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The influencers sponsored by crypto casinos/prediction markets to make social media pranks, street interviews, & content are genuinely doing enough damage culturally, that we should ban/prosecute all of them.

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havent seen anyone talk about CTA's since like May lol

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@jaytech877 Texas hedge with more long calls 🧠

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@_OH_71 Yes this is the perfect analogy

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@P_Remarks @Investor_NICK_ There is some level of crowding that is caused by chat/claude (even Gemini 🤮). Very easy to see in sports betting, but it has also driven intraday flow this year that used to be contained to small & micro cap pumps

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That’s it?

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia offers Yemen's Houthis $1 billion through Tehran to halt their attacks as part of a ceasefire, with Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman flying to Iran to negotiate it and even bringing the money with him aboard the C-130 aircraft he arrived on, per diplomatic Gulf sources to Israel Hayom.

Iran offered to mediate between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis. It was represented by President Pezeshkian, SNSC chief Mohsen Rezaei and senior IRGC officials. Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin and Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir were also taking part.

This is one of the biggest concessions from the Saudis yet.

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correlation is 1 today 😭

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The shitcos need to be moved back to a spot where people start going all in again.

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Not sure how to square this against oil going higher but who knows 🤔

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The price where rklb asts etc can get retail to all-in again is a lot lower than 3mo ago, but willing to bet it’s decently higher than here

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Space sector is similar to EV sector 2021. U can just own spacex now instead, which is what everyone wanted anyway, not any of these other shitco’s.

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Saudi market up 3%

[Kris Sidial🇺🇸 @Ksidiii]

Everyone who keeps sharing these short interest charts is missing the flows behind them. Most shops are not taking outright short bets. This is another effort to ease margin requirements across the street: banks providing balance sheet for more speculative bets are asking clients to post more short exposure.

The sequence on the street looks like this:

HF manager: “I want more margin.”

Bank: “Things look risky in public AI bets, and we’re already lending a lot against private AI bets. For some clients, we’ll extend more financing, but only if they add more short exposure to improve their collateral scores.”

HF manager: “Okay, I’ll short more stock against my main bet.”

That is how you end up with short exposures that look astronomically high while many end users remain heavily long tech. The additional shorts are supporting the financing of their main bets.

Which also tells the bigger story on why raw equity financing rates haven’t blown out the way they did ahead of the big SpaceX IPO in June, despite the fact that lending is slowing.

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@PharmD_KS When breadth was high, they said buy breadth is good. When breadth trended down “buy now, it’ll go back up”. No critical thinking going on

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@Investor_NICK_ @JC_ParetsX This whole thing just looks like call/put volume charts where they only signal is that more derivatives get traded every year.

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For around 2billion, Anthropic could acquire https://t.co/qpqYdHasOO, and secure the “AI” ticker symbol.

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remember the hyperliquid oil trades last weekend?

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if an oil short cries out while getting margin called, and no one was around to hear them...

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Idk what it means for spot cl, but z6m7 and z6z7 looking for higher again. Z6 comes down?

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some of these retail names started diverging from the index around noon