The Great Banking Crisis of 2023 is Over

The systemic portion of the bank crisis is over — but the banks are still un-investable. THEY are not interested in equity or COCO bond holders — just the system itself. They will ensure the plumbing is clean and things are working — but will not think twice about zeroing out FRC in the process. Because of this, bank stocks should only be traded quickly and probably not at all. Other sectors are subject to economic conditions — which may in fact prove to be even worse than the recent banking scare.

I am 100% long again after my weekly quant allocation, +126bps for the session. In case you’re wondering, yes that is a new recourd high for me. Whilst your gains might be impressive — mine are better.

Enjoy yourselves and find solace in the fact your government is looking out for the plumbing of the banks to make sure your deposits are safe.

Prior to the recent bank scare, people were fixed on inflation and whether we’d soft land or not. I’ll be going back to that, since the central banks have all but nationalized the banks again. I mean, that’s what they did, no? If they’re backing all deposits then the banks aren’t independent but vassals of government. They’re not even too big to fail. They’re small fucker banks and have weaseled their way into tax payer backstops.

Oil is being walked down. It is my belief the pressure is coming from the Russian Ural spot market which is now trading at $48 due to the war. In other words, India is buying it at spot price and swinging around to grab the Brent arb price from Europe. The world is awash in Russian oil.

The most bullish thing for oil will be the end of the Ukraine war.

On that issue, Xi is in Moscow talking to Vlad. Perhaps they’ll iron out a nice plan that’ll get rejected by Zelensky — who is under orders by Biden to execute another counter offensive soon.

Bottom line: it’s time to forget about bank flops and focus back on the economy.

As expected, the Western Central Banks + Japan coordinated to not only bailout Credit Suisse via a -75% take under, but to also extend liquidity via swap lines.

The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are today announcing a coordinated action to enhance the provision of liquidity via the standing U.S. dollar liquidity swap line arrangements.

To improve the swap lines’ effectiveness in providing U.S. dollar funding, the central banks currently offering U.S. dollar operations have agreed to increase the frequency of 7-day maturity operations from weekly to daily. These daily operations will commence on Monday, March 20, 2023, and will continue at least through the end of April.

All you need to know is the fight to contain inflation has ended. They’ll make it seem like this is normal shit — but nothing could be further from the truth. The banking elites are in panic mode to contain the collapse to just regional banks and unimportant non-systemic companies. Equity holders will be sacrificed in order to preserve the integrity of the system.

I wouldn’t jump the gun and get overly bearish on this news. You have to understand, the pubic perception of QE is positive, since each time they did this it led to higher stock prices.

Will western bankers succeed again in papering over their fuckery? Time will tell. But judging by recent events, they’re undefeated in successfully kicking the can down the road.

On the other hand, the war still wages and China moves closer and closer to Russia and America the spiteful moves closer and closer to thinking an all out war with Russia is a good idea.

NASDAQ FUTS are +80 because muscle memory.

On the bear side, keep an eye on UBS CDS. They spiked hard after the deal for CS was announced. Should they continue lower, we’ll crash.

SIRS —

In between sips of beer and cooking two corned beefs, I clawed out from a -150bps hole to end only -56bps. The reason for this is simple: I am a highly efficient, highly competent, ultra professional manager of money. There is never a trading day that I cannot pull rabbits out from hats and amaze others with astounding feats of magic.

For the week, I made 2%.

As of the banks.

WORST PERFORMING BANK STOCKS FOR THE WEEK$FRC -75%$PACW -53%$WAL -50%$FFWM -43%$CUBI -33%$BKU -32%$MCB -31%$CMA -30%$FHN -29%$HPP -29%$KEY -29%$CS -29%$ZION -29%$UMBF -27%

— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) March 17, 2023

They’re gonna bail them all out. But until they do, many more will go under and pain will be felt by equity holders.

Into the weekend, I am hedged with UVIX, TZA and I own a 10% position in BITO — because BTC has been defensive.

It’s nearly impossible for me to justify heading into the weekends without some shorts. There are too many red flags out there now to just sit idle and hope dip buyers show up Monday.

As usual, I’ll see you in Stocklabs on Monday for another weekly allocation into the quant.

To my Irish brethren: enjoy the day and drink merrily and eat fatly — for this is likely to be the last St. Paddy’s Day you’ll enjoy prior to the ultimate and final collapse of Western Finance.

Many people were disappointed with BTC during the inflation driven market the past year, as the asset proved to be nothing more than a risk asset. It did not display a defensive trait.

However, as we see the banks flop out and systemic risk cause people to run on their banks — it’s very obvious that BTC and gold are the biggest winners.

BTC is up 8% the past month whilst gold is up 6%.

As a matter of fact, the action was so impressive I’m thinking about creating a new buying program for it as part of an asset allocation model. There is no denying that people are more familiar with BTC now than any FX instrument. In the event of a real dollar crisis, BTC would fucking moon shot and explode to triple figures. There is a base case to buy it now, as a defensive measure against systemic bank failure.

Breadth in the financials is 85% today, based off whims of ideas from Bill Ackman’s twitter feed, essentially.

Consider Bill the ambassador from Wall Street to DC. Whatever he wants — he will get.

Our gov’t’s failure to provide a temporary guarantee on all deposits is causing an unnecessary banking crisis which could have a profoundly negative effect on the economy. Confidence is destroyed quickly and can take years and sometimes decades to be restored.

