[0:00]Okay, we need to talk because there are three sides to this war in Iran, and they're all giving us conflicting information. And in this video, we're going to break down exactly what's going on.
[0:10]First, you need to understand that Donald Trump just reiterated this morning that there's practically nothing left to target in Iran, and he says he can end the war at any time.
[0:20]This comes right after Iran was laying mines in the Gulf or straight of Hermosa yesterday, and it comes right after Bibi is expanding his targets to actively achieve regime change in Iran.
[0:37]Now, I want to tell you about the difference between what Trump is saying, what Israel is saying, and what's actually happening.
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[1:17]So, Donald Trump says there's practically nothing left to target.
[1:21]This is coming at the same time as Israel is expanding their targets, and it comes literally a day after the U.S. ended up sinking nine of those Iranian mine layers in the straight of Hermosa.
[1:34]This is because Iran says they're moving from retaliation against Israel to strike after strike policies, that's a quote, strike after strike policies, to continue pressuring the global economy in the straight of Hermosa.
[1:47]Uh, which not only enables Iranian oil to flow to China, which is flowing to China more than ever, but it also puts pressure on all the oil refineries in the Gulf.
[1:58]Now, this isn't great because that's where most of the oil is produced.
[2:02]That's because over here on the left side, which would be the west side over here, you have a lot of mountainous terrain that makes it very difficult to get from the sands or the oil fields out to the sea or the Red Sea over here.
[2:15]Uh, now on the right, you have relatively flat land, which makes it easy to export oil from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, whatever, Oman over here.
[2:30]Uh, into the Persian Gulf, not for Oman, though. They could just go straight out to the Arabian Sea. Uh, into the Persian Gulf, out through the straight of Hermosa, which remember is only the width over here of Midtown Manhattan.
[2:41]Uh, and then out to the international markets. Iran is enabling, which is right here, uh, it it controls this coast.
[2:49]Iran is essentially enabling the free flow of its own oil out to China, as well as goods from China into Iran and the region because they're a big ally.
[2:59]Obviously, every other ship is getting stopped.
[3:02]So, what did we just have? Well, we just had mine layers in this straight right here.
[3:09]Nine of them get destroyed, but it shows you that Iran is actively trying to escalate this war even by changing their strategies.
[3:18]Now, another thing that they're doing with drones, just look at by the way where Iran is. Iran has this entire coast over here, all the way from the edge of almost the edge of Kuwait over here, because you've got a little strip of Iraq in between.
[3:30]Well, but they've got this entire coast going out along the entire Persian Gulf. Well, this side of it at least. Uh, and then out the Gulf of Oman.
[3:39]So, they have a lot of opportunity here to strike. Uh, you know, if you actually compare the size of Israel to the size of Iran, I mean, it's it's it's there's no comparison.
[3:49]Iran is actually quite huge. Uh, and Kuwait is tiny. The UAE is tiny relative to these.
[3:55]You've actually even got now, uh, a section of uh Somalia that is broken away into Somali land, that Israel is now trying to build a base in.
[4:05]So, Israel all the way over here is trying to build a base over here, uh, roughly where Somali land is, which again is the breakaway region of Somalia, to try to attack the Houthi in Yemen.
[4:17]So, you actually got this expanding operation, here's the outline of Somali land by the way.
[4:22]You've got this expanding operation from the Israelis, where they're trying to put more of their prongs out into the world to to launch attacks.
[4:34]At the same time Iran is getting more creative with their attacks. For example, one thing that they're doing is even though their their drone and missile attacks are down between 83 to 93%.
[4:42]Which we saw over the last few days, uh compared to the beginning volleys or retaliatory volleys. What they're doing now is they're taking about sets of 20 drones buried well beneath the surface of the earth.
[4:54]They're coming to the surface, quickly launching them, getting back underground, which they could do way faster than uh, you know, American and Israeli uh warplanes can take these down.
[5:29]Or even use a Apache helicopters to basically gun these drones down. But 20 per attack is a good set of equipment.
[5:38]Makes it a little harder and that's why Iran is having so much success in the region because they're really amplifying their mosaic style leadership where they launch these little attacks from random places.
[5:50]And it's a sign that Iran is not anywhere close to giving up. Problem is, BB speaks to Donald Trump from from Israel, speaks to Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and for some reason Jared Kushner.
[6:01]On a nearly daily basis, sometimes more than daily. This is per the Wall Street Journal. Israel is trying to force regime change in Iran.
[6:10]And as a result, what they're doing is they're broadening targets and they're actually starting to piss off Donald Trump.
[6:15]So, on one hand you have Donald Trump going, oh, you know, we can end this war at any time. Israel's going, we're striking more targets than ever before because we're going to get regime change.
[6:25]We're not happy that, you know, they just chose the new Ayatollah, that's just the son of the last guy and this guy might be even worse than the last guy.
[6:32]That's always a problem when you chop off the head, the new head that comes back might be even worse than the last one. And this is why Israel wants to keep attacking.
[6:40]Marco Rubio might be okay with just a setback to the missile and nuclear program. But then you have Donald Trump, who says he's not happy with Israel.
[6:50]Because they need to ask Donald Trump permission for targeting Iranian oil infrastructure or expanding and broadening their targets.
