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01.Last Week's Carryforward
The week of June 8–12 was the first real test of the prior Sundae's week-ahead calls — and it resolved on a catalyst the brief named as a side-risk rather than the main event. The 6/07 read framed Wednesday's May CPI as the binary: a cool print would arm an oversold reclaim, a hot print was the second leg down. CPI came in inline-hot (headline +4.2% year-over-year, core +2.9% — the fastest since 2023) and Wednesday duly closed at the lows. But Thursday–Friday the tape ripped through an even hotter PPI on an unscheduled catalyst — the US–Iran de-escalation and a ~6% oil collapse — and every one of the brief's reversal theses played out two days late and for the wrong reason.
| 6/07 Sundae week-ahead call | What happened (wk of 6/8–6/12) | Verdict |
|---|
| Semiconductor / Tech Oversold Reclaim (primary long; CPI-gated, confirmation-only) | Did NOT fire on the cool-CPI gate (CPI was hot; Wed closed at lows). Fired Thu–Fri on the Iran de-escalation instead — SMH +6.75% Thu (closed 619.96); QQQ reclaimed its 693.69 Wed low to 721.34 Friday. | FIRE (delayed, off-gate) |
| Volatility-Spike Mean-Reversion (secondary long-index / short-vol) | VIX rejected the 22–25 band and mean-reverted hard — 21.5 → 17.68 by Friday's close. Played out, again on the Iran/oil relief rather than a cool CPI. | FIRE |
| Defensive-Crowding Exhaustion (contrarian short-defensives; watch) | The staples / health-care crowd unwound Thu–Fri as money rotated back to growth and semis. The contrarian watch resolved correctly. | FIRE (watch) |
| Macro fork: "Wednesday CPI is the binary" | CPI was the scheduled binary but came hot AND the market rallied anyway — the actual fork was the unscheduled Iran/Hormuz de-escalation + oil −6%, the mirror-image of the "oil spike into a hot CPI" risk the brief had flagged. | MISSED MECHANISM |
Daily-brief scorecard (wk 6/8–6/12): the Early Bird Curd dailies logged two clean on-mechanism FIRES (Wed level-rejection short into the CPI flush; Thu level-reclaim long off the twice-held lows), one discipline-win VOID (Wed vol-spike long correctly stood aside — no capitulation flush came), and two MIXED "right-direction / wrong-mechanism" reads (the conditional shorts and the semis momentum-long, where a kill mis-gated a move that ran anyway). That right-direction / wrong-mechanism pattern is the same leak the calibration record keeps flagging. Sundae setups validated narratively vs the daily-validated tape — the Friday Nightcap that finalizes weekly setups did not run.
Lens: The framework called the shape of the week correctly — oversold tape, confirmation-only discipline, reclaim by Friday — and the discipline again paid (anticipating the reclaim on Wednesday would have been caught in the hot-CPI downdraft; waiting for Thursday's confirmation caught the rip). The miss was the fork: a scheduled binary is not always the binary, and this week an unscheduled geopolitical de-escalation overrode a hot inflation print. Carry that lesson into this week, where the scheduled binary — Warsh's first FOMC — is far harder for a headline to override, but the still-unsigned Iran MOU is exactly the kind of wildcard that did the overriding last week.
02.Friday → Sunday Tape
- Friday cash close (6/12): S&P 500 +0.5% on the day / +0.6% on the week; Dow +0.7% / +0.7%; Nasdaq Composite +0.3% / +0.7% — the index closed the week green after Wednesday's hot-CPI dip was fully reclaimed. confirmed (Yahoo Finance, multi-source)
- ETF anchors (Friday close): SPY 741.75, QQQ 721.34, IWM 292.95, RSP 211.65, DIA 513.06, SMH 619.96. confirmed (Massive, 6/12 daily bar)
- The week's arc: hot CPI Wednesday (closed at the lows) → ripped Thursday–Friday on the Iran de-escalation and a ~6% oil collapse → VIX crushed to 17.68 and breadth thrust back, semis leading (SMH +1.7% Friday). confirmed
- SpaceX (SPCX) swallowed the tape: the largest IPO in history debuted Friday, closing 160.95 (+19.2% day one) at a ~$1.4T valuation on a record retail frenzy — $117.6M of net retail buys, ~56% of all retail buying Friday (Vanda). A late-cycle risk-appetite tell, not a market-direction driver. confirmed (Massive close; Axios / Vanda)
- Weekend gap into Monday: US equity futures firmer and Brent down ~5% to ~$82 on the Strait-of-Hormuz reopening (Axios, Monday AM). Precise Sunday-night ES level not separately confirmed. ↻ refresh Monday futures
Lens: The weekend gap is risk-on but thin-bottomed — oil / Hormuz relief plus SpaceX euphoria carried the tape over a hot inflation print, yet the Iran framework is an unsigned memorandum and the week's real test is Wednesday's Fed. Monday opens firm but capped: the repair is intact and breadth confirmed it, but there is little reason to chase into a binary FOMC that is already roughly 97% priced for a hold.
