Used to be an analyst. Miss my BBG. Thematic swing-trader!

Joined February 2025
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Almost dying then hitting Bear Flag Fish Co >
The Wedge got nutty today and might be even gnarlier tomorrow. Who says it never gets heavy in Southern California? Photos from Grant Ellis.
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$SRAD this trade I was a bit early to (and am currently slightly underwater), but my commons are back up around my cost basis. Have done more work and still like it.
$SRAD I actually love this idea and going to dig in more tomorrow. I’ve personally thought about spending the $2k a month for realtime data in order to trade the low latency ML / spread lines on prediction markets. The money to be made is incredible and I’m sure many have subscribed to SRAD because of it / they have some pricing power to flex there? Also looks like the stock has been murdered?
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This is big. Currently I see ~6.18B USDC on $HYPE (defillama.com/stablecoins/hy…), which at ~3.5% and 90% split is an extra $195mm annual funneled to buybacks
Coinbase is now the official deployer of @HyperliquidX's USDC treasury wallet. We will be activating AQAv2 from the two addresses below: 0x4E5319dEb1072B01439EE674db5C321d11fd96F8 0xc20699185c15D0a2fD65779BB5d69f5b0B113c00
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How is $NASA up over 1% in AH even though most components are down ~2% ? Just shorted 4k @ 36.35ish
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Flavor of the month trade will be long $ARKG / short $NASA
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Excited to see how close this is to $PURR update tomorrow - last week there was a pretty big reaction to the outsized purchase. Going to backtest a few things tn
While the ETF flows for hyperliquid:native have been impressive, the majority of the bid has come from $PURR Using our proprietary onchain analysis we estimate that they have purchased an additional 1,353,356 HYPE this week Their total market impact is roughly 2x all spot ETFs
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SurfShopCapital retweeted
While the ETF flows for hyperliquid:native have been impressive, the majority of the bid has come from $PURR Using our proprietary onchain analysis we estimate that they have purchased an additional 1,353,356 HYPE this week Their total market impact is roughly 2x all spot ETFs
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SPAC lockup game has been so so good this year. $BRUN, $INFQ, $XNDU. Love how rules are relatively consistent but every time people are like “oh shit”
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$NASA closed half @ $3
Really like $NASA 6/18 -50c/ 35p 1x2 for ~.075
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$NASA Closed the remainder @ 4.35
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Haralabob dunking on Kalish is the type of entertainment I need today
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I spent the last 5 years asking 400 people a single question. It changed how I think about generating an edge in trading. The question: Name a president that you don't think other people will name, keeping in mind that other people are also trying to name a president that others won't name. Take a moment to answer before reading on. The results map directly onto how I think about alpha. Bucket the 45 presidents into 6 tiers by name recognition with Tier 1 being the most famous and Tier 6 the most obscure. The results show a clear bias toward obscurity—selections rise steadily from Tier 2 through Tier 6—with a sharp reverse-psychology spike back up at Tier 1. People favor going obscure ("Who would think of Millard Fillmore?") but many deploy maximum reverse psychology ("Washington is too obvious. Nobody will say him"). In reality, Washington and Fillmore are the two most common answers. [sorry, @dumborambo_, it is true] The sweet spot is Tier 2: Clinton, JFK, Jefferson, both Bushes, Nixon, LBJ. Household names, but not top-of-mindnames. Out of 407 respondents, only 20 picked from this group. That is 16% of presidents, under 5% of selections. Most people are genuinely shocked to learn these are the best answers. [Maybe except for @Rigatohni, who picked the last unnamed president (George W. Bush)]. This is how I approach every market I've traded. Sports betting, options, commodities, prediction markets. Tier 1 alpha ("Google has the best search engine," "Nvidia makes the chips") is real but saturated. The edge is gone before you arrive. Tier 6 alpha (tracking flight delays to beat sportsbooks, exotic statistical arbitrage) sounds clever but is almost always fruitless for the same reason: everyone who thinks they're being original is being original in the same direction. Tier 2 alpha is the sweet spot. It is never complicated and does not require a Harvard PhD, but it is also never obvious enough that the crowd has caught on. The smartest people I know have failed in trading because they couldn't believe Tier 2 alpha existed. Anything approachable, they assumed, had already been found by someone smarter. When I showed them edges that were statistically irrefutable, they called me a blind squirrel. I used to half-believe them. But the more edges I find, the more the pattern holds. The best alpha is Tier 2. Once you see it, you'll wonder why you didn't see it sooner.
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Really like $NASA 6/18 -50c/ 35p 1x2 for ~.075
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At least in after hours, $NASA seems to trade super efficiently. I was able to just short ~2k at 41.80 despite most beta space names being down ~2% in AH trading
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Yep wait till their data center build out 🔥🔥🔥 heavy capex
$META trading at 18x forward earnings while growing 20% YoY… What’s the bear thesis here? Really?
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For anyone questioning if these guys have a legitimate energy business -- they are already in process of nuking their investors. So there's that.
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$GIG closed. The new ticker will be $HDRN
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Flour Corp sold their final $160M stake in NuScale Power $SMR
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Amazing
holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit - then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max - temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges hyperstitions.
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$ASTS Seen a lot of overreactions in both directions. When the booster landed, saw some scaling for 25% increase (hilarious). Now seeing others calling for similar decreases. I don’t put a \- 10% move out of the question, but this will normalize much faster than these takes.
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