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LIQUIDATION NATION is LIVE It’s time to level the playing field. 2 minutes on what industry insiders won’t tell you.
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I had to listen to Satya 2x ... this is something you say to impress people that have no idea about anythinggggg... either someone fed him this garbage and he didn't think about what he was saying, or he made it up on the spot to try and seem like their AI tech is cutting edge and made a boo-boo... either way... gross msft NGMI
Satya Nadella reveals his coding agent pulls every hyperscaler and neoclouds' SEC filings into a dashboard that refreshes every day for real-time ROIC "And this is the other aspect of it, which is the enterprise context combined with the world's context. In fact, I go to the SEC filings of every cloud provider, hyperscaler, each of these neoclouds. It's in real time." "I have a data runner in Fabric that brings all that data, puts it into a semantic model that then gets read by my coding agent and then surfaces it as a dashboard. And every day it's fresh." "So I have the entirety of every SEC filing that goes out there, plus all of my internal analysis constantly coming together, giving me real-time ROIC by layer."
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FTX..AI LABS…whats the deal with Effective Altruism?… to me EA presents itself as this noble expression of human reasoning and compassion… a systematic effort to engineer the relief of suffering. But in reality It operates on the ultimate anti God premise…finite, fallen man gets to decide what the standard for ā€œgoodā€ is, not the creator. EA attempts to sit on the lap of Christian morality just so it can reach up and slap the Father in the face (from one of my hero Van Til) What I find inconsistent about the elites logic… it relies entirely on ā€œmoralā€ capital. EA claims we have an objective duty.. we OUGHT to sacrifice our resources & even ourselves… all to preserve the future of humanity. My immediate thought was in a purely material universe… there is no logical basis for "ought." Without the Imago Dei… human beings are just rearranged pond scum… and suffering is merely molecules in motion… don’t you see the irony… EA DEMANDS THAT WE TREAT HUMAN LIVES AS INFINTELY VALUABLE WHILE REJECTING THE LORD WHO MAKES US SO b/c EA rejects the Lord’s word…. its ethics collapse into the shifting foundation of UTILITARIAN TYRANNY. For example, in the EA worldview… morality is just cold calculations of utility metrics… everything immaterial is compressed into a ratio. My question is how can love be put in a math formula? I am reading the Tower of Babel with my son right now… there is no difference here. Nothing is new under the sun, its built on the same old presuppositions… how? It uses God’s moral order to justify its mission, God’s logic to build its models, and God’s created order to execute its plans… all while denying the sovereign Lord who governs them!! as a Christian I have had to write this and call it as I see it… an ā€œintellectual bankruptcy masquerading as enlightenmentā€ (Dr Bahensen) The bottom line is…you cannot truly love your neighbor while hating your Creator, and you cannot measure the ultimate "good" while denying the God who alone is the only standard for GOOD
If you’re curious about Effective Altruism, the origins of the cult, their tactics, and their influence network — check out my conversation with Tucker from two years ago:
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WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT HIGHER RATES? Finance 101: when rates rise, long duration assets get vaporized... but why? 2022 was the textbook case... Nasdaq -30%ish, ARKK -65%, and even "safe" long Treasuries (TLT) -31%... as energy went on a ripah... sound familiar? or is this cycle different? *2 min video below **Excel model so you can plug in rates and watch valuations move yourself to really understand ***check out my quick WACC -> 10yr tab ... to help you think about the causal flow LIQN.ai factors you should be focused on at the end of 2min video Enjoy. docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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Very impressive amount of free data on here neatly compiled to view market shifts. Solid visuals, great work @JaredKubin liqn.ai/landing
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PM : Why do you want to buy this? Analyst: We are buying it for all the FCF they produced last year šŸ’€ šŸ’€ šŸ’€
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. opens up on his slump year: ā€œThey didn’t pay me to hit 40 every year. They paid me for what I already did.ā€ I want people to understand one thing. The money they gave me wasn’t for what I’m going to do. It was for what I already did. They didn’t pay me because I’m going to hit 40 every year. They paid me for what I already accomplished. People are confused about that, but I think the same way they do. Like, sometimes I even say to myself: bro, they gave you all that money and you’re out here doing nothing. I try. You know how it is with fans, when you’re good, they’re with you 100%. But when you smell like shit, like we like to say here, nobody supports you. The ones who support you are the ones who stay with you. Those are my fans. My family. Via VeronicabatistaTv/IG
