… China reached a trade agreement with the EU today. Chinese internet stocks exploded. Brandon Chapman caught the move in real time and found institutional money piling into calls. KWEB, the Chinese internet ETF, surged 5%. Alibaba ripped 10% higher. This isn’t retail speculation. Brandon tracked block trades showing thousands of contracts bought in single
The S&P finally broke out of its 100-point trading range today. We’ve been stuck between 6850 and 6950 for nearly seven weeks. That changed with violence this afternoon. But I’m not celebrating yet. The sector ETFs are flashing warning signs I cannot ignore. Every sector is posting moves two to three standard deviations beyond expectations.
Blake Young just flagged something troubling in today’s market data. Nine of 11 sectors closed higher, yet more money left equities than went in. The numbers tell the story. Advancing stocks pulled in $1.4 billion. Declining stocks saw $1.8 billion walk out the door. That $400 million gap went straight to cash. Bonds didn’t catch
I’m watching something I haven’t seen in weeks. Sector after sector is making two and three standard deviation moves with zero explanation. The S&P looks calm. It’s not. What’s really happening is manic rotations underneath the surface. One sector explodes higher. Another collapses. Money is on the move and it can’t find a home. We’re
The Dow Jones hit a new all time high yesterday. The NASDAQ hasn’t made one since late October. Gianni Di Poce flagged this divergence in today’s session. The longer tech fails to confirm the rally, the more concerning the setup becomes. There are some bright spots. Semiconductors are breaking out. Micron keeps hitting new highs.
Brandon Chapman just flagged two stocks setting up for potential short squeezes right now. The Santa Claus rally never showed up. But beneath the surface, aggressive call buying is creating the conditions for explosive moves. Brandon tracks options flow to identify gamma squeezes before they trigger short squeezes. When someone buys thousands of call contracts,
Five weeks. One hundred points. Dead center at 5900. That’s the entire story of the S&P 500 since late November. Bulls are claiming we ended the year strong. The chart says we’ve gone absolutely nowhere. Let me say this… The longer we stay compressed, the more open interest accumulates on the same option strikes. This
Wall Street is celebrating a 16% year in the S&P 500. Blake Young just proved that number is fiction. After adjusting for the dollar’s 9.5% collapse against other currencies, your real return drops to 6%. And that’s the generous calculation. Gold surged nearly 60% this year. If you use gold as your inflation benchmark, US
Gianni just identified a critical inflection point that will determine the next several months of trading. His thesis is straightforward. If stocks don’t start rallying by the end of next week, we’re heading into a multi-month grind that will punish both bulls and bears. The market loves to frustrate the largest number of traders possible,
Someone just made a $14 million bet on a stock most traders have never heard of. Brandon spotted 60,000 call contracts hit Compass Inc. (COMP) in a single print today. Within two minutes, the stock ripped from $10.44 to $10.76 on an intraday gamma squeeze. The trade happened at 1:12 PM Eastern while everyone else
