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Retail Radar- Week of 8/28/26 (opens the original)
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I haven’t made a retail radar post in a bit and I always love reading them, so I thought that I would share. JP Morgan will typically do these once a week, let me know if you want to see more of these. In total this is a 28 page report so I’ll just take the most interesting notes from them. Retail Trading Activity Overview: Little changed on the surface, with retail flows stable week-on-week (55%ile vs. 58%ile last week); beneath it however, the dislocation widened with ETFs slipping further to
Market & Vol Update 8/25/26 (opens the original)
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VIX Futures Term Structure: We currently see VIX futures sitting in Contango which means that prices further out in time (months) are higher prices than its current spot price (VIX) and front month price. VIX expiry is on 9/15/26 AM.<source type="image/
The Infamous $150M Margin Call (opens the original)
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This is the story of James Cordier from Optionsellers, a fund that blew up and the infamous $150M margin call.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="449" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MvH3!,w_1
Market & Vol Update 7/26/26 (opens the original)
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VIX Futures Term Structure: We currently see VIX futures sitting in Contango which means that prices further out in time (months) are higher prices than its current spot price (VIX) and front month price. VIX expiry is on 8/18/26 AM.<source type="image/
Market & Vol Update 7/20/26 (opens the original)
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VIX Futures Term Structure: We currently see VIX futures sitting in Contango which means that prices further out in time (months) are higher prices than its current spot price (VIX) and front month price. VIX expiry is on 7/22 AM. <source type="image/we
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