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title: "The Melt-Up Keeps Sucking People In"
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description: "The upside chase keeps pulling investors aggressively into AI, semis, momentum, and upside volatility. At the same time, breadth keeps deteriorating, downside protection is getting abandoned, and several positioning dynamics are quietly building dangerous downside convexity if markets suddenly reverse lower.The melt-up keeps getting more crowded just as downside protection gets cheaper."
datetime: "2026-05-14T21:22:21.000Z"
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# The Melt-Up Keeps Sucking People In

The upside chase keeps pulling investors aggressively into AI, semis, momentum, and upside volatility. At the same time, breadth keeps deteriorating, downside protection is getting abandoned, and several positioning dynamics are quietly building dangerous downside convexity if markets suddenly reverse lower.

_The melt-up keeps getting more crowded just as downside protection gets cheaper._

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