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Tradermayne shares that @breakoutprop sponsored the Williams F1 car. "I don’t know if you saw, but your boy had to take his little company, Breakout, his little company that he started in front of y’all and built in public, that got acquired by Kraken in under two years. And I had to go get my company name on a Formula One car. So that’s what I was doing." Feat. @Tradermayne

Tradermayne questions why people still call Elon Musk dumb. "The dude just debuted a flying rocket car. Flying rocket car. And he’s going to give all kids in America SpaceX shares. And he’s created reusable rockets that we can launch into space and then land. And he’s created, you know, internet with Starlink anywhere and providing internet to underserved geos in places. And he popularized the electric car, all you environmentalists." Feat. @Tradermayne

Over the past several days, a wave of major security disclosures has fueled increasingly alarming discussions across X, with some users warning of a potential large-scale cyberattack capable of disrupting financial systems, exposing sensitive information, or taking critical infrastructure offline. While predictions of an impending catastrophic event remain speculative, the developments fueling those concerns are very real. Some industry insiders believe a major incident could occur within the next 6–12 months. A few practical precautions are worth taking: • Enable strong two-factor authentication, preferably passkeys or physical security keys, especially for email, banking, cryptocurrency exchanges, and other financial accounts. • Stop reusing passwords. Use a reputable password manager and unique credentials for important accounts. • Keep devices, browsers, applications, and operating systems updated. Security patches are particularly important when critical vulnerabilities become public. • Maintain secure backups of essential documents, recovery information, and important personal files. Keep at least one backup offline. • Be extremely cautious of unexpected messages, links, downloads, and requests for sensitive information. AI-generated phishing attempts and impersonation can be much more convincing than traditional scams. • For cryptocurrency holders, secure recovery phrases offline, verify transactions on the signing device, and never enter wallet recovery information into a website or share it with anyone. • Consider keeping a modest emergency supply of cash, essential necessities, and alternative ways to contact family members in case banking, payment, electricity, or communication services experience temporary disruptions. During a real cyber incident, misinformation, fake emergency announcements, impersonation, and fraudulent recovery services could create an entirely separate wave of victims. Prepare accordingly.

"Gold still coming off towards those equal lows, breaking down current range."

Tradermayne outlines his thoughts on $SPY. "So until we lose that, we’re in an uptrend on the weekly. But if you want to get a little more granular, you go down to the three-day. Okay, well, I don’t think there’s any reason for alarm until we, at the very least, get a three-day close below here. Or if you want more confirmation, a high-time-frame close below there." Feat. @Tradermayne

Tradermayne breaks down the NQ. "There’s your weekly low. If we get a close below there, I’ll argue that it looks pretty bad and that this thing wants to unwind, you know, 7% to 10%. If we get a weekly or three-day close below here, I think there’s a pretty good chance we trade back into here. That’s like a 10% plus pullback, right, from the high." Feat. @Tradermayne

From defense spending and financial markets to consumer demand, entertainment and technology infrastructure. On the earnings calendar today: 🌄 BEFORE MARKET OPEN: • Lockheed Martin (LMT) - Defense spending, government contracts, F-35 production and its growing order backlog. • Nasdaq Inc. (NDAQ) - Trading activity, market volatility, exchange revenue and demand for financial data services. • Comcast (CMCSA) - Broadband subscribers, Peacock's performance, advertising revenue and consumer demand. + Dozens of additional companies reporting. 🌃 AFTER MARKET CLOSE: • Western Digital (WDC) - Data-storage demand, pricing, profitability and growth in cloud infrastructure. • Newmont (NEM) - Gold production, mining costs and how elevated gold prices are translating into profitability. • Bloom Energy (BE) - Electricity demand, new orders and the growing need for reliable power infrastructure. + Plenty more earnings scheduled for tonight. The lineup is particularly interesting.. 🥸 Instead of relying solely on technology companies to gauge market sentiment, investors are getting results from businesses operating across almost every major part of the economy. 🍿

Upside sweeps both on BTC and ES.

The U.S. labor market faces another important test today, as the Department of Labor releases its latest Initial Jobless Claims report at 8:30 AM ET, revealing how many Americans filed for unemployment benefits for the first time last week, just days ahead of the Fed's October 28 interest-rate decision. The numbers to watch ahead of today's release: • Previous: 199,000 • Forecast: 200,000 Initial claims have remained relatively stable in recent weeks, hovering around the 200K mark despite broader concerns about slowing employment growth. Companies can become reluctant to hire new employees without necessarily beginning to fire their existing workforce. A substantial increase in claims could suggest that labor-market weakness is beginning to extend into layoffs. On the other hand, another relatively low reading would indicate that employers are continuing to retain workers, even as economic uncertainty persists. Why does it matter? The Federal Reserve is approaching its October 28 interest-rate decision after two consecutive hotter-than-expected inflation reports. Policymakers are attempting to balance persistent inflation against the risk of putting additional pressure on employment. Today's release alone won't determine the decision, but it provides another important piece of the puzzle. October 22 | 8:30 AM ET

Tradermayne shares that hedge funds still have tech stock exposure to cut. "But even after this much selling, tech still makes up 23% of the hedge funds’ net exposure, which is near a five-year high. Their net leverage has also dropped to its lowest level in a year. Hedge funds have started cutting their positions, but they’re still holding a lot of tech stocks. If more funds decide to sell, there’s plenty of room for this selloff to continue." Feat. @Tradermayne

