Options Expiration
"This week also marks the June monthly options expiration, which is set to be tied for the largest notional expiration in SPX history, with roughly $5.15 trillion in SPX and SPY-linked options contracts set to expire or roll forward." @t1alpha
Written after Neil Young purchased a ranch in Northern California, "Old Man" was inspired by a conversation with the property's elderly caretaker. Included on Harvest, the song paired Young's acoustic storytelling with one of the most personal and enduring recordings of his career.
Jeff Bezos just came out of retirement. His first CEO role since leaving Amazon. And he's building something nobody expected. 🤯
It's called Prometheus. $12 billion raised. $41 billion valuation. Backed by JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and Bezos himself.
150 employees. $273 million per person. That's how much investors are betting on this.
But here's what makes it different from every other AI company.
Prometheus isn't building another chatbot. It's not generating text or
images.
It's building what Bezos calls an "artificial general engineer" AI that designs jet engines, optimizes manufacturing, and prototypes physical products.
LLMs learned from the internet's text. Prometheus is learning from the physical world physics, simulations, engineering data, manufacturing processes.
In Bezos' own words: "Something that takes 100 engineers 10 years to build we want to make that 10 engineers, one year."
His co-CEO is Vik Bajaj, former Google X executive who worked with Sergey Brin on what became Waymo.
No ties to Amazon. No ties to Blue Origin. Bezos said "it deserves a dedicated team obsessed with this one thing."
While everyone is racing to build the best AI for words, Bezos is quietly building AI for the physical world.
That might be the bigger bet.
The Flows
"$SOXL alone generated roughly $12B in net rebalancing demand, equal to roughly 45% of its prior-day AUM. It's becoming increasingly clear that levered ETFs have become a dominant feature in the current market structure" @t1alpha
Saying CTA's are sellers "under every scenario" is nonsense.
That implies a trend model that can get the direction wrong.
As with most systematic strategies, there is an inherent path dependency involved, and how you get there can be far more important than where you end up.
If Naoya Inoue hits you in the ribs, your soul is leaving your body before you even hit the canvas. He is NOT human.
I have never seen a human being punch with this much violent intent in my entire life. Look at his back muscles working like a piston engine.🔥🥊💀