Three dominoes… https://t.co/n9rsHhndbG

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) March 16, 2023

The whim is TOTAL BAILOUT. Overseas people are optimistic that CS will be backstopped/bailed out. However, UBS just told Swiss regulators to fuck off and they weren’t at all interested in merging with the toxic wasteland that is CS.

Be smart. Don’t go all in short like a moron into an 85% breadth day on the cusp of more bailouts. Oh you think you’re gonna win? How has that worked out for you so far, Mr. Bear? They shut the whole economy down in 2020 and marked ripped higher because of it.

I am 100% long quality stocks selected by the Stocklabs quant. My sole margined positions are TMV and FAZ. I am now 14% weighted FAZ and will add more — perhaps tomorrow. Having a hedge makes me feeeeeel safe in these existential times of grave uncertainty.

I am +1.7% with 45 mins to go, cooly listening to Stan Getz in my library — surrounded by leather-bound books and Chesterfield couches.

I did warn you of this eventuality. We had a chance to kill western finance and the bears could not muster enough buying power to do it. Now we have to deal with un-ending bailouts followed by psychopathic applauds by the peanut gallery of circus personnel who frequent CNBC with their PERMANENT BULLISH discourse.

As instructed, I closed out my UVIX position at the open for a 4% gain and then I placed a 10% FAZ hedge and walked away. I am presently +1.33% — knifed down in $FAZ for a solid 7% — so I bought more. I will maintain a 10% FAZ position for the short term.

Overall, I am very bullish, as it pertains to my positioning. But in my heart and inside of my soul, I want to see a banking collapse.

You don’t really give a fuck about what I did today — only what I think will happen tomorrow. So I’ll get all of the selfish shit out of the way first. I was +96bps and I covered my massive bank and semi shorts and opened JUST IN CASE a 12% long in UVIX, along with some additional longs. I am net long here with only the VIX for dramatic effect.

We were supposed to dive down and bury ourselves alive — but we didn’t. Lots of regionals, like ZION and LOB, reversed and went higher. Charles Fucking Schwab was pinned to highs all day. I know and I get it — it’s annoying.

But this is what is likely to occur.

The cunts in power will weasel out of this for a short while. They’ll do some joint ECB-FED plan to paper over the banks, offer unlimited this and that. All of that will make us feeeeel real good and markets will climb. In a few months the economy will prove to be NOT AS RESILIENT and we might crescendo lower again.

If forced to make a call, I’d say as of right now — the globohomo won. Today was the day we had to press their faces into the griddle. Now it’s our faces being panini’d and if we’re not careful we might become sandwiches for some faggot bulls.

Look, all I am saying is give yourselves a break — you’ve earned it. Take a few months off from trading. Go to Europe like me and see the continent before it’s completely destroyed by Belarus. I will be here trading and will continue to trade, even from beyond the grave. It was a very sad and somber day for the bears. All we want is for GLOBAL COLLAPSE AMIDST COLOSSAL SIZED LOSSES — GRAVE REVOLTS — AND PEOPLE SKINNED ALIVE AT THE GIBBET.

It’s entirely possible that it might be I skinned alive by some shithead tranny in a NY Yankees dress. I am aware of the peril I place myself in and to be honest — I look forward to the occasion!

Good Sirs —

You thought you escaped the war trade and then the regional banking run. You celebrated with memes — after you had shilled for bailouts. You posited bailouts were bad prior to it effecting you. The moment if effected you — you started to suck government dick.

Let me describe my bearishness to you.

I am keeping my money in AT RISK banks because I want to lose it all. I want the banks to seize up and fail — the whole kit and caboodle plummet into the fiery oceans taking me with it. I do not endeavor to survive the great fires. Oh no, that would be cowardice. I’d like to perish in the fires alongside you — but only with an expression of utter happiness on my face as if Santa Claus just left me a tricycle for Xmas.

We went from inflation to DEBILITATING DEFLATION in an instant and let me tell you — DEFLATION IS WORSE.

Dollar shortages and PLUNGING commodity prices demands sharply lower stock prices. Whilst you might believe you will make it — you will not. A great tragedy is upon you and there isn’t enough money to bail out all the banks in addition to propping up the bastardized state of Ukraine.

As for me, I am +1.2% today and should be up a great deal more. However, since December I’ve forced myself into a 100% long book via the Stocklabs quant, so all of my hedging is what’s making me green now.

I am 20% FAZ, 20% SOXS and I might just leave it there — more than content with my pittance of a gain whilst getting to enjoy the plummeting of stocks and all of the other things which make up Pax Americana.

Shares of CS are down more than 25% this morning on basic fundamental math which says the company is at risk of default. The 5yr CDS are at RECOURD highs; but more importantly, the 6mo CDS are at 1500 — nearly a 1000bps inversion over the 5yr. In other words, it’s over.

Shares of nearly all European banks are HAMMERED to bits and pieces, whilst at the same time — Le Fly reigns supreme +210bps thanks to a very large overnight UVIX position.

Our regionals are getting SMASHED again with PACW and FRC down 15-18%. I’d like to offer you even worse news if I can — but that’s all I got for now.

Do not underestimate the asshole dip buyers. You saw those fucking retards out there on Twitter yesterday — jerking off to shares of FRC. Those animals are still on the loose.

As for me, I closed out UVIX and opened a small 10% position in FAZ — just for fun. Should we gander into another credit crisis, I’d be very sad if I did not profit from it in some sort of fashion.

My playbook is as follows:

Avoid morning nonsense. Re-enter heavily SHORT into the afternoon and hope for the very worst this evening.