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more YIELDmaxxing here... pretty straight forward... the BIGGER read here is HFs are putting on SHORTS today... bringing in NETS / getting more defensive... something to closely monitor what to watch: *HF SHORTS **PAIRS ***Utilities ****QUANT FACTORS (like momentum) eww
08/10: I love the HEATMAP view - I keep on a TV in my office ... another lens for factor moves YIELDS are really starting to spook people ... whats interesting to me is SHORTS are being RE-grossed ... EVERY SINGLE FACTOR is red, you rarely see that a) people are grossing back up (need something to fund longs) b) people getting more defensive (closing up net longs) *I suspect b* ahead of Jackson hole and pre-labor day volumes dry up MACRO PULSE has said last 1m/3m very disinflationary... now today "inflationary" ... one day doesn't make a trend ... but the action today is subtle shifts in the force
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looks like it is going to be a SQUEEZY open ... quantum has been horrific the last 3M/1YR... risk books already trying to move some this am
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AGENTIC FLOWS day 2.. more AI/RISK ON ... monster Z moves *AGENTIC BUILDOUT: +$3.5bn NET (4 z move) **INFERENCE CAPEX: +$2bn NET (3 z move) ***AI PICKS & SHOVELS: +$1.9bn NET (3 z move) NET FLOWS: - Every bar per stock: dollars traded is volume times price rolled up into the factor ... 2 roll ups - Split it into buy/cover & sell/shorts: compare the bar's price change to how much that stock usually moves per minute... measured over its last 60 min (big up move relative to normal means most of the dollars count as buying. A big down move means most count as selling) A flat bar splits close to 50/50 - Net for that bar: buy/cover dollars minus sell/short dollars Z SCORE IS CALCULATION HEAVY: - Same minute NOT same day: at 2:15pm we compare today's flow so far... against flow up to 2:15pm on EACH PAST SESSION. That means a separate "normal" for every minute of the session, around 390 of them per factor...think of it like expanding but using stock bars - Per window: we build those curves for 5D, 1M, 3M, YTD and 1Y. Each window needs a minimum number of clean sessions, for example 17 for 1M and 60 for 1Y - Robustness: we use the median and the typical deviation from it, not the average and standard deviation. One freak session like an index rebalance or a half day can't wreck the baseline
"AGENTIC BUILDOUT" ... as my favorite cape cod baseball coach use to say ... "a freak of natuhh" *FYI...recently added the AI REGULATION LOSERS basket
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"AGENTIC BUILDOUT" ... as my favorite cape cod baseball coach use to say ... "a freak of natuhh" *FYI...recently added the AI REGULATION LOSERS basket
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LIQN.ai SHOWCASE: 19 Stocks: 8 Bets v 15 Bets ... WHY PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION MATTERS this is Altimeter Capital's latest 13F. Brad is one of the best tech investors of all time so we will use him as an example... every quarter people copy this filing line by line (this is for educational purposes to show LIQN BASKETS + SKIM + X-RAY) VOL is the price of admission in concentrated TMT investing, and ALTIMETER is world class at it Before the video: 13Fs have real problems for analysis 1: stale. This is the book on June 30th, filed August 14th 2: incomplete. Long positions only. No shorts, no cash, nothing private 3: newly public names like $CBRS and $SPCX have too little trading history to risk model. They're 19% of this filing, so the stats below cover the other 17 names PORT 1: AS FILED Vol 30.5% Beta 2.02 Max drawdown (1y) -19.0% THIS port in a 2022 like environment = -50% drawdown Money vs risk (share of the measured book): $NVDA 23.5% of $ → 23.5% of risk $CRWV 7.7% → 16.7% $ARM 7.3% → 12.8% $META 9.6% → 4.8% **3 names carry 53% of the risk PORT 2: INVERSE VOL *Same 19 stocks, only the sizing changed Effective bets 8.3 → 15.2 $NVDA risk share 23.5% → 4.7% No name above 10% of risk Max drawdown -19.0% → -16.3% 2022 replay -48.8% → -41.0% Beta 2.02 → 1.92. Same market bet CONCLUSION: Same 19 stocks. Not one pick changed. All we did was resize them, and the portfolio went from 8 real bets to 15, with half the concentration at the top. In the backcast it didn't cost return, and it kept the same market exposure. Picking the stocks is what everyone talks about AND IS IMPORTANT. How you size them is how you sleep at night. *educational only, not investment advice. This is not Altimeter's actual performance: it's built from the public filing plus a hypothetical re-weighting, replayed at today's weights which has inherent leakage
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Data is LIQUID in age of AI 1. How do the vast majority of consumers want to interact with AI based apps? - easy / frictionless - autonomous - immediate feedback 2. How do incumbents that have built Business models doing the opposite evolve? - prisoners vs users - workflows are not comp advantages - walled databases were last cycle - who do you connect to now is the advantage 3. What will users pay for? - consumer/ retail … it’s a HIGH bar - enterprise … it’s a productivity bar *they are different. very Text is obviously familiar … seeing it drive on the web is magical …. I think SPECs and APPLE VISION were like the palm pilot of the 80s… just early So the question is…What is the AI interface of the future?
