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An imperfect yet intriguing proxy.
The American nightmare.
According to attention data.
Stress-testing Ed Zitron's doom speak.
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Anxiety, regulated.
Birds flock, the bond market doesn't.
The framing has collapsed into one word: collateral.
A new publication. Does not contain: mainstream echo.
Shall we just give up?
Audience size isn't the story.
Artefacts of false precision.
Confidence is a business model.
The freshest takes from Finance Substack are not in your inbox, they're on Substack Notes.
May contain anxiety.
AI is not the internet.
Converting the AI-capex narrative into a permanent capital-return regime.
Hantavirus hedge & an asymmetric microcap.
Judge the work, not the resume: measuring claim-evidence integrity, not fame, power, or institutional pedigree.
Jeff Currie is short gold.
AKT
FOMC Day
Il potere colpisce ancora
A recording from Steve Barton's live video
Bell Labs, Physical AI, and the Bigger Bull Case Behind $NOK
The 'tourist is finally adding to his ENERGY LONGS
$SPX
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Daily Plan 6.17.26
What The Signals Are Saying Now
A Disconnect That Won't Last
Also, lawmakers announce deal on housing bill with community bank provisions
(2026-06-16)
When Anatole Kaletsky talks, I listen.
WLD
GoldFix PM
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Good afternoon.
Arguably the biggest catalyst of the year is here, and it has the potential to shift the entire market.
For the last several decades, the investment thesis for Big Tech was incredibly simple: they were the greatest free cash flow generating machines in the history of capitalism.
Feels like we just had this conversation... 11 years ago...
The screen called the risk over the moment the deal closed. One of the largest crude draws on record, tanker owners still refusing the strait, mines still sitting in the water.
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Some early birthday presents for me, and SpaceX.
Continued inflation, hawkish regional bank presidents, and 11 of 12 monetary policy rules suggest the Fed should raise rates. The price of the Fed’s “patience” could be paid economy wide.
It’s natural when you think about the dotcom bubble to think about the companies that had meteoric rises and crashes - but what about the stocks that actually rose?
This is a short weekly email that covers a few things I’ve found interesting during the week.
From Euphoria to Despair In Under Six Months
Much is up in the air, and much hangs in the balance
The SPY is just having an inside day so far, nothing to discuss really until we either attempt a break over 760.4 or we turn lower forming a lower high.
Rabo
market vibes
A good mood, priced on a promise, is an opportunity to build cash.
Central banks repatriate gold as global insecurity rises
6/16/26
Current peace negotiations include a $300B investment into Iran's economy to incentivize regional stability. This stock could be best positioned to win.
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h/t Tavi Costa for chart
Closing out the first near 10-bagger Bison Insights idea
A recording from Garrett Baldwin's live video
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While your faithful Nonconsensus author is at the beach this week taking a little break from my daily writing, I’m still keeping an eye on things (see how weak those Chinese stats were?).
What The Signals Are Saying Now
A masterclass in pricing power
Liquidity Rises Further; Risk Appetite Softens
Publication 225 - Farmer's Tax Guide has changed a bit
Even with AI hard at its labors — and here we speak with our fullest confidence — people will go on wanting things, and go on finding things to do to earn the money to buy them.
Money Printer Pro - June 16
Good morning.
AI's most valuable lab is suddenly its most vulnerable
Quality versus momentum
Should 60/20/20 using liquid alts go mainstream?
While nobody was looking, China harmonized global hydrocarbon fungibility.
Natural gas prices have gone absolutely nowhere in the past month as the market digests the incoming cooling demand projections.
Options could drive its valuation to a point that exposes our capital markets as permanently broken.
What The Signals Are Saying Now
Get this model portfolio update that unpacks the latest news on one of our key positions.
market vibes
$FTNT $CXW $GEO $UMC
Below is a log of all of my most recent trades over the last few weeks, along with some thoughts on my current risk management strategy.
