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My interview with Richard Moglen and TraderLion!
I rambled quite a bit but hope you get something out of it! Now open to watch for everyone.
youtu.be/Lot25-2fb-4?si…
I rambled quite a bit but hope you get something out of it! Now open to watch for everyone.
youtu.be/Lot25-2fb-4?si…
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Wish there was more to post about. Right now it's just waiting to see what happens. I made the mistake in the past of trying to force action in difficult environments and paid the price with large drawdowns.
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First sign of fear after yesterday's sell off. Usually it takes weeks of worsening readings before a bottom...if its even a bottom. The bear market in 2022 started with extreme readings and the market just kept selling off anyways. Let's see what happens.
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Christian Flanders retweeted
The VIX has hit 28.5 -- our bear market warning level.
But this is also an area where many intermediate-term corrections have historically found a bottom. The key now is how the market responds.
If stocks can’t rally convincingly from here and produce a legitimate follow-through lity. Even in the event of a follow-through action, before we could justify aggressive exposure, we would need to see a lack of distribution post follow-through AND stocks setting up in constructive bases offering buyable pivot points.
Bottom line: this level of volatility gets my attention --and my respect.
minervini.com
But this is also an area where many intermediate-term corrections have historically found a bottom. The key now is how the market responds.
If stocks can’t rally convincingly from here and produce a legitimate follow-through lity. Even in the event of a follow-through action, before we could justify aggressive exposure, we would need to see a lack of distribution post follow-through AND stocks setting up in constructive bases offering buyable pivot points.
Bottom line: this level of volatility gets my attention --and my respect.
minervini.com
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If you were wondering what "prices take the stairs up and the elevator down" meant in regards to markets, you are seeing it today.
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The entire way up, I had a few friends who were learning how to trade. Constantly complaining about how the stop losses kept getting them knocked out of a name only for it to turn around and go higher. They aren't complaining anymore.
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Christian Flanders retweeted
If you remember back to 2023 none of these AI experts existed.
Coming out of a bear market, the best time to buy, the fundamentalists are hibernating as the market has sent them back to their caves.
Once they have a bull market and the next crop of them is beating their chest that's the time the market is the most dangerous again, which is right about now.
Then another major correction sends them back to the caves again.
Coming out of a bear market, the best time to buy, the fundamentalists are hibernating as the market has sent them back to their caves.
Once they have a bull market and the next crop of them is beating their chest that's the time the market is the most dangerous again, which is right about now.
Then another major correction sends them back to the caves again.
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You do this long enough you'll see that stocks going up are almost always expensive and stocks going down are almost always cheap.
I remember so vividly the '24 $NVDA breakout at $500 ($50 on a chart post split) was so hard to buy in real time because the non stop media talk was its high valuation and awful PE at the time. Then it broke out and went vertical the rest of the year.
Fast forward to now where y been talking about $MU or $SNDK forward growth multiples and why they're attractive, only to see the stocks continue to move lower.
Stocks top when valuations and news are seemingly best before the drop. The overarching message I'm taking from all this -- is how badly we WANT the disgustingly high valuations / PE multiples when trading growth stocks for the next run, whenever that may be.
There is so much to learn in studying crowd behavior in these shifting environments. x.com/_Investinq/sta…
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Riz: "Behold the rarest of revelations: the complete, unfiltered methodology of one of the most formidable market operators of our era — a living legend whose edge has been forged in silence and proven across cycles that have broken lesser men.
What you are about to receive is nothing less than a full, granular dissection of his strategy, his process, and the precise architecture of his mind. Spoken in his native Cantonese and translated, sentence by sentence, into English — every nuance preserved, every implication unlocked.
Delivered to you, free of charge, directly to whatever device you hold. No gate. No cost. No delay.
Never in the history of public market education has something of this depth and authenticity been attempted. We crossed the world for this single conversation. I sat opposite him, listening to a language I do not speak, maintaining the frame for the camera so that you — wherever you are — could witness the transmission in full. Every hour of travel, every moment of incomprehension, every technical barrier was endured for one purpose: that ordinary people might receive knowledge once reserved for the inner circle.
Take notes. Study it closely. Apply what resonates. The markets have always been capable of transforming lives; this is simply the clearest map one of their true masters has ever allowed to be drawn for the rest of us. Seize this opportunity."
Youtube comment section: "Man, that AI voice sounds really weird. Is he gay?"
What you are about to receive is nothing less than a full, granular dissection of his strategy, his process, and the precise architecture of his mind. Spoken in his native Cantonese and translated, sentence by sentence, into English — every nuance preserved, every implication unlocked.
Delivered to you, free of charge, directly to whatever device you hold. No gate. No cost. No delay.
Never in the history of public market education has something of this depth and authenticity been attempted. We crossed the world for this single conversation. I sat opposite him, listening to a language I do not speak, maintaining the frame for the camera so that you — wherever you are — could witness the transmission in full. Every hour of travel, every moment of incomprehension, every technical barrier was endured for one purpose: that ordinary people might receive knowledge once reserved for the inner circle.
