1. ANNOUNCE BIG
Maximum pressure. Historic deal. The chart prices the speech, not the follow-through.
Markets priced the threat. Then the threat blinked. $TACO is what you buy when the deadline was “tonight” and the deal is “next week.”
ENTER THE CURVE READ THE FOLDS
Maximum pressure. Historic deal. The chart prices the speech, not the follow-through.
Deadline is Friday. Or “two weeks.” Lines are for headlines.
Pause. Carve-out. “We’re talking.” That’s the TACO.
Nobody folded. Everybody folded. $TACO holders already ate.
Next threat in 10 days. Same chicken. New deadline.
A meme about a pattern. Not a campaign. A ticker for the flinch.