๐Ÿ‘€ Prop Firm Hedging Groups infiltrated, Monday Market Chaos

Lets get ourselves prepared for the week ahead!

Hi guys, itโ€™s Kieran! A sea of red in the markets this morning, so letโ€™s buckle up and get prepared for the week ahead.

๐Ÿ“ข Prop Firm Industry News

James Glyde, the PipFarm founder/CEO and his team infiltrated numerous prop firm cheating groups and posted some very interesting information about how they operate on X. Here are a couple of the tweets below. Super interesting and very concerning information!

Unfortunately this type of stuff results in prop firms needing to tighten their rules, so this negatively affects us all. It seems there is no easy way to stop them as they will simply adapt. Hopefully James shedding some light on this will start the process to weed these bad actors out of the industry. Big respect to James for being so open and forthright with this information.

Read all of the tweets at Jamesโ€™s profile here> https://x.com/Jamesglyde

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๐Ÿ•œ Economic calendar

Here are this weekโ€™s red folder news events. A packed calendar with the Fed on Wednesday being the key event to watch out for. Trump has demanded interest rates be lowered, so the tone of J Powellโ€™s press conference will be interesting!

๐Ÿ“ˆ The Macro View

Tech about to reverse?

Itโ€™s a sea of red across the markets this morning. Notably Nvidia is -7% down in pre-market. This appears to be due to DeepSeek AI being released in China over the weekend, an open source AI which puts the current US mega-cap AI rally under scrutiny. As per Goldman Sachs:

โ€œPerformance wise, these models are at least on par or better than the US ones and more importantly, significantly lower in training and inference costs and computing power requirements โ€“ a key pushback to the AI spend so far.โ€

Positioning Sentiment constructive for longs

If you are looking to buy the dip, positioning on Goldman Sachsโ€™s Prime book has plenty more room to run which is a constructive environment for longs. Long stocks is very much not crowded and youโ€™d expect even more liquidations today with S&P500 futures currently down -2% to start the week. Never easy to buy-the-dip during the dip though ๐Ÿ˜„ 

Insiders selling at a record pace

What do they know? Corporate insiders have been selling at historically high levels. Who can blame them at these evaluations. Insider knowledge? or just profit-taking? Looks like they might have timed it perfectly either way ๐Ÿคจ 

Gold and Bitcoin

Zooming out from todays chaos and looking at the big picture. Outside of equities, Digital and Physical Gold continue to move in tandem. On a long term basis, there appears to be no sign of this reversing as we move into another year of global uncertainty.

If you would like to Follow my personal trading journey, you can do so on X here > https://x.com/kierangohil_. Last week, a payout from BrightFunded, a European based firm whom I highly recommend ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ 

OK guys thatโ€™s it for this week. Stay safe out there and see ya next week!

Kieran

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