📈 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.
⚖ Why this verdict
fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2024-06-07 → 2025-06-07 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▼ SHORT NDAQ (primary play). NDAQ rose 47.6% over the window → direction-adjusted R = -47.6% (the call lost money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +13.6%
→ α = -47.6 − (+13.6) = -61.3%
— what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
Stock-selection 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.
- Rule fired:
· HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5· PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0▶ MISS — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a MISS earn 0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Chamath, Friedberg
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2024-06-07)
Plays
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▼ SHORT | NDAQ | stock | PRIMARY | Nasdaq's listing and compliance revenue is the direct target of the anti-woke, lower-cost pitch |
| ▼ SHORT | ICE | stock | adjacent | NYSE's parent, the other half of the duopoly being challenged |
Mention log
“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.”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -28.1 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E182 2024-06-07 | init | +17.3 | 17.3 | E182 born by Friedberg (sentiment x2) [w=0.87] |
| E182 2024-06-07 | reinforce | +15.6 | 32.9 | E182 Chamath support x2 (new voice) [w=0.84] |
| E183 2024-06-14 | decay | -1.3 | 31.6 | E183 silent |
| E184 2024-06-20 | decay | -1.3 | 30.3 | E184 silent |
| E185 2024-06-29 | decay | -1.2 | 29.1 | E185 silent |
| E186 2024-07-04 | decay | -1.2 | 28.0 | E186 silent |
| E187 2024-07-12 | decay | -1.1 | 26.8 | E187 silent |
| E188 2024-07-19 | decay | -1.1 | 25.8 | E188 silent |
| E189 2024-07-26 | decay | -1.0 | 24.7 | E189 silent |
| E190 2024-08-02 | decay | -1.0 | 23.7 | E190 silent |
| E191 2024-08-09 | decay | -0.9 | 22.8 | E191 silent |
| E192 2024-08-16 | decay | -0.9 | 21.9 | E192 silent |
| E193 2024-08-23 | decay | -0.9 | 21.0 | E193 silent |
| E194 2024-08-30 | decay | -0.8 | 20.2 | E194 silent |
| E195 2024-09-06 | decay | -0.8 | 19.4 | E195 silent |
| E196 2024-09-20 | decay | -0.8 | 18.6 | E196 silent |
| E197 2024-09-27 | decay | -0.7 | 17.8 | E197 silent |
| E198 2024-10-03 | decay | -0.7 | 17.1 | E198 silent |
| E199 2024-10-11 | decay | -0.7 | 16.4 | E199 silent |
| E200 2024-10-18 | decay | -0.7 | 15.8 | E200 silent |
| E201 2024-10-25 | decay | -0.6 | 15.2 | E201 silent |
| E202 2024-11-01 | decay | -0.6 | 14.5 | E202 silent |
| E203 2024-11-08 | decay | -0.6 | 14.0 | E203 silent |
| E204 2024-11-16 | decay | -0.6 | 13.4 | E204 silent |
| E205 2024-11-23 | decay | -0.5 | 12.9 | E205 silent |
| E206 2024-12-07 | decay | -0.5 | 12.4 | E206 silent |
| E207 2024-12-13 | decay | -0.5 | 11.9 | E207 silent |
| E208 2024-12-20 | decay | -0.5 | 11.4 | E208 silent |
| E209 2025-01-04 | decay | -0.5 | 10.9 | E209 silent |
| E210 2025-01-11 | decay | -0.4 | 10.5 | E210 silent |
| E211 2025-01-18 | decay | -0.4 | 10.1 | E211 silent |
| E212 2025-01-25 | decay | -0.4 | 9.7 | E212 silent |
| E213 2025-01-31 | decay | -0.4 | 9.3 | E213 silent |
| E214 2025-02-07 | decay | -0.4 | 8.9 | E214 silent |
| E215 2025-02-15 | decay | -0.4 | 8.6 | E215 silent |
| E216 2025-02-21 | decay | -0.3 | 8.2 | E216 silent |
| E217 2025-03-01 | decay | -0.3 | 7.9 | E217 silent |
| E218 2025-03-08 | decay | -0.3 | 7.6 | E218 silent |
| E219 2025-03-15 | decay | -0.3 | 7.3 | E219 silent |
| E220 2025-03-22 | decay | -0.3 | 7.0 | E220 silent |
| E221 2025-03-29 | decay | -0.3 | 6.7 | E221 silent |
| E222 2025-04-05 | decay | -0.3 | 6.4 | E222 silent |
| E223 2025-04-11 | decay | -0.3 | 6.2 | E223 silent |
| E224 2025-04-19 | decay | -0.2 | 5.9 | E224 silent |
| E225 2025-04-26 | decay | -0.2 | 5.7 | E225 silent |
| E226 2025-05-02 | decay | -0.2 | 5.5 | E226 silent |
| E227 2025-05-09 | decay | -0.2 | 5.2 | E227 silent |
| E228 2025-05-17 | decay | -0.2 | 5.0 | E228 silent |
| E229 2025-05-24 | decay | -0.2 | 4.8 | E229 silent |