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He didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet & be stupid together.
-Julian Barnes
$TWTR
I don’t blame MMs. I’m in awe of them.
Intraday perfect channels that rise to a point and stop.
$100 channel top must be sold at 12pm but by 2:30pm it’s the channel bottom and bought.
Only MMs behave this way
I’ve seen this quite a bit as well. One of the easiest ways to identify someone who lacks real market experience is to listen to the narratives they construct around the market-making community.
It’s a huge red flag whenever someone speaks about market makers as though they’re some divine hand from the sky that sees all, knows all, and controls every movement in the market.
More often than not, these narratives serve as convenient scapegoats for price action that someone doesn’t fully understand. And when you actually tap the Street, examine positioning, or dig into the underlying data to validate those claims, they frequently fall apart.
The irony is that market makers are often just as constrained by inventory, risk limits, adverse selection, and imperfect information as everyone else. They are not omniscient, nor are they some coordinated entity operating with a singular objective.
Ultimately the “market makers are pinning the gamma bro” type of arguments are similar to the statements you hear from a fish blaming the dealer at the casino for “bad luck” on a few hands.
$GM did about 10x the EPS of $TSLA and is $300 per share cheaper….
to be at stock price parity w GM w earnings 90% lower Tesla would fall 80%
One can hope for Darwin eventually.
impressive from $TSLA
- miss on revenue
- 2.6% operating margins
- energy, their big growth driver is -16%
- automotive revenue -3%
This is a car company who gaslights people into thinking it's an energy company and here we are with car sales down and energy sales down too.
Finally updated my Muse in honor of $META earnings.
Defending my calendar like it’s the Alamo.
Always brings donuts.
Never forgets a birthday.
Schedules chafing tray Friday lunches.
Using AI to take us *back.*
In 2017 I was one of the very 1st $SOFI mortgage customers.
They said if you took out a personal loan you got an 1/8th pt rate reduction.
Took out a loan, got the mortgage, paid back the loan.
Math was IIRC $12 in total interest paid to save $950/yr for 30 yrs.
April's double bottom overlaid on recent price action (and heightened to match bc price is almost 4x as high)
Could be nothing $EXFY
Imagine $EXFY logs $7M FCF in Q3 (vs $6.4M Q2)
Well now you're at $15.8M YTD w Q4 vs a $12-14M guide.
So that will go up... $20-25M?
Which at today's mult vs midpoint = +73% = $4.50
Which - if you annualize $7M for 2027 - is $49M => $9.99.
Assuming mult stays same for 5xing FCF
$NTDOY is going to be forced to re-release all the back catalog.
If they add some sensible/additive motion controls (or just optional "Motion Mode") it'll be a better experience to just buy it on the S2.
Like how Napster forced labels to sign an iTunes deal.
It is crazy how much value the QQQs has in a:
-car biz
-telco
-flatlining rocket biz
-AI DC among dozens
-3rd (4th) place social networ
-last place AV network (by a light year)
-9 yo tunnel co w little success
-solar panels
conglomerate.
The QQQs!
It’s funny how over time a “landscape” - inland natural scenery for large estates that could mimic it - became the upscale term for what is more akin to gardening:
Weeding, laying mulch, trimming a few boxwoods, and mowing a 1/2 acre plot.
Like calling hanging family photos an “art installation” or aluminum siding “modern public art construction.”
Something happens Western govnts don’t like:
“because Russia”
Something isn’t happening that Western govnts want to do:
“because China”
According to security officials, pro-Russian and far-right social media accounts linked to previous disinformation campaigns have spread violent videos in an attempt to sow more chaos ft.trib.al/t4nxjpO