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OAI ECOSYSTEM (v5) 9/26 3 things we can tease out with new info post close 1. compute and Revs almost cancel in their planning…$856B of compute/infra spend versus ā€œ$840B of cumulative revenue through 2030ā€ …the entire neg. $278B cash burn is safely assumed ā€œeverything elseā€ … my OPEX below is right in the ballpark / yr 2. they need to raise about $150bn in IPO proceeds or do another round before IPO to plug the hole 3. over the next five-ish yrs they SHOULD/plan to convert $1 of revenue into about $1.33 of cash outflow ($840B revenue vs ~$1.12T of implied cash costs)… said another way… they aren’t self funding until very end / back end loaded… if you invest in IPO you need to have a view here A lot to think about.
OAI ECOSYSTEM (v4) update 8/26 People seam to be losing their minds again so I wanted to give a quick update on my graphic TLDR: The Circle is BIGGER, Not TIGHTER .. we have paid for ~23GW ... how do we pay for 100GW is the only question BULLS and BEARS have to answer UPDATES IN V4: - OAI raise closed. $122B at an $852B valuation ... IPO likely in the Fall (my guess) - SoftBank came back as a co-lead - $NVDA got smaller, not bigger. The $100B headline is now ~$30B of actual equity... the $500bn is an ecosystem partner check not an OAI check... though they will benefit - $CRWV went from rounding error to real: $0.35B of equity became $6.3B (+) $22B of compute bought - $ORCL 3x ... $100–200B range firmed into a $300B commitment - $AMD $90B for 6 GW, not $100B - there's a credit line now ~$4.7B undrawn across eleven banks - employees took $7B off the table in August, at the same $852B mark. No markdown - the IPO is real but quiet: a confidential S-1 went in during June... does ANTHROPIC go before? - the $MSFT fight is over. Exclusivity gone, AGI clause deleted, licence runs to 2032 - OAI partners now carry ~$1.2T of the build up from ~$1.0T, and the total still lands at $1.4–1.5T IF YOU ARE A BULL... it seems like there is infinite demand for TOKENS IF YOU ARE A BEAR... you point right to slide #2
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this is the OP with a long thread... @0xFaust12 really nailed a lot of great points here that battle scarred practitioners spend careers thinking about... If I had to TLDR his articulate thread simply.... it would be something like this... "discretionary fundamental stock picking is being eaten alive by latent factor exposures, execution slippage, and systematic scale... more concentration is not the answer and the data proves it" whicked smaht ALTHOUGH....I think the implied conclusion of where it all leads is different than how I am thinking about it... X above... therefore Y.. "only the pod bois and massive prop firms with custom C++ optimization stacks can surviveā€ what we are seeing in other industries is... AI WILL democratize the quant stack.. piece by piece... we are seeing it now. If you following along my MID FREQUENCY WARZONE journey.. you are watching it play out in real time... QUANTS have their own issues to figure out, which are very hard problems in dynamic systems, more on that later you don't need to build AWS to launch a software startup.... you won't need a $50M internal C++ quant team to execute systematic, risk bounded fundamental alpha in 2028... the pod bois won the last decade because they owned the compute, the data pipes, and the solvers.... agentic tech & intelligence on tap like energy flips everything on its head I REFUSE TO BELIEVE the future is a world where fundamental managers die an extinction event (come on)....of course ones that refuse to adapt will slowly bleed out like all tech revolutions (basic history)... the ones that adapt.. well, it’s a world where the entire quant, risk, and execution stack is unbundled into headless, plug and platy intelligence... where they get to focus 100% on what makes their forecasts unique and interesting vs the market... the future is EXCITING! buckle up
