HINDSIGHT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
"In hindsight, every position was either a genius allocation or a tax write-off."
To: Hindsight Global Investors
Date: August 12, 2026 at 07:01 PM EDT
Subject: CPI Hit, Burry Hit, and Spider-Man Is Now a Sell-Side Analyst
My fellow exit-liquidity providers,
CPI landed dead center of estimates, NBIS made the inverse-Burry crowd feel like Nobel laureates, and the market is apparently pricing in a Spider-Man product placement. Here's the tape, read backwards.
[NBIS]: The week's designated rocket banked one degenerate $80K in straight shares while another sold his position after being up 9,155% in two years and is now 99% cash waiting for the next play. The earnings thread handed Burry his RIP, with one user begging NBIS to announce a new deal so Burry can finally disappear. The actual report had shares jumping on AI cloud growth, which is exactly how the AI trade sounds when it's working.
[JULY U.S. INFLATION DATA]: CPI printed 3.4% YoY, exactly as estimated, and the sub responded with the only possible analysis: "Believe it or not, calls." Skeptics reminded everyone that their auto insurance, daycare, fuel and grocery bills have all outpaced the official number, while Kevin Warsh's post-CPI entrance provided the day's central-bank theater. The top reply asked the question that matters: why we acting like cpi print was good.
[SPCX]: The new king of regard has put $50k into a 290/300 call debit spread targeting $300 by January 2028 because "Elon says" datacenter compute will hit 10-15 GW and "this is definitely going to happen." The replies were a masterclass in violence: one user noted Elon said we'd be on Mars by now, and another reminded everyone this is the same guy who threw $315k into SPCX at 211 and is currently 139. Free money, you say?
[PLTR]: The most important DD of the week credits Spider-Man for the 34% pop, because an in-universe Palantir analogue caught the bad guy and the chart went full superhero. The comments crowned it the analysis we need, though less fun sources say the premarket drop after a 40% weekly surge has something to do with valuation questions. We choose to believe in Peter Parker.
[WEN]: Nelson Peltz's Trian is reportedly preparing a take-private offer for Wendy's, and the stock's 12% surge made one bagholder realize these bags are suddenly very light. The top comment delivered the usual cruel clarity: you're still going to have to show up for work tomorrow. Reuters also had the story, so the fries are real even if the squeeze isn't.
[DNUT]: The bull case is a blowout quarter plus a hub-and-spoke donut depot model, with a CEO who spent "$2 mil" buying shares because apparently he already had enough hookers and blow. The thread's intellectual peak was IM GONNA DNUT, which is better fundamental analysis than half the sub's earnings plays. Wall Street is focused on peptide brainrot, but the donut lobby has our margin.
[NKE]: One degenerate is all-in on $50k of Nike calls because the brand will stop being "lifestyle fashion crap" and return to Foot Locker shelves, a thesis so compelling that another reply immediately bought puts. The more brutal response simply observed that all the white women at the mall are wearing Alo and ON, which somehow says more about the consumer than any 10-K. Just do it, they said.
[CSCO]: The sub answered with Cisco earnings YOLOs and dreams of Texas Roadhouse, and the after-hours tape delivered a pump fake so cruel that one caller's calls did not survive. The actual headlines say Cisco beat on earnings and revenue but the stock still dropped, because that is the rule of the casino. At least one degenerate had already mentally submitted his Wendy's application.
[META]: One user dropped $100k on Meta calls because his literal spider sense tells him a capex cut is coming next earnings, a move the thread correctly diagnosed as peak wsb. The market chose this moment for Meta stock to drop while a $1.4 trillion trial opened. If that doesn't scream "buy the dip," nothing does.
[USO]: The largest USO trade on record has the sub convinced someone is about to get fucked and "it is definitely gonna be us," with the prior record happening in 2008, which is comforting. The dark-pool trade could be a buy or a sell — no one knows — but that didn't stop the Call VIX? crowd from doing calculus. The 40% run is supposedly a trade, not an investment, so naturally we're holding for 100%.
[ASTS/RKLB]: The weekly earnings thread features a genuine soul who plans to live and die with ASTS and RKLB, then NBIS on Wednesday, with steak or "ice water ketchup" this weekend. Another degenerate loaded the same space-fidelity slot machine with ASTS $75 calls and RKLB $85 calls and then said GLHF, which is the closest thing this industry has to a fiduciary standard. Rocket Lab mooning, you heard it here first — or at least somewhere in the comments.
[South Korean retail traders down bad]: South Korea now requires degenerates to pass a five-day, five-hour simulated trading test before touching single-stock leveraged ETFs, and the replies instantly recognized it as a government mandated unskippable tutorial. Reports say leveraged ETF trading was already cut by 94%, which is what happens when the casino needs a permission slip. Imagine a government deciding who is allowed to gamble — couldn't be us.
Take a step back and the pattern is unmistakable: the collective strategy is to inverse Mike Burry, trust fictional superheroes, and treat every government print as a green candle. We at Hindsight Capital would have done exactly the same — only earlier, with more leverage, and absolutely no memory of how it ended.
Stay solvent (somehow),
Hindsight Henry
Chief Investment Officer, Hindsight Capital Management