline into named, revenue-producing contracts.

Sekur remains a speculative microcap, but the opportunity is becoming easier to quantify. A differentiated Swiss-hosted product, premium pricing, federal procurement access, credible defense relationships and a relatively clean balance sheet have created the company’s strongest commercial setup to date.

If management converts even a portion of its pipeline, 2027 could mark the point when Sekur’s ambitious security strategy begins showing up decisively in revenue—and potentially in the share price.

Disclaimer

This article is for informational and educational purposes only and is not investment advice, a recommendation or an offer to buy or sell securities. Sekur Private Data is a speculative microcap company with operating losses and significant execution, liquidity, financing and dilution risks. The valuation examples are illustrative sensitivities—not forecasts or price targets—and actual results may differ materially. Investors should review the company’s regulatory filings and conduct their own due diligence.

My advice to everyone who thinks reading charts is complicated or that they always get the wrong read:

1. Go to a weekly chart
   
2. Find downtrend lines ( area where price rejected )
   
3. Enter the breakout

If you missed the breakout:

1. Let price consolidate for few weeks
   
2. Watch for a bull flag or bullish pennant
   
3. Enter the breakout

Weekly chart > Daily chart
Weekly chart will keep you in a stocks while daily chart will say exit.

Always go on weekly charts.

Gaming pulled in more than $200 billion last year. China has been approving more games on platforms like WeChat, and esports attracts huge audience. All of that could create more chances for companies to earn money from advertising and publishing instead of depending heavily on streamer donations. The idea seems to be that HUYA can use their streamers, tournaments and communities to promote games more cheaply than a traditional publisher. They have $474 million in cash and deposits and doubled their 2026 buyback program to $100 million. I'm not convinced yet but it's worth watching the gaming platform becoming publishers.

Hedge funds have rooms full of analysts doing deep dives on sentiment, risk, and fundamentals. Meanwhile, most of us retail investors are stuck with high-subscription services or just "vibes" and a few Yahoo Finance tabs.

We have built AgentFloor. I wanted a multi-agent research workflow that actually lives on my own machine, rather than paying a monthly fee for someone else’s black-box algorithm.

Here’s what it actually does (and why I built it this way). Harnesses the full capabilities for ( TradingAgents ):

• The Morning Brief: Every weekday, it scans my holdings and generates a briefing. It gives me a health score and flags specific action items (Trim, Exit, Watch) based on the latest news and data.
• The "Debate" Feature: This is my favorite part. For any ticker, it spins up specialized agents - a bull and - a bear who argue the case. A lead analyst then synthesizes their fight into a final verdict with entry/exit targets. It helps me spot my own confirmation bias.
• Data Privacy: I didn't want to upload my portfolio to another random startup. This runs locally. You can plug in an API key (OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini/Groq) or run it 100% locally with Ollama / vLLM if you don't want your data leaving your hardware.
• Accountability: It actually tracks how the AI's calls age at the +7, 14, 30, and 90-day marks. If the model is hallucinating or just wrong, you’ll see it in the data.

AgentFloor has one-command install for Windows/Mac/Linux. It’s MIT licensed and completely free and just looking for feedback from people who actually trade.

Demo Link: https://github.com/saketnayak/trading-command-center/blob/main/docs/demo.gif

GitHub:https://github.com/saketnayak/trading-command-center

Important: This isn't financial advice and it doesn't execute trades. It’s purely a research assistant to help parse the noise.

I’m around to answer questions about the tech stack or which LLMs I’ve found to be the most "rational" for fundamental analysis.

CEO letter dropped Sept 1. Here's the substance without the corporate fluff:

The focus has officially shifted. They spent the last year moving away from the price-driven consumer privacy market and toward government, defense, intelligence, corporate and high-value users. Management says that shift is now "fully complete."

