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Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

This is exactly how engagement farming works. You take one data series You pair it with a scary sentence You imply causation You let retail panic do the rest Here’s the problem. Retail flows at a record high do not automatically equal a top. They reflect participation, not intelligence levels. And “insiders dumping at a record pace” is almost always context free nonsense. Insiders sell for three primary reasons: 1.Diversification 2.Liquidity planning 3.Pre-scheduled 10b5-1 programs They do not wake up one morning and collectively decide the market is peaking. When stocks go up, insider selling goes up. That is arithmetic. Equity compensation vests at higher prices. Exercising options becomes rational. Selling into strength is normal behavior. If insider selling truly predicted tops, it would show up in systematic alpha. It doesn’t. Also notice what the chart actually shows: a 21-day rolling retail imbalance. That’s a short term flow metric. It says nothing about valuation, breadth, credit conditions, earnings revisions, or positioning of real institutional capital. This is how narratives get built: Retail buying + insider selling = doom. It sounds sophisticated. It isn’t. Retail participation often rises during momentum phases. That doesn’t tell you whether structure is healthy or fragile. It just tells you who is participating. The real question is always: Are forced sellers done? Is leverage extended? Are balance sheets deteriorating? Is credit tightening? Are earnings rolling over? Flow charts without structural context are noise. Everyone sells when prices go up. That is literally how markets clear. If insiders weren’t selling into strength, that would be more unusual. Scare charts get impressions. Structure gets paid. If you want to short something, short deteriorating cash flows, weak capital allocation, or balance sheet stress. Not a headline built off a rolling retail imbalance chart. Fear farming isn’t analysis.

Racist genocide apologist says what?