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I almost made a mistake this week. Seeing the choppy price action and listening to the endless debate about the Fed's next move, I was tempted to build out a few tactical shorts in some of the frothier names in the Nasdaq. My fundamental work showed stretched valuations. But then the Goldman Sachs positioning data hit my screen Thursday morning, an...
Is this recent geopolitical shudder the 'big one' everyone鈥檚 been waiting for? A note from Deutsche Bank hit the wires this morning highlighting that the S&P 500's drop was sharper than the historical average for these kinds of shocks. While the headlines are ugly, my initial analysis suggests this is a volatility event, not a fundamental shift. I'...
I almost made a mistake this week. When the CryptoQuant alert hit my screen this morning showing BTC finally seeing net-purchases after nearly two months of relentless selling, my first instinct was to ape into a leveraged long. The price was consolidating nicely around $73,900, and the on-chain data felt like the starting gun for the next leg up. ...
This morning, like every morning, I scanned the pre-market movers. Unsurprisingly, it's the usual suspects鈥攖he high-beta tech names. The entire conversation on FinTwitter seems to be about the looming NASDAQ correction how to trade it, and whether this is another dip to buy. I think that's lazy analysis. While everyone is performing the same tired ...
The market has a flair for the dramatic. Closing the SPY at exactly $666.00 on the eve of Friday the 13th is the kind of thing screenwriters invent. I can already see the chatter online, the superstitious warnings, the chartists drawing hellish patterns. While the numerology is amusing, my job isn't to read tea leaves; it's to read balance sheets. ...
Are you getting ready to buy the dip because the calendar says it's mid-March? Don't. While it's true the S&P 500 has often bottomed in mid-March over the last two decades, I believe treating that pattern as gospel this year is a classic rookie mistake. The macro environment has fundamentally shifted, and relying on simple seasonality without appre...
I was scanning Nvidia鈥檚 ($NVDA) latest 10-Q before my morning coffee, a habit from my Goldman days, and one number jumped off the page: a 387% year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue. The market loves it. The momentum is undeniable. But my mind immediately went to another filing I read years ago for a case study: Cisco's 10-K from the year 200...
So here's what nobody's talking about. Every screen I see is lit up with WTI and BRENT charts. Every conversation is about the latest crude oil price analysis and what the Saudis will do next. It's noise. The real trade, the one the smart money is quietly positioning for, isn't in the oil barrel. It's in the grain silo.