And a Plea for Charity Suggestions
Important Setups
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Also, PCAOB hires new enforcement chief; Selig adds senior staff at CFTC
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The layer beneath the layer
The second in a series of in-depth updates on my favorite oil stock ideas.
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Sometimes the market hands us a setup so clear, so historically precedented, and so mathematically asymmetric that it requires very little explanation.
RTX Spark is a new chip designed by NVIDIA in partnership with MediaTek that will power a new line of Windows PCs from nearly every major PC maker.
My favorite names across the layers of the Physical AI trade
A daily companion newsletter for SPX/ES Traders offering accurate daily levels, an actionable trade plan, a comprehensive process, and insight into the art and science of trading from the perspective of a professional tr
Talk about a dog of a stock, now under $48 from $226 early last year.
Up until not too long ago, the modal way of preserving a moat in quantitative finance was to operate in absolute secrecy. This was in part because the traditional quant edge was a secret, a signal you found, that little
Lessons from Asia and Tesla
Trade Alert
GS
The SPY gapped up on the peace agreement between the US and Iran that was finally signed yesterday.
Hello,
The rise of prediction markets.
market vibes
Between the Lines - Vol. 11
Middle Eastern crude production inches higher as Gulf producers gained on incremental Hormuz Crisis logistical improvements; the Emiratis have left the building after 59 years as a member of the group
And even then, servers in the Fed’s basement might keep chugging along and bidding up the Dow.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
OpenAI and Anthropic are both readying mighty IPOs of their own, hoping to scoop up billions so they may go on pouring money into an almost miraculous technology of uncertain value.
We continue to get several questions on this issue
Nuclear could become one of the biggest investment themes of the next decade.
Power protecting itself from the people
FOMC and New AI Scare Stories
Buying the AI build-out one level below the crowd. Initiating Element Solutions ($ESI).
The hidden leases, the circular financing, the China margin war, and where the fee always lands, no matter who eats the loss.
& ROTATION TRADES
From Greg M
Peter Lynch ran the best fund on earth, then spent years insisting the amateur can beat the pros. The advantage was sitting in front of them the whole time...
Here's why Wall Street is missing this key segment of the market
Duolingo (DUOL) Initiation
Silver Degeneracy Revisited
Il potere al riparo dalla democrazia
Gold was meant as a hedge - does a falling gold price mean TLT is about to break?
La fagocitosis se combate dejando de ser alimento.
The next stage for capital flows
Jim Chanos with some AI accounting truths, Goldman's Daan Struyven weighs in on energy, AI bear Ed Zitron's spicy interview, and Ex-Citadel Brett Caughran with great insights you don't want to miss!
When does the deficit get resolved? What are the assumptions? Is it too late for oil inventories in the West?
A name-by-name look at the SMID Cap 10, plus the leaders I want to own moving forward...
U.S.
If the labs never earn their cost of capital, what happens to the bonds financing the buildings underneath them?
Another week of whiplash.
trades that determine financing rates for equities i.e. leveraged stock market exposure(s), known collectively as "equity repo"
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Weekly Trading Ideas: Actionable Cheat Sheet Included. Be sure to read if you are interested in high risk-reward entry points in leading stocks.
From Greg M
A Deeper Look Into My Investment Process
The average serious investor spends 40 hours per month listening to finance podcasts trying to find an edge.
$ASML $HPE $SNDK $CAVA $GEO
A new Fed Chair, an old problem: the numbers don't care who's at the podium
What Comes Out In The Warsh?
"No earnings losses in any quarter over the last decade"
June 14th, 2026
Plus a "What If" — How Do You Say 'Checkmate' in Chinese?
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It's a "lemming market"
Key Charts, Signals, and Scenarios.
Sleep Number Corp. ($SNBR), GoHealth, Inc. ($GOCO), SiFi Networks America, LLC, GoldenPeaks Poland Holding Limited
On June 12, 2026, Minnesota-based Sleep Number Corp. ($SNBR) and four affiliates (collectively, the “debtors” or the “company”) filed chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.
