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📈 Texas Stock Exchange breaks the NYSE/Nasdaq listing duopoly

A BlackRock- and Citadel-backed challenger exchange (TXSE) attacks a two-venue listing duopoly that has stopped innovating and has layered non-securities requirements (board-diversity targets, DEI listing rules) plus ~$7.4M going-public costs onto issuers. A cheaper, CEO-friendly third venue pulls listings and pricing power away from the incumbents and forces their listing/compliance economics down.

0 CONVICTION
peaked 38.0 EMBER
DORMANT
band
▼ SHORT NDAQ
expression · bearish equities
WRONG
result · return -47.6% · vs SPY -61.3%
2025-06-07
born 2024-06-07 (E182) → window closed

⚖ Why this result

fully deterministic — computed from daily closes on the scoring date; nothing below is editable or hand-set

  1. Window: 2024-06-07 → 2025-06-07 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
  2. The call: ▼ SHORT NDAQ (primary play). NDAQ rose 47.6% over the window → return (sign flipped for a SHORT) = -47.6% (the call lost money).
  3. Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +13.6% → vs SPY = -47.6 − (+13.6) = -61.3% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the result uses.
    Direction-only read: -34.0% — did NDAQ move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
  4. Rule fired:
    · RIGHT — return ≥ +10% AND beat SPY by 5+
    · HALF — return ≥ +5% OR beat SPY at all
    ▶ WRONG — everything else
  5. Credit: supporters of a WRONG earn 0 each, opposers the opposite — this feeds the scoreboard. supported: Chamath, Friedberg

Conviction timeline

bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15

Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2024-06-07)

Plays

expressionsymbolkindrelevancerationale
▼ SHORT NDAQstock PRIMARY Nasdaq's listing and compliance revenue is the direct target of the anti-woke, lower-cost pitch
▼ SHORT ICEstock adjacent NYSE's parent, the other half of the duopoly being challenged

Mention log newest first

Friedberg
Friedberg equities 43% · n=123 · E182 (2024-06-07) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 1:01:02 SUPPORT
“it showed the cost of going public on Nasdaq, Amex and the New York Stock Exchange was about $7.4 million. Cost of going public through an over-the-counter bulletin board listing service was about $2 million.”
Chamath
Chamath equities 42% · n=163 · E182 (2024-06-07) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 59:58 SUPPORT
“I think if you have a third player, there's a chance that more competition will create more rational behavior, which will flow into the companies themselves. So I'm a huge fan of this.”

Who built this conviction

each voice's total push on the score, in conviction points across every mention — supports and opposes · share = % of all mention-driven movement

Chamath
Chamath 42%
1 scoring event · 53% of moves
+20.0 → net +20.0
Friedberg
Friedberg 43%
1 scoring event · 47% of moves
+18.0 → net +18.0

⏳ decay drained -32.4 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

Score events

episodekindΔafternote
E182 2024-06-07 init +20.0 20.0 E182 born by Chamath (sentiment x2)
E182 2024-06-07 reinforce +18.0 38.0 E182 Friedberg support x2 (new voice)
E183 2024-06-14 decay -1.5 36.5 E183 silent
E184 2024-06-20 decay -1.5 35.0 E184 silent
E185 2024-06-29 decay -1.4 33.6 E185 silent
E186 2024-07-04 decay -1.3 32.3 E186 silent
E187 2024-07-12 decay -1.3 31.0 E187 silent
E188 2024-07-19 decay -1.2 29.7 E188 silent
E189 2024-07-26 decay -1.2 28.6 E189 silent
E190 2024-08-02 decay -1.1 27.4 E190 silent
E191 2024-08-09 decay -1.1 26.3 E191 silent
E192 2024-08-16 decay -1.1 25.3 E192 silent
E193 2024-08-23 decay -1.0 24.3 E193 silent
E194 2024-08-30 decay -1.0 23.3 E194 silent
E195 2024-09-06 decay -0.9 22.4 E195 silent
E196 2024-09-20 decay -0.9 21.5 E196 silent
E197 2024-09-27 decay -0.9 20.6 E197 silent
E198 2024-10-03 decay -0.8 19.8 E198 silent
E199 2024-10-11 decay -0.8 19.0 E199 silent
E200 2024-10-18 decay -0.8 18.2 E200 silent
E201 2024-10-25 decay -0.7 17.5 E201 silent
E202 2024-11-01 decay -0.7 16.8 E202 silent
E203 2024-11-08 decay -0.7 16.1 E203 silent
E204 2024-11-16 decay -0.6 15.5 E204 silent
E205 2024-11-23 decay -0.6 14.9 E205 silent
E206 2024-12-07 decay -0.6 14.3 E206 silent
E207 2024-12-13 decay -0.6 13.7 E207 silent
E208 2024-12-20 decay -0.5 13.1 E208 silent
E209 2025-01-04 decay -0.5 12.6 E209 silent
E210 2025-01-11 decay -0.5 12.1 E210 silent
E211 2025-01-18 decay -0.5 11.6 E211 silent
E212 2025-01-25 decay -0.5 11.2 E212 silent
E213 2025-01-31 decay -0.4 10.7 E213 silent
E214 2025-02-07 decay -0.4 10.3 E214 silent
E215 2025-02-15 decay -0.4 9.9 E215 silent
E216 2025-02-21 decay -0.4 9.5 E216 silent
E217 2025-03-01 decay -0.4 9.1 E217 silent
E218 2025-03-08 decay -0.4 8.7 E218 silent
E219 2025-03-15 decay -0.3 8.4 E219 silent
E220 2025-03-22 decay -0.3 8.1 E220 silent
E221 2025-03-29 decay -0.3 7.7 E221 silent
E222 2025-04-05 decay -0.3 7.4 E222 silent
E223 2025-04-11 decay -0.3 7.1 E223 silent
E224 2025-04-19 decay -0.3 6.8 E224 silent
E225 2025-04-26 decay -0.3 6.6 E225 silent
E226 2025-05-02 decay -0.3 6.3 E226 silent
E227 2025-05-09 decay -0.3 6.1 E227 silent
E228 2025-05-17 decay -0.2 5.8 E228 silent
E229 2025-05-24 decay -0.2 5.6 E229 silent