Flash crash fears mount as 0DTE leverage explodes unchecked

When a flash crash is going to hit at some point people will look back at these data and wonder how come nobody, especially the regulator, did nothing to prevent it. 0DTE have zero capital requirements for MM this is why leverage is through the roof. https://t.co/TJMdLE3BkZ — JustDario 🏊‍♂️ (@DarioCpx) May 8, 2025

This is why the Dow could crash before the Nasdaq. Consumers are broke while giant tech companies are loaded with cash.

🇺🇸 US savings rate 3.9% In Global Financial Crisis and Great Depression territory! Chart: @AugurInfinity pic.twitter.com/RehJc1YLSR — Alex Joosten (@joosteninvestor) May 4, 2025 Time it’d take them to run out of cash if they spent $1 million a day: Berkshire Hathaway: 951 years Apple: 364 years Alphabet: 261 years Amazon: 259 years Microsoft: 218 years …

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AI fails spectacularly at running a company… Lack of coordination, planning, and communication proves AI’s workplace autonomy is far off

AI TRIED TO RUN A COMPANY… AND FAILED SPECTACULARLY A team of researchers built a fake tech company, staffed entirely by AI workers from Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic. The result? Total chaos. The best AI agent barely finished 24% of its tasks, needed nearly 30 steps, and cost $6 per assignment just to get …

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DC helicopter crash killed 64, pilot ignored warning, investigation reveals fatal error.

NY Times — Two seconds after the controller’s cut out instruction about passing behind the jet, Warrant Officer Eaves replied, affirming for the second time that the Black Hawk saw the traffic. “PAT two-five has the aircraft in sight. Request visual separation,” he said. “Vis sep approved,” the controller replied. It was their last communication. The …

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Home sales crash to lowest level since 2008. Feels eerily similar to May 2008.

https://twitter.com/StealthQE4/status/1915538856834715854 The housing market had its worst March since the global financial crisis, weighed down by high borrowing costs and falling consumer confidence in the economy. Home sales fell to their lowest annual level for March since 2009, dashing hopes for a rebound this year. Sales of previously owned homes plunged 5.9 percent from February …

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4 killed in Illinois plane crash

Four people from Wisconsin were killed on Saturday when their private, single-engine plane crashed in a field near an airport in rural Illinois after reportedly striking powerlines, authorities said. The Cessna 180G aircraft crashed about 10:16 a.m. local time Saturday in the unincorporated community of Trilla, Illinois, southeast of Coles County Memorial Airport in nearby …

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Is the Fed Trying to Crash Stocks?

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist The #1 mandate for the Fed is to maintain financial stability. That is literally the Fed’s job. It’s supposedly why the Fed was created in 1913. The stock market just experienced one of its worst collapses in history. It was literally the 5th fastest 10% decline in …

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S&P death cross hits with CAPE ratio flashing historic crash signal…

That's it folks. The S&P 500 has just triggered a death cross for the first time following a CAPE ratio that exceeded two standard deviations above its long-term exponential trend. The other 3 times this happened: – Nov/1929– Oct/2000– Mar/2022 Place your bets. pic.twitter.com/hoUdiAcOIx — Guilherme Tavares (@i3_invest) April 17, 2025 The market is following …

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Hedge fund legend, who earned 4,144% during COVID, warns stocks will crash 80% and ‘Armageddon’ is coming

Mark Spitznagel, founder and chief investment officer of Universa Investments, warned in commentary to MarketWatch that a historic collapse may be looming. “I expect an 80% crash when this is over. I just don’t think this is it. This is a trap,” he said on April 7, days before Trump announced a 90-day pause on …

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If They’re Not Careful, the Markets Will CRASH

By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist The Trump administration has a “messaging” problem. Over the weekend, stocks erupted higher when it was announced that the U.S. would provide exemptions from new tariffs for phones, computers and chips from China. This meant that some of the most critical exports from China to the U.S. …

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Financial conditions tightest since 2020 pandemic crash… Credit stress, falling stocks point to sharp economic slowdown ahead… $VIX HUGE $10M+ OTM CALLS

