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7 months

$AAPL, $MSFT, $NVDA - 401K buyers just took on an awful lot of very expensive stocks at or near their respective ATH. Just in time for Moody's to cut their outlook. I guess we know what the hurry was about today. Quick check of the playbook and I see: Step 1 - Let a bond

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8 months

$QQQ, $SQQQ, $TQQQ - More on my theory. When it comes to leveraged trades, there's a pattern that often unfolds. At/near lows: -- 1 - Build position in the underlying as price declines. Create a base. Set a low. 2 - Short rally, then pullback. 3 - Add long leverage on the

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8 months

$SQQQ - I have a theory, but I want to think some more. In any event, this is a pretty important trade. Largest since August 28. Ranks 35th. $TQQQ also came in, albeit less emphatically. Also the largest since August 28th. Fits with the Godzilla $QQQ trade.

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7 months

$TLT - Today we got the largest trade since inception. 12.1M shares @ $87.50 $1.05B 105x avg size. I'm going to steer clear of any narrative or subjective interpretation of what the trade "means," and just stick to positioning. I'm not a macro bro, bruh. I'm also going to

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11 months

$NVDA - Friday's close gave us its largest trade cluster since inception. It was 2.5x larger than its next largest cluster back on May 30. In total, $19.7B of inventory changed hands across 56 trades, almost entirely on dark pools. Before I go any further, I will address the

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1 year

$MSFT - On Dec 16, 2022, we got the largest trade since inception. It was a $7.5B trade. Eye watering. A few months passed, tra-la-la, and now suddenly price is 14% higher. But then today, the #18 ranked trade printed at the open and the #4 trade printed at the close, right

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11 months

$MSFT - $9B at the close. That's its largest trade ever, and eclipses the previous largest ever that stood at $7.5B. It's more than twice as large as #4 ($4B) which printed near the 2021 high. OPEX and rebalancing surely played into this size, there's no denying that. But

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6 months

$MSFT - Today we got the largest trade since inception. $9.2B printed in the closing auction. That trade was also part of its largest one-day cluster since inception. $16.2B across 69 trades. "OPEX doesn't matter." "OPEX should be ignored, it's just rebalancing."

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6 months

$SVIX (1x inverse $VIX futures) - The largest trade since inception arrived this morning at ATH. Institutions are positioning today while nobody is looking. #1 trades at or near ATH are almost always selling. 384K @ $33.30. That's your line. Price is currently trading

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11 months

$TQQQ - 1.2M shares at the high. Largest trade since November. 44x avg size. $SQQQ - 3M shares at the low. Largest trade since March. 50x avg size. Both ranked in the top-100. Two disproportionately large, directionally-bearish trades, appearing at relative extremes. In

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5 months

$TSLA - Some smart guy traded exactly 3.8M shares at $260 even during RTH. That's just shy of $1B. The size alone is rare, but for it to appear on a dark pool during RTH is even morer rarerer. It's the largest trade since Dec 15 when #4 arrived. Typically a transaction of

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9 months

$SPY - $5.7B close across 27 trades. This is the single largest one-day cluster since Dec 16, 2022. That was OPEX and quad-witch, so elevated volume would be expected. Today was just a regular Friday. Today stands out. There are many larger clusters of course, but they span

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6 months

$SPY - 4.5M @ $459.10. 24th largest trade since inception and largest trade in over a year. All ranked trades since the October 2022 low are shown. Buy it if you want to. It's a hard 'pass' for me.

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2 years

@AndrewHiesinger With respect, $1B+ trades in $AAPL are not unusual. $1B+ has printed 117 times in 2022. $1.3B+ trades have printed 52 times in 2022. $2B+ trades have printed 13 times in 2022. Context matters here.

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1 month

$SPY - Nearly $2B on the closing trade. This fits w/ my earlier post about leveraged trades and suggests longs were closed. Lots of them. That trade ranks #32 , and is the largest trade since January 2. I'm bearish into early next week.