03.This Week's Regime
Regime: REPAIRED-BUT-CAPPED — risk-on relief into a binary Fed. The market enters oversold-and-reclaimed (the post-war-scare bounce completed Thu–Fri, breadth thrust to ~60% of the S&P above its 50-day line, VIX back to 17.68) but pointed straight at Warsh's first FOMC on Wednesday, with two hot inflation prints freshly behind it and a December hike still "live." The week is holiday-compressed to four sessions (Friday closed for Juneteenth) with quad-witching pulled forward to Thursday — so the whole read forks on Wednesday 2:00 PM.
~25%Dovish-relief squeeze. Warsh lands less hawkish than feared (dots show only one more hike or flexibility; presser leans data-dependent / AI-disinflation). VIX 17.68 → mid-15s, indices break the 745 SPY / 724 QQQ zone and squeeze toward the prior all-time high. The AAII-bears-at-47.7% wall of worry is the fuel; semis and tech lead.
~45%Hawkish hold, range-bound grind (base case). Mon–Tue drift near the highs; the Fed delivers the expected hold + a dot-plot still penciling a hike later this year + a measured-hawkish Warsh. With the hold ~97% priced, the reaction is muted-to-modestly-lower; the repair holds but caps below the Monday-high / ATH supply. Quad-witching Thursday adds chop into the long weekend.
~20%Hawkish shock / "tighten without raising." Warsh surprises hawkish — more hikes in the dots, balance-sheet or forward-guidance tightening, explicit higher-for-longer. The 10-year breaks 4.55 → 4.60+, the complacent 0.54 put/call (little hedging) amplifies a quick risk-off, SPY back toward 730 / QQQ 708, VIX pops 20+. Thursday's quad-witch magnifies it.
~10%Exogenous tail. The unsigned Iran MOU reverses on a weekend headline, an oil re-spike returns, or a hot retail-sales / Empire surprise reorders the week independent of the Fed.
Lens: This is a "prove-it into the binary" week — respect the repair early but do not chase into Wednesday 2:00 PM; let Warsh pick the side, then trade the resolution. And treat Thursday like a Friday: with the market dark for Juneteenth and quad-witching landing the same session, any position carried past Thursday's close holds a three-day-weekend gap — the documented Friday-into-the-weekend leak, simply shifted a day earlier this week.
04.Cross-Asset & Credit
| Asset | Level (Fri 6/12) | Read |
|---|
| S&P 500 (SPY) | 741.75 · wk +0.6% | reclaimed the hot-CPI dip, closed near highs |
| VIX | 17.68 (−9.0%) | back under 18 — relief, not stress |
| WTI / Brent | ~84.9 / ~87.3 | −3%+ Fri, ~−6% wk; ~$82 Brent Mon on Hormuz reopen |
| US 10Y yield | ~4.46% | eased from 4.54; still the week's tripwire into the Fed |
| Gold (GLD) | 386.54 | hedge bid persists despite risk-on |
| US dollar (UUP) | 27.95 | quiet; no FX confirmation either way |
| Credit (HYG / JNK) | 79.94 / 96.30 | spreads calm — no stress signal |
| Bitcoin | ~$64–65k | soft, weakest since late-Feb — lagging the equity bounce |
Equity / ETF / credit / gold levels confirmed (Massive, 6/12 close); VIX confirmed (Cboe / Yahoo); oil confirmed (CNBC / Axios); 10Y est. (Massive snapshot, Friday) — ↻ refresh; Bitcoin est. (CoinDesk / TE).
Lens: The complex reads clean risk-on-relief — oil and volatility cracking, credit spreads calm, equities repaired — with two non-confirmations worth watching: Bitcoin is soft (the risk-appetite barometer isn't echoing the equity bounce) and the 10-year is still near 4.46%, not pricing any rate relief. Wednesday flips it either way: a hawkish Warsh plus a 10-year break above 4.55–4.60 re-tightens financial conditions and caps the tape; a benign Fed lets the oil-and-VIX relief extend.
