1/x If I told you that crypto was going to lose half of its value, Taiwan’s market would have an -8%+ day, ARKK would be imploding, & the NDX was dramatically underperforming, that broad market indices were losing momentum & breadth and were technically
2/x broken on many metrics, that seasonality was fading, quality/ defensives were outperforming, The Fed was floating critical Taper trial🎈🎈, that there are múltiple clues of Fed speculation tightening behind the scenes, that real EarnYield was hitting 40 yr lows, bonds were
3/x blinking defensively green despite dramatic inflationary forces, yet we would have stable price with low volatility despite entering 👸 & 🦥’s post OpEx 🏖 🪟 of weakness, while the S&p would be be sitting -1.5% off all time highs, right on its 20 day SMA...anybody unfamiliar
4/x w/ Gary 🦍 would throw up their hands & be nothing short of exasperated...🤔convinced it was all a rigged game. But 🥐’s know that this is the power of Gary 🦍... he is THIS 💪🏼. With the JPM Fed meeting 🧲 JuneQ 4115 calls providing the most desirable IVol on the board for
5/x cheap, w/ ST term-structure steep w/ the Memorial Day holiday coming & pre-Long weekend Gamma dramatically cheap, dealers are stuck hedged to a secular move & Gary seemingly has a 6 week supply of all-u-can-eat🍌. & U don’t wanna mess with Gary🦍, when he’s this well FED...
6/x That said if it is possible anytime between now & mid July 14, The 🐻’s 🪟is Right now. A meaningful break below 4115 is the 🔑 by 5/26 in order for the broad market to be sucked into the maelstrom & briefly drag off some of Gary’s precious supply. W/out this break, these
7/x last 2 weeks will simply serve as 🚀fuel in the form of more stable rates, more muted commodity prices, more bearish sentiment, & a technically healthy correction in🕰to kick off the next🦵to the🌙... accordingly, this is an important several days...& a perfect opportunity
8/x to hold convexity hedges funded w/ local Vol & dispersion trades. Watch the NDX & ARKK names for clues of reversal or continuation as the next 🦵higher, if it develops EOW is likely to 👀short squeezes in the oversold names & Gary 🦍’s likely to dampen the upside for SPX
9/9 just as he has on the downside, if they can’t manage to take his precious 🍌 away. Don’t be 🐕-matic. Be 💦, my friends. Good Luck!!! 🍀🍀🍀
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1/x Low Volume=Short ‘🥐 Crumbs’, today...SPX options volume today was a measly 540k, <Xmas eve & lowest volume YTD...Such is the power of Gary🦍, as🥐’s know, there is no fear due to yesterday’s sharp rally & IVol contraction, paired w/ Gamma dramatically oversupplied in 5/28
2/x due to pre-long weekend /post-long -weekend dealer positioning & of course the JPM ‘Fed meeting 🧲’, JuneQ 4115 calls continuing to saddle dealers w/ the most desirable IVol on the board for cheap. Pair that w/the fact that this rally has ST upside momentum challenges, due to
3/x a lack of buying pressure w/ 👸&🦥 @ the 🏖 during the🪟of weakness, & it explains why we are stuck between a 🪨 & a hard place... looking fwd, past Memorial Day, into next week, There are several clues that the summer duldrums are lurking...we have 1/BOM flows followed by
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 &
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.