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11 months

$QQQ - Interesting announcement. "Special" rebalance scheduled for Monday, July 24. A few possibilities here. 1 - This is how they keep the index moving up without relying so heavily on the megacaps. 2 - They know the megacaps are going to come down

The Nasdaq-100 Index Special Rebalance to be Effective July 24, 2023

--Nasdaq today announced that the Nasdaq-100 Index ® will undergo a Special Rebalance effective prior to the market open on Monday, July 24, 2023. As described in the published index methodology, a...

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6 months

$SPY - Today we got a cluster of 57 trades @ $470.60 - yesterday's close. It amounted to $6.9B in total, which ranks larger than any other one-day cluster since June 13, 2022. Today's cluster ranked 50th. The cluster last June ranked 18th ($8.8B). We closed above that

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9 months

$SPY, $QQQ - Institutions appear to be positioning for a reversal. $SPXS - 6th largest trade. 2.1M shares. $SQQQ - 1.1M shares. 19x avg size.

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10 months

$QQQ - Quiet no more. 3M shares just dropped. $1.1B. 2nd largest trade since inception. 168x avg size. Largest trade since Jan 31. $383.69 is the level to watch for bias!

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7 months

$QQQ - Here's your invitation to stop chasing this move. 1.2M @ $362.33.

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6 months

$SPY - I'm probably not qualified to weigh in on this metric. But I'll share my personal, uninformed, and reasonably biased opinion. 1 - It seems unlikely to me that institutions would go max long here after ~8 weeks of already having gone max long as price sits at ATH. 2 -

shrinking daniel

@steadyladslol

6 months

@VolumeLeaders I’m seeing a lot of posts that SPY has had its two largest inflow days on record ($20b and $10b). It also appears that shorting ETFs report as inflows since ETFs don’t have a fixed number of shares. Interested in your thoughts as SPY seems extended on every metric

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6 months

Seeing very large trades come in across several asset classes. They're gonna shuffle the deck tomorrow.

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7 months

"Hey VL, how can you tell if they're buying or selling?" Well, it's an inexact science. But there are clues in the data that can be used to help narrow the possibilities. The process has nuances, and situational awareness is recommended. Know the regime. Know the trend.

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3 months

$SPY - Today's close gave us an enormous $9.5B cluster of trades. It was the 14th largest one-day cluster since inception and was the largest of the year. The last time a cluster of this size printed was on Dec 15, 2023 (OPEX). Two top-20 ranked clusters arrived that day and

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3 months

$QQQ - Exactly 5M @ $444.88. $2.22B. 303x avg size. This trade is about 50% larger than the previous #1 from Jan 31, 2023. #3 came in at the July high. Important to note that we haven't seen any bear leverage of size yet. Also important to note that for as long as price

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8 months

$GOOGL - 6.5M shares, #21 rank, largest trade since Sept 15th. I don't have the energy for a write up. I'm bearish here though. --- They'll keep asking me. They'll keep asking me. They'll make me feel guilty until I tell them. ... This! This is ridiculous... I'll

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1 month

$QQQ - Exactly 1.5M @ $435.60. Rank: #70 . Largest trade since we got #65 early last week at the corresponding low. I'm looking lower from here into early next week.

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3 months

$TSLA - For the first time in a while, a disproportionately large trade has appeared at a local low rather than a local high. This is an encouraging sign that a low of sorts may be near. It's only bullish if: a) Price bounces immediately and remains above the print. b)

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3 months

$IVW (Growth Stocks) - By now, many of you are accustomed to hearing me blather on about how the largest trades tend to appear at or near important turning points. Well this ticker has been in circulation for 24 years and today alone, it printed four trades ranked in the top 10,

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4 months

$SPY, $QQQ, $IWM - So many prints, you guys... They are flowing. Today is not OPEX. Today is not VOLEX. Today is not FOMC. Today is not EOM. It's not even Friday. It's not even the close! Today is just a random Tuesday in February. You name it, it's printing. This is

