FOUR SIMPLE WAYS TO FIND STOCKS:
1) Stocks with momentum🚆
2) Stocks with golden/death crosses💀
3) Stocks with high volume📶
4) Stocks at all time high/low📈
In what other country could a penniless Jewish refugee become the secretary of state? Niall Ferguson pays tribute to Henry Kissinger. https://t.co/d5lyWvTkHV
Ultimate life hack is to read biographies.
George Washington is said to have read Plutarch's Lives with obsession. Devouring every page and every story. He later used the lessons to lead a successful Revolution against the British.
Biographies are the cheat code to life.
The Only EMA System You’ll Ever Need (Used the Right Way)
Price doesn’t “respect” indicators.
It respects the average cost of smart money.
That’s all EMAs are.
EMA = context, not magic.
• EMA 9 → Intraday traders
• EMA 21 → Swing traders
• EMA 50 → Trend traders
• EMA 200 → Investors & big trends
Different EMAs = different players.
Market control rule:
Price above EMA → Buyers in control
Price below EMA → Sellers in control
High-probability filter:
✔ Price above 200 EMA
✔ 21 EMA above 50 EMA
✔ Pullback toward 21 EMA
✔ Volume dries up on pullback
✔ Buy only on bullish candle near 21 EMA
Trend phases:
1️⃣ Initiation
2️⃣ EMA pullback
3️⃣ Momentum expansion
4️⃣ Weakness (stop chasing)
Exit like a pro:
• Take partials at 1:2 RR
• Move stop to breakeven
• Trail with 21 EMA
• Exit fully if price closes below 50 EMA
EMAs don’t predict.
They protect you from bad trades.
Trade with context. Stay patient.
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"I made quite a lot of money with pure luck. I mean, I think it was pure luck. It certainly wasn't mathematical modeling. But in looking at the data, after a while I realized: it looks like there's some structure here. And I hired a few mathematicians, and we started making some models."
— Jim Simons
“I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.”
— Michael Jackson
"No one has ever been a success betting against America since 1776 — and they're not going to be a success in the future doing it, either." – Warren Buffett
WATCH: 98-year-old D-Day veteran Sgt. William Pekrul said to President Donald Trump: "With President Trump back as Commander in Chief, I would go back and re-enlist today and I would storm whatever beach my country needs me to."
You only had a 2.7% chance of being born an American.
If you were lucky enough to be a native born American, you already won at life.
🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy 250th Birthday, USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Ayn Rand's most important lesson: Production comes before distribution. You cannot divide a pie nobody baked.
Every politician inverts that order. They argue over who gets what slice, how to tax the baker, how to redistribute the flour, as if the loaf simply materialized like manna. Rand called this out for what it is. Wealth is created by specific people doing specific things: Hank Rearden smelting metal, John Galt building a motor. Take those people away and you're left with committees drafting memos about fairness while the lights go dark.
The entrepreneur is not a parasite skimming off labor. He directs scarce resources toward their most urgent uses, and he eats the loss when he guesses wrong. No bureaucrat carries that risk. This is what Ludwig von Mises spent his career proving in denser prose.
Rand's villains aren't cartoon capitalists. They're the moochers who demand the moral sanction of their victims: the industrialist who lobbies for a subsidy, the intellectual who calls envy "social justice." She hated the crony as much as the commissar.
This hit different.
An old Japanese supermarket closes after 75 years. No complaints, no rush, just the owners and workers lining up to bow deeply as the shutter comes down for the last time. Pure respect until the very end.
Lesson : Real dignity isn’t loud. It’s showing up with excellence every single day, then closing the door the same way you opened it with gratitude and class.
They treated ordinary work like something sacred. We need more of that spirit.
Finish strong. Honor what you build. Carry yourself with quiet pride.