Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
I always talk about how there’s always a game on Wall St. Lessons from my dad. They run the game until they suck the life out of it then they move on to the next one. Wall St is nothing but a bunch of parasites looking to suck the game until it dies. Recent examples …
BREAKING: Iran may permit the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if the oil carried is traded in Chinese yuan rather than the US Dollar, according to CNN report. — The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) March 14, 2026 IRAN JUST OFFERED TO REOPEN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. BUT ONLY IF THE ENTIRE WORLD …
by Michael If the war with Iran persists for an extended period of time, a lot of people could literally starve. Approximately half of all global food production is dependent on the use of fertilizer. Without fertilizer, crop yields would drop precipitously and there wouldn’t be anywhere near enough food for everyone. Even now, hundreds …
$44 billion in Bitcoin that never existed just traded on a live exchange for 20 minutes and the entire market is drawing the wrong conclusion. Friday, 7pm Seoul. Bithumb runs a promo where winners get 2,000 Korean won. About $1.40. One employee types “BTC” instead of “KRW.” 695 users receive 2,000 Bitcoin each. 620,000 BTC …
This was all pre planned. Government printed dollars. Lowered rates to 0%. You thought you were getting free monies to buy LED TV! In reality you were paying for this with your future and the elites were capturing every single asset — from stocks to houses to farm land! https://t.co/eprXRpb8jj — tic toc (@TicTocTick) November …
Shocking stat of the day: 0DTE options now reflect a record 75% of the Nasdaq’s total options volume. This percentage has TRIPLED over the last 3 years. Furthermore, 0DTE activity in the S&P 500 hit an all-time high, at 65%. Across the 13 most popular tickers, nearly $2 trillion of notional value has been traded …
Link to article:https://t.co/PjjGEIgPNo — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) August 28, 2025
The real question is, why is this stock traded in the USA? — DC, Last Legion, Infinity Redux (@DerektheCleric) June 18, 2025
https://twitter.com/RealDinoCapital/status/1858928503061725599 This is wild: A whopping ~$504 billion worth of Nvidia’s, $NVDA, options have been traded year-to-date, the most for any single stock. This is ~$200 billion more than Tesla, $TSLA, the second-hottest stock in the market this year. This is also more than Meta, $META, Apple,… pic.twitter.com/82LXt3vy97 — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 19, …
More signs of utopia unfolding in the liberal run wasteland of San Francisco… A thief who ransacked an FBI truck in San Francisco and made away with thousands of dollars of equipment turned around and traded it all for a $20 bag of methamphetamine, according to a report by the NY Post. The truck that was raided …
Over $170 billion wiped off cryptocurrencies as market tanks on Mt. Gox bitcoin payout fears Bitcoin’s price fell under $55,000 for the first time since February. At one point in time, the entire cryptocurrency market shed more than $170 billion in combined market capitalization in the last 24 hours. On Friday, the trustee for the …
via naturalnews The Central Bank of Russia has just released a financial risk review noting how trading in the Chinese renminbi reached a historic high in March. This surge in yuan usage comes as part of Russia’s ongoing shift away from major Western currencies, spurred by sanctions imposed by the United States and the European …
She has bought $5 million dollars of a private fund that owns privately held Databricks stock. “Investment in fund that owns Databricks stock. Databricks is a San Francisco engineering and analytics firm” http://twitter.com/1200616796295847936/status/1771193479747473717 This is pure corruption, legal corruption actually. And since they are the ones making millions by cheating, this will never change. They …
Exciting news is brewing in the financial world, particularly for India’s stock market. With a staggering 78% of equity options traded worldwide last year occurring in India, the stage is set for a potential explosion in the Indian stock market. This surge could mark a significant shift in the global investment landscape and present lucrative …
🚨JUST IN: Microsoft overtakes Apple to become the largest publicly traded company in the world by market cap. "I am the captain now"$MSFT pic.twitter.com/P6R3CEB7G3 — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) January 11, 2024 h/t DesmondMilesDant
by Chris Black These BNPL apps are just the newest in a long line of stock scams that won’t be around in a few years. In today's #MadDash @JimCramer says $AFRM is like $GME but with profits. The company announced yesterday it was expanding its partnership with Walmart to self-checkout kiosks. pic.twitter.com/V4TVbBGmeZ — Squawk on …
by Chris Black The duty to put profits for shareholders above all else has ruined millions of lives. There is a reason why Wall Street exists and it isn’t to make money off selling products and services to people. The majority of publicly traded corporations could not exist as private entities. They simply could not …
By Graham Summers, MBA Japan’s currency is now collapsing. Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan (or BoJ for short) is currently engaged in an open-ended Quantitative Easing (QE) program. In its simplest rendering, the BoJ starts buying the 10-Year Japanese Government Bond any time that bond’s yield rises to 1% or higher. It’s possibly the boldest …
BIG MONEY: CEO Gets $379 Million For Money-Losing EV Company. “Keep in mind that Lucid lost over $2 billion over the last year. Now, startups can take a while before they turn profitable, but paying the CEO of an unprofitable company hundreds of millions of dollars to boost the stock price of a money-losing company sounds awful …
https://twitter.com/senorceecee/status/1685890429009747968 Retirement Confidence Among Americans Has Hit An All-Time Low – ProfessPost According to a recent research released this week, there was a significant decline in the percentage of Americans who believe they will be financially prepared for a comfortable retirement. Credit : BlackRock According to BlackRock’s findings, the percentage of people feeling on track for retirement …
“… America First Legal is preparing to sue Anheuser-Busch, as well as several other big-name brands, for allegedly tanking their shareholder value through their Pride Month promotions that triggered outrage and boycotts. On Tuesday, America First Legal called on anyone whose shares in LGBT product-promoting companies lost value to reach out to them to join …
