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[usdFARM @0xusdfarm]

Yahoo made Mark Cuban a billionaire in 1999. Broadcast sold for $5.7 billion, mostly in Yahoo stock, and his share came to about $1.4 billion.

He could not sell it for six months. So he did not bet against Yahoo. He bought put options to protect what he already had.

He says he put every penny he had into that protection. It cost him about $20 million on the hedge.

Then the market went down, and the protection paid off. Yahoo fell about 90% over the next few years. The company that was worth roughly $130 billion in 2000 sold to Verizon in 2016 for $4.8 billion, less than Cuban's startup had fetched.

The lesson is not that he was clever about direction. It is that he treated a windfall as a risk he had to protect before he could enjoy it.

[Late Compounder @paperhanderr]

Charlie Munger died worth about $2.6 billion. Asked whether anyone could copy what he did, he said most people should not try.

His answer had two halves. The thinking works for anyone. Jumping into another man's profession to beat him at it does not.

He knew the cost of a wrong turn. At 31 he was divorced, broke, and burying his nine year old son Teddy, who died of leukemia.

He rebuilt anyway. Real estate law first, then investing, then six decades beside Warren Buffett.

He also refused to sign the Giving Pledge. His explanation was that he had already given more than half of his wealth to his children, so he could not promise half of what remained.

The man who told the world not to copy him was careful about who got his money.

[M1ST @0xPoPsik]

Buffett's first investment has nothing to do with the market. It is communication.

He tells students that while they are learning complicated formulas, they are overlooking the skill with the biggest payoff. Learn to communicate better, in writing and in person, and your value rises by at least 50%.

Without it, the best idea in the room does nothing. His image for it is a man winking at a girl in the dark. Nothing happens.

The good news is that it can be learned. Buffett took a Dale Carnegie course himself, and he still jokes that he should have taken a longer one.

Why this one? Because nobody can take it from you.

[0xNevsky @0xNevsky]

this is f*cking smart. even the best traders on fomo buy rugs. so grok checks every coin before it copies. 1,104 rejected overnight.

$70 → $3,267

midnight. grok bot → telegram → copyfomo. funds stay in my wallet

4 agents, all on grok core:
→ trader scout picked 3 traders from the fomo top 10. 74%, 69% and 61% win rate
→ rug check looked at every coin they bought before anything got copied
→ execution copied the entry in 0.4s, the trader barely finished buying
→ risk put a −6% stop on every copy

the part i didn't expect: how often the good traders bought garbage
→ trader bought. LP not locked. grok skipped
→ trader bought. top 10 holders 41%. grok skipped
→ trader bought. top 10 holders 43%. skipped again

1,104 coins rejected by the rug check. 162 passed. that's 87% of what the "smart money" touched that i never had to own

the night:
→ 1:21am $116
→ 3:18am $285
→ 5:16am $756
→ 6:15am $1,280
→ 7:13am $2,098
→ 8:00am $3,267

187 copies across 41 memes
best copy +$742
worst −$21. the stop hit 14 times all night and none of them did real damage

if i'd blindly copied the same 3 traders, i'd have bought every one of those coins with them

a trader up $66k this month can afford a rug. you copying him with a $70 account can't

bookmark this before your next copy trade

do you check the coin or just trust the trader?

[AI Pirate @A_Pirate_I]

ONE SIGNAL IS A GUESS.
FIVE AGENTS AGREEING IS A TRADE.

$54 AT START, $2,529 BY 6PM

noon. phantom connected, $54 in, 5 agents online. i approve the trades, but none of the agents can buy on their own. they have to agree first

→ whale tracker watches Arkham. 140 whale moves by 6pm
→ narrative scout builds a heat map of what’s hot. today it was cats, AI agents and culture coins
→ meme radar counts X mentions. went from 1K an hour to 5K an hour
→ dev checker flagged 412 devs. only 58 came back clean
→ holder hunter tracks new holders per hour. +10% at noon, +38% by 6

grok core only buys when they line up. the log says why every time:
→ «4 of 5 agents agree»
→ «whales + hot narrative»
→ «dev clean + whales»
→ «X radar + holders»

if the whales are in but the dev is dirty, nothing happens
if X is screaming but nobody new is holding, nothing happens

the afternoon:
→ 12:19pm $61
→ 1:45pm $136
→ 3:12pm $346
→ 4:39pm $967
→ 5:22pm $1,567
→ 6:00pm $2,529. 46.8x in one afternoon

96 trades across 28 memes
best +$612. worst −$17
small reds all day: −$0.99, −$2.64, −$7.06. the −6% stop never let one grow

every one of those 5 signals alone gets people rugged daily. a whale buy, a trending ticker, a hot narrative. together they’re a different thing

bookmark this before you ape on one signal again

which of the 5 would you trust least?

