Jordan Bach

I play music, program computers with computers, go kayaking, love and raise humans, and stuff

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

@NickSchmidt @OddStats Market is selling off because POTUS fell asleep at the game. It could’ve easily ripped the other direction if he stayed awake

[Elite Swing Traders @1ChartMaster]

Taking a quick chop into vertical strength to finance your trade is the ultimate way to eliminate overnight risk, protect your capital curve, and keep your stress chemistry at zero.

Here is exactly how that mechanic works on the tape:

1. Financing Your Risk with the Market's Money

When you enter a high-velocity setup like a High Tight Flag (HTF) or a Blue Sky breakout your initial risk is strictly defined by your stop-loss parameters.

By aggressively taking a quick chop (trimming 20% to 25% of your position) on that first strong, vertical push, you instantly book realized gains.
Mathematically, this cash injection completely offsets the potential loss on your remaining shares if the breakout suddenly turns around and fails. It allows you to confidently move your trailing stop to break-even or nestle it under a tight structural support shelf. You’ve successfully "paid for your risk," turning the core position into a stress-free "free play."

2. Selling Directly Into Peak Urgency

When a true market leader goes vertical into an extension, retail FOMO is at its absolute maximum. Chasers are flooding the ask side of the order book, creating a massive pocket of hyper-liquidity.

You trim into that vertical strength because it allows you to sell when liquidity is highest and buyers are desperate.
If you sit on your hands and wait for the stock to explicitly print signs of rally exhaustion, you are forced to sell on the way down. Selling during a downward mean-reversion event means dealing with widening spreads, disappearing liquidity, and slippage that systematically chips away at your equity curve. You sell on your terms when the tape is roaring, not when you're forced to.

3. Crushing Cortisol to Stay Objective

Holding a massive, unhedged winner that is vertically extended creates a massive spike in trading cortisol (stress). Your brain enters a high-alert state watching large open paper profits fluctuate, which leads to over-managing, hesitating, or completely freezing when a high-volume daily shakeout hits.

Taking that partial trim pacifies your brain's threat-detection system. Because you've already locked in a green trade and guaranteed a win on the setup, your trading cortisol drops to zero.
This psychological relief gives you the emotional detachment needed to sit perfectly still, avoid overtrading, and smoothly trail the remaining core shares for a massive Stage 2 macro advance.

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

@hthieblot Hamster dance

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

"Buy right and sit tight" 😏 $ARM

[Christian Flanders @CFlanders7]

Reality Check:

"oh man, everyone is up 1000%+ except me..."

USIC results YTD

Only 20% of the field reported being profitable coming into May.

Only 12 out of the 660 entrants are up 100%+

[THE SHORT BEAR @TheShortBear]

SPACEX will be the biggest and most expensive IPO I have seen.

Retail, Pension funds and alike will be forced to buy it via the ETF inclusion which was only possible by fully changing multiple rules to create exit liquidity for an overpriced IPO.

Very sad to see this type of rule changing at the expense of all investors.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Massie: Why am I hopeful right now? We have the younger demographic. You are patriots and you will inherit the country. You will make it better and I am hopeful because of it. We started out as an election and it turned into a movement. There is a yearning in this country for somebody who votes for principles of her party

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"Can he run for president?"

— Jessica when she heard they primaried Massie

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

Well, this didn't last long. Stopped out of $SNDK this morning and find myself long $SQQQ. Probably just going to get whipsawed this afternoon. It's been a good run these last few weeks 🙃

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

Market leading $SNDK gives upside reversal while the rest of the market is puking. Could be nothing 🤔

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

Market leading $SNDK gives upside reversal while the rest of the market is puking. Could be nothing 🤔

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

@jmoneystonks I sold out my position Thursday but bought back Friday at the close. Usually don't see upside reversals at a top but anything could happen 🤷‍♂️🤞

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

$NXT came down to within a hair of my stop this morning. Could've easily lost it. Not the kind of fade you want to see after an earnings gap up. Might still lose it if the bounce stalls 😅

[Nick Schmidt @NickSchmidt]

I know this market is crazier than normal but these windows where progress is easy always makes me mad at myself for trying to grind through choppy periods and stacking paper cuts

[Lance Breitstein 🇺🇸🌎 @TheOneLanceB]

Never thought about this. Makes a ton of sense.

Last new class of futures products were for crypto. Seems inevitable that we eventually get ones for compute.

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

$APLD monthly 🤤

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

Potential HTF on $INTC was not on my 2026 bingo card 😮

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

I don't get the $VIX. It's basically an amplified inverse $QQQ.

[Jordan Bach @jbgo]

@mwebster1971 @TaPlot Have you ever considered expressing HTF max pullback in terms of ATR instead of percent? For example, AAOI ran up over 200% in only 4 weeks recently and pulled 40%, which is about 4x ATR for this stock. Maybe this is a "high loose flag" or an HTF in spirit?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Standing ovation for this line from King Charles: The U.S. Supreme court historical society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 supreme court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.

[Hoyt Emerson @HoytEmerson]

The full data stack in 2026: Parquet on S3, DuckDB for querying, Arrow for in-memory computation and transport. You can build serious data infrastructure with just these three things.