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8 months

$SPY, $QQQ - Gigantic leveraged trades coming in. --- $UPRO - 1.1M shares @ 39.30. Rank #42 $SPXL - 1.1M shares @ $74.67. Rank #9 $SSO - 4.1M shares @ $51.87. Rank #12 $TQQQ - 4.2M shares @ $34.88. Rank #14 $SPUU - 566K @ $82.40. Rank #2 Things are moving quickly. Too

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11 months

$GOOGL - 🚨Largest trade since inception.🚨 27.7M shares. $3.3B. 95x avg size. Price has been held relatively flat for the last seven weeks while all that inventory has been changing hands, including five of the ten largest trades in its history. <sarcasm alert> I wonder

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3 months

$VOO - Identical to $SPY. 1.75M @ $466.87. I'm turning off the comments because I already know what they are. So I'll go ahead and troll myself and save you guys the trouble.

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1 year

$QQQ - 2.7M shares @ $350.87. This is its 8th largest trade since inception. Probably 27K options. I haven't checked. 140x avg size. Largest trade since January 31. Meanwhile, $VIXY also printed its largest trade since Feb 21. These two together suggest an incoming sell

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7 months

$SPY - $1B at the close. Largest trade since Sept 26th. We've had four trades this large since the July top. It's at least covering. We did get a bounce after hours. I'm not optimistic about it being buying though...for two reasons. 1 - Megacaps are still trading light. 2

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1 year

$NVDA - I hesitate to do this, and I know what you're thinking... ... but NVDA has had 16 trades of size $1.2B or larger since the split in 2021. Three came at the Nov 2021 top, three came since Wednesday's Viagra candle, and the others have all appeared on important dates

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8 months

$SPXS (3x inverse $SPY) - Today we got another large trade after hours suggesting this leg of the move lower in $SPY is coming to a close. It presents as profit taking near this local high, and is typically followed by zero to one more nominal highs, followed by a reversal. We

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@VolumeLeaders

8 months

$SPXS (3x inverse $SPY) - More evidence has arrived to suggest they're just about done selling for the day. This trade ranks 17th and is the largest since August 30. $15.39 is the LIS. With an hour left on a Friday, the syndicate may have concluded that it would be wise to

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7 months

$TZA (3x inverse $IWM) - This dark pool trade ranks 58th and is the largest trade since May the 4th. (May the 4th be with you.) (May it be with you as well.) Alright that's enough of that. Dorks. Now, if I'm asked whether they're buying or selling, I'm going to douse myself

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9 months

$UVXY - Largest trade since May 17, 2023. $SPDN (inverse $SPY) - Largest trade since Oct 20, 2022. #2 rank. Suggests bearish outcomes for $SPY, $QQQ tonight/tomorrow. If price can't stay above those two prints, something else is at play and this thesis is no good.

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10 months

$SPXL (3x $SPY) - The end is nigh. The largest and 5th largest trades since inception have arrived after months of rallying. Sometimes we see one more nominal high after large leveraged trades arrive in spots like this, but that's not necessary. Together, 3.5M shares, $341M,

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9 months

$TMF (3x $TLT) - 2.6M shares @ $5.89, 13x avg size, 2nd largest trade since inception. It's the largest trade since Sept 8, 2016. I'm bullish.