Take notes. Study it closely. Apply what resonates. The markets have always been capable of transforming lives; this is simply the clearest map one of their true masters has ever allowed to be drawn for the rest of us. Seize this opportunity."
Youtube comment section: "Man, that AI voice sounds really weird. Is he gay?"
I respect everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation. Personally, I have a wife and two daughters, so I'd say there's a pretty good chance I'm not bisexual.
And I totally get that some people aren't fans of the AI voice. Next time, I'll see if they can give me Dwayne . 💪
My English isn't great, so I answered Riz's questions in Cantonese to make sure I could get my thoughts across properly.
But honestly, I think Riz had it way worse than you guys. Imagine sitting in front of a camera, having absolutely no idea what the other guy is saying, but still having to keep smiling the whole time.
At least you guys can roast me in the comments. Riz didn't even have that luxury.
@Wordsofrizdom , thanks, my friend. I know it wasn't easy. 🙏
Full interview:
youtu.be/1NhqL2i5WkM (Words of Rizdom)
youtu.be/Js0pAyftVOs (Chart Fanatics)
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For newer traders, if you haven't read the William O'Neil book or Minervini books you are doing yourself a disservice. Especially when it comes to price action and earnings.
If you are confused by the price action... "The news is so bullish, so many analyst and fundamentalists are pounding the table about how great the earnings are"
Be aware that the stocks TOP at peak earnings/right around peak earnings. You usually don't see the weakness/slowdown until multiple months, sometimes 6+ months later.
If you are confused by the price action... "The news is so bullish, so many analyst and fundamentalists are pounding the table about how great the earnings are"
Be aware that the stocks TOP at peak earnings/right around peak earnings. You usually don't see the weakness/slowdown until multiple months, sometimes 6+ months later.
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Christian Flanders retweeted
I sat through the 2018 and 2020 selloffs. 2022 bear hurt me the most. I was a much worse trader back then.
I made just about every mistake I can think of. Followed wrong people. Borrowed their conviction because I didn’t built my own. When drawdowns hit me, I had no idea what to do. I was a deer in the headlights.
So I held on… let small losses balloon into massive ones. Bought dips that kept dipping. A couple worked out purely by luck. Many didn't.
This losses hurt. So did knowing how much of the damage came from my own decisions I kept refusing to reconsider.
I call it tuition now, but it didn't feel like that at the time. I had to look in the mirror and be honest with myself. Nothing was going to change until I really did. I promised myself I would never let a drawdown get that big again.
If you joined the market after the massive run, bought near the top, and holding because you are too embarrassed to admit a mistake, don't beat yourself up, I've been there. Plenty of us, including people you learn from today have been there too.
This is a good time to get serious about learning. Lots of great traders, amazing people willingly share their playbook openly.
Find them. Study them. Learn how they think. Give yourself time to develop judgment that you can trust when nobody is around to tell you when to do what.
Survive first.
Wishing you all a long investing journey ✌️
I made just about every mistake I can think of. Followed wrong people. Borrowed their conviction because I didn’t built my own. When drawdowns hit me, I had no idea what to do. I was a deer in the headlights.
So I held on… let small losses balloon into massive ones. Bought dips that kept dipping. A couple worked out purely by luck. Many didn't.
This losses hurt. So did knowing how much of the damage came from my own decisions I kept refusing to reconsider.
I call it tuition now, but it didn't feel like that at the time. I had to look in the mirror and be honest with myself. Nothing was going to change until I really did. I promised myself I would never let a drawdown get that big again.
If you joined the market after the massive run, bought near the top, and holding because you are too embarrassed to admit a mistake, don't beat yourself up, I've been there. Plenty of us, including people you learn from today have been there too.
This is a good time to get serious about learning. Lots of great traders, amazing people willingly share their playbook openly.
Find them. Study them. Learn how they think. Give yourself time to develop judgment that you can trust when nobody is around to tell you when to do what.
Survive first.
Wishing you all a long investing journey ✌️
Pull up who you were following during the 2020-2021 era and count how many of the big accounts still post. Better yet, how many of those do you still pay attention to?
Zoom, Peloton, Roku, Enphase, Skillz, Fisker, Canoo, Nikola. The list goes on and on. Many of the loudest voices have disappeared, or simply stopped being people you listen to.
They were 100% certain. Big positions, even bigger opinions, a following that grew with every green candle. They knew the businesses cold. One subject they never covered, however, was "being wrong".
Then the first drawdown came and the threads got longer...
Every dollar of the decline had an explanation. They bought more, at least they said so.
A bounce arrived and so did the screenshots, and the "told you so".
For a few days, doubt looked absolutely foolish. Then the market rolled over again and the same people wrote that "anyone selling here is a trader". I remember that line so vividly. Protecting your financial and mental capital had suddenly become a serious character flaw.
The price targets stayed despite being down 50%, then 75%, then more. The dates moved. A trade that was supposed to change their life now needed five years to be understood. "The market is simply wrong", they said.