05.Macro Theme
- Pillar 1 — the regime change is the chair, not the rate. Warsh's first FOMC (Wednesday, decision + Summary of Economic Projections at 2:00 PM, press conference 2:30) is the market's first read on a new Fed. The hold itself is ~97% priced; the signal is the dot-plot and the tone. The circulating framing is that Warsh "tightens without raising" — balance-sheet runoff and hawkish guidance rather than a hike. confirmed (Fed calendar); odds est. (CME FedWatch) — ↻ refresh
- Pillar 2 — inflation is sticky and gives him cover to lean hawkish. May CPI ran +4.2% year-over-year (core +2.9%, fastest since 2023) and PPI the fastest since November 2022; a December hike is still "live." That backdrop makes a dovish surprise the lower-probability outcome. confirmed (newsletter / multi-source)
- Pillar 3 — oil is the fresh disinflationary offset. The Iran/Hormuz de-escalation knocked crude ~6% on the week; if it holds, falling energy is a forward-inflation tailwind that partly counters the hot prints and gives the Fed room over time. The one input that could re-tighten the whole thesis is an oil re-spike on a deal reversal.
- Pillar 4 — late-cycle risk-appetite and supply. SpaceX (largest IPO ever, ~$1.4T) with Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly queued, retail euphoria, and a Shiller CAPE around 42 (its highest since 1999, per a third-party note) describe a melt-up meeting a wave of equity supply — a caution flag beneath strong headline indices. CAPE est. (3rd-party); IPO pipeline confirmed (Axios)
Lens: The dominant narrative is a repaired tape trying to hold into a Fed that has every reason (hot inflation) to lean hawkish but a fresh excuse (collapsing oil) to stay patient — and the single binary that resolves it is Wednesday 2:00 PM. Early-week bias is drift and consolidation near the highs as desks position; late-week, the Fed picks the side and then quad-witching and the holiday gap take over. Conviction and size should reflect that the binary, not Monday's open, governs the week.
06.Geopolitical Pulse
- US–Iran framework reached, not yet signed. A memorandum to end the four-month war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz was agreed over the weekend (announced via Pakistan's PM, 6/13), with signing targeted for Friday June 19 and final-deal talks to begin within 60 days. The US is lifting its naval blockade; Trump: "Let the oil flow." confirmed (NBC / CNN / NPR)
- The ceasefire held over the weekend — renewed Israeli strikes near Beirut on 6/14 drew an Iranian response, but US intervention prevented escalation and preserved the framework. No confirmed fresh US–Iran strikes. likely (Britannica)
- Oil read: crude is down ~6% on the week but still ~20% above its late-February pre-war level — the risk premium is deflating, not gone. confirmed (CNBC)
Lens: Geopolitics flipped from last week's compounding risk (an oil spike into a hot CPI) to this week's relief valve (an oil collapse into a repaired tape) — but the relief rests on an unsigned memorandum whose signing is slated for a day US markets are closed. The asymmetry matters: the bullish catalyst is largely in the tape already (oil −6%, futures up), while a reversal would gap the market — and it would gap it across a three-day weekend, which is one more reason to honor the Thursday-close discipline.
07.This Week's Calendar
| Day | Releases / events (ET) | Earnings | Impact |
|---|
| Mon 6/15 | Empire State mfg 8:30 (13.0 exp vs 19.6) · Industrial Production / Cap-U 9:15 · NAHB Housing 10:00 · FOMC Day 1 (no statement) | PLAY (AMC) | Low–Med |
| Tue 6/16 | Housing Starts & Building Permits 8:30 · Import/Export Prices 8:30 · FOMC Day 2 | LZB (AMC) | Low–Med |
| Wed 6/17 | Retail Sales (May) 8:30 (+0.5% exp) · Business Inventories 10:00 · FOMC decision + dot-plot 2:00 PM · Warsh presser 2:30 PM | KMX, JBL (BMO) | HIGH — the binary |
| Thu 6/18 | Jobless Claims 8:30 · Philadelphia Fed 8:30 · Leading Indicators 10:00 · quad-witching expiration · Fed blackout ends | ACN, KR (BMO) | High |
| Fri 6/19 | JUNETEENTH — NYSE, Nasdaq & bond markets CLOSED | — |
- Current target range 3.50–3.75% (likely); CME FedWatch implies ~97% hold, ~3% cut, ~0% hike — ↻ refresh live odds before leaning on them.