1/2 Lets think about this from the ground up. You are a modal L/S HF and you want to make sure you will be around in 10 years, so you decide you need to make some serious changes. You probably have never hired anybody technical or you have less than a handful of technical people of questionable quality on staff to do this (maybe a DS/SDA + a SWE). You will have to outlay significant upfront cost to build infra + hire expensive technical talent in a market where you are much more likely to be outbid for high quality talent (and mid to low quality is arguably worse than nobody here). While prop firms have a longer time horizon to do this, you will need to convince LPs and GPs substantially invested in the fund that it is worth the firm's time and energy to undergo this transition and expense + you will have to convince your LPs that you will be able to pull this off without it seeming like a red flag and strategy drift. Say you do all that, you hire 1-2 actual QRs, 1-2 actual SWEs, nice to haves would also be a dedicated risk quant + microstructure quant/qt instead of relying on just the manual execution trader(s) you probably have. Now you have to go about the process of building the commercially useful things without burning too much time + adding value to the desk so your LPs and GPs maintain faith in what you are doing. You will need to build or buy a risk model and a portfolio optimizer but what's this, if you want to do optimization correctly you will need to calibrate a market impact model because you are probably overtrading and have never really thought about TCA, temporary impact, and permanent impact so you will need to procure or generate a dataset of your trades and the market's response to them only to find out that your long horizon alphas would have a better transfer coefficient if you overlaid short term execution alphas. But then you run into a few problems: 1) doing research at the microstructure scale requires much more complex infra, larger and more expensive datasets, 2) Do do this effectively you essentially need a team dedicated to stat arb style signal research but you are just a MT/LT fundamental investor, 3) even if you were able to put a small team on optimal execution signal research + monetization you will come to the realization that you are trading against counterparties at this frequency that can outcompete you on both speed and cost fronts since they are market makers/HFT firms with rebates and colocation you are unable to afford or procure. What this optimal path ends up looking like is exactly a prop firm and why I believe they will outcompete even the Citadels/Millenniums/Balys of the world
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LIQN.ai - "HEDGE FUND SHORTS" group If you haven't arranged these (arrange button) to be in your top 10 groups you check every day... ur NGMI this data is heavily guarded by primes & expensive data providers... we have sourced the best provider and give it to Liquidation Nation for free... why? because its that important you pay attention to it ... I am going to democratize all the dark arts 1. you can see in near real time what HEDGE FUNDS are shorting ... what themes stand out to you? this should be the basis for asking questions about the world, markets, and your portfolio 2. you can see in near real time unwinds happening... GENERALLY when Winners are up and Shorts are down... GROSS is being put on (signal) ... when the opposite is happeneing nets or GROSS are being taken in by funds (signal) ... "generally".. experience will help you tell the difference 3. these names add diversification to portfolios... they tend to act negative correlated to consensus trades.. ESPECIALLY when vol picks up and insensitive sellers have to transact ... first tactical play I add longs if my spidey sense tingles 4. its a great weekend or morning process... screen your portfolio to see if there are any overlap 5. screen your WIP / R&D list for any overlap ... a shorted names, that can get multiple expansion, with numbers revisions, and sentiment changes is the HOLY GRAIL for the long book ... they are like unicorns though... rare and impossible to find (almost) If you run a short book... or short stocks.... unless you have UBER conviction in numbers GOING DOWN ... your shorts shouldn't show up here... if you own any on the long side.. know you have to have a catalyst to change the uphill battle (but lots of convexity) I could post about shorts and what to look at for days... but I will save that rabbit hole for follow up posts or questions ... in the mean time... lots of fun stuff you can do here ... more functionality coming
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Hey @gmail I just want the ability to "read" all of my 15,438 spam emails at once... I shouldnt have to click through every screen
