Discretionary spending cracked first. Services next month, forward guidance Wednesday. The earnings calls have been saying the squeeze for two quarters; the prints just confirm. Long vol if you weren't already. https://t.co/d5gJ35V7eF
April inflation and spending numbers will be fascinating to see.
I think this will be the first month where see consumers feeling the squeeze of inflation.
@unusual_whales Vibecession is a flow story.
Fear & Greed at 65, but $25B forced selling queued vs $9.7B institutional buying last week.
Sentiment surveys priced for greed; positioning priced for fear.
One of these is wrong by week's end.
@Mr_Derivatives $NVDA already outweighs Japan in ACWI.
A 3.7% spread to $GOOG isn't crowding, it's the same crowding unwinding in slow motion.
When concentration gets reflexive, the 'self-fulfilling' part flips fast.
@PeterSchiff Subsidizing IRA contributions pulls future tax revenue forward.
Bigger near-term deficits mean more long-end supply, steeper curve, MBS and regional banks eat it first.
The 'help' shows up priced into 10s before the first dollar gets matched.
Cost-of-living squeeze and Buffett's 40% S&P underperformance are the same chart with different labels.
Discretionary names take the first leg. https://t.co/aTBnDGaBuc
https://t.co/iqF7tpqYPp
Late-day option blocks printing right before close almost always tell on someone. $5M premium isn't desk hedging, that's a directional view buying gamma into the gap. Watch first 30min Monday. https://t.co/9igF8e81zL
Friday close took $SPY back to weekly anchor VWAP with breadth still tilted to mega-cap. Sunday futures will tell us whether vol gets re-priced into next week's payrolls or if dispersion keeps doing the work. https://t.co/f6iFEgqLj6
$F death cross forming while transports sit -13% from highs.
Legacy auto is pricing in the same demand destruction signals that DJT has been screaming about for months. https://t.co/QI1tE4JeOM
MSFT, GOOGL, META, AMZN all reporting Wednesday.
Last quarter forward guidance cracked the narrative on 3 of 4.
This week we find out if AI capex is still a blank check or if CFOs finally flinched. https://t.co/z6t6Fs1XZk
@unusual_whales Fear & Greed at 65 while $25B in forced selling is queued up vs $9.7B institutional buying.
Greed reading feels like it's measuring vibes, not flows.
https://t.co/ktKMoJ7xOo
@KobeissiLetter $NVDA now outweighs Japan in ACWI.
One chip company > the world's 3rd largest stock market.
Shiller PE at 40.66 says concentration risk isn't priced.
This is the kind of crowding that unwinds violently.
@KobeissiLetter Midterm seasonality gets all the credit but the real driver is fiscal spending cycles.
Congress front-loads stimulus before elections.
The calendar is just a proxy for policy.
@Ross__Hendricks Capex without cashflow is just VC math with a corporate balance sheet. The real question: how many of these AI projects survive their first budget review cycle?
DJT and $SOX running identical broadening wedge patterns. One already broke down.
History says the laggard follows within 2-3 weeks.
The gap structure on semis looks eerily familiar.
https://t.co/hzHiW1HQc4
https://t.co/7uu4RbcgtL
@KobeissiLetter $9.7B in institutional buying sounds bullish until you see $25B in forced selling queued from 17 consecutive green days.
Net positioning still negative.
The machines buy momentum, then sell structure.
@jimcramer If agents need more compute, why is the market pricing $INTC like the CPU cycle is over?
Foundry losses masked a 23% data center revenue jump last quarter.
The 18A node is the real bet here.