- Holiday-compressed week: four sessions (Mon–Thu); markets reopen Monday June 22. The June quarterly options/futures expiration is pulled forward to Thursday 6/18 by the Friday closure — so the quad-witch gamma unwind lands the same session as the post-Fed reaction and the pre-holiday positioning. confirmed (NYSE; TradeStation)
Lens: The week back-loads every decision onto Wednesday's Fed and a dense, high-volume Thursday into a closed Friday. Monday–Tuesday are low-catalyst positioning days (housing data and regional surveys, no real market-mover), and Wednesday's 8:30 retail sales is just the warm-up to the 2:00 PM main event. Ride and respect the repair into Wednesday, let the Fed set the side, then navigate a thin, gamma-heavy Thursday — and do not carry fresh risk into the three-day gap.
08.Breadth & Internals
- % of S&P 500 above the 50-day: 60.43% (+8.57 day-over-day) — a clean thrust back on the Thu–Fri reclaim, up from the low-50s mid-week. confirmed (BarChart $S5FI, 6/12)
- % above the 200-day: 61.03% (+3.02) — the short- and long-term participation lines have converged near 60–61%, with no major divergence between them. confirmed (BarChart $S5TH, 6/12)
- Participation was broad on the reclaim: Thursday closed with 8 of 11 sectors green and the equal-weight RSP +1.56%, not a narrow mega-cap-only bounce. confirmed (track record)
- $TICK / $TRIN / NYSE advance-decline closes not cleanly retrievable for 6/12. ↻ refresh at Monday's open.
Lens: The breadth trajectory is the bull case's strongest leg: the percentage of the S&P above its 50-day thrust from the low-50s to 60% on the Thursday–Friday reclaim, and it did so with broad participation — exactly the confirmation a genuine oversold reclaim requires, and the one last week's brief said the reversal cards would need before firing. That thrust arms the contrarian-long setup into the Fed; the disarm would be breadth rolling back below the 50% line on a hawkish Warsh.
09.Sentiment Watch
- AAII (June 11 release): Bulls 30.4% / Bears 47.7% / Neutral 22.0% — bears jumped ~+11 points to well above the ~30.5% historical average. Deep retail pessimism. confirmed (AAII)
- VIX 17.68 (−9% Friday) — back under 18, no fear premium in index options. confirmed (Cboe / Yahoo)
- CNN Fear & Greed: 34 ("Fear"); CBOE equity put/call 0.54 (low / complacent). est. (CNN / secondary) — ↻ refresh
- Bitcoin ~$64–65k, its weakest since late February — the risk-appetite barometer is not echoing the equity bounce. est. (CoinDesk / TE)
Lens: This is a textbook sentiment divergence — survey pessimism (AAII bears 47.7%, Fear & Greed in "Fear") set against a collapsing VIX and a complacent 0.54 put/call. The reconciliation: the weekly survey still reflects the CPI / PPI / war scare while the fast tape already priced Friday's relief. For the reversal bias that read cuts two ways: the high bear count is genuine wall-of-worry fuel for a squeeze if Warsh doesn't validate the fear, but the low put/call means the options market is unhedged — a hawkish surprise would hit a complacent tape and move fast. Sentiment arms the bullish case and flags the downside convexity in the same breath.
10.Sector Flow at Week's Start
Tiles show one-week performance (Finviz, through 6/12). The multi-period trend below is the primary weekly read; the one-week strip is the near-term tilt.
