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Read at stocksleak.com→IV rank is pinned at the top of the range and dealers are short roughly $33.9 billion of gamma, so buying naked calls into a parabolic tape is paying for a move that already happened. The 770/780 vertical for the August 21 monthly is the clean way to own upside to the 780 call wall: about $4.00–$4.50 of debit for $10 of width, defined risk, and most of the vega hedged out. Then SPCX — long bias, negative gamma, and the insider lockup expiring today.
The index tape looks like a victory lap — S&P and Dow at records because Middle East risk premium is bleeding out of crude. Underneath it, the space complex is getting hit on an $18.4B capex number and AMD is down 8% post-earnings. Here is the real story: this is a rotation, not a melt-up, and the crowded volatility is the trap.
Nasdaq is up nearly 5% in two days, the S&P printed a new all-time high yesterday, and dealers are still short enough gamma to buy your dips. But exhaustion readings in the high-beta pockets are lighting up and the crowded IV is sitting at the front of the book. My read: bias stays higher only while breadth expands — otherwise this is a midday fade.
PLTR closed at $125.65, +2.1%, then went to roughly $142 in the after-hours session on a quarter that beat on every line: $1.935B revenue up 93% year-over-year, U.S. commercial up 149%, $0.41 GAAP EPS, a Rule of 40 score of 155%, and full-year guidance raised to $8.15B. Here is my read on the print, the guide, and how I trade the gap.
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It went from about $45 billion to roughly $10 billion in days, and Citadel took the public book. Here is the reported record, the mechanics of how a 400%-levered long-AI-infrastructure/short-software book dies in a momentum crash, and my read on what really killed it.
Two separate things hit the same tape on the same day and got reported as one story. A levered fund got taken down and had to sell everything regardless of quality — and Coinbase printed a disappointing quarter into that liquidation. How to separate forced supply from a fundamental miss, the macro underneath, and what I expect next week.
A formal, disclosure-first research report on bitcoin as a monetary settlement asset and Coinbase as the regulated infrastructure that monetizes it. Structure, cash-flow drivers, valuation framework, catalysts, and a full list of what kills the thesis — written to be read by allocators in the United States, the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere, with the jurisdictional disclosures those readers need.
The Fed held at 3.50%–3.75% and three presidents voted to hike — the first triple hawkish dissent since 2016. The Dow lost 1,100 points, the S&P closed at 7,316, the Nasdaq made it six down days and the SOX fell more than 5% with Micron down double digits. Then the tape got Microsoft up, Meta down, Qualcomm down. Here is what actually broke, and whether there is more pain ahead.
Wall Street, the FBI, and the trader they couldn't break. The full story — paper route to federal cooperation.
30 years on the tape distilled — momentum, short-selling, risk sizing, and the daily desk routine.
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No. No fraud conviction, no fraud judgment, no industry bar.
No. No court, regulator, or arbitrator has ever made that finding.
No. The 2016 federal indictment was dismissed in January 2017.
Dismissed in 2017. The Government did not appeal.
A 2021 broker-dealer registration matter — not fraud — on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit.
A court-supervised orderly wind-up in the Bahamas (2019). Not a scam finding.
Yes — a cooperating witness for federal authorities. Explained on the record.
Not publicly disclosed. Third-party celebrity-net-worth estimates are unsourced.
