Dealer Positioning: 6) NOPE (Net Options Pricing Effect) on Friday was 22x the 30-day median and accelerated through the day instead of fading. 7) Cumulative net delta: +15.37M shares-equivalent means dealers must hold ~$147M of long stock to be neutral. Firday directionalized. Gamma Exposure of: -$3.99M and today's flow created NEW short-gamma exposure for dealers 8) Monday 5/4 Gamma Cliff - 5/1 held 53% of gamma exposure. Monday morning starts with chain gamma at ~$2.9M vs Friday's ~$6.2M which dealer hedging requirements halved overnight, allowing the same news to move price more dramatically. 9) Smart money rolling from 5/15 to 6/18 straddle (likely for potential IV post earnings) 10) Max-Pain Asymmetry: 6/18 at $10 - institutional positioning Volatility: 11) On 5/15 expiry at the 0.15 delta point, put IV minus call IV reads -0.27, meaning far-OTM calls are priced at 27 vol points over equivalent distance puts. SOUN's tail call-skew reversal is the structural footprint of persistent retail call demand. 12) Volatility of Vol (VOV) - 97th percentile of its 1-year range 13) Front-month IV (5/8, 7 DTE): ~170%. 240-day IV (~01/2027): ~90%. The ~80 vol-point spread is the steepest backwardation observable in the visible window. 14) SOUN exhibits IV smile, both tails are bid up to roughly equal IVs (~2.0 at 4P, ~1.8 at 16C, ATM ~1.25). Confirms retail call demand has been so persistent that OTM call IV has matched the natural put-protection bid. Position: 5/15 Call Options going into earnings (Watching to sell before earnings based on price movement) 6/18 Call Options (Watching to buy after earnings from IV crush based on price movement)

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Just a calculation of future projected growth vs current market cap. TSMC’s market cap is already much bigger, easy to see a path where Intel outperforms them for 5-10 years

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Well it’s a refinery also the bot says this but I don’t know if it’s considering context MPC (Marathon Petroleum) Earnings Summary Stock vs. normal ∙ Current: ~$238 ∙ 52-week range: $133–$255.77 — sitting at ~90% of range, ~7% off ATH ∙ +60% over past year ∙ Analyst avg PT: $249 (~5% upside) — recent raises (Morgan Stanley to $233 from $200) ∙ Dividend: $1.00 quarterly declared April 29 (~1.7% yield) Last earnings (Q4 2025, Feb 3, 2026) ∙ Adj EPS: $4.07 vs $2.72-2.73 est — massive beat (+49.63%) ∙ vs. $0.77 prior-year quarter ∙ Adj EBITDA: ~$3.5B (Q4), ~$12B FY2025 — Q4 +$1.4B YoY ∙ FY2025 cash from ops: $8.3B; $4.5B returned to shareholders ∙ Driven by stronger refining margins + 4.9% YoY decline in costs 2026 guide (issued at Feb print) ∙ $700M refining capex (-20% from 2025) ∙ Continued capital discipline ∙ Reduced spend with high utilization Q1 2026 setup (May 5 BMO) ∙ EPS estimate: $2.00 (different sources show $0.92 to $2.00 — wide spread suggests big uncertainty) ∙ Revenue estimate: $33.88B ∙ Crack spread tailwind: oil up ~70% since Feb 28 (US-Iran), refiners benefit from elevated margins ∙ Backdrop: WTI volatility, summer driving season setup

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Power efficiency/size (Arm) vs performance and legacy software (x86)

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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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Yep, it doesn’t work. I retired from short term trading when my daughter was 2 and my wife wanted to go back to work. It took me about 3 days to learn it wasn’t possible to look after a kid and to trade short term. Fortunately I had enough capital by then to live off of my stock portfolio. Intended to go back to trading when she started school, she’s now 11 and I’m still just running a boring zero-leverage stock portfolio and a very small trading book that takes 3-12 month options positions. I don’t need the money and I am enjoying a stress-free life, going to the gym and spending time with loved ones. Everyone needs to ask themselves, when is enough, enough? There’s nothing wrong with de-risking once you’ve got big boy capital that can carry you through life without working. Sure, $100m would be nice, but my life wouldn’t change anywhere near as much if I hit that number vs if I fucked up and went to zero. The ‘trade’ is highly asymmetrical and not in my favour. I’ve not worked in years, I’d want to kill myself if I went broke, yet $100m would mean I get a bigger house I don’t need and maybe trade my Porsche 911 for a Ferrari. Not worth it.

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traveling in america is also significantly different than in Europe. larger distances because people will happily drive multiple hours here vs in EU.

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Maybe true, but he will get more trades. He didn't say the account size, maybe $20k. I know someone with that amount and uses margin fine and responsibly... I hear what you are saying, which is accurate too. Kind of a technical vs should you kinda thing

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Now I wonder if the Jet-A from Delta's refinery is different from the other ones, considering the other ones are probably trying to maximize gasoline yield vs kerosens, and Jet-A is a stupid-wide soec for petroleum fuel (to the point rocketry people wrote their own tighter RP1 spec)

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