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Friday, December 19, 2025

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! 🎄📉🚀

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