QQQ slides, but no panic in sight. Orderly selloff masks controlled distribution. #NDX, weekly Double Tops during the last 7 years. 2018, 2022, and 2025. Each led to a 20%+ correction.

Nearly four months of choppy price action within this range on $QQQ. pic.twitter.com/BwtyvB89mz — Connor Bates (@ConnorJBates_) February 19, 2026 If this were a genuine crash, you wouldn’t see this methodical delivery.$QQQ You’d see price trade into 606–617 and then violently displace $30 lower with urgency, thin books, no bids, pockets collapsing. Instead, what we …

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The Crisis and Revolution Hidden in Plain Sight

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, While we focus on AI and finance, society is crumbling beneath our feet. According to both the mainstream media and social media, the forces that will shape the future are: 1) AI (i.e. technology’s impact on jobs and growth), 2) geopolitical competition for AI dominance, energy, resources, trade, military …

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Double top or breakout 5% in sight for 10Y, new highs in yields suggest selloff far from over

Yields don’t move like this unless something under the surface is breaking or already has byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts A sale of 20-year U.S. government bonds saw weak demand Wednesday, pushing the Treasuries to new lows for the year as yields climbed. https://www.barrons.com/articles/20-year-treasury-bond-auction-bba9d889 Unpopular Opinion: This market move is closer to just starting than finishing. Ask yourself …

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Ukraine extends martial law – no elections, no demobilization, no end in sight

🇺🇦UKRAINE EXTENDS MARTIAL LAW – NO ELECTIONS, NO DEMOBILIZATION, NO END IN SIGHT Its parliament just pushed elections further down the road and locked in troop mobilization until August 6 – 357 MPs voted yes, one dared to say no. That lone voice, MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, called… https://t.co/7uSwNntbEE pic.twitter.com/K0zP5UpAkH — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 16, …

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Rebound possible, but no blow-off top in sight. Retail is still buying the dip and calling for a bottom.

Friendly reminder: U.S. markets remain extremely negative in terms of sentiment across multiple indicators — which, from a contrarian perspective, is typically bullish. However, equity allocations are still relatively high, highlighting a clear disconnect between positioning and sentiment. On top of that, given the unique market environment we’re in, a rebound is possible — but …

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Uranium bottom in sight?

It can't be this easy spotting the bottom in uranium. Can it? What's your favorite uranium junior here? pic.twitter.com/VOBxYWUH2Y — Brandon Beylo (@marketplunger1) March 17, 2025

The Natural Disasters Won’t Stop! They Just Keep Hitting The U.S. One After Another With No End In Sight…

by Michael Have you noticed that the U.S. has been getting monkey-hammered by one natural disaster after another this year?  In fact, we have reached a point where some sort of a natural disaster is making news literally almost every single day.  This week, there have already been several natural disasters that have made headlines …

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US Mortgage Rates Rise Slightly (+8% YoY) As M2 Money Growth Dies (-3% YoY) In Plain Sight (M2 Money Growth Has Been Negative For All Of 2023)

by confoundedinterest17 We are closing out the first week of the New Year and 30-year conforming mortgage rates are up slighlty. Mortgage rate GROWTH is now at 8% year-over-year (YoY). While M2 Money growth has died and is down -3% YoY. Bank credit growth has been negative since July 2023 and M2 Money growth has …

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MATT TAIBBI: “Thirty years after Bill Clinton ditched the ‘Peace Dividend,’ we seem to be in conflict everywhere, with no end in sight. Do we need a fundamental re-think of our foreign policy priorities?”

On June 1, Harpers put out a cover story titled, “Why are we in Ukraine?” The authors were professor Christopher Layne, the Robert Gates chair of National Security at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government, and Benjamin Schwarz, a onetime national and literary editor of The Atlantic and former analyst for the RAND Corporation. Both …

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Poland Patrolling Belarus Border with Attack Helicopters. Ordered to Fire on Sight

Tensions between Poland and Belarus continue to escalate. Polish combat helicopters now patrol the Belarus border, armed and authorized to fire without hesitation. This response follows airspace violations by Belarusian military helicopters who flew low and undetected 1/ https://t.co/8nYXtHymK1 pic.twitter.com/zMWBf5hqaK — Tymofiy Mylovanov (@Mylovanov) August 4, 2023 Poland's Defense Minister said the armed helicopters are …

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Federal Reserve Alert! Beige Book July 12, 2023: “many contacts reported an inability to fully pass on increased costs to consumers, which has compressed margins.” Is the ‘Greedflation’ Peak in Sight?

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/beigebook202307.htm Overall Economic Activity Overall economic activity increased slightly since late May. Five Districts reported slight or modest growth, five noted no change, and two reported slight and modest declines. Reports on consumer spending were mixed; growth was generally observed in consumer services, but some retailers noted shifts away from discretionary spending. Tourism and …

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Bidenomics! US Public Debt Breaks $32 TRILLION Barrier, Up 200% Since Obama/Biden (And Unfunded Liabilities At $192 Trillion With No End In Sight) Our Money Belongs To Them!

by confoundedinterest17 Money makes DC go around. Particularly when there are no effective constraints on the Administration or Congress’s ravenous appetite for insane spending (like Biden bragging about the US funding a large solar energy in Angola while he leaves the southern border wide open). After all, Biden, Schumer and McConnell all believe our money (along …

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