Master the mental game — emotions, discipline, mindset and cognitive biases that determine trading success.
On 15 May 1997, a barely-known online bookseller from Seattle went public on the Nasdaq at $18 a share. The offering raised just $54 million and valued the whole company at around $438 million, a rounding error by the standards…
EP05 · The Trader’s Physical Edge Hydration, Cortisol, and Caffeine The three levers most traders pull wrong. Pillar 2 of 5 · FUEL It is 11:00 SAST. You have been at the screens for three hours. You have had two…
Mel Robbins' 5 Second Rule solves the most immediate problem in trading: the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Entry hesitation, stop loss avoidance, FOMO entries, and revenge trading all happen within a five-second window. The countdown changes everything.
Every story in this series so far has ended, eventually, in some kind of recovery. Facebook became a dynasty. Alibaba was vindicated before it gave it back. Aramco climbed out of its hole. Uber ground its way back to double.…
In 1989 Jack Schwager did something nobody had done before. He picked up the phone and called the most successful traders alive, one after another, and asked them how they actually did it. The result was Market Wizards, and the…
MONEY MYTHS – EPISODE 03 Genius Doesn’t Protect You The myth: smarter traders make better decisions. Two Nobel laureates. $124 billion in assets. $4.6 billion gone in 4 months. Tuesday 9 June 2026 – Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube,…
At 17:15 server time on a Thursday afternoon in late January 2026, Trader A clicked buy on gold for the 22nd consecutive time in 22 minutes. Every previous click in that sequence had lost money. Twenty-two trades. Twenty-two losses. $2,008.13…
Uber was supposed to be the defining technology listing of its generation. It had rewritten how the world moved, it was a household verb, and it arrived in May 2019 as one of the most hyped debuts in years. It…
EP04 · The Trader’s Physical Edge Fasting for Traders When it sharpens you. When it breaks you. Pillar 2 of 5 · FUEL Open your charts at 8am with nothing in your stomach. Sip black coffee. Wait for the setup.…
Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life contain the psychological framework that most struggling traders desperately need. From radical responsibility to telling the truth in your trading journal, Peterson's principles address exactly why traders who know their strategy still cannot execute it consistently.
If any company on Earth was ever a sure thing, it was this one. When Saudi Aramco listed on the Riyadh exchange on 11 December 2019, it became the largest initial public offering in history, raising about $25.6 billion at…
Ask any retail trader which day of the week scares them most and you will get a consistent answer. Friday. The weekend-gap day. The day you should be flat by lunchtime, the day where central bank surprises slap any open…
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