Opposite. We're saved thanks to OP. 1. Undefeated rules to making money: 1x Inverse WSB OP. **2x WSB OP on frontpage.** 3x WSB OP on frontpage at the top. 2. OP is on frontpage and bought *CALLS on TLT* w/ exp in mid-June. Which means they expect something bad to happen in the equities market, maybe sell in may go away, or the markets testing new fed chair Warsh. That's probably why they expect cut rates. Fed rate cuts to a market decline/crash will drive the 20yr yields down and TLT up. 3. Problem is OP is likely a retard and took too much risk in too short a time frame. The rich like Buffett/Dalio/Trump are loading up on short term bills/notes and gold rather than LT USTs. Also unlikely we get a downturn in May after we got one just earlier this year. Plus """market forces""" will likely want the market to keep going up either to stabilize PE/PC, win the AI race against China, prevent riots/revolution, so that they can unload a few TRILLION via the big 3 IPOs into retail 401K/IRAs via indexing coming later this year (SpaceX/Antropic/OpenAI), or you know Trump/GOP want to win the mid-terms. Who knows? All I know is that OP ain't thought about these things. So we're basically going to be good until at least mid-June. OP will probably lose on their trade. I know because I've been dip buying TMF since 2022-2024 as a hedge to my leveraged ETF positions only gotten get free tax loss harvesting at the end of each year. Thank you OP for your sacrifice.

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Ongoing lawsuit against OpenAi. In court he admitted to creating OpenAi to basically destroy google :/ This was like in his court testimony in the past week or so. Google is fucked, everyone here's just huffing copium acting like downvoting the bearer of bad news is gonna save their google calls :/ here's an article on it from the past week court filings/details: [https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/tech/takeaways-elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-lawsuit](https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/tech/takeaways-elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-lawsuit) Plus everyone's forgetting that GOOG's revenue is like \~55% from search engine services... and OpenAi is eating their lunch. Let's not forget that Deepseek and other Chinese Models are eating Google's lunch by providing search engine services via ai FOR FREE. But yes. Let's all downvote the bearer of bad news, like I invented this information -\_-

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The American car lobby don’t like free markets.

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I got a used EV la couple of years ago because was way cheaper after all the free govt money. They depreciated harder than your hours at Wendy's. Fun car to drive.  The only thing faster than the torque is its rush to pay for itself in operation savings over the old tech.

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just joined robin hood, got my free gift, used on nvidia, i belong, anyways, how can i yolo 100$

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Bullying Germany because their PM talked some shit to his people's school kids. Defenders of free speech lmao.

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Lmaoo bro gets free seeggs and big cannons and decides to sue!?!? Lmao rettarded

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I went from Florida to California for free once. I bought a ticket lax to Orlando for like $120, and the return flight was literally $0. I will unironically miss Spirit. 

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Here's the summary: **The core insight:** A 2020 Barclays report documented how the rise of commission-free trading caused retail investors to flood the options market with short-dated, out-of-the-money call purchases — and Wall Street figured out exactly how to profit from that predictable behavior. **How institutions exploit it:** Retail's heavy call-buying inflates implied volatility and flattens skew, creating a volatility risk premium that dealers harvest by selling options and delta-hedging with the underlying stock. That hedging flow alone accounts for roughly 30% of volume in the most active names. **Why it still matters in 2026:** Options volume keeps breaking records (15.2 billion contracts in 2025, up 26%), retail still makes up \~half of all options volume with a persistent call-buying bias, and academic research continues confirming the same mechanics are in play. **The takeaway for retail traders:** You can use the same publicly available data (IV rank, IV vs. historical vol, unusual flow scanners) to avoid being the predictable mark. Practical suggestions include going longer-dated or higher-delta, only entering when IV is reasonable relative to expected moves, pairing options with actual share ownership, and doing fundamental research rather than chasing hype-driven lottery tickets. The overall message is essentially: Wall Street published the playbook for farming retail options traders — so read it and stop being the farm.

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just listened to Celeste by d4vd, let the man be free

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