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More trading fortunes have been made and destroyed on the NASDAQ than on any other index in the modern era. It is the home of the companies that rewired the world — and the venue for the fastest, most emotional…
SNAPSHOT · 4 AUGUST 2026 SpaceX reported its first quarterly results as a public company after the US close on Tuesday. Revenue of $7.81 billion beat consensus near $6.9 billion. Adjusted EBITDA of $3.5 billion beat $2.0 billion. The net…
First-level thinking: this is a good company, so buy it. This is a strong trend, so go long. This is bad news, so sell. Howard Marks’s objection is not that these statements are wrong. It is that they are almost…
Count the trading education you have consumed. Order flow, market structure, candlestick confirmation, indicator confluence, the setup, the trigger, the entry. Now count the hours spent on what you do after the fill. The ratio is somewhere near ten to…
UPDATE · 4 AUGUST 2026 Date one has resolved. SpaceX reported Q2 revenue of $7.81 billion against consensus near $6.9 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $3.5 billion against $2.0 billion expected, and a net loss of 9 cents a share. Every…
Last week this site argued that you should take your profit too soon. The arithmetic was sound and the conclusion held. This week it argues the opposite, and the arithmetic is the same code. Both are true. Which one applies…
Every trading book you have read contains the same instruction. Cut your losses. Let your winners run. Max Gunther, writing down what Swiss speculators actually did rather than what they said, disagreed. His axiom is blunt: always take your profit…
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,…
Trader’s Library · Book Review How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O’Neil Explore all 80 books in the Trader’s Library → If you have ever heard a trader say they look for stocks breaking out of a…
Most traders see one thing on the chart: price. A candle goes up, a candle goes down, and they try to guess the next one. But price is just the surface. Underneath every tick is a crowd of very different…
In March 2008 the financial world was coming apart. Bear Stearns had just collapsed into a fire-sale rescue, credit markets were seizing, and the word on every desk was fear. It was, by any reasonable measure, the worst possible moment…
By the summer of 2004, the technology world had spent four years in penance. The dot-com crash was still fresh, the IPO market was timid, and Wall Street had a comfortable, lucrative way of doing offerings: price them low, hand…
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