XLKTechnology+1.06%
XLVHealthcare+0.87%
XLFFinancials+2.59%
XLYCons. Cyc.+0.94%
XLPCons. Def.+2.77%
XLEEnergy+0.07%
XLIIndustrials+1.40%
XLUUtilities+0.40%
XLBMaterials+3.57%
XLREReal Estate+1.82%
XLCComm. Svcs−1.50%
| Sector | Week | Month | Quarter | Half-Y | Year | YTD |
|---|
| Basic Materials | +3.57 | −4.96 | +4.24 | +18.0 | +41.4 | +14.9 |
| Cons. Defensive | +2.77 | −0.77 | +0.32 | +9.2 | +6.7 | +9.5 |
| Financials | +2.59 | +4.60 | +11.5 | +2.2 | +12.8 | +0.6 |
| Real Estate | +1.82 | +2.46 | +6.94 | +9.9 | +8.4 | +10.7 |
| Industrials | +1.40 | +1.64 | +9.17 | +15.4 | +26.8 | +16.1 |
| Technology | +1.06 | +2.52 | +27.1 | +16.8 | +43.1 | +20.6 |
| Cons. Cyclical | +0.94 | −4.19 | +4.66 | −4.9 | +5.7 | −4.4 |
| Healthcare | +0.87 | +3.11 | +3.22 | +0.8 | +13.3 | −0.6 |
| Utilities | +0.40 | −1.52 | −4.30 | +4.6 | +13.1 | +4.4 |
| Energy | +0.07 | −1.58 | +0.67 | +26.1 | +34.1 | +28.3 |
| Comm. Services | −1.50 | −7.19 | +5.80 | +0.7 | +23.7 | +1.3 |
confirmed (Finviz sector groups, 6/12)
Lens: The multi-period picture says the bull-market engine (Technology +27% on the quarter, +43% on the year) is intact, but the week's leadership rotated to value, cyclicals and defensives — Materials, Defensive and Financials led, the "everything-bounced-post-scare" pattern rather than clean offensive leadership. The tell into the Fed: whether Tech and semis re-assert on a benign Warsh (confirming the squeeze path) or the defensive/value bid that led the week persists (the tape bracing for hawkish). Consumer Cyclical — the only YTD-negative sector (−4.4%) — is the quiet caution flag, which makes Wednesday's retail sales and Thursday's KMX / KR consumer reads matter more than usual.
11.Earnings Reaction Watch
- Accenture (ACN) — Thu 6/18, before open — the one name with index-level read-through: enterprise IT-services and AI-consulting demand bellwether. It reports into the post-Fed tape and quad-witch day, so its signal will be tangled with the Fed reaction and OpEx flows. confirmed (Accenture / MarketBeat)
- Consumer / rates cluster: CarMax (KMX, Wed BMO — used-auto demand, consumer credit) and Kroger (KR, Thu BMO — grocery / staples, food inflation), with Dave & Buster's (PLAY, Mon AMC) and La-Z-Boy (LZB, Tue AMC) on the discretionary / housing-linked side. Jabil (JBL, Wed BMO) adds an electronics / AI-server hardware read. confirmed (MarketBeat / EarningsWhispers)
- The heavyweights are all next week: Lennar, KB Home, FedEx, Micron and Darden land 6/22–6/25 — the housing, freight and semis catalysts sit just past this brief's horizon. confirmed
Lens: With the calendar owned by the Fed, earnings are a secondary, consumer-and-rates-flavored read this week rather than an AI-capex referendum. The cluster that matters is the consumer/credit pulse — KMX, KR and PLAY against Wednesday's retail-sales print — precisely because Consumer Cyclical is the YTD laggard; that is where an earnings reaction could actually move the macro read. ACN is the lone macro-relevant name, but reporting Thursday into the post-Fed quad-witch means its tape will be hard to read cleanly.
12.Key Levels at Monday's Open
| Index | Fri close | Support | Resistance | ATR(14) |
|---|
| SPY | 741.75 | 737.76 · 735.03 · 730 · 725.43 | 744.44 · 745.34 · 752–757 (ATH zone) | ~9.3 |
| QQQ | 721.34 | 717.12 · 711.28 · 708 · 693.69 | 724.01 · 724–731 · 740 | ~15.6 |
| IWM | 292.95 | 290.41 · 290.31 · 286.84 | 295.72 · 296–300 | ~6.1 |
| VIX | 17.68 | 16 · 15 compression | 20 FOMC stress · 22 | — |
| US 10Y | ~4.46% | 4.40 relief | 4.55 · 4.60 hawkish break | — |
Week tripwires (the levels that flip the whole read): a 10-year break above 4.60% or VIX through 20 on Wednesday is the tell that Warsh came in hawkish, independent of where the indices tick; SPY 730 / QQQ 708 lost says the repair failed (Path C); SPY 745.34 reclaimed and held on broad participation opens the prior all-time high (Path B). levels derived from Massive 6/12 bars + track-record ATR; 10Y est. — ↻ refresh
Lens: SPY 745.34 (the June-8 high) and QQQ 724 are the lids the week has to clear; reclaiming and holding above them on broad participation — the signature of a benign Fed — opens the path to the highs. The downside line is 730 SPY / 708 QQQ; losing those says the repair failed. The cleanest non-equity tells are the 10-year at 4.60 and VIX at 20: a break of either Wednesday is the hawkish signature to trade off, regardless of the first index wiggle.
