1/x With our🦥Prince Charming departing on his cruise, the🪟of weakness back at the WofFortune has officially opened...From a level 1 view there is every reason to believe a decline is more likely than usual in this🪟, for 1 the VIX is starting this🪟having triggered a technical
2/x. Break last weak, 2nd of all the Fed is increasingly floating trial 🎈, about talking about tapering, as it did in the Fed minutes. NTM, Treasury reducing its Gen Acct from $1.6T to < $500B by EOQ & the continued opening of Ndx equity lock ups into EOQ. But...level 2 is
3/x not to be underestimated... sentiment has become exceedingly 🐻’ish, as displayed by HF positioning... I’m sure our 3x weekly 🥐’s & the growing familiarization w/ the🪟’s of weakness is not helping this sentiment either. Pair that offsides positioning, w/ 🚀ing buybacks &
4/x surprising underlying 💪🏼 the last several days from important NDX leadership and a quickly approaching Memorial Day holiday weekend, and it has become clear to me: a watched pot never boils. If we are going to get a decline, the next week would be a good🪟for it. But the🪟
5/x Closes a little early this time around on 5/28, and after a month of sideways action pinned near our 4115 JPMORGAN 🧲, it wouldn’t surprise me to get a low Vol correction in time/price that will likely be disappointing to iVol buyers, & keep us stuck 🧲, a long awaited
6/x kickoff rally above the the 1.5 std dev up of the 20 day, for the next🦵up, increasingly looks likely to kick off as we move into the back half of next week, that is unless the 🐻can take advantage of this short remaining time to strike. Watch margin unit supply & a move back
7/x below our 🧲 could change things quickly w/👸and 🦥 on vacay. OTM Calendar put spreads and short calls underhedged seems to be the correct play for 🐻 exposure going into monday. 👀the action right after the AM print very closely, if there is an opportunity it’ll likely come
8/8 soon after the open. Watch our *** For an opportunity to take a shot. But be💧. Good luck! 🍀
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1/x I’ve been clear that the coming rally off the bottom of the last dip would be a countertrend technical bounce. We’ve been in a Vanna driven opp to STR in her🪟of strength. She single handedly took this market from 4025 —>4175 in a week despite intl. liquidation, NDX/
2/x ARKK/BTC continued weakness, & a dramatic commodity sell off. IMO her work has been nothing short of heroic🦸♀️!But poor girl, she can only do so much..After all, I’ve been clear, it was just a matter of ⏰. 🕰 was not a 🐂’s friend... W/ Vixperation, & the (potentially
3/x combustible)FOMC minutes, & Vanna’s long awaited pre-Memorial Day departure for the 🏖 slated for today... the🪟for a rally was closing, & when the deadline for the bulls to regain the 1.5 std dev up of the 20 day in the SPX met a quickly closing 🪟 yesterday, a slide below
1/x tick tock, ⏰ it’s almost time... With 2.5 days left until Vixperation, the (potentially combustible)FOMC minutes, & Vanna’s long awaited pre Memorial Day departure for the 🏖 slated for 5/19, a deadline for the bulls to regain their footing in the SPX w/ a close above
2/x the 1.5 std dev up of the 20 day is quickly approaching... Given this, and Vanna’s current strength, a Game of 🐔 there seems all but inevitable... as we’ve mentioned, the🪟for a rally is closing, so ironically🕰 is not a 🐂’s friend for once...A decline now when we are
3/x ultimately in a🪟💪🏼 opens the way for something faster & potentially more dangerous when vanna/Charm are forced to leave for the 🏖 amidst an already nascent decline.👀 vanna in the AM...in the ST, If she looks a bit more tired than usual, prepare for a potential opportunity
1/x So Gary got all fired up w/Taiwán/Japan took away his🍌.but then he realized Vanna/Charm almost always have extra🍌during this🪟of strength...A little bit of cold water (slowing rate of decline) ultimately leads to a decline in IVol from an elevated level, which leads to more
2/x supportive Vanna flows—> which leads to a decline of IVol_—> repeat. Ultimately this rarely means an easing in, but more times than not a full about face reversal back on land. That said 🍌 become less available after Vixperation on 5/19, when Vanna is no longer around.
3/x So, if this market can’t make it above 1.5 std dev up by 5/19-21, there will likely be another, hangry tantrum on the way, and this time potentially much deeper and several weeks long. In the meantime, as long as we are in this💪🏼🪟& above Vanna’s 4115 supply of 🍌’s & Gary is
1/x Our 2 day slide has hit a speed bump...The problem w/ speed bumps in markets though, is they don’t just slow markets down, they eventually tend to lead to reversals. A slowing rate of decline ultimately leads to a decline in IVol from an elevated level, which leads to more
2/x supportive Vanna flows—> which leads to a decline of IVol_—> repeat. this is why Ndx strength today was more important than it may have seemed. It stemmed the rate of change in the overall market, several times throughout the day releasing vanna & ultimately driving another
3/x last minute kick save. @ the EOD. If the NDX Can hang in again, the market is oversold, p/C eqty ratios are higher than they have been all year & speak to a level of retail pain/ fear that we haven’t seen all year. Liquidations like this ultimately are correlated with.
1/x A short 🥐 in order to lend a hand to the weary out there tonight❤️.The negative flows in the NDX/ARKK/IGV names as we’ve discussed as the potential source of weakness is giving🦍a real fight for his 🍌...Our fragility & neg flow plays for convexity, funded primo neutral w/
2/x local SPX Vol, has paid off in ♠️. This is why you never 🏊♀️ naked...if the 🌊 is going to go out, this is the beach where it happens... It looks like we are in for a🐔fight again this ⏰ here @ the 1 stdev down of the 20 day on close. Keep choppin’. If it can hold & not close
3/x below for 2 days & the NDX can stabilize, w/ 🦍, 👸, 🦥 all at their 💪🏼’est there’s still reason for optimism... That said, this is a 🪟of 💪🏼 , if we can’t get the support we’d like to get here between now & 5/19, there is a potential fat tail lurking... vanna/Charm 🕰 should
1/x With the VIX back down to 16.69, Gary’s working his special brand of Magic... it’s that time where our charming, lovable friend 🦥, under Gary’s watchful 👁 takes over his role as host of the WofF. & w/ term structure & skew as steep as it is & Vanna chipping in, it’s
2/x unlikely we’ll see anything but the high ratings that we’ve become accustomed to...we’ve now closed over a rising 20 day for over 5 weeks. This momentum & ++flows are hard to ignore & betting against continued success of a game like the WofF in this🪟of💪🏼’s a dogmatic🌷dream.
3/x We’ve been clear 🕰 was not a 🐻friend...Regardless of NFP on Fri morning, this long expected rally to our ***Resistance was virtually an inevitability after the ‘event’...That said, w/the perception of yields under control in the shortterm, we have even more potential for