Wall Street’s volatility game masks exhaustion before crash. Amazon prime day sales are down 41% year over year. Yield curve’s sharp rise stokes fears recession may already be here

Market runs on manufactured momentum and ticking clock… $VIX puts are being bought just before $SPY ramps like what's shown below to suppress vol further and cause an automatic rise in equity prices. This also happened yesterday and Monday. They didn't need to do this last week as the momentum

Condo prices make record slide

Condo prices across the US are plummeting — with some areas seeing values sink by a staggering one-third in just a year. The average condo sale price in the US fell 2.2 percent year over year to $354,100 in May, a new report shows — making it the second largest

Investors risk walking blind into bond curve snapback, summer rally deja vu masks looming bond reversal…

The 10Y–3M yield curve remains inverted, but the downtrend has been grinding sideways just below neutral (-0.07%) We've seen this movie before — summer 2023 and 2024 both saw similar counter-trend rallies that kept risk-on flows alive… until the uptrend resumed. Remember: it’s… pic.twitter.com/8ztD0Xinmm — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter)

Nvidia becomes world’s first $4T company. Scraping fight escalates. Publishers build fences. Robots coming for jobs.

Nvidia has become the first publicly traded company to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization, closing at $164.02 on July 9 after a 2.5% gain. The milestone places Nvidia ahead of Microsoft and Apple, both of which previously topped $3 trillion. The company’s valuation has grown more than fifteenfold in

Can we finally admit that tariffs did not create an inflationary shock to the economy?

Can we finally admit that tariffs did not create an inflationary shock to the economy? https://t.co/qG0rv9cVK6 — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) July 9, 2025 🚨 BREAKING: US Inflation Index drops to 1.66%. The experts are fuming. Cut interest rates. pic.twitter.com/zdZbyKJUOd — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 9, 2025 🚨 HUGE NEWS:

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Amazon Prime Day spending down 10% to 15%. Consumer sentiment still in the gutter. Bezos sells $665.9M in stock.

Initial sales data from Amazon Prime Day is flashing a warning light. Early spending figures show a decline between 10% and 15% compared to last year’s event. This comes despite an expanded promotional window and aggressive markdowns across nearly every product category. Adobe’s projected $23.8 billion sales forecast now looks

Retail hedge fund? Traders split capital across TMF, SQQQ and TLT to dodge ETF decay and hit both sides of the macro trade

Positioning for a market downturn in 2025 has become more tactical than ever especially after June’s macro fireworks and the July 11 CPI print looming ahead. Equities hover near record highs while the 10-year Treasury yield has climbed to about 4.42 %. Some traders now split their risk between long duration

California home sales plunge 37% from pandemic peak

Home sales in California are down 37% from their pandemic peak. And by 25% from the long-term average. Indicating a massive homebuyer strike underway in California right now. This homebuyer strike is starting to increase inventory. And values are now even dropping in many California counties. This is a situation

Profitless junk stocks fuel risky rally: Carvana leads the meme stock resurgence. $38M market cap company raises 10x that amount to become a Bitcoin treasury company.

Investors channel 2021’s reckless mania again… WSJ article over the weekend saying that profitless junk stocks have been fueling this entire rally since April:https://t.co/SdspyMwcve"Shares of unprofitable companies have outperformed since early April, and investors are now speculating like it’s 2021" One of the stocks… pic.twitter.com/KXAtpep8IN — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) July 7,