[6:56]So, you really have three parts of this weird triangle here. On one hand, you have Israel who's like, we're going all in, baby. Like this is it. We're going for regime change.
[7:05]Well, so far regime change isn't going well. Regime change is getting worse, not better.
[7:11]Now you've got Donald Trump, mad at Israel for expanding their targets. Then you got Donald Trump trying to pump the markets saying, oh, boys and girls, uh, I can end this war at any time.
[7:23]We're almost done. There's nothing left to strike. And Israel's like, whatever, man, we got plenty left to strike.
[7:29]And then Iran's like, strike what you want. I don't know why that that accent, but anyway, Iran's like, strike what you want.
[7:35]We got plenty more and we're not giving up. If anything, we're going to get more creative with where we screw you.
[7:43]And this is why we're starting to see freight and container ships getting attacked and bombed and rocketted in the straight.
[7:49]I remember that coast that Iran has. It's a problem.
[7:54]Now, Donald Trump, yesterday, his energy secretary, Mr. Chris Wright, yesterday suggested that the US Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the straight of Hermosa.
[8:05]This actually briefly led to a fall in oil all the way down to $82.39. Stocks also jumped.
[8:13]However, within minutes, that tweet was deleted. And then the US military said, no, we are not escorting commercial ships.
[8:22]That was incorrectly captioned by staff. So, somebody just made a whole lot of money on not only a rebound in oil, well, I mean a plumin oil.
[8:31]So, somebody made a whole bunch of money shorting down. Uh, and then minutes later, probably after those shorts were closed, that tweet was deleted.
[8:39]Now, call me jaded for thinking that there's insider trading related to this, but that's one hell of a mistake to tweet and then delete. Well, whatever. Anyway, Iran currently says that ceasefire talks are off the table.
[8:52]Saudi Aramco CEO says that there are catastrophic consequences for oil markets the longer this disruption to energy flows.
[9:00]Uh, David Woo, an economist says that the market is overestimating that Donald Trump is going to Taco and end this war, which suggests that there is downside for the market.
[9:12]I actually believe that towards lunch, we're probably going negative again, but that's just an opinion that I have.
[9:20]Usually we, look, between between you and me, okay? Don't tell anyone because this is some of the stuff we do in the Alpha.
[9:26]Lately there's been a trend, okay? You get the retail dip buying at the beginning of the day, okay?
[9:32]Everybody's everybody's got their coffee, everybody's excited to trade in the morning, okay? Then you get the little rocket ship, you get the little 300% on your call options and stuff.
[9:40]You need to take your tendies off the table really fast because then people go to work and they're like, all right.
[9:46]And then bad news starts coming out. It's risky. It's risky these days to hold them long.
[9:52]So, you get in, you get out. That's some of the stuff we talk about in the Alpha report on basically, well, I mean almost a daily basis.
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[10:10]Uh, it's I think it's really good. I mean, we really go through the actual 10Ks, the 10Qs, the earnings calls of these companies on a daily basis.
[10:17]So, if you're into it for fundamentals or short-term trades, we do both, and we we use signals from fundies in trading and signals in trading for fundies, because sometimes even a really good stock is overpriced on a technical basis because it's meme, right?
[10:32]So, you kind of have to use both. Anyway, uh the IA, the international A um Energy Agency did authorize a 400 billion a 400 million barrel uh release, 400 billion.
[10:43]They only have 1.2 billion that is nearly the uh twice the historical or larger than twice the historical that they released of 182 as the high a previous high.
[10:51]All 32 nations agreed unanimously to this release. It's probably mostly priced in. We're teetering right around 90 bucks a barrel right now.
[11:02]Uh and uh, you know, we we briefly fell to 89 on the international blend. We're back at about $91 here.
[11:10]Watch oil, that's going to dictate which way the market moves as well. Iran's ability to make more uh 136 Shahead drones or Shahead 136 drones has also been reduced per Bloomberg, but not eliminated.
[11:22]They're still able to produce more of these drones, which is not great. Uh and uh and then just sort of as a side note in other news, JP Morgan did just mark down some of its private credit funds.
[11:30]Apollo is moving to doing daily reporting in private credit because there's so much private credit fear, uh, which is one of the reasons you're seeing owl absolutely collapse.
[11:37]If you jump in over here, you can see owl down now under 920 per share, which is wild.
[11:45]Uh and then I have to give credit where credit is due to Oracle. Even though Oracle couldn't hold its rally this morning, which again is not uncommon because of how people are trading.
[11:55]Something they watch with Oracle is I have to give them a big green flag on momentum and valuation.
[12:01]They right now are trading for a 0.79 peg. They are uh finally bouncing off on a weekly basis of oversold on the weekly.
[12:12]Uh, on RSI. The last time this happened, the stock absolutely skyrocket from 126 to 344.
[12:19]Now, I'm not calling for that kind of reversal, but this is a this is the first green weekly candle that we're getting over here and we're getting that reversal on momentum.
[12:28]So, green flag on momentum, green flag on valuation at 0.79 on the peg. But you've got some yellow flags on pricing power and long-term debt.
[12:38]They did fix their short-term balance sheet issues, though. Just a quick little other free sample of some of the analysis that we do, uh, in the, uh, Alpha report over at meetkevin.com.
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[12:57]Thank you so very much for watching. Goodbye and goodbye. Why not ever tell us these things that you told us here.
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