🇺🇸 Washington treats U.S. tech like a weapon, but the funds are seeing otherwise.
Leveraged money has piled about $75B of Nasdaq 100 shorts against $18B of longs.
Net that is roughly $57B, the ugliest tilt since at least 2022.
This is the index stuffed with the firms that sit at the center of chips, cloud, and the AI race with China.
While D.C. talks plants, tariffs, and who gets to build the next model, the fast money is treating that whole cluster like a crowded room.
Empires used to hide doubt in communiques. Now it shows up in a futures book.
Leveraged money has piled about $75B of Nasdaq 100 shorts against $18B of longs.
Net that is roughly $57B, the ugliest tilt since at least 2022.
This is the index stuffed with the firms that sit at the center of chips, cloud, and the AI race with China.
While D.C. talks plants, tariffs, and who gets to build the next model, the fast money is treating that whole cluster like a crowded room.
Empires used to hide doubt in communiques. Now it shows up in a futures book.