On May 29, 2026, GoldenPeaks Poland Holding Limited and 39 affiliated debtors (collectively, the “debtors”) filed chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the Southern District of Texas (Judge Perez).
Doug & Matt chat with Tom Woods, and also discuss SpaceX and readers' questions. John on Politics as one of the 9Ps, Malincentives, and Trump's impending peace deals keeping the markets bouncing.
Layer 1 - Data
From Greg M
June 14th, 2026
Weekly Plan 6.14.26
SpaceX IPO winners, Anthropic drama beneficiaries, a base that looks like ARM, my trading portfolio, and much more.
The world just minted its first trillionaire. The number is stranger than it looks.
You know what’s funny?
I flew to Lake Como to rest. The comment section built a power grid, audited eight balance sheets, and then broke my heart twice before the gelato melted
It’s Not That “Big Won.” It’s That the Index Can’t Stop Buying.
Read or listen now | The most extreme breadth reading in years suggests investors have given up on miners. Yet gold is above $4,000 an ounce.
DFA's research sheds some light
Trump is telling the world that an agreement will be signed immediately ending the Hormuz crisis. He’s wrong on both. It will only be a Memorandum of Understanding — an MOU.
Satya Nadella spent part of last weekend writing a think piece on X titled “A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable”.
The government thinks it’s modernizing.
One of the most interesting market mysteries of 2026 may have nothing to do with Iran itself.
A couple of days ago, “SouthernValue” tagged me in the below tweet:
That Moment That Made It Worth Waiting For
Overview Of The Week 71
The market is staring at five flashing red lights and somehow nobody is talking about the one that matters most.
Programming Note: As a reminder, every Sunday, I write pieces that are predominantly based on personal experiences which may or may not be loosely connected with investing.
The US exceptionalism trade is creeping back into the market through AI, resilient data, elevated rates, and equity inflows. That gives the dollar a stronger backbone than the simple safe-haven story.
This is not a fringe developer trying to save money on an API bill. This is Microsoft, one of the most important enterprise AI distribution channels in the world !!!!
(Achat prévu cette semaine)
See following a subscribers only🔒market update.
Blokáda Hormuzu nezastavila jen obchod. Nechala globalizaci pomalu zarůstat.
The oil move is the real macro valve here.
6/17 Plan → Only $15/month
How I use BULL PUT Spreads to grow small accounts with Perfect Win Rate!
Executive Summary
The SpaceX Debt Engine Just Activated Everything
Part Two of Two: Running Micron and SanDisk Through the Framework
A mining billionaire made a major bet on SpaceX
Options Intelligence — Special Feature | SPCX | June 16, 2026
With politicians giving everyone so much to talk about, the strength of the US dollar has gone largely unnoticed.
Bitcoin holds $1T of $1,000T in global capital (10 basis points).
Pizza Hut dumped for $2.7 billion by Yum Brands in shocking portfolio cleanup
Action Areas, Fibonacci, Shares, Options, and LEAPS
Wall Street Price Targets Revealed 🎯
OpenAI will run 500,000 A100-equivalent GPUs as an AI research intern by September 2026 - 90 days away.
Market Overview
The stores know you're stealing, now they're making a big move
Citadel selected fewer than 300 interns from over 108,000 applications. Here is the mechanical reality of how those seats get allocated, what they pay, and where qualified candidates remove themselves
SpaceX IPO’d at 90x revenues on a $2T valuation and is already trading higher - Chanos estimates core Starlink mobile supports at most a couple hundred billion, leaving roughly $1.5T assigned to business models that do n
Yesterday $ES turned back exactly on the daily diamond border I drew in last week.
Lowest total starts annual rate since May 2020 (at the start of pandemic).
Buried inside Western Digital for a decade. Now it's free, and it's printing money, up +5500% in less than 16 months, and I think it's still early
After JFK Catch Up on Some of the Best Stories From the Last Few Months
We positioned last week for the big gap up on Monday. Now let's focus on stocks that are yet to make big moves inshaAllah.
