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• Option decay is real

• Picking expiration dates is crucial

• Market makers scalp retail traders

Liquid allows anyone to trade perpetual futures, or “perps”. Perps are options without an expiration date.

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The Ghost Trader of Black Monday

On October 19, 1987, Wall Street suffered its darkest day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by a staggering 22.6% in a single session—a modern financial cataclysm known as "Black Monday." While economic historians often attribute the crash to program trading and portfolio insurance, a lingering institutional mystery remains: Who was the "Ghost Trader" who pulled the first domino?

Minutes before the opening bell, an unprecedented, massive sell order for S&P 500 futures hit the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It didn’t just test the market; it intentionally vacuumed out all remaining liquidity. As the day progressed, block trades of terrifying scale were executed through a labyrinth of offshore brokers and Swiss shell accounts, systematically hammer-selling into an already panicked market.

The sheer coordination and capital required to weaponize the market's early algorithms pointed away from retail panic and toward a sophisticated predator. Rumors rippled through trading desks for decades. Was it a rogue European central bank quietly liquidating assets? A legendary hedge fund tycoon executing the ultimate short? Or, most provocatively, a secret consortium of investment banks engineering a market reset to force a Federal Reserve intervention?

To this day, the regulatory paper trail remains cold, obscured by institutional silence and the limitations of 1980s surveillance. The Ghost Trader walked away with untold millions, leaving behind a permanently altered financial landscape and the ultimate Wall Street whodunit.

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The Last Time Stocks Were This Expensive Was December 1999.

"Right now, it's good. But it was in '72, '86, 2000, and 2007." – Jamie Dimon, May 2026.

The Shiller CAPE ratio just hit 42.3. The only time in 140 years it's been higher? December 1999.

Stocks can stay expensive for a long time…

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