Why I Trade In-Play Stocks
Imagine finding a slot machine in a casino that was broken in your favor. Instead of the house having the edge, you do. You’d probably play it for as long as you could before someone noticed. That’s the mindset every trader should have. The stock market offers thousands of opportunities every day, but not all […]
How Macro Market Conditions Can Make—or Break—Your Trading Strategy
Many traders assume their strategy has stopped working when, in reality, the market environment has changed. The market isn’t random. It’s constantly reacting to larger economic forces like interest rates, inflation, government policy, and the overall strength of the economy. These macro conditions influence which strategies thrive, which struggle, and where the best opportunities appear. […]
Don’t Quit Trading Yet
Every trader eventually reaches a point where they wonder if it’s time to walk away. Maybe you’ve spent months studying, reviewing charts, and putting in countless hours, yet your results still don’t reflect the effort. It’s frustrating, discouraging, and often enough to make you question whether you have what it takes. But before you decide […]
99% of Traders Don’t Know How to Trade with the Trend
“The trend is your friend” is one of the oldest sayings in trading, but it’s also one of the few that continues to prove itself over time. After years of trading and reviewing thousands of trades, one lesson becomes impossible to ignore: your biggest winners usually come from trading with the prevailing trend, while your […]
July 2026
One Current Market Observation: For years now, the market has been providing incredible trading opportunities due to increased price discovery. This price discovery is due to AI disruption, Presidential policy, and speculative fervor. For the experienced trader, these opportunities often mean more PNL. But even for the beginner trader, these opportunities provide more repetitions and […]
May 2026
One Current Market Observation: Much like in past crises, the market broke to highs far sooner than any apparent recovery in the crisis at hand. Think back to Covid, or the Trump tariff war, or the current Iran conflict. Markets are discounting mechanisms and you need to be prepared to act far earlier than the […]
April 2026
One Current Market Observation: The Iran conflict has pushed geopolitical risk premium back into markets, and oil is the most obviously impacted commodity. In the past, geopolitical risk premium in oil was quickly faded because production tended to never go offline. The current situation has been quite the opposite and already, in terms of barrels […]
March 2026
One Current Market Observation: After a historic momentum run in 2025, parts of the market are now showing a cleaner split between “story” and “substance.” The highest-beta names are no longer moving in lockstep, and we’re seeing more selective follow-through instead of broad reflexive chasing. Citrini’s article on an alternative outcome of where the world might be […]
February 2026
One Current Market Observation: The historic move in metals continued into 2026, only to unwind in spectacular fashion. It goes to show that price moves often drive the narrative which can create a feedback loop of prices continuing in the same direction. All over social media, people were declaring a new paradigm and that dollar […]
How Important is Volume in Trading?
Price and time tend to get most of the attention in trading, but volume belongs in that same conversation. In fact, if I were forced to strip everything down and keep only one additional data point beyond price, volume would be it — without hesitation. After more than a decade of trading and reviewing […]