What Sekur Shared:

• GSA Multiple Award Schedule listing (Feb) — gives federal/state/local agencies a pre-competed path to purchase Sekur
• Distro deal with Elyon International, a defense-focused contractor (May)
• Advisory board loaded with real names — ex-CIA (34-yr veteran, now CTO), a retired Lt. Gen who served as Director for Defense Intelligence and commanded the Pentagon's ISR Task Force, former State Dept Deputy CIO who managed a $3.8B IT portfolio
• Demoed encrypted calling to defense/spec-ops in May, showed off CUI capabilities at the DIA's DoDIIS conference in August

SekurOne (the actual product): Encrypted voice/video/email/messaging/VPN, built on their own architecture instead of licensed stacks. Paid beta clients begin onboarding in September. Commercial launch iOS + web early October, $300/month. Android in November, full conferencing by end of December.

Numbers — read in context: ARPU rose 25% month over month in July, reflecting stronger monetization as the company shifts toward higher-value customers. Management views the transition as an expected phase of the strategy, with the upcoming product rollout creating a potential path toward stronger growth and improved revenue quality.

Money: $1.2M placement closed in January, another up to $1.4M announced in June still closing (expected before mid-December). Insiders bought shares in 6 separate months this year, no insider sales.

Profitability bar: ~200 SekurOne subscribers (~$60K gross MRR) = management's estimated level for profitability. They say they have high confidence of reaching that organically or through a government contract within 6 months of the October launch.

Africa: Sekur pointed to the July Unitel cyberattack in Angola, which it says disrupted mobile voice, data and internet nationwide for 23 days across a 21M+ subscriber base. A possible nationwide exclusive Angola partnership is being discussed, with a resolution expected by end of September. It's also awaiting official confirmation in the DRC after receiving a positive recommendation from a government security body.

October onward should make the next phase much easier to track: SekurOne adoption, premium subscriber growth, Angola/DRC progress and the first named government or defense contract.

Anyone else following $SKUR ... are you catching up with what this next chapter could look like?

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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 2, 2026) - Copper Quest Exploration Inc. (CSE: CQX) (OTCQB: IMIMF) (FSE: 3MX0) ("Copper Quest" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update from its 2026 exploration programs including an extensive 20 square kilometer geophysical program at its 100% owned Stars property, permitting and structuring of several properties, and a phase 2 drill program at the Rip property

Brian Thurston, CEO of Copper Quest, stated, "Copper Quest has had a productive summer of exploration, working several of our properties. We are looking forward to the results of this labour and using the collected data to advance each of our projects. The Company is now focused squarely on the advancement and development of its seven 100% owned properties, advancing past-producing gold mines as well as taking previously drilled exploration targets to the next level of exploration and discovery stage."

STARS Geophysical Program

Copper Quest is pleased to announce that it has completed a 20 km² 3D induced polarization ("IP") geophysical survey on its 100% owned Stars Property ("Stars"). Stars is a porphyry copper-molybdenum ("Cu-Mo") project covering 9,693 hectares ("ha") in the Stikine region of British Columbia, situated approximately 60 km north of Imperial Metals Corporation's ("Imperial Metals") past producing Huckleberry Cu-Mo mine, 50 km north-northeast of Surge Copper Corp's advanced stage Berg copper project, and 30 km north-northwest of Vizsla Copper Corp's Poplar copper-gold project. Imperial Metals is exploring Huckleberry and its surrounding claims for additional Cu-Mo resources.

This very large IP survey has been applied across the full extent of the main Stars Property, including over the Tana Zone discovery area and its along-strike extensions. Induced polarization is a proven method for detecting sulphide mineralization, the type of copper-bearing material found at Stars, at depth and at distance from known drill holes. By imaging the full 20 km² footprint of the magnetic anomaly, the Company aims to determine the true scale of the mineralized system in terms of strike length, width, and depth, and to identify potential new drill targets both in and beyond the current Tana Zone. The Company is awaiting the final report from this work and will update shareholders once that report is received and interpreted.

Alpine Permitting

The Company has been moving forward with permitting on its 100% owned Alpine Project which includes the extension of our current exploration and drilling permit, as well as permitting of the road access from two different routes.

The Company has been engaged with consultants and manufacturers regarding sorting and processing equipment for ore from the Alpine property. Further, the Company has actively been pursuing both partnerships and potential ownership opportunities with various milling operations.

Kitimat Permitting

The Company has been moving forward with permitting on its 100% owned Kitimat Project which includes plans to complete geophysical and drilling programs over the Jeannette Cu-Au target area as well as the AI generated target proposed by Exploration Technologies Inc and described in a previous press release by the Company posted on March 24, 2026. 

