When I became a profitable trader,
I tried to teach my brother.
I shared my strategy.
Supervised his trades.
For a few days, he crushed it.
Then he went solo… and
blew up his account in just one week.
He blamed me.
I even had to cover his losses.
That’s when I realized:
Trading is a solo journey.
You can guide someone
but you can’t walk the path for them.
No shortcuts. No hand-holding.
Discipline, emotional control, and decision-making?
That’s all on them.
Even the best strategy means nothing without the right mindset.
The S&P put/call skew just collapsed to 0.71. Not a low. The lowest reading on record.
The 10-year average is 12. The 2020 panic peaked at 34. We're at 0.71.
What this measures: how much investors pay to protect against a crash versus betting on a rally. At 0.71, crash protection is essentially free. Nobody wants it.
Think about what that means. After two years of gains, at record concentration, with households at record equity exposure, the options market has priced hedging like insurance on a house that cannot burn.
History's lesson is consistent: markets don't crash when everyone fears a crash. Fear is the hedge. This chart says the hedge is gone.
Nobody buys insurance at the top.
That's what makes it the top?
@TA_Purvesh Bhai yah Jo m a g a hai yah basically settled Indian American ka hi plan hai Ham khamkha POTUS aur GORO ko Gali Dete Hain
Angrej chale gaye 'angreji' nahi
Gold’s share of total reserve assets has risen from a historic low of 10% to 25%.
A common interpretation of the post below is that it suggests central banks are buying gold (which they are), while the increase in gold’s share of reserve assets is mostly the result of the sharp rise in the gold price.
To be clear, the latter is also very true. But using gold’s impressive price appreciation to dismiss the increase in gold’s share of total reserve assets as a signal of structural change is naïve.
Apart from the fact that central banks continue to buy gold, its remarkable appreciation relative to fiat currencies is exactly what you should expect from the fundamental shift we are witnessing. Every time the financial system became too hollowed out by debt, inflation, and currency debasement, the price of gold skyrocketed.
One of my favorite charts below shows exactly why. To rebalance a debt-driven financial system, the price of gold must rise exponentially relative to the relentless expansion of global money and debt.
Gold appreciating against fiat currencies is a feature, not a bug.
Small loss is the best loss.. specially in this kind of choppy markets, just exit when your stop loss hits.
No point in converting your swing trade into an investment..
India VIX crashed from 15+ to sub-12 while Nifty chops in a year-long 22200-26200 range. Cheap premium ≠ good trade when there's no trend. Pausing options, letting my trend-following equity system do the work instead. Discipline > forcing edge that isn't th
Get out of the stock market.
A few companies control all the money in the world. BlackRock. Vanguard. Blackstone.
They know when the bubble bursts. You don't.
They pump. You buy. They dump.
Oil futures are the proof. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for three months. Oil should be at $200.
It is not.
The market is rigged. The house always wins.
Get out.
🚨 THIS IS NOT NORMAL
Every 4 years, in July, the market gets hit with a major correction.
July 1998 → -23.71%
July 2002 → -32.41%
July 2006 → -9.60%
July 2010 → -18.94%
July 2014 → -11.05%
July 2018 → -19.27%
July 2022 → -19.92%
Now the next date is July 2026.