16 years in markets. Never seen flows like this.

First 6 months of 2025: regular + leveraged ETF inflows tracking near/above full-year records. Foreign money pouring into US equities despite the "dollar is dead" noise.

Leveraged/inverse ETF volumes running 50% above last year's record — $45B/day average. That's retail piling into leveraged thematic bets at scale.

This isn't normal. This is euphoria with a leverage wrapper.

When everyone's chasing the same trade with borrowed conviction, the question isn't if it ends badly — it's when, and how fast.

Stay careful out there.