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9 months

$WMT - $1.43 billion gazillion dollars traded at just a skosh below time highs today. Is that how you spell skosh? Who talks like that? It was the 2nd largest trade since Sam Walton bought the Ben Franklin variety store in 1945. 8.7M shares @ $164.64 383x avg size. #1 came

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7 months

$SPXL, $UPRO, $QLD, $TQQQ - Since the October low, institutions have bought leveraged longs with size at nearly every high, pressing forward with little more than a pause at each juncture. What we're witnessing is unusual to say the least. $QQQ is at the weekly Keltner top,

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@VolumeLeaders

1 year

$QQQM ( $QQQ minis ) - $QQQM has the same composition as $QQQ, just priced lower. The largest trade since inception arrived at the close. The previous largest trade was at ATH in Dec 2021. *** Today's trade was twice as large as that one. *** 6.2M shares 117x avg size

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8 months

$SPY, $QQQ - From a positioning standpoint, it was a light close. That suggests they're not done selling on larger timeframes. I did see some apparent closing of short ETFs $SH and $HDGE, but that's about it. A bounce is okay here. But if we get one, I don't expect it to

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10 months

$SPY - $8B+ has traded at this level. It continues to get defended. More will transact overnight in the form of signature prints and be reported tomorrow. I'm bullish in the near term. And those of you that haven't put me on mute by now should know that it's really really

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4 months

$SPY / $QQQ - If there's one chart that stands out among the rest, it's this $SPLG chart. $SPLG is $SPY. They are the same. Feb 13, 2024: The four largest trades since inception near ATH. By comparison: Feb 13, 2020: The six largest trades to that point (now ranked

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1 year

$NVDA - This is the one I was expecting. 14.1M shares $3.6 Billion 364x avg size Largest trade since Dec 17, 2021. 🥷 All time highs was Nov 2021 The largest trades tend to appear on important dates near highs and lows. Chart 2 shows the five largest since inception. They

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@VolumeLeaders

1 year

$NVDA - VL contains 79,530 institutional trades (>$500K and >10K shares) for $NVDA with data going back to 2004. Of those, 7 of the top 100 have printed in the last two weeks. Another came today ( #53 ) after breaking out of the multi-week range. During the AH session, price has

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8 months

$SQQQ - More arrived after the bell. This time about twice as much as this morning's trade. My assumption is they reloaded after the retrace. $18.59 is your line in the sand. Exactly 2.2M shares (suggests opening position) #41 rank Largest trade since Sept 29. But wait,

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@VolumeLeaders

8 months

$SQQQ (3x bear $QQQ) - 1.1M on a dark pool sweep. Not ranked, but the largest since #35 came on Sept 29th, which was placed in a peculiar spot given what came before and after. But I care less about that print and more about the three that came before it. Price has

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3 months

$NVDA - $6.1B at ATH. 2nd largest trade since inception. 464x avg size. #1 came back in July 2023. 🔔🔔

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6 months

$RSP (Equal Weighted $SPY) - I'd rather take a 100 mile ride down a gravel road on a bicycle with no seat than take a long here.

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6 months

$SPY - 1.39M @ $455.35 was snuck in about an hour after Friday's close. It's its largest trade in a week and presents as an opening short given its round-numbered share size, and the initial move lower in futures. Short positions are unsafe if/when price recaptures Friday's

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1 year

$NVDA- The 2021 top saw three top-20 ranked trades appear in close succession across three sessions. Those trades ranked 4th, 8th, and 10th. (At the time they were ranked even higher.) I remember watching them come in. I remember thinking "this is it." It was. Price is

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7 months

$MSFT - They're doing it again. Still don't know the significance of this phenomenon, if any. Posting it for documentation purposes.

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7 months

$MSFT - This morning before the open, we got a bunch of late-reported dark-pool trades. That's not unusual in a vacuum, but looking at the share sizes one can see that many of them are sequentially numbered. That's deliberate, so I'm choosing to interpret this as some kind of

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8 months

$SPY - 2.5M shares @ $425.88 It's the largest trade since Sept 15. Short covering, I'd say. If we get some more AH on the dark pools, I'll be more enthusiastic about a lasting bounce. Not holding my breath. Also problematic is the absence of large $UVXY trades near the high.