A lot of that research was actually good. You could read the whole thesis and come away impressed. What you couldn't find was the sentence that said when they would leave. Fundamentals help you estimate what a business might be worth. They don't tell you when the market will agree, or how much you will lose waiting. When liquidity is leaving, a perfect model of the company can be a perfect answer to the wrong question.
Then there is the audience. Thousands watching, some of whom bought because of the call. Every public declaration made the next private doubt more expensive. How do you quietly change your mind when certainty is what people follow you for?
So they didn't. Another big thesis post, another conviction thread, another low, another bounce that reopened the possibility it hadn't been a mistake. Daily updates became weekly, weekly became "nothing changed, generational opportunity it is", then nothing. 90% down, 95% down, no final post.
I see the early version of it now.
Many of these accounts showed up in the last year or so. They gravitated to the same set of tickers retail had adopted as its favorites, and their following grew about as fast as those stocks rose. The audience rose with the price, and the price had little to do with them.
It's an easy thing to mistake for skill, especially when the environment is paying anyone who just happened to be standing in the right place at the right time. How well someone understands the market becomes clearer when it stops cooperating. The last few months have been a revealing test.
Nobody introduces themselves as the person who will ride a position down 90%.
Somewhere in this chaos, there are quiet people with a clear head, an exit plan and plenty of dry powder. They have probably been wrong too, many times. They just left themselves enough room to be wrong and keep going for years to come.
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INTC and AMZN aren't even in stage 4 yet, still forming stage 3 tops. Same with SOXX and DRAM.
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Not saying we are in a bear market but those ER reactions tonight look exactly like what a bear market would look like.
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These kinds of environments are very dangerous and where I would get death by a thousand cuts in the past due to forcing trades due to FOMO and trying to make back $$ that I thought was rightfully mine.
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Christian Flanders retweeted
One of the hardest lessons I've learned in over 20 years of trading:
You must be willing to stay out of the market for weeks or even months.
Look at this chart of the Nasdaq since 2019. Notice how often the market goes through sideways periods, choppy uptrends, corrections, and ng or position trader, I don't want to participate in all of them.
I want to be aggressive when the market is strong and opportunities are plentiful. But when conditions deteriorate, I become extremely selective, stop opening new positions, and let my individual sell rules determine when to exit existing holdings.
Why is this so difficult?
Because there are ALWAYS stocks moving higher. Even in terrible markets.
You see those stocks, feel you're missing opportunities, and convince yourself that you need to keep trading to make money.
I've experienced this myself. In 2026, I made very good profits in April and May, but gave back some of those gains during the choppier months that followed.
The reality is that the general market is a huge part of your trading edge. Even the best setups become much harder to trade when conditions are unfavorable.
I believe one of the biggest changes you can make is to stop defining yourself as a trader by how often you trade.
A disciplined trader doesn't need constant action. A disciplined trader waits until the probabilities are in their favor.
The ability to sit in cash for weeks or months is what separates disciplined traders from those who constantly struggle.
You don't get paid for being active. You get paid for making good decisions.
You must be willing to stay out of the market for weeks or even months.
Look at this chart of the Nasdaq since 2019. Notice how often the market goes through sideways periods, choppy uptrends, corrections, and ng or position trader, I don't want to participate in all of them.
I want to be aggressive when the market is strong and opportunities are plentiful. But when conditions deteriorate, I become extremely selective, stop opening new positions, and let my individual sell rules determine when to exit existing holdings.
Why is this so difficult?
Because there are ALWAYS stocks moving higher. Even in terrible markets.
You see those stocks, feel you're missing opportunities, and convince yourself that you need to keep trading to make money.
I've experienced this myself. In 2026, I made very good profits in April and May, but gave back some of those gains during the choppier months that followed.
The reality is that the general market is a huge part of your trading edge. Even the best setups become much harder to trade when conditions are unfavorable.
I believe one of the biggest changes you can make is to stop defining yourself as a trader by how often you trade.
A disciplined trader doesn't need constant action. A disciplined trader waits until the probabilities are in their favor.
The ability to sit in cash for weeks or months is what separates disciplined traders from those who constantly struggle.
You don't get paid for being active. You get paid for making good decisions.
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Christian Flanders retweeted
If you're in the middle of a big drawdown, the best thing to do is stop trading.
If you keep trading and the market is hostile (and you're trading long), you'll keep drawing down and at worst you'll get forced out of the market, and perhaps never come back.
You need to look at yourself and ask why are you trading if things just keep getting worse.
Time is what fixes the problem, and the market just needs time to get to the next bottom so give it that time.
If you keep trading and the market is hostile (and you're trading long), you'll keep drawing down and at worst you'll get forced out of the market, and perhaps never come back.
You need to look at yourself and ask why are you trading if things just keep getting worse.
Time is what fixes the problem, and the market just needs time to get to the next bottom so give it that time.
What's one rule you added after your worst drawdown?
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