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A Note From Hans Quick review of the day: the market is still leaning hard on technology leadership. That is not automatically bad. Strong leadership can persist longer than people think. But when the rubber band gets this stretched, you stop pretending it is business as usual. DataTrek flagged the chart below: XLK’s 100-day trailing relative return versus the S&P 500 is now around +26.7 percentage points. That is above their 3-standard-deviation line and one of the more extr

Happy MLK Day. I’m enjoying an extra day of "rest" but... I can’t help it. I have to reach out to my peeps because, like the AI Inference stage, my gears never stop turning either. The Case for Broadening The case for broadening keeps getting stronger. While the infrastructure side of AI has become more challenging, enough groundwork has been laid to change the world for the next 50 years. This is the inference and utility phase I’ve been talking about for months. Benefici

See what I did there with that title? But seriously, enough world-class comedy. We need to notice something that’s happening, and it’s a very good example of challenges in this new investing world. Adobe. The major software company known for its creative and document management solutions: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat… Yes, lots of free cash flow - from a valuation perspective it’s cheaper than it used to be, by a TON. But no, that doesn’t automatically ma

By: Hans Albrecht As we head into 2026, I want to start with something that has nothing to do with where the S&P might trade or how many rate cuts are coming. It’s this: be very careful who you listen to . It has never been easier to look like an expert. Put up a website. Post a few charts. Use the right buzzwords. Sell a subscription. Suddenly, you’re a “pro.” But looking like something and being something are very different things. This is where the Dunning-Kruger effect c

By Hans Albrecht I can't drop Adobe on my toe. Where will they be in five years with everything going on in AI? I don't know. Copper? You darn tooting we're gonna need it. Everyone's still trying to pick the bottom in software and datacenter plays right now. AI this, AI that. But here's what nobody's talking about: all that AI runs on physical infrastructure. And that infrastructure needs copper. Lots of it. The numbers are staggering. A single Nvidia GB200 server unit has ov

Let's dive in! Part 2 – Knowing When Theta Helps You (and When It Destroys You)Welcome back. Yesterday we talked about Theta like it was melting ice cream.The “Decay Curve”: Why Options Don’t Melt Smoothly Most people think option decay is straight-line: Day 1 → lose a littleDay 2 → lose a littleDay 3 → lose a little Easy, right? Not even close. Real Theta acts like this: Slow melt (when you’re far from expiration) Medium melt (as you get within ~45 days) FAST melt (in the fi

Hey all - what a great launch for the world's first and only real professional Income Scanner... Turbo Trader PRO! If you reach out to the lovely Natasha at info@theturbotrader.com and ask nicely, she might make room for you :) For now, a two-part series on Theta, one of the most important option Greeks to know well. Income traders hold Theta near and dear... so let's dive in. Part 1 – Theta Made Silly Simple Most traders hear the word Theta and think it’s a complicated

Black Friday is done. The inbox carnage has eased. But in markets, the real sale just started. Because right now, green is the new black . And I don’t mean screens flashing green for a day. I mean something deeper, more structural: the MTI is flipping green across key pockets of the market . Not all at once, not indiscriminately, but in a way that tells you conditions are shifting from “careful” to “constructive.” And that’s happening at the same time the macro backdrop is do

There’s something I want you to see clearly right now. This market is squishy. I kinda don't trust any rallies we’re getting. Yes, NVDA killed it on earnings after the close ("killed it" is good. Kind of like when my son says something is sick. That means it's also good.). But I don't think the coast is clear. A lot of things got us here. Retail went all-in months ago. Upside call skew exploded, leveraged ETF flows were screaming risk-on, and retail options flow went a