๐จ ๐๐-๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐ฅ=๐จ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ก
Gulf states have barely exported for months and desperately need revenue.
Expect them to dump inventory + ramp up forward production at lower prices.
This could push crude toward the $40-60 range
#IranWarโ
๐จ ๐๐-๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐ฅ=๐จ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ก
Gulf states have barely exported for months and desperately need revenue.
Expect them to dump inventory + ramp up forward production at lower prices.
This could push crude toward the $40-60 range
#IranWarโ
Stocks are dumping.
Gold is dumping.
Silver is dumping.
Crypto is dumping.
Bonds are dumping.
Even Oil is dumping.
If everything is dumping, where the hell is money going?
๐จ๐จThereโs a shortage of plastic bottles
And Trumpโs war on #Iran could lead to no water
There isnโt a minor delay. Not a temporary glitch. Whole water bottle sizes have vanished from the shelves at Walmart, Target, Costco, and every major retailer
The everyday 16-oz and liter bottles you grab without thinking? Gone. Rationed.
Replaced by empty hooks and โsorry, out of stockโ signs.
This isnโt a factory problem or a logistics screw-up.
This is Trumpโs war on Iran choking the global plastic supply at the narrowest bottleneck on the planet.
The Strait of Hormuz โ that thin strip of water between the Persian Gulf and the open ocean โ is the polyethylene valve for the entire world.
And right now, itโs being squeezed shut.
Polyethylene is the plastic in virtually every bottle, jug, bag, and container you touch. Itโs made from ethylene, which comes from oil and natural gas processing.
A massive share of the worldโs petrochemicals (ethylene, polyethylene resins, everything downstream) is produced in the Middle East. And almost all of it leaves by seaโฆ straight through Hormuz.
The numbers are brutal:
๐นRoughly 20โ25% of global petrochemical exports move through or depend on this single strait.
๐นThe broader Middle East supplies 20โ40% of the worldโs polyethylene exports, the vast majority shipped via Hormuz.
๐นIn a serious disruption, analysts say 10% or more of global polyethylene trade can be delayed or blocked almost immediately.
Thatโs exactly whatโs happening now.
Shipping through the strait has been crippled. Production lines have slowed or halted.
Tankers are rerouted, delayed, or not sailing at all. Resin prices have exploded. Bottle makers across Asia, Europe, and the U.S. are scrambling, cutting capacity, and panic-buying whatever pellets they can still get their hands on.
Youโre the one who feels it first: at the grocery store, in your kidโs lunch, at the gym, or when you reach for a case of water on a hot day.
This isnโt abstract geopolitics anymore.
Itโs your kitchen cabinet running dry โ one war-choked valve at a time.
The Strait of Hormuz used to be an oil story.
Now itโs the plastic story.
And the plastic is running out.
UK on a verge of implosion
Yields approaching 6% rapidly
Debt level over 100% of GDP
Inflation shock via oil
Supply shock via oil
Banks with lot of bad debt & govโt debt paper at near zero %
Social breakdown via immigration
Political dysfunction
What could go wrong?
Weโve reached the cliff
Soon, the last of whatever inputs manufacturing uses will also arrive
Then no more
Manufacturing cliff dive then follows
Literal full stop, a crash
Stock market saw that Friday, and bearish gravestone doji foreshadows this crash
๐จ๐จ๐จALERT | SPY CLOSE | Friday May 1
$720.65. Shooting star on the daily. Here's what the structure and the pattern say together.
The candle: 4/5 shooting star. Long upper wick (3.62 vs 0.60 body), close in the lower 4.1% of the range. Price hit $724.37 and reversed hard into the close. The one miss: no confirmed uptrend over 3% in the prior 5 bars, which keeps it at moderate rather than strong.
The history: 33 prior shooting stars on SPY. 75.8% resulted in a decline of 2% or more. Average decline: -6.52%. Average time to max decline: 15 days. Three COVID patterns excluded.
The structure confirms the warning:
GEX dropped from +$960M at 2 PM to +$263M at the close. The gamma blanket lost 73% of its strength in the final two hours. Near-term GEX is barely positive at +$79M.
Dealers short 124.8M shares. Was 151.8M at 2 PM. Dealers sold 27M shares into the close. The engine shrank 18% in two hours.
Daily flow flipped: -15.7M shares. Was +25.2M at 2 PM. The afternoon session reversed the morning entirely.
Net premium flipped: -$185M into puts. Was +$532M at 2 PM. A $717M swing in two hours.
Composite dropped from +26.7 to -9.1. A 36-point intraday collapse. On the first day of May.
GEX flip: $713. Only 1.1% below. The thinnest cushion since the rally started.
Our read for early next week:
The shooting star says lower. The flow confirms it. The gamma confirms it. The pattern's historical average is -6.52% over 15 days. From $720.65, that targets $673-$675, right at the GEX flip zone.
We're not predicting a 6.5% decline. We're saying the pattern, the flow reversal, the gamma drain, and the dealer selling all point the same direction for the first time since the April 21 ceasefire scare.
$713 is the first test. If it breaks, $700 accelerator at -$115M is the next stop. The magnets at $725 and $730 need a headline to pull price back up. The structure won't do it alone from here.
Defensive into Monday. Let the pattern confirm or fail before adding exposure.
$SPY $QQQ $VIX
Intermediate bullishness needs 2 things: break above upper resistance & retest support
We now do not have either in stocks
Upside is questionable on the outlook & fundamentals, lending odds to bearish breakdown
Technically in overbought territory
Prudence is to keep capital
@0xReflection TARP of 2008 had a very flexible name of โtroubled assetsโ and if revived stocks could be placed in that category
Japan did it
Feds will end up proving Marx right that capitalism inevitably leads to communism where government owns assets. He just screwed up how we get there
This ICE BofA US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread measuring the spread between junk & high grade yield is a great stock market indicator
Every peak in spreads represents stock market selloff
Currently the spread is downward sloping signaling bullishness ahead
@RoyRogers_HTMS Yeah. Iโm not a big account but in stock trading space it used to rack up 400-500 views then all of a sudden you get 40
There more people in my office than that. Whatโs the point of posting
$SPX has carved out a bearish megaphone pattern
Prices are surging against the ceiling & as days go by, breaking through becomes harder. Cash is depleting & with it source of stock demand
Which means a crash into lower bound is more likely than some spectacular upside
You know something is wrong with the Stock Market when suddenly these GAPS pop open between things that typically correlate
$SPX vs #oil
$SPX vs $VIX
$SPX vs economic surprises
They both cannot be right
Only one of these in the gaps are correct
Table a guess which ๐
@danielisdizzy Deflation is something undesirable for government settled with nearly $40 trillion in debt which it has no means to pay
Even tax revenue collected could be reduced in a widespread price reduces environment