After nailing the long breakout and shorting the top, $SPCX has now pulled back to the exact level of the breakout ~$160.
This is where I wanna be long again and the vols are all elevated.
I like the $175/$200 call spreads again but this time, expiring no 11/13. They are about $4.00 per combo, which makes this a 5:1 payout, real juice in the trade.
Now, if we pull back further, I will sell puts to finance this trade. Right now I'm just paying premium.
Recall the market is a little creaky after the new ATH with Nasdaq, but we are in a trader's market and $SPCX is a retail favorite.
I'd rather be long after this textbook pullback than flat.
بعد تثبيت الاختراق الطويل والبيع على القمة، $SPCX الآن عاد للخلف إلى المستوى الدقيق للاختراق قرب ~$160.
هذه هي المنطقة التي أريد أن أكون فيها طويلًا مرة أخرى، والـvols كلها مرتفعة.
أعجبني صفقات فروقات الشراء $175/$200 مرة أخرى، لكن هذه المرة تنتهي في تاريخ ليس 11/13. قيمتها حوالي $4.00 لكل مجموعة، وهذا يجعل العائد 5:1، وهي طاقة حقيقية في الصفقة.
الآن، إذا حدث تراجع أكثر، سأبيع عقود شراء (calls) لتمويل هذه الصفقة. في الوقت الحالي أنا فقط أدفع علاوة.
تذكير: السوق متذبذب قليلًا بعد ATH الجديد في ناسداك، لكننا في سوق المتداولين و$SPCX هو مفضل لدى جمهور التجزئة.
سأفضّل أن أكون طويلًا بعد هذا الارتداد المثالي (pullback) من أن أكون مسطحًا.
Morgan Stanley: AI CDS basket trades ~45bp wider than CDX IG
MS says buying CDS protection "remains our preferred way of playing the AI story in the credit derivatives market."
The reason is not just a bearish default call.
MS expects "increasing needs for non-economic hedging to manage counterparty exposure," even in a benign scenario where AI investments are profitable and continue.
That is an important distinction.
The hedge bid can grow even if the capex cycle keeps working.
More AI financing creates more counterparty exposure, and that creates more demand for protection.
SPXXAI March 85% put costs 132bps vs 101bps for SPX equivalent
The 6th percentile on a 2-year lookback is the basis for that cheapness.
Downside protection on the S&P excluding AI stocks, which has fallen roughly 7% from its late-August peak while the cap-weighted index sits near all-time highs, you pay a roughly 30% premium over the equivalent SPX put.
The premium exists because SPXXAI is the index that is actually moving lower.
The cap-weighted SPX, dominated by the AI names, is suppressing implied vol at the index level even as the average constituent is well off its highs.
That’s roughly a 30% premium for protection on the part of the market that's actually falling.
Citadel Securities: token price fell more than half but Azure AI token consumption is up ~4.5x
Effective access per dollar is actually worse, not better.
This is as a demonstration of why cheaper intelligence need not mean a smaller compute bill.
Falling token prices are being offset by more intensive usage and broader deployment.
What is good for adoption can simultaneously be challenging for model producers' pricing power.
Non-technical Wall Street analysts continue to be short the right tail on compute and inference demand. It’s at least an order of magnitude higher than they expect, yet the hyperscalers know this and it’s why they are investing over $1T in 2027 for datacenter buildouts.
@morganstanly has revised AI capex estimates "sharply higher in every year," with 2027 ballooning from $687bn to $1.384tn and 2028 from $763bn to $1.547tn versus the Nov-2025 numbers.
GOOGL at $400bn and AMZN at $350bn drive the 2028 total, and the revision is the story: the base case got twice as large in under a year.