Market Mayhem · Episode 11 · December 1994 · Mexico Tequila Hangover How a Currency Peg Collapsed in 48 Hours and Broke a Continent The Mexican Peso Crisis of 1994: NAFTA’s golden child, a reserve pile that ran dry, and…
UPDATE · 1 JULY 2026 The IPO this story ends on has now happened. SpaceX priced its shares at $135 and began trading on the Nasdaq under ticker SPCX on 12 June 2026, raising $75 billion in the largest IPO…
When Alibaba rang the bell on the New York Stock Exchange on 19 September 2014, it was not just another listing. It was the largest initial public offering the world had ever seen. The Chinese commerce giant priced at $68…
In the spring of 2001, Jeff Bezos sat down to write his annual letter to Amazon’s shareholders, and he opened it with a single word. Ouch. It was, he wrote, a brutal year for the capital markets and certainly for…
Most traders who fail do not fail because they cannot read a chart. They fail because of what happens between their ears the moment money is on the line. That is the entire argument of Trading in the Zone, and…
INSIDE THE MACHINE · EP. 4 Payment for Order Flow: Why Your Free Trades Aren’t Free How Markets Really Work — Episode 4 Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music · iHeart Radio…
Our honest FundingPips review 2026: $200M+ paid, up to 100% profit split via Hot Seat, challenges from $29. Rated 8.5/10 for ICT traders. Full breakdown inside.
Most trading advice tells you to cut losers fast and let winners run. Trader A, the anonymous prop firm trader whose 1,797 trades across 12 FundedNext accounts we have been dissecting in this series, followed half of that advice religiously.…
GREATEST TRADERS · EPISODE 15 Bill Lipschutz The Sultan of Currencies, the $12,000 Inheritance, and the Method Behind It ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music Profile · At a Glance Bill…
THE TRADER’S PHYSICAL EDGE · EPISODE 03 The Trader’s Diet: How What You Eat Drives Your P&L What you put into your body is the second-most important input to your trading day. PILLAR · FUEL If sleep is the foundation,…
On the morning of 18 May 2012, Facebook was the most anticipated public offering of a generation. It priced at $38 a share, raised about $16 billion, and arrived carrying a valuation near $104 billion, the largest technology debut the…
UPDATE · 1 JULY 2026 SpaceX went public on 12 June 2026, and the “volatile orbit” scenario below is exactly what played out. Here is where things stand three weeks later: The debut: priced at $135/share on 11 June, raising…
Brené Brown's research on vulnerability, shame resilience, and courage applies directly to trading. The fear of being wrong, the shame after losses, and the perfectionism that prevents execution are all vulnerability problems with proven solutions.
Three working Python scripts for traders with no coding experience: a position size calculator, an economic calendar fetcher, and a weekly trade log summariser. Set up in 10 minutes, saves time every session.
How to build a pre-market dashboard using free tools and AI summaries. Three approaches from a 5-minute Google Sheets layout to an AI-generated daily brief — so you start every session with a clear, structured plan.
Six accounts passed. Six accounts breached. The trader was the same person. The platform was the same. The strategy was, in their own description, the same gold setup. By any reasonable expectation the outcomes should have clustered. They did not.…
GREATEST TRADERS · EPISODE 14 Steve Cohen SAC Capital, the $1.8 Billion Fine, and the Rebirth as Point72 ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music Profile · At a Glance Steven A.…
Our honest Robinhood review 2026: $0 commissions, Gold perks, Legend desktop, futures and crypto. Full fee breakdown and comparison. Rated 7.5/10.
Can AI pattern recognition tools replace manual chart analysis? An honest assessment of where AI genuinely helps traders, where it falls short for ICT/SMC approaches, and the best available tools for different trader types.
Market Mayhem · Episode 10 · 1989–2024 · Japan The Sun Also Falls Japan’s Lost Decades: The Market That Took 35 Years to Recover Nikkei 38,915 on December 29, 1989. The same level reached again in 2024. “Markets always come…
INSIDE THE MACHINE · EP. 3 The Dark Pool: The Invisible Market Where 40% of Trades Happen How Markets Really Work — Episode 3 Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music · iHeart…
Our honest FTMO review 2026: $200M+ paid, 80-90% profit split, 2-step challenge from ~€155. Full rules, fees, scaling breakdown. Rated 9.0/10.
You can win nine of your first ten prop firm trades, be up money on day one, and still blow the account a month later. We have the receipts. This is the third post in our forensic series on 1,797…
GREATEST TRADERS · EPISODE 13 Linda Raschke Turtle Soup, the First Market Wizard, and One Losing Year ▶ Watch on YouTube Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music Profile · At a Glance Linda Bradford Raschke Born 1959, Pasadena,…
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