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1 year

$NVDA - Four of the ten largest trades since inception have transacted in the last three weeks. Two of those trades came on Friday ( #4 and #8 ). I know I talk about this a lot and I've nearly exhausted ways to describe how unusual this is. Here's another: Prior to 2022, the

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5 months

$YANG (3x inverse $FXI) - Positioning suggests China is at, or near a meaningful bottom. Late Friday, $YANG printed its largest trade since inception. A trade of this size in a leveraged ETF is an important step in putting in a turn, and often precedes a reversal in the

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11 months

$SPY - Volume is volume and institutional volume is institutional volume. But I tend to place more emphasis on dark pool trades than trades made on lit exchanges. Not a ton more, but more. On Friday, we got a 2M share DP trade worth $898M. Only three other trades of that

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1 year

$SVIX - Top 5 trades since inception are shown. We'll know this rally is on its last legs if/when we see a very large block arrive at the highs, suggesting they're bored with the vol suppression and ready to rug us. Preferably, such a trade would be larger than all others,

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9 months

$SPY - Nearly $12B in institutional inventory traded below us, right where we bottomed out last week. For parts of three consecutive sessions (8/17 - 8/21), institutions hammered the level between $436.30 and $436.40 with 98 large trades. That level has been tested several

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3 months

$SVIX (inverse $VIX futures) - There's a chance, remote as it may seem, that today is the day they stop shorting $VIX. The 4th largest trade since inception arrived at the open today and it's the largest trade since last Thanksgiving. That said, #1 and #5 did nothing to slow

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8 months

$TLT - 11M shares at the close. This trade ranks 2nd largest since inception and comes after a strong sell down from the #14 print at yesterday's close. Institutions are pushing inventory both directions with size lately these last few sessions. The largest $TLT trade came

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4 months

$SH (1x Inverse $SPY) - I'm not gonna get into a lot of detail here. I'm hungry and I have to go to the bathroom. I can't provide sound analysis while faced with Sophie's choice. So.... Big trade. Big rank. Been a while since we got one. Extreme readings. Nobody cares. I

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6 months

Straight from the department of "who gives a shit because it doesn't matter anyway," I present to you a 2M share trade in $UNG. It's the largest trade since November 15th and it arrives at ATL. We also got two top-50 ranked trades in $BOIL toward the end of the day, and a

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8 months

$TSLA - Today was OPEX, and if ever there was a time for institutions to show up big, it was today. But nothing of consequence traded today, which usually suggests continuation in the direction of the current trend. As I've said before, if they're not trading, they're not

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6 months

$TQQQ - This afternoon we got the #5 ranked trade at the HOD. Price drifted sideways to lower after it arrived, suggesting it was a sell after a strong intraday rally. It was the largest trade since December 20, 2021 when #3 arrived. A week after that, #9 arrived and marked

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9 months

$SQQQ - 1.28M shares. #91 rank. We may see a bearish reversal in $QQQ shortly. $17.97 is your LIS.

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8 months

$SPY - I don't know what the "news" was that preceded the 1pm drop, but exactly 1.2M shares was traded just before it. By far the largest trade of the day.

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10 months

$NVDA - On July 21, institutions traded $19.6B at $443.10, including $10B in a single trade, its largest ever. That cluster was its largest by a mile. Its next largest cluster was $7.7B on May 31. "But VL, wasn't that OPEX? Wouldn't that explain the volume?" Well, if a

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7 months

$QQQ - I'm going to take this bearish tweet from yesterday and shove it up my butt where it belongs. You may be tempted to pile on and say you told me so. I'd let that sleeping dog lie. My trigger finger is *awfully* itchy today, and I assure you the message sent by the market

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@VolumeLeaders

7 months

$QQQ - Price poked over the monthly Keltner top today and closed below it. This level coincided with an institutional level that also served as resistance at the end of the October bounce. After some afternoon selling, this #92 ranked trade showed up just before the close.

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3 months

$MSTR - Today's close gave us the 3rd largest trade since inception while price is trading so high that it can see beyond the curvature of the universe and peak into the future. It's the largest trade since Sept 2021. Price is now 7+ margaritas from the mean on the daily

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6 months

$SPY - Two gigantic phantom prints below price. $467.42. I know it's OPEX. This is atypical, even for OPEX.

