Monday Market Open

Wake up, VHLA wolves.
The world’s lobbing tariffs, drones, and a week-long data barrage—exactly the chaos we turn into pay-days. You’ve got this newsletter before sunrise because fortune favours the fast. Skim the intel, sharpen your edge, and remember: everyone else reads the news; VHLA rewrites it for profit.

Market Indices & Commodities

The Week Ahead
Notable Shit Happening This Week

Big week for the labor market autopsy. If you’re long, this is the week the x-ray comes in:

1. Monday – ISM Manufacturing PMI

2. Monday – Powell talks. Markets will hang on his every breath.

3. Tuesday – April JOLTS Job Openings (a fave stat of Powell’s)

4. Wednesday – ADP Nonfarm Employment

5. Thursday – Initial Jobless Claims

6. Friday – The May Jobs Report (main event)

This week is macro heavyweight class. Gloves off.

Trade War
CHINA-U.S. TRADE WAR: RELOADED

Trump says China broke the deal — China says America fired first with AI chip bans, EDA software blocks, and revoked student visas.

The 90-day tariff truce signed last month? Already up in smoke.
China vows “resolute and forceful measures” to defend its interests.

Trump’s camp points to mineral delays hitting U.S. supply chains — autos, defense, electronics.
Beijing calls the whole thing “unjustified accusations.”

A Trump–Xi call is coming. Until then:
Semis, rare earths, and global markets in the blast radius.

World News
RUSSIA-UKRAINE: DEEP STRIKE CHAOS

Ukraine blitzed Russian bomber bases with 117 drones in a long-planned op called “Spider Web.”
Zelensky says 40 warplanes hit — a third of Russia’s bomber fleet.

Ukrainian agents operated inside Russia, including near an FSB HQ.
Trump’s team wasn’t told. Zelensky dropped the news just before announcing ceasefire talks in Istanbul.

Russia confirmed some damage, claimed others repelled.
Talks start Monday — but the war just escalated.

Market Pulse
JOKER’S MARKET GLANCE

• Hoo-hoo-ha! Index carnage (30-day tally)

  • $SPY +22 % | $QQQ +30 % | $VIX −30 %

  • Year-long sugar rush crammed into four wicked weeks.

• Current setup

  • Daily & weekly charts still smiling.

  • 14-day sideways fun-house = healthy digestion, not doom.

  • Above the 50 / 200-DMA — the rails are greased for more mischief.

• Hot money themes

  • 🔐 Cyber-sec   $CRWD

  • ⚛️ AI   $PLTR

  • 💊 Retail-Health $HIMS

• Why bulls keep grinning

  • Vol’s in a straitjacket, setups popping like fireworks, sectors spinning faster than my roulette wheel.

• Why bears still sharpen the teeth

  • Inverse cup-&-handle silhouette lurking in the dark.

  • Two gaping weekly gaps below — markets love to crawl back and gnaw on loose ends.

• Playbook (don’t be the punch-line)

  • Scale in, sell into strength, ratchet stops.

  • Pull-backs are just the ticket price to Gotham’s bull-market circus.

Keep the smile wide, watch the trapdoors, and let the tape be your henchman. Hah-hah-hah!