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Jan 6
After a crazy 2025, I really thought the market was going to cool down… After the US intervention in Venezuela, I really thought the market was going to cool down… What I did not expect was to be more than 10% up in the first two trading days of 2026 The market never fails to impress these days.
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Beat by 10%, stock drops 3%. That's not a paradox. Options were pricing in a 15% move. The beat was real — the surprise wasn't big enough. Earnings don't move stocks. The gap between the result and what the market already expected does.
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$SPY now has options expiring Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Five years ago it was just Friday. More expiry days means dealers hedge more often — their buying and selling moves the market even when there's no news. That's why intraday swings feel bigger. The structure changed.
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Surviving a 40% drop in a small position beats getting wiped out by a 15% drop in a big one. Position sizing ends more accounts than bad stock picks.
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Beat by 10%, stock drops 3%. That's not a paradox. Options were pricing in a 15% move. The beat was real — the surprise wasn't big enough. Earnings don't move stocks. The gap between the result and what the market already expected does.
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$KO just locked up nearly 10,000 Marriott hotels worldwide. Hotel guests don't compare shop beverages. That's a captive buyer, not a marketing win. Coca-Cola doesn't grow fast. It just keeps finding new rooms where you can't choose anything else.
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$META printed $42B in free cash flow last year. The bear case is "AI spend is too high." That's the bear case.
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$GOOGL pays Apple ~$20B a year to be the default search engine on iPhones. That's not marketing. It's proof Google doesn't trust users to choose them on their own. Imagine the DOJ kills that deal, what does Google search traffic actually look like?
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$KO just locked up nearly 10,000 Marriott hotels worldwide. Hotel guests don't compare shop beverages. That's a captive buyer, not a marketing win. Coca-Cola doesn't grow fast. It just keeps finding new rooms where you can't choose anything else.
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$MSTR sold Bitcoin to cover expenses. That kills the whole pitch. Investors paid a premium over the actual Bitcoin value because the company promised it would never sell. It just sold. The "never sell" story is gone.
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$TSLA's $600 bull case needs robotaxis running unsupervised across the US. Regulators won't allow that until the system proves near-perfect safety — a process that takes years of real-world data, hearings, and litigation. That's not a product launch. That's a policy battle.
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$NVDA is a bigger slice of $SPY than every energy stock put together. One bad $NVDA quarter doesn't stay in the chip sector. It pulls the whole index down. "Diversified" passive portfolios aren't as diversified as they look.
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The best traders you know have never called the bottom correctly. Didn't matter. Only Buffet.
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$IONQ revenue up 755% — the actual number is $64M. $IBM did $15.9B last quarter in the same space and turns a profit. Same tailwind. Very different businesses.
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$SHOP is quietly becoming the checkout layer for AI shopping. Ask Claude to "buy the best running shoes under $100" — the purchase increasingly routes through Shopify's infrastructure. That's a customer acquisition channel with zero dependence on Google.
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$GRAB hype cycles on Southeast Asia growth headlines. The core delivery and ride-hail business still loses money. The super-app upside is already in the price. A good story isn't a position.
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Enterprise AI budgets are shifting from "spend everywhere" to "justify every dollar." Volume-based revenue is vulnerable, exactly how $MSFT and $AMZN get paid for their AI distribution deals. Slower consumption = slower growth. Watch enterprise software earnings this quarter.
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$ENPH installs in France are up 40% quarter over quarter. That's the real heatwave trade — not the obvious air conditioning plays.
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$LULU $CPRI $GPS — women still earn ~82 cents per male dollar. Close that gap and you add trillions in new consumer spending. Apparel and retail capture the biggest share of women's wallets. The wage gap isn't just a social issues, it's a ceiling on sector revenue.
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$MSTR is now trading *below* the value of the Bitcoin it holds. The entire bull case was paying a premium for the Saylor story. That premium is gone. There's nothing left that makes the stock better than just buying Bitcoin directly.
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$TSLA options have been pricing in a big move for six straight weeks. The move hasn't come. That premium has just been bleeding out sellers' pockets.
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