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@JohnLoc18 @vandy_trades I think we will get a flush.

@vandy_trades If it makes new low by Friday I’ll go long.

$SPY Looking similar to March 17th and 18th. A lower high could be forming with inability to break and hold over 658.73. Rejection of this level and a fill of our open bear gap at 630 is in play.

@Jimmyjude13 @yaacov 40 Trillions of debt nobody wants anymore plus all the other chimps have big sticks now... i would be mad too.

@yaacov Hell of a tweet to go into Sunday night on

I didn't believe this was real when I saw screenshot @realDonaldTrump/116351998782539414" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru… Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

@BossMohitt 1x $20k payout after 67 blown XFA’s or 21x payouts of $2k from 4 XFA’s consistently?

1 x $20k payout or 10 x $2k payouts? Which one are you choosing?

@david_eng_mba @JavierBlas Doesn’t mean anything curves can change and hedges too, selling the front and buy further.

The market is pricing a sharp near-term oil shock, not a permanently higher oil price. stay tuned... WTI: about $112 now down toward ~$71 by early 2027 Brent: about $109 now down toward ~$77 by early 2027

Iran can remain irrational longer the Donald Trump (and the global economy) can stay solvent.

@VeryBullishGuy @TrendSpider SpaceX is already too big to fail.

Amazon IPOd in 1997 at a $438M valuation on $16M in revenue. thats 27x sales on a company that was losing money selling books online SpaceX is IPOing with $16B in revenue, $8B in profit, a monopoly on orbital launch, 10M Starlink subscribers, and growing 60%+ year over year you know what Amazons revenue was when it first hit a $2T valuation? about $470B. it took them 24 years to grow into it. SpaceX is projecting $22 to $24B this year and the curve is steeper this meme wouldve killed in 1999 about Amazon too

but they have rockets

@BrettSimba @Tradeify Maybe vibecode a platform?

Instead of the new prop firm shill should @Tradeify just do another mini grand cup?

@pdicarlotrader In this kind of climate it’s better to wait for the flush.

My system enters on pullbacks. Not bottoms. That means ~75% of entries go red first. Short term pain. Then the move. We are buying retracements in a bull cycle, not pinpointing the bottom

@MichaelPBento This basically reinforces no rate cut.

Red hot jobs report this morning with a decrease in hourly earnings. This should put a bid under the market Monday to give us the gap up open. That is assuming we don’t put boots on the ground this weekend.

@MichaelPBento You really think this isn’t already priced in?

@dotjosh Whats the change?

Wild moment for our team! Topstep has been setting the bar in this industry for a long time. They built theirs…we built ours... and now we get to put it all together. I’m fired up to get to work with these guys. Big things ahead. Not hype, more true innovation!

@DonMiami3 Oil did.

Fed should hike

@romanelyn @Topstep Nobody takes the 3 days option, just sayin… it’s on you.

Well...here's another firm that plays mind games with you when it's time for payout...@Topstep , their payout process wasn't like this before so it's very disappointing. I'm on the consistency XFA, get paid every 3 days they say. Last payout was 3/30, payout was approved and funds deducted prior to trading on 3/31. Completed Day 3 yesterday with 37.86% consistency, but the dashboard didn't update so I wasn't able to request a payout. Cleared cache, as they suggested in previous ticket, didn't fix it. So yep, this isn't the first time this happened. Submitted a new ticket, no reply. Ended up on tilt and blew the account --> this is on me. 😭 I just wanted to vent and share my payout experience. It seems like @TradingLucid and @TakeProfitLLC are the only firms that have no nonsense when it comes to payout. Anyone else?

@biancoresearch This is exact why Ai slop should be auto flagged, no one wants to read it.

