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[BRK @future4castt]

Oil just gave back a chunk of the geopol premium—WTI plunged from ~$119 highs overnight to $85-95 range today on Trump comments downplaying the Iran war and floating Hormuz escorts. Shorts are piling in, but is this relief rally or fakeout? Breaking down the scenarios. #crudeoil

[BRK @future4castt]

@rebeccaatrades What’s guaranteed? It’s not guaranteed you make more money on those live. Some catastrophic could take place, so Take what you made. You can do more with it.

[BRK @future4castt]

@smbcapital Math

[BRK @future4castt]

🤔 Are you talking about @TheOneLanceB ?

[katsu @katsuxbt]

Alex Hormozi says a trader made $100,000,000 and still couldn’t sleep at night

“If you’re so good at trading, why should I listen to you? Well, I have $100 million in verified earnings from trading. I said okay, then why are you selling courses instead of just making trades?”

“He says, I want to impact people. I said no you don’t, dude. Tell me the truth, I can only help you if you tell me the truth”

“Eventually he breaks, I couldn’t sleep. I lost weight. The stress, trading ruined my life. I couldn’t find anyone to date because I had to trade 24 hours a day. It ruined my health”

“My dad died at 50, and I saw myself going down the same path”

“That’s the truth. So your marketing should say, trading ruined my life and it’s also the only thing I’m good at. So if you want to make enough money to ruin your life, I can show you how I did it”

[BRK @future4castt]

Regardless of your politics, private or public beliefs, and biases toward either party- u can’t deny @spencerpratt ‘s short form content is 🔥 . These vibes are electric & his aura sends shock waves pulsing thru the audience ⚡️ keep plucking those strings @spencerpratt

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[BRK @future4castt]

I didn’t know trump tweeted for every textbook iFVG. Good to know.

[Ryan @DodgysDD]

If you didn't take this textbook iFVG you should quit trading

[BRK @future4castt]

If and Once you realize how do able this is the number will change.

[JEH Trades @jehtrades]

@lanto_trades $5 mill liquid, 50k per month

[BRK @future4castt]

@lanto_trades My initial number was 10million so I could live on the interest -roughly 70k a month , but once u get there, things changed and so did the number. Not concerned over money but things I’d like to do requires closer to 100. Also what do u mean by “worry” about money?

[BRK @future4castt]

Thrive in structure. Well said.

[Lanto 🧲 @lanto_trades]

You see the winning.

Now let’s talk about what it took.

The full truth about trading.

[BRK @future4castt]

Facts

[Trader Mike @tradermike1234]

Goldman Sachs trader EXPOSES how professional traders really act 👇

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸CNBC JUST REPORTED THE US HAS OFFICIALLY APPROVED #BITCOIN FUTURES FOR THE FIRST TIME

BTC "CAN NOW BE TRADED THROUGH EVERY MAJOR FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT IN TRADITIONAL MARKETS"

BTC TAKING OVER WALL STREET — NOT PRICED IN 🚀

[BRK @future4castt]

🤔

[Atlas @crptAtlas]

Ray Dalio says we're approaching bubble levels last seen in 1929 and 2000

"It's entirely within the power of China to say let's have a week of no chips coming out - all AI stocks would crash, the stock market would crash."

"All great technology changes produce bubbles. People think buying the stocks is betting on the technology. It's not. The stocks can be expensive."

The people who win from AI won't be the ones buying Nvidia at 40x revenue

They'll be the ones who actually learned to use it

Watch 13 minutes video. Then read the article

[BRK @future4castt]

🧐

[George Noble @gnoble79]

NVIDIA IS BUYING ITS OWN CHIPS AND CALLING IT REVENUE

And your retirement account is secretly holding the bag.

This scheme is literally straight out of the Enron playbook...

In January 2026, a special purpose vehicle called Valor Compute Infrastructure was created with one purpose:

Buy Nvidia's chips so Nvidia could book the sale as revenue.

Valor raised $5.4 billion and purchased over 100,000 of Nvidia's GB200 GPUs.

But $1.9 billion of that money came FROM Nvidia itself.

Nvidia invested $1.9 billion into the shell company, then sold that same shell company $5.4 billion worth of its own chips and booked every dollar as revenue.