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28 days

$SPY - Let's contextualize this information. It's important to know what "unusual" means. Since 2007 - Number of days we've had two or more 1M-share DP prints on the same day: 2,785. That's approximately 63% of trading days. Since 2007 - Number of days we've had two or

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4 months

$SMCI - #2 - Before Takeoff. #1 - Bear Trap. #3 - Media Attention #5 - New Paradigm. #4 - Bull Trap. On the lookout for another top-10 to signify the return to normal.

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7 months

$QQQ - Hot-damn I like this new levels feature. Today we got a 250K phantom print sitting right on a $7B level that goes all the way back to 2021, and also corresponds with a short-term resistance-turned-support zone from a couple weeks ago. Let's see if it hits.

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@_logicaltrader

7 months

@VolumeLeaders 250k phantom at ~$358 for $QQQ around 15:45 dovetails nicely here.

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2 months

$SPXS (3x inverse $SPY) - Largest trade since inception. 3.6M shares @ $9.24. I have mixed feelings so I'm not making a directional call. But it's important that everybody know this trade is out there. The bull argument: We got a big sell after CPI and they're closing shorts

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6 months

$QQQ - 2.04M @ $392.21. Rank: #30 . Largest trade since Nov 17. I'm going to let the future comments section of this tweet fill in the details for me: "Looks like more buying to me. You know how we can tell it's buying? Price went straight down afterwards. Telltale sign

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6 months

$QQQ - 2.04M @ $392.21. I'll add more context when this data feed issue is resolved. Had to grab this one off time & sales. Trading like a blind, illiterate caveman today.

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11 months

$AMD - Friday's close printed the 2nd largest trade since inception and largest trade since March 17, 2017. Along with it came its 6th largest trade. The cluster of trades at $110.95 amounts to $2.2B across 49 institutional trades ranking second largest since inception. This

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$SMCI - "Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel... was just a freight train coming your way." $590M @ $1188, the largest trade since inception. Longs are very unsafe below the print.

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$TLT - Today's close was so big that it was more than twice the size of the previous #1 . The top five are listed in the second graphic. $28M shares $2.7B Price sits on the convergence of the daily and 4H Keltner bottoms, as well as the weekly Keltner top.

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6 months

$TLT - We have a new champion. $1.2B at the close ranks #1 eclipsing the previous #1 from Nov 9. Price is now stretched beyond the weekly Keltner top and has overtaken the LVN on the daily profile. RSI is overbought on the daily profile.

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$AAPL - Friday's close gave us $12.2B across 86 trades right at ATH, the single largest one-day cluster since inception. 61.9M shares @ $197.60. 807x larger than the "average" one-day cluster. Included in that cluster was the 3rd largest trade since inception amounting to

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6 months

$AAPL - $3B+ peeled off at the open. Largest trade since Sept 15th when #8 arrived. I would not be surprised to see more come in at the close. -- Yes, I know it's OPEX. -- Price has barely exceeded the July high. The daily, weekly and monthly Keltner tops are just below.

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10 months

$QQQ - US Debt downgraded. Institutions were positioned for this announcement well in advance. The nature of the headline is far less important than knowing in advance that a headline was coming. Join and get the news before the news gets you.

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10 months

From a positioning standpoint, $SPY and $QQQ present two different pictures. Shown are the 10 largest trades in each since July 1. $SPY shows large trades that have generally been supportive. A few sells are there, but a greater percentage of large trades appear at local

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6 months

$AVGO - Here's my first attempt at drawing Elliot Waves. How'd I do? Here at the top of wave 33,333, we got five top-100 ranked prints in a cluster of 24 trades, including the 2nd largest since inception. That cluster totaled $5.7B. I'm sure some of you are wondering if

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1 year

You guys are gonna flip when you see the blocks that came in today. EOM did not disappoint.

