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[A Scott @ascottusa]

@themarketradar What does that mean in your system?

[A Scott @ascottusa]

@mikealfred Mike sent that original note when IREN was $9 around lunch time May 23, 2025

[Mike Alfred @mikealfred]

X is getting taken over by AI slop garbage. Sadly, it’s almost unusable at this point. Like and repost this if you can see it and still want to see content created by real humans.

[A Scott @ascottusa]

@Aheadprivate Telegram or Discord are best imo if you no longer like X

[A Scott @ascottusa]

@ChristiAnna220 @AmericaPapaBear Noticed the same thing. When he started I was thinking “how is he going to stand up in this thing?” And by the end he is walking around in it with room to spare.

[A Scott @ascottusa]

@mikealfred That guy who was criticizing you for not shorting silver volatility was seriously annoying. Anyway, great trade and logical explanation.

For anyone listening, Mike is at the 2 hour 36 min mark

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

This master A.I. prompt could make you a millionaire, save you thousands on your taxes, and help you achieve financial freedom.

It gives the latest AI models instructions to become your financial assistant and figure out what you should do to become wealthier and financially free.

(bookmark this post to reference later)

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Role & Mindset

You are my Personal CFO. Think like a disciplined investor, risk manager, and long-term planner. Your job is to optimize my financial life for durability, upside, and freedom—not lifestyle inflation. Be direct, data-driven, and practical. If tradeoffs exist, explain them clearly.

Context & Data

I will provide you with my financial data, which may include:
Assets (cash, investments, businesses, real estate, crypto, alternatives)
Liabilities (debt, obligations, guarantees)
Income sources (salary, business income, distributions, passive income)
Expenses, including recurring subscriptions
Historical performance, spending, and savings data
Tax situation (income types, entities, jurisdictions, past tax payments)
Assume all data is accurate unless noted.

1. Portfolio Analysis

Analyze my overall portfolio allocation, concentration, liquidity, volatility, and risk-adjusted returns. Identify what is actually driving performance versus what appears to be working. Assess alignment with long-term financial independence and capital preservation.

2. Risk Assessment

Identify and rank the top financial risks across market, leverage, liquidity, taxes, concentration, income, and operational exposure. Highlight risks I may be underestimating or ignoring. Recommend specific, cost-effective mitigations or hedges.

3. Opportunity Identification

Identify the highest-ROI opportunities to increase my income and net worth over the next 12–36 months based on my capital base, skills, time constraints, and risk tolerance. Flag underutilized assets or inefficient capital allocations.
4. Tax Optimization

Evaluate my effective tax rate and overall tax structure. Identify legal strategies to reduce current and lifetime taxes, including asset location, timing of income, entity structuring, harvesting strategies, and charitable or deferral opportunities. Prioritize strategies by impact and complexity.

5. Expense & Subscription Review

Review my recurring expenses and subscriptions. Identify low-value, redundant, or misaligned spending and estimate annual savings from eliminating or restructuring them.

6. Scenario & Stress Testing

Stress test my financial position under multiple macroeconomic scenarios (e.g., severe recession, inflation surge, deflation, monetary easing, AI-driven productivity boom, geopolitical shock). Explain where my portfolio is resilient and where it fails.

7. Forecasting & Net Worth Projection

Using my historical income, spending, savings rate, and investment returns, project my net worth over 5, 10, and 20 years. Show best-case, base-case, and worst-case scenarios and identify the key variables that matter most.

Output Requirements

Use clear, simple language
Quantify impacts whenever possible
Separate Observations, Risks, Opportunities, and Actionable Recommendations
Highlight the few actions that matter most
Avoid generic advice—tailor everything to my data

Final Question

End with: “If we could only act on 3 things in the next 90 days to most improve your financial outcome, they would be:”
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If you want to break down the prompt into more digestible prompts focused on specific things, here are 15 prompts that you could use as well:

“Analyze my portfolio allocation, concentration risk, liquidity, and expected risk-adjusted returns. Where am I overexposed or underexposed?”

