The cleanest edge in trading is getting information sooner than the crowd.
This is how you do it.
Save your seat.
Good morning,
Something is moving beneath the surface.
Futures are green. Headlines are cheerful. Everyone's pretending the market just "woke up feeling better."
That's never the truth.
Not when liquidity is tightening.
Not when credit spreads are whispering. Not when Bitcoin rips while bonds stall… the surest tell that someone, somewhere, is hedging against a storm.
You won't hear this on CNBC.
They'll tell you tech is "recovering." They'll tell you the Fed is "leaning dovish." They'll tell you a soft landing is "back on the table."
When everyone starts reading from the same script, the real story is happening offstage.
The surface looks calm. The plumbing underneath is screaming.
You know the signs:
A rally too clean.
A narrative too convenient.
A market too confident in a Fed that hasn't said a damn thing.
A bubble pretending it's not a bubble.
Someone's front-running something. Someone always knows before the public does. And every time this pattern shows up, a "normal day" becomes a pivot.
Pivots create money.
If you want to understand what's really happening… why futures look strong, why tech suddenly found religion, why rate-cut bets are surging when the math doesn't work… be there at 8:45.
No cheerleading. No hopium. Just the truth beneath the tape.
Garrett Baldwin