Rhino - How to Trade the News Without Getting Faked Out
Rhino treats longevity—not a spectacular P&L—as the only durable proof of trading skill, and fades dominant narratives only when rhetoric and sentiment reach extremes.Shallow event-driven wicks can create tight invalidations against 20-30% upside, but with roughly 95% of liquid net worth in TradFi and 2026 roughly matching the Nasdaq, his next test is capturing opportunities without sacrificing survival.
Episode 198 - October 2, 2026
Graig SuvannavejhSam FazeliEric SchmidtBrian Skorney
Biotech’s 27% XBI gain through September masks a punishing ownership unwind, as underowned and heavily shorted names offset specialist-fund selling.Regeneron-Sanofi’s $1 billion upfront and AstraZeneca’s $2 billion Summit investment show strategic capital is flowing, but HARMONi-3 remains a potentially historic binary event.China-origin deals and Lilly’s obesity data sharpen competition, while financing, durability, tolerability, and endpoint risk still dictate outcomes.
Is It Time to Buy ENA? Ethena Pay, The Equity Basis Trade, and The Token Cleanup
Ethena Pay pairs a non-custodial, chain-abstracted global neobank with USDe’s yield engine, targeting balance monetization as net interest margins contribute 37% of Robinhood’s revenue and about 25% of Revolut’s.Equity-basis trading is expected in “literally a few days,” while ENA’s remaining investor vesting was accelerated to October 5 as described at recording; over 10,000 awaited access and a US launch was targeted in three to four weeks.
$TPB: can Turning Point Brands be the third player in nicotine pouches? | Saberpoint Capital
Turning Point Brands is positioning FRE and Tucker Carlson-backed ALP as a third nicotine-pouch player, using national distribution, regulatory capability and an expanding salesforce.Cash-generative legacy businesses may support expansion, but PMTA, slotting, marketing costs and unresolved domestic-production timing and Tucker economics could pressure earnings.
Instinct Raising $1B at $10B & Meta Launches Muse | Miro Sells for $1.36B After a $17.5B Valuation
Instinct’s $1 billion round at a $10 billion valuation raises the bar for defensible economics before compute costs overwhelm the company.Miro’s sale to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.35 billion after a $17.5 billion valuation shows positive cash flow cannot prevent late-stage SaaS repricing, while Mistral’s €3 billion round underscores AI’s European sovereignty agenda.
MARKET UPDATE: Alts Ripping, Economy Crushing, Scammers Scamming — What’s Next?
Avi’s GP dispute alleges holders publicly promised to hold while selling concealed inventory, making on-chain wallet behavior the key test of verifiable trust.Both hosts contrast meme-coin speculation with positive-sum crypto built on “good product, good revenues, good team,” citing Avi’s ZRO-versus-ETH trade and Robinhood’s perpetuals rollout through Bitstamp.They frame five-year mega trends, retail investors’ tolerance for volatility and AI-driven concentration as the durable signals, while leaving the best expression—broad exposure or concentrated winners—unresolved.
AI, Infrastructure, and the Next Investment Cycle
David GeorgeSarah WangAlex ImmermanSantiago Rodriguez
AI’s rally is being driven by earnings rather than multiple expansion, with the S&P 500 below 20 times earnings while growing about 15%.Capex is projected to rise from $416 billion in 2025 to about $780 billion in 2026 and exceed $1 trillion annually from 2027; enterprise adoption remains concentrated in pilots, with inference-cost declines and workflow deployment as catalysts.
Bill Ackman: People are Going to Lose a Lot of Money
AI is transformational but bubble-like, with one startup’s valuation jumping from $400 million to $1 billion in two weeks and another reaching $5 billion in Series A.Cognition’s claimed COBOL modernization in days could lower bank costs, but pricing power determines whether shareholders retain the savings.Ackman therefore emphasizes disciplined capital use, continual moat reassessment, and exiting when confidence—not merely price—breaks.
Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live
Peter DiamandisEmad MostaqueCathie WoodNikhil Chandhok
Peter said a Tesla-SpaceX merger could be announced this year, and Cathie said ARK believes it will happen, combining rockets, broadband, AI, electric vehicles and energy around Musk’s Mars-directed compute strategy, though China remains a major obstacle.Nikhil Chandhok expects AI agents to outnumber humans next year, while Arc tests agent credit and stablecoin rails whose capacity must grow from tens of thousands to potentially millions of transactions per second.
AI token demand
Shanghao JintmomohKevin SunKKKLousrexsongDZ书米亚光环RouletteJLZyellowcraneEl jefe
金尚浩认为，企业上线AI前必须持续标注私有数据、评估并post-train，市场以coding场景封顶token需求，系统性低估了算力消耗。其重构45万—50万行交易级代码时日耗约2000—3000美元token，并行调用70—100个agent，意味着GPU、CPU、带宽与连接需求都可能随企业数据闭环加速释放。