I am not a military analyst. I'm a financial analyst focused on macroeconomic risk. That different lens might explain why I see something most military strategists and investors are missing. --- The New Rules of Warfare—And Why We Can't Opt Out For nearly a century, warfare belonged to whoever controlled the biggest defense budget. Aircraft carriers. Stealth bombers. Multibillion-dollar weapons systems. That model is changing in ways many aren't appreciating. Ukraine and Iran are showing the West what 21st-century conflict actually looks like: decentralized, highly iterative, fast-changing, unmanned, and cheap. Neither the US nor Russia—beginning in 2022—appears prepared. We might now have no choice but to show we can fight and win such a war. The Ukraine Approach Faced with a small defense budget, a much smaller population, and a vastly outnumbered army, Ukraine had to get creative. They couldn't match Russia's industrial capacity or spending. So they abandoned that playbook entirely. They developed an entirely new way to fight, highly decentralized, iterative, and most importantly, cheap. They also created Brave1—a completely new way to conduct war. Frontline commanders log into an iPad and bypass central command entirely. They spend digital points to purchase equipment directly from hundreds of (Ukrainian) manufacturers. When they encounter a new threat, they message the manufacturer directly and work with the engineers to find a solution, even if that means they visit to the front. The result is hardware or software upgrades that once took months now take days. Here's the crucial part: hundreds of manufacturers compete fiercely for these dollars by offering the best possible product as fast as possible. This isn't centralized procurement. It's a market. Competition drives innovation at scale. Weapons evolve as the enemy evolves in real time. Units are also awarded points for confirmed kills, uploaded from drone video—a powerfully eloquent way to grade effectiveness. But the real innovation might be how they decentralized manufacturing itself. Instead of building weapons in massive, centralized factories that make perfect targets for Russian bombing, Ukraine distributed production across hundreds of small manufacturers—workshops, machine shops, garages, and yes, kitchens. Each produces components or complete systems. This approach serves two purposes: speed and survival. You can bomb a tank factory. You destroy production for months. You cannot bomb ten thousand kitchens. If one workshop gets hit, ninety-nine others keep producing. The network regenerates faster than Russia can destroy it. This is why the manufacturing process includes actual kitchens—it's not a metaphor. It's a strategy. The Metric That Defines a New Era The result is staggering: at least 70% of battlefield casualties now come from drones. This is the first time in over a century that the primary cause of combat death is neither a bullet nor an artillery shell. Since World War I, industrial warfare meant industrial killing. Ukraine has broken that equation entirely. As a result, Russia is now controlling less territory than at any point since 2022 and going backward. In March, Ukraine made gains while Russia recorded no gains for the first time in two and a half years, and Drone-led offensives recaptured 470 square kilometers while paralyzing 40% of Russian oil exports. Ukraine has lowered the "cost per kill" to less than $1,000 per casualty—a 99.98% reduction from the millions of dollars that were common in the post-9/11 wars. This isn't an incremental improvement. This is a complete inversion of modern military economics. Yet the Western defense establishment is not learning from this. Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger mocked Ukraine's entire approach. In The Atlantic, he called Ukrainian manufacturers "housewives with 3D printers," dismissing their work as "playing with Legos." They are not studying this revolution. They are mocking it. And the "housewives with 3D printers" are beating the Russian army! Ukraine Is Now in the Middle East The US Military and Gulf states face an eerily similar problem. Iran's Shahed drones threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz—a chokepoint that funnels 21% of global oil. They cannot fend off Iran by firing a $4 million Patriot missiles at $20,000 drones. They need what Ukraine has discovered: a decentralized, rapidly adaptive defense network that doesn't require centralized industrial capacity. That's why Ukraine just signed historic 10-year defense deals with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. Over 220 Ukrainian specialists are now on the front lines of the Persian Gulf—exporting not just weapons, but a completely new doctrine of how to fight. The precedent is set. The model works. Everyone is watching. Mosaic On April 1st, Trump threatened to bomb Iran "back to the stone ages" if they don't reopen the Strait within weeks. It's the classic 20th-century playbook: overwhelming offense force, massive bombardment, industrial-scale destruction. The problem? That playbook doesn't work against distributed, cheap, rapid-iteration systems—especially when your enemy is organized under a mosaic structure. Iran's "Mosaic Defense" doctrine is a decentralized command system where authority and capability are distributed across multiple geographic and organizational nodes. Each region operates semi-autonomously with overlapping chains of command and pre-planned contingencies. It's designed so that when you destroy the center, the edges keep fighting. You cannot decapitate a system with no head. You cannot out-bomb your way to victory when your enemy is not centralized; this was the solution for 20th-century industrial warfare. Defense Wins Championships 21st-century asymmetrical threats require defensive shields, not aggressive offenses. Ukraine has built exactly that: rapid-iteration defenses, decentralized manufacturing, commanders empowered to buy solutions in real time and rewarded for success. That same defensive model may hold the key to opening the Strait of Hormuz. Not through massive offense, but through the ability to adapt and defend quickly. Why We're Stuck Whether you viewed this as a war of choice or not, it has now become a war to keep global trade open. And that makes it inescapable. This is precisely why the US cannot declare victory and walk away from the Strait of Hormuz— or TACO. Every adversary on the planet will interpret American withdrawal as confirmation that cheap asymmetric systems work against powerful centralized platforms. And these adversaries might have sent us a message last month. In mid-March 2026, an unauthorized drone swarm penetrated Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, home to the U.S. Air Force's Global Strike Command. The fact that this happened not overseas but in the United States, and that these tests occurred just weeks ago, underscores how close this threat is now. They didn't attack. They announced their presence. Every adversary watching learned that cheap drone networks can reach into the US. The Global Supply Chain Risk If the US abandons the Gulf while Iran holds the Strait contested, markets will price this as validation that cheap systems can hold global trade hostage. The current market disruptions will become permanent. Supply chains will have to pivot from "just-in-time" efficiency back to "just-in-case" redundancy. Inflation returns as safety costs money. Trade routes diversify away from vulnerable chokepoints. The global friction tax becomes permanent. The Unavoidable Truth Once you prove that cheap, asymmetric systems can hold global trade hostage, that knowledge spreads globally and irreversibly. Every adversary learns the same lesson: you don't need a $2 trillion Navy—you need $20 million in drones and the will to use them. Withdrawing while the Strait remains contested would permanently validate this model. Supply chains shift to "just-in-case" redundancy. Insurance costs rise. The friction tax becomes structural—baked into every global transaction for decades. The cost of staying is measured in months. The cost of leaving is measured in decades of economic drag. We cannot leave unfinished business.

@MichaelPBento Cash is a position and a pnl.

WTI Crude futures settle above $110 for the first time since 2022. Someone want to tell me why this is bullish for stocks? It seems to me if anything like the situation with energy is getting worse.

One of the lowest volume days in the market this year. Easy to manipulate and create traps. $SPY

@WesleyJMattox If everyone is scared to go long... it's going to explode higher.

Who's stepping in to buy over the long holiday weekend?

@iamdisplacement Patience, Patience and Patience.

As a trader, what is your personal philosophy? 3 words or less I’ll start: Trust the process.

@PolymarketMoney Exit liquidity lol

Are you a buyer of SpaceX at its target $1.75 trillion IPO valuation?

@TheSoupRoom Almost got me.

Bro I just had the craziest trading day in my life. I'm so fucking thankful I learned how to trade.

Out-of-context quotes + manufactured FOMO = War profiteering 101. Do Your Own Research.