[Finnam @finn_am0]

Kevin Costner put his own money into a Western. Reports put it at $38 million, and he has said he mortgaged property to do it.

Horizon: An American Saga, Chapter 1 grossed about $38.8 million worldwide. The project was reported at around $100 million across its planned chapters.

So the arithmetic is not complicated. The studio's money bought the production. His money bought the risk.

He left Yellowstone to make it. Taylor Sheridan said publicly that he was disappointed, and that the exit shortened the closing arc of Costner's character.

Was that courage or a mistake? Only one of those words is decided by the box office, and that one is not final yet.

[Finnam @finn_am0]

@0xBenjamine She stopped giving her mom money and lost her mom, and says she misses having one. The saddest line in a story that mostly reads like a flex.

[Finnam @finn_am0]

@corsaldi The elevator doors closed on a man in his boxers begging her to stay, and honestly that's the only ending this story deserved. Four fingers, no lube, no condom, and he still thought he was the catch.

[Finnam @finn_am0]

@xbtkinao Yeah, that's Ron was the entire legal system in three words. Ginger Banks replaced it with a video and a phone that wouldn't stop ringing

[Finnam @finn_am0]

@PersonGratt Screenshot the first five videos YouTube shows you and you've basically posted your future income. Terrifying and also the most honest self-audit on the internet.

[Finnam @finn_am0]

@0x_Renjii She said the page was research for a film, the director said they'd only discussed working someday, and the apology wrote itself. Rare case of the receipts arriving in public.

[Finnam @finn_am0]

@_CryptoNotes_ @parimatch 300 points for sports at 1.30 odds, slots at 100, Hacksaw at double. The math is telling you exactly where they want you to play.

[Finnam @finn_am0]

@iamigorekk @PolymarketTrade @PolymarketSport Two tie-breaks on grass is the reason to fade Shelton everywhere except indoor hard, where his serve actually means something. Minus 3.5 is fair.

[Finnam @finn_am0]

@BimbaCrypto Back the team the market wrote off during the live game, that's the whole strategy and it's printing. 22 days in and I'm already taking notes.

[INSIDER @x_insider4]

I FINISHED MY TRADING DAY BEFORE LUNCH TODAY. ACTUALLY GROK DID.

$200 AT 8AM, $4,897 AT 12:30PM.
35 TRADES I NEVER TOUCHED

7:57am. $200 into fomo with apple pay, connected grok bot, put the phone face down on the table and made coffee

4 agents took it from there:
→ scanner went through 4,000+ pools
→ analyst scored every coin. a 14 and a 59 got skipped. an 88 got bought
→ executor filled on fomo
→ risk put a −6% stop under every entry and trailed winners after +15%

how the morning went:
→ 8:44am first stop hit, −$3. good start, i thought
→ 10:17am $864
→ 11:03am $1,984
→ 11:50am $3,357
→ 12:30pm $4,897

35 trades. 25 green, 10 red

every red was the same size on purpose:
→ −$3, −$5, −$7, −$15, −$17, −$38
all stopped at exactly −6%

the greens didn't have a cap:
→ +$464
→ +$555, up 120%
→ +$1,011, up 161%. sold at 12:24, six minutes before it closed the session

12:30 the notification hit
"Session closed · 8 AM → 12:30 PM · $200 → $4,897 · 24.5x"

it shut itself off on time. i didn't even have to tell it to stop. by then i'd already had lunch plans

my old trading day was 12 hours of charts and still ended red half the time
today it was 4 and a half hours of not looking, and i was done before most people opened their first chart

bookmark this before your next all-day screen session

what time would you shut your bot off?

[Finnam @finn_am0]

A $100,000 monthly credit card limit, cut to $50,000. That is the number the court is actually arguing about.

Robert De Niro's lawyer told the court the pandemic had hurt his restaurants. Grace Hightower's lawyer said he is worth about $500 million and earns around $30 million a year. Both sets of figures come from the lawyers. Neither has been tested at trial.

