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Joined November 2022
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The good thing about trading? Even if you never become profitable, you still go on the deepest spiritual journey of your life. You start wanting money… you end up discovering: Your ego issues Your impulse control problems Your fear of uncertainty Your need to be right You came for profits. You got forced into self-awareness. Trading really said: “Oh you want money? Cool. First fix your entire personality.” It’s the only industry where before paying you… it turns you into a better human first
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Men after losing all the money in trading.
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No one understands WHAT IS REALLY going on in the economy and stocks regarding the announcements the past 10 days. I will explain the ramifications of all this 📉🫶🏼❤️ Here we go... Right now, the market is freaking out about something it should actually be celebrating. 🎉 You keep hearing the same headline: $AMZN $200B in capex $GOOGL $180B $META $125–135B And Wall Street’s reaction is basically: “Too much spending. Bad for earnings. Bad for stock price.” 😡 They’re missing the entire point. Here’s what most investors are thinking: “All that money could’ve gone to share buybacks. That would instantly boost EPS. Why waste it on capex?” But stop and think for a second. What does a share buyback actually do for the real economy? Almost NOTHING! It’s financial engineering. It makes earnings per share look better on paper, but it doesn’t create jobs, infrastructure, innovation, or growth. The money basically disappears into the capital markets. Now compare that to $200 billion in capex. People hear that number and imagine it vanishing into some corporate black hole. That is the opposite of what happens. When Amazon says “we’re spending $200B,” that money flows everywhere. It goes to: – chip designers 📟 – semiconductor manufacturers 💾 – data center builders ⚙️ – construction companies 🏗️ – electricians ⚡ – engineers 👷🏻‍♂️ – logistics firms 🚚 – truck drivers 🚛 – railroads 🚂 – ports 🏗️ – suppliers 🛠️ – local communities 👷🏻‍♀️ This isn’t Monopoly money. It’s real economic activity. Take something like TSMC building new facilities in the U.S. Have you ever seen one of these plants go up? It looks like an NFL stadium being built – except it lasts for YEARS. 💰💰💰 Thousands of workers. Tons of suppliers. Entire regional economies are getting lifted. And that’s just one layer. All those chips need to be manufactured, shipped, installed, maintained. Servers need cooling systems, networking, power grids. Data centers don’t magically appear. This is economic stimulus on a massive scale. When companies spend on buybacks, the impact is narrow and financial. When they spend on capex, the impact is broad and real. That money ends up in companies’ pockets, workers’ pockets, and eventually consumer pockets. Which then gets spent again. That’s how GROWTH cycles actually happen. 📈 So while the market is obsessing over short-term margins and EPS optics, something much bigger is taking place underneath. We’re entering a multi-year investment cycle led by the biggest, strongest companies in the world. And that is overwhelmingly positive for the economy. The panic you’re seeing right now is the market being drama as to be expected. The long-term implications of this spending spree are not. Understand the difference. Ignore the noise. Follow where the real money is going. 💵
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JUST IN: Ray Dalio says the U.S. Dollar & all other fiat monetary systems are coming to an end.
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“The truth is that what I learned at Renaissance is that when we’re ready to trade information doesn’t matter… …when we…the generally what we looked at was not news we just looked at Price movements because we assumed that any news we could see…someone else had already seen that news they’ already traded off of it and whatever I needed to learn from that news was already encoded in some way in the price in the stock market. So all of our models just looked at price and volume…and…how deep the book was…we looked at the…the actual people betting on the market and we assumed that anything that could be known about stocks…we couldn’t possibly figure out…from the news…but we knew that there were people who were experts on every single stock who were reading the news and they were trading off of it and so if we just looked at the stock prices we could glean what we needed to know… when you see news happen you have to assume that everyone bigger than you already knows that…everyone who trades Disney already heard that news…minutes to hours before you did…they’ve already traded off of it…and… the stock price has already moved up to where that news reflects the price should be…”
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Every serious trader MUST know this!
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🐉 Fluidity. “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” - #BruceLee #fluidity #bewater #adjust #adapt
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If there is a holy grail in trading, this is it:🧵
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You must teach yourself
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“Hedge fund managers struggle to make 10% every year, what makes you think you can do 30-50%?” This is a terrible take that I see pretty often from traders Hedge fund managers manage millions, sometimes billions in capital They’re forced to risk a lower % of their capital on trade ideas or else their trades become impossible to execute More than this - most of them are not TRYING to get 30-50% returns a year - their clients don’t want high risk hight returns, they want low risk and moderate returns They’re completely different games, and comparing the 2 is disingenuous
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JUST IN: NASDAQ moving forward with 24/7 stock trading, expected to have 24h trading on weekdays by Q2.
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💥BREAKING: 🇺🇸WARREN BUFFETT: “THE NATURAL COURSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO MAKE THE CURRENCY WORTH LESS OVER TIME.” THE VALUE OF $1 IS DECREASING EVERY DAY, AND THERE ARE MORE DOLLARS BEING CREATED EVERY DAY. BECAUSE OF THIS, ASSETS LIKE BITCOIN WILL KEEP GOING UP. BULLISH 🚀
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“The consistency you seek is in your mind, not in the markets” - Mark Douglas
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Taking a loss instead of breaking your trading rules is a sign of growing as a trader.
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Don’t be afraid to lose a trade. That fear is the reason you keep failing. You enter… and now you’re sweating, panicking, micromanaging. Relax. Set a real invalidation point. Risk small enough that you can actually let the trade breathe. Let time and compounding do their job.
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“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.” — Aristotle
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It is very expensive to be poor. Because when you are poor, everything costs more: • You can’t buy in bulk, so you pay higher unit prices • You can’t afford quality, so cheap things break faster and need replacing • You can’t access good credit, so you pay higher interest • You can’t invest early, so you lose years of compounding • You can’t take risks, so you stay stuck in low-paying paths and fear • You can’t afford nutrition, so your health deteriorates • You can’t afford events or conferences, so you don’t get exposed to high-value network or opportunities • One emergency can wipe out everything Poverty isn’t just a lack of money. It is a tax on the poor that keeps them poor.
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“Patterns of price movement are not random. However, they’re close enough to random so that getting some excess, some edge out of it, is not easy and not so obvious.” - Jim Simons
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“We search through historical data looking for anomalous patterns that we would not expect to occur at random.” - Jim Simons
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