The Final Grinch Heist: Window Dressing Desperation in Full View - Metals Continue to Rip

The Mad Dash for Metals Continues: Today's excuse? "Geopolitical Jitters" (investing.com)   

Gold retests the 4400 level as the mad dash for metals continues Copper, Aluminum, Gold, Silver, Platinum (+4%). 🥇🥈🎄🎁 pic.twitter.com/O4Hk6BNvY7

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) December 22, 2025

The Trade That Totally Outshines Gold & Silver; Most Investors Missed? The Trade I Flagged Earlier In The Year ["Best Trade of The Quarter Better Than Gold or Silver" [link] Platinum 

Meanwhile Gold Bugs up 0 (zero) since Oct. 

Platinum up 3%, new all time highs. Gold not so much pic.twitter.com/5BISRe9epO

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) December 22, 2025

Over 50% of retail traders predict silver will repeat as top metal in 2026, experts see strong potential for platinum to take the crown (kitco.com)

$PLAT Platinum on track to clinch an 8 day winning streak, on powerful momentum. 

Up nearly 100% in just the second half of the year, but who's counting? 

Not exactly a mic drop moment, as I only noticed platinum ripping another hole in the atmosphere, last week. Crickets from the talking heads btw. Epstein files got more coverage. 

Stocks Bounce Back Ahead of Record Quadruple Witching

Quadruple Witching Friday: More Chaos Incoming
Today (Dec 19, 2025) is the biggest options expiration ever—~$7.1T in notional value evaporates as theta grinds dreams to dust. Expect wild swings, massive volume, and gamma squeezes. Post-witching often unlocks year-end momentum. Ask Grok/AI

Watch for fake headlines—like that OpenAI data center delay rumor Oracle pushed back on hard (they called it BS), yet it still sparked AI selloffs earlier this week. 

Yesterday's Snap-Back Rally: Good News Was Good News Again 😅

Thankfully, we got a nice relief rally on Dec 18—soft CPI reignited rate-cut hopes, but the real lift came from FOMO in Micron ($MU). Shares exploded +10-14% on blowout earnings. 
This is what happens when you try to take the market down over the holidays—short squeezes. 

Cannabis Stocks Get Absolutely Smoked 

Classic "sell the news": Trump's rescheduling order hit, and sector ETFs like a brick MSOS plunged 20-30%+ this week on profit-taking and no-full-legalization reality check.
My take: Pot stocks remain the worst-performing asset class ever. Rescheduling (overdue by a decade) won't magically fix that.

Didn't I warn you not to follow Tim Seymour through the looking glass?

The Grinch's Shopping List: Quiet Takedowns in AI/Tech
Blatant thievery underway – big players hammering favorites for year-end discounts:

• Broadcom (AVGO): Down sharply post-earnings on AI margin worries.
• Nvidia (NVDA): Caught in the infrastructure selloff? Yeah, right~! 😅
• Oracle (ORCL): Plunged on spending doubts.
• CoreWeave (CRWV): Private-turned-public darling cratered ~60% from peaks amid debt fears.bla bla bla 
• Coinbase (COIN), C3.ai, Trade Desk (TTD), Datadog (DDOG): All quietly sliding amid rotation out of high-beta AI plays.
  

Translation: They're loading the truck cheap.

Santa Rally Positioning (With the help of AI bubble caution headlines) Yeah, must be nice controlling 99% of the financial news outlets, Wall Street!  Window dressing incoming; $VIX hammered all week, and next week too! If they wanted to rug-pull, why waste so much ammo suppressing volatility? Solid read for a Santa Rally 2026. Money managers already know they're going to be forced to chase gains.  

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But expect more weakness short-term – The Grinch ain't finished robbing the retail investor, yet...Once the truck is loaded? Ho ho ho.

Stay nimble this witching day! 🎄📉🚀