https://youtu.be/K3CXbL4I2sE?si=8I0vEUbPwxM2Evxg Blake Young pulled up the volume chart today. The S&P 500 is now averaging 34 million shares a day. In April that average sat at 110 million. Last August it sat at 62 million. We’re running at a third of the spring peak. We’re at half of what this same stretch of summer produced a year ago. Summer explains part of it. It does not explain half. The tape agrees with the volume. The S&P 500 broke above its multi-decade channel, then fell right back inside it, and it’s retesting that old resistance as resistance again. Chaikin Money Flow crossed down at the same time. Blake reads that as net selling rather than traders simply closing out positions. Then he showed where the money went. The goods trade deficit printed negative $118.8 billion. From 2015 through 2020 that number lived in the $60 to $70 billion range. The last

https://youtu.be/r7AqarUjZS8 Gianni Di Poce retired the oldest rule in the market today. The Fed sits still. The Treasury moves the money. Scott Bessent keeps intervening at the long end of the curve. Gianni reads those actions as liquidity by another name, not far off from QE. His update to the mantra is simple. Don’t fight the Treasury in 2026. The positioning underneath makes it dangerous. A huge short position sits in the 10-year note while commercial traders quietly build longs. The 30-year caught a fresh bid as futures rolled into the December contract. Gianni calls that chart ripe for a squeeze. Crude oil adds the confirmation. It sits in backwardation into April and May of next year. Gianni wants to see crude finish the month near $75 a barrel by Monday’s close. The dollar and oil move together, so both point lower from here. A softer dollar with cheaper crude

https://youtu.be/sORxBvVD3NA Monday looked like nothing happened. Brandon Chapman pulled up the tape and found one trade that quietly ran the entire session. 2.3 million shares printed at 763.96 on the SPY. Nothing that size crossed during regular trading hours, so Brandon reads it as a dark pool fill. That number became the map. It acted as resistance, then support, then support again, then it finally broke. Brandon expects 764 to keep working the same way all week. It acts as support above and resistance below. Above it sat a wall. Roughly 19,000 contracts stacked at the 765 strike, and every push into that level got sold back down. The floor at 760 never got touched. The S&P 500 spent the day inside a 30 point range because of those two barriers. Friday’s expiration redraws the board. 770 becomes the upside level. 760 becomes the downside trigger, with 750 sitting underneath

The Treasury fired a monetary weapon straight at the bond market on Wednesday. Bonds took the hit and kept selling anyway. That single act of defiance sets up what could be one of the greatest trades of this decade. Here’s the sequence. The Treasury announced it would support liquidity and buy the long end of the curve, which forces 30 year rates lower. It worked for exactly one day. Rates dropped from 5.3 to 5.2, then rallied right back the following session. The bond vigilantes are loose. These rates simply do not care. You have to go back roughly two decades to find 30 year rates this high. The 10 year is pressing 4.75 and sits within a tenth of a point of its highs. That 10 year matters more than anything on your screen. It sets your mortgage, and it’s about to break out. The Fed is pulling the

The S&P 500 broke its channel and closed lower. Metals, mining, and energy were the only groups left standing. Blake Young sees the Chaikin accelerating. Money is distributing out of equities right now. He’s watching for a drift toward 736 from here. Every other sector finished negative today. Even basic materials closed below yesterday. Look closer at that group though. XLB gapped down and closed up, and it has defended the same range since March. Blake’s thesis starts with the Treasury. If it buys up bonds, inflation hedges get bid and metals prices follow. He wants gold on a pullback. He is not buying it today. Copper is the cleaner setup. It held its ground without rallying, which is exactly the kind of tape he wants to sell puts into. That’s the whole approach right now. Get paid while volatility rises everywhere else. Here is what he walked through in

Stocks were higher. Gianni Di Poce pinned this pullback on a single sector. Energy was the top performing sector last week. That one fact puts the bullish case on hold. Tech and energy now sit neck and neck for the best performing sector of the year. Gianni treats that race as the real scoreboard. When tech pulls ahead, the tape turns bullish. When energy pulls ahead, the tape turns bearish. Every time crude oil finds strength, tension builds underneath stocks. We watched it happen again today. The S&P 500 fell about 47 points. The index hovered near the lows of the day. The Nasdaq absorbed the brunt of the selling. The Dow barely budged. Gianni still calls this a fantastic dip buying opportunity. He sees the market one domino away from bulls reasserting momentum. That domino is energy. Crude has to pull back. The futures curve supports him. Oil sits

Brandon Chapman booked a 195% gain today on a zero DTE spread. He knew which way the market would break before it opened. The recent tape looked bullish. Anyone reading price action alone leaned long this morning. Brandon read the gamma exposure map instead. That data pointed down. Here is how the setup built. A significant level at 750 broke and carried price to 760. The break of 760 punched through major walls and created dealer convexity. Volatility rose with price, which forced dealers to hedge by buying stock and futures. Then price slammed into the wall at 775 and 780. Brandon had those lines drawn last week. Price glided along 775 for three straight days. Once it finally cleared, 780 arrived in a single session. Friday the structure shifted. The gamma exposure flipped and the cushion under the market thinned out. This morning price sat below 776 in a

https://youtu.be/jioJYaBZ1_M Micron trades at $970. The calls sitting 330 points out of the money cost $10. The puts sitting 270 points out of the money cost $4. The market is pricing double the risk of a melt up over a crash. I call that trading stupid. That inversion gets wider the further out in time you go. Micron does not report until September 23rd, so this has nothing to do with earnings risk. The reason it exists is simple. Nobody is paying for downside protection anywhere in this market. The VIX closed at 14 today. You have to go back to Christmas Eve to find a print like that. S&P futures traded 800,000 contracts. That is the lightest volume since the holidays, and it is garbage. The indices are stuck. The advance decline line has been a pure 50/50 slop fest all week, so the index products sit in complete

https://youtu.be/dc6pW8OSZGE Volatility skew has gone flat in the SPDRs. Calls and puts are trading for nearly the same money right now. I built a tool to track this in real time. What it showed me today has almost no historical precedent. Nine days out in SPY, there is no skew left at all. Ten delta calls and ten delta puts carry virtually identical implied volatility. Thirty days out, the gap narrows to six implied volatility points. Go thirty six days out and near money options sit at 13.4 against 12.4. One point of separation. Markets never carry equal risk in both directions, yet that is exactly how this tape is pricing them. AMD pushes it past absurd. The thirty day skew is inverted at 104, meaning the calls cost more than the puts. Push it out to 90 days. Push it to 120. The calls still cost more than the

Blake Young spent today’s session on the one corner of the market where utilities and energy overlap. He calls it nuclear and uranium. The demand math is not subtle. Nuclear demand in the United States is expected to run 50% to 100% higher over the next 10 to 15 years. Uranium demand climbs right alongside it. Blake puts that increase at 30% on the low end and 80% on the high end. Here is the part that changes how you position. Blake is not buying these names outright at today’s prices. He sells puts and gets paid while he waits for the pullback. Cameco already broke through accumulation on the zero line. Blake wants a retest near 94 before he commits, and he maps upside through 120, 130, and 150. The cleaner vehicle sits in the ETF. URA trades near 45 and carries a 9% annualized dividend for anyone who