It's the Girl Scout whose dad bought all the cookies and then she wins the sales contest because Dad was the customer. Except this Girl Scout is a trillion-dollar company and the cookie sale is $5.4 billion.

But it gets MUCH worse:

The remaining $3.5 billion in financing came from Apollo Global Management. Apollo structured the debt, packaged it into securities, and then sold those securities to Athene.

And guess who Athene is? Apollo's OWN insurance subsidiary. The one that sells fixed annuities to American retirees as safe, conservative retirement products.

Follow the chain:

Nvidia funds a shell company with $1.9 billion. The shell company buys $5.4 billion in Nvidia chips. Apollo finances the remaining $3.5 billion. Apollo sells the debt to its own insurance arm. That insurance arm packages it into annuity products and sells them to retirees who think they're buying something safe.

The retirees have no idea that their retirement savings are now backed by 100,000 computer chips sitting in some data center that will be worth pennies on the dollar in three years.

Now look at what's happening inside Athene:

$74.2 billion in US reserves but $217 billion in assets have been shifted to a Bermuda-based captive insurer, outside normal US regulatory oversight.

$103 billion of that portfolio (roughly 35%) is classified as Level 3 assets. That means there is no observable market price.

These assets are valued by internal models, not by actual markets.

And sitting on top of all those unpriced assets? 16.6x leverage.

If you're getting flashbacks to 2008, you should be.

Back then it was mortgages bundled into securities that nobody understood, sold to investors who had no idea what they were holding, rated as safe by agencies that never looked under the hood.

Today it's GPU-backed securities. Computer chips bundled into structured credit instruments, routed through an offshore insurance subsidiary, and sold to you as a retirement product.

The collateral is 100,000 GPUs leased to a single customer through an xAI subsidiary. If xAI stops making lease payments for any reason - financial distress, a pivot in strategy, anything - the entire structure unravels.

And Nvidia releases new architectures every year, so each generation delivers dramatically more compute per watt. A 5 year lease on technology that's obsolete in 2 years creates a mismatch that should terrify every annuity holder in America.

Every single step in this chain is technically legal. The SPV is legal, the lease is legal, Nvidia's equity stake is legal, the securitization is legal, and the Bermuda transfer is legal.

But legality and legitimacy are not the same thing.

I've seen every trick Wall Street has ever pulled in my 45 years of doing this.

And what I'm looking at right now is a pipeline that takes AI infrastructure risk, launders it through 8 layers of financial engineering, and deposits it in the retirement accounts of Americans who never agreed to fund Elon Musk's data centers.

In 2008 it was mortgage-backed securities.

In 2026 it's GPU-backed securities.

Different asset. Same greed. With the same ending.

[Lanto 🧲 @lanto_trades]

Brand new week.

Lock in.

Work hard, but also smart.

One day at a time.

Remember, you get paid off your choices when trading.

Quality > Quantity.

I'll be live all wekk!

Good luck folks.

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

THIS IS THE CRAZIEST STORY IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!!🤯

A man drained $110 MILLION from a crypto exchange in 20 minutes. Then used the stolen tokens to vote himself amnesty.

He beat every federal charge in court.

But still went to prison because of what the FBI found on his laptop.

In October 2022, Avraham Eisenberg identified a flaw in Mango Markets, a decentralized exchange on Solana. Not a code bug, an economic design flaw.

Here's what he did.

He deposited $5 million, split it across two wallets, used one wallet to sell 483 million futures contracts, used the other to buy them all. Both sides of the same trade. Zero market risk. Maximum leverage.

Then he went to the spot market.

He aggressively bought the MNGO token on three exchanges with such thin liquidity that his buying pressure pumped the price 1,300% in 20 minutes.

The price oracle fed that inflated price back to Mango Markets. The smart contract recalculated his portfolio value. Suddenly his position was worth hundreds of millions.

He borrowed $110 million in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins against the fake collateral, withdrew everything, then dumped his tokens and crashed the price back down.

The platform was instantly insolvent. Every user's funds were gone.

Then he went on Twitter, under his real name, and called it a "highly profitable trading strategy."

He said, "all of our actions were legal open market actions, using the protocol as designed."

