Markets move on positional flows
Whatever narrative you think is already priced in is usually just the market walking toward max pain and the path of least resistance
When we gapped up a few weeks back, it wasn’t Bessent’s signal to the bond market or the debasement thesis suddenly taking center stage. It was overcrowded shorts, ripe for the picking
Look at the tape now: bonds breaking, oil ripping, credit spreads slowly starting to widen, volatility still suppressed. Something will hit and trigger a messy flush of selling. You’ll call it a Black Swan. The market has already been telling you it wants to mean revert lower
Circular reasoning is a curse