The Federal Reserve's October 28 decision approaching next week, inflation is accelerating, yet traders see an 88% chance the Fed WON'T raise interest rates next week. polymarket.com/event/fed-dec… With over $53 million already traded on the event, current probabilities are: • No change: 88% • 25 bps increase: 13% • Rate decrease: less than 1% This is particularly interesting because, last week's inflation reports both came in hotter than expected: • CPI climbed to 3.7% annually, above the 3.6% forecast. • PPI surged 1.3% month-over-month, its largest increase since March 2022. Under normal circumstances, consecutive hotter-than-expected inflation reports would strengthen the argument for higher interest rates. So why are traders overwhelmingly expecting the Fed to hold? Part of the explanation lies in the weakening labor market. The latest U.S. employment report showed just 29,000 jobs added in September, while unemployment increased to 4.2%. Meanwhile, Fed officials have signaled that they aren't necessarily in a rush to raise rates again after September's increase. This leaves policymakers facing a difficult decision. • Raise rates too aggressively, and they risk putting additional pressure on an already slowing labor market. • Hold rates unchanged for too long, and they risk allowing inflation to become even more persistent. October 28 | 2 PM ET

Tradermayne outlines the level he's watching on hyperliquid:native. "If we get a chance to buy it in the 60s or 70s on some sort of larger crypto correction, I think I’m interested. This is major monthly demand here. I’ll be a buyer in there if we get an opportunity." Feat. @Tradermayne

"Pushing up here." Time to pay attention.

Today, October 21, the Solana network officially activated Alpenglow, one of the BIGGEST upgrades in its history, targeting transaction finality roughly 85 TIMES faster than before. What does that actually mean? There's an important difference between a transaction appearing successful and being finalized. Finality is the point at which the network has definitively agreed on a transaction, meaning it can no longer be reversed through the normal consensus process. Previously, that stronger confirmation took Solana approximately 12.8 seconds. Alpenglow aims to bring that process down to a fraction of a second by replacing the existing validator voting system with a new protocol called Votor. This is where the upgrade becomes particularly interesting. Faster finality could significantly improve the experience for applications operating on Solana: • Payments could receive irreversible confirmation almost immediately, making blockchain transactions more practical for everyday commerce. • Decentralized exchanges and trading applications could settle transactions with significantly shorter confirmation delays. • Cross-chain bridges could reduce the time spent waiting for Solana transactions to become final before releasing funds on another network. • Financial institutions building on blockchain infrastructure could benefit from faster settlement and reduced transaction uncertainty. Alpenglow moves validator voting out of ordinary on-chain transactions. As a result, Solana's reported transaction count could decline substantially following the upgrade, even if actual user activity remains unchanged. That's because many of the transactions previously recorded on the network were validators voting, rather than people transferring funds or interacting with applications. Why is this such an important milestone? Solana is increasingly positioning itself as infrastructure for high-speed financial activity, from decentralized trading and stablecoin payments to tokenized assets and other real-world applications. For blockchain technology to compete with traditional financial systems, speed alone isn't enough. Transactions also need to reach finality quickly and reliably. Alpenglow represents a major step toward addressing that challenge. The upgrade doesn't guarantee higher SOL prices, and its real-world performance will need to be demonstrated under live network conditions. However, from a technological and long-term adoption perspective, this is a substantial development. The next stage of blockchain adoption will increasingly depend on which networks can settle them quickly, securely, and reliably at scale and Solana just took a significant step in that direction.

Tradermayne breaks down his thoughts on bitcoin:native "If we’re able to get above the yearly open, I think we’re going to be trading at 100K relatively quickly. The 2026 high is $97,000, you got the hundie roll there, like we would send over 100K, I think. Until then, we’re in this range here. So if you’re trading Bitcoin, this is your tradable range right here. If we lose the 2025 low, I think that opens the door for potentially like a deeper correction, filling in some of this fair value gap." Feat. @Tradermayne

Tradermayne points out that Black Monday was an overreaction. "The Black Monday that everyone was waiting for, of course, did not occur. We didn’t even have a Black Tuesday. In fact, the entire market has bounced since everyone was kind of calling for the Black Monday. I think all that stuff was overblown." Feat. @Tradermayne

BlackRock is taking Bitcoin one step further into traditional finance, filing for a new ETF designed to offer investors exposure to BTC while limiting some of the downside risk, introducing a different approach to Bitcoin investing. Unlike its existing spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, which tracks Bitcoin's price, the proposed fund would use an options-based strategy designed to provide upside participation while cushioning investors against significant declines. So how would it actually work? Rather than purchasing BTC directly, PBIT would use options linked to BlackRock's existing Bitcoin ETF, alongside cash and short-term fixed-income investments. The strategy involves purchasing call options to gain exposure to Bitcoin's price movements while selling higher-strike calls to help finance the protection. Each options tranche would typically be structured with an initial loss threshold of approximately 10%, before fees and expenses. The trade-off? Investors would give up some potential gains beyond a predetermined upside limit in exchange for that downside protection. Importantly, the protection isn't guaranteed at the overall fund level, and investors could still experience substantial losses. Traditional portfolio managers might be interested in gaining exposure to Bitcoin but unwilling to accept the possibility of a 20–30% drawdown over a relatively short period. This is an investment product designed to moderate some of that risk and it could make Bitcoin exposure more approachable for investors operating under stricter risk-management requirements. We're watching Bitcoin evolve from an asset that investors once had to purchase through cryptocurrency exchanges into one surrounded by an increasingly sophisticated financial ecosystem 🍿

Tradermayne shares some of the traders who influenced him early on. "I took one of @Trader_Dante's courses back in the day, Edges for Ledges or whatever it was called. Trader SZ was an OG. People are like, oh, who’s this SZ guy these days? It’s like, dude, SZ was one of the OG price action traders from Forex who then got into crypto. I learned a lot from ICT. People love to hate ICT, but I learned a lot from ICT. I think he’s obviously got his pitfalls. No one’s perfect. But a lot of the content he taught, I just understood it." Feat. @Tradermayne & @LomahCrypto