The Mango DAO held a governance vote on whether to let him keep $47 million as a "bug bounty." It passed. 9.46% voted yes. 0.33% voted no.

Over half the yes votes came from just two developer wallets. And Eisenberg himself voted for his own amnesty using the tokens he had just stolen.

Then he fled to Israel.

The FBI found his search history: "Elements of fraud," "When market manipulation becomes a crime," "Statute of limitations market manipulation," "Extradition rules from Israel," "FBI surveillance."

He also used a fake Ukrainian identity to set up some of his trading accounts. So much for "transparent open market actions."

In December 2022, he flew to Puerto Rico. The FBI was waiting. Arrested at the airport. Laptop and phones seized.

In April 2024, a federal jury convicted him on every count. Commodities fraud. Market manipulation. Wire fraud. The first ever criminal conviction for open-market manipulation in crypto.

Then his lawyers filed a Rule 29 motion.

And the judge threw out everything.

The commodities charges, vacated. Wrong jurisdiction. Eisenberg was in Puerto Rico. The trades happened on Solana. The government's entire case for being in New York was that a third-party vendor had employees in Manhattan who monitored accounts. The judge said that's not enough.

The wire fraud charge, full acquittal. The judge ruled that Mango Markets had no terms of service, no rules, no prohibition against what he did. The smart contract executed exactly as coded. The oracle reported the real market price. And you can't commit fraud against a protocol that never told you what the rules were.

He beat the biggest crypto fraud case in history.

But here's the twist nobody saw coming.

When the FBI seized his devices at the airport, they were looking for evidence of market manipulation. Instead, they found child abuse material on his laptop.

The "plain view" doctrine. If agents executing a valid search warrant for one crime find evidence of another crime, it's fully admissible.

He pleaded guilty. 52 months in federal prison.

He outsmarted a $110 million exchange. Outsmarted the DOJ. Outsmarted the SEC. Outsmarted the CFTC.

But he couldn't outsmart the contents of his own hard drive.

The feds came for the $110 million. They stayed for what they found on the laptop.

[EllioTrades Clips @ellioclips]

A free Google Trends chart could have made you an easy 20x

Chris Camillo made 8 figures by literally just watching the world unfold and connecting the dots.

"There's trades like that happening every week or two. You just have to know where to look."

"When you do early detect something, you have to have the conviction to go in on the trade."

[BRK @future4castt]

Creative finance at its finest

[The Iced Coffee Hour @TheICHpodcast]

Real estate mogul Ben Mallah explains that you can eliminate your tax bill by borrowing money from the bank and buying tax-free municipal bonds👀

“Basically, by borrowing money from the bank, you eliminate your tax bill if you properly invest it”

“Let's say I own a building. Tomorrow, I go out and I refinance the building and pull a million dollars out of it, right? Fine. I owe the bank another million dollars. That million dollars is going to cost me roughly about 60 grand a year, right?

So now, that 60 grand a year is going to come off of my income that I made that I can write off, right? So the place made 100 grand a year, now it's only going to make 40 grand a year because I'm giving the bank 60 for that million bucks.

So now, I'm going to write off that money and only pay tax on the 40 grand. But what am I going to do with that million? I'm going to put it in tax-free muni bonds at five.

So now I'm going to get paid 50 grand, right? But the 50 grand is non-taxable. It's 50 grand. If I were to make the 60 that I'm giving the bank, I would have had to pay tax on it… 37%”

[BRK @future4castt]

Nothing quite like going from Hot tub and sauana then eating steaks cooked on woods coals , to relaxing on a zero gravity chair smoking a cohiba by the fire. Habana s finest

[BRK @future4castt]

Nothing quite like going from Hot tub and sauana then eating steaks cooked on woods coals , to relaxing on a zero gravity chair smoking a cohiba by the fire. Habana s finest

[Michael A. Gayed, CFA @leadlagreport]

I have been quiet long enough.

This is perhaps the most important thread on X ever published.

And the most powerful and impactful comic book you will ever read.

If you want to understand the reverse carry trade, bookmark this.

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[BRK @future4castt]

@lanto_trades You’re buying the top according to every macro expert. I hope you don’t plan to hold these for 10 years.. oil high next food then Consumer spending drops then the droughttttt