Brian Stutland

University of Michigan ‘97. Mutual Fund Portfolio Manager. Founder of Equity Armor Investments. Find your investment solution NOW

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But don’t they become sitting ducks? Kind of feel like the US wants them to setup shop so they can find their position concentrated and take them out.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Houthi forces have now taken control of the entire Red Sea coast in Yemen, effectively giving them control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

The Bab el-Mandeb Strait saw over 9 million barrels of daily crude oil flows at its peak prior to the Iran War.

This reflect ~9% of global demand which is now at risk of being shut down.

Brent crude oil prices extend gains toward $110/barrel.

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

Seems to threaten Anthropic and OpenAI business model. No wonder the call for slowdown. $PLTR $NVDA

[Financial Times @FT]

Latham & Watkins buys Nvidia servers to set up in-house AI systems https://t.co/JHJiKQJ57b

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

Interesting take

[Leopold Stock Tracker @LeopoldTracker_]

Leopold is about to get finished off for good

Jul 29: Situational Awareness gets margin called after 4x leveraged AI bets blow up

Jul 30: Citadel acquires his entire public portfolio in a fire sale

Jul 31: Leopold gives up all leverage, closes every short, tells investors "we let you down"

Sep 11: News outlets announce he's back. Buying options on AI and memory stocks

Sep 12: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publishes an essay calling for the entire AI industry to slow down

Markets open today and Leopold's option holdings plummet 5.7% to 9.0%

• $AMD: -5.7%
• $BE: -7.3%
• $CRWV: -9.0%
• $SKHY: -7.5%
• $SNDK: -6.2%
• $DRAM: -6.8%

Higher ups don't want him winning

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

The bond market was telling us this $VIX spike today was coming...
https://t.co/2VkA5z13nx

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Not only did the clock not stop at the right time on the first down, but they also tried to run 3 sec off and then gave it a 2 sec run off when in fact the ball was spiked immediately upon chains being set with no runoff. The first Hail Mary should have started at 12-13 seconds. It was a legit win. Folks need to stop picking and choosing ways to whine about it. Move on.

[RCM Alternatives @rcmAlts]

Thanks to everyone who joined us at @CMEGroup yesterday! And a big thank you to Woody Wiegmann, Brian Stutland, Adam Quiring, and Dr. Mark Shore for a great discussion. Looking forward to the next one!

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

Just sat down with @CNBC Power Lunch to talk $PANW heading into earnings.

Cyber remains a secular winner as AI accelerates attack surfaces, but earnings gaps can still punish holders. That’s why I focused on protecting the downside rather than selling the name.

Options let you keep the upside while defining risk into the print.

Full clip here: https://t.co/28nYYFzMQo

#PANW #Options #Hedging #Cybersecurity

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Giving my take on $PANW ahead of earnings this afternoon on @CNBC

[Joe Tigay @JoeTigay]

Thank you @Cline_Woods and @TheStreet for the conversation. Buy Vol when it’s cheap. $VIX

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Cool

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

🚨COMING SOON: NUCLEAR-POWERED CARGO SHIPS 🚨

@USDOT is working to fast-track construction of a new fleet of vessels to change the game and DOMINATE China 

THAT MEANS:
📦 MORE CARGO (no internal fuel tanks)
🚢 FASTER SHIPS (up to 75% faster crossings)
🌐 ZERO EMISSIONS (20 years of continuous power without refueling)

The first NUCLEAR-POWERED vessel is set to be built in 2028 🇺🇸

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

Game changing

[Axios @axios]

🚨 SCOOP: U.S. close to striking "massive" deal for Venezuelan oil fields https://t.co/F0asMiGyZ8

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

Feels like $NVDA should be a lot higher. Am I missing something?

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Absolutely insane.

Nvidia, $NVDA, just guided $108 BILLION in revenue for Q3 alone.

And, this guidance assumes ZERO data center compute revenue from China.

This builds on the record $96.2 billion in revenue posted for last quarter for a projected total of $204.2 billion in 6 months.

We now have a $5+ trillion company is seeing +106% year-over-year revenue growth.

There has never been anything like what we are seeing right now with AI.

This is arguably the biggest technological revolution of all time.

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

I figured out how to create a yield of 15% annually without losing principal. Much better than the US government 10 year note of 4.7%.

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

@ToddBSpeed @Bears Combine stats are sicko. Just hasn’t been able to see PT in 4 years.

[Joe Tigay @JoeTigay]

Big thanks to Samantha Vadas and the Schwab Network—this was a lot of fun!

Here’s an example trade illustrating one way to play Cisco (CSCO) following its earnings report.

#Cisco #CSCO #OptionsTrading #Earnings #SchwabNetwork

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

Acquire Greenland. Put them there. Cooler climate. Cheaper electricity.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

How mathematically impossible is the energy math behind the data center rollout? Just Texas alone is facing 474GW of interconnection requests (ERCOT), of which 90% is data centers. Which is why gov Abbott froze rollout of new data centers in Texas.

For context, ERCOT all-time peak demand record is 91.1GW on July 22, 2026, with normal demand between 40 and 80GW.

Of course, that's peak. In a more realistic scenario, Morgan Stanley sees the entire US short about 80-100GW through 2030, or a deficit of about 100 nuclear power plants.

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

That is why I own volatility to diversify instead of bonds

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

The relationship between stocks and bonds has completely flipped:

The 90-day correlation between the 10Y Treasury Yield and the S&P 500 is down to -0.48, its most negative reading since 1999.

This means that rising Treasury yields have recently been associated with weaker stock market performance, while falling yields have supported equities.

The current reading is even more negative than the 2022 bear market low of -0.42.

For context, before the 2020 pandemic, the correlation was positive for over a decade, with Treasury yields and equities often rising together as higher yields reflected stronger economic growth.

Currently, the negative correlation suggests investors are viewing higher yields less as a sign of economic strength and more as a result of inflation uncertainty and fiscal concerns.

All eyes are on the bond market.

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

100% agree @JamesSurowiecki

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

I don't understand how this does not violate insider-trading laws. Trump is disclosing information (in this case, information about some of his future public statements as president, including statements about policy) that belongs to the US government in exchange for money. That violates his duty of trust and confidence to his employer (the govt), and is illegal.

And anyone who pays for the feed is knowingly paying for misappropriated information, which is illegal as well.

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Thank you @rcmAlts

[RCM Alternatives @rcmAlts]

A big thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual Cubs Rooftop event last week!
It's always one of our favorite traditions and a great opportunity to catch up with clients, partners, and friends outside the office.

[Brian Stutland @BrianStutland]

Markets can go UP and DOWN

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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