13.Reversal Conditions Watch
The week is binary on Warsh: both directional cards arm or void at Wednesday 2:00 PM — long on a non-hawkish reclaim, short on a hawkish rejection. The third is a structural discipline watch for the quad-witch-into-the-holiday Thursday, not a directional call. Do not anticipate ahead of the print — last week's lesson was that the catalyst, not the open, governs.
Long · primary · FOMC-gated · confirmation-only
Sentiment-Extreme Wall-of-Worry Reclaim
Instruments: SPY QQQ SMH
Context: AAII bears 47.7% and Fear & Greed in "Fear" against a 60%-above-50-day breadth thrust and VIX 17.68 — a repaired-but-capped tape with deep survey pessimism is classic squeeze fuel into a binary.
Trigger / window: a non-hawkish Warsh (in-line-to-soft dots + measured presser) AND SPY reclaiming and holding above the 745.34 June-8 high on broad participation. Window: post-FOMC Wednesday 2:00 PM into Thursday.
Invalidation / gate: hawkish Warsh; or 10Y > 4.60; or SPY fails 745 / loses 737.76. edge-fit: index / beaten-down momentum
Short · conditional · FOMC-gated
Level Rejection at the Highs
Instruments: SPY QQQ
Context: the cap-weighted indices pressing into the 745 SPY / 724 QQQ supply — the rejection-at-a-level mechanic that fired three sessions running last week when tech/semis led down and breadth failed.
Trigger / window: a hawkish Warsh (or a hot Wednesday retail-sales print) plus a weak pop into 745 / 724 that rejects with breadth failing. Window: around the FOMC into the quad-witch Thursday.
Invalidation / gate: a clean break-and-hold above 745 on broad participation; a soft/dovish Fed. edge-fit: level-rejection / mean-reversion short
Structure · watch · discipline
Thursday Quad-Witch + Three-Day-Weekend Exhaustion
Instruments: SPY QQQ + any carried position
Context: quad-witching gamma and a closed Friday compress two days of flow into Thursday; late-session exhaustion/reversals into a long-weekend close are common, and anything held into that close carries a three-day gap.
Trigger / window: Thursday afternoon — fade an exhausted move into the close; primarily a guard, not a setup.
Invalidation / gate: n/a — this is the "do not carry size into the closed Friday" discipline flag (the Friday-gap leak, shifted to Thursday). edge-fit: discipline / leak-guard
14.Synthesis & Week Reaction
The market enters repaired and breadth-confirmed but capped under the highs, into Warsh's first FOMC with two hot inflation prints behind it and a fresh oil-relief tailwind in front — a "prove-it into the binary" week, compressed to four sessions with quad-witching Thursday and a closed Friday. The repair earned the benefit of the doubt; the Fed decides whether it extends.
| Path | What it looks like | Odds |
|---|
| Hawkish hold, range grind (base) | drift near highs Mon–Tue; expected hold + a still-hawkish dot-plot; muted-to-lower reaction; capped under 745 | ~45% |
| Dovish-relief squeeze (bull) | non-hawkish Warsh; break above 745 SPY / 724 QQQ; VIX to mid-15s; run at the ATH, semis lead | ~25% |
| Hawkish shock (bear) | more hikes / balance-sheet tightening; 10Y > 4.60; SPY 730 / QQQ 708; VIX 20+; quad-witch amplifies | ~20% |
| Exogenous tail | Iran MOU reverses, oil re-spikes, or a hot data surprise reorders the week | ~10% |
Dominant week strategy: respect the repair early but do not chase into Wednesday 2:00 PM — let Warsh set the side and trade the resolution Wednesday–Thursday. Treat Thursday as the Friday for weekend-gap discipline: with markets dark for Juneteenth and quad-witching the same session, do not carry size into the close.
Week-level invalidation (triple): (1) the long/squeeze thesis dies if Warsh is hawkish, the 10-year breaks 4.60, or SPY loses 730; (2) the rejection-short thesis dies if SPY breaks and holds above 745.34 on broad participation with breadth extending; (3) the whole "the Fed is the binary" framing is overridden if an exogenous Iran/oil headline takes the wheel — last week's exact lesson, so keep a wildcard reserve.
Lens: One binary, four sessions, a gamma-heavy Thursday, and a three-day gap — the edge this week is patience and position discipline, not prediction. The tape has done the repairing; Warsh decides whether it gets to test the highs or gives the relief back. Sit on hands into Wednesday 2:00 PM, then trade what the Fed actually hands you — and flatten into Thursday's close.