The 2004 prenup matters most. It pays her $1 million a year, but only in years he earns $15 million or more. Below that line, the contract does the arithmetic for both of them.

His lawyer said he might be lucky to make $7.5 million this year. Nobu, the restaurants he co-owns, reportedly lost $4.87 million across April and May.

The judge kept the card at $50,000 on a temporary basis and ordered a $75,000 payment toward a summer home for the children.

Was that fair? The prenup describes one version of his money. The restaurant losses describe another. Only one of them is in the court file.

[INSIDER @x_insider4]

I GOT REPLACED BY A BOT AND IT MADE ME $7,190.

I CONNECTED GROK TO FOMO, IT DID EVERYTHING, I WATCHED.

7:57am. opened fomo, deposited $500 with apple pay
connected grok bot to it. honestly that was my whole job for the day

then it split the work into 4 agents and i stopped being needed:
→ scanner pulled 4,000+ pools
→ analyst scored every coin. 14 and 59 got skipped, 88 got bought
→ executor filled the orders on fomo
→ risk set a −6% stop under every entry and trailed after +15%

what i did for the next 7 hours: watched notifications. bought, stopped, took profit, bought again. none of it needed me

→ 8:04am $500. first coin bought a few minutes later
→ 11:37am $1,840
→ 12:48pm $3,736
→ 1:59pm $5,590
→ 3:00pm $7,690

35 trades. 25 green, 10 red

the reds were boring on purpose. −$8, −$23, −$26, −$34, −$52. every one stopped at exactly −6%

the greens weren't:
→ +$724, a coin up 165%
→ +$1,423
→ +$1,469, up 120%

at 3pm it closed the session by itself. i didn't even have to tell it to stop
"Session closed · 8 AM → 3 PM · $500 → $7,690 · 15.4x"

i didn't find a single coin. didn't set a single stop. didn't hit sell once. didn't even open a chart

i used to think the edge was me. turns out it was the rules i was too emotional to follow

bookmark this before you open your next chart

what part of your trading would you hand over first?

[M1ST @0xPoPsik]

Warren Buffett, now 96, has a line for the stock market that he has used for years. A church with a casino attached.

At Berkshire's 2026 annual meeting he went further. We've never had people in a more gambling mood than now.

He was not talking about one bad week. He was talking about a market where the speculative side has grown so large that it drowns out the investing side. One-day options, prediction markets, bets on the next five minutes.

Berkshire is sitting on a record cash pile, reported near $400 billion in the March 2026 quarter. That number is the one to check yourself, because the record claim is about Berkshire's own history and the sources vary by a few billion.

What the cash does not tell you is timing. Buffett has said it is hard to find large deals, not that a crash is scheduled.

The lesson he keeps returning to is simple. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. When the crowd is gambling, the gap between them is where the opportunity sits.

[usdFARM @0xusdfarm]

Ken Griffin keeps a $10 plaque behind his desk. If we're all going to eat, someone has to sell.

Of everything he could put on that wall, he chose a blunt truth about business.

His own list of who he sells to is long. Candidates. Vendors. Counterparties. Customers. Every one of them will say no at some point.

In 1994 Citadel lost about 4% of its capital, one of only two losing years in the firm's history. That spring Griffin flew to Switzerland for a lunch meeting. His guest arrived, took one look and said he had been expecting John Griffin from Fenchurch, and left.

Later that afternoon a Swiss banker spent 45 minutes with him, then told him it was a pity such a bright young man had picked the wrong career.

Two rejections in one day. His takeaway was not bitterness. You're going to hear no a lot. You need to get used to marketing your ideas.

Most people avoid selling because they fear no. The ones who build things expect it.

[Late Compounder @paperhanderr]

Most people think the edge in investing is intelligence. Charlie Munger said the big secret is different: we are good at lifelong learning.

If you keep learning all the time, you have a wonderful advantage.

The advantage is not one insight. It compounds. Someone who reads a little more each year is not slightly ahead. After twenty years they are a different investor from the one who stopped at thirty.

Munger's standard was blunt. He said he knew no wise people who did not read all the time. He was describing a habit, not a talent.

It also explains why the richest person in the room is not always the smartest. Knowledge compounds like capital. Slowly for a long time, then all at once.

The uncomfortable part is that learning is not collecting opinions. You can read every headline and learn nothing about the business you own.