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$BBAI #BBAI Peekaboo

Hedge Funds have increased their short exposure to the highest level in AT LEAST the last decade 🚨🚨

@crypto_birb yes waiting for the Confirmation, so easy to say, harder to ...

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Semiconductor Stocks now make up almost 20% of Hedge Fund Net Exposure 🚨🚨 Probably Fine 🫡

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ProShares has launched a new ETF aimed at investors who want exposure to companies with a long history of rewarding shareholders through stock buybacks. The ProShares S&P 500 Buyback Aristocrats ETF, trading under the ticker BUYB, is the first ETF focused exclusively on S&P 500 companies that have reduced their share count for at least 10 straight years. The fund tracks the S&P 500 Buyback Aristocrats Index. To qualify, companies must show consistent buyback discipline over a full decade, not just recent or aggressive repurchase activity. Only 64 companies currently meet the standard, representing about 13% of the S&P 500. That shows how rare long-term share count reduction is, even among large public companies. Buybacks have become a major shareholder return strategy because they can boost earnings per share and return excess cash without committing to a dividend. ProShares CEO Michael Sapir said companies that consistently repurchase shares often show disciplined capital management, strong fundamentals and a shareholder-focused approach. The ETF includes holdings across sectors such as industrials, financials and consumer discretionary. The launch also expands the “Aristocrats” ETF category, which is usually associated with dividend growth strategies. The takeaway: BUYB gives investors a new way to target companies that reward shareholders through persistent buybacks instead of traditional dividend growth.

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$GME This is all you need to know into tomorrow.

#Bitcoin Price is nearly the final & "thinnest" part of this "volume gap" above. Any sharp decrease in oil likely fills this gap to $84-$86k this week. $BTCUSD

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Nasdaq's Feb 2026 consultation is real: Fast Entry for top-40 market-cap new listings after just 15 trading days (exempt from seasoning/liquidity), plus 5x multiplier on floats under 20% (capped at 100% weight). Aimed at big IPOs like rumored SpaceX $1.75T debut. Valid critique—skips price discovery, amps passive flows into illiquid stock, potentially enriching insiders at passive investors' expense. Nasdaq wants the listing revenue; competition with NYSE is healthy, but tweaking rules for one mega-cap risks distorting the index that trillions track. Prefer S&P-style 50%+ float minimums for balance. Worth watching final decision post-consultation.

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?

$ZETA #ZETA Bullish engulfing candle today. Potentially ready for the next leg up as price breaks through the January pivot VWAP.

$SOFI Market was waiting for this. Guy must be a technician or had some advice, because that was the most technical buy he could have made.

$SOFI #SOFI The weekly RSI has never been this oversold in the history of the stock.

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