Tom Alexander
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Tom Alexander
@AlexanderTrade
AUCTION MARKET trader. 40 yrs. screen based trader. Complication is a marketing mechanism used by those that have no clue.
Charleston, SC 가입일 Mart 2009
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$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET.
Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time.
5 minutes before Trump's post.
Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer?
This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.
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Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
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Guys don't put up with this shit. Until they're about 13.
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This is Ben Lichtenstein. Ben was the voice of the pits for off floor traders back in the day... Traders Audio. Ben's a legend.
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Mike@MarketMike
Turn your volume up for this one. This is real audio from the S&P 500 futures pit at the CME during the Flash Crash of 2010. On May 6, 2010, markets were already having a rough day, down over 300 points on worries about the Greece debt crisis. Later, the bottom fell out. The Dow dropped another 600 points in about 5 minutes. Nearly 1,000 points gone on the day. About 9%, kaboom. Then 20 minutes later, most of it came right back. This clip never gets old.
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Iran has reportedly kidnapped the families of the Iranian women’s soccer team members who requested asylum & the women are now abandoning those claims and returning to the country to face torture or death. No prominent left wing American women’s soccer players have said a word.
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This is the most SHAMELESS structural manipulation of a major index I've ever seen.
SpaceX is preparing what could be the largest IPO in history.
Target valuation: $1.75 trillion.
That would make it the sixth-largest company in America on day one.
And Nasdaq wants the listing so badly they're literally CHANGING how the Nasdaq-100 works.
In February, Nasdaq published a "consultation" proposing sweeping changes to how companies enter the index. The timing is pure coincidence, of course.
Just like it's pure coincidence that SpaceX has reportedly made fast index inclusion a CONDITION of listing on Nasdaq.
Here's what they're proposing:
A new "Fast Entry" rule would let any newly listed company whose market cap ranks in the top 40 of current Nasdaq-100 members get added to the index after just 15 trading days.
No seasoning period. No liquidity requirements. Completely exempt from the standards every other company had to meet.
Currently, new public companies typically wait up to a year before they're eligible for major index inclusion.
That waiting period exists for a reason. It lets the market establish real price discovery. It protects passive investors from being forced into untested, illiquid stocks.
And Nasdaq wants to throw all of that out. For ONE listing.
But the Fast Entry rule isn't even the worst part...
The real scandal is the 5x float multiplier.
Right now, the S&P 500 uses a free-float adjusted methodology. If only 5% of a company's shares are available for public trading, the index weights you at 5% of total market cap.
That's common sense. You weight a company based on what investors can actually buy.
Nasdaq's current methodology already uses total market cap rather than free-float for weighting. But for very low-float stocks, they at least had a 10% minimum float threshold.
Under the new proposal, that threshold DISAPPEARS entirely.
Instead, any stock with less than 20% free float gets weighted at FIVE TIMES its actual float percentage, capped at 100%.
Do the math on SpaceX:
If SpaceX IPOs at $1.75 trillion and floats 5% of its shares, there would be roughly $87.5 billion worth of stock available for public trading.
Under Nasdaq's proposed 5x multiplier, the index would weight SpaceX at 25% of its total market cap. That means passive funds would be forced to buy as if SpaceX were a $437.5 billion company.
But only $87.5 billion of stock actually exists in the market.
You are forcing hundreds of billions in passive buying into a $87.5 billion float.
QQQ alone manages nearly $400 billion. The total Nasdaq-100 ecosystem represents over $1.4 trillion in exposure across ETFs, mutual funds, structured notes, and derivatives.
Every single passive vehicle tracking this index would be REQUIRED to buy SpaceX at whatever price the market dictates.
On Day 15.
With zero price discovery. Zero track record as a public company. And a float so thin you could read through it.
So what this actually does is it creates a structural wealth transfer mechanism.
The passive bid from index funds pushes the stock price higher. That higher price benefits exactly one group of people: the insiders and early investors who own the other 95% of the shares.
And when lock-up periods expire 90 to 180 days later? Those insiders sell into the artificially inflated passive bid. Your 401(k) is the exit liquidity.
This is the fundamental corruption of indexing.
Indexing used to be brilliant. Low cost. Efficient. You were free-riding on the price discovery done by active managers. The index reflected the market.
Now the index IS the market. Trillions of dollars flow blindly into whatever the index tells them to buy. And the people who control the index methodology are changing the rules to serve the interests of a single IPO candidate.
The S&P 500 requires companies to have at least 50% of shares available for public trading. It requires 6 to 12 months of seasoning. It uses free-float adjusted weighting so passive investors aren't buying phantom liquidity.
Nasdaq is doing the exact opposite. 15 days. No float requirement. 5x multiplier on insider-held shares.
Every passive investor in QQQ, QQQM, and every fund benchmarked to the Nasdaq-100 should understand what's about to happen:
The rules are being rewritten to benefit IPO issuers and early-stage insiders, and your capital is the tool being USED to enrich them.
45 years in this business and I've watched Wall Street find creative new ways to separate retail investors from their money in every cycle. But usually they at least try to be subtle about it.
This one they put in a PDF and called it a "consultation."
What's your take?
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Sam Harris sits quietly as Bill Maher calls out the NYT for pushing readers toward an opinion on the “Iran War.”
“The second day of the war… The New York Times’ headline was ‘US troops die.’ That was what they led with.”
“But then, in a country where I’ve read 80 to 90% of the people are thrilled that the Ayatollah is gone, what picture did they put? Picture of people mourning the Ayatollah…”
“I can’t believe that somebody at the desk didn’t get, ‘I’ve got a great picture of people dancing in the streets.’ Yeah, we’re gonna go with the 10% who are sorry the Ayatollah is dead because that’s gonna funnel the thought of our readers toward, ‘Oh, this is a bad war to get into.’”
“That, to me, is the difference in what the media does now and what they didn’t used to do. You’re funneling me toward an opinion, whereas I would love it if you just told me what happened.”
After a couple of low-energy “yeahs,” Harris conceded: “The boundary between activism and journalism has clearly broken down.”
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The lunatic left that took over Twitter was Wormtongue to the World.
Firing @Jack was the final straw. He was the last bulwark.
Now Bret Taylor is chair of @OpenAI …
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol
@C_3C_3 The graph of people, but especially kids, identifying as transgender literally nosedives as soon as Elon buys Twitter. Almost like it was a social contagion… …and people couldn’t talk about it because they were being censored Imagine that.
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The Islamic regime in Iran is terrified of the world seeing The Stoning of Soraya M. This is the brutal, unvarnished reality of Sharia law that the globalist media chooses to ignore.
Soraya Manutchehri was buried chest-deep and pelted with stones by an entire village of men after her husband fabricated adultery charges. Her real crime was refusing to let him take a second wife. This wasn't a tragedy; it was a state-sanctioned execution designed to enforce total submission.
Why do Western human rights groups remain silent while this medieval barbarism continues? Is it time to admit that Sharia is fundamentally incompatible with a civilized world?
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When you're a racist and don't even know it. Only libs can get away with saying stupid shit like this.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
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