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Derivatives trader. ex-HSBC · BNP Paribas · 12yrs in Global Markets · Posting on Futures · Options · Macro Trade with us 👉 https://t.co/MXBuXajU3l NotFinancialAdvice

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Most people use the Wheel Strategy. Almost nobody uses it like an institution. For the past few weeks, I’ve been documenting a complete framework that transforms a simple retail options strategy into a systematic income engine. 📘 The Way of Options Inside you’ll learn: • To generate consistent monthly income • Rules-based framework for capital allocation • Institutional risk management & portfolio overlays • Advanced Wheel variations • Underlying selection framework • Position sizing, adjustments & governance • Stress-tested performance through multiple bear markets • And more… This isn’t another covered call playbook. It’s a complete operating manual for building an institutional-style options income portfolio. Releasing soon. Comment “WAY” below and I’ll send you a free copy on launch. 🚀
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Almost done writing Income Booster Framework. I’ve distilled my experience into a playbook covering: - stock selection - trade construction - risk framework - position management & more Capture option premiums & boost income with minimal risk. Let me know 👇 if you want it.

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I’m worried about Korea’s youth. They’re gambling away their futures. Too many could end up trapped in lifelong debt. Never ever borrow money to trade markets. $KOSPI
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@Hedgeye I’m wondering how bad the data in Korea will look. Most of their young generation is borrowing money to invest in the stock markets. Degeneracy at its peak!

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$MU Price bounced off key MA support on the daily with bullish RSI divergence. The setup looks overextended on higher timeframes, but the memory sector has fundamental momentum behind it with $SKHY IPO optimism and persistent AI-related demand. That backdrop should keep a floor under MU near term. Sold put verticals for next week's expiry. Collected a decent premium for a probabilistic bet on support holding. Not my highest-conviction setup, but the risk-reward made sense for a small allocation. Let's see how it goes with this position. Not financial advice.
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TrendSpider@TrendSpider

BREAKING: SK Hynix $SKHY has filed its Form 8-A ahead of its U.S. listing tomorrow Bloomberg is reporting shares are expected to be priced at $149 per ADR, or $1,490 per share.

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Semis are flashing warning signs. $SOX I want to sell call spreads & profit from consolidation.
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The AI price war just entered a new phase. Meta isn’t trying to maximize AI profits today, but rather maximize market share. After unveiling its latest AI model, reports suggest $META could price it at roughly 25% of what leading competitors charge. It’s a strategic pricing decision to kill the competition. It has loads of cash and tools for disruption. The logic is straightforward: • Win developers first. • Become the default platform. • Figure out monetization later. The challenge, however, is that AI isn’t software with near-zero marginal costs. Every prompt consumes compute. Every model upgrade requires more GPUs, power, memory, networking, and data-center capacity. In other words, scale doesn’t automatically make AI cheaper. Meanwhile, Meta is expected to spend $125–145B in capital expenditures this year after Reality Labs has already accumulated roughly $87B in losses since 2020. Investors welcomed the news. Semiconductors rallied, volatility fell, and the market continued rewarding the AI infrastructure trade. That makes sense. Whether the companies building AI models ultimately earn attractive returns is still an open question. The companies selling the picks and shovels (GPUs, networking, memory, power infrastructure, and data-center equipment) continue to be the beneficiaries. The AI race increasingly looks less like a software story and more like an infrastructure arms race. That’s where I’d keep my focus. One thing is certain. Pie is getting smaller and smaller day by day. I won't be surprised if OpenAI lags behind Anthropic & Meta. This is like GCP, Azure & Amazon Web Services. But, for AI model layer. Whoever owns the vertical stack wins the battle. Just an opinion. What are your thoughts on this? Comment below. 👇
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Mark Zuckerberg@finkd

(1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.

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South Korea’s KOSPI Plunges 8%, Prompting Market-Wide Trading Halt
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$SPCX IPO wasn’t the top. solana:SKHYhSjuRWHgikq8eRKbtBbpABgJSkd7ytQV14i9EQ3 IPO is. Few understand this.
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$KOSPI down 8% 🔴 Close to a circuit breaker. Trading could be halted soon. Most of it is due to SK Hynix & Samsung. ~1.5% gap down opening in the US looks likely.
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Japan is running the most dangerous central bank experiment in modern history. The BOJ just pulled ¥23.5 trillion ($146B) out of the system in Q2. That's the steepest quarterly drain ever. Balance sheet down 15.6% from peak. They're now selling equity ETFs and J-REITs they swore they'd never touch. Bond market reaction: • 10-year JGB at 2.90%, highest since 1996 • 20-year at 3.89%, 30-year over 4% • Nine straight sessions of rising yields Meanwhile, producer inflation just hit 7.1% versus 6.8% expected. Policy rate is only 1.0%. The BOJ has no choice but to keep tightening. Here's the problem. USD/JPY is sitting at 162, a 40-year low for the yen. Japan already burned $73B trying to defend it earlier this year. Didn't work. A weak yen crushes import costs and corporate margins. Defending it means tightening harder and draining more liquidity. That's where the real risk sits. The yen carry trade is estimated at $4 to $8 trillion in notional. Borrow yen cheap, invest elsewhere for yield. If the BOJ succeeds in strengthening the yen, that entire structure unwinds violently. Forced deleveraging. Margin calls. Vol spikes. Correlations go to one. This is the setup for every major carry collapse in history. Slow grind higher, then violent snapback. My take: Japan is trying to execute the hardest pivot any central bank has ever attempted while sitting on top of a multi-trillion-dollar levered position that only works if they fail. Something breaks. For US markets, watch: • VIX term structure for flattening (early warning of global deleveraging) • JPY-sensitive sectors like autos and multinationals with Japan exposure • Credit spreads, especially in high yield • Any sudden spike in cross-asset correlation If Japan's tightening accelerates or the yen rips higher fast, US equities won't be immune. The carry unwind will show up in our vol surface first. I’m staying cautiously optimistic for now. But, also prepared to unwind exposure and stay cash.
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Yuto 🇯🇵@yutokanzakireal

