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NQ made a new ATH again

Last lot MNQ 26.489
SL trailing up.
Target 26.600<>620
Closed at 26.740 DR2/+1.0% zone

NQ closed +66p 1 lot

Iran declares Strait of Hormuz completely open to commercial traffic during Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

MNQ 5 lot short
Closed at DR1 +52/53p

ES & MES short 7131

ES closed +9p 1 lot

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Target 7115 +0.5% zone/DR2

Closed +10/11p last 2 lot

As expected...........he is waisting no time to post about his peace work

MCL long last lot

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Chaos erupts in Strait of Hormuz : tankers forced to turn back amid sudden shutdown.

Multiple oil tankers were thrown into chaos at the Strait of Hormuz after being forced to abruptly turn back while attempting to exit the waterway.

The disruption followed an official announcement by Iranian military leadership declaring the strait had returned to its previous state under strict military control, effectively shutting it down again.

The move is a direct response to continued U.S. naval blockade measures, with Donald Trump confirming that restrictions on Iranian ports and vessels will remain in place until a broader agreement — including nuclear terms — is finalized.

In retaliation, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps escalated enforcement, ordering vessels to halt or turn back immediately, despite the strait having been reopened less than 24 hours earlier.

IRAN WAR UPDATE: Iran's negotiations leader Mohammed Ghalibaf says Trump "made 7 claims in 1 hour, ALL 7 are FALSE."
Here are the 7 claims and Iran's response:

1. "Iran agreed to EVERYTHING." — Iran's FM Baqaei says the US will "certainly not get anywhere in negotiations," citing issues like sanctions relief and war reparations STILL unresolved.

2. "Iran will hand over enriched URANIUM to the U.S." — Baqaei explicitly denied this, saying "Iran's enriched uranium is NOT going to be transferred anywhere under any circumstances"

3. "Iran agreed to NEVER close the Strait of Hormuz again." — Iran says the reopening is ONLY for the duration of the ceasefire, and "if the blockade continues, the Strait will not remain open."

4. "The Strait is completely OPEN for full passage." — Ghalibaf says passage requires "Iranian authorization" on a "designated route."

5. "Iran agreed to suspend its nuclear program indefinitely." — U.S. officials admit there is NO agreement on enrichment terms. Ghalibaf referred to these reports as "part of a media campaign that has been launched to influence the negotiators and the negotiating table."

6. "No money will exchange hands." — Iran listed compensation for war damages and the release of frozen assets abroad as top priorities in any negotiations, directly contradicting Trump's assertion that no financial component was part of the deal.

7. "We're very close to a deal" / "a deal is largely complete." — Iran says there are SIGNIFICANT differences remaining. Reuters reports negotiators scaled back to only a temporary memorandum, NOT a comprehensive deal.

This came AFTER markets closed, on the same day the S&P 500 hit ATHs above 7,100 and oil crashed -11%.
This is a textbook weekend gap risk setup. Buckle up for Sunday futures.

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2024
Taking in Trillions of $$$
And childcare is relatively not very expemnsive compared with the $$$ we are taking in...
We will be a country that takes care of its people.....

2026
The US can't take care of daycare
We are a big country
Its up to the states/They should pay for it.
Let them raise their taxes.

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The President of the United States rolled out of his gold-plated nappy at 8:10 AM Washington time and fired off a 400-word hostage note to Truth Social.

"Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz. Many of them were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom."

The actual ships that got shot at on April 18 were two INDIAN-FLAGGED vessels. One of them, the VLCC Sanmar Herald, was an oil tanker. Another was a container ship operated by CMA CGM, which is a French shipping company but the ship itself flies the Indian flag.

"Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it."

The geriatric spray-tan emperor is complaining that Iran is violating the ceasefire by closing the strait that HE ALREADY CLOSED with his own blockade.

For the record, the actual timeline: Iran opened the strait on April 17. Trump's administration said the US blockade stays regardless. Iran looked at that, correctly identified it as bad faith, and shut the strait again on April 18. Then Iranian gunboats fired warning shots at ships trying to transit.

"They're helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing."

The Iran loses $500 million a day number is pulled straight out of his diaper. Iran's oil exports were already at a fraction of capacity thanks to sanctions, and nearly all of what they do export goes to China via dark-fleet tankers that have been making the run for years.

"The United States loses nothing."

Oil is a globally priced commodity. Brent went up. American petrol prices at the pump went up. American freight costs went up. American shipping insurance doubled. American LNG customers in Japan, Korea and Europe are paying triple.

He thinks Americans are as stupid as he is, and tragically about 38 percent of them have spent ten years proving him right.

"The United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran."

Power plants and bridges aren't military targets. They're civilian infrastructure. Deliberately destroying them is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, specifically Protocol I, which the US hasn't ratified.

Hospitals, water treatment plants, neonatal ICUs, dialysis centres. The President of the United States is casually threatening to turn off the lights on a country of 85 million people while calling it "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY" four weeks after his own missiles killed schoolchildren in Minab.

I Fucking Love Australia

MNQ Short.
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T2 +25/26p 2 lot.
2 left
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D GAP up to 26.830 zone

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"But we won"!
"and we don't need help"
"we will bring them back to the stone ages"
"open fucking the strait you crazy bastards or you will be living in hell! "
"a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again!"

Oil prices jump after Iran and U.S. attack commercial ships as tensions escalate over Strait of Hormuz

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/19/oil-...uz-tanker.html

UAE to U.S. — PAY UP OR THE DOLLAR TAKES A HIT

The United Arab Emirates is quietly warning the Trump administration that if the war with Iran destabilizes its economy, the U.S. may need to step in with a financial lifeline.

The Wall Street Journal reports that in meetings in Washington, UAE officials raised the idea of a currency swap line, giving them access to U.S. dollars if the crisis worsens.

But the message went further: if the UAE runs short on dollars, it may be forced to start selling oil in Chinese yuan or other currencies. That’s a direct threat to the dominance of the U.S. dollar, which underpins global oil markets.

The pressure is already building. Iranian attacks have damaged infrastructure, disrupted tanker routes through the Strait of Hormuz, and shaken investor confidence. UAE officials made clear this crisis stems from Trump’s decision to attack Iran. And now they’re bracing for the fallout.

The Federal Reserve is unlikely to approve such support, setting up a high-stakes standoff with global consequences.

He has a point. Actually several.

Do you wonder why the Iranian government uses Lego to communicate with magastanians?

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More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.
Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure. This comes after a years-long debacle inside the Department of Veterans Affairs has whiplashed thousands of vets between various enacted and canceled programs and left many of them on the brink of losing their homes — often through no fault of their own.



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The president, who has reportedly called veterans “losers,” believes he should be awarded the nation’s most prestigious military recognition for his exceptional leadership in the Iran war.

President Donald Trump, a five-time draft dodger, has plotted how to bestow upon himself the U.S. military’s highest honor while scrambling over a war he started.

Citing a senior administration official and people who had spoken with the president, told The Wall Street Journal in a report published Saturday night that amid the chaos of his war on Iran, Trump, 79, has considered giving himself the Medal of Honor—the nation’s most prestigious military recognition.

A medal given for exceptional bravery and self sacrefice only.

MNQ long last lot 26.727
T1 +14/15p 4 lot
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Closed +35p at RS level

Markets try to cover the D GAPs

NQ closed its D GAP

SnP needs 15p to go for Fridays close

YM & MYM long 49.397/400

YM closed +67p 2 lot

MYM 2 last lots running/SL BE
Closed at 49.500 level

MNQ last 2 lot
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No 800 cros now

Hamering the 800

SnP reached Fridays close zone/few more points to go.....