Market volatility is picking up:
The Nasdaq 100 index posted 5 consecutive trading days ending Thursday with a move of at least 1% in either direction, the longest streak since August 2024.
This also matches the streak recorded in April 2025 during market turmoil following Liberation Day.
The information technology sector also ranked among both the strongest and weakest-performing sectors in the S&P 500 across 4 of the 5 trading sessions ending Thursday.
As a result, the Nasdaq 100 Volatility Index, $VXN, jumped +11 points in 5 days, or +49%, to its highest level since April 2025.
Volatility remains elevated across the technology sector.
Evidence one million and one why the stock market remains one of the most effective vehicles for wealth creation.
Stock options are still underrated in this part of the world, and understandably so. Most companies here rarely scale to the point where employees can truly maximise the value of those options.
Also, the environment we operate in often forces people to prioritise immediate liquidity. Salary today. Cash today. Survival today.
But ultimately, wealth still comes down to ownership.
You own part of a company through stock options.
You own part of companies through the stock market.
You own part of a private business.
Or you start one yourself.
Different structures but the same idea.
Equity is how serious wealth is built.
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.”
Isaiah 43:2 NIV https://t.co/cKCVeNV0DY
I got a Director of Engineering offer in big tech earlier this year. Top 10 US big tech. I was stoked.
It got rescinded weeks to my start date. I was devastated for months. I kept wondering why I would get the offer only to get rescinded and I started wishing they had just rejected my application.
But now I know why I got it. I got it to prove to myself that indeed, I am at that level, and I am making impact at that scale (because my impostor syndrome is terrible. I am literally always scared 😂😭)
Fast forward to today, I’m about to start adding so much value in my current role and I feel peace, purpose, and excitement.
A lot of times, that rejection (no matter the form it comes in) is redirection 💕💕
A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire.
Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour.
SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years.
$SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.