日本銀行が準備している措置は、数十億の人々の生活に影響を与えるでしょう。 西側諸国の皆様、深くお詫び申し上げます。 これは個人的な問題ではありません。 神のご加護がありますように。

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Small Account July MTD Performance Closed P/L: $852 ✅ Sharpe: 12.06 Starting tomorrow, I'll share daily trade recaps with chart breakdowns and key levels. Primary focus: 0DTE vertical spreads on: - $SPX - $SPY - $QQQ - $IWM Will extend to other underlyings, occasionally.
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Today, I closed a bunch of $SPX 0DTE vertical spreads for a profit. ✅ Starting tomorrow, I’m planning to post: - Daily trade recaps - Chart breakdowns & key levels - 0DTE vertical spreads on $SPY $QQQ $IWM Like & comment “0DTE” if you're interested. 👇

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Below are the details of my $NBIS July17 150 cash-secured put position opened last week. Filled 3 contracts at $2.66.
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@StratsLabs What price did you pick for the CSP?

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Would it help if you could mirror every trade from this small account? - Trades copied from my account in real time - Bot executes directly in your account - Fully regulatory compliant - You control your capital allocation - Set-and-forget automation - Manual override anytime I’m currently speaking with vendors that support Schwab, Tradier, and IBKR connections. Interested? Reply below 👇
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Daily Recap: 7/10 As expected from the analysis shared earlier today (see quoted post 👇), $SPX stayed within the bounds with a quick retest of the trendline bottom shown in the chart. Buying surged at that retest, pushing the index back into the +ve GEX zone for the day. I started by selling ATM put credit spreads to test sentiment. The quick drop to 7508 prompted me to aggressively balance the portfolio and square off long exposure for a loss. Later, as the index stabilized around the opening price and showed strength, I sold put verticals and an Iron Fly at 7575, seeing the call build-up. That level proved to be the pivot point into the afternoon close. When price failed to break beyond the resistance zone shared earlier, I sold call vertical spreads and closed the day with a $114 profit. ✅ Overall, a busy trading day. Traded more than usual to cover the losses from the early session. I'll take a more measured approach going forward. With that said, I plan to share daily progress here on X so small retail traders can see the potential in trading 0DTE credit spreads. Benefits of trading 0DTE credit spreads: - No overnight risk; every day is a new day - Quick feedback, whether win or loss - Defined risk to a fixed dollar amount - Aggressive theta decay helps premium sellers However, 0DTEs are inherently volatile due to huge gamma risk. Prices can swing wildly with tiny changes in the underlying. It's vital to know how to read Greeks exposure and build a trading plan around that knowledge. With these daily recaps, I plan to share my progress—and the process behind my thinking each day—while showing how to grow a small options book to 6 figures. I started a small options book with ~$8K in capital (matching most of the retail traders), allocated purely for tracking progress here on X. So far, it looks good. Let's see how we close the month. Follow along for the updates, and let me know if you have questions. 👇 Happy to help!

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Today, I closed a bunch of $SPX 0DTE vertical spreads for a profit. ✅ Starting tomorrow, I’m planning to post: - Daily trade recaps - Chart breakdowns & key levels - 0DTE vertical spreads on $SPY $QQQ $IWM Like & comment “0DTE” if you're interested. 👇
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If Iran situation stabilises, I’m adding directional exposure. A Strait of Hormuz closure is the only risk capping equities. Nothing else is remotely close. Remove that, $SPX is aiming for 8000+ into year-end.
Jay D@JayD428914

@StratsLabs Thanks mate Slow and steady now,

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🚨 Big change for options traders. Starting July 13, Cboe is expanding trading hours for select equity options. You’ll be able to trade names like $NVDA, $TSLA, $AAPL, $AMD, $PLTR, $AVGO and more: • Pre-market: 7:30–9:25 AM ET • Post-market: 4:00–4:15 PM ET More flexibility. More opportunities. Market is evolving. 📈
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That's the key asymmetry. QT only matters if private balance sheets are willing to replace the central bank. As long as domestic demand remains stable, the pace is manageable. The real stress test begins if overseas investors demand a higher risk premium or domestic institutions step back simultaneously. Then, yields become policy-driven rather than market-driven.
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@StratsLabs The math is brutal. BOJ holds roughly half of outstanding JGBs — draining ¥23.5T in a quarter barely registers on the balance sheet. The experiment ends not when they stop selling; it's when foreign holders start selling JGBs faster than the BOJ can absorb them.
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@OddStats 😂 Alright, I’ve to check alternatives for options.
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@StratsLabs If you're talking about backtesting the actual credit spread, that's a level of data I don't have and couldn't properly process with my 1992 model 386sx with a Turbo button and MSDOS3.3
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List of every year in which VXN (VIX for QQQ) ▪ Did not register a single daily close ▪ Under 20.00 ▪ In July 2001 2002 2003 2008 2009 2010 2020 2022 2026 (so far)
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