“Based on my historical performance by asset class, what has actually driven my returns versus what I think has driven my returns? Be specific and use data-backed reasoning.”

“If my goal is long-term financial independence with capital preservation, how well does my current portfolio align with that objective? What structural changes would you recommend?”

👉 we built a free product that makes it simple to use AI to analyze your portfolio: https://t.co/bMI7hLeciU

“Identify the top 5 financial risks in my current situation (market, liquidity, leverage, tax, concentration, career/business risk). Rank them by severity and explain how each could realistically hurt me.”

“Stress test my portfolio against major downside scenarios (2008-style crisis, high inflation, deflation, stagflation, prolonged recession, or rapid rate increases). Where do I break?”

“What risks am I most likely ignoring because they feel unlikely or uncomfortable, and how would you hedge or mitigate them cost-effectively?”

“Based on my income sources, skills, time constraints, and risk tolerance, identify the highest-ROI opportunities for increasing my income over the next 12–36 months.”

“Where is my capital being underutilized? Identify assets that could be reallocated, optimized, or structured differently to generate higher after-tax returns.”

“If you were trying to increase my net worth by $__ over the next 3 years, what 3–5 strategies would you prioritize and why?”

“Analyze my income, investments, entity structures, and jurisdiction. Where am I likely overpaying in taxes, and what legal strategies could reduce my effective tax rate?”

“Simulate my taxes under different strategies (asset location, harvesting gains/losses, entity restructuring, timing of income, charitable strategies). Which changes produce the biggest impact?”

“If my goal is minimizing lifetime taxes (not just this year), how should I sequence income, investments, and exits over time?”

“Here is a list of my recurring expenses and subscriptions. Identify which ones are low-value, redundant, or misaligned with my goals, and estimate my annual savings if I cancel them.”

“Simulate how different future economic scenarios (AI-driven productivity boom, monetary easing, hard landing, geopolitical shock) would affect my portfolio and income over the next 5 years.”

“Using my historical income, spending, savings rate, and investment performance, forecast my net worth over the next 5, 10, and 20 years. Show best-case, base-case, and worst-case paths.”

👉 These prompts are best used on Silvia, a free product we built that gives AI the context necessary to provide you with the best answers.

Try it free: https://t.co/bMI7hLeciU

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

Behind Fernando's success is his Mom 🥹💕💕🙏 America’s Mom ❤️

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

🚨 Research shows repeated complaining physically rewires your brain to prioritize stress and negativity.

The way we speak about our daily challenges does more than just vent frustration; it physically alters the architecture of the brain.

When we engage in chronic complaining, we repeatedly activate neural networks responsible for detecting threats and processing stress.

Through the biological process of neuroplasticity, these circuits become stronger and more efficient every time they are used. Essentially, the brain learns to become more adept at finding things to be unhappy about, turning a temporary mood into a permanent biological predisposition toward negativity and fear-based thinking.

As these negative pathways become the brain's default setting, individuals often experience a measurable increase in baseline stress levels and emotional volatility. This heightened sensitivity means that even minor inconveniences can trigger an intense stress response because the brain has been conditioned to interpret the world through a lens of threat. Findings discussed by the Stanford University School of Medicine emphasize that while this mechanism is powerful, understanding the science of affective neuroscience is the first step in consciously redirecting those pathways toward more resilient emotional patterns.

Source: Stanford University School of Medicine. (2023). Neural Plasticity and the Impact of Negative Thought Patterns on Emotional Regulation. Stanford Medicine News.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

This is so good. I am so bad at it!
RIP

[A Scott @ascottusa]

@themarketradar Sustained rally above 100k I assume?

[A Scott @ascottusa]

@themarketradar Understand the potential negative but at least there would be a way for the public / voters to hold bad policy makers accountable.

[Terence Michael @ProofOfMoney]

Today we celebrate Satoshi Nakamoto.

But let's not forget the cryptographers
and the cypherpunks who took decades
to build the bricks for Bitcoin.

Bookmark this and enjoy a fast, floating
trip about the quest for perfect money.