BREAKING: US financial conditions are now their tightest since the 2020 pandemic, per ZeroHedge. Financial conditions are even tighter than during one of the most rapid Fed hike cycles of all time, in 2022. Conditions have tightened rapidly as stocks have pulled back, while… pic.twitter.com/d53KqrwU4D — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 14, 2025 Is this …

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Crash occurred near Two Town Road, all 6 on board died…

COPAKE — Authorities are investigating after a twin-engine transport plane crashed around noon Saturday in the town of Copake. The Associated Press cited a source close to the investigation Sunday who said all six people on board the aircraft died in the crash. Columbia County Undersheriff Jacqueline Salvatore told News10 ABC at a press conference …

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Bye the dip: Leverage, ETFs, and crypto risk bigger crash this time

Here is March 2020, which followed the same sequence as 2008 only on a more compressed timeline. The dollar (green) was collapsing due to dollar outflows. Gold was rallying. Then vol spiked and Treasuries imploded and gold, both considered safe havens at the time. Then the… pic.twitter.com/kxWPZnwoxL — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) April 11, 2025 Bye the …

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TOUR HELICOPTER SPLITS IN HALF – Six dead in Hudson River crash

🚨 #BREAKING: Reports of an AIRCRAFT DOWN in the Hudson River in NYC FDNY responding. Unknown casualties. DEVELOPING… pic.twitter.com/HUqkSd8usu — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 10, 2025 “Split in Half”: Six Dead, Including 3 Kids, After Helicopter Crashes Into the Hudson River in New York City Six people are dead after a tourist helicopter carrying a …

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Powell may resist, but market forces are pulling him in. Bond market crash signals greater risks than stock market collapse. Junk bond yields going parabola

Powell may pretend he doesn't need to get involved, but the market is about to drag him in kicking and screaming pic.twitter.com/izA4VUQmQN — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 8, 2025 Junk bond yields going parabola https://t.co/LGDN6xHOiq pic.twitter.com/ILja6xLDGY — The Great Martis (@great_martis) April 8, 2025 The crash that's now happening in the bond market has more dire …

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The Crash was More than Just Stocks

by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty, I just had to write. While everyone is blaming Trump and tariffs for the stock market crash, not only did Socrates forecast that months in advance, but I trade copper professionally, as you know. What you have created should be recognized as the answer society has been searching for over the …

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U.S. market circuit breaker chart shows crash thresholds

7%, 13%, 20% drops will trigger halts in S&P trading If the Russell 2000 futures hit a circuit breaker and halt before the cash session (before the regular stock market opens), here’s what typically happens: Futures Trading Halts OnlyThe halt applies only to the futures market (like the Russell e-mini). The cash session (stock market) …

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This flash crash is purely orchestrated by the banking cartel and hedge funds….. and there is no panic, this is NO WHERE NEAR over

Emergency overnight repurchase agreements (REPO) are $0. Very interesting. REPO is how the Federal Reserve injects liquidity into the banking system during a financial crisis. We're not seeing that. This flash crash is purely orchestrated by the banking cartel and hedge funds. https://t.co/NU4j7hm9G8 pic.twitter.com/mGTjT60V3n — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) April 4, 2025 This flash crash is happening …

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$SPY signals are echoing the 2007 crash, with market patterns showing familiar signs. The tech and housing bubbles are bursting in tandem, while the boiling frog syndrome keeps investors oblivious.

$SPY people believe that the 2007 Great Financial Crash was a large surprise (below) But it was anything but a surprise. The moving averages were textbook. Clear tests of support, followed by a rejection from below twice and then Lehmans collapsed. What sometimes clouds… pic.twitter.com/2LaGy1a0z3 — The Long Investor (@TheLongInvest) April 2, 2025 Tech and …

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This is set for a crash…

This is set for a crash. pic.twitter.com/0ppbzVrBaY — Guilherme Tavares (@i3_invest) March 28, 2025 Your weekly close pic.twitter.com/6mElvXKqez — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) March 28, 2025 Getting back near the 6 month low which was the bottom of this recent correction. If we break through here things could get ugly. 💀 pic.twitter.com/J0MnbKoRkY — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) …

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