🍿 YEET CLASSIC: THE DEPARTED

Who can we trust in this volatile game of shadows?

The YEET

Oct 19, 2025

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👀What happens when options traders are getting mixed signals—who can we trust?

🍿YEET FILMS PRESENTS

Earnings season rolled in like a Monday hangover — everyone pretending they were ready. The banks showed up first, crisp suits and steady smiles, boasting about “record profits” and “resilient consumers” while quietly stepping around the student loan delinquencies and car defaults that don’t photograph well. Dealmaking was up, the yield curve was steep, and the tone was confident — too confident.

Still, stocks didn’t flinch. Profits up eight percent year-over-year, nine straight quarters of growth. On paper, the machine’s running fine. In practice, it feels like one of those moments where the music’s still playing but someone just noticed the lights flickering.

Then came the trade chatter. The US and China started their familiar waltz of hostages, ops c and robbers — harsh words, tariff talk, and then the soft backpedal about “constructive dialogue.” The same drama with new subtitles. Futures swing, headlines scream, and two days later the S&P grinds higher like nothing happened. At this point, traders don’t trade the news; they trade the rhythm. When the rhetoric spikes before the tweet, you already know the dance step. The choreography’s been rehearsed a hundred times.

Meanwhile, the bull market turned three. Three years old — which, in market time, is old enough to feel invincible but too young to remember pain. Born out of fear in ‘22, raised on disbelief, and somehow still walking upright after a hundred rate hikes and more doomsday headlines than anyone can count. Inflation cooled, but the ghosts didn’t leave. Everyone’s still fighting the last war — the debt crisis, the pandemic crash, the inflation panic — because fear never really retires, it just updates its outfit. Every correction is a costume change.

And right when it started to feel calm, Trump wandered back into the picture — volatility’s favorite recurring character. He took the stage like an old rocker back for one last encore, tanked stocks with a few words, then lifted them back up by breakfast. The man doesn’t move markets so much as he conducts them. Every mention of China or tariffs sets off another symphony of volatility. Russell 2000 ripped to new highs, then gave it all back when the banks coughed. The ten-year yield dipped below four percent. The crowd cheered like they’d just seen the credits roll, but you and I know this movie never ends.

Because underneath all of it — the earnings, the speeches, the headlines — the flow’s been getting weird. Too clean. Too synchronized.

Calls and puts stacking with precision that we don’t see unless there’s a rat inside...

Options order flow before China trade escalations

Support and resistance snapping to exact levels like they were drawn ahead of time.

Early this week during Tariff news headlines, the fear touted by outlets suddenly subsided into optimism *just* as we closed the hourly gap.

Every “unexpected” move happens exactly when it should, like Costigan reading the script arriving at the scene of the crime just a little…too early. You start wondering if maybe it’s not just news anymore — maybe the algorithms themselves are in on it.

Then the Trump–China whisper hit the tape, and everything aligned. The news dropped, the candles moved, and for a split second it all made sense — the charts, the flow, the timing. None of it random. None of it reactive. The charts didn’t predict the news. The news completed the chart.

And that’s when you see it:
we’ve been looking for manipulation in the trades, in the whispers, in the whales.
But the real leak wasn’t in the tape.
It was in the chart all along.

The chart was the rat.

If yiou line them up each candle from a news stop had the body or wick stop at a previous gap level, previous low, or unfulfilled backtest. I guess fear follows levels. Hm.

✅ SPY Levels

🎨 Key

🔴 = Monthly
⚪️ = Weekly
🟡 = Homemade
🔵 = Gap

Above Current Price (665.28)

🔴 667.32 🔴 673.99 ⚪️ 670.50 🔵 669.50 ⚪️ 670.20 ⚪️ 672.69 🟡 665.37

Below Current Price (665.28)

🟡 664.54 🟡 664.19 🔵 663.44 🟡 662.90 ⚪️ 662.73 🟡 662.51 🟡 661.97 ⚪️ 661.51 ⚪️ 661.11 🔵 660.73 ⚪️ 659.71 🔴 659.30 ⚪️ 659.21 🟡 659.11 🔵 658.87 🟡 658.38 ⚪️ 658.17 🔴 657.29 🟡 656.22 🟡 654.37 🔴 653.21

🤓 SPY THOUGHT TO BANK ON:

The monthly in red is the dviidng line of two very disparate couses of action in this volatility. A reclaim of 667.3 and we will reclaim the high—another loss, however, likely sends us to finally test the gap at 651