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An interesting storm is brewing... TLDR: ~$300B is directly at risk, ~$4T needs to recalibrate, & ~$30T is the reason the close isn't going anywhere I would guess the VAST MAJORITY of non human strategies ~90%+ fall into 2 buckets... they have a MAJOR issue...the issue is they use TIME based bars... BUCKET 1: official open, official close, and everything computed from them ....close to close returns, overnight vs. intraday decomp, VWAP/TWAP benchmarks, closing auction execution, eod NAV marks, volatility estimators that literally take OHLC as inputs... beyond that... a significant amount of funds (bucket 2) rely on the session structure itself as signals/alphas/factors: overnight return premia, OR breakouts/breakdowns, close to open gap fades, MOC imbalance strategies, intraday seasonality/volume curve models this is not quite a RED ALERT because it seems like the closing auction is trying to be preserved... if we go to 23 hr free for all... its going to be the wild wild west ... but I imagine funds are scrambling hard right now I was thinking about it this morning... my prelimary list of who is most at RISK: - overnight gap strategies / signals - VOL and Risk models - anything based on LIQUIDITY curve priors - stop loss / rebal logic based on history For as much as De Prado gets flack on here... he talked about this issue 10 yrs ago....and the OGs said it 50 yrs ago.... the best strategies have moved from TIME based to $/vol based .. im sure some propeller head out there will tell me they built their whole strategy without using or backtesting "time"... if you did, great you are ahead...most HAVE NOT and for the futures tradoooors...yes, futures are 23hr but they have settlement windows and the cash close to anchor to... kill the equity closing auction and you kill the anchor
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I pointed some of the latest models at the ā€œred wordsā€ of Jesus…. Blueprint for Life, Miracles, Parables … let me know what you think issacharfoundation.org
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FACTOR OPTIONS are this interesting experiment I have been working on for a while... never seen them offered anywhere ... makes a lot of intuitive sense to me as a risk manager & "option tourist"... will be rolled out to LIQN users on a board level in the coming weeks Opens up a whole new surface ... - what the market is paying for a themes move - where the fear and greed sit - Rich & Cheap lens for thematic factors - upgrades the RISK model v4 we are testing internally... stay tuned BTW... shorts squeezing
LIQN FACTOR OPTIONS (beta) lets take a look at what options are telling us about FACTORS heading into FOMC ... another lens for Liquidation Nation 1. EVERY ONE OF THE "HF SHORT" BASKETS ARE PRICED TO SQUEEZE: 18 of 18 have calls more expensive than puts. Crowded & Beaten-Down: calls cost 23 pts more. Vol 37% above realized. That's a chase, and it's already in the price 2. CYBER & SOFTWARE are "cheap": Cybersecurity group prices vol at 0.75Ɨ what it realizes: AI Security 45% implied against 64% realized, Identity Security 37% against 52%, Cybersecurity 44% against 62%. Enterprise Software is 0.90Ɨ, with AI Monetizers at 0.66 3. The AI complex is where the dollars and the biggest priced moves are, and the dollars are all calls....Complete AI Stack traded $5.37B of options premium today...Vol itself is fairly priced across the AI groups at 1.0 to 1.05Ɨ realized, so this is size and direction Good luck for Warsh
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post WARSHmaxxing - what is going on? markets seem to be pricing the consequence of the hike... - rate hike "winners" getting smoked - big banks and regionals smoked - homebuilders & industrials hit hard - AI did get crushed Monday ... more defensive today immediate reaction move is about the shape AND growth path... the front end rose with the hike while the long end rallied, so the curve flattened and margins compress. a hike into slowing growth means loan demand and credit go the wrong way. Regionals lagging big banks (funding costs, commercial real estate) is the classic hard landing tell (which the MACRO PULSE is confirming)
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LIQN FACTOR OPTIONS (beta) lets take a look at what options are telling us about FACTORS heading into FOMC ... another lens for Liquidation Nation 1. EVERY ONE OF THE "HF SHORT" BASKETS ARE PRICED TO SQUEEZE: 18 of 18 have calls more expensive than puts. Crowded & Beaten-Down: calls cost 23 pts more. Vol 37% above realized. That's a chase, and it's already in the price 2. CYBER & SOFTWARE are "cheap": Cybersecurity group prices vol at 0.75Ɨ what it realizes: AI Security 45% implied against 64% realized, Identity Security 37% against 52%, Cybersecurity 44% against 62%. Enterprise Software is 0.90Ɨ, with AI Monetizers at 0.66 3. The AI complex is where the dollars and the biggest priced moves are, and the dollars are all calls....Complete AI Stack traded $5.37B of options premium today...Vol itself is fairly priced across the AI groups at 1.0 to 1.05Ɨ realized, so this is size and direction Good luck for Warsh
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