Mark Eidem CMT, CFA

CMT, CFA, West Point Grad. Trader. Win by not losing - too much. #DoTheWork

[Mark Eidem CMT, CFA @MarkEidemTrader]

How often we are "Right" as traders is far less important than how much we make when "Right" as compared to how much we lose when "Wrong." Here is a short video that explains this idea:

https://t.co/9k3GiiyMCl

[PBA @801010athlete]

U&R life

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@NickSchmidt @TradeSniperSara That's the problem Nick. They need scratches and/or balls thrown.

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@99_Colorado Yeah baby!

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@SomeBitchIIKnow It is a blessing that they are still alive to talk to and still care about you!. THAT is the blessing.

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@TaPlot Prayers up your way TA. Your courage is inspirational. Rock on brother. Back on the bike soon!

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@MikeKinneyHS Congrats to Chace, but sorry to see him go to Lehigh in the Patriot League playing Army.

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@JCChristopher Enjoy! Soak the tourists. 😎

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T H I S 👇👇👇 Absolutely T H I S 👇👇👇

[PBA @801010athlete]

Sounds cheesy, but being grateful changes everything.

Thoughts are things.

My life sucks . . . expect more suck. My life is amazing . . . expect more amazing.

When bad things happen remember that good things are around the corner, circle of life. Understand that maybe things are happening for a reason and embrace it. #maybe

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@JCChristopher Stealing!

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@TeslaBoomerMama Good news so far Alexandra. Prayers up for continued good news!

[Mark Eidem CMT, CFA @MarkEidemTrader]

From the top rope for the win!

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Ro, you’re lying and you know it.

You compared a man’s net worth to a country’s GDP. A balance sheet to a year of output. You went to Yale. You learned the difference between a stock and annual output flow.

But being a politician and lawyer, you love to lie and gaslight the economic illiterates, it’s your entire business model.

You want a 5% tax on Elon to fund free trade school for every American.

Trade school costs $80B/yr, you can’t even fund a year.

Elon doesn’t have $55B in cash. It’s stock. You know this.

To pay, he sells roughly $70B of Tesla and SpaceX shares, and the sale itself gets taxed on top. SpaceX raised $75B at its IPO this morning at a $1.77 trillion valuation.

Imagine him selling that amount every year.

Ro isn’t taxing Elon. He’s taxing everyone who gas exposure to the market. Every pension fund and index fund on the planet gets wrecked. And given Ro, he’ll insider trade and short before the bill passes.

And for what? To rip capital from the best allocator alive and hand it to the most incompetent institution in human history. Elon turned PayPal gains into Tesla and SpaceX: 120,000 jobs, launch costs down 90%, two industries that didn’t exist, a $1.77 trillion company from nothing.

You’ve never built anything. You’ve never employed anyone. You’ve never created a dollar of value in your life. You collect a government salary and demand tribute from men who do what you can’t.

Your machine spends $7 trillion a year and still runs a $1.8 trillion deficit. It loses up to $521 billion a year to fraud. More than your entire tax raises. The Department of Education went from $34 billion in 2000 to $268 billion in 2024. 8x the money. Reading scores at multi-decade lows. Trade schools still unfunded.

You don’t lack money. You lack competence, and you want Elon to subsidize it.

You haven’t donated your wealth. You haven’t moved into government housing. Empty your accounts first, Ro. Then preach.

Elon’s options get taxed as ordinary income at the top rate when exercised. Over $500 billion in lifetime taxes, the largest tax stream from one human ever. You want $55 billion now in a way that craters the shares the $500 billion depends on. Your tax doesn’t raise money. It kills the companies, kills the jobs, kills the pensions, and torches a bigger check already in the mail.

You’re the monkey in the middle, Ro. You can’t build. You can’t allocate. You can’t even count. So you eat from everyone else’s pie and call it fairness.

[Mark Eidem CMT, CFA @MarkEidemTrader]

@richdemarco Marshwan "Beast Mode" Lynch

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@99_Colorado @DenverTeslaClub @OGMarsLife @Smokehbear @EvasTeslaSPlaid @ChuckCook @stargzer42 @BeardedTesla @TesLatino @TesLatina @teslaownersSV Congrats Diana and safe travels to the Sunshine State. 🫡

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@Ollie_AllCaps Damn sure NOT YouTube!!!

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@dmbkparker Congrats Dan!

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Never give up!

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

THE NEXT TIME YOU FEEL LIKE GIVING UP, REMEMBER THIS PHOTO OF ELON MUSK.

IT WAS TAKEN AFTER HIS THIRD ROCKET EXPLODED.

HE HAD JUST LOST $100 MILLION OF HIS OWN MONEY. SPACEX WAS WEEKS AWAY FROM BANKRUPTCY. TESLA WAS STRUGGLING. HE WAS SLEEPING ON FRIENDS’ COUCHES.

THE MEDIA CALLED HIM RECKLESS. INVESTORS PULLED BACK. EVERYONE TOLD HIM TO QUIT.

INSTEAD, HE BET EVERYTHING ON ONE FINAL LAUNCH. IF IT FAILED, SPACEX WAS DONE.

THE LAUNCH SUCCEEDED — AND CHANGED HISTORY.

TODAY, SPACEX IS WORTH OVER $1 TRILLION AND DOMINATES THE PRIVATE SPACE INDUSTRY.

MOST PEOPLE QUIT RIGHT BEFORE THEIR BREAKTHROUGH.

ELON KEPT GOING WHEN EVERYTHING WAS AGAINST HIM.

THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND ALMOST SUCCESS.

[Mark Eidem CMT, CFA @MarkEidemTrader]

@BoBbyPleWniaK Hell yeah!

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@TeslaLarry 7.5% here
15/200

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@TeslaBoomerPapa What a collection of A$$HATS!