Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.
You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls
RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.
You can see all volume was literally opened TODAY!!!!!!!!!! (That little green arrow). You can see all volume is new opening volume (not only on the Zero days, but also on the weekly $QQQ and $TQQQ calls). This is especially odd given IVR on these was around 82 this morning, with IV through the roof. The traders really wanted to trade directionally...
In fact, using Unusual Whales' net premium, you can see people have been loading calls trading for a reversal, following these opening calls. Very clear example here.
Insane, someone knew.
Latest: An analysis of open source evidence, as well as multiple missile experts, have pointed to a Russian launched Kh-101 cruise missile being the weapon that struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv https://t.co/qN0KFzBwt1
Schwedens Regierung stoppt den Bau einer Stromleitung zwischen Süd-Schweden und Deutschland.
Rechte Portale haben einen Habeck-Energiewende-Skandal konstruiert.
In Wahrheit ist es genau andersherum.
Ein kurzer THREAD 🧵 über Strompreiszonen
"Das ist historisch an den Fakten vorbei. Die Menschen, die da leben, sind nicht da hin gekommen, um Beute zu machen, um reich zu werden, die sind da hin gekommen, um ihr Leben zu retten" - @RonenSteinke zum Missverständnis eines linken Anti-Kolonialismus bei #Illner.
Ich studiere seit knapp 25 Jahren Extremismus und seit über 15 Jahren Islamismus -- in all seinen Ausprägungen. Was aktuell passiert, macht mir große Sorgen. Ein Thread 🧵
As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel.
For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids.
The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas.
Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better.
As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves.
Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck on the dimension of the terror, Germanys historical responsibility and our deep solidarity with Israel. 🇮🇱
סגן הקנצלר והשר הפדרלי רוברט האבק על ממדי מתקפות הטרור הברבריות, האחריות ההיסטורית הגרמנית והסולידריות העמוקה והבלתי מעורערת שלנו לישראל 🇮🇱
If you have ever wondered how psyops like Pizzagate and QAnon hijack the brain, please watch this clip.
Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things
https://t.co/x8rCvA5te7
Apophenia can be considered a commonplace effect of brain function. Taken to an extreme, however, it can be a symptom of psychiatric dysfunction, for example, as a symptom in paranoid schizophrenia, where a patient sees hostile patterns (for example, a conspiracy to persecute them) in ordinary actions.
Apophenia is also typical of conspiracy theories, where coincidences may be woven together into an apparent plot.
Immer wieder heisst es, #Putin sei durch die "#NATO-Osterweiterung" zum Krieg gezwungen worden.
Mal abgesehen davon, dass es wie ein billiger Vorwand klingt um ein anderes Land zu überfallen, ist auch einfach nichts dran.
In diesem Thread 🧵schauen wir uns das mal genauer an:👇