A final reminder to secure your lifetime discount on trading signals from The MarketFighter Strategy.
As a reminder all my old posts, FAQ and trading educations articles are here
A specialist contractor just bought its way deeper into the AI buildout, at roughly a quarter of its own multiple.
Nouvelle acquisition = nouvelle perspective ! 🫰
6/16 Plan → Only $15/month
Artificial intelligence is finally gaining physical form — and the opportunity isn't in the robot. It's in what goes inside it.
🚨 EVERYBODY BOUGHT THE DIP! 🟠
6/15/2026
Musk builds rockets and Democrats want to tax him to fund their failures.
People think the road to a nine-figure portfolio is built on the deals you say yes to.
Most business owners treat content like a chore they have to grind out by hand.
6/15/2026
The Software Setting Your Property Taxes Is Broken, and They Knew.
How to spot the scam, and what to do if you fall for it.
On Friday, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-June 2026 I reviewed home inventory and sales.
Some Dips are Better Than Others
Week of 6/15 screener setups
How a comedian, a stubborn executive, and one terrifyingly expensive gamble kept the future alive when every safe instinct in Hollywood screamed cancel it 🚀
Yuge gap up for indices on the open and follow through to the upside overnight.
The basket is up 46 percent. That is exactly the moment to be suspicious of my own restlessness, so here is what I changed today.
Building out a system that will track entries & measure performance to determine edge in breakout system
A net 23% of allocators are increasing quant exposure in 2026, and the compensation gap between bank desks and buy-side platforms is widening with it.
As a reminder all my old posts, FAQ and trading educations articles are here
The transformer bottleneck will shape the infrastructure sector's next ten years
Every Monday morning, you get a concrete options-selling plan for the week with specific covered call and put opportunities.
Are We Repeating History? Will It Fall Like It Or Is AI Truly Transformative Enough To Avoid The 2000–2002 Crash?
The White House unexpectedly banned Anthropic’s Fable on Friday using its export controls.
Also includes a large free-float and €178.5m of tax-free revenue.
🚀 NEXT 10X MOVE? Humanoids? SpaceX IPO Math & Crypto Plan 🤖
Massive Market Divergence! Crypto Extremes, Records Smashed 🚀
My game plan for the week and the top trade setups I am watching.
Selling Futures & Stocks Options + Wheel Strategy + Long Term Holdings. A Must Read For The Financial Community
This isn’t about Mars or saving humanity. It’s about moving massive risk from private hands onto the public balance sheet.
KKR just closed $1B and Blackstone launched a platform dedicated to CRE credit.
Tech giants face a brutal capex reckoning. Inside OpenAI's token panic, Oracle's leverage, SMCI's offering, SpaceX IPO, and Jensen's secret safety valve.
Securing the future
A Survey of the Semiconductor Equipment Sector
6월 셋째주
Futures contract roll, New FOMC chair first meeting and a holiday shortened week
We think Yamaichi is one of the most underappreciated plays in the AI infrastructure supply chain. Every advanced chip needs their burn-in socket before it ships. Every OSFP port on every AI spine switch needs their conn
Sunday, June 14, 2026
A hidden champion in the Memory and Logic Chip value chain that apparently no one cares about trading at 6x EBITDA
Performance Review; Investment Updates
6/15 Plan → Only $15/month
YTD Returns 142%
AI WAR BEGINS
The first wave moved tokens. The next one moves atoms. A complete map of the theme, the value chain, and where the money actually accrues.
Week 24 Review, Case Studies and Decisions Explained
June 14, 2026 | Everything you need to walk into Monday prepared.
A firm-by-firm breakdown of 2025 and Q1 2026 trading revenue, EBITDA margins, market share, and compensation across the nine largest market makers and proprietary trading firms.
Another thank you, my read on the market, and executable trades for the week.
2,700+ backtests across SPY, QQQ and Bitcoin. Every filter scored on protection, cost, stability and reach. Find yours, then see what it has been charging you.