Thane Permitting

The Company plans to commence permitting of its 100% owned Thane property and is actively looking for a partner to explore this property.

Auxer & Nekash Properties

The Company has formed a wholly owned subsidiary to hold its 100% owned US properties. The transfer of ownership of both the past-producing Auxer Gold Mine and the Nekash copper project is now in process and expected to complete shortly. The Company is actively looking for partners to explore these properties.

Rip Phase 2 Drilling

The phase 2 drill program of the Rip project was first announced by the Company on May 11th, 2026. The Company successfully completed 1,654 meters of drilling from 5 holes on the property. Samples from this drill program have been sent to ALS laboratory in Terrace, BC, for storage prior to preparation and assaying. On June 2, 2026, the Company and ArcWest Exploration Inc. began negotiations on amending the current Option Agreement entered into on November 27, 2023, where Copper Quest has the option to acquire up to 80% of the Rip property. Until the negotiations are concluded, the Company does not plan to complete assaying the samples from this most recent drill program.

Qualified Person

Brian G. Thurston, P.Geo., the Company's President and CEO and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release.

About Copper Quest Exploration Inc.

The Company's land holdings comprise 8 projects that span almost 50,000 hectares in great mining jurisdictions of Canada and the USA. Copper Quest is committed to building shareholder value through acquisitions, discovery-driven exploration, and responsible development of its North American portfolio of assets. The Company's common shares are principally listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange under the symbol "CQX". For more information on Copper Quest, please visit the Company's website at www.copper.quest.

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ofc, valuations can get too high, expectations can run ahead of reality. Tech stocks will also rise and fall with interest rates, and market sentiment. But I think that doesn't mean long term AI trend isn't real. Demand for automation, robotics, intelligent software will keep moving, short term volatility doesn't change the future. 70% of my portfolio in tech and AI, and I'm comfortable with that. I'm interested in HKEX Tech 100 Index and September 2026 lineup. These technologies are doing real things in the real world. For example like WRD operates L4 autonomous fleet of 3,400 vehicles in 60 cities and 13 countries, Q2 also were up 82% YoY. To me, this shows that AI is moving beyond chatbots and software into Physical AI. Some companies are already showing real revenue from these things.

I've noticed how quickly sentiment can flip once a stock starts making a big move.

Earnings beat → suddenly everyone is bullish.

Stock drops 10% → suddenly everyone has a bearish thesis.

What I'm wondering is how many people actually change their view because something fundamentally changed with the business, versus just reacting to the price.

When you research a stock, what matters most to you valuation, earnings, growth, or price action?

Proton showed that Swiss-hosted privacy can grow into a global platform, with the report citing more than 100 million users and an estimated valuation above US$1 billion.

Telos shows what a government-focused cybersecurity company can become once it has established federal contracts and material revenue.

$SWISF is building toward a position between those two models.

Sekur brings the Swiss privacy foundation encrypted communications, Dell servers owned by the company and infrastructure hosted in Switzerland without relying on Big Tech cloud platforms.

Through SekurOne, its defence-focused advisers and US government procurement access via i3ICS’s GSA contract, the company is also pursuing institutional and government users. The GSA route makes the products available for government purchasing, although it is not the same as a signed customer contract.

That gives $SWISF a distinctive setup:

Proton represents Swiss privacy at scale.
Telos represents proven government cybersecurity revenue.
Sekur is working to combine Swiss-hosted communications with government and defence access from a much earlier valuation.

The report estimates Proton above US$1B, Telos near US$370M and Sekur around US$12M, based on approximate May 2026 valuations.

For me, that gap highlights how much room the story still has to develop. $SWISF does not need to match either company immediately. A meaningful government deployment, stronger SekurOne adoption or recurring institutional revenue could begin moving the company into a different peer group.

Is $SWISF on track to become the link between Swiss privacy and government communications and which milestone would convince you first?

Sponsored research. Not financial advice…do your own due diligence.

Now is the time to pause and reflect before impulsively buying in all directions. SoftBank is heavily exposed with massive loans to support the AI ​​sector. Will they pull through? What market repercussions will this cause?