1/x The 1way santa🎅train🚂 to the moon continues its ascent... Nearly reaching our long called min objective of 3750.75 overnight. As discussed, the window for potencial weakness opens in 5 trading days at 1 of my price 2 objectives of 3770.5, or 3811.25... But now
2/x comes the hard part... Figuring out how the market shakes this accelerating Vol compression & the growing parallel calls for a coming correction to cause the most pain to the greatest # of investors... Where is the PAIN TRADE? Because it is NEVER easy... I have a couple of
3/x thoughts here. It seems more & more likely to me that we could see a rally from 1/5 into 1/11-15 regardless of outcome. This would confound a lot of those preparing for a pullback (especially in the case of a dem sweep), causing dealers to throw in the towel abandoning long
4/x Vol positions. It’d also allow the market to stretch the rally to unexpected heights, allowing for a slide to too low fixed strike Ivols, forcing a squeeze for IVol & allow for an unpinning of IVol... it is either this or the decline begins much sooner than expected, jumping
5/x the gun to the downside here in the next 3 days, when nobody’s expecting it...But that seems highly unlikely given the extent of the current vol compression for 12/30-12/31 & the immutable power of EOY & BOY flows. We’ll continue to keep our head on a swivel, with a foot by
6/6 the exit, playing for the most likely outcome of a V shaped blow off top going into or, as posited in the week following the event...Watch for an expansion of the range which is currently happening. Gamma should begin to pay at these levels. First up, then down...Good Luck!🍀

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30 Dec
1/x Complacency is no longer mounting... it has mounted... & has now broken into an all out gallop. Retail traders are YOLO HODL’ing, dealers & IB traders are greedily leaning shorter & shorter Ivol assuming that the juicy VRP is safe. 1 day event vol for the GA runoff that will
2/2 dictate whether we experience a blue wave or not sits at a paltry $45. With EOY/BOY flows between now & then, & the tax, antitrust, macrocyclical flows & regulatory uncertainty (to name a few small issues) sitting just around the corner after inauguration, Ivol is approaching
3/x it’s nader...I would expect fixed strike Ivol to hit its low assisted by some large coming institutional Vol selling flows that reliably come at the end of each quarter. Sometime between 1/4-1/15 we should see a phenomenal LT IVol buying opportunity...And as I’ve mentioned,
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28 Dec
1/x All aboard the Santa Express! As I have made clear for some time now, seasonality through 1/5 is not some magical construct... Vanna and Charm flows paired with EOY/BOY flows will support the market making it hard for it to do anything too dramatic between now & the runoff.
2/x A lot has been resolved and we have been sitting in a bit of a holding pattern for some time now with Election uncertainty, Vaccine success, Fed support, fiscal Stimulus passed, & TSLA inclusion all well understood and behind us...these themes that we have been riding now
3/x for 3 months have 1 by 1 been resolved exactly as expected. &, here we sit @ ATH...The waiting game will soon be over. We have been greedy for some time as the world had been fearful... but the Vanna flows have done their heavy lifting and handed the baton to the charm driven
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25 Dec
1/x ‘Twas the night before Christmas & all through the market not an order was stirring not even for $TGT.
The bonuses were entered into payroll with care,
In hopes that next year would bring a similar fare;
The Bulls were nestled all snug in their beds;
2/x While visions of $TSLA danced in their heads;
& Biden in his Covid mask, & Powell with his still flowing money tap,
Had just settled their brains for a long winter's nap,
When out on the screen there arose such a clatter,
All sprang from their beds to see what was the matter.
3/x Away to their monitors they flew like a flash,
Tore open their Bloombergs & threw up the dash(board).
The S. Claus rally in markets, that all of us know,
Paired w/vaccine reopening, Gave a bid to the market, leaving old prices below,
When what to their wondering👀 did appear?
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22 Dec
1/x Tonight’s update is Same Same but Different...but still Same. To keep it short, EVERYTHING FROM YESTERDAY STILL APPLIES. The only addendums are on 2 fronts: 1) I fully expect the market for the next 2 days to continue to try & shake the longs. Sentiment has already normalized
2/x a bit after yesterday’s rollercoaster. A close below the 20 day (but above 1 std dev of the 20 day)would seem like a perfect stair step destination & would go a long way to shifting some systemic strategies less long+ forcing retail out of some of their long calls. This could
3/x be just the correction in price/time head fake this market needs in order to set off another shot at a 2/28-1/4 rally to 3752.5...Until 2/28, SPX Vol compression should remain dominant & I’d continue to expect some chop. That said, 2) I’d reiterate, given the action in Europe
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21 Dec
1/x This market’s stuck & going nowhere fast....Election Resolution ✅ , Vaccine success ✅, Fed support ✅, Stimulus ✅, TSLA inclusion ✅. All of these themes that we have been riding now for almost 3 months have 1 by 1 been resolved exactly as expected. & so, here we sit @ ATH
2/x w/ extremely overextended sentiment & positioning by both HF & Retail... Vanna flows have driven the expected rally & commensurate Vol compression to an extreme, & though their work is not yet over, with the indomitable flows of Santa Claus & the Jan Effect waiting patiently
3/x around the corner, their terminal point is in sight, and the 1/5 GA primary sits only 2 weeks away...As such, the headwinds to this market are growing ever stronger by the day. Our calls for a correction in price post Dec OpeEx morning came & went on Fri, resolved by forced
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18 Dec
1/x This’ll be short...For those wondering why I haven’t had a new daily thread, it’s because nothing has changed. Tomorrow is 🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️ OpEx, & per usual, I expect morning support, followed by a correction in time & price as any remaining Vanna dissipates. Index compression
2/x continues to drive the price action & as mentioned in an earlier TSLA thread, the compression is so extreme at this point it has all but pinned the index until 12/28. We’re witnessing this overnight as the blacklisting of dozens of Chinese firms received ~ no SPX reaction.
3/x Due to this I expect very little moves in the next few days. If we do get a pullback, on any stimulus worries, I would look to be a buyer around the 20 day or by EOD 11/21. Although cheap, next week IVol is a sale & calendar call spds & dispersion trades continue to be my
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