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📈🚨Spoiler alert: No one got liberated.
President Trump finally unleashed his long-teased trade war sequel, and the markets immediately started looking for an exit.
🔻 New tariff regime dropped like a mixtape from hell:
10% blanket tariff on everyone
Country-specific hits: 34% on China, 46% on Vietnam, 24% on Japan
Foreign car imports? 25% tax incoming tomorrow 🚗💥
This isn’t just protectionism — it’s a policy pipe bomb.
What happened next? The markets flinched:
📉 Tech stocks bled out. Apple tanked -7% AH. Nvidia, Amazon down 4%+
🧠 Bond markets bracing: $2.5B dark pool block in TLT
🔥 Options flow? Hotter than inflation:
SPY: $66M in volume — mostly puts
AMZN: $39M — loaded with calls
TSLA: $22M — bulls are still alive somehow
VRT: $6M in calls ahead of the tariffs… hmm 🤔
📊 Big money hiding in small caps & gold as stagflation fears spike
GDP expectations? Shredded.
Atlanta Fed now projects -3.7% growth for Q1. Add in a weak labor market, collapsing manufacturing data, and a global backlash, and you’ve got the perfect cocktail for economic migraine.
And let’s not forget…
The EU’s prepping retaliation
Mexico says it won’t play “tariff tennis”
The Cato Institute called the tariffs a “historic tax hike dressed as nationalism”
And US consumers? Get ready to pay more for literally everything — from tile floors to tequila
🔮 Final thought:
Markets were hoping for clarity. What they got was chaos dressed in a stars-and-stripes suit. If this is the “new normal,” your portfolio better be built like a bunker.
📬 Full flow & dark pool data below.
📉 Stay hedged. Stay cynical. Stay paid.
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