Ethan Gordon, CMT

Chief Investment Officer at EG Capital Mgmt.
Chartered Market Technician

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

In 2025, I entered the U.S Investing Championship and placed 31st out of 579 participants.

Only after entering did I realize I was competing as a long-term investor among mostly active traders, who can profit in both directions of the market and often compound capital faster through active positioning and rotation—maybe I should ask the organizers to rename it the U.S. Trading Championship 😂.

Nonetheless, it was a valuable experience seeing different approaches to the market, and I’ve taken a lot from the trading side that I’ve since started to integrate into my own investment process.

Still a long way to go, but I’m proud of the result and grateful for the experience.

Competition account. Not client results. Past performance is not indicative of future returns.

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

@RachelDashCS Love when you mention RRG. Putting your notifications on 🙌🏽

[J Law @JLawStock]

When markets crash, the hard part usually isn’t the chart work.
It’s keeping your emotions under control.

Most traders have a system, a plan, clear rules.
But when your P&L swings tens of thousands in a day, all of that gets stress‑tested.

Fear, anxiety, regret, anger – these emotions can destroy more than the sell‑off itself.
Over the past decade, I’ve traded through multiple crashes, panics, collapses and violent corrections.

What I’ve learned is this:
Your long‑term results are not decided by how well you predict the market,
but by whether you can stay rational when the market is at its messiest.

In this post I’m sharing four mindset and strategy shifts I consider most critical.
I hope they help you make better decisions the next time the market tanks.

📎What’s the mistake you’re most likely to make in a big sell‑off?
💬Tell me in the comments

🆕 Champion’s trading method — now on IG too.
👉 Follow us: IG@jlawstock2

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

$PLTR Officially in a trading range given the major rejection off Resistance at ~$162 and the 200 day SMA. (yellow line).

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

@Dr_Crossroads Barely green, nothing to be excited about. If not this is bearish

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

My hot take...

There is absolutely no reason why you should spend more than $5,000 on a wedding if you’re making less than $1M+ a year.

I literally got married in a parking lot wearing a $150 dress from Anthropologie with roses from the grocery store… and I was worth a few 8 figures.

The modern wedding is nothing more than a huge financial cosplay we’ve normalized for pure performance sake.

[Astra @AstraInsights]

The 3x Leveraged Semiconductor ETF $SOXL was down -35% from highs to candle close this week.

That's the 3rd worst peak-to-close reversal since inception. Only following:
1) April 4, 2025 (tariff crash bottom)
2) March 20, 2020 (COVID crash bottom)

This is the first time we're seeing an intraweek reversal like this from all-time highs:

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

@TheSwingTraderr Welcome back!

[Ted @TedPillows]

Stocks are dumping.
Gold is dumping.
Silver is dumping.
Crypto is dumping.
Bonds are dumping.
Even Oil is dumping.

If everything is dumping, where the hell is money going?

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

@TedHZhang @RichardMoglen 🤣🤣🤣

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

@Dr_Crossroads Trump watches his portfolio everyday lololol

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

@cmsinvests Market not green tho

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

The market still feels a bit all over the place. But there have been signs of breadth expansion with Cyber, SaaS and healthcare.

[RonnieV @TheRonnieVShow]

It's happening...

Semis have been the kings of 2026.

But SaaS, Cyber, Healthcare, and Fintech are quietly improving beneath the surface.

Pay attention.

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

@TedHZhang It’s happening!

[amit @amitisinvesting]

$PLTR

Palantir CEO Alex Karp at AIPCon 10:

“Our biggest sales secret is that we want you to go to the model companies. We hope you go through the process of being sold by them. Because when you do, you will think you feel smarter, but you will soon realize that they actually don’t care about you. They don’t want to understand your business. They want to show you how many tokens you can use. The real value comes from an ontology that builds with you, understands your business, and actually wants you to win. That’s how we sell at Palantir.”

[Ethan Gordon, CMT @EthanGordon1]

@TripleDTrader Thanks for sharing, will look out for more of these!

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: Ray Dalio just said the AI market is a bubble and it will burst.

"All great technology changes produce bubbles," Dalio told Bloomberg. "The pricking is the converting of wealth into money" right now, every major tech company is pouring hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure and booking it as investment.

The moment investors demand actual returns, companies will have to show that the money spent is generating real profits from real customers. If the revenue is not there, valuations collapse and right now, the revenue is not there.

AI companies are spending $800 billion in capital expenditure this year alone. OpenAI spends $60 billion annually on cloud infrastructure against $25 billion in actual revenue.

Less than 1% of executives globally report meaningful ROI from their AI investments. 95% of enterprise AI pilots have failed to deliver measurable returns according to MIT.

The entire $2 trillion cloud backlog held by Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and Amazon is anchored by two unprofitable companies: OpenAI and Anthropic.

By 2030, the industry needs $2 trillion in annual revenue to justify what is being built today. Bain estimates it will fall $800 billion short.

Dalio is not saying the technology is fake. He is saying the economics do not work yet and every bubble in history has ended the same way when that moment of reckoning arrived.

[Сarm1ne @carm1nee]

Bill Ackman bought a third of a $20 billion company after it crashed to $100 million - the stock went from 34 cents to $34

it's the most contrarian bet in modern Wall Street history

"I called the CEO, he didn't return my call - I called again, he didn't return my call - six weeks later they spun off the company, the CEO got fired, then he called to thank me for his exit package"

"there are analogies to 2000 - people got excited about internet stocks and Berkshire traded at the lowest valuation in its history because people said that's all old stuff

a similar thing is happening today to Amazon, Meta, Microsoft - they're undervalued"

bookmark and watch it today - 29 minutes that will change how you think about AI, markets, and what makes a great investment ↓

[Puru Saxena @saxena_puru]

Moral of the story - do NOT chase hot IPOs

Year-1 average drawdown = 55%
Year-1 median drawdown = 54%

Table: Truist

[Adam Khoo @adamkhootrader]

On average, the price of a new IPO stock drops 50% in the first 12 months, even for great businesses.

Never chase the girl . Let her run to you.