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8 months

$SPY - Welp. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe next week. But they'll have to deal with this sooner or later. Exactly 500K @ $424.92. 👻

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7 months

$MSFT - This morning before the open, we got a bunch of late-reported dark-pool trades. That's not unusual in a vacuum, but looking at the share sizes one can see that many of them are sequentially numbered. That's deliberate, so I'm choosing to interpret this as some kind of

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7 months

$SPY - Another one bites the dust. $410 has been fulfilled.

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11 months

$AMZN - 🔥Largest trade since inception.🔥 44.8M shares $5.8B 272x avg size.

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5 months

$SPY - Lots and lots of leverage came in at today's close. Typically we see it arrive before and after sharp moves. Given the sharp rally we just had, I favor these being directionally bearish. $SPXL - #2 , #19 $UPRO - #4 (Largest since April) $SSO - #27 The last chart

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1 month

$RSP (Equal weighted $SPY) - #25 arrived today on a lower high below a lower high. 1,445,000 @ $162.74. This trade is consistent with an opening short position, and consistent with the positioning outlined in my earlier post on $QQQ.

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2 months

$RSP (Equal weighted $SPY) - Of all the charts I've seen and posted lately, this one has been the most informative and useful. It's worth noting that after several days of selling, not a single ranked print has arrived to suggest buying/covering. That said, price is approaching

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$SPXL (3x $SPY) - Largest trade ever...moments before $META released. I don't know guys, what are you thinking here? Price: $119.36 Bid: $118.19 Ask: $118.28 It came in **Above the Ask** so it MUST be a buy. [Insert dark pool bid/ask directionality ranting manifesto here]

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6 months

$TLT - Now we're at the weekly Keltner top with RSI overbought conditions on the daily timeframe, and another disproportionately large trade has arrived. This one ranks #5 overall. 9.3M shares @ $95.87 Anybody that asks if it's a buy or sell will be thrown in the

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6 months

$TLT - All trades in the top-30 since July are shown. I've highlighted the $95 zone in red where we can see a lot of activity prior to the last leg lower. We're back in that zone now, and institutions have been especially active. The weekly Keltner top is up around $96. We're

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$MU - Largest trade since inception, and it comes right at the confluence of the daily, weekly, and monthly Keltner tops. Consistent w/ selling, just as #4 was consistent w/ buying last October when it arrived at the confluence of the daily and weekly bottom. 9.3M @ $76.12.

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1 month

$SSO (2x $SPY) - Lots hit at 12:42pm. Consistent w/ longs being closed. Plan accordingly.

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$QID (2x Inverse $QQQ) - Institutions closed their longs in the bear ETF with #9 last week. That was bullish for $QQQ. Now, presumably, institutions are buying the bear ETF again w/ #15 . That would be bearish for $QQQ...or at minimum, not-bullish (i.e. chop). Everybody

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2 months

$QID (2x Inverse $QQQ) - It would appear that shorts were closed near the end of the day. But just as we've seen with $SQQQ and others, it does not mean they can't pull back, load up again, and make another high later. It only suggests that this is a good place to take some

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$QQQM - $QQQ minis. Same composition as $QQQ, just cheaper. #4 today came today. #3 came at the low. Maybe it means something. It probably doesn't. One of you is going to ask me why they trade $QQQM when they could just trade $QQQ. I don't know!? Why do they trade $AMC

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7 months

$SPY, $QQQ - 24 hours later and almost nothing has changed. $SPXL, $UPRO, $SSO, $TQQQ, and $QLD are each trading just about where there respective prints arrived yesterday, and have traded both above and below them. I remain unbiased about direction, and increasingly annoyed

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7 months

$SPXL - Exactly 2.5M @ $89.48. Largest trade since the July high. 2nd largest overall. We also got some $UPRO with size. Chart one looks bearish. Hitting the highs and lows w/ the largest trades (as you'd expect). Chart two looks like another gigantic buy among gigantic

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