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PPI, market is testing the structure as expected | Intraday post (11/June)

Jun 11, 2026
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PPI is bad. Headline is high, core is 0.8 in one month, accelerating trend. PCE is mostly derived from PPI, so core PCE will go up, hike % must go up. Meanwhile geo risk emerges again, as I kept warning you that Iran is not done.

Market is down as expected. Testing the structure that I marked. However weekly says, market doesn’t expect structure to be broken, only a fakeout at max. Market is at pivot now. Make-it-or-break-it.

But odds favor for fakeout to trap bears, and unwind all of it into OpEx, Warsh and IPO, then July-August window will hit hard. Until that, wide ranging, as I said during last May VIX expo.

Let’s look at today’s positioning…

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