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28 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
1/x A short & sweet midweek 🥐... Everything from Mon👇 still applies. Despite every reason to see a price decline, Gary 🦍, Vanna 👸, & Charm 🦥 have other plans. SPX IVol is getting the💩squeezed out of it. With the 1 day event straddle at only $20 w/ Fed & SOTU tomorrow,
2/x Dealers are playing ‘Hot Crossed Buns’ w/anything w/theta. Don’t fight a well FED🦍, especially when the zookeepers are entering the cages🍌in hand...Don’t do it. regardless of the fundamentals, or the narrative, or the technicals, or the sentiment, or the positioning...’
3/x especially as The🪟is closing & Vanna👸& Our charming 🦥 are packing their bags, ready to return from the 🏖 & add a little well rested summer support...Unless The Zoo keepers decide to wreak havoc & take the🍌’s away, dispersión is the play.
4/x Long IWM/NDX/Name IVol 🆚 SPX, & watch rates for a sign of a return of the duration rotation...Long call verticals & call calendars with short strikes struck at 4240 & above. 4225-4240 is still the destination by early next week. (5/3?). Fat tail fragility’s still part of the
5/5 narrow dist, so own convexity funded premium neutral w/ local IVol...Remember: It’s not about what’s cheap or expensive. It’s usually the opposite. It’s about who’s stuck long or short that matters. Reflexivity reigns supreme. GARY IS🤴! Don’t bet against Gary. Good Luck!!🍀

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30 Apr
1/x This market is battling what should be an Easy Green tape after hours...W/ Ivols ascending off of a new base @16 VIX & continuing to find support into a rally, there’s reason to believe that Gary🦍hasn’t been getting the same daily dose of🍌’s he has grown accustomed to the
2/x last 24 hrs. & w/out a well FED Gary 🦍,things could quickly spin out of control on the Wheel of Fortune...Luckily 👸&🦥are on their way back from the🏖late in the day, & w/ it being EOM/BOM they should be refreshed & ready to go starting around 2pm CST, assuming Gary can
3/x hold it together until then...As I’ve said in the past, often it’s what doesn’t happen relative to expectations that informs us about the strength of the 35% of flows that we don’t see. If we’re unable to rally to our🎯‘ed resistance of ***4235 by 5/3 AM, w/👸&🦥back, this’ll
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26 Apr
1/x so here we are after 2 weeks of a 🐌’s pace, correction in ⏰. The🪟is closing & our🐌is now primed for liftoff. As I explained last Sun night, the markets had every reason to decline in this🪟already. But it hasn’t even played🐔. Despite a long list of reasons to be🐻’ish,
2/x including: 1)Vanna👸&Charm🦥 away @ the 🏖 for an extended vacay, 2) sentiment/positioning historically stretched by almost every metric, 3) a VVIX/VIX ratio blinking🚨, 4)earnings season after a massive run calling for what should be some natural profit taking 5)an imminent
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1/x This will be a short daily 🥐...everything from Wed still applies 👇. 🪟of weakness opened 4/12 w/ 4140 *** hit. & Here we are @ 4140 after almost 2 weeks! all things considered, this is a victory for the bulls, considering👸& 🦥 are @ 🏖, & it is a tribute to the power of a
2/x well FED Gary🦍. This is a textbook correction in⏰. But The🪟’s still open. Whether we get more of a price correction remains to be👀.Remember a🪟is just a🪟.A👸/🦥vacay doesn’t push market⬇️, it removes support & creates vulnerability..but time is running out for the 🐻’s.
3/x A decline to the 20 day for a last minute game of🐔to shake the longs would be an ideal Mon- Wed activity, but unless someone can manage to take away Gary’s🍌🍌 & make him hangry enough to lose control/ start breaking things following the Fed meeting & SoTU...I would expect
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21 Apr
1/x Everybody Panic!!! The number of people coming out & claiming to be ‘Fully hedged’ AFTER today is surprising... This market has been in desperate need of a sentiment reset and a healthy correction in price & time & it seems to be getting Just that.Though we are still 50%
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19 Apr
1/x I learned a loooong time ago to never fight a well FED Gary 🦍...Despite a long list of reasons to be 🐻’ish, including: 1)Vanna 👸 & Charm 🦥 away @ the 🏖 for an extended vacation, 2) sentiment & positioning historically stretched by almost every metric, 3) a VVIX/VIX ratio
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1/x Just as Gary’s 🦍positioning reflexively effects the outcome of his bets, I’ve become convinced that my calls are reflexively beginning to effect the outcomes of my predictions... so, I’m gonna keep it🤫tonight. There are simply too many Care Bears crowding my magical 🌈.
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