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Weekly Summary

Aug 7, 2026Article

The week opened with a powerful risk-on impulse as Trump called off planned strikes against Iran and floated a Strait of Hormuz deal within 24 hours, draining the geopolitical premium out of crude and unleashing a…

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Weekly Summary

Jul 24, 2026Article

The dominant theme was an intensifying US-Iran military conflict that dictated price action across every asset class, lifting Treasury yields to multi-year highs, and forcing markets to sit with an open-ended…

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Gamma Briefing

Jul 23, 2026Article

Things are getting real: The S&P 500 is trading lower, off roughly 1.2%, as a wave of mega-cap earnings misfires runs headlong into a fresh spike in crude tied to another leg up in the US-Iran standoff.

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Weekly Summary

Jul 17, 2026Note

The week opened defensively, with the S&P 500 pointing lower Monday as the US-Iran confrontation widened from a Strait of Hormuz standoff into a full Gulf-region conflict, dragging semiconductors down alongside a sharp…

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Gamma Briefing

Jul 17, 2026Article

S&P 500 is trading sharply lower, off roughly 0.9%, as an overnight widening of the US-Iran conflict into Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Jordan swamps an otherwise busy overnight earnings slate and turns the multi-front…

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Who is Trading What (and Why)?

Jun 26, 2026Article

Market makers sit on roughly half of SPX volume regardless of expiry (see chart below), but the action is in who supplies the other half.

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What are CTAs and why do they matter?

Jun 11, 2026Note

Commodity Trading Advisors are professional investment managers, typically structured as hedge funds or managed-futures programs, that trade liquid futures, options, and foreign exchange markets.

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What is Delta-hedging?

May 31, 2026Article

Options market makers (or dealers) sit at the center of the S&P 500 options market, facilitating the vast majority of trades. The dealer sells what you buy, and vice versa.

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