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"It’s quite another to see smile collapse during a sharp rally, as market participants abandon hedges and fire‑sale insurance into a market‑wide squeeze. This is not the sign of organic risk improvement."
Untrue -- evidence shows the exact opposite of “abandoning hedges and fire-selling insurance.”
Customers have remained heavy put buyers + call sellers all the way from May 4 through the May 15 monthly/weekly expiry and into late May (see Net Customer Positioning chart — large positive red put bars + large negative green call bars).
This flow forces dealers short puts / long calls, producing the full spectrum of dealer Greek exposures:
Net MM Gamma Exposure → strongly positive (long convexity) in key expiries
Net MM Delta Exposure → significant positive delta requiring hedging buys
Net MM Vanna Exposure → meaningful skew-related flows
Net MM Charm Exposure → massive negative net charm (especially around May 8 and May 15)
Result: As time decays, dealers must mechanically buy SPX/futures daily just to stay delta-neutral. Positive gamma provides a bid on dips. Together this supports the rally and collapses the smile / compresses implied vol — precisely what we’re seeing.
Customers are actively adding put protection, not abandoning it. The smile collapse is a mechanical dealer-hedging byproduct, not evidence of capitulation or fake “organic risk improvement.”
This dynamic stays dominant until the week after May 15. Then the flows roll off.
(Charts: Options Depth — Net Customer Position + Net MM Gamma / Delta / Vanna / Charm Exposures by Expiration, May 4–22)
White House to announce there will be no negotiations with Iran this weekend but will wait until after the market closes to report as to no shake up the market during trading hours. $es $iran
@jam_croissant@jam_croissant I wish you would stop. The average guy can not predict the flow. Listening to you has cost me darn near everything. 25-35 percent lower by August. Stair step down. We are at the freaking highs man. Just stop.