The scary part isn't volatility. It's how little it takes to create it. Markets increasingly resemble a giant short-gamma ecosystem where relatively small flows can produce outsized price moves.

Everybody loved leverage. Everybody loved AI. Everybody loved selling volatility. Then Friday happened.

The scary part isn't volatility. It's how little it takes to create it. Markets increasingly resemble a giant short-gamma ecosystem where relatively small flows can produce…

The market isn't panicking lower. It's panicking both ways. Negative gamma, leveraged ETF exposure and growing uncertainty around the AI buildout are creating a market where…