On a spring afternoon in 1911, a tall, gaunt man in his seventies was playing golf on his estate north of New York City when a messenger brought him news that the Supreme Court of the United States had just…
You cannot manage a risk you do not understand. Pips, lots and leverage are the three mechanics that decide how much you make or lose on every trade, and leverage is the one that quietly ends most beginner accounts. Before…
MONEY MYTHS – EPISODE 09 Always Diversify? The myth: more positions always means less risk. The math disagrees. Diversification distributes ignorance more evenly. Here is the Kelly Criterion proof. Tuesday 21 July 2026 – Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube,…
INSIDE THE MACHINE · BONUS · SERIES FINALE AI Trading Takes the Wheel: From Knight Capital to Autonomous Algorithms How Markets Really Work — The Final Episode Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon…
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Charlie Munger spent sixty years answering a question almost nobody asks. Not “how do I succeed.” He found that one intractable, and said so repeatedly. Success has too many paths, most of them unrepeatable, most of them contaminated by luck.…
GREATEST TRADERS · EPISODE 29 T. Boone Pickens Mesa Petroleum, the Gulf Oil Raid, and the $2.7 Billion BP Capital Comeback ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music Profile · At a…
The most expensive sentence in trading is “I was right, just early.” It is offered as consolation. It should be read as a confession, because in a market with a clock and a financing rate, early and wrong are the…
EP10 · The Trader’s Physical Edge The Information Diet for Traders Your mind is what you consume. Audit the inputs. Pillar 4 of 5 · REGULATE A trader opens X at six in the morning. Within ninety seconds they have…
At fourteen, Persi Diaconis ran away from home to become a magician. He told no one, walked out of a New York high school, and spent the next decade touring with the sleight-of-hand legend Dai Vernon and working card tables…
Your strategy is not losing money. Your strategy is being run in a market it was never designed for, and it cannot tell, and neither can you, because nobody taught you to ask. Al Brooks, who has spent a career…
Bob Proctor's paradigm framework explains why traders keep hitting the same income ceiling and blowing accounts at the same level. Your subconscious money thermostat determines your results, and until you reprogram it, no strategy can save you. The deepest layer of trading psychology.
Morgan Housel makes a distinction that took me a decade of trading to understand and about ninety seconds to read. A fee is what you pay to get something. A fine is a punishment for doing something wrong. They cost…
In 1995, a thirty-year-old chemist named Wang Chuanfu borrowed about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, gathered twenty employees, and started a company in Shenzhen to make rechargeable batteries. Wang’s background was not glamorous. Orphaned young and raised by an…
Here is a bet. I flip a fair coin. Heads, your stake grows by fifty percent. Tails, it falls by forty percent. Work out the expected value. Half the time you multiply by 1.5, half the time by 0.6. The…
GREATEST TRADERS · EPISODE 28 Leon Cooperman From the South Bronx to Goldman Partner to the $10 Billion Omega Empire ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music Profile · At a Glance…
Our honest IG review 2026: the world's #1 CFD provider. FTSE250 listed, 11 regulators, 17,000+ instruments, ProRealTime, spread betting. Rated 8.5/10.
Answer both of these quickly, without arithmetic. You are up 0.9R on a trade. Your target is 1.0R and it is nine tenths of the way there. Do you take the 0.9R now, or hold for the last tenth? You…
Market Mayhem · Episode 17 · March 2022 · London The Nickel Squeeze The Day the London Metal Exchange Cancelled Billions in Completed Trades Nickel +250% in two trading days. The largest commodity move in modern history. Then the exchange…
GREATEST TRADERS · EPISODE 31 Rakesh Jhunjhunwala The Big Bull of India Who Turned $100 Into Billions ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music In the summer of 1992, a thirty-two-year-old Bombay…
Ask a struggling trader what he needs and he will describe his best day. He will tell you about the setup he read perfectly, the entry he waited three hours for, the exit he held through the retrace. He wants…
In July 2012, the magazine Vanity Fair published a long, devastating article with a title that stuck like a label on Microsoft’s back for years: “Microsoft’s Lost Decade.” The writer argued that the company that had once terrified all of…
Trader’s Library · Book Review Fooled by Randomness by Nassim N. Taleb Explore all 80 books in the Trader’s Library → The most dangerous moment in a trader’s career is not the first big loss. It is the first big…
One uses your money and gives you total freedom. The other uses someone else’s money and gives you strict rules. For a beginner, picking the wrong one wastes either your capital or your potential. The broker vs prop firm decision…
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