#BitcoinHistory #cypherpunk

[Michelle Labs @MolecularLab_]

If you ever wonder about how your kids ACTUALLY grow, keep watching

[A Scott @ascottusa]

@mikealfred If you made a billion, I still bet your greatest thrill was having your son. Congrats!

[A Scott @ascottusa]

@DailyDilemmaX @DailyFlowersX Easy. My wife and kids.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇷🇺🇺🇦 PUTIN APPEARS IN MILITARY UNIFORM DAY BEFORE ZELENSKY-TRUMP MEETING- SAYS RUSSIA'S "NOT INTERESTED" IN NEGOTIATIONS

Putin's wearing military fatigues on camera, not his usual suit. That's signal 1.

Signal 2: "Russia has little incentive to seek Ukrainian troop withdrawal from Donetsk. We're not interested in any pullback from areas currently held by Kyiv's forces."

Translation: We're taking what we want. Negotiations are theater.

The timing's surgical. Zelensky meets Trump at Mar-a-Lago today. Putin delivers this message yesterday. In military dress. Saying Moscow's done negotiating.

That's pressure application 101.

What Putin's actually communicating:

To Zelensky: "Whatever Trump promises you, I'm not bound by it. We're winning militarily. Why would I negotiate?"

To Trump: "Your peace plan requires Russian cooperation. I'm showing you I don't need to cooperate. Make your offer reflect that reality."

To Europe: "Your 2030 war preparation timeline is too late. We're achieving objectives now."

The military uniform choice:

Putin doesn't dress casual. Every appearance is staged. Wearing fatigues instead of business suit tells you: "I'm commander-in-chief in active war, not politician open to diplomacy."

It's psychological framing. You don't negotiate with generals in combat zones. You fight them or you surrender to them.

What "not interested in pullback from areas Kyiv holds" means:

Russia's saying: We'll take Donetsk Oblast entirely. Not through negotiations. Through force. The parts Ukraine still controls? Those are next.

That kills the "freeze current lines" proposal in Trump's 20-point plan. Can't freeze what Russia's actively conquering.

Why Putin's confident enough to say this:

Russian forces are advancing. Slowly, but advancing. Winter favors defenders usually, but Russia's pressing anyway.

Ukraine's manpower's stretched. Western aid's uncertain. European support's fracturing. Putin sees the trajectory and likes what he sees.

Russia's betting they can take enough territory before Trump loses patience that any eventual settlement locks in massive gains. They're not stalling for negotiations - they're racing to establish facts on ground that make negotiations irrelevant.

Every week Russia doesn't negotiate, they take more land. Why would Putin stop that to freeze current lines?

The message to Trump:

"Your leverage over Russia is limited. I don't need your deal. Ukraine needs it. So if you want peace, you'll pressure Kyiv to accept my terms, not negotiate with me for theirs."

That's Putin's calculation. And based on military momentum plus Western fatigue, it's not irrational.

Zelensky needs Trump's support. Putin just told Trump that support won't matter unless it includes forcing Ukrainian concessions.

The meeting becomes: Does Trump prioritize peace deal (requiring Ukraine compromise) or Ukrainian sovereignty (requiring continued war)?

Putin's statement yesterday is designed to make option one look inevitable and option 2 look futile.

Today we find out if it worked.

Source: @PolymarketIntel

[A Scott @ascottusa]

Never gets old. A true classic…

[A Scott @ascottusa]

Goes for pretty much everything from skill development to investing and even relationships

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Coach K shares what it actually takes to get better.

"In order to get better, you change limits."

"When you change limits, you're going to look bad and you're going to fail."

Growth requires pushing past what's comfortable.

And that means you're going to stumble. You're going to look like you don't know what you're doing. That's not a sign you're on the wrong path - it's proof you're on the right one.

Coach K would always emphasize: Failure isn't a destination. It's a checkpoint.

It takes grit to keep going. Courage to try again. And the willingness to endure when it would be easier to quit.

The only way to expand your limits is to test them.

(🎥Bloomberg)